Black and White Photography
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Pia-Paulina Guilmoth: Flowers Drink the River
Flowers Drink the River spans the first two years of Pia’s gender transition, as she photographs her small community in rural Maine, and the beauty and terror of living as a trans woman in a small right-wing town.
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Xu Yong: Hutong 101 Photos
Xu Yong was one of the first photographers to focus on everyday life in modern China. He traces the history of the traditional residential district of Beijing, with its centuries-old buildings complete with rear courtyards and myriad narrow alleyways, the “Hutongs.”
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Rahim Fortune: Hardtack
A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside, young bull-riders, praise dancers, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual.
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Francesco Anselmi: Borderlands
Borderlands is a documentary essay shot along the US side of the border with Mexico between 2017 and 2019, at the height of the Trump era.
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Richard Sharum: Spina Americana
Driven by both national and personal anxiety about the current divisions in the US, photographer Richard Sharum embarked on a journey through the central ‘spine’ of America. He was in search of the unifying elements of contemporary American ‘national character’.
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Wally Elenbaas and Esther Hartog: Foto’s / Photos
This book is the first photographic survey of the Rotterdam artist Wally Elenbaas (1912-2008) and his great love Esther (‘Es’) Hartog (1905-1988).
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Mary Ellen Mark / Karen Folger Jacobs: Ward 81: Voices
Ward 81, photographed in 1976, was Mary Ellen Mark’s first independent long-term project. Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs set out to document the lives of the women in this locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem—the only one in the state.
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David Hurn: On Reading
Since the late 1950s, photographer David Hurn has taken photographs of people engaged in the act of reading. He had captured moments of repose and absorption in cafes and bars, at dog shows and railway stations, strip clubs, museums, the seaside, film sets, parks and streets. His forthcoming book brings together these images for the…
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Olivia Arthur: Murmurings of the Skin
Murmurings of the Skin is a photographic exploration of the human connection to the body. The starting point for the work was Olivia Arthur’s own pregnancy and the project developed to encompass series about physicality and sexuality, stability and robotics, touch, gesture and solitude.
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Sachlich Neu: Fotografien von August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch & Robert Häusser
Legendary photographs from the 1920s and 30s by August Sander (1876-1964) and Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966), the main representatives of “New Objectivity” in photography, meet icons by Robert Häusser (1924-2013), a classic of the post-war period.
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Lena Fritsch: Ravens & Red Lipstick Japanese Photography Since 1945
From the severity of post-war Realism to the diversity and technical ingenuity of the present, this volume traces the development of Japanese photography since 1945. Interleaved are new interviews with some of the most influential practitioners in photographic history, from Moriyama Daido to Araki Nobuyoshi and Kawauchi Rinko.
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Byron Smith: Testament ’22
Testament ’22 is Byron Smith’s powerful debut monograph documenting his 10,000-mile photographic odyssey through Ukraine’s first year under Russia’s unprovoked invasion.
