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A vibrant survey of the trends and talents across the globe
fuelling street photography today and a fresh take of what street
photography is and can be. A world tour of the very best street
photography today, Reclaim the Street showcases work by more than
100 contemporary photographers, from the established to the
emerging, from all corners of the globe: here is work by Indian
practitioner Swarat Ghosh, Thai photographer Jutharat
Pinyodoonyachet (aka Poupay), and the Brazilian photographer
Gustavo Minas. Truly diverse in scope, it pays long overdue
attention to flourishing scenes throughout the world, interweaving
thirty-four photographer portfolios, in-depth case studies, and
surveys of the geographical hotspots where communities of street
photographers are thriving today. Great photographic minds don’t
think alike, nor are two streets identical: follow these
photographers as they capture snapshots of people and places
perpetually in flux. The global, and ultimately optimistic and
humanistic edge of Reclaim the Street will deepen its readers’
love of photography, as well as leave them inspired by the places
and people captured through today’s sharpest lenses.
This luxuriously presented monograph documents the life, work,
architecture and design achievements, plus the art, jewellery and
fashion collections of leading Australian cultural advocate Gene
Sherman. Here she shares intimate accounts of her journey in her
own words and is joined by many internationally renowned and
influential art world commentators, curators, fashion designers,
and educators who have contributed incisive essays - rich with
personal anecdotes - on the impressive cultural trajectory of this
world-renowned art advocate and academic, collector and
philanthropist. Beautifully photographed throughout, The Spoken
Object features many previously unseen pictures of Gene Sherman,
along with photographs of her personal collections, iconic fashion
items and jewellery, significant art and sculpture, designer
furniture, significant architecture, including the beautifully
designed interiors of the stunning home she lives in and shared
with her late husband, Brian Sherman.
The renowned World Press Photo Foundation ("Connecting the world to
the stories that matter") publishes a compilation of prizewinning
press photographs each year. Carefully selected from thousands of
entries, they present the most celebrated, powerful, moving, and
often disturbing images from around the world, often putting a face
on conflicts in far-flung places and reminding us of our shared
humanity. The 2022 Yearbook, bringing together the best press
photographs from 2021, will reflect the joy, anguish, and upheaval
of this incredible year.
William Wegman is a world-renowned American artist whose paintings,
photographs, videos and drawings have been exhibited in museums and
galleries internationally. Today he is perhaps best known for his
collaborations with his longstanding muses, an ever-expanding cast
of Weimaraners, for whom performing elaborate scenarios or merely
posing demurely for their portraits comes as second nature. Curated
in close collaboration with distinguished photography author
William A. Ewing, William Wegman: Being Human is the most extensive
collection of Wegman's photographic work yet to be published. The
book is organized thematically, presenting a wealth of exceptional
work in such a way as to highlight the versatility of Wegman's
everinventive mind as he explores what it means to be human. From
portraits of characters we so easily recognize - a suburban
housewife, a famous actor, a nightclub singer, a golfer dressed in
plaid - to imagery that toys with a wide range of visual languages,
Wegman quotes freely from fashion photography, Cubism, colour
theory, the tradition of the nude and the history of art itself.
Essays and an interview explore Wegman's approach to his subjects
and their life in the studio. With over 300 images made over the
last four decades, many published here for the first time, William
Wegman: Being Human will delight and engage both those who are new
to Wegman's work and those who have admired his art for many years.
America's most populous state is often seen as a west coast
paradise by those who live there - and those who desire to live
there. Anchored around the urban centres of Los Angeles in the
south and San Francisco in the north, California is a place of
idyllic beaches, cutting-edge architecture, spectacular national
parks and Hollywood dazzle. In the pages of California, find out
about the Big Sur, the precipitous, beautiful windy drive along
Route 1 in the central coast; Yosemite National Park, home to the
imposing Half Dome and El Capitan mountains, and offering stunning
views from Glacier Point; San Jose and Silicon Valley, centre of
the world's tech industry; Santa Monica Beach, a mecca for sun
seekers; Rodeo Drive, the home of luxury goods stores in Beverley
Hills; and Death Valley in the Mojave Desert, one of the hottest,
driest places on Earth. Presented in a handy, pocket-sized
landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each
photo, California is a stunning collection of images that brings to
life the vitality of this iconic west coast American state.
The Franco-Swiss photographer Hélène Binet (b. 1959) is renowned
for making images that express an intimate experience of
architecture. Using a combination of analogue and digital
techniques, her photographs are both a representation and a
discovery of her subjects, all of them buildings that break the
mould, pushing daringly at the boundaries of their time. Â In
this selection of some ninety of her photographs – ranging from
the baroque London churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor and the Jantar
Mantar Observatory in Jaipur through to buildings of contemporary
architects Le Corbusier, Peter Zumthor, John Hejduk, Daniel
Libeskind and Zaha Hadid – her work is revealed in all its
subtlety and quiet sensitivity.
"Her images are a thoughtful ode to all women - to their grace and
beauty, and the gentle spirit of modern feminism - and they are now
presented in book form for the first time." - Square Mile "A
refreshingly feminine take on sensuality is showcased in erotic
photographer Tina Trumpp's latest coffee table book." - Maxim
Magazine As one of the few women with countless exhibitions and
awards in recent years, Tina Trumpp has made a name for herself in
the nude photography scene. For her, the female nude is never just
an erotic motif. Every one of her photographs is an ode to the
grace, elegance and strength of her subjects. With natural light
and soft rendering, she creates unique and sensual nude imagery:
thoughtful, seductive and always incomparably aesthetic. Featuring
180 colour and black and white images, this photo book is the first
large-format publication of Tina Trumpp's photographs, a powerful
collection and combination of sexuality, serenity, and
self-confidence. Text in English and German.
An absolute classic of pure physique photography. Enthused with
strong gay feeling these are photos of the most beautifully
proportioned and body-sculpted males of 50s and 60s Western
America, many posed with or without pouches on Rocky Mountain
slopes.
Visions of London is a collection of urban city photography by
award-winning photographer Simon Hadleigh-Sparks. The book
highlights his passion for abstract-reflected architecture and
reflected imagery, a style he has created for himself. He also
experiments with extreme contrasts and has been called a master of
light. His many online followers encourage him to develop and
experiment further, with people liking the weird or the different.
He has also mastered the art of post-production blending,
temperature, tone curve, luminance - and the list goes on.
Frontkampfer I: Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 is a collection of rare
photographs, many of which have never been published before,
highlighting the German war machine in the early years of the
Second World War. Beginning in September 1939 with the invasion of
Poland, the reader will follow the German military as it conquers
France, the Balkans, and North Africa, before sweeping deep into
the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. Frontkampfer I:
Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 reaches its crescendo as the German military
occupies the Caucasus Mountains region and advances to the frontier
of Asia, before being repelled by the Red Army at the horrific
Battle of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga River in the winter
of 1942. Frontkampfer I: Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 offers the reader a
glimpse into the conditions of the opening years of the war in
photographs directly from the albums of the men who were there.
From heavy tanks to small arms to uniforms and equipment,
Frontkampfer I: Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 is a collection of rarely seen
German photographs of World War Two, with pertinent historical
background, and a study of the photographs themselves.
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Very few celebrities are so iconic that their first name is all
that's needed in order to immediately recognise them. One
photographer has captured each and every one of these icons - and
more besides - on film. He goes by the name of Oscar Abolafia. You
can call him Oscar.
William Henry Fox Talbot, the English inventor of photography,
created around 15,000 photographs in the nineteenth century, most
of them attempts to produce compelling scientific documents or
pictorial records of the world around him. However, among those
that have survived are also prints in which an image has been
obscured, obliterated or simply failed to register. Borrowing its
intriguing title from a poem written by Talbot, this book features
twenty-four of these prints, his most experimental photographs.
Originally intended as test prints or creative exercises, all that
remains on these shaped pieces of photographic paper are chemical
stains or imprinted patterns or shapes. Offered to the reader as
enigmatic physical artefacts, these failed or ruined photographs
are here reanimated as objects of beauty, mystery and promise, as
artworks that speak of photography's most fundamental attributes
and potentials. An accompanying essay illustrated with comparative
images places these photographs in a broad historical context
leading up to the present, revealing what relevance Talbot's
experiments have to contemporary concepts of the art of
photography.
Putting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark
side-by-side, Savannah Then and Now (R) is a visual chronicle of
the city's past. The early settlers of Savannah built their houses
around a geometric street plan on a bluff above the Savannah River.
They were aided by the Yamacraw tribe and their aged chief,
Tomochichi, who became firm friends with Savannah's founder,
Englishman James Oglethorpe, and both their names are commemorated
across the city. Oglethorpe's vision for "open-space squares
surrounded by the rhythmic placement of streets"would later earn
Savannah the prestigious status of becoming a National Historic
Landmark. Savannah boomed as the cotton trade expanded in the
South, and by the mid-19th century the city was thriving as it
exported cotton bales to Europe and acted as a staging post for
travelers. During the Civil War, in 1864, Savannah was surrendered
to General William T. Sherman following his March to the Sea, which
began in Atlanta and ended in Savannah. Thankfully, General Sherman
spared Savannah the torch, and the elegant Georgian residences were
saved. However, it took a group of resolute Savannah ladies to
preserve some of the best architecture in the city in the 1950s, as
many historic buildings were scheduled for demolition. Their hard
work and enterprise has helped preserve the city's architectural
heritage. The book features images of some of the sites referenced
in John Berendt's influential book Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil such as Mercer House, Armstrong House, Bonaventure
Cemetery, and the Telfair Academy, along with architectural gems
such as the Cotton Exchange, Davenport House, and the Green-Meldrim
House-historic buildings that make Savannah a cherished city.
""In "Genesis," my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was
my privilege to listen."" --Sebastiao Salgado
On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado
held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the
viewfinder, he experienced a revelation: suddenly life made sense.
From that day onward--though it took years of hard work before he
had the experience to earn his living as a photographer--the camera
became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado, who
"always preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-and-white
images," shot very little color in his early career before giving
it up completely.
Raised on a farm in Brazil, Salgado possessed a deep love and
respect for nature; he was also particularly sensitive to the ways
in which human beings are affected by their often devastating
socio-economic conditions. Of the myriad works Salgado has produced
in his acclaimed career, three long-term projects stand out:
"Workers"(1993), documenting the vanishing way of life of manual
laborers across the world, "Migrations"(2000), a tribute to mass
migration driven by hunger, natural disasters, environmental
degradation and demographic pressure, and this new opus, "Genesis,"
the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the
mountains, deserts and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so
far escaped the imprint of modern society--the land and life of a
still-pristine planet. "Some 46% of the planet is still as it was
in the time of genesis," Salgado reminds us. "We must preserve what
exists." The "Genesis" project, along with the Salgados' Instituto
Terra, are dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing
the damage done to it, and preserving it for the future.
Over 30 trips--travelled by foot, light aircraft, seagoing
vessels, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme heat and cold
and in sometimes dangerous conditions--Salgado created a collection
of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in
breathtaking beauty. Mastering the monochrome with an extreme
deftness to rival the virtuoso Ansel Adams, Salgado brings
black-and-white photography to a new dimension; the tonal
variations in his works, the contrasts of light and dark, recall
the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Georges de La Tour.
What does one discover in "Genesis"? The animal species and
volcanoes of the Galapagos; penguins, sea lions, cormorants, and
whales of the Antarctic and South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators
and jaguars; African lions, leopards, and elephants; the isolated
Zo'e tribe deep in the Amazon jungle; the Stone Age Korowai people
of West Papua; nomadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan; Nenet nomads
and their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle; Mentawai jungle
communities on islands west of Sumatra; the icebergs of the
Antarctic; the volcanoes of Central Africa and the Kamchatka
Peninsula; Saharan deserts; the Negro and Jurua rivers in the
Amazon; the ravines of the Grand Canyon; the glaciers of Alaska...
and beyond. Having dedicated so much time, energy, and passion to
the making of this work, Salgado likens "Genesis" to "my love
letter to the planet."
Whereas the limited Collector's Edition is conceived like a
large-format portfolio that meanders across the planet, this
unlimited book presents a selection of photographs arranged in five
chapters geographically: Planet South, Sanctuaries, Africa,
Northern Spaces, Amazonia and Pantanal.
Each in its own way, this book and the Collector's edition--both
edited and designed by Lelia Wanick Salgado--pay homage to
Salgado's triumphant and unparalleled "Genesis" project.
The world premiere of "Sebastiao Salgado: Genesis "will open at the
Natural History Museum in London on April 11, 2013. The exhibition
builds on the Museum's reputation as the home of the planet's best
nature photography. For further information and to book tickets
please go to www.nhm.ac.uk/salgado. Additionally, from May 14th, a
special portfolio of plantinum prints from "Genesis" will be shown
at Phillips Howick Place gallery in London.
Worldwide venues for the "Genesis" exhibition: The Natural History
Museum, London, UK - April 11 through September 8, 2013 The Royal
Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada - May 2 through September 2, 2013
Ara Pacis Museum, Rome, Italy - May 15 through September 15, 2013
Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil - May 28 through August
25, 2013 Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland - September 21,
2013 through January 12, 2014 La Maison Europeenne de la
Photographie (MEP), Paris, France - September 25, 2013 through
January 5, 2014 SESC Belenzinho, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil - September
9 - November 2013
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Trope New York, the fifth volume in the Trope City Editions series,
celebrates the architecture and urban landscapes of the “city
that never sleeps,” one of the world’s cultural capitals. The
collection highlights the photographic images of emerging and
independent photographers from New York and beyond, who through
their passion for the craft, creative development, and social media
smarts have attracted impressive followings on Instagram. This
carefully curated and bound collection of photographs offers a new
perspective of New York. Each chapter is accompanied by a map,
along with the locations where the photographs were taken. From
high above Central Park to the lights of Times Square, these images
command a strong point of view: digitally processed, filtered,
toned, de-saturated, sharpened, for a very urban sensibility.
Showcasing both the colorful flash and quiet elegance of
contemporary New York, the images reveal distinctive and dramatic
visions of one of the world’s greatest cities. A thoroughly
modern collection, the book includes photographs of some of the
city's iconic destinations like the Empire State Building, Grand
Central Station, and the Chrysler Building, as well as some of the
city's newest attractions, including Little Island, the Edge, and
the Oculus.
Many loved The Big Book of Legs but some found it just too darn
big, weighing in at nearly seven pounds. True, it was packed with
shapely legs spanning six decades, from the first shy emergence of
the ankle in the 1910s, through the rolled stockings and rouged
knees of the 1920s, to the Betty Grable '40s, the stockinged and
stilettoed '50s, on into the sexually liberated '60s and '70s, but
it could still put a dent in your own thighs if you sat reading for
too long. Fortunately here at TASCHEN we listen to your groans of
agony as well as your moans of ecstasy; thus, this light and
portable new edition, packing over 100 of the choicest photos from
the original volume, as well as 38 new photos, into a compact (and
frankly adorable) package. From Betty Grable to Bettie Page, the
greatest legs of the 20th Century can be found within, shot by
Irving Klaw, Bunny Yeager, and the incomparable Elmer Batters,
father of leg art. There are silk and nylon stockings, high heels
in abundance, curvy calves, taut thighs, playful toes and towering
arches-with no bothersome text to get in the way. Could leg love
get any sweeter?
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