Glasaugen (Card)
Herbert Bayer
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €7

Artistic polymath Herbert Bayer was one of the Bauhaus’s most influential students, teachers, and proponents, advocating the integration of all arts throughout his career.

Most of Bayer’s photographs come from the decade 1928–38, when he was based in Berlin working as a commercial artist. They represent his broad approach to art, including graphic views of architecture and carefully crafted montages.

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Dancing Horizon
Sigurdur Gudmundsson
Published by Crymogea, Reykjavík, 2014, 222 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 30 cm, English
Price: €70 (Out of stock)

Dancing Horizon is a comprehensive collection of the photographic work of Icelandic artist Sigurdur Gudmundsson, focusing on a critical period in his development. In the 1970s Gudmundsson made a famous series of conceptual photographs he called Situations, in which the artist is posed with various props–for example, balancing a wooden slat on his head to make visual contact with the horizon in the background, or digging himself into the grass.

Signed by the artist.

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1:1
Nat Faulkner
Published by Camden Art Centre, London & Brunette Coleman, London, 2026, 198 pp. (b/w ill.), 24.5 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €35

Produced on the occasion of Nat Faulkner’s exhibition Strong water at Camden Art Centre, 16 January–22 March, 2026.

1:1 presents an extensive series of hand-produced contact prints by the artist, derived from a single large format image taken by Faulkner of a peppered moth (Biston betularia) – a widely studied example of ‘industrial melanism’. During the Industrial Revolution soot from factories darkened the bark of trees and through a process of natural selection the lighter form of this moth, once well-camouflaged, became more visible to predators and its numbers diminished. Meanwhile, a darker (melanic) variant became more common, due to being better camouflaged against the soot darkened trees. This phenomena, the artist has observed, holds resonances with the processes of photography itself – in the production of positive and negative images.

With texts from Gloria Hasnay and Sean Steadman. Designed by George Haughton.

#2026 #brunettecoleman #georgehaughton #gloriahasnay #natfaulkner #photography
Scully’s Run
Frederik Worm
Published by s/z, Copenhagen, 2025, 104 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 24 cm, English
Price: €32

Scully’s Run is a new photographic monograph by Frederik Worm, accompanied by texts from Dora Budor and Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe. Through a series of subtle and sensous images, Worm constructs a visual language attuned to dislocation, attention and the fragility of spatial belonging. The publication considers the movement not only through space, but through the image itself as a conscious relational act. In a world where the conditions of ‘home’ feel increasingly unstable, Scully’s Run proposes a way of seeing that could be both resistant and tender. Designed by stanza.

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Arthur Rimbaud in New York (Coney Island) (card)
David Wojnarowicz
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (b/w ill.), 14.7 × 10.5 cm, German
Price: €16 (Out of stock)

Arthur Rimbaud in New York, one of David Wojnarowicz’s incursions into photography, is the articulation of a testimony to urban, social and political change in New York.

Wojnarowicz, using the figure of the accursed poet as the only way for an artist to intervene in reality, chronicles his own life and his emotional relationship with New York City in the late 1970s. The artist portrays a number of friends with a life-size mask of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, thereby taking on his identity and highlighting the parallels in their lives: the violence suffered in their youths, the feeling of being denied freedom, the desire to live far away from the bourgeois environment and the fact of their homosexuality.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

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Les Jeux de la poupée 1949
Hans Bellmer
Published by Light of Day Books, Melbourne, 2025, 16 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €10

Selected images from the 1949 Les Jeux de la poupée (The Game of the Doll) a landmark collaborative work by Hans Bellmer and poet Paul Éluard. Features the hand-coloured photographs of Bellmer’s mutated, jointed female dolls arranged in unsettling, dreamlike poses that blur the line between desire, control, and dismemberment. The images, both tender and disturbing, exemplify Bellmer’s obsession with the fragmented female form and reflect his resistance to the fascist ideal of bodily perfection. The photographs are a key surrealist exploration of eroticism, identity, and the unconscious. Les Jeux de la poupée remains one of Bellmer’s most significant and works.

Hans Bellmer (1902–1975) was a German artist best known for his provocative life-sized dolls and surrealist photography. Bellmer began constructing articulated female dolls in the 1930s, photographing them in unsettling, dreamlike scenes that explored themes of eroticism, control, and fragmentation. His work was condemned by the Nazi regime as “degenerate,” prompting his move to France in 1938, where he became associated with the Surrealists. After the war, Bellmer abandoned doll-making and focused on erotic drawings and prints. He lived in Paris with his partner Unica Zürn until her suicide in 1970, and continued working until his death in 1975.

#2025 #eroticart #hansbellmer #lightofdaybooks #photography #yanniflorence