Mimi Plumb (The Golden City) used to live on the edges of the city where the rents were cheap. Nearby, on the summit of the hill, were folded layers of radiolarian chert, the fossilized remains of microscopic creatures called radiolaria.
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Veramente encompasses Italian photographer Guido Guidi’s entire oeuvre, bringing together excerpts of his series from 1959 to the present day to illuminate the distinctive photographic language he has forged over a 40-year career.
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Paul Kooiker — Nude Animal Cigar:
"His fascination with intriguing themes like voyeurism, innocence and clichés leads him to construct fictive collections of images that are of extremely uncertain origin, subject and significance."
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A few photo's from the opening of Bouwe Brouwers exhibition Being There, running in our store until the 15th of March!
In Island of the Colorblind artist and photographer Sanne De Wilde experimented with black and white and infrared photography, in a metaphorical attempt to envision how people with achromatopsia see the world.
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"American Prospects by Joel Sternfeld was born of a desire to follow the seasons up and down America, and equally to find lyricism in contemporary American life despite all its dark histories, American Prospects has enjoyed a life of acclaim."
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Trent Parke's Minutes to Midnight is the result of a two-year road trip around his native Australia, presenting an intense and darkly dream-like vision of this vast land.
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Lunar Landscapes documents the Port of Rotterdam’s expansion, one of the largest infrastructure projects in recent years, in an intriguing way. Through Marie-José Jongerius' eyes it is above all an alien landscape and a world of amazement and expectation.
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The Edge of Civilization by Eddy van Wessel: Through raw commentary, Van Wessel addresses difficult questions, as he repeatedly places himself in dangerous situations in order to tell a story while capturing shocking and multifaceted imagery.
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Another day, another classic!
Farewell to Bosnia covers a period of almost six months during 1993, focusing primarily on the areas of Tuzla, central Bosnia, Mostar and Sarajevo.
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Today we're having a look at Pia-Paulina Guilmoth's At Night Gardens Grow.
At Night Gardens Grow is an elegy to a queer world that rests between the personal landscapes of home, and the ubiquitous terrains of identity.
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Just in, a few copies of this remastered classic by Sage Sohier.
The photographs in Americans Seen were made between 1979 and 1986, when Sage Sohier was a young photographer living in Boston.
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A photo of a photo book Return by Larry Clark. The book is laying flat on a white background.
Yesterday, I received this photo book from @wolf-books.com.
It’s Return by Larry Clark. It’s about him and his friends using drugs in the 60s USA, and things related to that. 1/5
#PhotoBooks #LarryClark
From 1977 to 1985, Goldberg photographed the wealthy and destitute of San Francisco, creating a visual document that has since become a landmark work. The photographs constitute a shocking and gripping portrait of America during the 70’s and 80’s.
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Super excited to host Brad Feuerhelm @nearesttruth.bsky.social & Jack Whitefield to give a wonderful workshop!
22–26 April / Division of Labor: 5 Day Risograph Bookmaking Course + Zoom Meet
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Jack Whitefield and
Brad Feuerhelm
Division of Labor
April 22-26th 2025
5-Day Risograph Bookmaking Course + Zoom Meet
Wolf Books, Arnhem
Let's Get It!
Ward 81 by Mary Ellen Mark was a breakthrough. Granted, photographs of Oregon State Hospital existed previously, but Mark’s work was a pioneer intimate portrait of an American group outside of the dream, outside of the reality.
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These images of homes and gardens, porn actors and film crews, studio and location shootings are an ambiguous meditation on suburbia and its trappings, family and transgression, loss and desire, the utopias and dystopias of middle-class lifestyle.
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Today we're looking at a personal favourite!
With this book Baltz took his place near the center of the New Topographics movement, a newly coined term emblematic of a cool, distanced, yet critical view of the emerging man-altered landscape.
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Today's highlight!
Fascinated by the cultural changes in contemporary China, Bertien van Manen produced a personal reportage on China as she saw it: a world of contradictions, a mingling of urban and rural culture, against a communist background.
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We're very happy to announce our brand new website! Not only a new design but also a full filter system making it much easier to browse the books you're looking for. You can also see the upcoming events and sign up for our newsletter, which will be coming soon!
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Today we're having a look at one of Martin Parr's classics, The Last Resort, taken in New Brighton. Shot with a medium format camera and daylight flash, the photographs are an early example of Parr’s characteristic saturated colour.
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A true classic, Los Alamos by William Eggleston. This edition from 2003 published by Scalo is a real gem!
“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important (...)”
— William Eggleston
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On the 15th of February we're opening a new in-store exhibition called Being There by Dutch photographer Bouwe Brouwer showing a selection black and white street photography, capturing poetic scenes, comedic situations and visual juxtapositions of everyday life. Be welcome!
15/02/2025 — 16.00-20.00
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