Mack Books

The book 'American Winter' by Gerry JOHANSSON shows half-empty cities across the U.S., with as much beauty as misery in snow-covered landscapes: a lonely church floating in a dappled sea of white, or bare trees lining endless highways tending to nothing.

The photo volume 'Easter and Oak Trees' by Dutch photographer Bertien van MANEN offers an enticing invitation to share a small part of this familial idyll.

In 'The Pregnant Virgin' Torbjörn RODLAND explores analog photography in dialogue with online digital culture with precision and a sense of surrealism and surprise. The sequence feeds on symbolism and texture in a sense reminiscent of religious painting.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 27 x 1 cm., 62 pp., color ills., text language: English

'Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography' accompanies an exhibition project by Lou Stoppard, which combines texts by the Nobel Prize winner with images by Harry CALLAHAN, Claude DITYVON, Daidō MORIYAMA, Issei SUDA, Henry WESSEL, Bernard Pierre WOLFF a.o.

In their volume 'Look at me like you love me' Jess T. DUGAN reflects on desire, intimacy, society and how our identities are shaped by these experiences. A highly personal collection of portraits, couples and still lifes, interwoven with diary-like notes.

In 'August', Collier SCHORR uses Polaroids that ise made in the early 1990s to explore the borderline of images that exist beyond the immediate moment. The volume implicitly exposes the distance between artist and subject, and between subject and costume.

'She dances on Jackson' by Vanessa WINSHIP is the result of travelings across the United States - from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana - always in search of the 'American Dream'. It contains her typical portraits & landscape photographs

'Gathered Leaves Annotated' by Alec SOTH brings together five books on over 700 pages of newsprint, updated the original by adding double-page spreads with detailed annotations as notes & text, as well as additional photos. A new compass through his work.

The book 'The Devil is Leaving His Cave' by Wendy EWALD shows the daily lives of Mayan communities im Mexico just before the devastating aftermath of the Zapatista uprising - complemented by new work created in collaboration with young Mexican Americans.