Retinal Shift is the catalogue for Mikhael Subotzkys 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Exhibition, which will tour every major museum in South Africa. Retinal Shift investigates the practice and mechanics of looking in relation to the history of Grahamstown, the history of photographic devices, and Subotzkys own history as an artist. The works draw on archival portraits from the last century, found surveillance footage, as well as Subotzkys own photographs from various series that he re-contextualizes. The opening work in the book is a self-portrait that Subotzky made with the assistance of an optometrist. High-resolution images of his left and right retinas sit side by side. Says Subotzky: I was fascinated by this encounter. At the moment that my retinas, parts of my essential organs of seeing, were photographed, I was blinded by the apparatus that made the images. Mikhael Subotzky was born in 1981 in Cape Town and is currently based in Johannesburg. Subotzky adopts the directness of the social document

This progressive book object combines twovolumes and covers the sweep and depth of Lewis Baltz's influentialoeuvre. Rule Without Exception is a re-issue of Baltz'saward-winning mid-career retrospective book which accompanied atravelling exhibition of the same name in 1991. The book surveysBaltz's work from "The Prototype Works" of 1967 through to "Sitesof Technology" of 1991, showing the range of his images ofindustrialised landscapes and technological sites. Each section ofthe book is accompanied by installation views as well as texts bydistinguished writers, some newly commissioned for this edition.Only Exceptions is a new book chronicling Baltz's work - nowusually site-generated commissioned works - from 1992 to thepresent and is published on the occasion of an exhibition organizedby the Kunstmuseum, Bonn. Only Exceptions includes Baltz's work inCalifornia, Leipzig's "Black Triangle", Reggio Emilia, Groningen,Rome, Venice, and two projects with Jean Nouvel in France andItaly.

Celebrities rule the modern world, and close behind them arethe paparazzi, fuelling the medias endless fascination with therich and famous, while they themselves keep a low profile, fadingchameleon-like into the background. Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostainare two respected photo-reporters, based in Paris but ready to goanywhere in the world for a scoop. They began working together inthe late 1970s as contributors to the magazine "Paris Match", andby 1986 they had set up a formal partnership, founding the agencySphinx. Over the decades, they have honed the instincts required tocatch the moment when a glance, a pose and a setting are mostperfectly matched, capturing movie stars and models, rock stars androyalty. This book presents a selection of their best work from thelast 25 years. Packed with striking black-and-white images thathark back to the golden age of photo-journalism, famous challengesus to recognize, appreciate and celebrate a fresh frame ofreference through which great photography can be judged.