Mothers Day - It's Complicated

Sophie Calle: Rachel Monique

Published by Editions Xavier Barral.
Text by Sophie Calle, Monique Szyndler.

The haunting story of Sophie Calle’s mother, told through diary excerpts and family photographs

PUBLISHER
Editions Xavier Barral

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 38 color / 57 bw.

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Pub Date 4/25/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 50   

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Nancy Borowick: The Family Imprint

A Daughter's Portrait of Love and Loss

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited with text by Nancy Borowick. Introduction by James Estrin.

When American photojournalist Nancy Borowick’s (born 1985) parents Howie and Laurel were diagnosed with stage-four cancer and underwent simultaneous treatment, she did the only thing she knew how to do: she documented it. By turning the camera on her family’s life during this most intimate time, Borowick learned a great deal about herself, family and relationships in general. Borowick's father died in 2013, and her mother followed 364 days later. The lessons she garnered from Howie and Laurel were plentiful: always call when the airplane lands, never pass on blueberry pie, and most importantly, family is love and love is family.

“Though it is nothing she would have wished for, in a relatively short time Nancy Borowick became an expert in photographing death.” —The New York Times

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/12/2017
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 138   

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ISBN 9783775742481 TRADE
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Jessica Todd Harper: The Home Stage

Published by Damiani.
Foreword by Alain de Botton. Text by Alison Nordström.

Though Jessica Todd Harper (born 1975) uses a camera rather than a paintbrush, the viewer quickly senses in her images the familiar canvases of Sargent, Whistler and Vermeer. Harper's naturalistic images pause or recreate real life for the camera; the play between the often-formal environment and her subjects--intimately portrayed family members--creates images that seem at once intimate and artificial. Her latest collection is thus aptly called The Home Stage, a double entendre that references the home-bound lifestyle of families with small children as well as the idea that home is the stage on which children first learn to live. With her elegant compositions, unique color palette and skillful handling of light, Harper transforms every room and yard into a stage set. No detail is left untouched by her eye: even the wallpaper that recedes into darkness bears symbolic significance. Somehow both private and universal, Harper's photography is genuine, tender, uninhibited and, at times, humorous, demonstrating the emotional range of the finest actor and director and drawing strong performances from her supporting cast--her husband, her children, her sister, extended family and friends. Harper's photographs have been reviewed in The New Yorker, Photo District News, Camera Austria, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and other publications, and she has taught at the International Center of Photography and Swarthmore College. She lives in Philadelphia.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/31/2014
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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 45   

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ISBN 9788862083645 TRADE
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We Learn at Home

Published by Dung Beetle Ltd.
By Miriam Elia.

Book 2 of the Dung Beetle Learning series: Mummy takes John and Susan out of their local school to be re-educated at home, and introduce to their young minds a new, alternative world view

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Dung Beetle Ltd

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 4.75 x 7 in. / 48 pgs / 20 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/28/2017
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ISBN 9780992834999 TRADE
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Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas

Published by West Madison Press LLC.
Edited by Donna Ghelerter. Foreword by Madelyn Shaw. Text by Virginia Bayer, Linda Florio, Donna Ghelerter.

Marguerita Mergentime's textiles reshaped the sensibility of the 20th-century American home

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West Madison Press LLC

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.25 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 145 color / 39 bw.

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Pub Date 6/27/2017
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ISBN 9780692768273 TRADE
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Niina Lehtonen Braun: Mother Said

Published by Kerber.
Edited by Niina Lehtonen Braun, Christina Kral. Text by Sonja Commentz.

Over five years, Finnish video and installation artist Niina Lehtonen Braun (born 1975) collected motherly advice, ranging from loving and concerned to cold and cynical, for her project Mother Said. This publication presents the artist’s multimedia collages relating to this maternal guidance.

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / 110 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/31/2014
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 185   

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ISBN 9783866788466 FLAT40
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Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood

Published by Art / Books/Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Edited by Susan Bright. Text by Susan Bright, Stephanie Chapman, Nick Johnstone, Simon Watney.

Published to accompany a highly anticipated traveling exhibition, Home Truths examines contemporary interpretations of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of picture-making: the image of the mother. Focusing on the work of 12 international photographers, it challenges the stereotypical or sentimental views of motherhood handed down by traditional depictions, and explores how photography can be used to address changing conditions of power, gender, domesticity, the maternal body and female identity. The work featured here is highly personal, often documentary in approach and with the individual at its center. The featured artists--among them Janine Antoni, Elina Brotherus, Elinor Carucci, Ana Casas Broda, Tierney Gearon, Fred Hüning, Leigh Ledare, Miyako Ishiuchi, Ann Fessler, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Katie Murray and Hanna Putz--offer very different views of contemporary motherhood, from the devoted to the dysfunctional. The book’s essays explore the historical and contemporary context of the mother figure, illustrated with dozens of comparative images from antiquity to the present day. Curator and editor Susan Bright traces the history of photographs of motherhood from the nineteenth century to the present; Simon Watney discusses the Madonna; Nick Johnstone looks at the presentation of the mother from the perspective of the father; Stephanie Chapman explores issues of motherhood and loss as expressed through photography.

PUBLISHER
Art / Books/Photographers’ Gallery, London

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 150 color / 20 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/30/2013
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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 107   

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ISBN 9781908970107 TRADE
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