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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.
Rouge Lointain is first and foremost a book of photographs that is
in line with the resolutely contemporary trend of preserving traces
of places and activities that are in danger of disappearing.
Through the images of its superb machinery that has now disappeared
and its deserted architecture, it is the memory of an Italian-style
theatre that lives on today. Through them it is also the work of
those who worked there in the shadows and without whom the show
could not have existed as we imagine. Fascinated by the beauty of
its frames, the dilapidated materials, the magic of these
mechanisms made of ropes, pulleys, capstans and narrow footbridges
on three antique masts, Andre Soupart invites us to wander on the
grill, under the stage and backstage and to discover a universe
unknown to the spectators. Text in English and French.
The Fotobus Society, set up by Christoph Bangert, is a network that
connects more than 400 photography students from 29 German and
European universities and photography schools. Members can benefit
from a wide range of cultural and social activities offered by the
association. At the heart of the community is a 30-year-old bus
serving as a mobile photography school that regularly carries
members to photo festivals, symposia, and professional events. Over
the years, the association has firmly established itself as a
promoter of cultural and academic exchange within the international
photography scene. This book, showcasing selected works by members,
inaugurates a series that will be published annually by Verlag
Kettler. The projects presented in this first edition offer an
overview of different contemporary approaches that oscillate
between documentary and conceptual photography, challenging and
crossing the boundaries of the genre. Many of these works have
already received international awards. Collected in a single
volume, they provide intriguing insights into today's young
European world of photography.
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, this brand-new
photo book goes behind the scenes of the hit documentary film
Woodstock Where were you in the summer of '69? During these
tumultuous times, the war was raging; Ali had been stripped of his
crown; and in an obscure patch of earth in upstate New York, an
event called Woodstock would change the world. This unique book is
a collection of remembrances and perceptions from the filmmakers
who created, and for performers and festival producers who appeared
in, the Academy Award winning film, Woodstock. Featuring Janis
Joplin, David Crosby, The Who, Joan Baez, Merv Griffin, and many,
many, more
Juxtaposing the albums of Lady Brassey, an overlooked figure among
Victorian women travelers, with Brassey's travel books, Nancy
Micklewright takes advantage of a unique opportunity to examine the
role of photography in the 1870s and 1880s in constructing ideas
about place and empire. This study draws on a range of source
material to investigate aspects of the Brassey collection. The book
begins with an overview of Lady Brassey's life and projects, as
well as an examination of issues relevant to subsequent discussions
of the travel literature, the photographs, and the albums in which
the photographs are assembled. Lady Brassey is next considered as a
traveler and public figure, and the author gives an overview of
Brassey's travel literature, placing her in her social and
political context. Micklewright then considers the seventy volumes
of photographs which comprise the Brassey album collection, taking
an especially close look at the eight albums devoted to the Middle
East. Analyzing the specific contents and structure of the albums,
and the interplay of text and image within, she explores how the
Brasseys constructed their presentation of the region. While
confirming some earlier work about constructions of the Orient by
the British during the time, this book offers a much more detailed
and nuanced understanding of how photographic and literary
constructions were related to individual experience and identity
within a larger British identity. The first appendix explores the
illustrative relationship between the photograph albums and Lady
Brassey's travel books, yielding an understanding of the processes
involved in transferring the photographic image to a printed one,
at a particular moment in the development of book illustration. A
second appendix lists the contents and named photographers of all
seventy albums in the Brassey collection. All in all,
Micklewright's study makes a significant contribution to our
understanding of the complex and unstable social, political and
imperialist discourses in the nineteenth century.
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.
Dan Graham, one of America's most important contemporary artists,
is best known today for his sculptural works and installations. His
photographic works are generally not so well known, despite the
fact that he first became famous for his photographic series, Homes
for America, pictures of typical American suburbia in New Jersey.
To this day the theme of architecture and its surfaces represents
an extremely important facet of his work, as does the question of
what role it plays in postmodern society and in the context of
everyday culture. This publication presents new photographs by Dan
Graham, taken in the context of a study trip with the architecture
faculty of Columbia University, together with a selection of
original photographs from the Homes for America series. The new
images exhibit stark similarities to the old pictures, because they
were taken in the same locations, in the same deserts of suburban
streets and housing that Graham had photographed in the 1960s. This
creates a fascinating reference system of repetitions and
differences, in terms of both the temporal and the spatial, that
asks questions of the viewer about architecture, public space, and
their function in society.
A longtime favourite getaway for America's most influential
families, Cumberland Island, off the Atlantic coast of Georgia,
offers breathtaking white-sand beaches, rolling dunes, old-growth
oak forests, and salt marsh tidal estuaries. At the centre of it
all is a population of horses that has thrived, untouched for
generations, within this serene sanctuary. In Wild Horses of
Cumberland Island, photographer Anouk Masson Krantz has captured
the dramatic scenery and majestic horses as they have never been
seen before. Her images show the remarkable animals in their
naturally diverse ecosystems. A lone horse on a distant beach; four
creatures peacefully grazing; a shy animal peering over its
shoulder from a brushy thicket - Krantz's portfolio, built over the
last decade, is an intimate reflection not only of Cumberland
Island's exceptional beauty and spirited horses, but of the history
and the safekeeping that have allowed both to flourish. This second
edition includes many new images and showcases Krantz's expansive
body of work that reflects the remarkable majesty of these horses
as they continue to roam across this remote island landscape.
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Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Gigi Giannuzzi
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Bev Grant: Photography 1968-1972
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Bev Grant; Edited by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz; Introduction by William Cordova; Text written by Peggy Dobbins, Johanna Fernandez
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Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary
practice. His photographs and audio recordings, made over
forty-five years, capture the life of England's 'great ordinary'.
Challenging the status quo by working collaboratively, he has
fashioned from his many encounters a nation's story both magical
and familiar. This book includes important work from Meadows'
ground-breaking projects, drawing on the archives now held at the
Bodleian Library. Fiercely independent, Meadows devised many of his
creative processes: he ran a free portrait studio in Manchester's
Moss Side in 1972, then travelled 10,000 miles making a national
portrait from his converted double-decker the Free Photographic
Omnibus, a project he revisited a quarter of a century later. At
the turn of the millennium he adopted new 'kitchen table'
technologies to make digital stories: 'multimedia sonnets from the
people', as he called them. He sometimes returned to those he had
photographed, listening for how things were and how they had
changed. Through their unique voices he finds a moving and
insightful commentary on life in Britain. Then and now. Now and
then.
"Swiss explorer and photographer Stefan Forster admits that he is
no stranger to dodging alligators and hiking for weeks in pursuit
of the perfect photo. And an impressive new photobook shows that
his efforts pay off handsomely." - Sarah Holt, Mail Online "This
tome is a potential classic in the making and a masterclass in how
straightforward landscape imagery should be done." - Amateur
Photographer "Stunning pictures...luminous images..." - Examiner
"Unbelievable...just amazing..." - WGN TV Chicago Captured in vivid
colour and magnificent quality, the unique moments that
photographer Stefan Forster discovers in out-of-the-way places in
nature take place on adventurous backcountry trips far from
civilisation, with Forster lugging up to 80 pounds in camera gear
and camping equipment. With enormous enthusiasm and prepared for
anything, he often hikes through remote areas for weeks at a time
on his search for the extraordinary. He has taken long solo kayak
expeditions along Greenland's west coast, hopped from island to
island in Micronesia, and slogged through the swamps of Louisiana
and Texas to find the area's most beautiful cypress trees, dodging
alligators all the while. The results are unique and fascinating
photos. This book presents this young photographer's most beautiful
experiences to date, including everything from rare rainstorms in
the world's driest desert and the Northern Lights shimmering
through icebergs to spectacular shots of the Rocky Mountains.
Forster was one of the first photographers to use state-of-the-art
quadcopter drones, giving his pictures fresh, new perspectives.
Stefan Forster published some of these aerial shots for the first
time in Above the World - Earth Through a Drone's Eye, released by
teNeues in September 2016. The following locations are included in
the book: Switzerland Iceland Greenland Antarctica Peninsula Utah
Colorado South Dakota Louisiana Washington Namibia Westcoast,
Scotland Uganda New Zealand Seychelles La Gomera Tasmania
Philippines Australia Indonesia Text in English, French and German.
Daydreams Walking is comprised of 196 photographs shot on the
streets of New York City by Jeremiah Dine between 2010 and 2017.
Dine's exploration of the daily ebb and flow of humanity follows in
the tradition of 20th Century street photography as practiced by
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand, among
others. The city illuminated is the subject, with the people,
objects and streets the supporting cast. Dine has photographed on
the streets of New York since he was a teenager, first in black and
white with 35mm cameras, then starting in the 2000s in color with
digital cameras. The book's title is derived from the Frank O'Hara
poem Music, which is included in the book, as well as a playlist of
songs that Dine listened to while walking and shooting. Robert
Sullivan, author of Rats, The Meadowlands and My American
Revolution contributes an essay. The book was designed and edited
by Yolanda Cuomo.
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- Indian Devotions
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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.
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