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Die vorherrschende Farbe in Orhan Pamuks neuem Fotobuch ist Orange. Wenn der Literaturnobelpreisträger die tägliche Schreibarbeit beendet hat, nimmt er seine Kamera und durchstreift die verschiedenen Viertel seiner Heimatstadt Istanbul. Häufig erkundet er die abgelegenen Gassen, in die sich keine Touristen verirren, Orte, die vernachlässigt und vergessen scheinen, in ein ganz bestimmtes Licht getaucht. Es ist das orange Licht von Straßenlampen und aus Häusern, das Orhan Pamuk so gut aus seiner Kindheit in Istanbul kennt. Doch das vertraute, warme Licht verschwindet. Moderne, billige Leuchtmittel haben Einzug gehalten und nachts leuchtet es zu- nehmend eisig-weiß aus den Fenstern. Die Lichter der Nacht haben sich so schleichend und beinahe unmerklich verändert wie die sozialen Strukturen der ganzen Stadt. Über Jahrzehnte hat Orhan Pamuk die nächtliche Stadtlandschaft fotografiert und so in seinen Bildern ein Istanbul bewahrt, das allmählich verschwindet.

Regardless of his sitter-whether family member or influential celebrity-Nadav Kander's portraiture shows what makes that particular individual human. His aim is to move beyond capturing an accurate likeness-to access the emotions within, the uncertainty, the shadow as much as the light, the complex sense of self that otherwise lays hidden. "Revealed and concealed, beauty and destruction, ease and disease, shame and shameless," explains Kander, "These paradoxes are essential to all my work and represent what is common to all my varied subject matter..." This collection, the first book dedicated his portraiture, shows the range and nuance of Kander's work.With his minimal and intuitive approach, Kander shows his interest in universal experience, which transcends the specificity of public persona or status. His enigmatic depictions of actors, artists, musicians, authors, sports icons and political leaders-from Barack Obama, John le Carré, Alexander McQueen, to Tracey Emin, Robert Plant and Prince Charles-are layered and penetrating, revealing unexpected moments of reverie and vulnerability.

This book is the latest of Anders Petersen's award-winning City Diaries, the first three of which are now out of print. Throughout his career Petersen has traveled extensively and documented life beyond the margins of polite society, a shadowy world of pleasure and sin including prostitutes, transvestites, alcoholics, nighttime lovers and adult conflict. Through his candid, empathetic yet somewhat detached eye, he discloses difficult realities such as drug addiction with a sense of bewilderment and currency. City Diary #4 shows Petersen's ongoing photographic engagement with the gritty and beautiful in life as it unfolds before him.

Unlike many photographers who maintain a strict divide between their commercial and private work, the author has always combined the two. This book contains the photographs of author's life at and around his house in Suffolk: landscapes, portraits of family and friends.

Working across sculpture, photography, drawing and artist's books, Roni Horn addresses identity, mutability and unease. The title of this book, which accompanies the artist's exhibition of the same name at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, is borrowed from Patrick Henry, a prominent representative of the American independence movement in the eighteenth century who ended a speech with the famous words: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" By replacing liberty with paradox, Horn nods to her interest in the reconciliation of two contradictory answers, an important aspect in her work, which also relates to her use of doubling or pairs. A seminal example of this is This is Me, This is You (1997-2000), photographs of the artist's niece taken over a two-year period during her adolescence and presented on two opposite walls, or a.k.a. (2008-09), which captures the artist at different moments throughout her life. The catalogue presents the more than 100 works in the exhibition, including drawings from the late 1970s that have never been shown before, as well as a selection of pigment drawings made between 1983 and 2018.Co-published with Museum Ludwig, CologneExhibition: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 23 March to 11 August 2024Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at the Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, The Detour of Identity reads the work of Roni Horn through the prism of cinema, revealing an intense psychosexuality that is often submerged under its empirical and conceptual character. Images of Horn's photography, sculpture and drawing are presented alongside stills and excerpts from films by Robert Altman, Carl von Dreyer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alfred Hitchcock and Nicolas Roeg, among others. A foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner, director of the Louisiana Museum, introduction by Jerry Gorovoy, exhibition curator, and essays by cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen, art historian Briony Fer and novelist Gary Indiana clarify the central importance of film to both the making and understanding of Horn's practice. Words, literature and language are often grasped as keys to Horn's art, but by juxtaposing her work with film this book shows that the body, desire, fantasy and sexuality are equally crucial to her exploration of the instability and mutability of identity.