Gerhard Richter : sils
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"Sils" opened a new collection of small-format artist’s books published by Ivorypress and desig-ned by the artists themselves. The book, designed by Gerhard Richter, includes photographs taken and painted-over by the artist, as well as texts by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Peter André Bloch.
Gerhard Richter : sils
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"Sils" opened a new collection of small-format artist’s books published by Ivorypress and desig-ned by the artists themselves. The book, designed by Gerhard Richter, includes photographs taken and painted-over by the artist, as well as texts by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Peter André Bloch.
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John Gutmann (1905–1998) was one of America’s most distinctive photographers. Born in Germany where he trained as an artist and art teacher, he fled the Nazis in 1933 and settled in San Francisco, reinventing himself as a photo-reporter. Gutmann captured images of American culture, celebrating signs of a vibrant democracy, however imperfect. His own status as an(...)
January 2009
John Gutmann: the photographer at work
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John Gutmann (1905–1998) was one of America’s most distinctive photographers. Born in Germany where he trained as an artist and art teacher, he fled the Nazis in 1933 and settled in San Francisco, reinventing himself as a photo-reporter. Gutmann captured images of American culture, celebrating signs of a vibrant democracy, however imperfect. His own status as an outsider—a Jew in Germany, a naturalized citizen in the United States—informed his focus on individuals from the Asian-American, African-American, and gay communities, as well as his photography in India, Burma, and China during World War II. This book acknowledges Gutmann’s place in the history of photography. Drawing on his archive of photographs and papers at the Center for Creative Photography, it presents both unfamiliar works and little-known contexts for his imagery, linking his photography to his passionate interest in painting and filmmaking, his collections of non-Western art and artifacts, and his pedagogy.
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An archaeologist of haunted walls and loaded spaces, Robert Polidori photographs the inside and the outside of private and public dwellings as they transition from one state to another, whether from humble household to horrific disaster zone, or dilapidated grandeur to hygienic modernity. Some Points in Between assembles, for the first time, each of Robert Polidori's(...)
Some points between...up till now
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An archaeologist of haunted walls and loaded spaces, Robert Polidori photographs the inside and the outside of private and public dwellings as they transition from one state to another, whether from humble household to horrific disaster zone, or dilapidated grandeur to hygienic modernity. Some Points in Between assembles, for the first time, each of Robert Polidori's major photographic series in one affordably priced volume: Beirut (on post-civil-war Lebanon), Versailles (on the restoration of the palace), Havana (on Castro's Cuba), After the Flood (on post-Katrina New Orleans) and Zones of Exclusion (on the nuclear disasters at Pripyat and Chernobyl).
Photography monographs
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No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore(...)
Andrew Moore: Detroit disassembled
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No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in which the ordinary flow of time-or the forward march of the assembly line-appears to have been thrown spectacularly into reverse.
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A second-generation student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, photographer Boris Becker organizes his serial works by formal motifs and color accents. His encyclopedic compendium of Second World War German bunkers encompasses 700 images; others document apartment blocks, and more recent series include Fakes, photographs of objects designed to smuggle drugs.
Boris Becker : photographs, 1984-2009
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A second-generation student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, photographer Boris Becker organizes his serial works by formal motifs and color accents. His encyclopedic compendium of Second World War German bunkers encompasses 700 images; others document apartment blocks, and more recent series include Fakes, photographs of objects designed to smuggle drugs.
Photography monographs
Maurice Demers, oeuvre d'art totale : des environnements participatifs à la création collective
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Entre 1960 et 1970, le monde de l'art délaisse massivement les galeries et les musées pour envahir avec enthousiasme et candeur les espaces publics. On explore en ces lieux de nouvelles formes d'expression artistique?: la création collective, l'improvisation, les installations multimédias. De cette effer-vescence est né un nouveau genre artistique?: l'environnement(...)
Maurice Demers, oeuvre d'art totale : des environnements participatifs à la création collective
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Entre 1960 et 1970, le monde de l'art délaisse massivement les galeries et les musées pour envahir avec enthousiasme et candeur les espaces publics. On explore en ces lieux de nouvelles formes d'expression artistique?: la création collective, l'improvisation, les installations multimédias. De cette effer-vescence est né un nouveau genre artistique?: l'environnement participatif. Cette pratique développe et revendique un art créé par et pour tous et toutes. Interactif, multidisciplinaire, ouvert sur le monde, ce genre artistique est soutenu par un idéal?: l'ouvre d'art total. Au Québec, l'artiste Maurice Demers, dont les créations collectives ont marqué les esprits à la fin des années 1960, incarne à -merveille cette quête à la fois culturelle, sociale et esthétique. Dans ce premier essai consacré au travail de Maurice Demers, l'auteur nous fait découvrir les ouvres de l'artiste et, du même souffle, évoque les grands enjeux de l'époque?: la syndicalisation, le féminisme, la critique de la société de consommation, l'identité collective québécoise, etc.
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Joel Tettamanti: Davos
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Davos is known worldwide as one of the most beautiful and exclusive skiing resorts in the world—and as the site of the annual World Economic Forum’s summit of global leaders. This unexpected look at Davos comes via the lens of Joël Tettamanti, a rising star in Swiss art circles. As the accompanying essay by curator Walter Keller explains, Tettamanti’s work presents(...)
Joel Tettamanti: Davos
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Davos is known worldwide as one of the most beautiful and exclusive skiing resorts in the world—and as the site of the annual World Economic Forum’s summit of global leaders. This unexpected look at Davos comes via the lens of Joël Tettamanti, a rising star in Swiss art circles. As the accompanying essay by curator Walter Keller explains, Tettamanti’s work presents the resort as an open-ended location whose meanings aren’t—despite its fame—in any way predetermined. Instead, he asks the viewer to experience the city in its totality, paying attention to the landscape, climate, people, dreams, and debris alike.
Photography monographs
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Over the past ten years, Vietnam-born Swiss photographer Cat Tuong Nguyen has gained international recognition for his highly individual, intelligent, and poetic work. Nguyen’s photos confront viewers with strange, humorous, and mysterious images, challenging them to investigate their everyday reality. The first book to collect Nguyen’s art, Underdog Suite brings together(...)
Photography monographs
February 2010
Cat Tuong Nguyen: underdog suite
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Over the past ten years, Vietnam-born Swiss photographer Cat Tuong Nguyen has gained international recognition for his highly individual, intelligent, and poetic work. Nguyen’s photos confront viewers with strange, humorous, and mysterious images, challenging them to investigate their everyday reality. The first book to collect Nguyen’s art, Underdog Suite brings together in one volume his photographs, collages, and unique painted-over magazine pictures.
Photography monographs
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The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than thirty years, "Framing the West" offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon. The book features previously unpublished and rarely seen images and serves as a field guide for O'Sullivan's original prints, presenting them for(...)
Framing the West: the survey of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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The first major publication on O'Sullivan in more than thirty years, "Framing the West" offers a new aesthetic and formal interpretation of O'Sullivan's photographs and assesses his influence on the larger photographic canon. The book features previously unpublished and rarely seen images and serves as a field guide for O'Sullivan's original prints, presenting them for the first time in sequence with the chronology of their production. Trained under Mathew Brady, O'Sullivan accompanied several government expeditions to the West - most notably with geologist Clarence King in 1867 and cartographer George M. Wheeler in 1871.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. Following World War II, he helped found the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while(...)
Henri Cartier-Bresson : the modern century
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most influential and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. Following World War II, he helped found the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while retaining control over their work. Cartier-Bresson would go on to produce major bodies of photographic reportage, capturing such events as China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, the United States in the postwar boom and Europe as its older cultures confronted modern realities. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this is the first major publication to make full use of the extensive holdings of the Fondation Cartier-Bresson — including thousands of prints and a vast resource of documents relating to the photographer's life and work. The heart of the book surveys Cartier-Bresson's career through 300 photographs divided into 12 chapters. While many of his most famous pictures are included, a great number of images will be unfamiliar even to specialists. A wide-ranging essay by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum, offers an entirely new understanding of Cartier-Bresson's extraordinary career and its overlapping contexts of journalism and art. The extensive supporting material — featuring detailed chronologies of the photographer's professional travels and of spreads of his picture stories as they appeared in magazines — will revolutionize the study of Cartier-Bresson's work.
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