What scares a nation - gunmen who hold children ransom or infamous terrorists? Useful Photography 011 rifles through the history of human targets culled from US shooting ranges. In this age of high impact gun crime, are the participants seeking protection or accelerating the violence?

With elementary materials – wood, paper, clay, tape, paint – artist Fleur van Dodewaard creates ephemeral compositions that play with the possibilities of photography, sculpture, and painting. Situated at the intersection of these disciplines, her work uses photography to achieve the final result. ‘The Fold’ presents ten years of practice, reshaped according to the principles of book production methods such as folding, cutting, and binding. Operating like a “making-of” documentary...

For 'Real Dreams’ Beijing based photographer Ruben Lundgren immersed himself in the Chinese news cycle for six years. The photobook starts with a century old quote in which writer J.R. Chitty explains that China, within the Western mind, is choked with the most ‘ludicrous incongruities’ that need to be assimilated before one can come close to understanding the country. The photographs provide an exceptional wide-range of visual incongruities taken all over the most populous and fastest ...

For this compact book, Gijsbert Hanekroot made a selection of photographs he has taken of Mick Jagger over the course of eight years. The Belgian photographer began shooting pictures of the Rolling Stones during the final concert of their European tour in 1970. It marked the first time he would photograph the band’s frontman during concerts and at press conferences in several cities, including Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels, and London. Hanekroot would also shoot portraits ...

'Teaching Objects' is a journey through art and culture. Jeroen Lutters takes us to see a number of artworks that give new insights into the foundations of twenty-first century civilisation and humanity. In this highly personal ans passionate account, he discusses his individual choice of great works – works that not only reflect the history of Western culture, but also continue to be a source of inspiration and meaning.

The fourteenth edition of Erik Kessels' found photography series presents a semi-nude detective story: who chopped the heads off all the sunbathers? This latest series was discovered in the late eighties by the photographer Toon Michiels. Edited & designed by Erik Kessels.

The work of Dutch artist Vanderheyden belongs to a generation of European conceptual artists that revisits specific ideas from the avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century. His oeuvre, both simple as it is enigmatic, displays all sorts of seemingly contradictory tendencies and reveals a great curiosity about the world.

A lifelong dedication to his practice is surveyed in this clearly laid-out and designed publication that contains ample colour reproductions of works, photographs, essay...

"I can resist everything", wrote Oscar Wilde, "except temptation". What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.