New For Autumn

This September and October we bring you five new books, each an opening into another way of seeing. In a time when the digital word can be reshaped in an instant, the printed page remains. Once ink meets paper it cannot be easily undone. A book holds its truth. 

Jack Lueders-Booth’s photographs of racers, taken over two decades, show us not simply machines but devotion, to the road, to the fellowship of risk, to the small rituals of a culture easily overlooked. That same spirit of persistence runs through Tessa Boffin’s work, appearing in print for the first time. In the midst of the 1980s AIDS crisis she created images that confronted desire and faith. Edited by her friend Sunil Gupta, this new book ensures her voice does not fade. 

Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil’s luminous cyanotypes return us to the playfulness of beginnings, their bodies and fabrics marked directly by light, while Thomas Boivin’s portraits of Paris show the fragile certainty of youth and Arthur Tress’s long-hidden photographs of men cruising in Central Park surface now as testaments to a private world already gone, yet enduring in the stubborn permanence of the image. 

Together these books resist forgetting. Each has been shaped not only by the artist’s vision but by the hands of printers, editors, designers and binders, a long chain of labour and care, bringing the work into its final form. When these publications enter our homes, they do more than preserve the our social history. They become part of our own story, altering the rooms they inhabit, adding the story of our lives with the gentle weight of paper, cloth, glue and ink.

While the books designs are yet to be reviled, you can learn about each of them HERE.