if you leave is a collection of contemporary photography.
This second book is a selection showcasing images exhibited online in 2011.
Snapshots of a journey made by wanderers who study the mysterious yet uncannily peaceful feeling of desolation and loneliness. It is more concerned with the impact of a single image, rather than a body of work by an individual photographer.
Capturing the beauty of solitude does not merely consist of the act of photography itself, it is the representation of a silent idiom of faces, landscapes, subjects and objects. All in their most personal and intimate états d'être.
As a collection if you leave features the work of 85 young photographers from all over the world.
Online exposure
Photographer Laurence Von Thomas has been curating this collection online since november 2009. As a blog, if you leave features over 500 photographers, and with 400k followers on tumblr and a flickr group of more than a 1400 contributing members it is a steadily growing gallery, representing this neo-romantic movement in photography.
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Some more information:
- stores retail price: £18 - €22 - $30
- online retail price: £15
- limited second edition (1000 copies)
- format: landscape
- cover: paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-9567695-1-0
A list of exclusive bookstores:
- 25 books - Berlin (in stock)
- Arcana Books - LA (pre-order)
- Artwords Bookshops - London (pre-order)
- Athenaeum - Amsterdam (pre-order)
- Brick Lane Bookshop - London (in stock)
- Centre Pompidou - Paris (pre-order)
- Colette - Paris (pre-order)
- Copyright - Ghent (in stock)
- Donlon Books - London (in stock)
- Do You Read Me!? - Berlin (in stock)
- Family - LA (in stock)
- Fnac - Ghent (pre-order)
- Foyles - London (in stock)
- ICP - New York (in stock)
- Koenig Books (charing cross) - London (in stock)
- LN-CC - London (pre-order)
- Magma - London (in stock)
- Mcnally Jackson - New York (in stock)
- Motto - Berlin (in stock)
- Ofr. - Paris (pre-order)
- Powerhouse - New York (pre-order)
- Shop at Bluebird - London (pre-order)
- Soho Books (Brewer St.) - London (pre-order)
- St. Mark's - New York (in stock)
- The Whitechapel Gallery Bookshop
(with Koenig Books) - London (in stock)
About
This second book was launched at Radio London Salon & Gallery on November 3rd, 2011, accompanied by an exhibition featuring works by Adeline Mai, Miet Van Hee, Laurence Von Thomas, Chelsee Ivan and Dacian Groza.
The book and exhibition will be traveling to Paris, Berlin, New York and Ghent early 2012.
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