The work by the award-winning, emerging South African artist

Chris Soal is a South African artist born in 1994 and has situated his practice between Johannesburg and Cape Town. Soal’s studio-based work is sculptural in its output, working with objects and materials in ways that show a conceptual engagement with the contexts and histories of the objects but that also re-enforce the body as a site for knowledge reception and production. Soal’s works seek to make a poetic statement through the simplest of means, engaging the viewer’s spatial awareness and perceptual habits while challenging core societal preconceptions of value and hierarchy.

Through his use of discarded and mundane ephemera, such as toothpicks and bottle caps, along with concrete, rebar, electric fencing cable, sandpaper, and other industrial materials, the artist intuitively develops the familiar to the point of the uncanny. Soal’s works can be considered social abstractions influenced by a reinterpreted Arte Povera that is deeply rooted in and reflective of his upbringing in Johannesburg, South Africa. Working symbiotically with his materials, Soal utilises the inherent physical characteristics of the objects to transform them through processes of aggregation, combination, and erosion. He seeks to interrogate views of nature and culture as a binary concept, foregrounding pressing ecological concerns by repositioning the viewer as an active agent within the contemporary environment. Despite the artificiality of his materials, Soal’s process allows them to take on biomorphic qualities or evoke natural phenomena, expressing his interest in their phenomenological quality.

Two volume set including The Day May Break and The Day May Break – Chapter Two at a Special Price 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.

Roger Ballen’s new rat-human character: a gothic allegory in immaculately composed photographs

Over the past 35 years, Johannesburg-based American photographer and painter Roger Ballen (born 1950) has developed a distinctively dark and eerie style―characterized by a simple square format and stark black and white―to create images of the South African social landscape and portraits of surreal vignettes.

In his latest volume Ballen expands on his longstanding predilection for unsettling interiors and spooky characters. Roger the Rat follows the life of a creature whose body is human but whose head is that of a rat. Ballen’s rat character interacts with mannequins, people and various objects in often cramped and oppressive rooms, in ways that defy explanation but seem at once humorous and sinister. This book gathers the series, made between 2015 and 2020.

The Day May Break, photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. The people in the photos were all affected by climate change, displaced by cyclones and years-long droughts. Photographed at five sanctuaries, the animals were rescues that can never be re-wilded. As a result, it was safe for human strangers to be close to them, photographed so close to them, within the same frame. The fog on location is the unifying visual, as we increasingly find ourselves in a kind of limbo, a once-recognizable world now fading from view. However, in spite of their loss, these people and animals are the survivors. And therein lies possibility and hope.

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.

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.

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.

A close look transforms even the most ordinary things into fascinating objects full of idiosyncracies and magic. With charming tongue-in-cheek, the photographer Pascale Weber shows this through a very special object: the cat tree. Photographed as a still life against a colored background, we see the multifaceted and sometimes frivolous architectural capers of this extraordinary type of structure. Weber depicts them with their four-legged owners proudly presenting their homes. A particularly subtle humor characterizes these aesthetic studio images. Readers may suddenly wonder how this unique variety of forms could have been overlooked until now. And everyone may smile and ask themselves where they themselves would prefer to live. Languages: German and English

A Candid Portrait of the 1990s New Wave of Queer Culture In the 1990s, queer youth, outcasts and artists, flocked to San Francisco to find one another and to experiment with art, self-expression, style, and gender. Rent was affordable, paving the way for queer bars, clubs, tattoo shops, galleries, cafes, bookstores, and women-owned businesses to emerge. A new wave of feminism embraced gender bending, and butch/femme culture flourished. The Mission District was the center of this queer cultural renaissance, and the feeling of community was palpable. Chloe Sherman was both a member of this community and an ardent visual chronicler. Her documentary photographic work on 35mm film stems from a commitment to capturing the vibrancy, tenderness, individuality, resilience, and joy within this subculture that was derided by mainstream society. Distilling the spirit of the time, her debut monograph is a candid portrait of a vibrant era that connects current and future generations to the pulse of San Francisco at a pivotal chapter in queer history.

“Eight years after moving from New York City to Berlin, a feeling of alienation still haunts me. I wander the streets alone at night, camera in hand, trying to find my place in my latest 'home.’� What does "home" mean when one is a stranger living in another country? Artist Romeo Alaeff explores this question in In der Fremde: Pictures from Home, a haunting, cinematic, and evocative survey of Berlin as seen through the lens of an eternal outsider. Framed by Alaeff’s complex familial background, spanning from Yemen to the former USSR, Poland, Israel, and the United States, the photographs are tinged with a deep sense of longing and touch on themes of migration, belonging, and the search for home. Inspiring essays by Yuval Noah Harari, Christian Rattemeyer, Charles Simic, Eva Hoffman, Rory MacLean, Joseph Kertes, and Romeo Alaeff illuminate a wide horizon of perspectives.

The beauty and tenderness of withering and decay In this gorgeous book, Brigitte Lustenberger explores the passing of time, memory and the fragility of life. She transforms flowers dried on glass used for photographic slides into delicate photographs. Celebrating the beauty of decay, Lustenberger leads us into a fascinating world of withered flowers. Her images reveal the incredible details of nature’s ingenious constructions. The artist manages to combine both the fleetingness of a drawing made with light and the preservation of a photograph. Four essays by renowned curators provide insight into the artist’s process-oriented working method, the interweaving of analogue and digital technology in her practice, and contextualize An Apparition of Memory within Western and Japanese photographic and art history.

What happens when street photography, conceptual art, and documentation are combined? The result is a unique panorama of images, whose versatility allows it to capture the sometimes abysmal, sometimes dazzling multiple facets of Bangkok. The photographer Peter Nitsch has captured the streets, people, and life in the Thai capital with his sensitive feel for the right moment and the special detail. This illustrated book turns readers into companions on his visual tour of discovery. Nitsch’s camera makes us see the city’s rhythm as a tango, which owes its idiosyncratic movement to the interaction of different cultures. A comparison that not only rhymes with “mango� (Bangkok’s nickname) but also translates the sweet and sour taste of the fruit into visual intoxication.

Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait City, Manama, and Riyadh-as metropolises of the Arabian Peninsula, all of these cities are connected by more than just geography. They also stand for a booming economy and rapid urban development with avant-garde architecture set amid breathtaking landscapes. And last, but not least, these cities boast a bustling everyday life defined by immigrants from all over the world. Traditions meets western modernity. What is home to one person is a stopover for another. Busy working life collides with a partying mentality. As gigantic places of transit, these metropolises represent transience, but also opportunity and dazzling encounters. Michele Nastasi has captured them all with a distinctive sense of presence, shaping an engaging journey through the cultural diversity and pulsating life of these cities.

Inspired by dioramas of wild flora and fauna found in natural history museums, Jim Naughten's digital reimaginations of a familiar yet alien world, explore the idea of wildlife becoming a lost fantasy. From orangutans swinging through psychedelic forests, to deer roaming pastel-hued canyons-Naughten's depictions of nature in an artificial color palette convey a distinct sense of dislocation and growing estrangement. His fantastical tableaus question our rose tinted image of the natural world that is largely fictional. In fact we are entering the Eremozoic-a term coined by biologist and writer E. O. Wilson to describe the current era of mass extinction triggered by human activity. Also referred to as The Age of Loneliness, the term alludes to the isolation that will follow the destruction of our deeply rooted relationships with other species.

Highways are more than mere traffic routes - they are symbols of speed and mobility; in 1930s Germany, they served propaganda purposes. Today they are central infrastructures. In this volume, photographer Michael Tewes devotes himself to the roads that have relentlessly carved paths across our country and through its nature, as well as to their special architectures. Otherwise more of an entertaining staging post for people on their way to a destination, Tewes brings the highway into our conscious perception and shows it as an architectural building form in its own right. This monograph is the result of a six-year project and is published in parallel with the exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

Not only do we live in a period of rapid, exciting change, but we are also in the midst of the Anthropocene age. The environment and climate are changing in the wake of human-driven turbo-capitalism. Benedikt Partenheimer's works make it possible to imagine-sensorily as well as contextually-the close connection and increasing imbalance between humans and the earth. Photographs of fascinating, impressive elegance reveal processes of ecological and cultural transformation. What makes these pictures so irresistible is the human influence factor: the painterly mist of air pollution floating above urban panoramas, the ambivalence of mountain reflections in melted glacier water. The price of beauty is inscribed into each image. It makes Partenheimer's work aesthetically intriguing-but above all, existentially important and politically controversial.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich BWL - Marketing, Unternehmenskommunikation, CRM, Marktforschung, Social Media, Note: 1,7, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Einleitung Sie alle wollen unsere Aufmerksamkeit: Marken. Taglich mussen sich Konsumenten mit einer Flut an Werbung und damit einer standig wachsenden Markenvielfalt auseinander setzen. Die Mehrzahl an Unternehmen ist innovativ, mutig und stark was das Aufstellen ihrer Marken auf den Markten anbelangt. Vor allem wollen immer mehr Unternehmen mit ihren Marken emotional Zeichen setzen. Denn nach bestehenden Erkenntnissen sind Emotionen der zentrale Schlussel fur den Erfolg von Kommunikations- und Marketingmassnahmen. Die noch sehr junge Disziplin im Marketing - Neuromarketing, soll hierbei durch bildgebende Verfahren die Wirkung von Werbung und Marken innerhalb des menschlichen Gehirns messbar machen. Durch die Anwendung neurowissenschaftlicher Methoden wird damit ein naherer Einblick gewahrt, welche Informationen in das Bewusstsein gelangen und welche das Gehirn direkt entsorgt. So konnen bisherige klassische, betriebswirtschaftliche Verfahren zur Beurteilung des Kaufverhaltens durch neurowissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse erganzt werden. Bisher konnte die Wirksamkeit von Marken zum einen durch Umsatzzahlen und zum anderen durch die herkommliche Markt- und Sozialforschung gemessen werden. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zeigen allerdings, dass der Kauf von Marken kein direktes Resultat von bewussten und rationalen Verhalten ist. Ausserdem muss auch Werbung nicht unweigerlich bewusst wahrgenommen werden, um eine hohe Verkaufsrate zu erzielen. 95 % aller Kaufentscheidungen sind unbewusst und werden primar durch Emotionen und Erinnerungen ausgelost. Es ist daher fast unmoglich eine verlassliche Aussage, beispielsweise nur durch einen Fragebogen, uber den eigentlichen Grund der Markenwahlentscheidung eines Kunden zu erhalten. Aufgrund der angesprochenen Problem

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Marketing, Unternehmenskommunikation, CRM, Marktforschung, Social Media, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den letzten Jahren konnte das immer professioneller werdende Markenmanagement in Verbindung mit der Markenforschung in zahlreichen Unternehmen bemerkenswerte Fortschritte verzeichnen. Eine Marke systematisch aufzubauen und damit Erfolge zu erzielen ist die eine Herausforderung eines jeden Unternehmens. Eine andere, ist die erschaffene Marke so zu festigen, dass diese auch uber Jahrzehnte ihrer Wirkungsweise und Anforderungen gerecht wird. Eine Marke muss sich von anderen differenzieren konnen, Vertrauen schaffen und versprochene Leistungen bringen. Insbesondere bei Dienstleistungen ist dies entscheidend fur den Unternehmenserfolg. Denn je immaterieller die Leistung, desto wichtiger das Vertrauen in die Marke." Ein Unternehmen was dies ohne weiteres von sich behaupten kann, ist die Deutsche Post. Doch wie sind die Reaktionen, wenn sich eine so traditionelle Marke dazu entschliesst sein gesamtes Logistikportfolio weltweit unter dem neuen Markendach DHL zu bundeln. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll die Frage nach der beispielhaften Umsetzung einer Markenneupositionierung mit Hilfe geeigneter Marketinginstrumenten und -massnahmen naher beleuchten. Was sind die Grunde fur eine derart erfolgreiche Markenumrustung bei DHL im Konzern der Deutschen Post World Net? Wurden die mit der Neupositionierung der Marke angestrebten Ziele erreicht und welchen Widerstande musste sich das Unternehmen stellen? Ausserdem unterliegt die Arbeit der kritischen Wurdigung der Best Practice - Fallstudie: Markenmanagement als Motor der neuen Markenidentitat DHL im Konzern Deutsche Post World Net von Wolfgang Giehl und Christoph Baumgarten in der Literatur: Meffert, Heribert; Burmann, Christoph; Koers, Martin: Markenmanagement - Identitatsorientierte Markenfuhrung und praktische Umsetzu

Sie alle wollen unsere Aufmerksamkeit: Marken. T glich m ssen sich Konsumenten mit einer Flut an Werbung und damit einer st ndig wachsenden Markenvielfalt auseinandersetzen. Die Mehrzahl an Unternehmen ist dabei innovativ, mutig und stark, was das Aufstellen ihrer Marken auf den M rkten anbelangt. Vor allem wollen immer mehr Unternehmen mit ihren Marken emotional Zeichen setzen. Denn nach bestehenden Erkenntnissen sind Emotionen der zentrale Schl ssel f r den Erfolg von Kommunikations- und Marketingma nahmen. Die noch sehr junge Disziplin im Marketing - Neuromarketing - soll hierbei durch bildgebende Verfahren die Wirkung von Werbung und Marken innerhalb des menschlichen Gehirns messbar machen. Durch die Anwendung neurowissenschaftlicher Methoden wird damit ein n herer Einblick gew hrt, welche Informationen in das Bewusstsein gelangen und welche das Gehirn direkt entsorgt. Neuromarketing soll Erkenntnisse dar ber liefern, wie Werbung zuk nftig aufgebaut sein soll, um berzeugend zu wirken und folglich die Kaufkraft beim Konsumenten zu steigern. Doch inwieweit sich das Neuromarketing in der Praxis wirkungsvoll einsetzen l sst und wo dabei die Grenzen liegen, soll das vorliegende Buch durch fachliche Grundlagen und neurowissenschaftliche Studien zeigen.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Umweltwissenschaften, Note: 1,7, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Einleitung In den letzten Jahren erreichte uns eine Umweltkatastrophe nach der anderen. Eine der schwerwiegendsten Olkatastrophen mussten wir im April 2010 am Golf von Mexiko verzeichnen. Als mit der Explosion und Untergang der Bohrinsel Deepwater Horizon" vom Unternehmen BP Unmengen von Rohol ins Meer austrat. Das Ausmass des Olaustritt ist heute, sechs Monate spater nicht abzuschatzen. Eine erste unabhangige Studie zeigt wie viel Ol wirklich ins Meer stromte. Nach Angaben von Timothy Crone und Maya Tolstoy von der der New Yorker Columbia University stromte zwischen dem 20. April und dem 15. Juli jeden Tag zwischen 8,9 und 10,8 Millionen Liter Ol ins Meer.Es sind riesige okologische Schaden entstanden, teilweise gibt es in stark von Ol verseuchten Gebieten bis auf resistente Bakterien kein Leben mehr. Die Weltmeere haben sich im Laufe der Zeit ausserdem zu einer riesigen Mullkippe formiert. Seit Jahrtausenden werfen die Menschen ihren Mull ins Meer. Vor allem die Entsorgung von Plastikprodukten wegen ihrer hohen Langlebigkeit ist besonders gefahrlich. Fur viele Meerestiere stellt der Plastikmull eine elementare Bedrohung dar. Die Gewasser unseres blauen Planeten werden immer weiter zerstort. Katastrophen wie die im Golf von Mexiko und die Nichtbeachtung von Vorschriften zum Schutze der Meere gilt es unweigerlich zu verhindern. Im Vorfeld sollten schon Massnahmen getroffen werden um die Meere mit einem unvergleichlichen Artenreichtum zu schutzen. Eine Reihe regionaler und uberregionaler Vereinbarungen zum Schutz der Meere sind schon getroffen wurden. Unter anderem sind diese Vereinbarungen im Umweltvolkerrecht zu finden. Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet die internationale Aufstellung und Umsetzung des im Volkerrecht verankerten Umweltrechts mit Blick auf die Meeresumwelt. Einzelne Ubereinkommen zum Schutz un