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Following on from his daily photo blog, renowned London street
photographer Babycakes Romero brings you MYDLN. A Street View of
London Life. A compelling collection of documentary images showing
both the communities and cultures which make up the multicultural
melting pot that is London. These photos, carefully curated here
for the first time, bear witness to the real heart and soul of the
people that make up the metropolis. Narratives and interactions
depicting scenes of love, hope, struggle and everyday life. This is
his photographic love letter to London. A city of possibilities
which has in fact become the impossible city. The intensity, the
craziness, the inequality, the mayhem, the conflict, the injustice,
the beauty and the essence of what makes the city what it was, what
it is and what it will be. Each stolen moment recording and
documenting a different perception of both the place and its
people. This is survival in the city.
Beholden: Reinhild Beuther is a short monograph on the work of
artist Reinhild Beuther.
It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi
government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his
photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The
bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to
deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely any signs of the
downfall of a civilization. Not that the photographer was
manipulating the evidence: he simply recorded what he saw. At the
time, a New York travel agency was advertising the last opportunity
to go and visit the remaining bomb sites. Darchinger's pictures, in
color and black-and-white, show a country in a fever of
reconstruction. The economic boom was so incredible that the whole
world spoke of an "economic miracle." The people who achieved it,
in contrast, look down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and
diligent. And increasingly, they look like strangers in the world
they have created. The photographs portray a country caught between
the opposite poles of technological modernism and cultural
restoration, between affluence and penury, between German
Gemutlichkeit and the constant threat of the Cold War. They show
the winners and losers of the "economic miracle," people from all
social classes, at home, at work, in their very limited free time
and as consumers. But they also show a country that looks, in
retrospect, like a film from the middle of the last century. For
this revised edition, we have digitally remastered all
photographies in a new, full-frame format that captivate with their
highly pigmented colors and fine press varnish.
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Hannah Whitaker: Ursula
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Hannah Whitaker; Edited by Nicholas Muellner, Catherine Taylor; Text written by Dawn Chan, David Levine
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Momentum
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Aaron Tilley
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In our latest Collective Shorts series, photographer Aaron Tilley
explores the notion of narratives and storytelling through
carefully constructed and captured still images. Executed in a
manner that is playful, yet driven with tension, Tilley's
photography exacts an anticipation of the moment that is about to
happen. Momentum is a collection of some of Tilley's best work to
date. His photography continuously captivates the viewer, leading
us to something perhaps unexpected, out of context or that may
cause us some unease but in a fun and highly-dramatic way. The
aesthetic is bold and well-designed with each image portraying a
story at a paused point in time allowing the narrative of the image
to be interpreted by the viewer. With this, the viewer should enjoy
the surreal element to the work and embrace this style presented
throughout the book.
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Sudek and Sculpture
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Hana Buddeus; Translated by Hana Logan, Keith Jones, Barbora Stefanova
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The definitive monograph of American photographer Vivian Maier, exploring the full range and brilliance of her work and the mystery of her life, written and edited by noted photography curator and writer Marvin Heiferman; featuring 250 black-and-white images, color work, and other materials never seen before; and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman.
Vivian Maier’s story—the secretive nanny-photographer during her life who becomes a popular sensation shortly after her death—has, to date, been pieced together only from previously seen or known images she made and the handful of facts that have surfaced about her life. During her lifetime she shot more than 100,000 images, which she kept hidden from the world. In 2007, two years before her death, Chicago historic preservationist John Maloof discovered a trove of negatives, and roll upon roll of undeveloped film in a storage locker he bought at auction. They revealed a surprising and accomplished artist and a stunning body of work, which Maloof championed and brought to worldwide acclaim.
Vivian Maier presents the most comprehensive collection and largest selection of the photographer’s work—created during the 1950s through the 1970s in New York, Chicago, and on her travels around the country—almost exclusively unpublished and including her previously unknown color work. It features images of and excerpts from Maier’s personal artifacts, memorabilia, and audiotapes, made available for the first time. This remarkable volume draws upon recently conducted interviews with people who knew Maier, which shed new light on Maier’s photographic skill and her life.
"Phil & Me is a daughter's use of photography to try to
understand her relationship with her father and the schizophrenia
that has crippled him. Amanda's father, Philip Tetrault, is a poet
who has lived with schizophrenia since he attended McGill
University, in Montreal, at the age of 21. As a young man, Philip
was suffused with promise, hailed by Leonard Cohen in 1986 as one
of the best young poets in Canada--before he slipped into yet
another schizophrenic void. These photographs cover six years of
sporadic meetings between Amanda and her father. Throughout, Philip
had been giving her scraps of paper and napkins with verses and
lines scrawled on them: some are published here. Photo booth
pictures that span the past 27 years form a visual narrative
thread. Philip is now a part of the streets and the shadows of
Montreal. The reality of his days--moving through the cafes and
parks of the city, his habitual Mickey of vodka in hand, and his
acquaintances of street kids, squirrels, crows and seagulls--haunt
these photographs and his poems alike.
The American photographer Abe Frajndlich has close connections with
New York. He describes the cityas his muse and repeatedly records
it and its people in haunting photographs.This volume shows
selected, highly personal images which are very different from the
ubiquitous postcardsand poster views, which is lavishly illustrated
in this book. Abe Frajndlich (*1946, Frankfurt am Main) is known
internationally for his portraits of famous people such as Jack
Lemmon and Stephen Hawking. Since moving to New York in 1984 the
city itself has been one of his principal subjects. He is
fascinated by its radiance and watches spellbound how it changes
and reinvents itself on a daily basis. The result is a
multi-faceted picture: the black-and-white photographs aresometimes
perceptive, sometimes thoughtful, and sometimes witty or quirky
-but they are always a declaration of love to New York.
Americans is the second book in a series on America by Christopher
Morris. While the first book My America (Steidl, 2006) focused on
Republican nationalism, Americans takes a much broader journey
across American society. With an empathetic and critical eye,
Morris presents a nation in a state of perpetual loss and its
people searching for an identity- stranded within two long-running
wars and an economy on the verge of collapse. Christopher Morris,
born in California in 1958, began his career as a documentary
conflict photographer, working almost exclusively with Time
Magazine, where he has been on contract since 1990. Parallel to his
career as a photojournalist, Morris has recently expanded into the
fashion world, working for such clients as Roberto Cavalli and
magazines on the collections of Louis Vuitton, Prada and Max Mara.
Morris has received many awards including the Robert Capa Gold
Medal, the Olivier Rebbot Award, and the Infinity Award for
photojournalism from the International Center of Photography.
Morris is a founding member of VII Photo Agency in New York.
Becoming Photography looks back at the more than 30-year-long
career of the Canadian artist Chuck Samuels (*1956). Samuels often
photographs or films himself to explore the themes of memory,
photography, and cinema. This catalogue contains analytical essays
by Mona Hakim and Joan Fontcuberta. Hakim, a close colleague of
Samuels, observes all of the artist's serial work, while
Fontcuberta analyses the presence of truth and falsehood in his
oeuvre.
#metadata features new painting, sculptures, and installations by
Ryan McGinness. The paintings depict various scenes from the
studio, including tools, sketches, paint containers, materials
indigenous to the studio, and finished paintings. The sculptures
take the tools of production as well as studio detritus out of the
paintings and into the viewer's personal space. The installations
bring the paintings and the objectified references to the
production of those paintings together into site-specific
environments. Included are installation views from McGinness'
exhibitions at Deitch Projects in New York, Kohn Gallery in Los
Angeles, Quint Gallery in San Diego, La Casa Encendida in Madrid,
Ron Mandos Gallery in Amsterdam, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and
the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan.
In "Photography After Frank," former "New York Times" writer and
picture editor Philip Gefter narrates the tale of contemporary
photography, beginning at the pivotal moment when Robert Frank
commenced his seminal works of the 1950s. Along the way, he
connects the dots of photography's evolution into what it is today,
forging links between its episodes to reveal unsuspected leaps.
Gefter takes Frank's "The Americans" as a decisive challenge to
photographic objectivity, with its grainy, off-hand-seeming
spontaneity and its documentation of life beyond the picket fence.
Thus viewed, "The Americans" provides Gefter with a bridge to the
phenomenon of the staged document and Postmodernism's further
challenge to image fidelity. Other areas of discussion include
photojournalism, the recent diversity of portraiture styles, the
influence of private and corporate collections on curatorial
decisions and how the market shapes art making. Throughout
"Photography After Frank," Gefter deftly demonstrates Frank's
legacy in the work of dozens of important individual artists who
followed in his wake, from Lee Friedlander and Nan Goldin to
Stephen Shore and Ryan McGinley. The book includes texts written
exclusively for this publication as well as essays drawn from
Gefter's critical writings, reviews and even obituaries.
"Photography After Frank" offers a page-turning approach to a
subject that will appeal to students and art world aficionados
alike.
Derek Ridgers is one of the UK's foremost portrait photographers
with a career spanning forty years. He is best known for his
photography of music, film and club/street culture - photographing
everyone from James Brown to The Spice Girls, from Clint Eastwood
to Johnny Depp. During his career, Ridgers has worked for many
publications, including Time Out, The Sunday Telegraph, NME, The
Face, Loaded, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Independent, GQ Style
and Arena.
As a little boy of seven or eight, Jacques Henri Lartigue was given
his first camera, and soon was developing his own photographs. Born
into a prosperous family, from childhood Lartigue acutely observed
the social rituals of the upper echelons of society through his
photography. The hand-held Kodak camera, first introduced in 1888,
granted the young photographer flexibility to capture the fine
details of eccentric family members at home, the elaborate social
parade in the Bois de Boulogne, on the beach in Normandy and
beyond. Classic images of motor cars and high fashion sit alongside
previously unpublished photographs from the Lartigue archive. These
images of family beau-monde and demi-monde life are not only
evidence of a prodigious talent, but also offer an intimate,
adolescent perspective of Belle-Epoque Paris, the world of Proust,
Debussy and the Nabis, before the outbreak of the First World War.
At a young age Lartigue mastered the medium of photography: this
exploration of his extraordinary childhood is interwoven with a
social and cultural portrait of the Belle Epoque. Bonnard and
Vuillard used the camera as a reference point for painting, Eugene
Atget documented the architecture of the old Paris ahead of its
developers, but Lartigue was the first to harness the immediacy of
the snapshot, often capturing his subjects mid-gesture as in real
life, creating a new visual language for the 20th century.
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