![]() ![]() Tamane’s way of understanding and presenting this personal, and potentially unremarked-upon material, makes for a really special book.ĭoors by Yusuke Yamatani, Gallery Yamatani We follow the artist’s mother as she drives a huge articulated lorry around Europe, her father photographing things to sell online, and elsewhere the kind of domestic, everyday image-making that is so important between loved ones but often passes without notice as a result. It’s a strange but engaging mix of conceptual art and family album, which works really well as a publication. The artist did a great talk on Photoworks Instagram live during the lockdown and inspired me to look out for the book. Probably the first very yellow cover to make of these lists for a while… But it’s a wonderful book, as warm and bright as sunshine. But I did fall in love with this book, and as the year gets worse and worse, locking down into an endless grey Sunday, its utopian magnetism only increases. My first choice would not necessarily be inside a Maya Rochat painting - they look far too chaotic for someone as OCD as me, and, although beautiful, they tend to have colours that I hadn’t thought of. Living In A Painting by Maya Rochat, Ciao Press / La Mobiliereįor most people 2020 has been a giant pain in the ass, and we could be forgiven for dreaming of alternate lives, and living conditions, however notional or unrealistic. No nostalgia here, just a perfectly pitched, beautifully produced reflection on an unforgettable project. ![]() This book takes us behind the scenes of the original film, through both the script and photographs of the production itself, made at the time by Gilles Favier. Its writer and director Mathieu Kassovitz, brought Parisian ‘council estate culture’ to an international audience in such a way that it became an instant classic – no mean feat given the issues involved. Jusqu’à Ici, Tout Va Bien: La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz/Gilles Favier, Maison CFįor non-French people of a certain age (mine etc.) - who arrived too late to catch the new wave - La Haine was probably one of the first French films they paid to see at the cinema and actually enjoyed, then bought on DVD and loved all over again. A mention here too for Fosso’s SixSixSix, also published this year by The Walther Collection / Steidl, a remarkable new body of work and stunning book. The book is also a major achievement by all those that contributed texts, not least the late (and already deeply missed) Okwui Enwezor, who counted this publication among his final projects. Despite a life-long commitment to the performative self-portrait, Fosso never repeats himself and never stands still. The first time we have been able to see, and better understand, the breadth and complexity of this most enigmatic artist’s work. ![]() Buy it, and read it.Īutoportrait by Samuel Fosso, Walther Collection / Steidl Cherchi is an intelligent, sophisticated story-teller through both text and image and the modest nature of the book itself in no way undermines the ambition and power of the material. ![]() Cherchi’s book, likewise, is a testament to its author’s long-term dedication and commitment to a subject (in this case abductions in Sardinia). The last time I remember doing this – reading the complete text of a photobook from cover to cover immediately, like a page-turner of a novel – was my first encounter with Jim Goldberg’s Raised by Wolves. But in collaboration with Federica Chiocchetti (Photocaptionist), and graphic designer Fabian Bremer, Valeria Cherchi has made not only one of the best books of the year, but one in which it is impossible not to want to read every word. Sometimes, in fact, when I am writing essays that are destined for photobooks I have the feeling that they are destined to be hidden in the most perfect places, and will probably never be found, much less read. If we are truly honest with ourselves, it’s not often that we read ALL of the texts in photobooks. Some of You Killed Luisa by Valeria Cherchi, The Eriskay Connection ![]()
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