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Dana Claxton
(Hardcover)
Dana Claxton; Introduction by Leila Timmins; Text written by Amy Kazymerchyk; Designed by Barry Gilmore
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R1,166
Discovery Miles 11 660
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Bringing to life a unique cultural gallery of both known and
unknown figures of the early 1860s with an astonishing veracity,
this remarkable photographic collection is a visual documentation
of South Africa's people. Aesthetically stunning and of surprising
technical quality for the period taken, this intriguing collage
represents the life work of 25-year-old German doctor and
anthropologist Gustav Fritsch, who utilized the relatively new
photographic medium to complement his scientific expedition to the
South African landscape. Reflecting how the native tribes remained
untouched by the social and industrial revolution around them, and
accompanied by essays that set in context Fritsch's outlook on
racial discovery and theory, this invaluable photographic insight
is an artistic and historically significant addition to South
Africa's cultural heritage.
This tiny treasure is a glorious tribute to Ansel Adams and to the
vanishing landscape he loved. In 1941 Ansel Adams was hired by the
United States Department of the Interior to photograph America's
national parks for a series of murals that would celebrate the
country's natural heritage. Because of the escalation of World War
II, the project was suspended after less than a year, but not
before Adams had produced this group of breathtaking images, which
illustrate both his early innovations and the shape of his later,
legendary career as America's foremost landscape photographer. The
invitation to photograph the nation's parklands was the perfect
assignment for Adams, as it allowed him to express his deepest
convictions as artist, conservationist, and citizen. These stunning
photographs of the natural geysers and terraces in Yellowstone, the
rocks and ravines in the Grand Canyon, the winding rivers and
majestic mountains in Glacier and Grand Teton national parks, the
mysterious Carlsbad Caverns, the architecture of ancient Indian
villages, and many other evocative views of the American West
demonstrate the genius of Adams' technical and aesthetic
inventiveness. In these glorious, seminal images we see the
inspired reverence for the wilderness that has made Ansel Adams'
work a most enduring influence on the intertwining spirits of art
and environmentalism, both so necessary for the preservation of our
natural world.
In the 1890s, Berlin artist, sculptor and teacher Karl Blossfeldt
started to photograph plants, seeds and other illustrative material
from nature for the purpose of teaching his students about the
patterns and designs found in natural forms. His close-ups of the
smallest plant parts, magnified up to thirty times their natural
size, are startling as the plants appear geometric and sculptural.
Published in 1928, his first collection of photographs Urformen der
Kunst (later translated into English as Art Forms in Nature) became
an international bestseller and remains one of the most significant
photo books of the twentieth century. Karl Blossfeldt: Variations
is the first book-length monograph to examine the reception of
Blossfeldt's work. Drawing on unpublished materials, it analyzes
the photographs' replication in teaching mate- rials, pattern books
and art books, and also in the pages of the illustrated press. The
six chapters of the richly illustrated study trace the paths
Blossfeldt's legendary plant motifs described as specimens,
illustrations, patterns, analogues, models and abstractions from
1890 to 1945. Thematic excursions into the present, illustrating
the rediscovery of Blossfeldt's motifs in design and architecture
over the past twenty years, offer a contemporary perspective on the
famous German photographer.
From his studio in the heart of New York, Australian-born Anton
Bruehl created inventive and perfectly realized color photographs
for advertisements in top American magazines such as "Vogue" and
the "New Yorker." Seen by the millions of readers, his ads had a
dedicated following eliciting bags of fan mail.
As well as advertising, Bruehl produced evocative images of
stars of stage and screen, other celebrities, seasonal child
studies, and his personal photography in the classic documentary
tradition including his award-winning photo book "Mexico" (1933)
and "Tropic Patterns "(1970).
Essays cover:
- the early lives of the Bruehl brothers in Australia
- Anton's success in New York
- his most famous and whimsical advertising campaigns
- fascinating details on Bruehl-Bourges color processes, which
gave Breuhl's photographs their distinctive look
- his time in Mexico and his award-winning book.
Drawn from the National Gallery of Australia's extensive Anton
Bruehl collection of black & white and color photographs,
magazine prints and printers proofs, this book is a must for anyone
interested in photography, advertizing and popular culture.
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Bernd & Hilla Becher
(Hardcover)
Jeff L. Rosenheim; Contributions by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Virginia Heckert, Lucy Sante, Max Becher
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R1,581
Discovery Miles 15 810
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The first comprehensive, posthumous monograph and retrospective on
Bernd and Hilla Becher, best known for their photographs of
industrial structures in Europe and North America For more than
five decades, Bernd (1931-2007) and Hilla (1934-2015) Becher
collaborated on photographs of industrial architecture in Germany,
France, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and the United States.
This sweeping monograph features the Bechers' quintessential
pictures, which present water towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces,
and more as sculptural objects. Beyond the Bechers' iconic
Typologies, the book includes Bernd's early drawings, Hilla's
independent photographs, and excerpts from their notes,
sketchbooks, and journals. The book's authors offer new insights
into the development of the artists' process, their work's
conceptual underpinnings, the photographers' relationship to
deindustrialization, and the artists' legacy. An essay by
award-winning cultural historian Lucy Sante and an interview with
Max Becher, the artists' son, make this volume an unrivaled look
into the Bechers' art, life, and career. Published by The
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (July
11-October 30, 2022) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (December
17, 2022-April 2, 2023)
In the 1950s the space race between the USA and the USSR was well
and truly on, and was for both a matter of pride and propaganda.
But before man ventured into the cosmos, his four-legged friends
would pave the way for space exploration. The first canine
cosmonaut was Laika, meaning 'barker'. The little stray could never
have anticipated that she would one day float 200 miles above the
Moscow streets. She would be canonized as a proletarian hero,
appearing on stamps, postcards and souvenirs. Her successors were
Belka and Strelka, the first dogs to successfully return safely to
Earth, and with them, the cult of the space dog was born. This
fascinating book tells the story of the space dogs, illustrated
with legendary photographer Martin Parr's vintage space dog
memorabilia. In a regime that eschewed celebrating individual
achievement, these dogs became Soviet superstars, with a vast array
of merchandise, books and films in their honour.
A classic, indeed perhaps the best of the Mapplethorpe books. And
for many most certainly the most typical Mapplethorpe, now
available once again thanks to this re-edition. The Black Book,
first published in 1986, presents 96 formally stringent and highly
erotic nudes, all of them photographs of black men, either as full
figures, or staged as details, as fragments of their bodies.
Stylized as classical statues or provocatively in all their
presence and sensuous radiance. Black-and-white photography was
Mapplethorpe's preferred medium. And his obsessive aesthetics was
based on completely mastering it, as this enabled him to visualize
any number of tonal gradations and penetrate deep into the very
pores of the gleaming black skin. It is a method that reached a
climax in these images. The Black Book, Mapplethorpe s homage to
the black male body, has always been one of the most important
visual contributions to the discussion on beauty, sensuality, and
sexuality in photography.
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Swiss Press Award 21 Yearbook
(Hardcover)
Michael Von Graffenried; Text written by Thomas Roethlin, Daniel Di Falco; Designed by Gerhard Steidl, Rahel Bunter
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R663
Discovery Miles 6 630
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Zoe Leonard: Available Light
(Hardcover)
Zoe Leonard; Edited by Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder; Text written by Diedrich Diederichsen, Suzanne Hudson, …
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R850
R666
Discovery Miles 6 660
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Kasos is the southernmost island of the Dodecanese, lying between
Carpathos and Crete. Roughly 11 miles long and four miles wide,
with a rocky, mountainous landscape, Kasos was famed from antiquity
as a centre of shipbuilding, and played a role in the Greek War of
Independence. But with the advent of steam, the island’s shipyard
closed, and its population dwindled. Today some one thousand people
remain on the island, living in five small villages full of
historic homes and churches. The islanders produce agricultural
products of exceptional quality; preserve their distinctive
culinary, musical, and dance traditions; and welcome a small number
of adventurous travellers to their sparkling beaches. Robert A.
McCabe’s stunning black-and-white photographs of Kasos, most
taken in 1965, offer a unique record of the island’s people,
architecture, and natural landscapes. In a stark contrast to the
transformation undergone by other Greek islands, many of the scenes
depicted in McCabe’s photographs remain almost unchanged today.
The text, by a distinguished Greek journalist born on Kasos, brings
to life the places and personalities pictured in this book, which
will appeal to all travellers off the beaten track.
No one uses the camera like the photographer Niko Luoma. He is not
interested in capturing the world in front of his lens. He uses
light to create his own visual spheres. Using up to a thousand
multiple exposures he applies individual elements of color and form
to the negative, layer by layer. Meticulous calculations and
geometrical skills are the necessary foundation for this. The
results are abstract photographs of impressive, colorful intensity
and luminosity. This book of photos is based on the series
Adaptions, which reproduces famous works by other artists. Luoma
presents a fascinating visual game in which the independent
charisma of the photographs acts in concert with its reverence
toward Bacon, Hockney, Van Gogh, or Picasso. With tongue in cheek,
Luoma thus realizes the avant-garde’s desire to liberate
photography from reproducing reality, allowing it to become an art.
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Momentum
(Hardcover)
Aaron Tilley
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R678
R557
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In our latest Collective Shorts series, photographer Aaron Tilley
explores the notion of narratives and storytelling through
carefully constructed and captured still images. Executed in a
manner that is playful, yet driven with tension, Tilley's
photography exacts an anticipation of the moment that is about to
happen. Momentum is a collection of some of Tilley's best work to
date. His photography continuously captivates the viewer, leading
us to something perhaps unexpected, out of context or that may
cause us some unease but in a fun and highly-dramatic way. The
aesthetic is bold and well-designed with each image portraying a
story at a paused point in time allowing the narrative of the image
to be interpreted by the viewer. With this, the viewer should enjoy
the surreal element to the work and embrace this style presented
throughout the book.
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