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True Fictions - Visionary Photography from the 70s to the Present (English, Italian, Paperback): Walter Guadagnini True Fictions - Visionary Photography from the 70s to the Present (English, Italian, Paperback)
Walter Guadagnini
R754 R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Save R118 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is dedicated to the phenomenon of staged photography, the trend that has revolutionised the photographic language since the 1980s. Through over 100 works, the catalogue tells how photography was able to reach the heights of fantasy and invention between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st-century, previously almost exclusively entrusted to cinema and painting. Goldfish invading bedrooms, icefalls in the desert, imaginary cities, Marilyn Monroe and Lady D shopping together: all of this can happen thanks to veritable stages set up in order to build a parallel reality, or thanks to new technologies and, in particular, through the increasingly sophisticated use of Photoshop, released in 1990. Photography, the realm of documentation and (presumed) objectivity becomes the realm of fantasy, invention and subjectivity, completing the last decisive evolution of its history. Works by: Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, James Casebere, Sandy Skoglund, Yasumasa Morimura, Laurie Simmons, David Lachapelle, Bernard Faucon, Eileen Cowin, Bruce Charlesworth, David Levinthal, Paolo Ventura, Lori Nix, Miwa Yanagi, Alison Jackson, Julia Fullerton Batten, Jung Yeondoo, Jiang Pengyi. Text in English and Italian.

Bernd & Hilla Becher (Hardcover): Jeff L. Rosenheim Bernd & Hilla Becher (Hardcover)
Jeff L. Rosenheim; Contributions by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Lucy Sante, Max Becher
R1,488 Discovery Miles 14 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first comprehensive, posthumous monograph and retrospective on Bernd and Hilla Becher, best known for their photographs of industrial structures in Europe and North America For more than five decades, Bernd (1931-2007) and Hilla (1934-2015) Becher collaborated on photographs of industrial architecture in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States. This sweeping monograph features the Bechers' quintessential pictures, which present water towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces, and more as sculptural objects. Beyond the Bechers' iconic Typologies, the book includes Bernd's early drawings, Hilla's independent photographs, and excerpts from their notes, sketchbooks, and journals. The book's authors offer new insights into the development of the artists' process, their work's conceptual underpinnings, the photographers' relationship to deindustrialization, and the artists' legacy. An essay by award-winning cultural historian Lucy Sante and an interview with Max Becher, the artists' son, make this volume an unrivaled look into the Bechers' art, life, and career. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (July 11-October 30, 2022) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (December 17, 2022-April 2, 2023)

Dreams (Paperback): Baruchello Mari Dreams (Paperback)
Baruchello Mari
R810 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R273 (34%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tobi Shinobi: Equilibrium - Equilibrium (Hardcover): Tobi Shinobare Tobi Shinobi: Equilibrium - Equilibrium (Hardcover)
Tobi Shinobare; Foreword by Sandro Miller
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Award-winning photographer Tobi Shonibare - Tobi Shinobi to his followers - pushes the boundaries of symmetry and balance in his first book, Equilibrium. From his native London to his current Chicago home, and in far-flung locales around the world, Tobi's photographs explore and deconstruct architecture and nature until they appear as optical illusions. His vertigo-inducing perspectives turn familiar vistas into abstractions, reality into a fantasyland of line and shape. More than 164,000 followers on Instagram experience Tobi's obsessive attention to detail and fascination with the geometry of our world.

Sit (Hardcover): Matt Karwen Sit (Hardcover)
Matt Karwen
R1,523 R1,275 Discovery Miles 12 750 Save R248 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An extraordinary and unique insight into the personality of man's best friend. Through patience and compassion, photographer Matt Karwen has accomplished unprecedented, expressive dog portraits, which depict the animal's personalities in various facets. In the absence of outside influences, their faces reveal moods and emotions that range from joy over curiosity to serenity.

An eloquent picture gallery - The South African portrait photographs of Gustav Theodor Fritsch, 1863-1865 (Paperback): Keith... An eloquent picture gallery - The South African portrait photographs of Gustav Theodor Fritsch, 1863-1865 (Paperback)
Keith Dietrich, Andrew Bank
R320 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R70 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Bringing to life a unique cultural gallery of both known and unknown figures of the early 1860s with an astonishing veracity, this remarkable photographic collection is a visual documentation of South Africa's people. Aesthetically stunning and of surprising technical quality for the period taken, this intriguing collage represents the life work of 25-year-old German doctor and anthropologist Gustav Fritsch, who utilized the relatively new photographic medium to complement his scientific expedition to the South African landscape. Reflecting how the native tribes remained untouched by the social and industrial revolution around them, and accompanied by essays that set in context Fritsch's outlook on racial discovery and theory, this invaluable photographic insight is an artistic and historically significant addition to South Africa's cultural heritage.

Jerry Spagnoli: Regard (Hardcover): Jerry Spagnoli Jerry Spagnoli: Regard (Hardcover)
Jerry Spagnoli
R1,556 R1,294 Discovery Miles 12 940 Save R262 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Electric Fashion (Hardcover): Frederic Aranda Electric Fashion (Hardcover)
Frederic Aranda
R1,516 R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Save R380 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Three decades of fashion brought together in one Collection, worn as originally intended by the Collector herself, and developed over five years by established fashion and portrait photographer Frederic Aranda: this is Electric Fashion. But why is it electric? It is the story of how the Collector, Christine Suppes, blazed an indelible trail into online fashion editorial whilst developing a unique collection in the heart of Silicon Valley. Electric Fashion is essential viewing, punctuated with academic perspective, comprehensive technical references, and archival text from the collection's accompanying website, fashionlines.com. This timeless tome boasts a double vantage point; on the one hand, each garment is photographed in a studio setting to enhance critical academic understanding, whilst on the other, worn by the collector herself at locations around the world to depict the garments as they were originally intended to be worn. The finished product is a 360 degree view of fashion, from historical, cultural, and practical standpoints.

Gilles Raynaldy: Welcome My Friend - The Jungle of Calais, February-October 2016 (Paperback): Gilles Raynaldy Gilles Raynaldy: Welcome My Friend - The Jungle of Calais, February-October 2016 (Paperback)
Gilles Raynaldy
R990 Discovery Miles 9 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Rajesh Vora - Everyday Monuments--The Rooftop Sculptures of Punjab (Hardcover): Satwinder Kaur Bains, Rahul Mehrotra, Sajdeep... Rajesh Vora - Everyday Monuments--The Rooftop Sculptures of Punjab (Hardcover)
Satwinder Kaur Bains, Rahul Mehrotra, Sajdeep Soomal; Photographs by Rajesh Vora
R1,049 R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Save R336 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Custodians (Hardcover): Joanna Vestey, Russell Roberts, Alexander Sturgis Custodians (Hardcover)
Joanna Vestey, Russell Roberts, Alexander Sturgis
R761 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R176 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Early Years - An Interview by Matthias Koddenberg (Paperback): Matthias Koddenberg Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Early Years - An Interview by Matthias Koddenberg (Paperback)
Matthias Koddenberg
R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Dominique Somers - 00a (Paperback): Dominique Somers - 00a (Paperback)
R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ernst Thalmann (Paperback): Ernst Thalmann (Paperback)
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Keld Helmer-Petersen - Photographs 1941-1995 (Hardcover): Gerry Badger, Finn Thrane Keld Helmer-Petersen - Photographs 1941-1995 (Hardcover)
Gerry Badger, Finn Thrane
R1,336 Discovery Miles 13 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Muybridge and Mobility (Hardcover): Tim Cresswell, John Ott Muybridge and Mobility (Hardcover)
Tim Cresswell, John Ott; Introduction by Anthony W Lee
R1,782 Discovery Miles 17 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A cultural geographer and an art historian offer fresh interpretations of Muybridge’s famous motion studies through the lenses of mobility and race. In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed horses in motion, proving that all four hooves leave the ground at once for a split second during full gallop. This was the beginning of Muybridge’s decades-long investigation into instantaneous photography, culminating in his masterpiece Animal Locomotion. Muybridge became one of the most influential photographers of his time, and his stop-motion technique helped pave the way for the motion-picture industry, born a short decade later.   Coauthored by cultural geographer Tim Cresswell and art historian John Ott, this book reexamines the motion studies as historical forms of “mobility,†in which specific forms of motion are given extraordinary significance and accrued value. Through a lively, interdisciplinary exchange, the authors explore how mobility is contextualized within the transformations of movement that marked the nineteenth century and how mobility represents the possibilities of social movement for African Americans. Together, these complementary essays look to Muybridge’s works as interventions in knowledge and experience and as opportunities to investigate larger social ramifications and possibilities.  

Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin (Hardcover): Matt Mahurin Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin (Hardcover)
Matt Mahurin; Foreword by Tom Waits
R1,287 R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Save R331 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A collection of wildly inventive portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin This visually arresting book is a testament to the unique collaboration, going back three decades, between the photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin and the musician Tom Waits. Having shot magazine portraits, album covers, and music videos of Waits, Mahurin was inspired to resurrect 100 dormant film negatives as a jumping off point to explore his own surreal, poetic, and occasion ally dark vision. The images vary from traditional por traits to ones that capture Waits in concert-but the majority are richly imagined scenes in which Waits is more muse than musician. In addition to the diverse images, the book includes a foreword by Waits, an essay by Mahurin on their longtime collaboration, and 20 original paintings, drawings, photographs, and digital images inspired by Waits's song titles.

David Bailey: Tears and Tears (Hardcover): David Bailey David Bailey: Tears and Tears (Hardcover)
David Bailey
R1,210 R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Save R306 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Informally Royal - Studio Lisa and the Royal Family (Hardcover): Rodney Laredo Informally Royal - Studio Lisa and the Royal Family (Hardcover)
Rodney Laredo 1
R765 R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Save R148 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A chance meeting in 1936 gave Lisa and Jimmy Sheridan the opportunity of a lifetime. Keen amateur photographers, their company Studio Lisa was engaged by the then Duke and Duchess of York to take casual photographs of their family, including the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, at their homes Royal Lodge and at 145 Piccadilly, London. At a time of traditional formality, when it was unheard of for mere unknowns to be given such an opportunity, the hiring of Studio Lisa proved to be a revolutionary and popular move on the part of the royals as it humanised them in the eyes of their subjects. They soon struck up an unlikely friendship with Lisa and Jimmy - a friendship that would span over 30 years and yield 13 separate photographic sessions, the last of which included Queen Elizabeth's young children. This volume charts the story of Studio Lisa, from its humble beginnings right through to the granting of two Royal Warrants. For the first time Studio Lisa's cache of remarkable royal photographs is brought together, producing a marvellous collector's item and a treasure thankfully preserved for posterity.

From Uncertain to Blue (Hardcover): Keith Carter From Uncertain to Blue (Hardcover)
Keith Carter; Introduction by Horton Foote
R1,454 R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Save R201 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"In the beginning, there was no real plan, just a road trip that became a journey." In the years 1986 and 1987, Keith Carter and his wife, Patricia, visited one hundred small Texas towns with intriguing names like Diddy Waw Diddy, Elysian Fields, and Poetry. He says, "I tried to make my working method simple and practical: one town, one photograph. I would take several rolls of film but select only one image to represent that dot on my now-tattered map. The titles of the photographs are the actual names of the small towns. . . ." Carter created a body of work that evoked the essence of small-town life for many people, including renowned playwright and fellow Texan, Horton Foote. In 1988, Carter published his one town/one picture collection in From Uncertain to Blue, a landmark book that won acclaim both nationally and internationally for the artistry, timelessness, and universal appeal of its images--and established Carter as one of America's most promising fine art photographers.

Now a quarter century after the book's publication, From Uncertain to Blue has been completely re-envisioned and includes a new essay in which Carter describes how the search for photographic subjects in small towns gradually evolved into his first significant work as an artist. He also offers additional insight into his creative process by including some of his original contact sheets. And Patricia Carter gives her own perspective on their journey in her amplified notes about many of the places they visited as they discovered the world of possibilities from Uncertain to Blue.

Girl Culture (Hardcover, New Ed): Lauren Greenfield Girl Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
Lauren Greenfield
R951 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R233 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Revealing and insightful, Lauren Greenfield's classic monograph on the lives of American girls is back in print. Greenfield's award-winning photographs capture the ways in which girls are affected by American popular culture. With an eye for both the common and the eccentric, she visits girls of all ages, discussing issues ranging from eating disorders and self-mutilation to spring break and prom. With more than 100 mesmerizing photographs, 18 interviews, and an introduction by social and cultural historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg, this book is as vital and relevant now as when it was first published.

Humans of New York: Stories (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.): Brandon Stanton Humans of New York: Stories (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
Brandon Stanton 2
R772 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R111 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this beautiful follow-up to the bestselling Humans of New York, street photographer Brandon Stanton celebrates our shared humanity with yet more stunning photographs and stories from the lives of ordinary, extraordinary New Yorkers. Ever since Brandon Stanton began interviewing strangers on the streets of New York, the dialogue he's had with them has increasingly become as in-depth, intriguing and moving as the photos themselves. In Humans of New York: Stories, Brandon presents portraits of a whole new group of humans, complete with stories that delve deeper and surprise with their greater candour. Humans of New York began when photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project - to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Gaining millions of followers online, the photos he took and the accompanying interviews became his first book: Humans of New York. With his second inspiring look at the residents of New York, let Brandon Stanton be your guide as he uncovers the astonishing stories of everyday people.

Walid Raad (Hardcover): Eva Respini Walid Raad (Hardcover)
Eva Respini
R1,096 R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Save R261 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
further 03 - Fotobus Society (Paperback): Raquel Gandra, Florian Genz, Aurelien Guillery, Alice Lemesre, Magnus Terhorst further 03 - Fotobus Society (Paperback)
Raquel Gandra, Florian Genz, Aurelien Guillery, Alice Lemesre, Magnus Terhorst
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fotobus Society is a network of photographers founded by Christoph Bangert. Its more than 800 members are studying at universities and photography schools across Germany and Europe and benefit from the association's broad cultural and social programs. At the heart of this community is a 30-year-old bus that acts as a mobile photography school and regularly takes members to photography festivals, symposia, and professional events. This book is the third volume in a series that introduces selected works of the association's members and offers a fascinating glimpse into the contemporary scene of young European photography. Telling stories about everyday life and the boundless excesses of our time, it features pictures that are marked by violence: directed against oneself, against others, and against the planet. There are poignant snapshots that reveal personal stories of individuals, groups, or communities who are grappling with ever-new challenges. The photos show freedom, hope, and love - as well as their absence. They do what photography does best: opening people's eyes to a world that would otherwise remain hidden from them.

Anja Niemi: In Character (Hardcover): Anja Niemi Anja Niemi: In Character (Hardcover)
Anja Niemi
R865 R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Save R260 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by one of the most exciting talents working in contemporary photography, whose work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition of conceptual self-portraiture. A photo-artist who works alone - photographing, staging and acting out the characters in all of her images - Niemi is a constant presence, in character, in her work, developing complex, nuanced narratives through evocative costume and styling, her characters framed and formed within meticulously staged mise-en-scene. In her bewitching 'Darlene & Me' series, for example, she reconfigures the concept of the Hitchcock blonde within a pristine Lynchian landscape for her own visual pleasure - and ours - while in 'She Could Have Been A Cowboy' she turns the lens to a life lived under the constraints of conformity. Anja Niemi is now at the 'breakout moment' in her career, having had exhibitions in Amsterdam, London, New York, Oslo and Paris, and with her first museum retrospective show opening at Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm in February 2019. With over 100 photographs organized into the six series that have marked Niemi's career to date, supported by an essay and interview by Max Houghton, Anja Niemi: In Character is the perfect introduction for those encountering Niemi's work for the first time, and a comprehensive retrospective of her career to date for her long-time followers.

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