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Flora Photographica
William A. Ewing, Danaé Panchaud
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Our fast-changing world seen through the lenses of 140 leading
contemporary photographers around the globe. With close to 500
images, many previously unpublished, this landmark publication
takes stock of the material and spiritual cultures that make up
‘civilization’. Ranging from the ordinary to the extraordinary,
from our great collective achievements to our ruinous collective
failings, Civilization: The Way We Live Now explores the complexity
of contemporary civilization through the rich, nuanced language of
photography. Featuring images by some 140 photographers – from
Reiner Riedler’s families at leisure parks, Raimond Wouda’s
high schools, Wang Qingsong’s Work, Work, Work and Cindy
Sherman’s Society Portraits, to Lauren Greenfield’s displays of
ostentatious wealth, Edward Burtynsky’s oil fields, Pablo Lopez
Luz’s views on a sprawling contemporary megalopolis, Thomas
Struth’s images of high technology, Xing Danwen’s electronic
wastelands and Taryn Simon’s Contraband, Civilization draws
together the threads of humankind’s ever-changing, frenetic,
collective life across the globe. Visually epic, Civilization is
presented through eight thematic chapters, each featuring powerful
imagery and accompanied by provocative essays, quotes and concise
statements by the artists themselves.
William Wegman is a world-renowned American artist whose paintings,
photographs, videos and drawings have been exhibited in museums and
galleries internationally. Today he is perhaps best known for his
collaborations with his longstanding muses, an ever-expanding cast
of Weimaraners, for whom performing elaborate scenarios or merely
posing demurely for their portraits comes as second nature. Curated
in close collaboration with distinguished photography author
William A. Ewing, William Wegman: Being Human is the most extensive
collection of Wegman's photographic work yet to be published. The
book is organized thematically, presenting a wealth of exceptional
work in such a way as to highlight the versatility of Wegman's
everinventive mind as he explores what it means to be human. From
portraits of characters we so easily recognize - a suburban
housewife, a famous actor, a nightclub singer, a golfer dressed in
plaid - to imagery that toys with a wide range of visual languages,
Wegman quotes freely from fashion photography, Cubism, colour
theory, the tradition of the nude and the history of art itself.
Essays and an interview explore Wegman's approach to his subjects
and their life in the studio. With over 300 images made over the
last four decades, many published here for the first time, William
Wegman: Being Human will delight and engage both those who are new
to Wegman's work and those who have admired his art for many years.
Landscape photography has traveled far from its origins in the
picturesque or pastoral. It is at the cutting edge of contemporary
image-making with leading photographers creating work that
transcends definitions of art or documentary. This is the first
truly international survey of a vibrant, burgeoning field of
photography, its masterful image-makers, and their work. William A.
Ewing has selected more than 230 photographs by over 100
photographers, ranging from renowned figures such as Susan Derges,
Edward Burtynsky, and Simon Norfolk, to younger rising stars
including Pieter Hugo, Olaf Otto Becker, and Penelope Umbrico. Each
of them represents an individual viewpoint of a shared concernfor
our changing landscape and environment. Organized into ten themes
Sublime; Pastoral; Artefacts; Rupture; Playground; Scar; Control;
Enigma; Hallucination; and Reverie Landmark is an intelligent and
poetic survey which captures a genre of photography to perfection."
A construction site offered the scenario for a big photographic
project created by Carlo Valsecchi, the fruit of which is presented
in the pages of this volume. The gaze of Carlo Valsecchi (Brescia,
1965) is educated by a solid artistic preparation: over the course
of many years he's been using photography to investigate
architecture and, in a wider sense, the landscape, both natural and
artificial. Valsecchi interprets these places by offering us a
vision that transcends the space and the contingent moment: his
images invite us to discover a timeless reality, which perhaps will
eventually come: posterius. As William Ewing points out in his long
afterword, Valsecchi gives us images of ethereal, abstract spaces
that border on the surreal, managing to bring out the mystery
inherent in them. Text in English and Italian.
We hurtle together into the future at ever-increasing speed - or so
it seems to the collective psyche. Every day and every hour, human
civilization expands, evolves and mutates. While we frequently
lapse into celebrating the individual at the expense of the group,
in science and art, at work and at play, at home and in transit, we
increasingly live the collective life. Civilization shows how
contemporary photography, notably art photography, is fascinated
by, and attempts to decode and communicate, the way we live today.
This landmark publication is accompanied by an internationally
touring exhibition produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of
Photography - a global cultural event for a global subject.
Civilization is presented through eight thematic chapters, each led
by breathtaking imagery and accompanied by essays, quotes,
commentaries and captions to provide a deeper understanding of its
theme. Visually epic and ambitiously popular in approach, it will
reach out beyond the boundaries of the photography world to connect
with audiences worldwide.
Polaroid founder Edwin Land regarded his invention as more than a
technical accomplishment or a convenient medium for both
professional photographers and consumers - he saw Polaroid as a
means of artistic expression. At Land's behest, and starting from a
collaboration with Ansel Adams in 1949, Polaroid built an artists'
liaison programme in which artists and photographers would donate
prints in return for materials and access to cutting-edge Polaroid
technology - including the legendary 24 x 20 inch Polaroid camera.
Over the next five decades, the Polaroid collections in both the
United States and Europe became world-renowned for the stellar list
of names whose work it contained. Following Polaroid's second
bankruptcy in 2008, the collections were fragmented - the US and
European collections were split and key works were sold at auction.
A comprehensive view of the collection was no longer possible -
until now. With an associated, internationally touring exhibition
opening in June 2017, The Polaroid Project is the only book to
bring together both the outstanding photography created by the
artists and photographers Polaroid worked with, alongside the
technical objects and artifacts from the MIT Museum archive.
Curated by William A. Ewing and Barbara Hitchcock, and with texts
from other leading critics, curators and writers that discuss the
Polaroid phenomenon in terms of artistic output and lasting legacy
on design, technology, society and business, this book is the
definitive publication for the many who have a deep love of
Polaroid.
Vivid, bold, spectacular and unexpected: a definitive overview of
one of contemporary photography’s most innovative fields,
showcasing flower imagery by more than 120 of the world’s leading
practitioners. There has never been a period in photography’s
long history – no school, no movement – when flowers have not
been a central focus, whether in the form of the classic still
life, the botanical study, incorporated into portraiture and
studies of the human body, documented in street photography, or
used subversively in surrealist collage and montage. Today, flower
photography remains in full bloom, with photographers the world
over depicting flowers and floral motifs in novel ways. Featuring
works by more than 120 photographers, Flora Photographica links the
very best of flower photography from the past thirty years with its
predecessors – canonical floral studies from the realms of
photography, botanical illustration, drawing and painting that have
marked the collective imagination for centuries, if not millennia.
Works by contemporary photographers such as Cindy Sherman, Thomas
Ruff, Vik Muniz, Valérie Belin, Viviane Sassen, and Martin
Schoeller appear across nine thematic chapters, complemented by two
in-depth essays by curators William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud
exploring the relationship between contemporary works and the rich
traditions of floral art and photography. Vibrant and abundant with
myriad species of flora, this stunning book is both a celebration
of organic beauty and a keen look at the meaning of flowers in
human culture – not to mention an insightful look at a key aspect
of contemporary photography – making it a must-have publication
for lovers of flowers and photography alike.
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Introducing Suzy Lake (Hardcover)
Georgiana Uhlyarik; Contributions by Sophie Hackett, Anouchka Freybe, Lorraine O'Grady, Leslie Johnstone, …
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Influenced by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Lake's work
demonstrates the innovation and continued influence of the
'Feminist Avant-Garde' movement on contemporary art today. Lake's
work forms part of the public collection at the Albright Knox Art
Gallery, Buffalo, NY as well as within numerous museums and
galleries across Canada. Her work has been exhibited widely,
including in the US at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art; Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles;
National Museum of Women in Art, DC and Santa Monica Museum of Art,
California. This multi-author publication considers how Lake's
ideas and practice developed over time from her hometown of Detroit
to Montreal to Toronto, informed by the cultural character of each
city. Featuring celebrated works as well as newly commissioned
series, Introducing Suzy Lake reveals the richness and originality
of her accomplishments as one of North America's most influential
artists working today.
Out of Focus offers an international perspective on current trends
in photography. The companion to the first major photography
exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery since I Am a Camera in 2001, this
stunning compilation presents 37 international artists working in
the medium photography in diverse, innovative and arresting ways.
Amongst the renowed practitioners: Mitch Epstein and Ryan McGinley
form the USA; Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin from South Africa;
Noemie Goudal from France; JH Engstrom from Sweden; Jonny Briggs,
Mat Collinshaw and John Stezaker from the UK; and David Noonan from
Australia. This stunning, lavishly illustrated volume stnds as a
tribute to the best work being done in photography today.
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