Simon Eeles
[Bologna]: Damiani Editore, 2016.

Now out of print. “The first book by up-and-coming photographer Simon Eeles (born 1983), named Harper Bazaar’s Young Photographer of the Year in 2009, Australiana is the result of a cross-continental road trip Eeles undertook in his homeland after years of working in the US and abroad. Featuring beachside portraits, images of his nieces and nephews playing in his mother’s backyard on a small dairy farm in Tasmania, as well as landscape images of the country’s vegetation, the volume aims to paint a portrait of a place and a culture geographically separated. Having worked under renowned British fashion photographer Craig McDean, Eeles creates images with sharp, fashion-world glamour, even as he captures a relaxing day on an Australian beach. It is this rich and unusual combination of sensibilities–the outback hardness with New York glitz–that informs this first monograph, an homage to the diverse landscapes and hard light of the faraway continent.” (publisher’s blurb)

Mario Testino
Tokyo: Super Labo, 2020.

A selection of photographs from across the globe and Testino’s career. Some are organised portraits, others spontaneous street shots, all “people I’ve encountered that have forced me to stop and look.” (the artist). An exploration of identity, costume, gender, sexuality, and more. Artist statement bilingual, in English and Japanese, primarily pictorial.

Peter Gowland; Adolphe Barreaux
Louisville: Whitestone Publications, 1963.

Glamour photography in Hawaii: Waikiki, underwater, beach girls, nudes, surfing, partying, nature. Descriptions of Hawaiian life, fashion, and culture throughout. Whitestone Photo Book 42.

Jan Philipzen
[Ghent]: Art Paper Editions, 2020.

“Started as a visual diary, Ravedeath Convention soon grew into a hybrid of autobiography and fiction. While love, joy and friendship are explored, violence and excess come about too, often captured only as traces and symptoms. A collision of different, occasionally mismatched, cultural symbols stresses the all-embracing blend of subcultures as a fundamental feature of our times. The first pictures taken at age thirteen, this series of black and white images is the edit of a continuous process of photographing, revisiting and reworking over a span of ten years. In the crippled prints the physical presence of body and photograph merge, celebrating human imperfection. The title references Tim Hecker’s album ‘Ravedeath 1972′.” (publisher’s blurb)