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Richly illustrated with etchings, manuscripts, and old documents, this book retraces the epic tale of the automaton from ancient times up to the present day. Wondrous objects that are at once scientific and magical, automata testify to the technical research and inventiveness of their designers. In 1675, the astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens invented the(...)
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Richly illustrated with etchings, manuscripts, and old documents, this book retraces the epic tale of the automaton from ancient times up to the present day. Wondrous objects that are at once scientific and magical, automata testify to the technical research and inventiveness of their designers. In 1675, the astronomer and mathematician Christian Huygens invented the spiral spring that would play a leading role in the development of smaller and more precise watches, with highly complex mechanisms. The creation of more complicated wheelwork and the use of extremely meticulous spiral springs gave free rein to clockmakers’ imaginations, who invented animated objects that fascinated philosophers and scientists alike. Doctors, thespians and thinkers of the modern world all saw these increasingly lifelike automata: wonderful simulacra of life. These articulated figurines were to inspire thought, science, literature, the performing arts and more. Continuing this tradition, the house of Van Cleef & Arpels has harnessed all of its designers’ talents to create an exceptional automaton: a fairy, whose movements celebrate the art of the inventors of past centuries. Immersed in its designer’s studio, the reader sees an automaton come to life. "Automata" is the most substantial survey of this popular topic currently available.
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Evelyn Hofer: New York
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The starting point for this publication is the 1965 book ''New York Proclaimed'', which features an in-depth essay by V.S. Pritchett and photos by Evelyn Hofer (1922–2009), and which enjoyed great popularity upon its original publication.This newly conceived ''New York'' focuses on Hofer's photos of the 1960s as well as previously unpublished images from the early 1970s.(...)
Evelyn Hofer: New York
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The starting point for this publication is the 1965 book ''New York Proclaimed'', which features an in-depth essay by V.S. Pritchett and photos by Evelyn Hofer (1922–2009), and which enjoyed great popularity upon its original publication.This newly conceived ''New York'' focuses on Hofer's photos of the 1960s as well as previously unpublished images from the early 1970s. In Hofer's photos of the street and (semi-) public spaces, people and architecture become symbols of a particular time and place. ''New York'' contains a new essay by John Haskell that posits possible stories behind Hofer's photos and draws connections between images taken over the course of ten years.
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Daido Moriyama: record
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Inspired by Japanese photographers, as well as by William Klein’s seminal photography book on New York, Daido Moriyama moved from Osaka to Tokyo in the early sixties to become a photographer. He became the leading exponent of a fierce new photographic style that corresponded perfectly to the abrasive and intense climate of Tokyo during a period of great social upheaval.(...)
Daido Moriyama: record
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Inspired by Japanese photographers, as well as by William Klein’s seminal photography book on New York, Daido Moriyama moved from Osaka to Tokyo in the early sixties to become a photographer. He became the leading exponent of a fierce new photographic style that corresponded perfectly to the abrasive and intense climate of Tokyo during a period of great social upheaval. Between June 1972 and July 1973 Moriyama produced his own magazine publication, Kiroku, which was then referred to as Record. It became a diaristic journal of his work as it developed. Ten years ago, after a decades-long interval, he was able to resume publication of Record. Now this book collects work from all thirty published issues, edited into a single sequence, punctuated by Moriyama’s own text as it appeared in the magazine. Produced at the magazine’s original size, with an introduction by Mark Holborn, this volume features more than 200 works from throughout the magazine’s history. It used to be assumed that Moriyama’s peculiarly Japanese style was tied to his Tokyo roots. The evidence of the last ten years demonstrates that Moriyama, a restless world traveler, has been able to apply his unique vision to northern Europe; southern France; the cities of Florence, London, Barcelona, Taipei, Hong Kong, New York, and Los Angeles as well as the alleys of Osaka; the landscape of Hokkaido; and Afghanistan.
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Helen Levitt’s earliest pictures are a unique and irreplaceable look at street life in New York City from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1940s. There are children at play, lovers flirting, husbands and wives, young mothers with their babies, women gossiping, and lonely old men. A majority of these photographs have never been published. Other pictures included in this(...)
Helen Levitt: one, two, three, more
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Helen Levitt’s earliest pictures are a unique and irreplaceable look at street life in New York City from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1940s. There are children at play, lovers flirting, husbands and wives, young mothers with their babies, women gossiping, and lonely old men. A majority of these photographs have never been published. Other pictures included in this book are now world-famous, now part of the standard history of photography. Together they provide a record of New York not seen since Levitt’s pioneering solo show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1943.
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L’Inde occupe une place toute particulière dans le cœur du photographe Steve McCurry. On la retrouve dans beaucoup de ses plus grandes photographies. Ce livre inclut 150 de ses clichés iconiques, reproduits en grand format et accompagnés d’une introduction évocatrice. « Inde » de Steve McCurry, portrait de l’un des pays les plus trépidants, est la nouvelle collection des(...)
Inde
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L’Inde occupe une place toute particulière dans le cœur du photographe Steve McCurry. On la retrouve dans beaucoup de ses plus grandes photographies. Ce livre inclut 150 de ses clichés iconiques, reproduits en grand format et accompagnés d’une introduction évocatrice. « Inde » de Steve McCurry, portrait de l’un des pays les plus trépidants, est la nouvelle collection des superbes et puissants clichés du photographe, présentée dans une édition à la couverture souple.
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March 2020
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« Steve McCurry : Inédit » dévoile les coulisses du travail de l’un des photographes les plus talentueux de notre époque. On y découvre les voyages, les méthodes et la magie qui se cachent derrière ses célèbres clichés, mais aussi les histoires derrière les missions majeures réalisées pour « National Geographic » et bien plus encore, notamment ses retrouvailles avec la(...)
Inédit : les histoires à l'origine des photographies
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« Steve McCurry : Inédit » dévoile les coulisses du travail de l’un des photographes les plus talentueux de notre époque. On y découvre les voyages, les méthodes et la magie qui se cachent derrière ses célèbres clichés, mais aussi les histoires derrière les missions majeures réalisées pour « National Geographic » et bien plus encore, notamment ses retrouvailles avec la désormais légendaire « Jeune Afghane ». Chaque histoire est illustrée de notes, de photographies et de documents inédits issus des archives privées du photographe.
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March 2020
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This book presents an overview of the avant-garde photographic oeuvre of Shigeru Onishi from the 1950s. Whether depicting nudes, cityscapes, trees or interiors (or combinations of these realized through multiple exposures or photomontages), most striking about Onishi’s photos are his unorthodox printing methods: using a brush to coat the photographic paper with emulsion,(...)
Onishi Shigeru : A metamathematical proposition
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This book presents an overview of the avant-garde photographic oeuvre of Shigeru Onishi from the 1950s. Whether depicting nudes, cityscapes, trees or interiors (or combinations of these realized through multiple exposures or photomontages), most striking about Onishi’s photos are his unorthodox printing methods: using a brush to coat the photographic paper with emulsion, fogging, discoloration with acetic acid, creating the effect that the fixing process was incomplete, and color correction by varying the temperature during development. The painterly results show Onishi’s interest to be not conventional representation but, in his words, the visual “formation of ideas,” and bringing out “the flavors of the image as they change” by embracing all aspects of chance involved in the photographic process. “In truth,” he argues, “if your photograph consists only of planned elements, it is essentially identical to a drawing of a single equilateral triangle.”
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Denmark’s best-known photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen published his first photobook, 122 Colour Photographs, in 1948. His work was immediately notable for its inventive composition, which turned landscapes and buildings into abstract patterns, and for the photographer’s embrace of color at a time when only black-and-white photography was considered serious. When Life(...)
Keld Helmer-Petersen: photographs 1941-2013
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Denmark’s best-known photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen published his first photobook, 122 Colour Photographs, in 1948. His work was immediately notable for its inventive composition, which turned landscapes and buildings into abstract patterns, and for the photographer’s embrace of color at a time when only black-and-white photography was considered serious. When Life magazine reproduced several pages from the book in 1949, Helmer-Petersen’s vision found a wide, international audience for the first time. Helmer-Petersen’s style was experimental modernism tempered by a lyrical simplicity and a sense of keen, quiet observation. By isolating details and compressing visual space, the photographer turned the real world into vibrant, graphic pattern. “The pictures aim at illustrating nothing whatever beyond the fact that we are surrounded by many beautiful and exciting things,” Helmer-Petersen said. “And that there can be a great deal of pleasure in spotting them and capturing their beauty by means of color photography.”
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Philipp Keel: Last summer
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In ''Last summer,'' the Zurich-based artist, writer and publisher Philipp Keel (born 1968) presents new still lifes and images of incidental poetry: pictures of palms, pools and drinks, depicted in a seemingly cool and summery mood. Common to them all is Keel’s eye for details, and yet on closer inspection melancholy permeates many of his works. One of the great strengths(...)
Philipp Keel: Last summer
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In ''Last summer,'' the Zurich-based artist, writer and publisher Philipp Keel (born 1968) presents new still lifes and images of incidental poetry: pictures of palms, pools and drinks, depicted in a seemingly cool and summery mood. Common to them all is Keel’s eye for details, and yet on closer inspection melancholy permeates many of his works. One of the great strengths of Keel’s works is that they stay subtle and reserved.
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With "Atacama", Jamey Stillings again shares his distinctive aerial perspective to examine dramatic large-scale renewable energy projects, the visual dynamic of enormous mining operations and the stark beauty of the Atacama Desert, so often scarred by human activity. Chile produces a third of the world’s copper and has the largest known lithium reserves, and we utilize(...)
Jamey Stillings: Atacama, renewable energy and mining in the high desert of Chile
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With "Atacama", Jamey Stillings again shares his distinctive aerial perspective to examine dramatic large-scale renewable energy projects, the visual dynamic of enormous mining operations and the stark beauty of the Atacama Desert, so often scarred by human activity. Chile produces a third of the world’s copper and has the largest known lithium reserves, and we utilize these resources daily in our cars, computers and smartphones. The country’s mining industry has traditionally been dependent on imported coal, diesel and natural gas for its energy. Yet the Atacama Desert has excellent solar and wind potential: new renewable energy projects there now supply significant electricity to the northern grid, transmit power to population centers in the south, and are reducing mining’s dependence on fossil fuel. Stillings’ aesthetic interest in the human-altered landscape and concerns for environmental sustainability are principal pillars of his work. His photography elicits a critical dialogue about meeting our needs and desires while seeking equilibrium between nature and human activity. "Atacama," the latest chapter in his ongoing project "Changing perspectives," shows how photography can concurrently be a source of inspiration, motivation and information, and reminds us that a carbon-constrained future is crucial to a responsible approach to life on earth.
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