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Dreamscapes is a stunning collection of over fifty of the world's
most beautiful gardens from across the globe, photographed by
internationally renowned and awarded photographer Claire Takacs.
Dreamscapes includes many gardens designed by famous designers such
as Piet Oudolf, Paul Bangay, and Spanish designer Fernando Martos
among others, with photographed locations including Australia, New
Zealand, UK, USA, Europe and Asia. This book will astound and
delight you with the diversity and creativity of the gardens
featured, all portrayed at that rare moment when they are at their
most stunning. Iconic gardens included are the stunning Welsh
garden Dyffyryn Fernant, Australia's Cloudehill, Martha Stewart's
private garden, the beautiful Edwardian idyll of Bryan's Ground in
Herefordshire, the former home of Vita Sackville-West, Long Barn in
Kent, the naturalistic French garden of Le Jardin Plume in
Normandy, Hermannshof in Germany at the forefront of planting
design, and Kenfokuen one of Japan's most beautiful public gardens.
Dutchman Jan Dibbets (b. 1941) is one of the principal artists
to have introduced photography into the plastic arts. Beginning in
1967, he embarked on a long-range project that, as we advance into
the twenty-first century, he seems not to have abandoned: the
"pictorializing" of photography. At a time when photography has
massively invaded contemporary art institutions not without
generating confusion and excess it is possible to lose track of how
radical Dibbets's approach was. This radicalism has nothing to do
with modernist overkill. Dibbets did not merely go further than
others; he went elsewhere. This books covers almost fifty years of
his photographic oeuvre."
These photographs by David Katzenstein emerged from his lifelong
artistic journey as a visual chronicler of humanity. His mission
led him to travel to many parts of the world to experience other
cultures and peoples firsthand, capturing images that relate to the
themes he is drawn to. In the process, he came to be fascinated by
rituals. The images were taken in twenty-six countries on six
continents between 1982 and 2019 - a span of thirty-seven years.
They document humans in the act of performing a wide array of
rituals, both religious and secular. Rituals depicted herein
include those of animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam,
Judaism and Shintoism. Folk festivals, military assemblies, and
parades are nonreligious rituals found in everyday life. Whether
rituals are religious or secular, from his experience, they are
all, in some sense, sacred to those who perform them.
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Nick Brandt
- The Day May Break
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Nick Brandt; Edited by Nadine Barth; Text written by Yvonne Adhiambo Uwour, Percival Everett
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The Day May Break, photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020,
is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals
that have been impacted by environmental degradation and
destruction. The people in the photos were all affected by climate
change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts. Photographed
at five sanctuaries, the animals were rescues that can never be
re-wilded. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close
to them, photographed so close to them, within the same frame. The
fog on location is the unifying visual, as we increasingly find
ourselves in a kind of limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading
from view. However, in spite of their loss, these people and
animals are the survivors. And therein lies possibility and hope.
Toiletpaper is an artists' magazine created and produced by
Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari and born out of a shared
passion for images. The magazine contains no text. Each picture
springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex
orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the
artists' mental outbursts. Since the first issue, in June 2010,
Toiletpaper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives
and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of
commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and
surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a
work of art which, through its accessible form as a widely
distributed magazine, challenges the limits of the contemporary art
economy.
The idea of America, and the American identity, has been central to
this country's cultural conversation and debate since its
inception. America -- past, present, and future -- is an ongoing
experiment in free will and liberty for all who reach its welcoming
shores, plow its fertile soil, and raise their children to achieve
that great promise of the American Dream. In The American
Experiment, photographer Brandon Ralph presents an exploration of
the patriotic symbols, the vast and varied landscape, and the
tapestry of humanity that poses the question anew: What makes an
American? The result is a finely wrought collection of moments and
Americans captured in time, separated by decades and by state
lines, by events of national significance and by the invisible
routines of day-to-day life. In Ralph's starkly beautiful and
unwaveringly sensitive images, there is a sense of timelessness
that speaks to our collective nostalgia, our unflagging optimism,
and our unending pursuit of freedom for all people.
Stories and photography intermingle on the pages of this gorgeous
homage to '70s and '80s cinema and celebrity. Including rare and
never-before-seen images, Through Her Lens is a wonderful
collection of images and memoires that capture the spirit of the
age. From unexpected late-night calls from Romy Schneider, to a
stay at Paul Newman's home in Connecticut; from working on set with
Bernardo Bertolucci, Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg and Sydney
Pollack, to lounging poolside with Raquel Welch; Sereny reveals her
favourite moments from working behind the lens. This is the first
photographic retrospective of Sereny's star-studded career,
including nearly 100 never-before-seen images complemented by Eva's
own stories.
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.
A compact survey of the photographer Frank Horvat, best known for
his fashion photography published between the mid 1950s and the
late 1980s. Frank Horvat (1928-2020) changed the course of fashion
photography forever. The Italian-born photographer made his debut
as a photojournalist in France, where he continued to live and work
for the rest of his life. It was here he met Henri Cartier-Bresson,
who encouraged him to continue his marvellous photojournalism. By
the mid-1950s Horvat was collaborating with the biggest fashion
magazines in the world, such as Elle, Vogue and Jardin des Modes -
revolutionizing fashion photography through a more realistic lens,
photographing models on the streets, in the squares and alongside
the locals of post-war Europe. Horvat's fresh and often imitated
style, which brought reportage techniques and the 35mm film camera
to the forefront of fashion photography, impressed designers and
inspired fashion photographers for generations to come. Frank
Horvat's work can now be found in permanent collections in
prestigious institutions around the world, including The Museum of
Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. With a
foreword by Virginie Chardin, this title in the renowned Photofile
series exhibits Horvat's photographic opus through sixty full-page
reproductions in a handsome and collectible pocket format.
Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known
of all photographic genres, with names like Cartier-Bresson,
Brassai and Doisneau familiar even to those with a fleeting
knowledge of the medium. Yet, what exactly is street photography?
From what viewpoint does it present its subjects, and how does this
viewpoint differ from that of documentary photography? Looking
closely at the work of Atget, Kertesz, Bovis, Rene-Jacques,
Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier- Bresson and more, this elegantly
written book, extensively illustrated with both well-known and
neglected works, unpicks Parisian street photography's affinity
with Impressionist art, as well as its complex relationship with
parallel literary trends and authors from Baudelaire to Philippe
Soupault. Clive Scott traces street photography's origins, asking
what really what happened to photography when it first abandoned
the studio, and brings to the fore fascinating questions about the
way the street photographer captures or frames those subjects -
traders, lovers, entertainers - so beloved of the genre.In doing
so, Scott reveals street photography to be a poetic, even
'picturesque' form, looking not to the individual but to the type;
not to the 'reality' of the street but to its 'romance'.
State Fairs, an annual American ritual, are a willingly accepted
assault on the senses--visual, acoustic, gastric (fried beer the
latest delicacy)--and a voluntary yielding of personal space to
strangers.
"Chadbourne, like David Foster] Wallace does in prose, brings
back amazing images in his signature, close-up style. With his
wide-angle lens and flamboyant use of color he finds the kinds of
insanely tight juxtapositions that bring to life the crash and
chaos, not to mention the pressing humanity, that is the true
experience of a fair at full frenzy."--Bill Kouwenhoven)
"State Fair" is covering fairs across the US: New York, Minnesota,
Maine, Georgia, Texas, The Big E, Iowa, Arizona, Florida, Montana,
California.
"My own use of the camera began in 1954 as I started to think about
what a new building in New York - the Seagram building - could be.
While in Rome during Easter, through the lens of a camera I had
hardly used, I began to observe the quality of buildings: how they
sat on the land, their articulation, and how architectural details
related to a building as a whole." - Phyllis Lambert This curiosity
is a constant in the work of Phyllis Lambert, who has devoted her
career to studying and engaging with the changing conditions of
urban landscapes. In this collection of personal photographs taken
over several decades during her daily routines, her travels, or at
work, obser- vation turns into a quest to understand and reveal
what might otherwise remain overlooked.
From 1982 to 1986, Roger Ballen, an American, travelled widely throughout South Africa, visiting its scattered towns and villages. During this time he developed a unique vision towards little-known corners and artefacts, trading stores, old houses and humble people. Textured with time, these photographs reveal the essence of these places.
This is a revised second edition of Roger Ballen’s powerful photographic journey containing new unpublished images never seen before.
Roger says he has tried to depict what he believes to be a disappearing South African aesthetic. With each year, the anonymity of the present further transforms the character of these places.
In 2002, Tabitha Soren first began photographing a group of minor
league draft picks for the Oakland A's-young men coming into the
major league farm system straight from high school or college.
Since then, she has followed the players through their baseball
lives, an alternate reality of long bus rides, on-field injuries,
friendships and marriages entered and exited, constant motion, and
very hard work, often for very little return. Some of the subjects,
like Nick Swisher and Joe Blanton, have gone on to become
well-known, respected players at the highest level of the game.
Some left baseball to pursue other lines of work, such as selling
insurance and coal mining. Others have struggled with poverty and
even homelessness. Fifteen years after that first shoot, Fantasy
Life portrays a selection of these stories, gathering together a
richly textured series of photographs taken on the field and behind
the scenes at games, along with commentaries by each of the players
and memorabilia from their lives-from kindergarten-age baseball
cards to x-rays of player injuries. Dave Eggers contributes a
five-part short story that compellingly condenses the
roller-coaster ride of the minor-league everyman, from youthful
pursuit of stardom through the slog of endless hardscrabble games,
to that moment of realization that success may not be just around
the corner after all. Additonally, a number of the featured players
add their own real-life experiences of trying to make it to "The
Show." Together, these elements evoke the enduring spirit of this
quintessential American fantasy of making it in the major leagues.
First we had dogs underwater, then dogs shaking off water... and
now dogs soaking up the exhilarating no-holds-barred pleasure of a
ride in a car. Photographer Lara Jo Regan began her pet project as
a calendar but the response was overwhelming and absolute: her
photographs of the cruising canines, taken from incredible
perspectives, with tongues hanging and ears flapping, became a
global Internet sensation. The energy of the photographs is
impressive and visceral. In order to get these shots, Regan built a
special light, which jutted out over the roof of the car, a harness
that allowed her to lean out of the window and various other
contraptions to make the images come to life. Dogs In Cars will
have the reader laughing out loud.
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