Andy Warhol: China 1982
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A documentation of Andy Warhol's 1982 visit to China, this volume offers a unique glimpse of the international pop star by Christopher Makos, his personal photographer. With the advantage of hindsight, this volume becomes complexly ironic--in China in the 80s, almost no one knew who Warhol was. Just a few decades later, in 2006, Warhol's 1972 "Mao" sold for $17.4 million(...)
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A documentation of Andy Warhol's 1982 visit to China, this volume offers a unique glimpse of the international pop star by Christopher Makos, his personal photographer. With the advantage of hindsight, this volume becomes complexly ironic--in China in the 80s, almost no one knew who Warhol was. Just a few decades later, in 2006, Warhol's 1972 "Mao" sold for $17.4 million to a Hong Kong real estate tycoon. And Chinese artists have, for years, been incorporating Western pop iconography into their work. Photographer Christopher Makos became known in the 1970s for his candid shots of Warhol. Henry Geldzahler, the former Curator of Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has written: "It is a great asset in Chris Makos' photographs that they reveal new and unfamiliar faces of the legendary pop figure..."
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Zoe Leonard: photographs
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Zoe Leonard’s practice involves a type of cerebral roaming combined with carefully considered observation. For more than 20 years she has criss-crossed nature and culture, cityscapes and museums, always searching for signs that say something about structures, about natural and cultural conditions and the contradictions, parallels and connections among them. Leonard's(...)
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Zoe Leonard’s practice involves a type of cerebral roaming combined with carefully considered observation. For more than 20 years she has criss-crossed nature and culture, cityscapes and museums, always searching for signs that say something about structures, about natural and cultural conditions and the contradictions, parallels and connections among them. Leonard's photographs – of anatomical wax figures, fashion shows, trees and fences – present figures in sparse black-and-white images that open up a visual field of thought and reveal within it our visible world, that is, the concrete and established structures that make up our reality. At documenta 9 in Kassel Leonard created a stir with her placement of black-and-white photographs of female genitalia in the context of a male-dominated museum. The political aspects of her work form the backdrop of her constant struggle with shape, with imagery, with the union of symbols and content. This is the first book encompassing her complete oeuvre.
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Catherine Opie: American Photographer, organized by Jennifer Blessing with Nat Trotman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 26, 2008 - January 7, 2009.
Catherine Opie: american photographer
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Catherine Opie: American Photographer, organized by Jennifer Blessing with Nat Trotman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 26, 2008 - January 7, 2009.
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Throughout his tenure as a registry clerk with the Immigration Division of Ellis Island, Augustus F. Sherman systematically photographed more than 200 families, groups, and individuals while they were being held by customs for special investigations. This volume collects and provides an essential revaluation of Sherman’s striking portraits, which predate August Sander’s(...)
Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island portraits 1905-1920
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Throughout his tenure as a registry clerk with the Immigration Division of Ellis Island, Augustus F. Sherman systematically photographed more than 200 families, groups, and individuals while they were being held by customs for special investigations. This volume collects and provides an essential revaluation of Sherman’s striking portraits, which predate August Sander’s cataloging efforts by several years. A historical document of unprecedented worth, Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits includes almost one-hundred portraits taken from 1904 through 1920. The subjects are frequently dressed in elaborate national costumes or folk dress, emphasizing the variety and richness of the cultural heritage that came together to form the United States. Romanian shepherds, German stowaways, Russian vegetarians, Greek priests, and Ghanaian women in elaborately patterned dresses, are treated with equal gravitas. The resulting body of work presents a unique and powerful picture of the stream of immigrants who came through Ellis Island. In its time, the material contributed to the larger project of ethnographic categorization and typology typical of the early twentieth century, much as Edward S. Curtis’s portraits romanticized the “last Indians” or John Thomson’s “Street Life in London” identified and codified social class in the late 1800s. Though originally taken for his own personal study, Sherman’s work appeared in the public eye as illustrations for publications with titles such as “Alien or American,” and hung on the walls of the custom offices as cautionary or exemplary models of the new American species. In this book, Peter Mesenhöller, Research Associate with the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum of Anthropology in Cologne, Germany provides new critical context and analysis of this rich collection, but also addresses the individual images as powerful, engaging photographs created by a master portraitist.
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Bright, bright day
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White Space Gallery, in association with the Tarkovsky Foundation, has published a book of previously unseen photographs by the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932 - 1986). The book's launch will coincide with the exhibition Polaroids by Andrey Tarkovsky at White Space Gallery in London (22 November - 20 January 2008) and celebrates the 75th anniversary of(...)
Bright, bright day
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White Space Gallery, in association with the Tarkovsky Foundation, has published a book of previously unseen photographs by the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932 - 1986). The book's launch will coincide with the exhibition Polaroids by Andrey Tarkovsky at White Space Gallery in London (22 November - 20 January 2008) and celebrates the 75th anniversary of the filmmaker's birth.
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It's impossible not to think, even upon close inspection, that Olivo Barbieri's photographs aren't images of obsessively detailed architectural maquettes. The trees seem plastic, the cars resemble toys and the buildings look as though they would fall over if you so much as breathed on them. The Waterfall Project brings this unreal quality to landscape, specifically to(...)
Olivo Barbieri: the waterfall project
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It's impossible not to think, even upon close inspection, that Olivo Barbieri's photographs aren't images of obsessively detailed architectural maquettes. The trees seem plastic, the cars resemble toys and the buildings look as though they would fall over if you so much as breathed on them. The Waterfall Project brings this unreal quality to landscape, specifically to such touristy waterfalls as Victoria (Zambia/ Zimbabwe), Iguazu (Argentina, Brazil), Khone Papeng (Laos/Cambodia) and Niagara (USA/Canada). In these disorienting images, the spectators on the crowded viewing platforms look like M & M's in a candy bowl, a cluster of toytown Pointillistic color against a backdrop of watery froth. The results are vertiginous and wonderfully bizarre. Critic Walter Guadagnini writes in the introduction: There is an evident technical expedient in this, and it is the choice to photograph from above, to place oneself in a privileged and anomalous condition. In the past, this expedient already gave rise to numerous readings, which range from acknowledging the historical roots of this perspective (going back all the way to Nadar's photographs from a hot-air balloon) up to the socio-political implications deriving from 9/11."
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Lee Friedlander New Mexico
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Lee Friedlander New Mexico at Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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October 2008, Santa Fe
Lee Friedlander New Mexico
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Lee Friedlander New Mexico at Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Pull my daisy
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Pull My Daisy was shot on 16 mm. black0and0white film in the loft studio of the painter Alfred Leslie on Foutrh Ave. in Manhattan, New York City. Shooting began in January, 1959 and the film was completed in April 1959. Running time is 28 minutes.
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May 2008, Göttingen
Pull my daisy
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Pull My Daisy was shot on 16 mm. black0and0white film in the loft studio of the painter Alfred Leslie on Foutrh Ave. in Manhattan, New York City. Shooting began in January, 1959 and the film was completed in April 1959. Running time is 28 minutes.
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Andreas Gursky: architecture
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Catalogue of the exhibition at Mathildenhohe Darmstad, 2008
Andreas Gursky: architecture
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Catalogue of the exhibition at Mathildenhohe Darmstad, 2008
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Chicago, like many urban centers throughout the world, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a new layer of architectural experimentation onto those of past eras. In early 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, with the support of U.S. Equities Realty, invited Michael Wolf as an artist-in-residence to document this phenomenon. Bringing his(...)
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November 2008, New York
Michael Wolf: the transparent city
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Chicago, like many urban centers throughout the world, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a new layer of architectural experimentation onto those of past eras. In early 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, with the support of U.S. Equities Realty, invited Michael Wolf as an artist-in-residence to document this phenomenon. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.
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