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Ernst Haas's color works reveal the photographer's remarkable
genius and remind us on every page why we love New York. When Haas
moved from Vienna to New York City in 1951, he left behind a
war-torn continent and a career producing black-and-white images.
For Haas, the new medium of color photography was the only way to
capture a city pulsing with energy and humanity. These images
demonstrate Haas's tremendous virtuosity and confidence with
Kodachrome film and the technical challenges of color printing.
Unparalleled in their depth and richness of color, brimming with
lyricism and dramatic tension, these images reveal a photographer
at the height of his career.
Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin
changed the way pictures are seen and made.
In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man
and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs
to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first
photographically illustrated science book ever published. Using
photographs to depict fleeting expressions of emotion--laughter,
crying, anger, and so on--as they flit across a person's face, he
managed to produce dramatic images at a time when photography was
famously slow and awkward. The book describes how Darwin struggled
to get the pictures he needed, scouring the galleries, bookshops,
and photographic studios of London, looking for pictures to satisfy
his demand for expressive imagery. He finally settled on one the
giants of photographic history, the eccentric art photographer
Oscar Rejlander, to make his pictures. It was a peculiar choice.
Darwin was known for his meticulous science, while Rejlander was
notorious for altering and manipulating photographs. Their
remarkable collaboration is one of the astonishing revelations in
Darwin's Camera.
Darwin never studied art formally, but he was always interested in
art and often drew on art knowledge as his work unfolded. He
mingled with the artists on the voyage of HMS Beagle, he visited
art museums to examine figures and animals in paintings, associated
with artists, and read art history books. He befriended the
celebrated animal painters Joseph Wolf and Briton Riviere, and
accepted the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner as a trusted
guide. He corresponded with legendary photographers Lewis Carroll,
Julia Margaret Cameron, and G.-B. Duchenne de Boulogne, as well as
many lesser lights. Darwin's Camera provides the first examination
ever of these relationships and their effect on Darwin's work, and
how Darwin, in turn, shaped the history of art.
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Toshio Shibata - Japan
Phillip Prodger
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Spanning the career of one of Japan's most revered photographers,
this monograph- the only English-language volume of its
kind-features exquisitely detailed full- page images that capture
the relationship between human-made structures and the natural
world. Toshio Shibata's large-format contemporary landscapes are
distinguished by their haunting beauty, graceful composition, and
meticulous detail. Using long exposures, and eliminating any
references to people, horizons, or identifying geographic reference
points, Shibata captures structures such as dams, bridges,
reservoirs, and roads as they interact with their natural
settings-mountainsides, rivers, forests and fields. The results are
highlighted by painterly composition; filled with patterns, lines,
and fluid action; and unmistakably Japanese in their aesthetic.
Curated and with commentary by Phillip Prodger, one of the most
erudite and critical voices in contemporary photography, this book
will appeal both to fans of Shibata's work as well as an audience
that has yet to discover his remarkable oeuvre.
Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppe traveled the length
and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the
most tumultuous times in the country's history. He photographed
movie stars and captains of industry, workers and peasants, and
captured the birth of the Autobahn and UFA film studios in its
heyday. He saw the rise of fascism, the creation of vast new
suburbs, and the displacement of people from their traditional ways
of life. With unprecedented access to the country's world-famous
factories and industrial installations, he witnessed Germany as few
others could-barreling headlong into the unknown. Moving,
insightful, and deeply revealing, the full significance of Hoppe's
German work has been unknown until now. This volume combines
photographs published in Hoppe's legendary book of 1930, Deutsche
Arbeit, with many new pictures never previously seen. From factory
floor to the commuters of Berlin and Munich, Hoppe's photographs
reveal the profound social and economic tensions that preceded the
Second World War. This publication uncovers Hoppe as a pivotal
figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, who
introduced for the first time elements of typology, seriality and
sequence, which have become key elements of contemporary
photographic practice. Hoppe used his experience in Germany to
develop a new modern style of photography-showing not just how
things looked, but how it felt to be there.
‘I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I’ve never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.’ – William Eggleston William Eggleston’s photographs are special for their eccentric, unexpected compositions, playfulness, implied narrative and, above all, his portrayals of people. Over the past half-‐century he has created a powerful and enduring body of work featuring friends and family, musicians, artists and others. Eggleston frequented the 1970s Memphis club scene, developing friendships and getting to know musicians, including Ike Turner, Alex Chilton and others. His fascination with the nightclub culture resulted in the experimental video Stranded in Canton (2005), which chronicles visits to bars in Memphis, Mississippi, and New Orleans. At the same time he encountered and photographed the likes of Dennis Hopper, Eudora Welty and Walter Hopps – and for a brief moment Eggleston even entered the Warhol Factory scene, dating the Warhol protégé, Viva. William Eggleston: Portraits accompanies the first exhibition to explore Eggleston’s pictures of people. Works included span his career from the 1950s through to his well-‐known portraits of the 1970s to the present day. The catalogue includes an essay, chronology and beautifully reproduced exhibition plates, as well as a series of revealing interviews with Eggleston and his close family members, conducted in Memphis by exhibition curator Phillip Prodger.
Published on the occasion of the art exhibition Screen Time:
Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age, this catalog
features a selection of leading international artists who engage
with and critique the role of media in contemporary society. Their
work demonstrates what has become known as post-internet artistic
practices-art that may or may not be made for the internet but
nevertheless acknowledges online culture as an omnipresent
influence, inseparable from contemporary social conditions. They
ask what it means to be a photographer when everyone is an
Instagram influencer; what it means to make video art when everyone
is a TikTok video star; and how to deliver meaningful social
commentary in the age of the meme. The exhibition and accompanying
catalog showcase artwork by N. Dash, Nathalie Djurberg, Marcel
Dzama, Peter Funch, Cyrus Kabiru, William Kentridge, Christian
Marclay, Marilyn Minter, Vik Muniz, Otobong Nkanga, Erwin Olaf,
Robin Rhode, Vee Speers, Mary Sue, Puck Verkade, Huang Yan.
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