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Coney Island
(Hardcover)
Rob Ball; Introduction by Mark Rawlinson
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R676
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Lee Miller's work for Vogue from 1941-1945 sets her apart as a
photographer and writer of extraordinary ability. The quality of
her photography from the period has long been recognized as
outstanding, and its full range is shown here, accompanied by her
brilliant despatches. Starting with her first report from a field
hospital soon after D-Day, the despatches and nearly 160
photographs show war-ravaged cities, buildings and landscapes, but
above all they portray the war-resilient people - soldiers,
leaders, medics, evacuees, prisoners of war, the wounded, the
villains and the heroes. There is the raw edge of combat portrayed
at the siege of St Malo and in the bitterly fought Alsace campaign,
and the disbelief and outrage Miller describes on witnessing the
victims of Dachau. The war's horror is relieved by the spirit of
post-liberation Paris, where she inudulged in frivoluous fashions
and recorded memorable conversations with Picasso, Cocteau, Eluard,
Aragon and Colette. The book ends with Miller's first-on-the-scene
report giving a sardonic description of HItler's abandoned house in
Munich, and the looting and burning of his alpine fortress at
Berchtesgaden, which marked a symbolic end to the war. David E.
Scherman, the renowned war photojournalist who shared many of
Miller's assignments, contributes a foreword.
Set in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Royal Windsor Horse Show
and Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo is a quintessentially British event
on a truly international scale. It is the UK's largest outdoor show
and features international competitions in four different
equestrian disciplines. It also encompasses military displays
involving The King's Troop and The Household Cavalry, as well as
various other regiments from the British Army, Navy and Air Force.
Visiting troupes have also participated, including the legendary
French Foreign Legion. The Queen alternates her more formal duties
in the Royal Box of the temporary arena with informal visits to
members of the regiments, as well as inspections. She is also to be
seen walking between the many different events that are spread
throughout the grounds of the castle - her 'backyard'. Leading
British photographers Anderson Low look behind the scenes during
this very special week of events, to reveal the remarkably informal
and intimate relationship between participants, horse-breeders,
support staff and the general public. The resultant images present
a superb kaleidoscope of portraits - intimate, truthful character
studies of the participants, and of the uniquely magical setting in
which this annual pageant unfolds.
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Chateau Despair
(Hardcover)
Lisa Barnard; Contributions by Sarah James, Jeremy Till
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R772
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This publication is made up of a series of photographs taken inside
the abandoned Conservative Party headquarters at 32 Smith Square in
London. Award-winning artist Lisa Barnard was granted access to the
abandoned site in 2009 and documented the building and found
objects. This book features previously unseen photos of the
interior documenting the dulled shades of corporate blue, stained
carpets, peeling paintwork and discarded iconography of past
alliances.
Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain (1931-2012) published very few
books during his lifetime, but perhaps the most feted among them
was Valparaiso. He photographed this Chilean seaport throughout his
career, but it was in the early 1960s, when he returned to his
homeland after travelling the world for many years as a Magnum
photographer, that it became a focus for his attention. He saw it
as 'a rather sordid yet romantic city', standing between the Andes
and the Pacific Ocean, falling into a slow decline as its trading
importance faded away, yet still retaining hints of beauty and
magic. Now published in English for the first time with an
introduction by Agnes Sire as well as a specially written text by
Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, this new edition of Valparaiso is
based on a layout that Larrain designed in 1993, in response to the
original French edition of 1991. It also includes a selection of
previously unpublished photographs taken between 1952 and 1992,
expanding the original 36 images to a total of 120. This intimate
book features handwritten notes and texts by the artist himself,
allowing us to share his singular vision of the world and its
moments of grace.
The fascination we have as humans with our ability to do evil,
witness the evidence of horror and stare fixedly at photographic,
filmic or artefacts connected with death, is at the heart of the
phenomenon known as 'Dark Tourism'. These images are about much
more than tourism and the visiting of such sites, they challenge
the nature of our behaviour, our history and our societies'
relationship with evil and mortality. They are a testament to our
past, to our inability to move beyond it and our curious
relationship with tragedy and death." - from the introduction by
J.J. Lennon Ambroise Tezenas has visited over a dozen major sites
of dark tourism across the world - from Cambodia to Rwanda, Lebanon
to Lithuania, Ukraine to the United States. These are sites
developed for tourism and linked to death, assassination,
incarceration, mass killing and tragedy. Yet dark tourism is not a
new phenomenon and similar sites have attracted human interest for
many years. From the gladiatorial combats of ancient Rome through
to attendance at public executions in London of the 1600s, it seems
that death and disaster have maintained a lasting appeal.
Midge Ure is one of the most successful musicians of his
generation, selling more than 20 million albums over the last five
decades. During the 1970s he played in various rock and pop bands
around Scotland before moving to London to join ex-Sex Pistol Glen
Matlock's Rich Kids, later playing guitar for Thin Lizzy, forming
Visage and joining Ultravox. In the 1980s he had phenomenal
worldwide success with Ultravox and as a solo artist. He also
co-wrote one of the best-selling singles of all time, Band Aid's
'Do They Know It's Christmas'. He co-founded the Band Aid charity
and is still involved with it today. This book is a stunning
collection of photographs taken by Midge on his travels between
1980 and 1985. Travelling with a Canon A-1 camera, he documented
his work in the recording studio, on tour with Ultravox, behind the
scenes whilst directing promotional videos (for Ultravox and other
artists such as Phil Lynott, Fun Boy Three, Bananarama) and
holidays in far-flung places and road trips. This is a fascinating
travelogue of a working musician. All photographs have been
carefully scanned and retouched from the original negative to show
the images in their glorious best, and every element of this book
has been produced to the highest specification. Midge is still
active today writing and recording music, touring around the world
as well as presenting TV and Radio programs.
'The Gardener', is the winning project of the inaugural Syngenta
Photography Award. Photographed by Jan Brykczynski, it is an
extension of his previous projects in which he travelled to the
outer corners of Europe to explore the lives of people in rural
areas. This new work looks at how city dwellers try to connect with
nature. The book documents urban gardens in Nairobi, New York,
Warsaw, and Yerevan in Armenia. Jan Brykczynski approaches it as if
the world were a single village, whose inhabitants seek to meet
similar, and very human, needs. His focus is on low-income
communities where people respond to a basic need rather than any
passing fad. When they create their gardens, improvisation is all.
The residents of these neighbourhoods make use of what is available
- often re-using materials entirely out of context and in truly
original ways. His particular interest is the way in which these
spaces are arranged and in how structures for cultivation are
created spontaneously. In some places these are an expression of
group collaboration, in others they highlight individual
imagination and the inventiveness of their creators. Yet there are
surprising similarities across different continents, evidencing a
collective consciousness and a common humanity.
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Bitter Honeydew
(Hardcover)
Kirill Golovchenko; Introduction by Christian Caujolle
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R872
R817
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Golovchenko depicts the lives of those who run roadside stalls in
Ukraine where they sell fruit according to season. The merchants,
many of them coming from Azerbaijan and Georgia, mix with locals
and live close to their makeshift emporiums in tents and trailers.
Golovchenko s images talk about his compassion for these uprooted
people, about the bitterness in their lives."
Air shows are a fun day out for the family. On the ground, tank
rides are on offer and armed forces' recruitment drives afford
children an opportunity to indulge in their fascination with guns.
There are elements of fantasy and the carnivalesque here and a
clear disconnect between this 'play' and the actual effect of
weapons. In Friend's photographs the beach and the landscape become
uneasy, surreal spaces, temporarily militarized by the fleeting
presence and roar of fighter jets. She places us at the edge of the
island state where the sight and sounds of these aerial displays
remind us of Winston Churchill's World War II speech, "We shall
fight on the beaches". Civilian aircraft displays are interwoven
with military ones, whilst nostalgia for World War II is evoked by
the presence of 'war birds' such as the Lancaster bomber, only to
be followed by the 'shock and awe' displays of contemporary fighter
jets such as the Tornado, recently deployed in Libya and
Afghanistan. By contrast, the trade days of the larger air shows
such as Farnborough promote military hardware in a more direct way,
while deals are negotiated behind the closed doors of the
hospitality chalets.
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Toy Soldiers
(Hardcover)
Simon Brann Thorpe
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R1,016
R938
Discovery Miles 9 380
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In Toy Soldiers, Simon Brann Thorpe blurs the boundaries between
document, landscape and concept-based photography to explore this
conflict. He examines the impact and potential consequences of the
stalemate. Through real soldiers - posed as toy soldiers - he
reveals the current situation in Western Sahara, a nation in
waiting trapped in an historic cycle of colonial conflict,
displacement and endless non-resolution. The work is a unique
collaboration between Thorpe, a military commander and the men
under his command. Shot entirely on location in the isolated and
hauntingly beautiful territory known as 'Liberated Western Sahara'
it is influenced by the historic works of photographers such as
Mathew Brady, Roger Fenton and Edward Curtis. Toy Soldiers provides
a contemporary archive on the issue of non-resolution and the
paradigm of post colonial cycles of violence within modern
conflicts.
HAVANA: Intimations of Departure is John Comino-James' third book
of photographs relating to his experience of that city, first
visited in 2002 and many times since. Yet the city still surprises;
he writes: Just when I think I know parts of the city well, I catch
myself walking in streets made unfamiliar by my photographs.'
Arranged in six sequences, the book contemplates the visual
experiences and emotional connections the photographer might lose
were he unable to walk through its streets again. We imagine
moments in the history of buildings, find ourselves led towards and
almost overwhelmed by the energy of the street, and observe moments
of individual preoccupation and solitude. In the final section,
through text and colour, he responds to the blandishments of a
tourist industry which all too often proposes that 'Cuba is on the
verge of change - now is the perfect time to visit before its
distinctive character is altered forever', countering the
proposition that the Havana landscape simply presents an
opportunity 'for great dramatic photos for competitions and
portfolios', pointing to a wider culture of art and politics beyond
the Che Guevara T-shirts and other souvenirs.
These photographs are not about the t-shirt per se. The messages
are combinations of pictures and words that reveal much about the
identity of the wearer. They tell who these people are and who they
aren't, who they want to be and what they want us to know about
them. They advertise their hopes, ideals, political views, and
personal mantras.
Begun in 2009, "TEE" has taken Susan Barnett to cities and
tourist spots throughout the United States and Europe to record the
ever-changing messages.
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