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This is the first comprehensive, large-format monograph of Bob
Willoughby's photographs of film and television stars from the
1950s to the 1970s. Considered the first on-set still photographer
in the film industry, Bob Willoughby photographed numerous movie
stars of the era, including Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Jean
Seberg, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant,
Doris Day, James Dean, and many more. These stars continue to
influence fashion and culture, from Baby Boomers all the way to Gen
Z. The iconic celebrities and others featured have lasting
presence, still gaining fans today via both social media and the
availability of classic films through streaming channels. This
compendium features vintage and never-before-seen photographs of
the most beloved stars of film and television. Willoughby's images
include many taken during the filming of classics such as THE
GRADUATE, MY FAIR LADY, ROSEMARY'S BABY, and others. In addition to
on-set photography, there are also many candid portraits of actors
at home, such as those of Audrey Hepburn. This compendium includes
both black-and-white and color photographs of some of the greatest
icons from this Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos
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Marilyn Nance; Edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo; Foreword by Julie Mehretu; Text written by Antawan I. Byrd, Uchenna Ikonne, …
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Custodians
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Joanna Vestey, Russell Roberts, Alexander Sturgis
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Custodians brings together for the first time, in this beautifully
compiled collection, images of many of Oxford's most prestigious
buildings along with some rarely seen, but wonderful venues and
their 'Custodians'. Photographer Joanna Vestey set out to explore
the extraordinary colleges and buildings of Oxford, behind the
closed doors, often beyond the reach of the 9.5 million visitors a
year who come here, and to meet the 'Custodians' playing a pivotal
role in perpetuating these world-renowned institutions. Rarely do
we get to catch a glimpse behind the closed facades of these iconic
structures and to see the spaces that lie within. All the images
have been captured in the University City of Oxford, known as the
"City of Dreaming Spires" and show its extraordinary breadth of
architecture since the arrival of the Saxons. It includes venues
such as the 17th Century Divinity School, the mid-18th century
Radcliffe Camera continuing through to the most recent award
winning RIBA-nominated chapel at Ripon College completed last year.
Venues such as the Sheldonian Theatre and Christchurch College sit
alongside perhaps lesser known venues such as The Real Tennis
Courts or the John Martyr Pawsons cricket pavilion portraying the
breadth and diversity constituting the city. The 'Custodians' and
their surroundings enjoy equal status in Joanna's formal
compositions; they seem to belong together, yet do not fuse into
one, thereby asking us to question how we are all largely shaped
and influenced by the structures around us - how defined we are by
them and how much they form us. Full of unexpected venues
beautifully photographed, this book will appeal to the historian,
city visitor, people interested in architecture and interiors as
well as to the extensive alumni network of the colleges themselves.
It will also appeal to an audience interested in contemporary
photography.
Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of
habitats and rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention.
In EYE and I, he turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of
people he has encountered in his work of over thirty years
photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and
India. These instantaneous portraits of mutual recognition reveal
the photographed subject and the photographer intersecting with
each other in a fleeting gaze of mutual regard. Robert Polidori was
born in Montreal in 1951 and lives in New York City. His work has
been the subject of exhibitions in New York, London, Brazil,
Montreal, among other places. He received the World Press Photo
Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine
Photography in 1999 and 2000, and Communication Arts awards in 2007
and 2008. In 2006, Polidori's series of photographs of New Orleans
after Hurricane Katrina was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. His bestselling books Havana (2003), Zones of
Exclusion-Pripyat and Chernobyl (2003), After the Flood (2006),
Parcours Museologique Revisite (2009) and Some Points in Between...
Up Till Now (2010) are published by Steidl.
A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal
1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary
photography. Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary
photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the
relationships Lyon built with the inmates. Revolutionary at the
time of publication, it was one of the first photobooks to include
ephemera. This new edition has been updated with an afterward by
Lyon himself detailing what happened to the inmates in the 40 years
since the book was first published. It also offers new, unseen
material including outtake images, audio recordings and newly
commissioned texts on a specially created microsite as a free ibook
edition of this landmark publication. Features: - A new afterward
by Danny Lyon
First we had dogs underwater, then dogs shaking off water... so why
not dogs soaking up the exhilarating no-holds-barred pleasure of a
car ride? Photographer Lara Jo Regan began her pet project as a
calendar, but the response was overwhelming and absolute: Her
photographs of the cruising canines, taken from incredible
perspectives, with tongues hanging and ears flapping, became a
global Internet sensation.
The energy of the photographs is impressive and visceral. In
order to get these shots, Regan built a special light, which jutted
out over the roof of the car, a harness that allowed her to lean
out of the window, and various other contraptions to make the
images come to life. This book will make you laugh out loud and
want to share it with everyone you know. It s full speed
happiness."
In the autumn of 2020, Christo will wrap the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris in silvery fabric for 16 days, returning to his signature
style - after realising The Floating Piers in Italy, the London
Mastaba, and a quarter of a century after he and Jeanne-Claude
wrapped the Reichstag building in Berlin. As a prelude, a major
exhibition at PalaisPopulaire in the German capital will celebrate
this 25-year anniversary in the spring of 2020. At the same time,
the Pompidou Center will pay tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude
by staging The Pont Neuf Wrapped Documentary exhibition as well as
a comprehensive show highlighting their early years in Paris.To
accompany these events, Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and
long-time friend of both Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, who
was the other half of the artistic duo until her death in 2009, has
edited an elaborate collection of interviews. The book is composed
of many conversations held between Koddenberg and Christo in the
artist's New York studio over the last few years. With rare
frankness, Christo describes how he fled from Bulgaria and made his
way into the Western world. He talks about his time in Vienna and
Geneva, his vibrant life in Paris that was full of hardship, and
the fateful moment when he met Jeanne-Claude. This publication
provides an exceptional inside view, uniting texts and numerous
archival images and photographs, many of which have never been
published before, or depict early works by Christo that have only
recently been rediscovered.
I'm Looking Through You is an expansive, visual poem celebrating
the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. Animating
Davis's wry observations and mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of the
images is his decades-long gimlet-eyed meditation on making
pictures. As photographer and writer Tim Davis states, "The camera
is a machine that sees only surfaces. The world casts its spell,
and the camera gobbles up its glamour, uncritically, with pure
certainty, assuming there is nothing underneath." Davis's keenly
observational images, interspersed with a selection of his writings
on the medium-the joys and pitfalls of camera seeing-solidify I'm
Looking Through You as an unabashed celebration of photography.
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Blind Spot
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Teju Cole; Foreword by Siri Hustvedt
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Wild and Precious
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Jesse Burke; Introduction by Whitney Johnson; Text written by Karen Irvine, Ben Hewitt
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Wild and Precious documents the road trips that American
photographer Jesse Burke (born 1972) takes with his daughter to
explore the natural world. Burke's landscapes and portraits
investigate the complex relationship humans have with nature, as
well as a father's love for his child.
A spiritually uplifting and beautiful designed visual memoir by the
hugely popular photographer on Instagram, Joe Greer, combining
thoughtful essays and more than 100 gorgeous landscape photos-half
fan favorites, and half never-before-seen. "Each photograph really
does come down to a split second when you decide to freeze that
moment in time. . . . You ask yourself what the story is that you
want to tell, and let the rest unfold: Click."-from the
introduction Joe Greer never imagined he would become a
photographer. Raised in Florida by an aunt and uncle after his
mother's death when he was four, Joe had a seemingly normal
childhood, spending summers at church camp and dreaming of going to
college. But nearly fifteen years later, the ground shifted beneath
his feet when he discovered a family secret that would impact the
rest of his life. Trying to make sense of that revelation and what
it meant for his future, Greer set his sights on becoming a pastor
at Spokane's Moody Bible Institute. There, he discovered
Instagram-and a passion for photography. His pictures of the lush,
wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest landscape attracted a large
following that has grown to more than three quarters of a millions
fans and continues to expand. The Lay of the Land is Joe's story in
words and pictures. In this stunning compendium, he reflects on the
trauma of his early life and what photography has taught him: how
to find his light; how to slow down; how to appreciate the world
around him, a reverence for the nature world that that both
nurtures and amplifies his creativity and faith; how to love-his
photography led him to his wife, Madison-and how to heal. For Joe,
photography has been a way to find purpose, better understand his
faith, and express himself. Though he began with landscapes,
meeting his wife sparked a new love of portraiture, and he turned
to making photos of street scenes that explored his complicated
feelings about family. A love letter to the natural world, to
faith, and to finding your calling in the most unexpected places,
The Lay of the Land is a window into the beautiful mind and heart
of one of the internet's favorite photographers. Moving and
inspiring, it is a creative and spiritual journey that offers
lessons on life and living. As Greer reminds us all, whatever it is
you want, it's up to you to make the moment (and the photograph).
In the mid-1860s Arthur J Munby began to collect the first
mass-produced photographic images of working-class women in
England, recording fascinating details about the women, the places
he purchased the photographs and the raging debates on this new
commercial practice of photography, in accompanying diaries. Many
of these images - not to mention Munby's fascinating diaries - have
never been published before. This book examines this previously
un-investigated archive, offering a fresh and arresting perspective
on the interrelationships between photographic representations of
working-class women, the creation of new identities of class and
gender and the evolution of popular conceptions of photography
itself.
Stephen Shore is a pioneering photographer and influential teacher.
From Galilee to the Negev is an intimate portrait of a
multi-faceted place, exploring the landscape of Israel and the
Palestinian territories of the West Bank; its complexities and its
contradictions. Shore travelled the length and breadth of the
region, questioning and revealing through his camera lens. His
visual inquiry explores the landscape itself and the people who
live in it - the daily lives and the narratives that combine to
create this fascinating place - at once beautiful and ugly, safe
and hostile. A selection of texts by a diverse range of writers -
who have each selected one photograph as a spring board - will be
interspersed amongst the photographs, offering a gathering of
voices and perspectives.
"Any man that loves Bond will love to get this amazing book in
their life." - Men's Journal "A great coffee table book filled with
amazing photos of everyone's favourite spy." - Tom Lorenzo, Men's
Journal "No fan of 007 will want to miss this coffee-table
album..." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Terry O'Neill was
given his first chance to photograph Sean Connery as James Bond in
the film Goldfinger. From that moment, O'Neill's association with
Bond was made: an enduring legacy that has carried through to the
era of Daniel Craig. It was O'Neill who captured gritty and roguish
pictures of Connery on set, and it was O'Neill who framed the
super-suave Roger Moore in Live and Let Die. His images of Honor
Blackman as Pussy Galore are also important, celebrating the vital
role of women in the James Bond world. But it is Terry O'Neill's
casual, on-set photographs of a mischievous Connery walking around
the casinos of Las Vegas or Roger Moore dancing on a bed with
co-star Madeline Smith that show the other side of the world's most
recognisable spy. Terry O'Neill opens his archive to give readers -
and viewers - the chance to enter the dazzling world of James Bond.
Lavish colour and black and white images are complemented by
insights from O'Neill, alongside a series of original essays on the
world of James Bond by BAFTA-longlisted film writer, James Clarke;
and newly conducted interviews with a number of actors featured in
O'Neill's photographs.
Good Sick by Jordan Baumgarten is a photographic portrait of the US
opioid crisis, shown through its effects on one neighbourhood in
Philadelphia. The neighbourhood of Kensington is a nexus for those
in and around the city seeking heroin and all that it entails. The
supporting addiction based economy co-exists alongside everyday
life in the neighbourhood and in its surrounding landscape there
are signs and premonitions of disorder and confusion. The
photographs in this book depict chaos; nature encroaching on urban
decay; an ambiguity between magic and darkness; private moments
which are public; animals and humans roam free--fuelled by id, and
always, somewhere, there is a fire burning. The images in Good Sick
are a small proportion of those taken by Baumgarten, a native of
the city, between the winter of 2012 and the spring of 2017.
In his new book, Wounded: The Legacy of War, Bryan Adams presents
portraits of young British soldiers who have suffered life-changing
injury in Iraq and Afghanistan or during training. His lens bares
witness to their scars, disability and disfigurement. This
unexpected directness challenges the viewer. At the same time the
images reveal the sheer grit and bravery of the victims who,
despite personal sacrifice, live each day with continued vim,
vigour and dignity. What we see are staggering portraits of
inspiring individuals who whilst not faltering have stood the test
of war and lived to tell the tale. The images come with haunting
interviews which provide a narrative to each personal journey to
recovery.
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