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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This is a revised second edition of Roger Ballen’s powerful photographic journey containing new unpublished images never seen before.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.
For fifty years, music fans, hippies, artists, and songwriters have
converged each spring on Quiet Valley Ranch in the Texas Hill
Country. They are drawn by the thousands to the annual Kerrville
Folk Festival, a weeks-long gathering of musical greats and
ordinary people living in an intentional community marked by
radical acceptance and the love of song. At the festival, David
Johnson is known as Photo Dave, the guy who lugs around a
large-format camera and captures the moments that make Kerrville
special. It Can Be This Way Always collects eighty images from the
past decade. Portraits of attendees and volunteers accompany scenes
of stage performances, campfire jam sessions, and vans repurposed
into coffee stands. In these images we see the temporary, makeshift
world that festivalgoers create, a place where eccentricities are
the norm and music is the foundation of friendship and unity. "It
can be this way always" is a popular saying at Kerrville:
simultaneously optimistic and wistful like a good folk song-or a
photograph from your best life.
"Photography is documenting life as it happens, it's capturing the
decisive, unexpected and unique. Over the years, my style and work
have changed but I've always focused on street portraits, with a
side of architecture." ~ Ope Odueyungbo Although Ope currently
shoots for global brands like Audi, Adidas, and American Express,
the idea of being a photographer didn't cross his mind until he was
in college. Now, just a few years later, he routinely posts
stunning images to his nearly 100,000 Instagram followers. A
Londoner from New Cross, Ope less often displays another side of
his work - a personal photographic journey that has taken him to
nearly every continent on the globe, including Nigeria, where his
parents are from and still home to his grandmother and extended
family. Ope's unusual aesthetic sensibility reveals his vision of
the world, viewed with eternal optimism and hope.
For most people in the West, the realities of life behind the Iron
Curtain have faded into caricatures of police state repression and
bread lines. With the world seemingly again divided between
democracies and authoritarian regimes, it is essential that we
understand the reality of life in the Soviet Bloc. American
photojournalist Arthur Grace (born 1947) was uniquely placed to
provide that context. During the 1970s and 1980s Grace traveled
extensively behind the Iron Curtain, working primarily for news
magazines. One of only a small corps of Western photographers with
ongoing access, he was able to delve into the most ordinary corners
of people's daily lives, while also covering significant events.
Many of the photographs in this remarkable book are effectively
psychological portraits that leave the viewer with a sense of the
gamut of emotions in that era. Illustrated with over 120
black-and-white images-nearly all previously
unpublished-Communism(s) gives an unprecedented glimpse behind the
veil of a not-so-distant time filled with harsh realities unseen by
nearly all but those that lived through it. Shot in the USSR,
Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and the German Democratic Republic,
here are portraits of factory workers, farmers, churchgoers,
vacationers and loitering teens juxtaposed with the GDR's imposing
Social Realist-designed apartment blocks, annual May Day Parades,
Poland's Solidarity movement (and the subsequent imposition of
martial law) and the vastness of Moscow's Red Square.
"We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such
apocalypse is always just around the corner." -Sebastiao Salgado In
January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove
Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein's troops retaliated with
an inferno. At some 700 oil wells and an unspecified number of
oil-filled low-lying areas they ignited vast, raging fires,
creating one of the worst environmental disasters in living memory.
As the desperate efforts to contain and extinguish the
conflagration progressed, Sebastiao Salgado traveled to Kuwait to
witness the crisis firsthand. The conditions were excruciating. The
heat was so vicious that Salgado's smallest lens warped. A
journalist and another photographer were killed when a slick
ignited as they crossed it. Sticking close to the firefighters, and
with characteristic sensitivity to both human and environmental
impact, Salgado captured the terrifying scale of this "huge theater
the size of the planet": the ravaged landscape; the sweltering
temperatures; the air choking on charred sand and soot; the
blistered remains of camels; the sand still littered with cluster
bombs; and the flames and smoke soaring to the skies, blocking out
the sunlight, dwarfing the oil-coated firefighters. Salgado's epic
pictures first appeared in the New York Times Magazine in June 1991
and were subsequently awarded the Oskar Barnack Award, recognizing
outstanding images on the relationship between man and the
environment. Kuwait: A Desert on Fire is the first monograph of
this astonishing series. Like Genesis, Exodus, and The Children, it
is as much a major document of modern history as an extraordinary
body of photographic work.
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Dear Ana
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Leticia Valverdes; Text written by Angela Ferreira, Octavia Bright; Designed by Billie Temple
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A lyrical manifestation of Leticia Valverdes' award-winning project
that took her on a journey back to Portugal, her grandmother's
motherland. This extraordinary project resulted in a magical
collaboration with the inhabitants of Ana's birthplace, the village
of Mundao. By inviting the villagers to write a postcard to her now
dead grandmother, they became the fictional friends she believed
she had whilst dying with Alzheimer's disease in Brazil. Through
photography interspersed with poetic text, cyanotypes and votive
offerings, this is a personal yet universal story exploring
transgenerational trauma, longing, migration, and what it means to
feel divided between two cultures. A hundred years on, this is the
perfect time to tell this story, as Europe is engulfed in debates
about borders, nationalism and migration.
Michael Hauptman's first monograph presents a selection of his
personal work that explores the themes of nature, technology,
phenomena and the cosmos. Hauptman sometimes uses digital
manipulation not to make pictures that looks unreal but to attempt
to depict mysteries of time and space. A former photo assistant of
Richard Burbridge, Michael Hauptman has been taking pictures and
living in New York City for the last 15 years.
This is the first comprehensive, large-format monograph of Bob
Willoughby's photographs of film and television stars from the
1950s to the 1970s. Considered the first on-set still photographer
in the film industry, Bob Willoughby photographed numerous movie
stars of the era, including Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Jean
Seberg, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant,
Doris Day, James Dean, and many more. These stars continue to
influence fashion and culture, from Baby Boomers all the way to Gen
Z. The iconic celebrities and others featured have lasting
presence, still gaining fans today via both social media and the
availability of classic films through streaming channels. This
compendium features vintage and never-before-seen photographs of
the most beloved stars of film and television. Willoughby's images
include many taken during the filming of classics such as THE
GRADUATE, MY FAIR LADY, ROSEMARY'S BABY, and others. In addition to
on-set photography, there are also many candid portraits of actors
at home, such as those of Audrey Hepburn. This compendium includes
both black-and-white and color photographs of some of the greatest
icons from this Golden Age of Hollywood.
For five years Linda Herzog photographed her Swiss hometown of
Zurich, the once industrial city of Birmingham, England, and the
vibrant Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. These 52 color images,
shown entirely without text, record cultural differences and
commonalities, and raise provocative questions about the new
Europe.
Berenice Abbott is to American photography what Georgia O'Keeffe is
to painting or Willa Cather to letters. Abbott's sixty-year career
established her not only as a master of American photography but
also as a teacher, writer, archivist and inventor. A teenage rebel
from Ohio, Abbott escaped to Paris-photographing, in Sylvia Beach's
words, "everyone who was anyone"-before returning to New York as
the Roaring Twenties ended. Abbott's best known work, "Changing New
York", documented the city's 1930s metamorphosis. She then turned
to science as a subject, culminating in work important to the 1950s
"space race". This biography secures Abbott's place in the
histories of photography and modern art while framing her
accomplishments as a female artist and entrepreneur.
One of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century. A
collection of Norman Parkinson's greatest works, in the fields of
fashion, celebrity, royalty and portraiture. Featuring many iconic
images of famous faces including Audrey Hepburn, Mick Jagger, David
Bowie, Jean Seberg, Jerry Hall and many more. A long overdue
introduction into the work of a genius of photography. Norman
Parkinson (1913-1990) is one of the greatest and most influential
photographers of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1930s his
style of work helped define the look of each subsequent decade
(including the New Look of Paris in the '50s and Swinging London of
the '60s) and his impact on his followers was immense. Parkinson
gained recognition in his early years revolutionising photography
by moving female models from the static, serious and controlled
environment of the photographic studio to real-life locations and
exotic surroundings. This dynamic and spontaneous style garnered
the attention of numerous fashion magazines including Harper's
Bazaar, Vogue and Town & Country, earning Parkinson
international recognition. His photographs helped create the age of
the supermodel and made Parkinson the photographer of choice for
fashion designers, artists and writers, musicians and actors, and
British royalty. In a career that spanned six decades, Parkinson
dazzled the world and inspired his peers with sparkling
inventiveness as a portrait and fashion photographer. His
achievements were recognised by the Queen of England when, in 1981,
he was awarded a C.B.E. (Commander of the British Empire). In that
same year he was also honoured with a major retrospective
exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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Jimmy Desana: Submission
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Jimmy De Sana; Edited by Drew Sawyer; Preface by Anne Pasternak; Epilogue by Laurie Simmons
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