{"title":"La maison de Z","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9782958509446","title":"Remember Me Like This","description":"\"In Remember Me Like This, Rachel M. Liu turns to her family photo archive to examine how memory is shaped, staged, and reimagined through the photographic image.A multidisciplinary artist working with photography, alternative processes, and mixed media, Liu has engaged with her family’s photographs since 2017 to probe the boundary between memory, history, and representation. The series draws on black-and-white family images made in China between the 1940s and the 1970s. Liu reprints selected images as silver gelatin prints and hand-paints each with ink and gouache. Dotted motifs obscure faces, contours soften, and surfaces are gently interrupted, transforming personal records into images that register through form and gesture rather than identity.Through these interventions, the work reflects on how photographs construct and withhold meaning, and on the human desire to see and to be seen. The book reproduces the series with careful attention to material detail, inviting readers to encounter the tactile tension between paint and silver print.\"","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420194124149,"sku":"9782958509446","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"kaino-e","title":"Kaino E","description":"Kaino E is a long-term documentary photobook centered on Kunihiko Kaino, one of the last surviving Japanese hard-helmet pearl divers who migrated from Taiji, Wakayama, to Broome, Western Australia after the Second World War. The project began in 2021 through a personal connection and developed over several years of close time spent with Mr. Kaino at his home in Fremantle, as well as during his final return to Japan to visit his 98-year-old sister. The book unfolds in three parts: Japan, Australia, and a central chapter that brings together photographs from three generations: images made by Mr. Kaino’s father, by Mr. Kaino himself, and by Alsharrah. Spanning nearly a century, these photographs trace a lived trajectory across oceans, linking family memory, migration, and labor through a shared visual lineage. The title “Kaino E” derives from Mr. Kaino’s name, which can be read in Japanese as “ocean field,” reflecting a life shaped by the sea. The suffix E, meaning “to” or “dear” in the opening of a letter, positions the book as a form of address. In this sense, Kaino E functions as an ode, a letter to Mr. Kaino and to a generation of divers whose histories are gradually receding. Rooted in collaboration and long-term engagement, the project moves between documentary record and photographic poem. It reflects on friendship, return, and remembrance, while situating an individual life within the broader legacy of Japanese pearl divers in Australia, across generations, borders, and the enduring field of the ocean.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492244169077,"sku":"9782958509453","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"not-all-bald-men-with-beards-are-javier-talavera","title":"Not All Bald Men with Beards Are Javier Talavera","description":"Not All Bald Men with Beards Are Javier Talavera by Javier Talavera originates from the artist’s repeated experience of being mistaken for other bald men with beards. From this everyday confusion emerges a reflection on a broader condition: the growing tendency to perceive individuals as interchangeable.The project presents a series of synthetic portraits that resemble the artist without depicting him. Positioned between similarity and difference, these images examine the body as data, shaped by systems of classification, algorithms, and visual patterns.By multiplying versions of a figure that appears the same yet remains distinct, the work reveals the tension between individuality and standardization. It invites viewers to question how identity is constructed, perceived, and reduced within contemporary visual culture.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492245086581,"sku":"9782958509460","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/publisher-la-maison-de-z.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}