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Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Individual photographers
Skins by Gavin Watson is arguably the single most important record
of '70s skinhead culture in Britain. Rightly celebrated as a true
classic of photobook publishing, the book is now reissued in a
high-quality new edition under close supervision from the
photographer. The scores of black and white shots offer a
fascinating glimpse into a skinhead community that was
multi-cultural, tightly knit and, above all else, fiercely proud of
its look. These are classic photographs of historical value. "What
makes Gavin's photos so special is that when you look at them,
there's clearly trust from the subject towards the photographer, so
it feels like you're in the photo rather than just observing." -
Shane Meadows (Director of award-winning film This Is England). The
book, described by The Times as "a modern classic", forms an
important visual record of its time and has attained cult status in
the genre, alongside works by other eminent photographers such as
Derek Ridgers and Nick Knight. "Arguably one of the best and most
important books about youth fashion and culture ever published." -
Vice Magazine
With the rise of feminism, women photographers conquered the
mainstream, with an increasingly commodified art world now viewing
them simply as photographers and not merely a novelty or
subcategory. Some women combined their photography practice with
video, installations and other media, while others used the camera
as a tool for questioning the concept of imagemaking itself, or for
opening a fruitiful dialogue with subjects, instead of imposing an
outside viewpoint. A rising awareness of environmental concerns
went hand in hand with the issues of globalization and diversity.
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True Russia
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Alexander Petrosyan
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Soviet Bus Stops
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Christopher Herwig, Fuel; Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell
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"Patrick's work offers a mesmerising journey around the world in
search of the divine, offering a timeless portrait of people living
on the fringe, creating life on their own terms." - i-D For more
than 25 years, French photographer Patrick Cariou has traveled to
far out places around the globe, documenting people living on the
fringes of society and making a way for themselves. Whether
photographing surfers, gypsies, Rastafarians, or rude boys of
Kingston, Cariou celebrates his subjects as they are: peoples of
the earth who meet the struggles of life with honor, dignity, and
joy. Bringing together works from his groundbreaking monographs
including Surfers, Yes Rasta, Trenchtown Love, and Gypsies, Works
1985-2005 takes us on a scenic journey around the world, offering
an intimate and captivating look at cultures that distance
themselves from the blessings and curses of modernism. Given access
to these hermetic realms, Cariou presents a fascinating portrait of
resistance in a multiplicity of forms. The landscape plays a vital
role in Cariou's work, revealing how people live shapes their
identity and destiny in equal part. Whether following the waves,
living in the mountains, or surviving urban and rural poverty,
Cariou's subjects reval the importance of preserving one's native
culture at a time of Western cultural hegemony. The spirit of pride
and defiance comes alive in his work; each of the peoples portrayed
have found a way to survive despite the brutality facing them and
the earth alike.
Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising
interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography,
film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and
re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip
hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of
spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans
Erizku's career, blending his studio practice with his work as an
in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New
Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features
his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons, such as Solange,
Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the
New York Times, "It's important for me to create confident,
powerful, downright regal images of Black people." Featuring essays
by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James,
and writer Doreen St. Felix, and interviews with the artist by Urs
Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and
arresting testament to the artist's tremendous power and
originality.
Forty years ago, London's Docklands had become 6,000 acres of
forgotten wasteland after over a century as the busiest port in the
world. Now these once-derelict docks are again filled with ships
and boats, forming homes and businesses for an extraordinary range
of people. Whether millionaires visiting on their superyachts,
country house executives needing a London base, young tech workers
wanting a cheaper place to live, jobbing craftsmen keeping ancient
marine trades alive or homeless people finding refuge, these are
varied and dynamic communities. Highly acclaimed London
photographer Niki Gorick focuses on St Katharine Docks, the Surrey
Docks and the Isle of Dogs to illustrate the rich mix of
personalities and activities in these converted commercial docks.
They enjoy central London locations but as floating communities
with their own nautical customs and rules, they are a world apart
from their land-based neighbours. These images reveal the amazingly
diverse modern-day life within these urban marinas.
This is the definitive visual account of the gay liberation
movement in New York, following the Stonewall uprising in Greenwich
Village in 1969, an event that marked the coming-out of New York's
gay community. As a direct outcome of Stonewall, gay pride marches
were held in 1970 in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.
Fifty years later Pride will be celebrated in thousands of cities
across the world. Including more than 190 photographs by Fred W.
McDarrah chronicling the movement in all its glory, the book
includes reflective essays by major figures such as Alan Ginsbery,
Hilton Als and Sir Ian McKellan.
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Jamel Shabazz: Albums
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Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr.; Edited by Michal Raz-Russo; Text written by Deborah Willis, Leslie Wilson, Nelson George
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Pino Musi
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A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian
photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer -
beautifully written and deeply moving. Winner of the 2020 Canberra
Critics' Circle Award for Biography Winner of the University of
Queensland Non Fiction Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards 2020
Winner of the Magarey Medal for Biography for 2020 Shortlisted 2022
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Non Fiction Award
Longlisted for the 2020 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
2020 Olive Cotton was one of Australia's pioneering modernist
photographers, whose significant talent was recognised as equal to
her first husband, the famous photographer Max Dupain. Together,
Olive and Max were an Australian version of Frida Kahlo and Diego
Rivera or Ray and Charles Eames, and the photographic work they
produced in the 1930s and early 1940s was bold, distinctive and
quintessentially Australian. But in the mid-1940s Olive divorced
Max, leaving Sydney to live with her second husband, Ross
McInerney, and raise their two children in a tent on a farm near
Cowra - later moving to a cottage that had no running water,
electricity or telephone for many years. Famously quiet, yet
stubbornly determined, Olive continued her photography despite
these challenges and the lack of a dark room. But away from the
public eye, her work was almost forgotten until a landmark
exhibition in Sydney in 1985 shot her back to fame, followed by a
major retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2000,
ensuring her reputation as one of the country's greatest
photographers. Intriguing, moving and powerful, this is Olive's
story, but it is also a compelling story of women and creativity -
and about what it means for an artist to try to balance the
competing demands of their art, work, marriage, children and
family. 'Absorbing ... illuminating and moving' Inside Story
Easton's photographs, alongside texts by writer, poet and social
researcher Abdul Aziz Hafiz, aim to confront stereotypes and
question the dangerous over-simplification of the challenges facing
such communities. They do so by presenting the contemporary
experience of residents as an 'alternative history telling'. The
black and white photographs in the book were all made in an area
less than half a mile square in Blackburn during 2019 and 2020.
Working with a large-format wooden field camera, Easton spent long
days and weeks in the neighbourhood talking to residents and
sometimes making pictures. The project melds image and text -
Easton's portraiture and landscapes combined with poetry and an
essay by Aziz Hafiz and with the testimonies of residents. This
long-form collaboration acknowledges the issues and impacts of
social deprivation, housing, unemployment, immigration and
representation, as well as past and present foreign policy. The
result is a collective and nuanced portrait of the town - a
sensitive response to the oversimplistic representation of such
communities in both the media and by government, which deny the
right of Bank Top to tell its own story.
Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of
skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed
Templeton’s Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy
of Templeton’s image-making from the last twenty-plus years.
Illustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other
ephemera from Templeton’s journals, Wires Crossed offers an
insider’s look at a subculture in the making and reflects the
unique aesthetic stamp that sprang from the skate world he helped
create. Templeton occupies the rare position of having been a
professional skateboarder, a two-time World Skateboarding champion,
as well as a photographer and artist working within the skateboard
community as it gained increasing cultural currency in the 1990s
and beyond. His work first gained recognition as part of the
Beautiful Losers collective loosely gathered around Aaron Rose’s
Alleged Gallery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This work, much
of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores Templeton’s own
journey as an image maker, as well as the lives of professional
skateboarders as they spent long hours crisscrossing the world on
tour, reveling in their newfound status as rock star–like figures
and the eternal search for new terrain to skate. Interviews between
Templeton and fellow pro-skaters and friends add compelling detail
about the pressures and pleasures of life on the road, and what
it’s like to obsessively pursue an art form—whether on their
decks or behind the camera.
Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon
Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the
first artists to take colour beyond the domain of advertising and
fashion photography, Shore's large-format colour work on the
American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become
a vital photographic tradition over the past thirty years. Uncommon
Places: The Complete Works is the definitive collection of this
landmark series. An essay by noted critic and curator Stephan
Schmidt-Wulffen and a conversation with Shore by fiction writer
Lynne Tillman examine his methodology as they elucidate his roots
in the pop and conceptual art movements of the late sixties and
early seventies. The texts are illustrated with reproductions from
Shore's earlier series American Surfaces and Amarillo: Tall in
Texas.
William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as one of the English
inventors of photography. He made early photographic experiments in
the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing process
in January 1839, and introduced important innovations to the medium
in the 1840s and 1850s. Drawing on archive material in the Bodleian
Library, including three albums given by Talbot to his sister,
Horatia Feilding, as well as his illustrated books, Sun Pictures in
Scotland and The Pencil of Nature, this volume shows how Talbot was
continually inventing photography anew. A selection of eighty
full-page plates provides a thematic survey of Talbot’s work,
reproducing images that document his travels, his home and his
family, as well as his intellectual interests, from science to
literature to ancient languages. An illustrated introduction places
Talbot’s work within the context of a modernising Britain, as
well as within his own social and intellectual milieu, and explores
how the competing daguerreotype process spurred Talbot to improve
his own techniques and seek new functions and uses for paper-based
photographs. This evocative selection is testament to Talbot’s
constant quest for new photographic advances, offering a compelling
window into the archives of an extraordinarily determined and
creative man.
Thatcher’s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992
focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for
homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in
response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State for
Social Security, in which he announced his determination to
‘close down the something-for-nothing society.’ French
newspaper Libération dispatched a journalist to northern England
to find out what this society looked like, and Easton was
commissioned to take the accompanying photographs. His resulting
monochrome images of the overcrowded two-bedroom council flat in
Blackpool sparked a reaction by both the public and the press. His
images attached human faces and nuanced realities to a group of
people casually maligned by politicians and media as an
‘underclass of scroungers.’
The quintessential British landscape--the seaside--is the subject
of these nostalgic Polaroids by the acclaimed English photographer
Jon Nicholson. Anyone who grew up holidaying on England's beaches
is familiar with the distinctive features of these historic
resorts--not the exclusive haunts of the rich and famous, but the
gritty, often rocky shores of the Atlantic and the Irish and North
Seas, filled with amusement arcades, bathing huts, beach umbrellas,
and people of all ages and classes. Jon Nicolson's Polaroid SX-70
camera is the perfect vehicle to capture the color and character of
summers at the sea. At once immediate and ephemeral, these
delicately hued, slightly muted images taken with original,
out-of-date film stock depict the faded glory of Yarmouth's giant
piers, Brighton's pebbly shores, the Blackpool Pleasure Beach
amusement park, and many other resorts across Britain. Each of the
70 photographs is beautifully reproduced on its own page with
descriptive captions. A foreword by Joseph Galliano provides a wry,
contemporary perspective on these beloved, centuries-old locations.
Art, war, carnival or cult — masks have two sides: They conceal
and hide, and at the same time create new personalities, strange
and captivating at once. So, too, do masks reveal world views of
time and place: cult masks from Africa, mediaeval knight helmets,
fantasy masks of famous film heroes like Darth Vader, or gas masks
and VR glasses as modern functional objects. In this new photo
book, Russian photographer Olga Michi traces our millennia-old
fascination with masks. Her expressive pictures place the masks
centre-stage, creating a new, surrealistic aesthetic. With
fascinating texts on each mask’s cultural-historical
significance, this high-quality photo book delights, informs, and
ignites the imagination. Text in English, French, German, and
Russian.
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