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Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic portraits
In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta
explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly
evolving culture of their city  The New Parisienne focuses
on one of the city’s most prominent features, its women. Lifting
the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white, lithe, ever
fashionable—Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this oversimplified
archetype and recasts the women of Paris as they truly are, in all
their complexity. Featuring 50 activists, creators, educators,
visionaries, and disruptors—like Leïla Slimani, Lauren Bastide,
and Mayor Anne Hidalgo—the book reveals Paris as a blossoming
cultural center of feminine power. Both the featured women and
Tramuta herself offer up favorite destinations and women-owned
businesses, including beloved shops, artistic venues, bistros, and
more. The New Parisienne showcases “Parisianness†in all its
multiplicity, highlighting those who are bucking tradition, making
names for themselves, and transforming the city.
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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Alex Kayser; Photographs by Alex Kayser
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Avant-garde photographer Alex Kayser studies the enigma of human
physiognomy; the 184 models in this book ranged widely in age and
come from all walks of life, but share one feature: they are bald.
All of the photographers are posed, lit, and cropped identically,
so that the images are refined to the sparest of head shots. The
subjects are artists, actors, lawyers, gourmet chefs, heavyweight
boxers, and chiropractors, and several of them are well-known, but
in the very refined presentation of Kayser's photographs they
become a fascinating exercise in how we read faces and human
identity.
The text includes an interview with Kayser, quotes from some of
the models describing everything from Zen philosophy to a favorite
band of razor, and an afterword by National Book Award winner of
Richard Howard.
A vibrant celebration of surfers in and out of the water from an
award-winning photographer Professional photographer Thom Gilbert
spent four years among surfer royalty at the top of their game-in
Spain, New York, California, and Hawaii-with his camera trained not
only on tiny figures disappearing in the waves, but also on the
surfers' faces and bodies back on land. He returned from the
beaches with intimate portraits of the world's best-from the newest
talent to the oldest and most revered-and also with dramatic action
shots and revealing images of the culture around this sport and
lifestyle. The book features not only 300 photographs, but some
Q&As with, and hand-written contributions from, prominent
figures in the scene. Ultimately, Waves is an ode to surfing and to
the men and women who live it every day.
With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape
photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey's vivid evocations of
race, history, time, and place Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American
photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of
underrepresented subjects and for his commitment to fostering
dialogue about contemporary social and political topics. Bey has
also found inspiration in the past, and in two recent series,
presented together here for the first time, he addresses African
American history explicitly, with renderings both lyrical and
immediate. In 2012 Bey created The Birmingham Project, a series of
paired portraits memorializing the six children who were victims of
the Ku Klux Klan's bombing of Birmingham, Alabama's 16th Street
Baptist Church, a site of mass civil rights meetings, and the
violent aftermath. Night Coming Tenderly, Black is a group of
large-scale black-and-white landscapes made in 2017 in Ohio that
reimagine sites where the Underground Railroad once operated. The
book is introduced by an essay exploring the series' place within
Bey's wider body of work, as well as their relationships to the
past, the present, and each other. Additional essays investigate
the works' evocations of race, history, time, and place, addressing
the particularities of and resonances between two series of
photographs that powerfully reimagine the past into the present.
Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(February 15-October 12, 2020) High Museum of Art, Atlanta
(November 7, 2020-March 14, 2021) Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (April 16-October 3, 2021)
A CBC New Brunswick Book List Selection"The same stage, but
different actors," explains Wilson. "There is something interesting
to me about separating people from their environment, about keeping
the focus on the individual."James Wilson's studio portraits
capture subjects from all walks of life. They document soldiers and
street people, builders and bakers, artists and labourers. There is
an intimate intensity in his photographs, which together form a
timeless collage of life and faces from the early twenty-first
century.Wilson's portraits are also the product of a purposeful
gaze, distinctive observations in black-and-white. All window-lit,
all photographed in his studio, all with the same black background,
these photographic portraits open a door into the worlds and at
times the unguarded emotions of the individual subjects.James
Wilson: Social Studies accompanies an exhibition that will open at
the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, NB, in June 2020.
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