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While the female nude has long played a conspicuous role in western
iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such attention,
or acceptance. This ode to the male physique celebrates the
evolving, at one time illicit, art form from anonymous 19th century
erotica through to contemporary work from David Hockney and Duane
Michaels. Through the classic, the playful, and the provocative, it
explores the compositions, postures, and role-playing of this often
under-explored genre. Esteemed masters such as Herbert List, George
Platt Lynes or Robert Mapplethorpe are all there, alongside Baron
Wilhelm von Gloeden, famed for his homoerotic images of nude youths
in classical postures in Sicily. Further highlights include
illustrations from Physique Pictorial, the leading organ of the
mid-50s gay scene and a pioneer in gay publishing. About the series
Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating
the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
A Scotsman Best Photography Book of 2017 Texts by Filippo Grandi,
UN High Comissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, and Robert Del Naja,
Massive Attack In October 2015, Giles Duley was commissioned by the
UNHCR to document the refugee crisis. Over the next seven months,
he was to criss-cross Europe and the Middle East attempting to put
a human face to one of the biggest humanitarian emergencies of our
time. Duley visited fourteen countries to tell the stories of
individuals and families forced to flee their homes. He chronicled
the turmoil of Lebanon, the camps of Jordan and Iraq, hellish
scenes on the beaches of Lesvos and the refugees arrival in
Germany. Bringing together over 150 original photographs, this book
captures how even in the midst of such horror and tragedy there is
humour, the unexpected and, above all, humanity.
An illuminating portrait of young LGBTQ people in China, the latest
addition to the acclaimed photobook series celebrating LGBTQ
communities around the world Same-sex relationships have been an
accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. It was only in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, under the influence of the
West, that homophobia became more prevalent; and under Mao,
homosexuality was criminalized. By the turn of the last millennium,
same-sex relationships were once again legal, and by 2001,
homosexuality had been declassified as a mental disorder. Polling
suggests that the younger generation embraces sexual diversity and
LGBTQ rights. But the stigma against queer people still remains.
Recent reports from China have noted government attempts to clamp
down on LGBTQ media and events, and numerous citizens are still
being sent by family members to conversion therapy. Photographer
Sarah Mei Herman first started photographing young queer people and
their personal relationships during an artist residency in Xiamen
in Fujian Province on China's southeastern coast. As she explored
what drew these people together, she herself built up close
friendships with her subjects and, even after her residency had
ended, returned to Xiamen to photograph them, capturing the way
they have changed over the course of a number of years. The
sixteenth entry in The New Press's worldwide LGBTQ photobook
series, Solace is a stunning collection of full-color photos in a
beautiful, affordable volume. It provides a portrait of young
people navigating the ambiguities of friendship and sexuality as
they enter adulthood and grapple with what it means to be queer in
modern-day China. Solace was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios
(EWS).
One of the most powerful painters of our age, Francis Bacon lived
and worked for the last thirty years of his life in a modest
building in London's South Kensington. After he died in 1992,
access was granted to award-winning photographer Perry Ogden to
work undisturbed for days on end to produce this riveting record of
the house and its contents. In the studio itself, thirty years of
inspired artistic endeavor had accumulated unchecked: the slashed
and discarded canvases scattered across the floor; the brushes,
rags, and tins encrusted with paint; the doors and walls used as
impromptu palettes; the piles of photographs of friends and models;
the crumpled and torn pages of magazines and books that served as a
stimulus for Bacon's work; the notes, sketches, and ideas for
paintings jotted down and then cast aside; the last unfinished
self-portrait on the easel.
For some of those close to Bacon, the studio was a heroic
statement, a work of art in its won right, secretly constructed
over many years to distill and give form to his aesthetic
intentions. Now in this astonishing book we are invited to take a
privileged look around this private space, to become intimate
witnesses to the amazing conditions in which Bacon lived and
worked, to gain unrivaled insights into how, why, and what he
painted.
It is humble. Unassuming. Everyday and ordinary to millions of
Texans. Yet, the complex network of twisted tributaries that is the
Trinity River thunders, ambles, even crawls over 550 miles of Texas
landscape and has shaped the destinies of Native Americans,
outlaws, outcasts, dreamers, desperadoes, millionaires, military
men, and many others over thousands of years. Luther Smith's series
of more than fifty photographs taken over seven years of various
stages and locations on the Trinity captures the river's many
personalities: the meandering West Fork in Archer County, the
pollution-littered shore where the West Fork runs through Fort
Worth, the flooding which occasionally spills into cities and over
highways. Mike Nichols' essay on the river provides an insightful
and nostalgic look into the Trinity's shaping and being shaped by
generations of Texans. Thomas W. Southall's essay, "Reflections on
a River's Convergence," discusses landscape photography and, more
specifically, the photography of Smith. Though Smith is active in
efforts to preserve the natural environment, this series is both a
call to environmental consciousness and a reminder of the quiet,
humble wilderness that still exists but is often unseen. His
photographs embody the natural simplicity of often unnoticed parts
of the Texas landscape. Each photograph is a mood, a face of the
time-shaping river. And each is its own story.
At a time when surfing is more popular than ever, it's fitting to
look back at the years that brought the sport into the mainstream.
Developed by Hawaiian Islanders over five centuries ago, surfing
began to peak on the mainland in the 1950s-becoming not just a
sport, but a way of life, admired and exported across the globe.
One of the key image-makers from that period is LeRoy Grannis, a
surfer since 1931, who began photographing the longboard era of the
early 1960s in both California and Hawaii. This edition brings back
Grannis's hair-raising, sold-out Collector's Edition, curated from
the photographer's personal archives, to showcase his most vibrant
work in a compact and affordable format-from the bliss of catching
the perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu's famed
North Shore. An innovator in the field, Grannis suction-cupped a
waterproof box to his board, enabling him to change film in the
water and stay closer to the action than any other photographer of
the time. He also covered the emerging surf lifestyle, from "surfer
stomps" and hordes of fans at surf contests to board-laden woody
station wagons along the Pacific Coast Highway. It is in these
iconic images that a sport still in its adolescence embodied the
free-spirited nature of an era-a time before shortboards and
celebrity endorsements, when surfing was at its bronzed best.
"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the
United States more than I could have in any other way." - Jack
Delano Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States
Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to
address the country's rural poverty. Its efforts focused on
improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor
landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization
programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel
documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and
writers to record the lives of the rural poor and "introduce
America to Americans." This book records the full reach of the FSA
program from 1935 to 1943, honoring its vigor and commitment across
subjects, states, and stylistic preferences. The photographs are
arranged into four broad regional sections but otherwise allowed to
speak for themselves-to provide individual impressions as much as
they cumulatively build an indelible survey of a nation. The images
are both color and black-and-white, and span the complete spetrum
of American rural life. They show us convicts, cotton workers,
kids, and relocated workers on the road. We see subjects victim to
the elements of nature as much as to the vagaries of the global
economic market. We find the work of such perceptive, sensitive
photographers as Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee,
Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange, and read their own
testimonies to the FSA project and their encounters with their
subjects, including Lange's worn, weather-beaten and iconic Migrant
Mother. What unites all of the pictures is a commitment to the
individuality and dignity of each subject, as much as to the
witness they bear to this particular period of the American past.
The subjects are entrenched in the hardships of their historical
lot as much as they are caught in universal cycles of growing,
playing, eating, aging, and dying. Yet they face the viewer with
what is utterly their own: a unique, irreplaceable, often
unforgettable presence. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis -
Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN
universe!
This book captures the core of who Joe Biden is as a lifelong
public servant, and who he would be as America's next
President--featuring photographs from his eight years as one of
America's most consequential vice presidents and partner to Barack
Obama. These visually arresting photographs and behind-the-scenes
stories show Biden stepping into his own as a leader ready to guide
a nation in distress. They also reveal a new dimension to Biden's
humanity--as a man whose decency and kindness shines through both
tragedy and triumph, whose working-class roots inform his values,
and whose candor and approachability enable him to connect with
citizens of all kinds. This book traces Biden's vice presidency in
unprecedented detail, shedding light on who he is as a political
leader and patriot, and also as a father, husband, and friend. It
will delight and fascinate readers who yearn for the return of
honesty and ethics to the nation's highest offices. As we draw
closer to the 2020 presidential elections, this portrait of one of
the most influential names in American politics is more timely and
important than ever.
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.
For more than twenty years, Maria Paula Acuna has claimed to see
the Virgin Mary, once a month, at a place called Our Lady of the
Rock in the Mojave Desert of California. Hundreds of men, women,
and children follow her into the desert to watch her see what they
cannot. While she sees and speaks with the Virgin, onlookers search
the skies for signs from heaven, snapping photographs of the sun
and sky. Not all of them are convinced that Maria Paula can see the
Virgin, yet at each vision event they watch for subtle clues to
Mary's presence, such as the unexpected scent of roses or a cloud
in the shape of an angel. The visionary depends on her audience to
witness and authenticate her visions, while observers rely on Maria
Paula and the Virgin to create a sacred space and moment where
they, too, can experience firsthand one of the oldest and most
fundamental promises of Christianity: direct contact with the
divine. Together, visionary and witnesses negotiate and enact their
monthly liturgy of revelations. Our Lady of the Rock, which
features text by Lisa M. Bitel and more than sixty photographs by
Matt Gainer, shows readers what happens in the Mojave Desert each
month and tells us how two thousand years of Christian revelatory
tradition prepared Maria Paula and her followers to meet in the
desert. Based on six years of observation and interviews, chapters
analyze the rituals, iconographies, and physical environment of Our
Lady of the Rock. Bitel and Gainer also provide vivid portraits of
the pilgrims-who they are, where they come from, and how they
practice the traditional Christian discernment of spirits and
visions. Our Lady of the Rock follows three pilgrims as they return
home with relics and proofs of visions where, out of Maria Paula's
sight, they too have learned to see the Virgin. The book also
documents the public response from the Catholic Church and popular
news media to Maria Paula and other contemporary visionaries.
Throughout, Our Lady of the Rock locates Maria Paula and her
followers in the context of recent demographic and cultural shifts
in the American Southwest, the astonishing increase in reported
apparitions and miracles from around the world, the latest
developments in communications and visual technologies, and the
never-ending debate among academics, faith leaders, scientists, and
citizen observers about sight, perception, reason, and belief.
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Dianne D'Cotta has always liked making records of her travel and
local surroundings and a few years ago started to put together
grids of 9 photos on different themes, to save space and tell a
story. One day she posted one of them on social media and before
long had a following, which has continued to grow. Interspersing
small details like palm trees and signs with larger views of
familiar places, this book includes the areas visitors know and
love, such as the quirky shops along the high street, the long
seafront and beautiful beaches, but also the places local people
will recognise, such as Jacob's Ladder, Little Dennis and the Docks
Choir. People love how she captures the historically interesting,
seaside, arty, university, botanically diverse, foodie, community
minded, working port town that is Falmouth.
'The Bang-Bang Club' was a group of four young photographers, friends and colleagues, Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the photographs that encapsulate the final years of white South Africa. Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for individual photos. Ken, the oldest and a mentor to the others, died, accidentally shot while working; Kevin, the most troubled of the four, committed suicide weeks after winning his Pulitzer for a photograph of a starving baby in the Sudanese famine. Written by Greg and Joao, The Bang-Bang Club tells their stories, the story of four remarkable young men, the stresses, tensions and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence, pain and suffering, the relationships between the four and the story of the end of apartheid. An immensely powerful, riveting and harrowing book.
"Fair Park Deco" is a fascinating tour of the 1936 Texas
Centennial Exposition. Like every American exposition in the 1930s,
it began in economic depression. Although its economy had been
buoyed by major oil discoveries in the early '30s, Texas
agriculture was hard hit by the Great Depression. By the middle of
the decade, state officials had set their sights on a great
centennial celebration to help stimulate the economy and attract
tourist dollars. "If during the next six months the people of the
state could become filled with the idea of holding a big
celebration on the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment
of Texas independence," the state's centennial commission
speculated in July, 1934, "it would have the effect of creating a
general forward-looking spirit through the state. It would be more
stimulating than anything we can think of, and this effect would be
immediate."
This book focuses specifically on the Art Deco art and
architecture of Fair Park--the public spaces, buildings, sculptures
and murals that were designed for the 1936 exposition. Most of the
chapters in the book represent different areas of Fair Park, with
buildings and artwork effectively arranged in the same order that a
visitor to the Texas Centennial Exposition might have seen them.
The art and architecture are featured in original photography by
Jim Parsons and David Bush as well as in historic photographs.
Fair Park is one of the finest collections of Deco architecture in
the country, but it is so much more: the embodiment of Texan
swagger, it is a testament to the Texanic task of creating a
dazzling spectacle in the darkest days of the Depression.
From his humble beginnings in London's East End, Ted Blackbrow went
on to become one of the UK's greatest press photographers. Thrown
out of a good grammar school at 15, Ted embarked on a career that
would see him photograph members of the Royal Family, Enoch Powell,
The Beatles, Sean Connery, Elton John and Mick Jagger, to name just
a few! Long before social media, his images were being shared all
over the globe. His pictures of the Vietnamese refugees on the
Sibonga were a widely-syndicated world exclusive, and what started
as an ordinary day at Newmarket Racecourse resulted in an
award-winning photograph that was syndicated across the world. A
believer in the idea that no matter how good your equipment, you
have to be in the right place at the right time to get the picture
(or, as was often the case, the wrong place at the right time!),
the author reveals how a mixture of cheek, boldness, and a large
slice of luck enabled him to get some incredible images. What a
Life! features some of the best of Ted's photos, along with the
entertaining, engaging and enlightening stories behind them.
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