Summertime Fun Staff Picks

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977

Published by Letter16 Press.
Edited with foreword by Brett Sokol. Introduction by Naomi Fry.

The golden days of tube socks, bunk beds, marshmallows and first crushes: 1970s summer camp, from the photographer behind Shtetl in the Sun

PUBLISHER
Letter16 Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 109 color.

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Pub Date 5/26/2020
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Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980

Published by Letter16 Press.
Edited with foreword by Brett Sokol. Introduction by Lauren Groff.

Forget the jokes about late ‘70s South Beach being the Yiddish-speaking section of “God’s Waiting Room”; yes, upward of 20,000 elderly Jews made up nearly half of its population in those days—all crammed into an area of barely two square miles like a modern-day shtetl. But these New York transplants and Holocaust survivors all still had plenty of living, laughing and loving to do, as strikingly portrayed in Shtetl in the Sun, which features previously unseen photographs documenting South Beach’s once-thriving and now-vanished Jewish community—a project that American photographer Andy Sweet (1953–82) began in 1977 after receiving his MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a driving passion until his tragic death. Sweet’s photos capture this community’s daily rhythms in all their beach-strolling, klezmer-dancing glory. “They were strong, humorous, and beautiful images,” fellow photographer Mary Ellen Mark, who worked closely with Sweet, remarked after his death. The book includes a foreword by award-winning Miami arts journalist Brett Sokol and an introductory essay by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff.

PUBLISHER
Letter16 Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 132 color / 1 bw.

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Pub Date 2/19/2019
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ISBN 9780989381185 TRADE
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The Swimming Pool in Photography

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Francis Hodgson.

A photographic leap into cooling waters

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.

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Pub Date 6/5/2018
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Dream Pools

Enchanting Pools of Italy's Emerald Coast

Published by Skira.
By Nico Maria Filigheddu, Giovanni Maria Filigheddu. Edited by Adriano Asara.

A book of inspirational pictures of pools of the Emerald Coast. Twelve amazing pools with architectural lines surrounded by lush Sardinian landscapes. Swimming pools: whether they look directly out over the sea or are set in a garden, whether they have a free form or are more geometrically shaped, whether they are designed to take your breath away or are a discreet addition to their surroundings, pools have become an integral component in the project of a holiday home and are inescapably connected in the mind’s eye with well-being and relaxation. This volume, which takes us into some of the most beautiful villas on the Emerald Coast, includes a selection of exceptional examples of pools that differ greatly: sometimes it all looks as though it was created by nature, but it was a human hand, Filigheddu Costruzioni, that selected and created the high-profile technical handcrafted solutions. A freshwater pool set in one of the most spectacular stretches of the whole Mediterranean coastline necessarily requires that it be designed with great sensibility and with expert knowledge of materials, using both the most innovative, high-tech solutions and consummate craftsmanship.

Giovanni Maria Filigheddu is the administration and sales manager; Nico Filigheddu is site manager; and Adriano Asara is production and public relations manager of Filigheddu costruzioni.

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Skira

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.5 x 11.5 in. / 184 pgs / 160 color.

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Pub Date 5/19/2015
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ISBN 9788857224176 TRADE
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Massimo Vitali: Entering a New World

Photographs 2009–2018

Published by Steidl.

The latest from Massimo Vitali, master portraitist of the beach and the disco

PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 14.25 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs / 115 color.

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Pub Date 2/11/2020
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Martin Parr: Beach Therapy

Published by Damiani.
Text by Martin Parr.

Parr's fresh take on his beloved beach theme

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 8.75 in. / 120 pgs / 75 color.

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Pub Date 2/19/2019
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Cape Cod Modern

Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape

Published by Metropolis Books.
Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Text by Peter McMahon, Christine Cipriani. Photographs by Raimund Koch.

From the “summer Bauhaus” on, the Cape’ s modern designers enjoyed a lifestyle based on communion with nature, solitary creativity and shared festivity

PUBLISHER
Metropolis Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs / 130 color / 200 bw.

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Pub Date 6/30/2014
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Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

Published by Metropolis Books/Gordon de Vries Studio.
Foreword by Alastair Gordon. Text by Christopher Bascom Rawlins.

As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our animal natures. Gifford’s serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift once spurned Hollywood limos for the rustic charm of Fire Island’s boardwalks. Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s here. Diane von Furstenburg showed off her latest wrap dresses to an audience that included Halston, Giorgio Sant’ Angelo, Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene. Today, such a roster evokes the aloof, gated compounds of the Hamptons or Malibu. But these celebrities lived in modestly scaled homes alongside middle-class vacationers, all with equal access to Fire Island’s natural beauty. Blending cultural and architectural history, Fire Island Modernist ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import.

PUBLISHER
Metropolis Books/Gordon de Vries Studio

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 204 pgs / 140 color / 100 bw.

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Pub Date 5/30/2013
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Surfing Photographs from the Eighties Taken by Jeff Divine

Published by T. Adler Books.
Introduction by Scott Hulet. Foreword by Jamie Brisick.

On the heels of 2006's hugely popular Surfing Photographs from the Seventies, T. Adler Books now releases the companion volume, Surfing Photographs from the Eighties Taken by Jeff Divine. The 1980s were a tumultuous period in surf history, as the "everything's groovy" communalism of the previous decade was blown apart into splinter groups. Professionals, rebels, punks and world travelers all banged the drum for their personal vision of surfing. The result was loud and vivid and drenched in fluorescence and neon. Photographer Jeff Divine was on the case, documenting the changes from surfing's twin power poles: southern California and the north shore of Oahu. Divine's access to these scenes, earned from 15 years on the sand and in the water, infuse this volume with authenticity, as an insider look into the period's most definitive moments. Christian Fletcher's strident aerial sorties; the first high-dollar sponsored contests; the west coast cool of Tom Curren; the back alley attitude of Sunny Garcia: Divine brought it all home on Kodachrome 64. And while Wall Street and Madison Avenue were doing their damnedest to monetize the style and freedom of surfing, the sublimity of the ride itself remained unsullied.

Jeff Divine has been photographing surfing for 44 years, and has been the subject of three surf photography monographs. Among his previous books are Surfing Photographs from the Seventies (T. Adler, 2006).

PUBLISHER
T. Adler Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 5/31/2011
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Jeff Divine: 70s Surf Photographs

Published by T. Adler Books.
Edited by Tom Adler, Evan Backes. Foreword by William Finnegan.

A colorful, insider portrait of ’70s surf culture, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author William Finnegan

PUBLISHER
T. Adler Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12 x 9.5 in. / 148 pgs / 110 color / 22 bw.

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Pub Date 3/10/2020
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Dewey Nicks: Polaroids of Women

Published by T. Adler Books.
Introduction by Brad Dunning.

"Dewey Nicks' ebullient fashion photography reminds you that people have forgotten how to have fun in fashion." –The New York Times

PUBLISHER
T. Adler Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 63 color / 39 bw.

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Pub Date 10/23/2018
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Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines

Polaroids 1975-1983

Published by Damiani.
Edited by Ben Smales. Introduction by Edmund White. Text by Tom Bianchi.

Tom Bianchi’s erotic and celebratory Polaroids of magical summers on Fire Island

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 212 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 5/31/2013
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ISBN 9788862082709 TRADE
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

Published by Damiani/MW Editions.
Text by Munesuke Mita.

The repetition and variation of water: an expanded edition of Sugimoto’s classic series

PUBLISHER
Damiani/MW Editions

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 10 x 11 in. / 280 pgs / 225 bw.

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Pub Date 2/19/2019
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ISBN 9788862086240 TRADE
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Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years

Published by Damiani.
Introduction by Eileen Myles. Foreword by Stephen Shore.

The ’80s photographs of Boston School veteran Jack Pierson are at once melancholy and joyous, erotic and slyly witty

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 11/21/2017
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ISBN 9788862085625 TRADE
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Shore Leave

Published by Boyo Press.
Edited by Ryan Mungia. Introduction by Jim Heimann.

For the thousands of US sailors bound for the Pacific theatre of World War II, the Hawaiian Islands were the staging ground for an unknown fate. Their perception of Honolulu as a tropical paradise quickly deflated upon their arrival. The anticipation of a moonlit Diamond Head, available hula girls and free-flowing and affordable rum quickly materialized into crowded streets, beaches cordoned off with barbed wire and endless lines to nowhere. Still, as with many ports of call, diversions were plentiful, and set against the warm trade winds, sailors took advantage of them on their last stop to hell. Shore Leave is the first photobook to capture the Honolulu of this time and place. It is a one-of-a-kind visual document of a port that, for many sailors who passed through, was their initiation into manhood. Classic 1940s images of Hawaiian hula girls complement scrapbook photos of jaunty, uniformed sailors touring the island on a motorcycle or playing pool. Young women masquerading as bonafide hula girls pose with sailors in photobooth arcades, a ritual that for many would be the last human embrace before being deposited onto the battefield. Whether on the crowded streets of Waikiki or in line at the famed Black Cat Cafe, the young American men appear content for the moment with the liberties that their 48 hours away from the ship afforded. Meticulously culled from a 30-year collection of scrapbooks, photo albums and ephemera, Shore Leave—beautifully packaged with its clothbound, tipped-on cover—presents the dreams and realities of young men on their way to war in a Honolulu as exotic and forbidden as it was banal and lonely.

PUBLISHER
Boyo Press

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 10 x 8 in. / 88 pgs / 8 color / 71 bw.

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Pub Date 4/26/2016
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ISBN 9780991619818 TRADE
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Joseph Szabo: Lifeguard

Published by Damiani.
Text by Greg Donaldson.

Camaraderie and community on Jones Beach

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.5 x 9.25 in. / 96 pgs / 42 bw.

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Pub Date 3/27/2018
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ISBN 9788862085427 TRADE
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Ice Cream Headaches: Surf Culture in New York & New Jersey

Published by Damiani.
Foreword by Michael Halsband. Text by Ed Thompson. Photographs by Julien Roubinet.

East Coast surf culture from Montauk to Rockaway Beach and Cape May

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 3/27/2018
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ISBN 9788862085731 TRADE
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Simon Eeles: Far Far Rockaway

Published by Damiani.

The second book by Australian-born, London-based photographer Simon Eeles (born 1983)—following Australiana (2016)—spans two summers in Far Rockaway Beach, in Queens, New York.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 100 color.

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Pub Date 9/26/2017
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ISBN 9788862085434 TRADE
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Ben Watts: Montauk Dreaming

Published by Damiani.

Montauk Dreaming is a vibrant celebration of the Long Island town that London-born photographer Ben Watts (born 1967) has called home since 1995. A "paradise three hours outside the walls of the greatest city in the world," as Watts calls it, Montauk has exploded in recent years, going from a sleepy beach town to a major summer cultural destination. An established commercial and fashion photographer, Watts regularly shoots for publications such as The New York Times Magazine, GQ and Interview. This volume collects the photographs that Watts takes on his days off, of his friends and family at the beaches and the parties that inspire his colorful style. Primarily shot on an iPhone with Watts' own photo app and set of filters rendering the beaches in hallucinatory, sun-drenched neon hues, Montauk Dreaming captures the lifestyle and spirit of a summer on the beach.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date 5/26/2015
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ISBN 9788862083881 TRADE
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Will Scott: Seaside Shelters

Published by Heni Publishing.
Introduction by Edwin Heathcote.

A testament to the heyday of British summer holidays in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (and the country's notoriously fickle weather), seaside shelters provided a spot for British beachgoers to get out of the sun or the rain. Seaside towns, competing to attract visitors, installed these colorful structures on their beaches in a dizzying array of architectural styles, from Victorian to art deco to Bauhaus-inspired. The shelters started to fall into disrepair as low-cost air travel lured British holidaymakers away from the seaside; most of the shelters now stand deserted.

In Seaside Shelters, the London-based architectural photographer Will Scott celebrates the wide variety of shelters dotting the British coastline, documenting this disappearing vernacular architecture at iconic resorts and lesser-known coastal gems alike, including Blackpool, Great Yarmouth, the Isle of Wight, Clacton-on-Sea, Portsmouth, Aberystwyth, Swanage and Cromer.

PUBLISHER
Heni Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color.

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Pub Date 9/25/2018
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ISBN 9781912122042 TRADE
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