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Title: Potferdek

Author: Rafael Tanaka Monzo

Publisher: Les Editions Shirokuro

Website: http://rafamonzo.tumblr.com/

Year: 2016

Place of Publication: Spain

Pages: 44

Copies: 30

Size: 26,5 x 20cm

Category: Photography

Description:

Potferdek! : Mom d'un chien! Pouvoir: Ca peut mal: Il n'y a pas de risque. "Tu debrais fermes les fenêtres, il va pleuvoir - Bah ça peut mal!" N'en pouvoir rien: N'y pouvoir rien, ne pas être responsable. "Pourquoi tu as renversé la tasse? Mais j'en peux rien, c'est elle qui m'a poussé!" Ne pas pouvoir de: Avoir reçu une interdiction de... "Tu viens jouer? Mon, je ne peux pas de ma mère". Quatre-six-neuf: A la six-quatre-deux (n'importe comment). Quetter: Là par contre, c'est nous les cochons! Rien à voir avec une quête car qui quette ne s'abstient done pas. Queue (faire la queue): Sujet d'empoigne entre français t belges. Les premiers font de file, les autres la queue. Mais les uns et les autres se retrouvent quand il s'agit d'enguirlander le resquilleur: "A la queue comme toute le monde!" Ratatuire: Cuire excessivement. Raccapoté: Reccoquevillé. Rawette: Petite quantité, souvent excédentaire.

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Title: PETROGRAPHY - Interpreting Silent Artefacts

Author: Rafael Tanaka Monzo

Publisher: Les Editions Shirokuro

Website: http://rafamonzo.tumblr.com/

Year: 2016

Place of Publication: Spain

Pages: 48

Copies: 30

Size: 26,5 x 20cm

Category: Photography

Review:

Today on the blog, "Petrography" a beautiful book by my good friend Rafael Tanaka Monzo.

It's a very nice book, it's almost impossible to do a great talk about it, because is very unique. Well, all the vision of Rafael is very unique! And Nowadays, that is great, because we need new stuff.

Petrography is a very good object, I like to see it in my hand, the book have a great flow, and is very mysterious, the author takes us to another world, it seams that Rafael take those pictures in Mars! Wow! I'm impressed with this.

So, this is just an small note, but take a look, and buy your copie!

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Title: Octave nº1

Author: Peter Oey, Rafael Tanaka Monzo and Fábio Miguel Roque

Publisher: Cynosura Books

Website: http://peteroey.nl/

Dimensions:  148 x 210 mm

Place: Netherlands

Copies: 30

Pages: 32

Category: Photography

More information: Handmade, french fold pages, japanese stab stitched binding, laser print

Review:

So, folks today we gonna see a very important book for me! Octave # 1!

This is a very good a nice project, fully designed and realized by my friend Peter Oey; This is the first of three books.

The books are completely handmade by him and they are really beautiful! Japonese binding; french folds! A joy for the eyes, a joy to the heart! (Well this is not entirely a review, as you can imagine!)

But, yes, it's a very nice book. Very well thought out and executed.

In each book, there is an interaction between three artists and their respective works.

In this first one, we can see the works of Peter Oey, Rafael Monzo Tanaka and my own (Fábio Miguel Roque). Our pictures, are not a regular story, but some random pictures, the ones we like, but we do not know what to do with them! (You know ?!). So the result is some very interesting!

You should actually take a look at this! The project deserves it!

“Featuring; Rafael Tanaka Monzo [Spain], Fábio M. Roque [Portugal] & Peter Oey [Netherlands]

This book is the result of a jam session by three photographers. Images withdrawn from our photo archives. We liked to give our photo orphans a chance to show themselves.

You know all those grab shots and those unfiled photographs still residing somewhere in the wrong folder. And you know the pictures with no particular use or t into a series. Perhaps the skipped darlings from a book editing workshop or so. Shots, too nice not to keep, too little to do something with them in a monograph book format.

With a triple eight of the variations you can create much more. So each of us submitted eight pictures forming an octave, enough for a rhythmic sequence and enough to show our signature through and making the book.

The book is light and soft, the binding is delicate. The black and white laser print is coarse. The paper will yellow and stain by time. Nevertheless, art is better to fade in daylight than in the dark, speaking of photo orphans.”