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Rester
(Paperback)
Laurent Chardon
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R488
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"When the pre-eminent portrait photographer of the day met the
Cockney kid dominating the London film scene, magic was made." -
Australian Women's Weekly Icons "Caine, the timeless gentleman." -
Diego Armes, GQ Portugal "I had to be an actor," Michael Caine once
said. "[...] And of course, you have to remember with me, the
alternative was a factory." A working-class actor who broke through
to stardom, Caine's screen-time involves standout performances
across multiple genres. To this day, he is synonymous with a
certain kind of urbane cool. No camera has captured this quality
over the decades better than that of his collaborator and long-time
friend, Terry O'Neill. Michael Caine: Photographed by Terry O'Neill
offers an immersive visual journey through Michael Caine's career,
immortalising Caine's charm both in and out of character. Caine
occupies a landmark position in cinema and O'Neill was there from
the early days of his stellar career. From the comedy of Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels to the European drama of Seven Times A Woman;
from the miasma of The Magus to the British cult classic Get
Carter, this book combines black and white and colour images and
includes never-before-seen contact sheets. Featuring the following
films: Mona Lisa, Midnight in Saint Petersburg / Bullet to Beijing,
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Blue Ice, Without a Clue, Get Carter,
Deadfall, Magus, Woman Times Seven, Funeral in Berlin.
Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording
movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion.
Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a
single-camera system that led the way to cinematography. "Picturing
Time, " the first complete survey of Marey's work, investigates the
far reaching effects of Marey's inventions on
stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian
philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists.
Braun offers a fascinating look at how Marey's chronophotography
was used to express the profound transformation in understanding
and experiencing time that occurred in the late nineteenth century.
Featuring 335 illustrations, "Picturing Time" includes many
unpublished examples of Marey's chronophotographs and cinematic
work. It also contains a complete bibliography of his writings and
the first catalog of his films, photographic prints, and recently
discovered negatives.
This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social,
political and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling and
re-veiling. Through poetic writings and photographs, Azadeh
Fatehrad responds to the legacy of the Iranian Revolution via the
representation of women in photography, literature and film. The
images and texts are documentary, analytical and personal. The
Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran features Fatehrad’s own
photographs in addition to work by artists Hengameh Golestan,
Shirin Neshat, Shadi Ghadirian, Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen
Makhmalbaf, Adolf Loos, Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault and Alison
Watt. In exploring women’s lives in post-revolutionary Iran,
Fatehrad considers the role of the found image and the relationship
between the archive and the present, resulting in an illuminating
history of feminism in Iran in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries.
Dazzling color, dreamlike backgrounds, and a fierce gaze are the
hallmarks of Ijewere's work. But most important to the London
photographer is subversion of traditional concepts of beauty. In
fashion work, editorials, advertisements, and film stills, Ijewere
draws not only on her roots in Nigeria and Jamaica, but also on her
own experiences as a young Black woman in South East London whose
skin colour, hair, and body type were nowhere to be found in the
pages of magazines. Ijewere's vibrantly coloured, brilliantly
staged pictures often focus on themes of identity and diversity,
and feature nontraditional subjects that celebrate the uniqueness
of disparate cultures. This first monograph includes images from
her series of Jamaicans across different generations; photographs
of young people defying gender norms on the streets of Lagos; along
with editorial work she has created for Vogue, and fashion shoots
for Stella McCartney, Dior, Gap, Hermes, and Valentino. At the
vanguard of a history- changing artistic movement, Ijewere's
remarkable career has made her one of the most sought-after fashion
photographers working today.
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Planets
(Paperback)
Arthur Tress
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R1,066
R836
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A series of beautiful photography books of previously unpublished
work by leading and emerging contemporary photographers. Each book
in the series contains from 10 to 18 photographs and includes a
statement by the photographer. This series belongs in the library
of all lovers of fine photography books. The book features
surrealism in a new vein.
Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) created some of
the most breathtaking artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Their projects radically questioned traditional conceptions of
painting, sculpture, and architecture. This lavish photo book is
the first comprehensive publication on the artists' oeuvre to be
released after Christo's death in May 2020. It also serves as a
curtain-raiser for Christo und Jeanne-Claude's last major project -
the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which will be carried
out posthumously in the fall of 2021. Presenting a wealth of
photographs and studio snapshots from 1949 to 2020, some of which
are private, this book allows an intimate peek behind the scenes of
Christo und Jeanne-Claude's monumental installations which
fascinated the public for decades. In addition to pictures
capturing the artists at work, it includes photos documenting all
of their major projects. Matthias Koddenberg (b.1984), art
historian and close friend of the artists, spent many years
compiling the more than 300 images featured in this volume. Among
them are pictures taken by companions and friends and hitherto
unpublished photographs from the artists' estate. Together they
tell the extraordinary story not only of the couple's artistic
collaboration, but also of their five-decade-long partnership.
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.
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.
A broad monograph devoted to one of the preeminent names in
contemporary Japanese photography. Moriyama's photography is
provocative, both for the form it takes (Moriyama's photographs may
be dirty, blurry, overexposed or scratched) and for its content.
The viewer's experience of the photo--whether it captures a place,
a person, a situation or an atmosphere--is the central thrust in
his work, which vividly and directly conveys the artist's emotions.
The approximately 200 black-and-white images sketch out an original
perspective on Japanese society, especially during the period from
the 1950s to the '70s. During this time, he produced a collection
of photographs -- Nippon gekijo shashincho -- which showed darker
sides of urban life and relatively unknown parts of cities. In
them, he attempted to show what was being left behind during the
technological advances and increased industrialization in much of
Japanese society. His work was often stark and contrasting within
itself--one image could convey an array of senses; all without
using color. His work was jarring, yet symbiotic to his own fervent
lifestyle. In addition, the artist has included a number of photos
shot in the past decade to complete this volume.
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Sunburn
(Hardcover)
Daniel Tchetchik
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R1,075
R753
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For the past thirty years, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama
has undertaken a photographic examination of the life of cities and
the built environment. Each of his series focuses on a different
facet of the growth and transformation of the urban landscape-from
studies of architectural maquettes to the extraction and use of
natural materials such as limestone, as it is quarried via
explosive blasts and subsequently incorporated into the
construction of new buildings. In particular, Hatakeyama has
routinely returned to the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolis, exploring this
ever-evolving urban sprawl from both below and above, mapping the
growth and expansion of these sites over time. Additional series
focus on other forms of human intervention with the landscape and
natural materials, including factories and building sites in Japan
and abroad. Finally, his most recent photographs of his hometown of
Rikuzentakata, a fishing town that was almost completely destroyed
by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, are also included-an
ongoing series begun almost immediately following the disaster.
These photographs hauntingly embody the death and rebirth of the
city, manifesting a deeply personal connection to the ongoing
intersection of geology, architecture, and time.
This is a highly personal selection of photographs amassed by Mary
McCartney, oldest child of The Beatles singer Paul McCartney. As
the title suggests, it's split into two volumes: one for color and
one for black and white images. The book shows McCartney's love for
quiet, intimate moments off the beaten track but it also gives an
extraordinary behind-the-scenes insight into the lives of
celebrities. I didn't put photos in for it to be a celebrity or
non-celebrity, McCartney tells Time. I am interested in shooting
all different types of people. I find a lot of people
inspirational. I'm interested in people, in their stories.
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.
This is the first ever retrospective of David Eustace, one of the
world's leading photographers. This eclectic mix of portraiture,
landscape, and social observation has been hotly anticipated by the
media and public for years. The title of this book is the first
line of the agency's letter to David Eustace's parents, informing
them that a baby boy had been born and was available for adoption.
It represents the beginning of his journey.
With more than 26,000 works, the Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. collection
of photographs is the largest single group of artworks in any
medium at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Wagstaff (1921-1987) amassed
his extraordinary collection between 1973 and 1984, recognizing
early that photography was an undervalued art form on which he
might have a profound impact as a collector. He was mainly
attracted to photographs that stimulated his imagination, and his
taste ran toward the idiosyncratic-images that surprised him
chiefly because he had never seen them before.In choosing the 147
works reproduced in this volume, Paul Martineau selected
masterpieces as well as images from obscure sources:
daguerreotypes, cartes-de-visite, and stereographs, plus mug shots,
medical photographs, and works by unknown makers. The latter
category contains some of the most outstanding objects in the
collection, demonstrating Wagstaff's willingness to position
unfamiliar images alongside works by established masters as well as
underrepresented contemporary artists of the time, including Jo Ann
Callis, William Garnett, and Edmund Teske.This book is published to
accompany an eponymous exhibition on view at the J.Paul Getty
Museum from March 15 to July 31, 2016; at the Wadsworth Atheneum in
Hartford, CT, from September 10 to December 11, 2016; and at the
Portland Museum of Art in Portland, ME, from February 1 to April
30, 2017.
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