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Dear Ana
(Hardcover)
Leticia Valverdes; Text written by Angela Ferreira, Octavia Bright; Designed by Billie Temple
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R1,343
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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.
In The Photography Workshop Series, Aperture Foundation works with
the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches,
teachings, and insights on photography- offering the workshop
experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all
levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers
interested in deepening their understanding of the art of
photography. Each volume is introduced by a well-known student of
the featured photographer. In this book, Mary Ellen Mark-well-known
for her pictures' emotional power, be they of people or
animals-offers her insight on observing the world and capturing
dramatic moments that reveal more than the reality at hand. Through
words and pictures, she shares her own creative process and
discusses a wide range of issues, from gaining the trust of the
subject and taking pictures that are controlled but unforced, to
organizing the frame so that every part contributes toward telling
the story.
From the lens of Magnum's Abbas - the mystical world of the Hindu
revealed, from ancient rites to contemporary beliefs This latest in
Abbas's transcendent series of books on major world religions,
featuring ritualistic elements - wind, water, earth, and fire,
magic, the spiritualism of animals - to explore the mysteries of
the Hindu faith. Shot over three years in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
and Bali, Abbas's images examine the enigmatic beliefs of sub-sects
such as Sikhs and Jains, alongside the everyday life of Hindus, and
extend beyond his characteristic black-and-white work to include a
series of colour photographs - in his words: 'In India, colour was
a temptation I couldn't resist.' The result is this sumptuous
volume, a must-have for collectors and armchair travellers around
the globe.
Polymath Sean Palfrey’s work as a paediatrician and natural
scientist informs this fascinating first entry, Home, into his
forthcoming series of photography books. In Home, Palfrey shares
his beautiful images and stories of the many people and places he
has encountered around the world in his work and travels over the
past 45 years. A lifetime of observation and experience with
children is channelled into his lyrical image-making and poetic
text. Home ruminates on the variety of human and animal experiences
across the globe, taking us from North and South America, to East
Africa and South Asia, among other places. The result is a joyous
and moving book that leaves us with a poignant message: that all
living creatures need to have safe places that they consider
'home', where they can be protected, loved, sheltered, preserved,
fed and surrounded by communities of adults.
100 women bare all in an empowering collection of photographs and
interviews about Womanhood. Vagina, vulva, lady garden, pussy,
beaver, cunt, fanny... whatever you call it most women have no idea
what's 'down there'. Culturally and personally, no body part
inspires love and hate, fear and lust, worship and desecration in
the same way. From smooth Barbie dolls to internet porn, girls and
women grow up with a very narrow view of what they should look
like, even though in reality there is an enormous range. Womanhood
departs from the 'ideal vagina' and presents the gentle
un-airbrushed truth, allowing us to understand and celebrate our
diversity. For the first time, 100 brave and beautiful women reveal
their bodies and stories on their own terms, talking about how they
feel about pleasure, sex, pain, trauma, birth, motherhood,
menstruation, menopause, gender, sexuality and simply being a
woman.
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Mona Kuhn: Kings Road
(Hardcover)
Mona Kuhn; Text written by Silvia Perea, David Dorenbaum; Designed by Holger Feroudj
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R1,257
Discovery Miles 12 570
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Laura E. Smith unravels the compelling life story of Kiowa
photographer Horace Poolaw (1906-84), one of the first professional
Native American photographers. Born on the Kiowa reservation in
Anadarko, Oklahoma, Poolaw bought his first camera at the age of
fifteen and began taking photos of family, friends, and noted
leaders in the Kiowa community, also capturing successive years of
powwows and pageants at various fairs, expositions, and other
events. Though Poolaw earned some income as a professional
photographer, he farmed, raised livestock, and took other jobs to
help fund his passion for documenting his community. Smith examines
the cultural and artistic significance of Poolaw's life in
professional photography from 1925 to 1945 in light of European and
modernist discourses on photography, portraiture, the function of
art, Native American identity, and American Indian religious and
political activism. Rather than through the lens of Native peoples'
inevitable extinction or within a discourse of artistic modernism,
Smith evaluates Poolaw's photography within art history and Native
American history, simultaneously questioning the category of "fine
artist" in relation to the creative lives of Native peoples. A tour
de force of art and cultural history, Horace Poolaw, Photographer
of American Indian Modernity illuminates the life of one of Native
America's most gifted, organic artists and documentarians and
challenges readers to reevaluate the seamlessness between the
creative arts and everyday life through its depiction of one man's
lifelong dedication to art and community.
Portal: The Curious Account of Achintya Bose, conceptualized,
compiled and reproduced by Shan Bhattacharya, recipient of the
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography, 2015 (instituted by the
Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation), presents the personal diary of
the owner of a small photography studio in Calcutta, India,
maintained sporadically from 1994 to 1996, before his sudden
unexplained disappearance. The diary is a fictional 'found archive'
that contains his collection of photographic prints, letters, torn
pages from books, newspaper and magazine cuttings, declassified
police records, polaroids and print advertisements obtained from
different sources. Through these documents spanning the twentieth
century, he attempts to trace photographic 'evidence' and
information about an elusive woman who seemingly does not age
through a century. Mr Bose's search is also a journey through the
local history of vernacular photography and regional publications
that reflect popular culture, politics, fashion, design,
advertising and other iconography, and their transformations over
time. In this book, images serve both as the primary objects of
interest and a narrative device. The cover plot interrogates the
veracity of photographs - the way they are used as indices and
evidence of a person's existence in spatio-temporal reality. These
images are staged in variously contrived scenarios, often taking
cues from the several utilitarian subsets of twentieth-century
photography-the wedding portrait, the convocation photo, the
vacation/holiday photo, candid snapshots, product advertisements-as
though taken by different fictional photographers using different
image-making aesthetics, techniques and formats appropriate to the
time/place/visual cultures that those prototypes historically
belong to. Referring to the genre of historiographic metafiction,
fictional text and visual elements based on real events and
characters are introduced to enable this 'found archive' assume
certain characteristics of a hoax.
Artist-photographer Tim Walker has won a cult following for his
flamboyant, lavishly staged and surrealist fashion photography. Now
he brings his unique brand of very British fantasia to a subject
close to his and all our hearts: grandmothers. Pour yourself a cup
of tea and step into an enchanted realm, where twinkling Miss
Marple-types elope to Egypt in head-to-toe tartan or jet off to
Mars on a flying saucer.... You'll find Lucinda, whose hat
addiction shows no sign of waning (she even goes to bed in one),
and Hattie, who'll give you a humbug if you're helpful. Brush up on
your knitting skills to rival Kitty. Book 1 of this two-volume
collection offers an assortment of characterful portraits by Tim
Walker of grannies and the things dearest to them, arranged
alphabetically and accompanied by short, gently humorous verses
written by Kit Hesketh-Harvey. In Book 2, fashion illustrator
Lawrence Mynott contributes his own A-Z of drawings of lively old
ladies. Spirited, stylish, sweet - here are granny archetypes of
every stripe.
Published on the occasion of the first Italian anthological
exhibition dedicated to her, the volume retraces the successful
work of Lisette Model, an artist of Austrian origin who had great
importance in the development of photography in the Fifties and
Sixties. Parallel to her teaching activity - she had among her
students authors who later became famous such as Diane Arbus and
Larry Fink - Lisette Model was an ironic and irreverent
photographer, able to capture in her shots the most grotesque
aspects of post-war American society. Alongside the most famous
series - such as Promenade des Anglais, created in Nice, or the
photographs dedicated to New Yorkers or the very suggestive ones
made in jazz clubs - the book also includes lesser-known projects,
which account for her personal and sardonic photographic language.
The close-up shots, the recurring use of the flash, the exasperated
contrasts are the expedients that the author resorts to in order to
accentuate the imperfections of the bodies and the coarse gestures
of her subjects, transformed into the characters of a sneering
human comedy: an approach to reality that made Lisette Model the
forerunner of a way of using photography that would find full
realisation only in the following decades. Text in English and
Italian.
Di sguincio - meaning aslant, asquint, or seen from the corner of
an eye - brings together more than a hundred black-and-white
photo-graphs made by Guido Guidi with small-format cameras between
1969 and 1981. These images record experimental early dialogues
between Guidi and his camera: made without looking through the
viewfinder and lit with a bright flash, they capture people,
bodies, gestures, minor events, and fragments of space in moments
of sudden and even abrasive encounter. While formally stark and
even verging on the abstract, they document people and places close
at hand - his family home in Cesena; friends with whom he shared an
apartment in Treviso; colleagues at the Institute of Architecture
at the University of Venice - forming affectionate personal works
which explore the performative tension at the heart of images. This
book reproduces Guidi's own prints from the period, with their high
contrast, unusual blurring and definition, and oblique,
occasionally indiscernible handwritten annotations. Evoking the
joys of invention and collaboration early in an artistic career,
these fragments equally reflect the psychological, social, and
political turmoil of Italy in an era of crisis and contestation of
social values, metabolising the influences of neorealism and
postmodernism in the search for new forms. The fundamental
photographic theme of time - as it is recorded, experienced, and
manipulated - is their elusive constant. With Di sguincio, we
discover a set of anti-documents or anachronistic records -
stamped, annotated, and sometimes artificially aged - which comment
wryly on photography's claims to truth and reveal the foundations
of a lifelong engagement with the possibilities of the medium.
Jane Bown is a legendary Observer photographer best-known for her
portraits of icons from Beckett to Bjoerk. This is a charming
collection of 100 black and white pictures of felines which reveals
the same sympathetic eye and wit as her portraits. She captures the
cats sprawling, prowling, lolling, playing, feeding and lounging.
House cats, alley cats, show cats and kittens trip and gambol
across these pages making this the perfect photographic treat for
cat-lovers.
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Treat!
(Hardcover)
Christian Vieler
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R705
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This adorable and hilarious collection of dog photographs captures
our furry best friends anticipating, catching -- some more
successfully than others -- and enjoying a scrumptious tidbit.
Photographer Christian Vieler caught dozens of eager dogs at one of
their favorite moments -- treat time. From a tenacious terrier to a
goofy golden retriever, these often hilarious and surprisingly
beautiful photographs capture each dog's unique personality in a
way any dog owner will recognize and that all dog lovers will
enjoy!
Celebrate the kings of the canine world with this collection of
photographs and information by award-winning author and wildlife
photographer Stan Tekiela. Their beauty strikes us. Their mystique
enchants us. Wolves, coyotes, and foxes are beloved, appreciated,
and misunderstood. A sighting in nature is rare, which serves to
enhance our fascination with these magnificent animals.
Award-winning author, naturalist, and wildlife photographer Stan
Tekiela believes that wolves, coyotes, and foxes are mystical and
elusive. He spent more than 20 years traveling across the United
States and Canada to observe and photograph the various species,
from Gray Wolves and Arctic Foxes to Coyotes and Red Wolves. He
documented every aspect of the canines' secret lives: major events
such as mating, as well as everyday activities including hunting,
playing, and socializing. The result is a striking portrayal of
these mammals in Wolves, Coyotes & Foxes. Stan's extraordinary
photographs depict the creatures in a new, unique fashion. His
fascinating text, drawn from detailed research and personal
observations, provides information about every aspect of their
lives. Presented with headings and short paragraphs, the
coffee-table book is pleasurable to browse and easy to read. "Their
presence commands respect and attention," says Stan. "They are
nature's perfect model of a family." Unmatched by any other book on
the market, Wolves, Coyotes & Foxes is a must-have for lovers
of wildlife and nature.
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