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November 2023

Archive

Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential career in film. Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera, including early development work, reference collages, influences, annotated scripts, and unseen behind-the-scenes documentation, it offers a detailed account of all eight of her films to date. Mapping a course from The Virgin Suicides (1999), through Lost in Translation (2003) and Marie Antoinette (2006), to The Beguiled (2017) and her upc
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February 2019

NO MAN’S LAND

This is photographer and journalist Larry Towell's documentary account of the Palestinians. It reveals the landscape of a scarred and battered "no man's land" - the area that calls itself Palestine and Israel, but which is neither fully - and the daily lives of the people who live there. Photographed over a period of ten years and completed with the support of the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (with Towell as its first recipient, in 2003), this is Towell's most important body of
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June 2021

Tipi di Bologna

Tipi di Bologna is a book designed, engraved, composed, printed, creased and bound as it has been done for centuries, by hand. Through the linocut illustrations of Giulia Garbin, the linotype texts of Stefano Riba, the sweat and technical expertise of Anonima Impressori, the book, produced by Griffo, the Great Festival of Letters and supported by the Fondazione Del Monte and Fedrigoni, presents fifteen stories dedicated to fifteen characters who, from the 15th century to
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April 2020

THE LIVES AND LOVES OF IMAGES

Photography has come to symbolize the extremes of contemporary society. It is deeply personal, and yet thoroughly public. Freeing at times, yet also limiting. Expressive, yet culturally dominant. Pleasurable, but worrying. There is affection for photography, but we are, or ought to be, suspicious of its power and manipulations. If we are dependent upon the photographic image, as so many have claimed over the last century, this dependence gives us mixed feelings. Across three cit
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October 2022

Then now and then

Then, Now, and Then consists of 16 films that Marijke van Warmerdam made during her stay in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the city. All the films are loops, and most last no longer than a few minutes. They portray life on the street as the artist takes us on a walk through the city. Distance and proximity, visibility and invisibility, movement and rotation alternate as the films show how the dynamism of the Bar
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June 2020

THE EPIC LOVE STORY OF A WARRIOR

The Epic Love Story of a Warrior forges a fragmented photographic voyage through the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. As told through the eyes of a fictional family, the hero of the story is an anonymous protagonist: a young European man who longs to journey from East to West.Set against the backdrop of great events that defined the era – WW1, WW2, the rise and fall of communism and swe
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