PhotobookWeekly: Robert Adams, Rahim Fortune, Adam Broomberg & Rafael Gonzalez, Nick Brandt (signed), Teju Cole (signed), Jem Southam

plus this week Blake Andrews reviews the new edition of Ray's a Laugh by Richard Billingham, published by MACK books! [View this email in your browser]( [photo-eye] PHOTOBOOK WEEKLY April 6, 2024 BESTSELLER --------------------------------------------------------------- Words That Helped Robert Adams This volume is a personal compilation of quotations that have played a vital role in orienting Robert Adams’ life as a photographer. Copied down in private notebooks collected over six decades and now edited for the general reader, this meditative tapestry of words addresses the question: “What are the facts of our situation, and how might we respond?” [Pre-Order Words That Helped or read more]( [View the full list of best sellers]( PRE-ORDER --------------------------------------------------------------- Hardtack Rahim Fortune Flour, water, and salt. These are the sole ingredients that make Hardtack: a Civil War-era food long-associated with survivalism, land migration, and its extremely long shelf life. Drawing from this history as a metaphor for the long-enduring nature of Black culture and traditions, Hardtack uncovers the roots that tie Fortune's native landscape to the conflicts and nuances associated with the post-emancipation Americas. [Pre-Order Hardtack or read more]( Anchor in the Landscape Adam Broomberg & Rafael Gonzalez The olive tree is a totem of Palestinian identity, culture, and resistance. It supports the livelihoods of more than 100,000 Palestinian families, is a centre of traditions and identities, and has long been a target of destruction and theft. Since 1967, 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed by Israeli authorities and settlers. Over the past eighteen months, photographers Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez have been photographing olive trees in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, many of which are thousands of years old. [Pre-Order Anchor in the Landscape or read more]( BOOK REVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------- Ray's a Laugh Richard Billingham Reviewed by Blake Andrews Signed copies available! "Ray’s a Laugh is legendary among photobooks, beloved by critics and casual fans alike. It’s hard to believe Richard Billingham was only 26 when the Scalo edition was published in 1996. Adapting its title from an old BBC series, his debut monograph offered a candid and uncomfortably probing document of his working class family captured in their grungy flat in Cradley Heath, England. As Billingham described his father in the book’s brief text, 'Raymond is a chronic alcoholic. He doesn’t like going outside and mostly drinks homebrew.' As for his mother, 'Elizabeth hardly drinks but she does smoke a lot. She likes pets and things that are decorative.'" — Blake Andrews [Read the full review]( [Order Signed copies of Ray's a Laugh]( NEW ARRIVALS --------------------------------------------------------------- SINK / RISE The Day May Break, Chapter Three Nick Brandt Signed copies available! SINK / RISE is the third chapter of The Day May Break, Nick Brandt’s ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. This third chapter focuses on South Pacific Islanders impacted by climate change and serves as a stark reminder of the looming reality many island nations face. [Order Signed or Limited Edition copies of SINK / RISE or read more]( Pharmakon Teju Cole Signed copies available! Bringing together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories, Pharmakon is a surprising new work from the singular mind of Teju Cole. The photographs were taken across the globe and extend the oblique point of view he developed in Fernweh (2020). Interspersed among the images are texts that emerge like intimate signals from our age of crisis, mining further the exquisite linguistic control that characterizes Cole’s novels Open City (2011) and Tremor (2023). The result is a work of strange beauty that startles and consoles in equal measure. [Order Signed copies of Pharmakon ore read more]( The Pond at Upton Pyne Jem Southam The pond at Upton Pyne formed at the site of an eighteenth-century manganese mine. Located on land owned by a local family who were involved in the mining venture, the first excavations began in March 1788. After a bright start the output of the mine steadily diminished and by 1823 it had ceased production, leaving a large pit, shallow on the east side near the road and becoming deeper towards the west, where it is overhung by a cliff. 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