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LA-LV - Antony Cairns, published by Kominek Books 2016

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100 Bilder - Yokota Kametani Takizawa, published by Kominek books

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Berlin - Daisuke Yokota, published by Kominek books 2017

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#Antony Cairns NIGHT CITY

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Henrik Malmström AMW + LIOLIW Collectores Editions

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Life is One Live it Well by Henrik Malmström

Life is One Live it Well takes us back to the dodgy area of St. Georg in Hamburg and to to many of its barrooms: Mickey Mouse, Windstärke 11, Zum Frühaufsteher, Rund um die Uhr, Moin Moin, Treff Hamburg-München, also the Vanessa Bar, Dschungel Bar, Rubin Bar, Moulin Rouge, Zar und Zimmermann and Astra Stübchen. Somewhere between the bittersweet fatalism of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the deadpan mien aesthetics of Aki Kaurismäki, Henrik Malmström recreates in colour a contemporary “Café Lehmitz”. Its ambience is imbued with visual stylization and a warm-hearted emotional immediacy towards its people who just want to be left in peace and “drink their bitter cup of broken dreams”, as the famous Finnish tango artist Olavi Virta sings. After all, life is one so you better live it well.

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A Minor Wrong Doing by Henrik Malmström

Slowly but steadily we become immersed in what Henrik Malmström saw and photographed from the window of his living room. The pages of A Minor Wrongdoing unfold as a hypnotic sequence of candid shots taken at the neighbourhood of St. Georg in Hamburg, between 2011 and 2014. Hundreds of them, they record the last remains of street life in an urban area that is currently undergoing fierce gentrification after recent official law enforcement against street-based prostitution. Malmström used a cheap digital camera forcing its ISO levels to reproduce in each scene the raw effect of a surveillance cam. The grainy monochromatic material of his voyeuristic enterprise has been put together in this voluminous book replicating a messy police report archive. Printed in sharp dots, the grain adds a grade of unprecedented abstraction and beauty to the sequence whereas the quantity of images breaks with the conventional linear story structure. There is an uncanny feel in it. And obsession: the unconfessed obsession of a photographer who happened to be in the right place at the right time. We do not get to see much of what he photographed but we can still imagine pretty much happening in this obscure underworld of transactions.

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Michael Kominek, Photocopies from Tokyo

Published 2014 by Kominek (gallery & books in Berlin)

super nice !

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DAISUKE YOKOTA - TORANSUPEARENTO 

21 x 30 cm / 165 Pages / printed on transparency film / metal ring binding / softcover in vinyl bag / Published by Kominek Books, Berlin + Newfave, Tokyo / First edition of 450 copies /

order here: 78.- Euros

presale price and free shipping only till today! ( 10th of december )

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Daisuke Yokota - TORANSUPEARENTO

- new book printed only on transparency film! published by Kominek Books, Berlin and Newfave, Tokyo.

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NEWS FROM THE KOMINEK BOOK SHOP!

Pekka Turunen KOOTUT de Luxe

2014 / Selfpublished / Softcover / 176 pages / 20 x 17 cm / ONLY Finish Language !!! / Signed Copy!

In Finland, there are more woodpiles than Finns.

This series is about woodpiles, wood stacks, wood-fired heating and the lives of the people who use it.

Some tips for round stack making:

The roof prevents rainwater from dripping inside

A good stack is like a good log house, with a high base and long eaves.

The stack must be kept stable by continually inserting supporting logs during construction. You also have to make sure that the edges don't tilt at all.

buy a signed copy here : 36.- Euros

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Still on till the 14 of june!

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twelvebooks distribution list 2014:

SHEETS

photographed by Rinko Kawauchi

210 x 14o mm

hardcover / 152 pages / color

published by KOMINEK BOOKS

7,140 yen

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Pekka Turunen, from the series Against the Wall, 1984-1995

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Rinko Kawauchi, Sheets

Published by Kominek, 2013

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twelvebooks distribution list 2013:

STRANGERS IN PARADISE

photographed by Misha Kominek

340 x 435 mm

softcover / 56 pages / color

limited edition of  500 copies

published by KOMINEK BOOKS

5,460 yen