Since the early 1980s, the photographs of Clegg & Guttmann have explored the representation of power and the codification of gestures. Famous for their images of powerful people or families inspired both by seventeenth-century Dutch painting and commissioned portraits for annual reports, they have developed various typologies of photographic portraiture over the past three decades. This volume examines two typological series in particular: "Portraits and Artworks" and "Collaborative Portraits." These series feature artist sitters such as Sari Carel, Joseph Kosuth, David Robbins, Christoph Schlingensief, Joseph Strau, Franz Erhard Walther and Franz West.

Here, Swiss artist Jules Spinatsch (born 1964) presents his photo series documenting Alpine ski slopes being prepared at night. Under the glare of cold floodlights, machines noisily turn nature into a tourist experience with snow cannons at full blast and bulldozers flattening the slopes.

It is unsurprising that French photographer Valerie Belin (born 1964) should so plainly declare: "I come from painting." Although she uses a photographer's equipment, her images are far removed from realism. Whether responding to a still life by Edouard Manet or exploring societal constructions of female beauty, Belin emphasizes textural artifice and molded color, even when working in black and white.