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Subway Memories
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This book of photographs showcases over thirty years of New York subway photography by Chilean-born documentary photographer Camilo José Vergara. Thecolor images document the evolution of the city’s neighbourhoods and offer views of stations, tracks, and trains throughout the urban landscape. They chronicle Vergara’s own exploration of his adopted hometown and of the(...)
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This book of photographs showcases over thirty years of New York subway photography by Chilean-born documentary photographer Camilo José Vergara. Thecolor images document the evolution of the city’s neighbourhoods and offer views of stations, tracks, and trains throughout the urban landscape. They chronicle Vergara’s own exploration of his adopted hometown and of the(...)
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Subway Memories
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This book of photographs showcases over thirty years of New York subway photography by Chilean-born documentary photographer Camilo José Vergara. Thecolor images document the evolution of the city’s neighbourhoods and offer views of stations, tracks, and trains throughout the urban landscape. They chronicle Vergara’s own exploration of his adopted hometown and of the subway that became his conduit of discovery. Vergara’s work dramatizes the vital role of New York’s subway in keeping New York neighborhoods alive and flourishing.
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This book of photographs showcases over thirty years of New York subway photography by Chilean-born documentary photographer Camilo José Vergara. Thecolor images document the evolution of the city’s neighbourhoods and offer views of stations, tracks, and trains throughout the urban landscape. They chronicle Vergara’s own exploration of his adopted hometown and of the subway that became his conduit of discovery. Vergara’s work dramatizes the vital role of New York’s subway in keeping New York neighborhoods alive and flourishing.
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October 2004, New York
October 2004, New York
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Alphavilles?
Alphavilles?
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Livre d'architecture sentimentale, de souvenirs d'architecture collectés au gré des voyages. Une collection d'images de villes et d'architecture dans l'ordre alphabétique qui débute avec Acapulco-Agra-Albuquerque... Ce livre d'images est publié à l'occasion de deux expositions qui vont se situer l'une à Antwerpen (De Singel) et l'autre à Zurich (Kunsthalle). Les images(...)
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Livre d'architecture sentimentale, de souvenirs d'architecture collectés au gré des voyages. Une collection d'images de villes et d'architecture dans l'ordre alphabétique qui débute avec Acapulco-Agra-Albuquerque... Ce livre d'images est publié à l'occasion de deux expositions qui vont se situer l'une à Antwerpen (De Singel) et l'autre à Zurich (Kunsthalle). Les images(...)
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Alphavilles?
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Livre d'architecture sentimentale, de souvenirs d'architecture collectés au gré des voyages. Une collection d'images de villes et d'architecture dans l'ordre alphabétique qui débute avec Acapulco-Agra-Albuquerque... Ce livre d'images est publié à l'occasion de deux expositions qui vont se situer l'une à Antwerpen (De Singel) et l'autre à Zurich (Kunsthalle). Les images de Zurich sont de Peter Fischli et David Weiss.
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Livre d'architecture sentimentale, de souvenirs d'architecture collectés au gré des voyages. Une collection d'images de villes et d'architecture dans l'ordre alphabétique qui débute avec Acapulco-Agra-Albuquerque... Ce livre d'images est publié à l'occasion de deux expositions qui vont se situer l'une à Antwerpen (De Singel) et l'autre à Zurich (Kunsthalle). Les images de Zurich sont de Peter Fischli et David Weiss.
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June 2004, Dijon
June 2004, Dijon
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The Remembered film
The Remembered film
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Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the ‘inside’ of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the ‘outside’ of films speak mainly of such aspects of production and reception as the organization of the film industry and the sociology of audiences: the Hollywood studio system,(...)
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Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the ‘inside’ of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the ‘outside’ of films speak mainly of such aspects of production and reception as the organization of the film industry and the sociology of audiences: the Hollywood studio system,(...)
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The Remembered film
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Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the ‘inside’ of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the ‘outside’ of films speak mainly of such aspects of production and reception as the organization of the film industry and the sociology of audiences: the Hollywood studio system, for example, or fan clubs. The Remembered Film is unique in addressing a previously overlooked aspect of cinema: the isolated fragments of films, iconic images or scenes, that fleetingly cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of everyday life. Victor Burgin examines a kaleidescope of film fragments drawn from a variety of media, the internet, memory and fantasy. Among these are sequences of such brevity they might almost be stills. Such ‘sequence-images’, as Burgin calls them, are neither strictly ‘image’ nor ‘image sequence’ and have not been considered before by either film or photography theory. He also considers some typical individual experiences ‘sampled’ from mainstream cinema. He reflects on such disparate occurrences as the association in memory of fragments from otherwise unrelated films, of the relation of a recollected film image to an architectural setting, or of a feeling ‘marked’ by an image remembered from a film. The Remembered Film provides a radical new way of thinking about film outside conventional cinema, and in relation to our everyday lives. It will appeal to a wide audience interested in film and media.
The Remembered film
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Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the ‘inside’ of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the ‘outside’ of films speak mainly of such aspects of production and reception as the organization of the film industry and the sociology of audiences: the Hollywood studio system, for example, or fan clubs. The Remembered Film is unique in addressing a previously overlooked aspect of cinema: the isolated fragments of films, iconic images or scenes, that fleetingly cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of everyday life. Victor Burgin examines a kaleidescope of film fragments drawn from a variety of media, the internet, memory and fantasy. Among these are sequences of such brevity they might almost be stills. Such ‘sequence-images’, as Burgin calls them, are neither strictly ‘image’ nor ‘image sequence’ and have not been considered before by either film or photography theory. He also considers some typical individual experiences ‘sampled’ from mainstream cinema. He reflects on such disparate occurrences as the association in memory of fragments from otherwise unrelated films, of the relation of a recollected film image to an architectural setting, or of a feeling ‘marked’ by an image remembered from a film. The Remembered Film provides a radical new way of thinking about film outside conventional cinema, and in relation to our everyday lives. It will appeal to a wide audience interested in film and media.
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October 2004, London
October 2004, London
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Despite Bill Brandt’s fame and considerable influence on the development of modern photography, the photographs in this book are a little known body of work. The work was carried out between 1939 and 1943 when Brandt worked on a commercial assignment for the Bournville Village Trust. The prints and negatives have been with BVT for some 60 years and the work has never(...)
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Despite Bill Brandt’s fame and considerable influence on the development of modern photography, the photographs in this book are a little known body of work. The work was carried out between 1939 and 1943 when Brandt worked on a commercial assignment for the Bournville Village Trust. The prints and negatives have been with BVT for some 60 years and the work has never(...)
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November 2004, Birmingham
November 2004, Birmingham
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Homes fit for heroes : photographs by Bill Brandt, 1939-1943
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Despite Bill Brandt’s fame and considerable influence on the development of modern photography, the photographs in this book are a little known body of work. The work was carried out between 1939 and 1943 when Brandt worked on a commercial assignment for the Bournville Village Trust. The prints and negatives have been with BVT for some 60 years and the work has never been previously published. The photographs illustrate the living conditions in a range of housing types. For example, the back-to-back slums built in the nineteenth century through to modern municipal housing built in the 1930s. The majority of the photographs were taken in Birmingham but also some in London where he looked at ‘old residential’ properties near to his own home in Camden Hill. London was undoubtedly one of Brandt’s favourite subjects and these photographs, taken around 1943, are amongst a much larger body of work Brandt shot in the capital city during the war-years. The Bourneville Village Trust was set up by George Cadbury in 1900 to manage the Bournville Estate, the model housing development which he created near his factory on the outskirts of Birmingham. The objects of the trust included: “the amelioration of the conditions of the working class population of Birmingham and elsewhere in Great Britain”. Many books and articles published around this time sought to address the issue of the living conditions of the working classes and photography played a key role. The images form distinct picture stories where direct contrasts are made between slum and municipal housing. Brandt also uses light very carefully within these images to emphasise these contrasts. A number of the stories follow a distinct narrative sequence – through the idea of ‘a day in the life’ – a device frequently used in the influential magazine, "Picture Post", for which Brandt often worked.
Homes fit for heroes : photographs by Bill Brandt, 1939-1943
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Despite Bill Brandt’s fame and considerable influence on the development of modern photography, the photographs in this book are a little known body of work. The work was carried out between 1939 and 1943 when Brandt worked on a commercial assignment for the Bournville Village Trust. The prints and negatives have been with BVT for some 60 years and the work has never been previously published. The photographs illustrate the living conditions in a range of housing types. For example, the back-to-back slums built in the nineteenth century through to modern municipal housing built in the 1930s. The majority of the photographs were taken in Birmingham but also some in London where he looked at ‘old residential’ properties near to his own home in Camden Hill. London was undoubtedly one of Brandt’s favourite subjects and these photographs, taken around 1943, are amongst a much larger body of work Brandt shot in the capital city during the war-years. The Bourneville Village Trust was set up by George Cadbury in 1900 to manage the Bournville Estate, the model housing development which he created near his factory on the outskirts of Birmingham. The objects of the trust included: “the amelioration of the conditions of the working class population of Birmingham and elsewhere in Great Britain”. Many books and articles published around this time sought to address the issue of the living conditions of the working classes and photography played a key role. The images form distinct picture stories where direct contrasts are made between slum and municipal housing. Brandt also uses light very carefully within these images to emphasise these contrasts. A number of the stories follow a distinct narrative sequence – through the idea of ‘a day in the life’ – a device frequently used in the influential magazine, "Picture Post", for which Brandt often worked.
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November 2004, Birmingham
November 2004, Birmingham
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Ces photographies, couvrant plus de dix ans d'activités de l'artiste à Paris, Berlin, Séoul, Pékin ou San Diego, expérimentent une mise en forme spécifique du chaos visuel. A partir de sa formation en photographie d'architecture, il en transcende les thèmes et les motifs par la maîtrise de la composition, de la couleur et du format qui sont proches d'une esthétique picturale.
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Ces photographies, couvrant plus de dix ans d'activités de l'artiste à Paris, Berlin, Séoul, Pékin ou San Diego, expérimentent une mise en forme spécifique du chaos visuel. A partir de sa formation en photographie d'architecture, il en transcende les thèmes et les motifs par la maîtrise de la composition, de la couleur et du format qui sont proches d'une esthétique picturale.
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Stéphane Couturier : mutations
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Ces photographies, couvrant plus de dix ans d'activités de l'artiste à Paris, Berlin, Séoul, Pékin ou San Diego, expérimentent une mise en forme spécifique du chaos visuel. A partir de sa formation en photographie d'architecture, il en transcende les thèmes et les motifs par la maîtrise de la composition, de la couleur et du format qui sont proches d'une esthétique picturale.
Stéphane Couturier : mutations
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Ces photographies, couvrant plus de dix ans d'activités de l'artiste à Paris, Berlin, Séoul, Pékin ou San Diego, expérimentent une mise en forme spécifique du chaos visuel. A partir de sa formation en photographie d'architecture, il en transcende les thèmes et les motifs par la maîtrise de la composition, de la couleur et du format qui sont proches d'une esthétique picturale.
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June 2004, Paris
June 2004, Paris
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A shard is a fragment of broken pottery, often used by archaeologists to reconstruct objects from past civilizations. In "Shards of America", Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American’s towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their(...)
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A shard is a fragment of broken pottery, often used by archaeologists to reconstruct objects from past civilizations. In "Shards of America", Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American’s towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their(...)
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Phil Bergerson : shards of America
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A shard is a fragment of broken pottery, often used by archaeologists to reconstruct objects from past civilizations. In "Shards of America", Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American’s towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their presence, offer their services, and pitch their messages, while commercial signs, graffiti, posters, and public notices blanket the surfaces of buildings and public spaces. Paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti, and children’s letters and drawings are laid out as artifacts of a greater whole. Patriotism, consumerism, censorship, nostalgia for a simpler past coupled with a desire for a less complicated present. Touching on all these themes, Bergerson’s quietly ironic but empathetic tone encourages the reader to imagine how our own ordinary world might appear to viewers in a hundred or more years’ time. An essay by photographic historian David Harris illuminates the work.
Phil Bergerson : shards of America
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A shard is a fragment of broken pottery, often used by archaeologists to reconstruct objects from past civilizations. In "Shards of America", Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has gathered richly detailed images from neglected corners of American’s towns and small cities, and created a fascinating mosaic. Businesses, religious sects, and community groups announce their presence, offer their services, and pitch their messages, while commercial signs, graffiti, posters, and public notices blanket the surfaces of buildings and public spaces. Paintings and movie posters, dime-store novels and daily newspapers, figurines and mannequins, decals and stenciled graffiti, and children’s letters and drawings are laid out as artifacts of a greater whole. Patriotism, consumerism, censorship, nostalgia for a simpler past coupled with a desire for a less complicated present. Touching on all these themes, Bergerson’s quietly ironic but empathetic tone encourages the reader to imagine how our own ordinary world might appear to viewers in a hundred or more years’ time. An essay by photographic historian David Harris illuminates the work.
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September 2004, New York
September 2004, New York
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This illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regneault (1810-1878)in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regneault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Société française de photographie (S.F.P.)(...)
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This illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regneault (1810-1878)in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regneault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Société française de photographie (S.F.P.)(...)
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Victor Regnault and the advance of photography : the art of avoiding errors
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This illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regneault (1810-1878)in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regneault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Société française de photographie (S.F.P.) and as the maker of more than two hundred calotype (paper negative) portraits and landscapes.
Victor Regnault and the advance of photography : the art of avoiding errors
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This illustrated book establishes the towering influence of the scientist Victor Regneault (1810-1878)in the earliest decades of photography, a period of experimentation ripe with artistic, commercial, and scientific possibility. Regneault has a double significance to the early history of photography, as the first leader of the Société française de photographie (S.F.P.) and as the maker of more than two hundred calotype (paper negative) portraits and landscapes.
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January 2005, Princeton
January 2005, Princeton
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In "Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist", Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crutial role in teaching him the techniques as well as the larger context of the(...)
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In "Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist", Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crutial role in teaching him the techniques as well as the larger context of the(...)
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Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist
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In "Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist", Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crutial role in teaching him the techniques as well as the larger context of the turn-of-the-century craze for amateur photography.
Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist
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In "Jacques Henri Lartigue : the invention of an artist", Kevin Moore puts to rest the long-held myth of Lartigue as a naive boy genius whose creations were based on instinct alone. Moore begins by exploring the milieu in which Lartigue became a photographer, examining his father's crutial role in teaching him the techniques as well as the larger context of the turn-of-the-century craze for amateur photography.
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October 2004, Princeton
October 2004, Princeton
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Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England’s most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the “golden age” of this radically new medium. Fenton’s majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain’s power. But Fenton’s(...)
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Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England’s most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the “golden age” of this radically new medium. Fenton’s majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain’s power. But Fenton’s(...)
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Photography monographs
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November 2004, New Haven, London
November 2004, New Haven, London
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All the mighty world : the photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860
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Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England’s most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the “golden age” of this radically new medium. Fenton’s majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain’s power. But Fenton’s choice of subjects ranged more widely still: he was among the first to photograph the Kremlin and other landmarks of Moscow and Kiev; he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, producing early war photographs; and he created theatrical Orientalist costume pictures and a startling series of lush still lifes. Fenton had first studied law and painting, but soon after he took up the camera he was making photographs that were technically superb and highly original in their handling of composition, perspective, atmosphere, and light. Always he strove to demonstrate that photography could equal the art of painting and even surpass it. He was the force behind the founding of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society), which worked to advance the profession and encouraged the exhibition of members’ works throughout Britain. In a career of a single decade, Fenton did much to transform photography into a medium of powerful expression and visual delight. This exquisitely produced book--the first comprehensive publication on Fenton in almost twenty years--presents eighty-five of the artist’s finest photographs and discusses every aspect of his work and his remarkable career. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (October 17, 2004, to January 2, 2005); the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (February 1 to April 25, 2005); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 16 to August 14, 2005); and Tate Britain, London (September 25, 2005, to January 2, 2006).
All the mighty world : the photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860
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Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England’s most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the “golden age” of this radically new medium. Fenton’s majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain’s power. But Fenton’s choice of subjects ranged more widely still: he was among the first to photograph the Kremlin and other landmarks of Moscow and Kiev; he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, producing early war photographs; and he created theatrical Orientalist costume pictures and a startling series of lush still lifes. Fenton had first studied law and painting, but soon after he took up the camera he was making photographs that were technically superb and highly original in their handling of composition, perspective, atmosphere, and light. Always he strove to demonstrate that photography could equal the art of painting and even surpass it. He was the force behind the founding of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society), which worked to advance the profession and encouraged the exhibition of members’ works throughout Britain. In a career of a single decade, Fenton did much to transform photography into a medium of powerful expression and visual delight. This exquisitely produced book--the first comprehensive publication on Fenton in almost twenty years--presents eighty-five of the artist’s finest photographs and discusses every aspect of his work and his remarkable career. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (October 17, 2004, to January 2, 2005); the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (February 1 to April 25, 2005); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 16 to August 14, 2005); and Tate Britain, London (September 25, 2005, to January 2, 2006).
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November 2004, New Haven, London
November 2004, New Haven, London
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Photography monographs
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The Maze : Donovan Wylie
The Maze : Donovan Wylie
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For nearly thirty years, the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. Built in 1976 to house political prisoners, segregation was so fierce it lead to scenes of violent protests, hunger strikes, mass escapes, and deaths of both prisoners and prison staff. At its peak capacity in the 1980s the Maze housed more than(...)
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For nearly thirty years, the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. Built in 1976 to house political prisoners, segregation was so fierce it lead to scenes of violent protests, hunger strikes, mass escapes, and deaths of both prisoners and prison staff. At its peak capacity in the 1980s the Maze housed more than(...)
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The Maze : Donovan Wylie
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For nearly thirty years, the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. Built in 1976 to house political prisoners, segregation was so fierce it lead to scenes of violent protests, hunger strikes, mass escapes, and deaths of both prisoners and prison staff. At its peak capacity in the 1980s the Maze housed more than 1,700 prisoners, but in September 2000, under the terms of the Good Friday agreement, the prison was closed and the last four prisoners were transferred to other prisons in Northern Ireland. Now, a handful of prison officers staff the empty complex while the future of the site is debated. The prison’s current state of limbo and the unanswered questions regarding its fate seem to reflect Northern Ireland’s unsteady progress in grappling with its recent history. Earlier this year, the Northern Ireland Prison Service gave Donovan Wylie exclusive and unprecedented permission to photograph throughout the entire prison complex without supervision. The result is a book which documents the physical structure and at the same time, through the quantity and style of the photographs, to give the viewer some experience of the psychological impact of being inside the Maze prison. With a text by Louise Purbrick, Senior Lecturer in History and Design at Brighton University, and a timeline history of the prison and its prisoners as they relate to the history of the Troubles, this book records and preserves a unique physical structure that has played an important role in our recent history.
The Maze : Donovan Wylie
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For nearly thirty years, the Maze prison, ten miles outside Belfast, played a unique role in the Northern Ireland troubles. Built in 1976 to house political prisoners, segregation was so fierce it lead to scenes of violent protests, hunger strikes, mass escapes, and deaths of both prisoners and prison staff. At its peak capacity in the 1980s the Maze housed more than 1,700 prisoners, but in September 2000, under the terms of the Good Friday agreement, the prison was closed and the last four prisoners were transferred to other prisons in Northern Ireland. Now, a handful of prison officers staff the empty complex while the future of the site is debated. The prison’s current state of limbo and the unanswered questions regarding its fate seem to reflect Northern Ireland’s unsteady progress in grappling with its recent history. Earlier this year, the Northern Ireland Prison Service gave Donovan Wylie exclusive and unprecedented permission to photograph throughout the entire prison complex without supervision. The result is a book which documents the physical structure and at the same time, through the quantity and style of the photographs, to give the viewer some experience of the psychological impact of being inside the Maze prison. With a text by Louise Purbrick, Senior Lecturer in History and Design at Brighton University, and a timeline history of the prison and its prisoners as they relate to the history of the Troubles, this book records and preserves a unique physical structure that has played an important role in our recent history.
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August 2004, London
August 2004, London
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Photography monographs
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