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How Japan revolutionised art & photography in the ’60s and ’70s

From Angura to Provoke — A new photobook chronicles the radical avant-garde scene of the postwar period, whose subversion of the medium of image making remains shocking and groundbreaking to this day.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Swan Moon’s cinematic portrait of growing up Korean in ’90s Los Angeles

Self reflections — Picking up her first camera at the age of eight, the photographer took countless shots of her life, friends and city to help make sense of her surroundings. Her new photobook looks back on those formative years.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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25 years ago, Reflections in Black changed photography

A History of Black Photographers — Deborah Willis’s photobook anthologised pictures made by James Van Der Zee, Anthony Barboza and other groundbreaking Black photographers from when the medium was invented. A new edition updates it with 21st century contributions.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Coreen Simpson’s sweeping, half-century archive of Black America

A Monograph — A go-to photographer for several outlets, she captured stars such Grace Jones and Jean-Michel Basquiat, but also church ladies, club partygoers and b-boys. Her debut photobook provides a wide-ranging survey of her work.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Brick rattling memories of San Francisco’s skateboarding golden age

EPICENTER — In the early ’90s, the city’s scene revolved around the Embarcadero Plaza, or EMB as it was lovingly known. Now, with the area facing redevelopment, a new book by Jacob Rosenberg immortalises its heyday.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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In photos: ’00s Brooklyn on the cusp of gentrification

I Give You Power — Rulx Thork began photographing in his local borough in 2005, after a stint living and hanging out in the East and West Villages. His new photobook revisits his archive, and preserves a slice of New York City life and history.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Striking portraits of side-saddled, Mexican rodeo women in the USA

Escaramuza — Photographer and competitive horse rider Constance Jaeggi travelled across America to meet and document the women taking part in charrería – Mexico’s national sport – uncovering stories of migration, culture and identity in the process.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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Defiant, sensuous portraits of the transmasc & non-binary community

t-fags — When perusing photobooks in queer bookshops, El Hardwick and Orion Isaacs realised that none of the people or experiences they found in among the pages represented them. Their new project, which they are crowdfunding to turn into a book, aims to fills that gap.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Motoyuki Daifu’s chaotic vision of the Japanese family home

My family is a pubis — Growing up in a cramped, working-class household, the Japanese photographer decided to turn his camera onto his own surroundings. His new monograph explores tensions in the traditional family unit, but also the importance finding one’s place within it.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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Remembering Fietas, Johannesburg’s vibrant neighbourhood ripped by Apartheid

Fragments of Fietas — In the ’70s, South African authorities forcibly removed non-white people from the western suburb, now known as Pageview. Enraged, photographer David Goldblatt documented its erasure.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

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