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Alex Schneideman
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Olivia Bee is celebrated for her dreamy, evocative portraits and
landscapes rich with implied narratives of intimacy, freedom, and
adventure. Olivia Bee: Kids in Love showcases two bodies of
photographic work, including the series, Enveloped in a Dream, that
first brought Bee recognition as a teenager. This first series
offers a visual diary of girlhood friendship and the exploration of
self, showcasing Bee’s unique ability to convey the bittersweet
nostalgia of adolescence on the brink of adulthood and new
possibilities. The second set of images, Kids in Love, is drawn
from recent work and continues Bee’s photographic chronicle of
her circle of friends and new loves, capturing both the pleasures
and terrors of the fleeting passage of romanticized youth. While
the work continues to evolve, what remains constant is her
seductive use of color and photographic artifact, as well as the
immediacy and charge of each image. Bee gives voice to the
self-awareness and visual fluency of the millennial generation.
Experiences are sharply felt, and easily communicated and shared,
generating visual records that render these memories as significant
as the moments themselves. Tavi Gevinson, founding editor of the
online magazine Rookie and Bee’s frequent collaborator and model,
writes about the work and about the role of images as social
currency in today’s image-driven world.
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Semaphore
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Torrance York
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As Kylie Jenner put it, "Check out this inspiring photograph
from...@vladamua! " From opulent to optical illusion, Vlada's art
is a blend of make-up and magic that transform her lips into
canvases. MUA royalty, her work is washed across the internet, lips
dripping and bedazzled, transformed by talent and a vision that's
helped shape the beauty industry. Featuring over 200 photographs of
Vlada's work, Art of the Lip is a sumptuous tome to flip through
and marvel at the minute, painted details on her lips in each
photo. Gloss, lipstick, sequins and jewels transform Vlada's skin
in hundreds of different images, with looks inspired by nature,
jewellery, pop culture and more. Much more than just lipstick,
Vlada's art is a showcase of makeup's power and an artist's
innovation.
Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppe traveled the length
and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the
most tumultuous times in the country's history. He photographed
movie stars and captains of industry, workers and peasants, and
captured the birth of the Autobahn and UFA film studios in its
heyday. He saw the rise of fascism, the creation of vast new
suburbs, and the displacement of people from their traditional ways
of life. With unprecedented access to the country's world-famous
factories and industrial installations, he witnessed Germany as few
others could-barreling headlong into the unknown. Moving,
insightful, and deeply revealing, the full significance of Hoppe's
German work has been unknown until now. This volume combines
photographs published in Hoppe's legendary book of 1930, Deutsche
Arbeit, with many new pictures never previously seen. From factory
floor to the commuters of Berlin and Munich, Hoppe's photographs
reveal the profound social and economic tensions that preceded the
Second World War. This publication uncovers Hoppe as a pivotal
figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, who
introduced for the first time elements of typology, seriality and
sequence, which have become key elements of contemporary
photographic practice. Hoppe used his experience in Germany to
develop a new modern style of photography-showing not just how
things looked, but how it felt to be there.
For over two decades, German photographer Thomas Kellner (b.1966)
has explored the pictorial possibilities of the contact sheet,
drawing particular inspiration from cityscapes, architecture and
landscapes. In his new series called Tango Metropolis, he focuses
his camera on the world's most famous monuments. These iconic
buildings are well-known, but his deconstructed, fractured images
invite the viewer to discover them anew. Rolf Sachsse, a
photographer, author, and curator, has contributed an essay for
this book that links Kellner's work to both mannerism and cubism.
Contains unseen 'candid' and behind-the-scenes images from the
world's leading fetish photographer. Includes commentaries by the
photographer about each image - recollections from shoots and back
stories about the models create an intimate atmosphere. Designed,
written and edited by an all-female team: Rosa Nussbaum, Andi
Campognone and Sarah Handelman. Steve Diet Goedde's photographs are
concerned with fetishism, but they could reasonably be regarded as
fashion photographs, for they are about clothes and the roles that
dressing imposes on women, or allows them to play. Indeed, Goedde
has consistently rejected the visual stereotypes of 'fetish'
photography. Instead he sets out to seduce and amuse, experimenting
with humour, irony and elements of the surreal. Extempore brings
together images that are departures in another sense. They
represent stolen moments, or glimpses behind the scenes, when the
models are not necessarily aware of the camera. Most of Goedde's
models are drawn from his close circle of friends and in these
photographs particularly one senses a shared trust and
understanding.
Toscani's photography often depicts what no one has ever dared to
explore before in advertising, such as homosexuality, racism and
anorexia. This magnificent volume explores the creative force
behind brands and advertising campaigns, focusing on the finest
examples of his work. Interspersed throughout are collected stories
of the life of the man behind the lens from some of the major
personalities in the creative industries. Contributors include the
photographers, David Bailey and Rankin, fashion designer Issey
Miyake, designers Philippe Starck and Kenzo Takada, the musician
Peter Gabriel and film director and actor, Mathieu Kassovitz, and
the entrepreneur Luciano Benetton. The book features Toscani's
advertising campaigns, particularly his work with Benetton from
1982 to 2000, which was some of the most shocking advertising ever
seen: in some cases provoking lawsuits and the removal of Benetton
clothing from stores. However, Toscani worked wonders for the
company, making it into one of the world's most recognised clothing
brands - despite no items of clothing appearing in the campaigns
between 1990 and 2000. Throughout the years he has also created
corporate images and campaigns for companies such as Esprit,
Chanel, Fiorucci, Prenatal and many more. He has collaborated as
fashion photographer for international magazines such as Elle,
Vogue, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, and Liberation.
Sanna Kannisto's metier is nature photography. Like her role
models, she considers herself both a scientist and an artist. And,
in fact, her analytical gaze is in no way inferior to her
creativity and passion. She creates moments of unusual beauty that
also shed light on what has been previously concealed. Kannisto has
her own method for taking pictures of birds, photographing the
animals in front of a brilliantly lit, white background. Removed
from their usual surroundings, every detail appears in matchless
clarity, allowing for precise study. At the same time, this results
in a unique visual aesthetic: the feathers glow brightly, the
beating wings take on a majestic quality, and the deep black eyes
of the birds seem to gaze hauntingly at the camera. The patience
required to produce these pictures has paid off , since it is hard
to imagine more beautiful photographs of birds.
British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime excavates
British late modernism's relationship to war in terms of
chronophobia: a joint fear of the past and future. As a wartime
between, but distinct from, those of the First World War and the
Cold War, Second World wartime involves an anxiety that is both
repetition and imaginary: both a dread of past violence unleashed
anew, and that of a future violence still ungraspable. Identifying
a constellation of temporalities and affects under three
tropes-time capsules, time zones, and ruins-this volume contends
that Second World wartime is a pivotal moment when wartime
surpassed the boundaries of a specific state of emergency, becoming
first routine and then open-ended. It offers a synoptic,
wide-ranging look at writers on the home front, including Henry
Green, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, and Rose Macaulay, through
a variety of genres, such as life-writing, the novel, and the short
story. It also considers an array of cultural and archival material
from photographers such as Cecil Beaton, filmmakers such as Charles
Crichton, and artists such as John Minton. It shows how figures
harnessed or exploited their media's temporal properties to
formally register the distinctiveness of this wartime through a
complex feedback between anticipation and retrospection, oftentimes
fashioning the war as a memory, even while it was taking place.
While offering a strong foundation for new readers of the
mid-century, the book's overall theoretical focus on chronophobia
will be an important intervention for those already working in the
field.
Whether he's capturing Elvis Costello in a pensive moment, going
one-on-one with Iggy Pop, gazing into the eyes of Don Cheadle, or
visiting Julian Schnabel in his studio, Olaf Heine has a talent for
making larger-than-life subjects appear sensitive, vulnerable, and
approachable. This career-spanning monograph features dozens of
Heine's signature portraits, impeccably staged and meticulously
detailed. Printed in brilliant duotone on coated matte paper, each
image is presented on its own page, allowing viewers the pleasure
of lingering over the features that characterize a Heine photo:
rich and varied tones, clean lines, subtle humor and pathos, and
classically informed composition. Accompanying the images are texts
from the artists or from Heine himself, affording a nuanced glimpse
into the ongoing dialog between the gazer and the gazed-upon. A
sumptuous feast for the eyes from one of the world's leading
photographers, this book celebrates the artistic process and the
inspirations behind it.
Across the African continent, but especially in the sub-Saharan
regions the light provided by the sun has a particularly stark
quality, which becomes most apparent in relation to age-old
buildings and in the way in which it shapes daily routines. Without
relying on artificial light, architecture had to both make use of
the sun light to create a light source within a building, yet also
protect those living in the houses from the intensity of it. This
has resulted in vernacular architecture that works with very few or
small openings that render the inside of a building near pitch
black while the outside is illuminated by direct sunshine that
bears down mercilessly. On the initiative of the lighting company
Zumtobel Group, photographer Iwan Baan and architect Francis Kere
set out to capture how the sun's natural light cycle shapes
vernacular architecture with little to no artificial light sources
in Burkina Faso. They travelled to three exemplary locations:
Communal compounds in Gando, the main mosque of Bobo Dioulasso and
the terraced houses in Dano utilising pots to create skylights.
Baan's pictures are accompanied by architectural sketches by
Francis Kere, who himself grew up in this light environment and
whose architecture is inspired by it. The stunning photographs are
printed in a special technique to give a sense of being immersed in
the very light conditions that are being documented.
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Day Sleeper
(Paperback)
Dorothea Lange; Edited by Sam Contis
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In this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the
iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange's
extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world
centred around the figure of the day sleeper - at once a symbol of
respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes
of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and
Lange's ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange,
and includes previously unseen photographs of her family,
portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of
San Francisco and the East Bay. Day Sleeper will be featured
alongside other works of Contis' in the exhibition Dorothea Lange:
Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, February-May
2020.
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