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The city Fred Herzog documented over more than half a century has
vanished-an early kind of urban flaneur, Herzog wandered the
streets of Vancouver, creating an archive that encapsulates the
essence of a bygone era. Considered today as one of the most
important street photographers of the 20th century, he changed the
international conversation about early color photography. However,
it was only in the late 1950s that he decided to primarily shoot
with Kodachrome color slides. Fred Herzog: Black and White is the
first acknowledgement of a lesser-known facet of the photographers'
work. Complementing the seminal Modern Color, it encompasses almost
graphical urban scenes of shadow and light, alongside travel
photographs and depictions of rural life. Evoking notions of
melancholy, this book reveals that Herzog's appeal lies in his
ability to seize a condensation of a psychological state.
Some of Nick Brandt’s subjects are humans, some are animals, but
they all are creatures of equal and obvious personhood. The
overwhelming sense in the photographer’s ongoing global series
The Day May Break is that they are all figuring out how to live in
a new world. Each has arrived at the shoot at Senda Verde wildlife
sanctuary in Bolivia through their own cascade of tragedy. Both
extreme droughts and floods have destroyed people’s homes and
livelihoods. Victims of habitat destruction and wildlife
trafficking, the animals are rescues that can never be released to
the wild. People and animals were photographed in the same frame
and indeed convey a sense of connectedness through a shared fate.
Fog is the unifying visual, symbolic of the natural world rapidly
fading from view; and an echo of the smoke from wildfires,
intensified by climate change, devastating so much of the planet.
But in spite of their loss, these people and animals are survivors,
pioneers entering the new phase our world has reached. In The Day
May Break they share their powerful stories.
Female View puts the focus on women fashion photography. Although
this medium has been shaped by female photographers for decades, a
large number of publications or exhibitions have focused primarily
on the male gaze of the female body. Numerous female fashion
photographers worked for influential magazines such as Harper's
Bazaar or Vogue, thus shaping the style of their time. Using
exemplary positions, this book traces the transformation of the
photographic image from the 1930s to the present day: from the
fashion magazine to the showroom and the coffee table book to
videos and digital self-staging in social media today. On display
will be works by: Lillian Bassman, Sibylle Bergemann, Petra F.
Collins, Corinne Day, Cass Bird, Madame d'Ora, Charlotte March, Ute
Mahler, Sarah Moon, Amber Pinkerton, Regina Relang, Alice Springs
(June Newton), Bettina Rheims, Ellen von Unwerth, and Yva.
Ruth Orkin is a legend of street photography - her atmospheric
pictures taken in cities such as Florence, New York and London
still shape the image of these metropolises today. But Orkin's
specialty not only encompassed the urban but also the personal.
This is evident in her unique eye that enabled her street scenes to
consistently offer penetrating insights into the time and
personality of her subjects. And it likewise shows in her fantastic
portraits of celebrities such as Albert Einstein, Woody Allen, and
Lauren Bacall. These inimitable images seemingly combine snapshot
and pose to present the star in his or her role and at the same
time as an autonomous individual. Published on the occasion of the
photographer's 100th birthday, this illustrated book celebrates
Orkin's life and work with an equally extensive and fascinating
overview of this exceptional artist's oeuvre.
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Zerheilt (Hardcover)
Oren Myers; Text written by Fr ed eric Brenner, Elad Lapidot; Designed by Julia Wagner, grafikanstalt
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Following more than forty years of photographic storytelling of
Jewish life around the world, Frederic Brenner spent three years
exploring Berlin -- a stage for a vast spectrum of expressions and
performances of Judaism. In his new photographic essay he portrays
individuals -- newcomers, old timers, converts, immigrants and
others - who have made Berlin their home or are just passing
through. Via a series of fragmentary insights into this incubator
of paradox and dissonance, he reflects on conflicting narratives of
redemption and gives light to an ever so present absence. Like a
shattered mirror, these images offer a polyphonic, sometimes
bizarre and disturbing reflection of and on a topography of
displacement and estrangement in contemporary human condition, far
beyond the story of Berlin or of Jews.
There is no question that the Bauhaus was the most influential
institution on architecture in the twentieth century. But does this
aesthetic legacy live on in buildings? In what shape do we
encounter it today, after about 100 years, in changing cityscapes?
The photographer Jean Molitor has examined this question in depth
all around the world. In his new illustrated volume bau2haus, he
tracks the architecture that owes something to the Bauhaus and its
special style across the globe. In strongly contrasted
black-and-white photographs he draws attention to these fascinating
structures. Selected with a meticulous eye, the photos play with
perspective, perfectly balancing the openness and existing volume
of each building. The result is a vivid history of architecture
that readers will hardly be able to get enough of.
Chinese Calligraphy Meets Western Performance In his paintings the
Taiwanese artist Yahon Chang brings together traditional Chinese
ink-wash painting and Western forms of artistic expression to
produce a synthesis of East and West. Typically standing on large
sheets of linen or Xuan paper and wielding a brush almost as long
as he is tall, Chang creates works imbued with performative energy
and characterized by large, sweeping brushstrokes. Drawing on
Chinese literati and Zen (Chan) Buddhist traditions, the artist
understands painting as an activity that connects body and mind.
His entire body functions as an axis for these expressive paintings
and is influenced by his training in calligraphy. This publication
offers the first insight into the artist's extensive oeuvre and
includes exhibition views as well as accompanying texts.
Porodina's early years were impacted by the brutalist buildings in
Moscow and her mother who introduced art to Porodina's mind. Stored
in her subconscious, art is what became the extension and
expression of "her self", implying that every single one of her
photographs is a self-portrait. Art became-and still is-an
inevitable, and inseparable, part of her. Porodina's academic
upbringing in post-Soviet Russia and her interest in emotional
behavior led her to study clinical psychology.This background and
her striving towards greater understanding of herself, her
environment and others, informed her move to photography. It became
a frame by which she is not limited-photography is just another
medium to her that allows to stimulate the mind by showing, rather
than by speaking, since the subconscious is not verbal either.
Rihanna, John Turturro, Angela Merkel, Martin Kippenberger, Mario
Draghi, and Miss Piggy share two things: they are world famous, and
they have all stood in front of the camera of Anatol Kotte. His
unique portrait photographs have featured in publications such as
Time, Die Zeit, Stern, or L’Uomo Vogue. But what makes Kotte’s
photographs special? At first glance they are cool and distant, and
at second glance emotional and dramatic. They permit those being
portrayed to discover very different aspects of themselves. Kotte
approaches them candidly, seeks a special gaze, an unexpected
demeanor or environment—preferably in black and white, always
moving. The portraits are also interspersed with surprising views
of cities and landscapes. The world and individuals become icons,
and we can take a very new look at them.
This is the fourth monograph of the American artist Ann Mandelbaum.
It offers both analogue black and white work from 1990-2000 and
also digital colour images from 2007-present. None of the 100
examples have been exhibited or published before. The richness of
the volume lies in the 35 year process delineated. It reveals a
continual obsession with the organic world-woven within abstraction
and sensation-and processed originally through the depths of the
darkroom and subsequently on the digital screen. The varied imagery
spans the history of the medium, including the photogram and
multiple printing. Throughout, surreal techniques employ sculpture,
collage, and the language of drawing. Regardless of medium,
Mandelbaum consistently reinvents and rediscovers a language of
surprise.
Female View puts the focus on women fashion photography. Although
this medium has been shaped by female photographers for decades, a
large number of publications or exhibitions have focused primarily
on the male gaze of the female body. Numerous female fashion
photographers worked for influential magazines such as Harper's
Bazaar or Vogue, thus shaping the style of their time. Using
exemplary positions, this book traces the transformation of the
photographic image from the 1940s to the present day: from the
fashion magazine to the showroom and the coffee table book to
videos and digital self-staging in social media today. On display
will be works by: Lillian Bassman, Sibylle Bergemann, Louise
Dahl-Wolfe, Corinne Day, Madame d'Ora, Ingeborg Hoppe, Nadine
Ijewere, Ute Mahler, Charlotte March, Sarah Moon, Amber Pinkerton,
Elizaveta Porodina, Regina Relang, Bettina Rheims, Alice Springs
(June Newton), Deborah Turbeville, Ellen von Unwerth, and Yva.
Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the
complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after
1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence
and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in
German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those
directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder.
Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by
the present. The volume also considers conflicting, unexpected and
often dissonant interpretations and representations of these
events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and
perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the
generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of
disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of the
complexity of the ways in which a disturbing past continues to
disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed and
instrumentalized by a later present.
Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the
complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after
1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence
and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in
German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those
directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder.
Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by
the present. The volume also considers conflicting, unexpected and
often dissonant interpretations and representations of these
events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and
perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the
generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of
disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of the
complexity of the ways in which a disturbing past continues to
disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed and
instrumentalized by a later present.
Night time has always captivated those who see the world
differently. When everything has come to rest, lights go out,
phones have gone silent and doors have been locked, the nocturnal
quiet is embraced to transcend the beauty of the world to its own.
This fascination with the way things appear at night is deeply
embedded in Daniel Freeman's photography, and finds its way into
Midnight on Main together with strong influences of American
popular culture. Away from the frantic pace of large sleepless
cities, Daniel Freeman explores the quieter side of the American
night as a nocturnal flaneur, portraying the charm of small towns
across the United States and of a lessershown America. Complemented
by stars and moonlight, he follows what is still left of the
American Dream and traces the special kind of American culture,
that since its invention has not failed to amaze. Midnight on Main
documents the silent grace and illuminated beauty amplified through
the prolonged and peaceful interludes of calm that stretch between
dusk and dawn. Urban landscape at its best. Daniel Freeman (1984)
lives in Buckinghamshire, England and has specialized in night
photography for over a decade. He was awarded a 'Fellowship' by the
British Institute of Professional Photography, and 'Qualified
European Photographer' by the Federation of European Professional
Photographers for his nocturnal image capture. He currently
lectures in Photography and holds night photography seminars and
workshops on behalf of photographic institutes.
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Aires Mateus - Book of Models (Paperback)
Francisco Aires Mateus, Manuel Aires Mateus; Edited by Camilla De Camilli; Photographs by Marco Cappelletti; Designed by Camilla De Camilli, …
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R1,814
R1,214
Discovery Miles 12 140
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This poetic and minimalist anthology presents 10 years of heritage
of AIRES MATEUS design studios at the Accademia di Archittettura di
Mendrisio in Switzerland.100 images of largescale models built by
students of AIRES MATEUS are brought together to create a family
portrait. Each expertly staged model is pictured with the essential
schemes necessary to understand the volumes portrayed. Francisco
and Manuel Aires Mateus’ many years of experience in pedagogy and
the use of models in practice are brought together in a manifesto
which precedes the anthology of images. The importance of the model
in the formation of architectural ideas and throughout the design
process, as well as its potency as a standalone statement are
highlighted. The evocative photographs in this book reveal abstract
spaces produced by artistic interpretations of light, volume and
materiality.
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