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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.
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Bernd & Hilla Becher
(Hardcover)
Jeff L. Rosenheim; Contributions by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Lucy Sante, Max Becher
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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)
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Dreams
(Paperback)
Baruchello Mari
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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.
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Sit
(Hardcover)
Matt Karwen
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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.
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.
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.
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Custodians
(Hardcover)
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.
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.
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. Â 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. Â
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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Walid Raad
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Eva Respini
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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 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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