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Darren O'Brien documents two developing communities of Sheffield as
gentrification begins to take place. Both areas are seeing an
influx of outsiders and changing community dynamics.
A glimpse into the development of the American West through
startling photographs of the frontier landscape and the rich
culture of American Indian tribes Best known for his Civil War
photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two
extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the
American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway
and Scenes in the Indian County. In 1867, after joining the survey
team for what became the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Gardner
photographed the path of the proposed extension, emphasizing the
ease of future railroad construction and economic development,
while including studies of American Indians and settlements along
the way. The following year, Gardner recorded peace talks with
Indian tribes at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Distinctly sympathetic to
the plight of the American Indian, Gardner made candid
documentation of individual chiefs, their encampments and daily
life, burial trees, and the peace proceedings themselves. With a
full catalogue raisonne of these two rare series, Alexander Gardner
offers a complete visual index of these remarkable photographs,
made at a critical moment in the history of the American West.
Distributed for the Hall Family Foundation and the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
(07/25/14-01/11/15)
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Featuring the most well-known photos from Robert Doisneau since the
beginning of his career, (re)discover his talent through an
original and unknown full colour photoreport. This retrospective of
the works of Doisneau also give an insight in the lives of famous
artists such as Picasso and Niki de Saint Phalle. The book is
themed by three subjects: the main characteristics of his work and
his importance for 20th century photography, the notion of the
poetry of realism and 164 photos, which are also themed: daily
beauty, Palm Springs, artists' studios. Published to accompany an
exhibition in Musee Ixelles (Brussels) from 19 October 2017 until 4
February 2018.
For more than a decade, the United States has been fighting wars so
far from the public eye as to risk being forgotten, the struggles
and sacrifices of its volunteer soldiers almost ignored.
Photographer and writer Ashley Gilbertson has been working to
prevent that. His dramatic photographs of the Iraq war for the New
York Times and his book Whiskey Tango Foxtrot took readers into the
mayhem of Baghdad, Ramadi, Samarra, and Fallujah. But with Bedrooms
of the Fallen, Gilbertson reminds us that the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq have also reached deep into homes far from the noise of
battle, down quiet streets and country roads-the homes of family
and friends who bear their grief out of view. The book's
wide-format black-and-white images depict the bedrooms of forty
fallen soldiers-the equivalent of a single platoon-from the United
States, Canada, and several European nations. Left intact by
families of the deceased, the bedrooms are a heartbreaking reminder
of lives cut short: we see high school diplomas and pictures from
prom, sports medals and souvenirs, and markers of the idealism that
carried them to war, like images of the Twin Towers and Osama Bin
Laden. A moving essay by Gilbertson describes his encounters with
the families who preserve these private memorials to their loved
ones and shares what he has learned from them about war and loss.
Bedrooms of the Fallen is a masterpiece of documentary photography
and an unforgettable reckoning with the human cost of war.
This eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the
introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its
influence on history and our responses to war Six hundred thousand
lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between
North and South the nation's deadliest war. If the "War Between the
States" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its
founding precepts, it was also a watershed in photographic history,
as the camera recorded the epic, heartbreaking narrative from
beginning to end-providing those on the home front, for the first
time, with immediate visual access to the horrors of the
battlefield. Photography and the American Civil War features both
familiar and rarely seen images that include haunting battlefield
landscapes strewn with bodies, studio portraits of armed
Confederate and Union soldiers (sometimes in the same family)
preparing to meet their destiny, rare multi-panel panoramas of
Gettysburg and Richmond, languorous camp scenes showing exhausted
troops in repose, diagnostic medical studies of wounded soldiers
who survived the war's last bloody battles, and portraits of both
Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Published on
the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg
(1863), this beautifully produced book features Civil War
photographs by George Barnard, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner,
Timothy O'Sullivan, and many others. Published by The Metropolitan
Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition
Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art(04/01/13-09/02/13) The
Gibbes Museum of Art (09/27/13-01/05/14) New Orleans Museum of Art
(01/31/14-05/04/14)
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