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This lavishly illustrated survey presents the work of nearly
120 international artists at the forefront of the boom in photography, among them Elina Brotherus, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Alec Soth, Jens Ullrich and Michael Wesely.

Each artist is introduced by an essay, followed by four pages of their superbly reproduced work. This is a valuable and forward-looking reference book for photographers, collectors and photography lovers everywhere.

Author: Edited by Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig, English, Art General.

Specifications: softcover, 520 pages, 264 x 206 mm, 718 illustrations
Thames & Hudson, ISBN: 978 0500287118 .

Price (ZA) R500.00

Darius (aka Leon Reid IV) and Downey (aka Brad Downey) did their first piece together in Brooklyn in 2000. This fraught but life-changing experience marked the birth of a partnership that would go on to revolutionize street art.

Narrated by Ed Zipco, here are Darius & Downey’s early exploits and brushes with the law and death; their daring daylight operations disguised as city workers and eventual creative interventions on the cityscapes of London and Berlin. Along the way, we witness their artistic evolution from conventional graffiti tagging to ambitious street installations that are wittily entertaining yet strikingly subversive.

The vivid narrative depicts a creative but harsh environment of extremes – friendship and rivalry, respect and conflict, adversity and prosperity – and reveals the incredible risks that artists take, day in, day out, to win their place in the graffiti hall of fame.

Author: Leon Reid and Brad Downey, English, Art General.

Specifications: hardcover, 256 pages, 229 x 151 mm, 79 illustrations, 79 in colour
Thames & Hudson, ISBN: 978 0500513958 .

Price (ZA) R340.00

Everyone Their Own Projector is an artist’s book published by Captures Edition in Valence, France. It was created as the focus of the exhibition of the same name held recently in Paris. Kentridge made roughly one hundred drawings for the book, using collage on text pages torn from books he has cannibalized for years, such as Mrs Beaton’s Book of Household Remedies, and the French Larousse Encyclopaedia, favouring ink and brush drawing with crayon on the text pages.

“The artist romps through the history of art on each page of the book, looking at and bringing his own perception to Giotto, Masaccio’s Expulsion from Eden, Manet’s famous bartender and Rembrandt’s beautiful study of his second wife, Hendrickje paddling in a stream. These visual quotations are punctuated by typical Kentridge imagery and obtuse rhetorical questions. His new character, Nicholai Gogol’s Nose appears, intimately exploring the female body: contemporary female bodies from South Africa alongside studies of Degas’ femmes après le bain. The Nose travels with Kentridge, examining the artist’s selected artistic lineage, and the classic subject of the European artist until the mid twentieth century, that of the female nude.” - From Kate McCrickard’s review.

The artist’s book, Everyone Their Own Projector is printed in a run of 1500, and is also released in a limited, signed edition of 120 copies accompanied by a signed and numbered lithograph by the artist.

Author: William Kentridge, English, Collectible.

Specifications: 19.5 x 26cm
, ISBN: 978 2 9531889 0 5 .

Price (ZA) R950.00

A new global street culture has emerged, uniting the world’s diverse subcultures. Graffiti and skateboarding, DJ-ing, fashion and printmaking – this packed book celebrates the street as a stage for the creativity of a generation.

From New York and Los Angeles, to the Brazilian mega-cities, South African townships, and Mumbai, the authors highlight cultural hotspots around the world – in more than 100 topics and more than 1,000 colour photographs

Author: Roger Gastman, Caleb Neelon, Anthony Smyrski, English, Art General.

Specifications: hardcover, 384 pages, 235 x 220 mm, over 1000 colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 0500513859 .

Price (ZA) R400.00