Mack Books

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 20 x 2 cm., 104 pp., 96 color ills., text language: English

In the out-of-print book 'Sacrifice your body' by Roe ETHRIDGE, documentary images of his mother are combined with surreal collages and a series from a Chanel fashion shoot. The clash of visual styles, stories & meanings leads to uncomfortable dissonance.

In 1977, Stephen SHORE travelled across an area of industrial decline, later known as the Rust Belt. Commissioned as an photographic report, 'Steel Town' provides an immersive portrait of a time and place whose significance to our own is ever more urgent.

For this series, 'Vandalism' (1974/1975), John DIVOLA destroyed vacant houses. At a time when the 'truthfulness' of photography was being questioned, the series contributed to the conceptual sabotage of the boundaries between documentary & art photography

In the volume 'Topographies: Aerial Surveys of the American Landscape', Stephen SHORE revisits the ambitions of the 1975 'New Topographics' by taking a new bird's eye view of the relationship between the natural and the man-made in the American landscape.

In recent years, technology and constructed landscape have become overarching topics for Thomas STRUTH. The catalog volume 'Nature & Politics' contains all of the works in the exhibition and is the most comprehensive photo volume of his most recent works.

'Message from the Exterior' by landscape photographer Mark RUWEDEL explores in a humorous way ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the harsh environments of the desert region east of Los Angeles, in small, often eccentric and somewhat lost huts

Distortions, experiments and illusions characterize GUIDI's early work from the late 1960s and early 70s, which he further developed by introducing a 'fisheye' lens. In 'Lunario' he returns to the moon as a source of stylistic and thematic inspiration.

The images in the book 'THEM' by Rosalind Fox SOLOMON are marked by a keen sense of life in the West Bank. They are interspersed with diary fragments revealing the humanity of each person photographed, a window into lives marked by violence & insecurity.

Photo volume set 'In Sardegna' shows the further development in the work of the Italian photographer Guido GUIDI. Created about 40 years apart on two trips through Sardinia, you can also see the historical and geographical changes on the remote island.