PhotoBookWeekly: Michael Kenna, Melinda Blauvelt, Charles Traub (signed), Maude Arsenault, Georg Kussman (signed), Bruce Gilden

Plus a review of Raymond Meeks & George Weld's new monograph The Inhabitants by Cheryl Van Hooven! [View this email in your browser]( [photo-eye] PHOTOBOOK WEEKLY October 28, 2023 BESTSELLER --------------------------------------------------------------- 2024 Michael Kenna Wall Calendar Michael Kenna's intimate, exquisitely crafted black-and-white photographs reflect a sense of refinement, respect for history, and thorough originality. We are pleased to present the twenty-eighth calendar featuring his work. The 2024 Michael Kenna Wall Calendar is printed on an exclusive, uncoated paper using Daido black ink. [Pre-Order 2024 Michael Kenna Wall Calendar or read more]( [View the full list of best sellers]( PRE-ORDERS --------------------------------------------------------------- Brantville Melinda Blauvelt In 1972, Melinda Blauvelt traveled to the small Acadian fishing village of Brantville, New Brunswick on Canada's Eastern coast. She lived with a fisherman and his family, ran a day camp, and made a series of remarkable, compassionate portraits of the Acadian community that summer and on three subsequent visits from 1972 to 1974. Her photographs are now published as a series for the first time. [Pre-Order Brantville or read more]( Skid Row Charles Traub Signed copies available The volume is a photographic testimony of the American urban fabric of the late 70’s. Charles H. Traub creates a series of portraits, depicting street tenants of Uptown Chicago and Bowery New York. The author declares: "I wanted to see, to try to touch at least with my camera the experience of loss." The intent was not to satisfy a sort of voyeurism, but to witness the dignity and humanity of the homeless. They were very different from the contemporary ones; today they are no longer the result of individual destinies but of great social disparities. [Pre-Order Signed copies of Skid Row or read more]( Resurfacing Maude Arsenault A follow up to her debut monograph Entangled, Resurfacing furthers Maude Arsenault’s visual poetry with ongoing, honest exploration of the female experience. Time passes; family life fractures and splinters with it. Surfaces crack under a varnish of quiet and soft tones, as folds and crevasses are mirrors of an inner, newly reappropriated body. [Pre-Order Resurfacing or read more]( FRG Georg Kussman Signed copies available! The German dramatist Heiner Müller observed that German history lies as if smothered by a rheumatism blanket: beneath there is warmth and stagnation, just enough to give the impression all is well, while the peripheries are freezing. Georg Kussmann’s photographs in FRG were created under this metaphoric blanket. Made in the Federal Republic of Germany over a single summer, they depict everyday scenes of life, work, and leisure under which threats of discontent and violence simmer. [Pre-Order Signed copies of FRG or read more]( BOOK REVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------- The Inhabitants Raymond Meeks Reviewed by Cheryl Van Hooven Signed copies available! "While volunteering with the aid organization Care4Calais, Meeks soon discarded his original plans to make portraits of the migrants. In a conversation with David Campany at ICP, Meeks said he realized that formal portraiture would take him out of encounters and experiences, out of the complexity of being lost, out of being available to what he was witnessing. Instead, he followed the traces left by the migrants, focusing on the places they inhabited, however briefly, on the evidence of their presence, human detritus, and on the land itself, seemingly as impregnable as their access to asylum. Without a single migrant’s photo, The Inhabitants nonetheless carries the feeling of a journey of displacement, bewilderment, of being a stranger in a strange land..." — Cheryl Van Hooven [Read the full review]( [Order Signed copies of The Inhabitants]( ARRIVING SOON --------------------------------------------------------------- Haiti Bruce Gilden Bruce Gilden first traveled to Haiti in 1984 for the famous Mardi Gras festivities. There he discovered an impoverished territory in the grip of numerous natural disasters but charged with a unique energy. True to form, Gilden immediately departed from the beaten track, choosing to roam the length and breadth of the island along serpentine paths that led him to meet people from the four corners of the island, and into situations that few would choose to encounter. [Order Haiti or read more]( FIRST PHOTOBOOK NOMINEES --------------------------------------------------------------- Paris Photo and Aperture are excited to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards — an annual celebration of the photobook’s contributions to the evolving narrative of photography. [View our special edition of PhotobookDaily highlighting the nominees for the First PhotoBook Award!]( RECENTLY FEATURED --------------------------------------------------------------- Mirror City Harry Culy Signed copies! Polaroid Kidd Mike Brodie Signed copies! Lee Friedlander: Framed Signed copies! Masterclass Arnold Newman Pine Valley Robert Adams Signed Copies! Regarding Heroes Yousuf Karsh Painting Photographs Artworks by Alice Wong In Our Hands Native Photography, 1890s to Now Mac McCloud's Five Points Photographing Black Denver, 1938–1975 William Wyckoff Humpty Doom Liss Fenwick Signed copies! Rio Grande Steam Finale Jim Shaughnessy, John Gruber, Richard Steinheimer & Victor Hand The Decisive Moment Henri Cartier-Bresson El Retrato de tu Ausencia Alejandro “Luperca” Morales Modern Instances Extended Edition Stephen Shore Signed copies! Midnight La Frontera Ken Light Signed copies! Sap in Their Veins Portraits of Loggers and the Trees They Fell Paul David Bayles One Brief Moment Dave Heath Centennial Irving Penn Sex The Book by Madonna Steven Meisel Tender Carla Williams Signed copies! [Instagram]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( Copyright © 2023 photo-eye Bookstore, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: photo-eye Bookstore 1300 Rufina Circle, Suite A3 Santa Fe, NM 87507 505.988.5152 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.