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A mind-blowing genre crossing deep purple velvet adventure
(formerly known as "BOOK"). This publication concerns a multimedia
project consisting of visual arts, micro stories and music, with a
history on Instagram.
Trope Publishing Company's new Mobile Edition Series identifies
fine art photographers shooting in a new way, using mobile devices
as their primary tool to capture images, in a category still
defining itself. Among the millions of images posted to social
media every day, the work of these photographers stands out for its
discipline and mastery. Jess Angell - aka Miss Underground - has
been involved with Instagram nearly from its beginning. After
posting a few shots of her favorite London Underground stations,
she realized those images got much more attention than her usual
posts, and @missunderground was born. Jess's work celebrates the
Underground's beautiful and varied geometry and architecture, as
she hunts and waits to capture these normally crowded spaces empty
of people. Fall in love with these subterranean spaces as their
hidden angles and details are revealed.
Working with a large format 5x4 camera, Gli Isolani draws upon the
visual language of Tomlinson's previous projects, lending the black
and white photographs a veil of timelessness. At the project's
genesis, Alys researched the literature and poetry connected to the
history and culture of the islands of Italy, exploring tradition
and identity, ancient myths, folklore and fairy tales. Set against
crumbling stone and rural fields, the images depict the elaborate
and uncanny costumes and masks worn for Holy Week, and other events
and festivals, sometimes inspired by pagan ritual and beliefs. The
fantastical tales and precious costumes have been passed down many
generations within these communities where customs run deep. The
gestures and the costumes depicted in the photographs draw on the
relationship between man and the land, the sacred and the profane,
and good and evil.
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AAM AASTHA
- Indian Devotions
(Hardcover)
Charles Fréger; Contributions by Anuradha Roy, Catherine Clément, Kuhu Kopariha; Illustrated by Sumedha Sah
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A festival of Indian folk rituals and costumes bursting with
colour, captured by renowned photographer Charles Fréger, the
creator of a distinctive and powerful new genre of portrait
photography. Internationally renowned photographer Charles Fréger
continues to explore global traditions and cultures, by celebrating
the powerful visual aspects of Indian folk culture and religious
ritual. India is the home to a myriad of local traditions, legends
and religions, each with their own festivals, rites and rituals.
Celebrations burst with vivid colours and often wildly exuberant
costumes, some representing gods and goddesses, others legendary
heroes from Sanskrit epics such as the Mahabharata and the
Ramayana. In Charles Fréger’s photographs, those who honour
local cultural traditions are represented in single or group
portraits, represented against carefully chosen landscapes and
backdrops, from the heart of festivals and celebrations.
Fréger’s unmistakable style of portraiture allows us to admire
the complexity of their adornments – masks and headdresses,
costumes and body paint – and to consider the abundance of
imagination that expresses India’s countless stories and
characters, both human and divine. This spectacular gathering of
warrior figures, deities, musicians, tigers, mahouts, epic
characters and their avatars is accompanied by texts setting the
huge variety of eclectic costumes in context, and describing the
local festivals and rituals. This compelling sequence of new
portraits will enthral those with an interest in folk traditions,
as well as the followers of this internationally acclaimed
photographer.
Learn how renowned photographer and conservationist David Yarrow
manages to get his incredible shots. For two decades Yarrow has
been venturing further and further afield in search of amazing
animals to photograph. Here he shares the incredible knowledge and
stories he has gathered along the way and distils them down into
the key lessons to take into your own photography. Including guides
to composition and perspective, tips on using remote cameras and
dealing with dangerous animals, and the philosophy behind his
boundary-pushing approach to image taking.
In her feminist inquiry into aesthetics and the sublime, Claire
Raymond reinterprets the work of the American photographer
Francesca Woodman (1958-1981). Placing Woodman in a lineage of
women artists beginning with nineteenth-century photographers Julia
Margaret Cameron and Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, Raymond
compels a reconsideration of Woodman's achievement in light of the
gender dynamics of the sublime. Raymond argues that Woodman's
photographs of decrepit architecture allegorically depict the
dissolution of the frame, a dissolution Derrida links to theories
of the sublime in Kant's Critique of Judgement. Woodman's
self-portraits, Raymond contends, test the parameters of the gaze,
a reading that departs from the many analyses of Woodman's work
that emphasize her dramatic biography. Woodman is here revealed as
a conceptually sophisticated artist whose deployment of allegory
and allusion engages a broader debate about Enlightenment
aesthetics, and the sublime.
Phil Vinson grew up in Fort Worth, fascinated by the city's visual
icons: Mrs. Baird's Bakery on Summit Avenue, historic Thistle Hill,
the tower at the Will Rogers Complex, the Tarrant County
Courthouse, the Texas Electric smokestacks, the art-deco design of
the Texas & Pacific depot, the Paddock Viaduct. He started
making photographs while still in his teens but as an adult he
rediscovered the visual richness of his hometown. Once he started
photographing, he couldn't stop. For the past four decades, through
careers as a journalist, photographer, and teacher, he has spent
the weekends driving around taking pictures.Vinson has particular
respect for subjects that have been around for enough years to
acquire a certain dignity and nobility. Aware that the days of many
of these old structures may be numbered, he has tried to document
such buildings as the Seventh Street Theater before they
disappeared to the wrecking ball.Fort Worth is well documented in
photographs, but in many photographs Vinson has moved beyond
documentation to a more intimate, personal view of the city,
looking for dramatic light and compelling visual design, focusing
on architectural details and graphic possibilities not obvious at a
casual glance. While most of the photographs in this collection
focus on Fort Worth, Vinson, who lived in Childress as a small
child, is also drawn to rural or small-town subjects and includes
here pictures taken on weekend drives to small communities in North
and West Texas.
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Freshers
(Paperback)
Sigune Hamann; Photographs by Sigune Hamann
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s French New Wave cinema exploded
onto international screens with films like Les quatre cents coups,
A bout de souffle and Jules et Jim. They were radical, artistic,
original and most importantly set up the director as a creative
genius; at the forefront were Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc
Godard. Today these films are credited with changing cinema
forever. For many film goers they command strong and passionate
respect and became the foundations on which a lifetime of
cinema-going is built. In the photographs of Raymond Cauchetier we
bear witness to the great artistic genius that was central to the
process of making these films. Cauchetier's photographs are a
culturally important documentary of the director at work, his
methods and processes. His photographs capture some of the most
memorable moments in film; Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg on
the Champs Elysees in A bout de souffle, Jeanne Moreau in the race
scene of Jules et Jim, Anna Karina in a Parisian Cafe in Une femme
est une femme. But Cauchetier's genius lies also in the fact that
his photographs are far above just a visual record of these films.
They clearly show the same spirit, the same freedom and the same
originality that made The New Wave so important. Cauchetier's
photographs are as much a part of The New Wave as the films
themselves. In the words of Richard Brody: In these images, Raymond
Cauchetier, a witness to art, made art by bearing true witness.
This is the first book published in English featuring the New Wave
film photographs of Raymond Cauchetier.
Like its predecessors, "Once Upon a Time" and "A Place in the Sun",
"Poolside with Slim Aarons" offers images of jet-setters and the
wealthy, of beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life.
Yet this new collection of stunning photographs of the rich and
well-connected 'doing attractive things' in their favourite
playgrounds has a new twist. The main character is pools and
everything that goes with them - magnificent, suntanned bodies,
well-oiled skin, bikini-clad women, yachts, summer cocktails,
sumptuous buffets, spectacular locations and most of all fun.
"Poolside with Slim Aarons" is not so much a Who's Who of society,
aristocracy and celebrity - although C. Z. Guest, Lily Pulitzer,
Cheryl Tiegs, Peter Beard and many who have appeared in the
previous books are here - as it is about leisure time and how the
rich make use of it. This is a more intimate peek into very private
lives, to which Slim Aarons was given unprecedented access in the
fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties. From the Caribbean to
Italy and Mexico to Monaco, "Poolside with Slim Aarons" whisks the
reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury and
grandeur prevail.
The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of
daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons,
demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to
teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration.
In 2011, Nigel Poor-artist, educator, and cocreator of the
acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle-began teaching a history of
photography class through the Prison University Project at San
Quentin State Prison. Neither books nor cameras were allowed into
the facility, so an unorthodox course with a range of
inventivemapping exercises ensued: students crafted "verbal
photographs" of memories for which they had no visual
documentation, and annotated iconic images from different artists.
After the first semester, Poor says, "one student told me he could
now see fascination everywhere in San Quentin." When Poor received
access to thousands of negatives in the prison's archive, made by
corrections officers of a former era, these images of San Quentin's
everyday occurrences soon became launchpads for her students' keen
observations. From the banal to the brutal, to distinct moments of
respite, the pictures in this archive gave those who were involved
in the project the opportunity to share their stories and
reflections on incarceration.
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(Paperback)
Remi Verstraete
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is one of the most influential
and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive
work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of
modern photography. Following World War II, he helped found the
Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a
broad audience through magazines such as "Life" while retaining
control over their work. Cartier-Bresson would go on to produce
major bodies of photographic reportage, capturing such events as
China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin's death,
the United States in the postwar boom and Europe as its older
cultures confronted modern realities. Published to accompany an
exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this is the first major
publication to make full use of the extensive holdings of the
Fondation Cartier-Bresson-including thousands of prints and a vast
resource of documents relating to the photographer's life and work.
The heart of the book surveys Cartier-Bresson's career through 300
photographs divided into 12 chapters. While many of his most famous
pictures are included, a great number of images will be unfamiliar
even to specialists. A wide-ranging essay by Peter Galassi, Chief
Curator of Photography at the Museum, offers an entirely new
understanding of Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary career and its
overlapping contexts of journalism and art. The extensive
supporting material-featuring detailed chronologies of the
photographer's professional travels and of spreads of his picture
stories as they appeared in magazines-will revolutionize the study
of Cartier-Bresson's work.
To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished
artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to
assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed
collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass
the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks
to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ordinary people could
afford to purchase their own portraits. These portraits allowed
individuals to create and embellish their own self images,
presenting themselves as they wished to be seen within the trends
and social mores of their time. Each book in the series contains
two hundred images chosen from a visually rich vein of social
history. Their back covers also feature thematically linked
paintings, specially created for each title, from Phillips's
signature work, " A Humument." "Weddings" captures all the
excitement and drama of the stages of the ceremony from
preparations to wedding vehicles to family and friends in lively
scenes in churches and homes. These unique and visually stunning
books offer a rich glimpse of forgotten times and will be greatly
valued by art and history lovers alike. "These images are
captivating visual vignettes. We may not know who the subjects are,
but the postcards offer us a glimpse of their interests, their
time, and their world. Tom Phillips's exceptional collection gives
us a fascinating chance to retrieve something of these
lives."--Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London
"Picture postcards from a century ago capture unique moments in
time and place and are a wonderful social history record. Tom
Phillips is adept at seeking out and choosing amazingly evocative
postcard images."--Brian Lund, editor, "Picture Postcard
Monthly"
Funny, profound, absurd, and filled with unexpected beauty, this
new photobook from American artist Jason Fulford is a collection of
twelve stories drawn from a decade of encounters with Italy. Taking
the form of a novel-sized paperback, the book includes meetings
with ball-breaking bakers, an exploding museum cellar, Aldo Rossi's
notes on happiness, the center of the Earth, and Guido Guidi's
garage. Fulford's pictures are deceptively simple, imbued with a
gift for composition that brings forth metaphors and meaning. Known
internationally for his skill as an editor, Fulford uses layered
articulation and careful sequencing to suggest ambiguous meaning
and invite endless reading.
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Deanna Bowen
(Hardcover)
Crystal Mowry, Kimberly Phillips; Designed by Barr Gilmore
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A close look at Man Ray's interwar portraiture, as well as the
friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the
international avant garde in Paris Shortly after his arrival in
Paris in July 1921, Man Ray (1890-1976)-the pseudonym of Emmanuel
Radnitzky-embarked on a sustained campaign to document the city's
international avant-garde in a series of remarkable portraits that
established his reputation as one of the leading photographers of
his era. Man Ray's subjects included cultural luminaries such as
Berenice Abbott, Andre Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Ernest
Hemingway, Miriam Hopkins, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Lee Miller,
Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse),
Elsa Schiaparelli, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein. As this lavishly
illustrated publication demonstrates, Man Ray's portraits went
beyond recording the mere outward appearance of the person depicted
and aimed instead to capture the essence of his sitters as creative
individuals, as well as the collective nature and character of Les
Annees folles (the crazy years) of Paris between the two world
wars, when the city became famous the world over as a powerful and
evocative symbol of artistic freedom and daring experimentation.
Distributed for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition
Schedule: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (October 30,
2021-February 21, 2022)
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene
emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the
galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los
Angeles, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge
Nothing That Occurs , the artist's archive of 35 mm Ektachrome
images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections
from a host of artistic and cultural figures. It offers a unique
document of what Harris has described as "ephemeral moments and
emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and '90s, against a backdrop
of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of
multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient
globalization." As a young artist experimenting with installation,
performance, and collage at the time, Harris obsessively
photographed his friends, lovers, and individuals who either were,
or would become, figures of influence, such as Marlon Riggs, Cornel
West, bell hooks, Stuart Hall, Klaus Biesenbach, Nan Goldin,
Catherine Opie, Glenn Ligon, and others. The images record the
confluence of multiple international communities- gathering points
for the exchange of ideas and the development of theoretical
positions on art and culture that continue to resonate to this day.
Together, these photographs and the journals not only sketch a
personal history of a unique time of importance to contemporary
art, but also show the development and shaping of Harris's eye and
influences as an artist.
The last book completed by William Klein within his lifetime: A
landmark retrospective encompassing Klein's legacy of creativity
across photography, filmmaking, painting, book design, graphic
design and beyond. Photographer. Filmmaker. Artist. Designer. To
master one of those disciplines would be a lifetime achievement for
any creative individual, yet William Klein's career was celebrated
in each of them over the last eight decades. Klein was one of the
great image makers of the 20th century and one whose work remains
an enduring creative influence on the work of contemporary artists,
photographers and filmmakers. With over 250 images, this career
retrospective explores the late William Klein's entire creative and
artistic arc. Directed by Klein himself, from the selection of
content to book design, this large-format publication looks back at
his uncompromisingly creative lifetime, showcasing Klein's prolific
and relentlessly innovative contribution to the world of
photography, art, design and filmmaking. Published in association
with a major retrospective at the International Center of
Photography, this book is a comprehensive take on his career. While
best known as a photographer who broke all the rules and
conventions, William Klein: Yes focuses on the full range of
Klein's work, from his abstract paintings through to his startling,
authentic street photography and photobooks and his dynamic,
satirical take on filmmaking. With a flowing, chronological text by
David Campany, this book will be both an introduction to William
Klein for a new generation and a source of fresh insights for those
who already know who William Klein was: a true original.
Published on the occasion of the first Italian anthological
exhibition dedicated to her, the volume retraces the successful
work of Lisette Model, an artist of Austrian origin who had great
importance in the development of photography in the Fifties and
Sixties. Parallel to her teaching activity - she had among her
students authors who later became famous such as Diane Arbus and
Larry Fink - Lisette Model was an ironic and irreverent
photographer, able to capture in her shots the most grotesque
aspects of post-war American society. Alongside the most famous
series - such as Promenade des Anglais, created in Nice, or the
photographs dedicated to New Yorkers or the very suggestive ones
made in jazz clubs - the book also includes lesser-known projects,
which account for her personal and sardonic photographic language.
The close-up shots, the recurring use of the flash, the exasperated
contrasts are the expedients that the author resorts to in order to
accentuate the imperfections of the bodies and the coarse gestures
of her subjects, transformed into the characters of a sneering
human comedy: an approach to reality that made Lisette Model the
forerunner of a way of using photography that would find full
realisation only in the following decades. Text in English and
Italian.
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Mona Kuhn: Works
(Hardcover)
Mona Kuhn; Contributions by Rebecca Morse, Simon Baker, Elizabeth Avedon, Chris Littlewood, …
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Mona Kuhn: Works is the first retrospective by one of the most
respected and widely exhibited contemporary art photographers of
today. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, Kuhn's
underlying theme involves humanity's longing for spiritual
interconnectivity. She is renowned for developing close
relationships with her subjects, resulting in images of remarkable
intimacy. Kuhn employs a range of playful visual strategies that
reveal glimpses into the psyche as it is expressed through the
human form, ultimately reinterpreting the nude in the canon of
contemporary art. This new volume features images from throughout
Kuhn's career, including previously unseen work, and will introduce
her distinct aesthetic to a wide, popular audience. Accompanied by
insightful texts by Rebecca Morse, Chris Littlewood, Darius Himes
and Simon Baker and an interview with Elizabeth Avedon, the reader
is provided with insights into Kuhn's creative process and the ways
in which she works with her subjects and settings, and achieves the
visual signature of her imagery. Mona Kuhn: Works is an essential
volume for anyone with an interest in the human form in
contemporary art. With 155 illustrations in colour
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