Postmortem 2012
Robert Ashton
Published by Light of Day Books, Melbourne, 2025, 16 pp. (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, English
Price: €10

Robert Ashton, born in Melbourne in 1950, is an Australian photographer known for his distinctive documentary style that emerged in the 1970s. After studying photography at Prahran College (1969–71), he became immersed in a creative community that included Carol Jerrems, Paul Cox, and cousin Rennie Ellis, with whom he shared a studio and worked at Brummels Gallery. His 1974 book Into the Hollow Mountains, documented everyday scenes in Fitzroy with striking intimacy. It was recently republished in an expanded edition. He has exhibited widely and is known for using hand-built large format cameras and traditional printing methods such as photogravure and the Collodion process to produce his work.

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Strange Switch. Spent. The Night, Sleep.
George Tourkovasilis
Published by BILL, Brussels, 2025, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 30 × 21 cm, English
Price: €38

This book presents previously unpublished work by George Tourkovasilis (1944–2021), a photographer and writer who lived between Paris, London, and Athens. Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, his images move between diaristic depictions of radically intimate moments and sociological chronicles, while his incisive writing on art, politics, and desire brings its own syncopated reflections. Following his death in 2021, Akwa Ibom, Radio Athènes, and Melas Martinos assumed stewardship of his archive – prints, negatives, manuscripts, correspondence, and digital files – and organized three exhibitions: Spent at Akwa Ibom, The Night, Sleep at Radio Athènes, and Strange Switch at Melas Martinos, which are documented here. Drawing on material unearthed from the archive over the past year, including previously unseen digital and phone photography, this book offers a new perspective on a practice that largely eluded the public eye yet remained prolific and generous in private. Edited by Helena Papadopoulos, Julie Peeters & Maya Tounta. Designed by Julie Peeters.

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Men's Scarvs (card)
Paul Outerbridge, Jr.
Published by Gebr. König, Köln, date unknown, card (colour ill.), 10.5 × 14.7 cm, German
Price: €6

Paul Outerbridge, Jr. emerged in the 1920s as a bold innovator, transforming ordinary objects, such as milk bottles, collars, eggs, into fractured Cubist constructions of light and form. His platinum and silver gelatin prints reduced subjects to intersecting planes and geometric rhythms, revealing a structural beauty aligned with the avant-garde movements of his time.

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

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How Frequency The Eye
Josephine Pryde
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne & Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2025, 92 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23.2 × 28 cm, English/German
Price: €22

Produced on the occasion of Josephine Pryde: How Frequency The Eye at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 24–August 18, 2024.

In her practice, Josephine Pryde explores modes of creation, consumption, and production of images, most often through photography. Employing a wide range of technical means, she takes up ideas conveyed through camera-generated images, in order to challenge and re-examine established modes of reception and expectation as to how the visible may be rendered.

How Frequency The Eye continues Pryde’s recent reflections on perception, cognition, and language, and her questions as to how an exhibition of artworks may articulate such concerns. In conjunction with prior works and a short film, the exhibition features a new series of photographs in which the artist interrogates interplays between the eye and consciousness.

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Photography and Fashion Since the 1990s
Published by Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, 2020, 112 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 26 × 19 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €85 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Photography and Fashion Since the 1990s at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 3 March–5 October, 2020, including photographers Anders Edström, Kyoji Takashi, Elein Fleiss, Yukinori Maeda, PUGMENT and Takashi Homma.

The 1990s saw the emergence of photographers who went beyond the conventional framework for communicating the appeal of fashion items to create images that appeal to people. Moreover, fashion magazines appeared that took an independent stance in transmitting information. Images created from new points of view influenced people’s thinking and lifestyles. Those images have been referred to repeatedly by subsequent generations.

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

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I'll Never Ask You
Kazuna Taguchi
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne & Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, 2025, 64 pp. (b/w ill.), 15.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €15

Produced on the occasion of Kazuna Taguchi’s exhibition I’ll never ask you at MUMOK, Wien, 13 June–16 November, 2025.

Taguchi’s meticulously composed monochrome photographs convey body fragments, gestures, and gazes that resonate with the surrealist tradition concerning the questioning of the photographic representation of the female body. This can be moments of the phantomic or Yūgen*-like, images that capture a figure in a state between appearance and disappearance.

*According to the Japanese poet Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216), yūgen is a feeling that is not openly expressed in words, but symbolically indicated by images.

Designed by HIT.

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