Lecturis Publishers (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Bart Koetsier roamed Europe for a decade, driven by a dark romantic longing for the big city 'after closing time'. Drawn to the seamy side of a smoothed-out culture, he got lost in the anarchic nighttime street life, photographing the grubby, unpolished and unbridled scenes that unfolded before his eyes. Koetsier has witnessed and documented it all without wanting to participate. Free of judgment, he recorded how the bourgeoisie transforms into a more animalistic form of itself, how the intoxication of the nightlife mixes with the perfume of the streets and with those for whom all this is a 'fait accompli'. 'Noctambule' is a compression of an elongated experience, of disappearing into the night; a blurry period in which Koetsier deliberately surrendered himself for ten years to anonymity, to situations over which no one seemed to really have control. In the book, the viewer is drawn into the obscure allure of the bohemian 'wonderland' that only looms between dusk and dawn. FacebookTwitterDeel.

Seller Inventory # 404739

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. A visual memory of Chile in the years of 1973 and 74. Photojournalist Chas Gerretsen takes us to Chile under President Salvador Allende. The book documents what happened on the streets of Santiago from January 1973 till September 1974: women demonstrations, miner strike and student riots, standing in line for hours for the necessities of life. Chas photographed daily live, leading up to the coup d'état on September 11, 1973 and the immediate aftermath: bodies in the streets, funerals, concentration camps life in a dictatorship. Many of the images were never published before, till Gerretsen started posting them on social media in 2020. The result was a great demand from the Chilean people to see more of the images Chas had taken in their country and a plead for a book creating a permanent memory of President Allende's last year in office, of the coup and the resulting dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The photograph of Pinochet with the dark glasses was taken seven days after the coup d'état. The picture became an icon for the left, depicting the ultimate dictator and was used in protest marches against oppressive governments all over the world. Gerretsen created a book of these tumultuous years, as a visual memory for future generations and those who experienced this difficult time.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1700150002403

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. UXUA UTOPIA A VERY GIFTED GUESTHOUSE A remarkable book about a special hotel in Brazil, designed by Wilbert Das (former fashion designer) and his partner Bob Shevlin (former marketing manager). ON CRAFTING HOSPITALITY by Lidewij Edelkoort: This is not a coffee table book and it is not a travel book. It feels like an object more than a book. The publication is designed as a testimony for tomorrow, on how an ideal society could live together in crafted harmony and with nature. The holistic quality of the project forces our esteem and invites us to further investigate its essential pillars of hospitality and humanity, care and well-being, education and aesthetics, design and craft and empowerment, gardening and partying, textiles and art as well as food and beverage. Born from the vision of two design driven individuals, the Dutch designer Wilbert Das and the American educator Bob Shevlin it appeases and arouses the senses in equal dimensions. The UXUA hotel is a unique experience for the soul. Each guest is anonymous and cherished, needs and demands are anticipated, and staff is educated and send to university. Food is elevated to a rare level and crafted artefacts are to be found in each room as well as public space, like living in a gallery. In this hotel everything is designed and crafted by Wilbert and this makes the experience unique, the concept is certainly copy proof. It is one thing to have a handwoven throw for the beach in your room, that changes when the textiles are woven to taste on the premises.

Seller Inventory # 404700

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Duijs photographed 30 dancers in the open air. He says: 'Who are these people who are committed to their profession? If you re somewhere in the middle of a theater hall and watching a dance performance, you see moving bodies. The dancers are almost anonymous, exchangeable for an outsider. I show dancers up close. While they are dancing and improvising, outside in nature. While doing what they love. I choose a moment when they make themselves vulnerable. The dancers I photographed are mostly students and alumni of ArtEZ, bachelor s degree program for modern and contemporary dance. They form a very diverse group: women and men with different nationalities, ethnic backgrounds and, which is not always obvious within the dance world, with different body types.'.

Seller Inventory # 404674

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Is the war really over? That is the question that photographer Julien Sunyé asks himself when he sees all the violence around him. Whether it is economic war, the civil war in Syria or climate change, Sunyé has the impression that humanity is caught in a destructive dynamic. This is despite all the annual celebrations of peace on the European continent. It prompts him to visit the battlefields of Europe to document the fragility and softness of humanity in environments where the violent past is still healing.

Seller Inventory # 404680

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. About the dramatic melting of glaciers In 1674 the ice came all the way down at the foot of a village in the Swiss Aletsch region. The people, afraid for their existence, loved catholic rituals to request the heavens to stop it growing from the glaciers. Mid 1800 was the peak, the glacier on her largest, then the retreat of the ice began. Now it melts Aletsch Glacier, the largest and longest of the Alps, so hard that they will be gone in 70 years. 70 years, a lifetime. Diewke van den Heuvel is a photographer and artist and says about it: My 11-year-old son is going to experience this. There will be another farewell ceremony in 2019 held for the complete melting of the Pizol Glacier, to the east from Switzerland. The process of climate change is a conceptual one understanding for a lot of people, it s incomprehensible while on this moment the consequences are felt throughout Europe. When I studied Geography, global warming was also one conceptual understanding for me, it only became tangible and understandable when I literally had to go meters further every year with a guide every step of the way ice caves of the glacier. From the first moment I have been touched by the glacier, the grandeur of this natural phenomenon. I would really like to share this with others to feel the enormous importance to make. A poetic imagination for generations to come. Language: Dutch, English and Swiss.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1680878729831

Hardcover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition. PROUD SOUTH is a mesmerizing visual experience that celebrates the creative forces from the southern parts of the planet. Through the colourful and expressive lens of contemporary fashion, photography, styling and art, Lidewij Edelkoort, Lili Tedde and Mariola Lopez Mariño bring together emerging and established talents from wide and far, illustrating that the axis of global creativity has indeed dramatically shifted. Edelkoort has investigated multiple themes that connect sensational talents that hail from Latin America, Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. Not defined by maps, hemispheres or the rigid fashion system of the north, PROUD SOUTH represents an emancipated international movement. As Edelkoort observes, A southern generation of creatives is standing up, expressing local craft, embracing regional materials, recognising ancestral practices and cherishing indigenous values. A sense of excitement is discernible throughout this unique book, so palpable that Edelkoort says it feels like being in a pressure cooker, creating local flavours with a sense of urgency. Having tracked the ingenuity from the south for several decades, Edelkoort explains just what makes the south so special: Each garment has a soul, and each photo knows how to capture one, elevating fashion to an altogether other domain of totemic and emphatic strength. Ordinary items are lifted from their everyday functions, acquiring outsider status and insider knowledge, being both unique and universal. These strange powers gravitate around each other like atoms of a creative aesthetic bomb, waiting to explode on the centre stage of fashion, captured by gifted designers and intelligent brands. They are then eternalised by exceptional photographers who have made it a point to open the floodgates of southern creativity, cascading new ideas into an otherwise morose and repetitive landscape of fashion design, meandering with a sense of wonder, unfolding the power of expression for what southern design can become. Fashion, style, materials, motifs and colours are therefore innovated in myriad ways. Yet the power of the south also leads by example, teaching the important lessons of de-colonialisation, inclusivity, ecology, spiritual harmony and grace. PROUD SOUTH includes essays from noteworthy contributors such as writer and journalist Modupe Oloruntoba, textile and craft activist Kavita Parmar, author and collector Keith Recker and fashion artist Carla Fernandez with her strong manifesto. Profiles highlight several influential talents, including Moroccan photographer Mous Lamrabat, Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop, Indian label Pero and Xhosa knitwear brand Maxhosa. Photographic essays illustrate southern pride with gusto, from the work of renowned Jackie Nickerson to the unpublished series of Carrot Picker Girls by Neville Trickett. An additional portfolio in black and white explores the history of photography in the southern regions, decrypting the origins of the current flurry of talent. With over 400 pages of inspiring imagery, this expansive compendium is also a coveted object, designed by Mariola Lopez Mariño, putting the visuals on the pedestal they deserve and proudly sealing them in a sophisticated golden jacket. Now in pre-order, PROUD SOUTH is available in mid-August 2022 and makes the most engaging tool to discover which trends are cooking for the years to come. As a skilled forecaster, Edelkoort knows!.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1680878616761

Hardcover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition. In the period 2011-2019, the photographers Daniel Heikens (Delft, 1980) and Rein Langeveld (The Hague, 1979) photographed a large number of men with a mullet mat hairstyle in their hometown The Hague. Their enthousiasm together with the fascination of designer Joost Nijhuis (The Hague, 1980) of cultural phenomena and movements, the idea for a photo book was born. It had to be a collection of men with the mullet hairstyle, designed like a true atlas, including geographical maps, pictograms and statistics based on interviews with the gentlemen. A so called Matlas. During their research into the phenomenon the mat (English: mullet, Flemish: neck carpet or neck spoiler), the guys noticed that the mat is worn all over the world and often for a reason. In the Masai, for example, men wear a mat to show that they are still looking for a partner. In our western culture, the hairstyle often has an anarchic appearance. It is therefore the aim of the creative trio the Dutch / Hague Matlas to be the starting shot for a series that will visit all continents.

Seller Inventory # 404631