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Although her reputation exploded in 2016 with her iconic portrait
of Solange Knowles for the artist's album A Seat at the Table,
self-taught photographer Carlota Guerrero has been producing work
for more than a decade. This first book of her imagery is a record
of Guerrero's evolving style and a compilation of her visual
obsessions. It also features texts by some of her renowned
collaborative partners including the musician Rosalia, Rupi Kaur,
the fashion designer Paloma Lanna, and the writers Alejandra Smits
and Leticia Sala, as well as an introduction by the artist herself.
In turns dreamy and unflinching, Guerrero's work explores ideas of
femininity and gender, nature and human connections, the female
body, patterns, and the Golden Ratio. The monograph collects her
early work, when she was just discovering her talents and her
passion for photographing women in nature; stills from a
performance piece that wowed at Art Basel Miami; a collaboration
with poet Rupi Kaur; pictures from her project documenting the
transgender community in Cuba, and more. At once subversive and
ethereal, classical and distinctly individual, Guerrero's
photography signals a young artist increasingly at home in a
chaotic world and poised to take on whatever comes next.
'Rough Beauty' is a powerful and moving insight into the struggle
of the community of Vidor, Texas, against poverty and its past
links to the Ku Klux Klan.
"Everyday Dada" is a weird and wonderful take on the world of
interior design. Using everyday items of food, Sian Bonnell
reconstructs the home environment in a way that is both surprising
and humorous. Fried-egg bathroom mats, pasta tablecloths and sliced
meat floor-tiles abound, whilst other foodstuffs take on new
character - a plate of mash and peas becomes the distant landscape
of some undiscovered continent; and carrots, parsnips and bananas
become surreal candles in a candelabra of the absurd. As Sian
Bonnell says: "I am intrigued by the absurd. Life and the reality
of our lives is steeped in absurdity so although my images may look
surreal, to me they are more a kind of absurd reality."
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Day Sleeper
(Paperback)
Dorothea Lange; Edited by Sam Contis
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R1,148
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In this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the
iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange's
extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world
centred around the figure of the day sleeper - at once a symbol of
respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes
of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and
Lange's ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange,
and includes previously unseen photographs of her family,
portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of
San Francisco and the East Bay. Day Sleeper will be featured
alongside other works of Contis' in the exhibition Dorothea Lange:
Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, February-May
2020.
Working Men's Clubs were originally set up for the support and
education of the working man. Many clubs have long since
disappeared, though there are still six million UK members. As a
child, Chris Coekin visited clubs with his parents, both in his
home town of Leicester and, on family holidays, around England.
"Knock Three Times" is set in the Acomb WMC York, which Chris first
photographed in 1996. Through photographs and archive material,
Coekin explores the cultural roots and identity of the Working
Men's Club and examines the complexity of working class culture, as
well as ideas of masculinity, relationships and the work ethic.
A collection of Damien Dufresne's work capturing the relationship
between the art of makeup and the art of photographyWhen the art of
photography and the art of makeup come together, the result is a
deeply original book. World-renowned photographer Damien Dufresne
has been living in China for several years. There, he's developed a
passion for Chinese symbolism in colors and makeup. Fusing the
thousand-year-old tradition with his own sensitivity and experience
has led to these photographs of painted faces, staged traditional
objects, and silhouettes. Damien Dufresne collects works that range
from surprising and moving to troubling and disturbing. This tour
de force will leave any viewer with a curious feeling.
In this sumptuous portrait of the house known as ‘the English
Versailles’, the Duke of Buccleuch sets the scene with a history
of his ancestors, the Montagus of Boughton, who acquired the manor
in Northamptonshire in the reign of Henry VIII. Ralph, 1st Duke of
Montagu (1638–1709), Charles II’s envoy to Louis XIV,
transformed Boughton into a palatial homage to French culture. His
son John, the 2nd Duke, was noted for planting long avenues, a love
of heraldry, a fondness for practical jokes and the ancient lion he
nursed in one of the courtyards. The book showcases Boughton’s
magnificent painted ceilings, tapestries and Sèvres porcelain. The
celebrated art collection also includes striking portraits of
Elizabeth I, Charles II and his son the Duke of Monmouth, another
Buccleuch ancestor. Van Dyck’s friends and contemporaries cluster
in the Drawing Room in dozen of grisailles. Most eye-catching of
all is the portrait of Shakespeare’s muses, the Early and
Countess of Southampton. A grand tour takes in the French-inspired
façade, the formal State Rooms and the Tudor Great Hall, with
their painted ceilings, flamboyant French furniture and the oldest
dated carpet in Europe – before moving to the park, with its
avenues of soaring limes, network of lakes, and dramatic new sunken
pool.
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Havana Buzz
(Paperback)
Alessandro Cosmelli, Gaia Light
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Havana Buzz was shot in 2015 in Havana, Cuba. Once a majestic and
cosmopolitan city at the heart of the Spanish colonial empire,
turned playground for the American wealthy and powerful in the
first half of the 20th century, for nearly 60 years Havana has been
the capital of one of the last remaining socialist regimes in the
world. This historical U turn is at the core of Havana's unique
identity. The anti-urban character of Cuba's communist rule and the
inflexible embargo imposed by the United States cast a paralyzing
spell on the lavish metropolis, freezing it in time. Havana Buzz
explores Cuba's capital at this time of much awaited historical
transition. Caught in fleeting glimpses from its public buses,
Havana's features are dispassionately laid bare, and the truth is
revealed beyond the myth. Behind the romantic languidness of its
urban relinquishment, the daily struggles for survival of an
impoverished but resourceful population are displayed against the
backdrop of anachronistic propaganda billboards, decrepit housing
estates, crumbling infrastructures and a lush tropical nature that
reclaims its rule after man's neglect. Yet, the signs of change are
visible throughout the city and the new appears to seep
relentlessly through the cracks of the past, creating a unique
blend of antique and nouveau, nostalgia and hope, disillusionment
and elation.
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You Would
(Paperback)
Matthias Hamann; Designed by Markus Dressen
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The second book by Simon Eeles spanning over two summers in Far
Rockaway beach this project is the artist's idea of happiness and
honesty. Working from a tent perched on the edge of the beach, he
works with strangers to paint a picture on the Colorful and diverse
fantasy this is Rockaway beach. Having worked under renowned
British fashion photographer Craig McDean, Eeles creates images
with sharp, fashion-world glamour, even when working with a raw
beach culture saturated in the eccentric New York style.
'Artists live by curiosity and enthusiasm, qualities readily
evident as inspiration in dogs.' Robert Adams, Why People
Photograph I, Jack Russell is a journey of discovery that will
enthrall dog lovers everywhere. When photographer Andy Hughes, a
life long admirer and owner of Jack Russells, realised that he had
many more pictures of his dogs than he did of his family and
friends, he decided to create this joyous enterprise, photographing
one dog which lead to another dog until he had traveled the length
and breadth of the UK and then ventured to the USA.
There are now precious few places left on earth with which we do
not feel familiar, if not from first hand experience then at least
from the perspective of the armchair traveller - and fewer still
where the camera has not yet prescribed our vision. An unrivalled
collection of images of one of the last unsullied wildernesses in
the world: the vast, uninhabited spaces of north-east Greenland.
These beautiful, majestic and poetic landscapes exist in one of the
harshest environments on earth. Roy traces the historical
background with a brief outline of Greenland's early exploration.
He documents the poignant traces of the Inuit tribe - their winter
houses, summer tent circles and graves and enigmatic stone mosaics
- and the structures left by the European trappers who once plied
their dog-sledges in the lonely fjords. Iain Roy's first expedition
to Greenland was in 1982, to the mountainous region of the south
near Cape Farewell. He was a member of a small group of Arctic
enthusiasts who shared a love of wild spaces and whose ambitions
were fuelled by the accounts of earlier pioneers - early whaling
and expedition journals and memoirs of scientists and trappers from
the pre-war period. The group pooled their resources in order to
reach remote corners of a faraway region that had become their
common obsession. Roy himself has since made ten expeditions to the
region.
A selection of amateur photographic prints taken in the Autumn of
1968 at the time of the Vietnam War. Here is the intimacy that
danced in the eyes of family photographers as they framed the
everyday lives of ordinary people.
What is it about horses that draws people in so deeply? Why is it
that horses hold meaning and symbolism across cultures around the
world? Why do so many of us experience horses as not just beautiful
creatures but wise and healing teachers? These are some of the
questions that revered equine photographer Tony Stromberg set out
to answer with his best photos from the past half decade. The
resulting collection more than meets Stromberg's goal of
highlighting and honoring the mysterious ways horses and humans can
bring out the best, the highest, and the most powerful in one
another.
Most countries have been explored and documented extensively -
Saudi Arabia isn't one of them. Still shrouded in mystery, the
country and its inhabitants are relatively unknown to the rest of
the world. Alex Schlacher travelled the entire Kingdom in search of
people and culture and was enthusiastically welcomed by a nation
eager to shine a light on its extraordinary citizens in a way that
hadn't been done before. The West's view on Saudi Arabia is often
narrow and impersonal, and media features tend to cover politics
and the economy. Schlacher focused on the private lives of Saudis,
and the result is a collection of portraits and stories of people
living in a vast country steeped in history, a country on the cusp
of change.
A visual journey through Indian cities from a rare non-western
point of view, this account of street life, kitsch and popular
culture moves through the spaces and signs of the city-both
imaginative and physical, commenting on the complex and often
surreal forms of human arrangements.
Frederick Law Olmsted's career as a landscape architect was long
and varied. The best-known fruits of that career were surely the
great urban parks: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in
Brooklyn, Franklin Park in Boston. But most of this took place
after the Civil War. Prior to 1865, Olmsted had built a public
reputation as an author and journalist (producing three
historically important books on slavery and the antebellum South)
and as General Secretary of the Sanitary Commission of the Union
Forces, the committee in charge of organizing medical treatment for
the military during the war. He had also previously been an
apprentice merchant, a seaman, a farmer, and manager of a mining
plantation in California. His life had been marked by innumerable
illnesses and accidents. His personality was notable for its
contentiousness and obsessiveness.
Working from Olmsted's own personal and professional writings,
Melvin Kalfus seeks to establish in this, the first biography of
Olmstead to appear in a decade and a half, the connections between
the many facets of Olmstead's life and work. Kalfus shows how
Olmsted's childhood afflictions provided him with the inner sources
of his creative imagination, provided the symbolism that was the
linguistic and visual vocabulary employed in his work, fired his
ambition, and led him so obsessively to seek the world's esteem
through his works. Finally, Kalfus argues that Olmsted's individual
psychodynamics fitted him uniquely to the role of the creative
professional in public life-- the agent (or "delegate") for his
society's needs-- needs that were unspoken as well as spoken.
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