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Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous
(Hardcover)
Walker Evans; Edited by Thomas Zander; Text written by David Campany, Heinz Liesbrock, Jerry Thompson
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The approach is based on "In Movement: Art for Social Change", an
NGO which uses dance, theatre, music, the fine arts, creative
writing and the circus arts to create a life space of personal
reaffirmation and social integration for Ugandan youths. There they
can practice and display their art and receive applause from an
audience, the best reaffirmation therapy possible.
Street photography may look like luck, but you have to get out there and hone your craft if you want to shake up those luck vibes. Matt Stuart never goes out without his trusty Leica and, in a career spanning twenty years, has taken some of the most accomplished, witty and well-known photographs of the streets.
From understanding how to be invisible on a busy street, to anticipating a great image in the chaos of a crowd, Matt Stuart reveals in over 20 chapters the hard-won skills and secrets that have led to his greatest shots. He explains his purist and uniquely playful approach to street photography leaving the reader full of ideas to use in their own photography. Illustrated throughout with 100 of Stuart's images, this is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the finest street photographers around.
New York Times bestsellerThe Dogist is a beautiful, funny, and
inspiring tribute to the beloved dogs in our lives. Every page
presents dog portraits that command our attention. Whether because
of the look in a dog’s eyes, its innate beauty, or even the
clothes its owner has dressed it in, the photos will make you ooh
and aah, laugh, and fall in love. Photographed by Elias Weiss
Friedman, aka The Dogist, every portrait in the book tells a story
and explores the dog’s distinct character and spirit. Themed
sections include Puppies, Cones of Shame, Working Dogs, and Dogs in
Fancy Outfits, giving every dog lover something to pore over.
For over two decades, legendary British photographer David Yarrow
has been putting himself in harm s way to capture immersive and
evocative photography of some of the world s most revered and
endangered animal species. With his images heightening awareness of
endangered species and also raising huge sums for charity and
conservation, he is one of the most relevant photographers in the
world today. Featuring his 150 most iconic photographs, David
Yarrow Photography offers a truly unmatched view of some of the
world s most compelling and threatened species. This collection of
stunning images, paired with Yarrow s first-person contextual
narrative, offers an insight into a man who will not accept second
best in the relentless pursuit of excellence. David Yarrow
Photography offers a balanced retrospective between his spectacular
work in the wild and his staged storytelling work that has earned
him wide acclaim in the fine art market. The intricacy and balance
in these considered vignettes reinforces the work ethic in his
research-based natural work. Yarrow rarely just takes pictures he
almost always makes them. Whether it be in the wilds of Alaska or
an old saloon bar in Montana, there will always be a preconception
of what he is looking for in the final work. The consistency of
this approach sets him apart from others in the field. Yarrow s
work will awaken our collective conscience and true to form he has
agreed to donate all the royalties from this book to conservation.
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Sahel
- The End of the Road
(Hardcover)
Sebastiao Salgado; Foreword by Orville Schell; Introduction by Fred Ritchin; Afterword by Eduardo Galeano; Designed by Lelia Wanick Salgado
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In 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month
project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of
Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where
approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and
related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors
Without Borders, Salgado documented the enormous suffering and the
great dignity of the refugees. This early work became a template
for his future photographic projects about other afflicted people
around the world. Since then, Salgado has again and again sought to
give visual voice to those millions of human beings who, because of
military conflict, poverty, famine, overpopulation, pestilence,
environmental degradation, and other forms of catastrophe, teeter
on the edge of survival. Beautifully produced, with thoughtful
supporting narratives by Orville Schell, Fred Ritchin, and Eduardo
Galeano, this first U.S. edition brings some of Salgado's earliest
and most important work to an American audience for the first time.
Twenty years after the photographs were taken, "Sahel: The End of
the Road" is still painfully relevant. Born in Brazil in 1944,
Sebastiao Salgado studied economics in Sao Paulo and Paris and
worked in Brazil and England. While traveling as an economist to
Africa, he began photographing the people he encountered. Working
entirely in a black-and-white format, Salgado highlights the larger
meaning of what is happening to his subjects with an imagery that
testifies to the fundamental dignity of all humanity while
simultaneously protesting its violation by war, poverty, and other
injustices. 'The planet remains divided,' Salgado explains. 'The
first world in a crisis of excess, the third world in a crisis of
need.' This disparity between the haves and the have-nots is the
subtext of almost all of Salgado's work.
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.
We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the Migrant Mother
holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl—but now
renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to
three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of
Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to
anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon
masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and
the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than
one hundred images—many of them previously unseen and some
formerly suppressed—Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving
story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted
historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's
Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.
Play draws exclusively on Rankin s archive of photographs of the
biggest names in contemporary music from the rock gods who shaped
our musical landscape to the British Invasion of the 1990s and the
American superstars who mix music and production to define what the
record industry is today. Divided by theme Heroes and Girl Gangs
and Boy Bands, Cool Britannia and My Generation Play collects
almost two hundred of Rankin s favorite images of the most
influential artists of the last three decades, from David Bowie and
Elton John to Pharrell, the Spice Girls, Grimes, and Bjork.
Alongside his photos are anecdotes from Rankin and the artists
themselves on the reciprocal relationship between photographer and
subject and between the star power of pop music and the iconography
of fashion.
In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a 5-week road trip
along the California highways, documenting the height of the
counterculture hippie scene. These black and white photos were
compiled to create California Trip, originally published in 1970,
and became an emblem of the free love movement that continued to
inspire throughout the decades. In print for the first time since
its 1970 publication, California Trip is a faithful reproduction of
Stock's timeless work.
* This is an introduction to the life and work of Cindy Sherman.
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.
Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth is one of the defining
publications in the photobook era. First published by Steidl in
2004, it was Soth's first book, sold through three print runs, and
established him as one of the leading lights of contemporary
photographic practice. This is the second printing of the MACK
edition and includes two new photographs that were not included in
the Steidl versions of the book. Evolving from a series of road
trips along the Mississippi River, Sleeping by the Mississippi
captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected 'third coast'. Soth's
richly descriptive, large-format colour photographs present an
eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in
detail and raw in subject, Sleeping by the Mississippi elicits a
consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie. 'In the book's
46 ruthlessly edited pictures', writes Anne Wilkes Tucker in the
original essay published in the book, 'Soth alludes to illness,
procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion,
redemption, politics, and cheap sex.' Like Robert Frank's classic
The Americans, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary
style with poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject
of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid
concept or ideology, the series is created out of a
quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust. Sixteen years since
the book was first published, the artist's lyrical view has
undoubtedly acquired a nuanced significance - one in which hope,
fear, desire and regret coalesce in the evocative journey along
this mythic river.
Eye on Africa: Thirty years of Africa images, selected by Salgado
himself Sebasti?o Salgado is one the most respected
photojournalists working today, his reputation forged by decades of
dedication and powerful black and white images of dispossessed and
distressed people taken in places where most wouldn?t dare to go.
Although he has photographed throughout South America and around
the globe, his work most heavily concentrates on Africa, where he
has shot more than 40 reportage works over a period of 30 years.
From the Dinka tribes in Sudan and the Himba in Namibia to gorillas
and volcanoes in the lakes region to displaced peoples throughout
the continent, Salgado shows us all facets of African life today.
Whether he's documenting refugees or vast landscapes, Salgado knows
exactly how to grab the essence of a moment so that when one sees
his images one is involuntarily drawn into them. His images
artfully teach us the disastrous effects of war, poverty, disease,
and hostile climatic conditions. This book brings together
Salgado's photos of Africa in three parts. The first concentrates
on the southern part of the continent (Mozambique, Malawi, Angola,
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia), the second on the Great Lakes
region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya), and the
third on the Sub-Saharan region (Burkina Faso, Mali, Sudan,
Somalia, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Ethiopia). Texts are provided
by renowned Mozambique novelist Mia Couto, who describes how
today's Africa reflects the effects of colonization as well as the
consequences of economic, social, and environmental crises. This
stunning book is not only a sweeping document of Africa but an
homage to the continent's history, people, and natural phenomena.
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.
From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, 'Peter
Gravelle', the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows
of punk rock, low culture and high fashion, deflecting attention
while steadily producing an epic body of iconic work. The Death of
Photography is a tour de force, a high end art book showcasing
forty years of the best punk, fashion and portraiture of Gravelle's
career. Heavily stylised images are woven together with Gravelle's
own fascinating recollections from a live lived in technicolour.
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