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Au long des 256 pages qui composent cet ouvrage, ce sont près de 1500 photographies, patiemment collectées sur Internet et classées selon des critères rudimentaires de géométrie (cercle, carré, triangle, polygone) ou d’état (chantier, achevé, abandon ou ruine) qui se combinent et se succèdent sans interruption. Ouvrant sur une série de constructions sphériques, comme(...)
Éric Tabuchi : Atlas of forms
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Au long des 256 pages qui composent cet ouvrage, ce sont près de 1500 photographies, patiemment collectées sur Internet et classées selon des critères rudimentaires de géométrie (cercle, carré, triangle, polygone) ou d’état (chantier, achevé, abandon ou ruine) qui se combinent et se succèdent sans interruption. Ouvrant sur une série de constructions sphériques, comme s'il s'agissait du chantier des mondes, pour se conclure sur l’image d’un bunker renversé, c’est à une longue divagation, une sorte de mélopée hypnotique avec ses récurrences et ses variantes, ses répétitions et ses ruptures, ses harmonies et ses dissonances que ce livre vous invite. Plus qu’un ouvrage sur l’architecture ou la photographie, Atlas of Forms est d’abord un éloge de la diversité, de toutes les diversités. / Within its 256 pages, are nearly 1500 photographs patiently collected from the Internet and classified according to the rudimentary criteria of geometry (circle, square, triangle, polygon) and their current state (construction site, completed, abandoned or in ruins). These categories mix and mingle without interruption. Opening with a series of spherical structures, like small worlds under construction, and concluding with an image of an overturned bunker, this book proposes a long meandering, a sort of hypnotic chant with its recurrences and variants, its repetitions and ruptures, its harmonies and dissonances. More than a volume on architecture or photography, "Atlas of Forms" is primarily an elegy to diversity, every forms of diversity.
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Zone supérieure
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Épris des paysages de montagne depuis son enfance, le photographe Samuel Hoppe a traversé les paysages alpestres, principalement du côté de la Suisse sur plusieurs années. « Zone supérieure » est le récit visuel de ces périples. Avec une préface de Jean-Christophe Bailly.
Zone supérieure
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Épris des paysages de montagne depuis son enfance, le photographe Samuel Hoppe a traversé les paysages alpestres, principalement du côté de la Suisse sur plusieurs années. « Zone supérieure » est le récit visuel de ces périples. Avec une préface de Jean-Christophe Bailly.
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L'Américain William Eggleston, l'un des plus grands photographes du monde, a été invité par la ville de Dunkerque pour en dresser le portrait photographique. Mais, plus qu'un portrait, cette série confère à la fresque. William Eggleston, Spirit of Dunkerque, la dernière série exécutée par l'artiste, est donc une œuvre d'art en soi. Les cinquante photographies du présent(...)
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August 2006, Dunkerque
William Eggleston : spirit of Dunkerque
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L'Américain William Eggleston, l'un des plus grands photographes du monde, a été invité par la ville de Dunkerque pour en dresser le portrait photographique. Mais, plus qu'un portrait, cette série confère à la fresque. William Eggleston, Spirit of Dunkerque, la dernière série exécutée par l'artiste, est donc une œuvre d'art en soi. Les cinquante photographies du présent ouvrage composent une suite harmonieuse et une traversée en contrepoint de la ville du Nord.
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August 2006, Dunkerque
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For the past two decades Louise Lawler has been taking photographs of art in situ, from small black-and-white images of art in people's homes to large format glossy color pictures of art in museums and in auction houses. In addition she has produced a variety of objects-paperweights, etched drinking glasses, matchbooks, gallery announcements-all of which describe how art(...)
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October 2006, Cambridge, (MA), Columbus
Louise Lawler : twice untitled and other pictures (looking back)
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For the past two decades Louise Lawler has been taking photographs of art in situ, from small black-and-white images of art in people's homes to large format glossy color pictures of art in museums and in auction houses. In addition she has produced a variety of objects-paperweights, etched drinking glasses, matchbooks, gallery announcements-all of which describe how art comes to accrue value as it moves through various systems of exchange. Lawler's oeuvre was essential in creating an expanded field for photography, it was crucial in postmodern debates over theories of representation, it remains indelible within the field of institutional critique, and it has always been trenchant in its sustained commitment to a feminist vision of art, art history, and contemporary art practice. But Lawler is also an old-fashioned "artist's artist," long overdue for the kind of serious reconsideration and recognition that this volume affords. The very self-effacing nature of Lawler's practice, however, her continual suspicion about notions of authorship-and her sly disregard for museological conventions-have meant that she has resisted precisely the usual mid-career retrospective. "Twice untitled and other pictures", published in conjunction with Lawler's first major museum exhibition in the United States, organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, eats away at the standard museum practices of chronology, linear development, and the presentation of masterpieces, opting instead to explore such themes and undercurrents in Lawler's practice as her relationship to sculpture, her long history of collaborative projects, her production of such ephemera as napkins, matchbooks, and announcement cards, and the steady political dimension of her work-which culminated most recently in works that are deeply critical of the American invasion of Iraq. With essays by art historian and political theorist Rosalyn Deutsche and curators Ann Goldstein and Helen Molesworth.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's lifetime project of documenting the industrial landscape of our time secures their position in the canon of postwar photographers. Their work - at once conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation - has influenced German photographers of a younger generation, including Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff,(...)
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November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
Bernd and Hiller Becher : life and work
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's lifetime project of documenting the industrial landscape of our time secures their position in the canon of postwar photographers. Their work - at once conceptual art, typological study, and topological documentation - has influenced German photographers of a younger generation, including Thomas Struth, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Andreas Gursky. This compelling, exhaustively documented biography describes the Bechers' life and work and offers a critical assessment of their place in the history of photography. Becher scholar Susanne Lange, granted access to the photographers' archives and quoting extensively from interviews with them, writes the first sustained analysis and biography of the Bechers' extraordinary partnership. She discusses, among other topics, both the functionalist and aesthetic dimensions of the Bechers' subject matter, their typologizing (which she finds reminiscent of nineteenth-century naturalists' classificatory schemes), and the anonymous industrial building style favored by German architects. She argues that industrial building types impose themselves on our consciousness as the cathedral did on that of the Middle Ages, and that the Bechers' photographs -which seem at first glance only to record a vanishing landscape - serve to examine this shaping of our perceptions. Their work provides us with a rare opportunity to see how we see.
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Grain elevators
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes one important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers. Grain(...)
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November 2006, Cambridge (MA), London
Grain elevators
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes one important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers. Grain elevators are towering structures in the flat, vast landscape of the world's granaries. Providing a fast and efficient method of loading and unloading grain to keep pace with the industrial production methods of the nineteenth century, they made possible a tremendous increase in the trafficking and processing of grain. Scooping, pouring, and spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier's idea of buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential, and visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of grain elevators in this volume were taken in Germany, Belgium, France, and America. But the specificity of time and place is erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that replaces it today.
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Geoffrey James : Toronto
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Geoffrey James has stalked the parks and back streets of Canada's largest metropolis with his tripod and wide-angle panoramic camera, in search of the city's essence. Eschewing the obvious landmarks, he shows us pavilions on the lakeshore, billboards in Dundas Square, back lots in Kensington Market and many other exceptional views. His images are accompanied by a(...)
Geoffrey James : Toronto
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Geoffrey James has stalked the parks and back streets of Canada's largest metropolis with his tripod and wide-angle panoramic camera, in search of the city's essence. Eschewing the obvious landmarks, he shows us pavilions on the lakeshore, billboards in Dundas Square, back lots in Kensington Market and many other exceptional views. His images are accompanied by a 4,000-word introducton from Mark Kingwell and extensive endnotes from city historians and experts. Through the lens of Geoffrey James, Toronto becomes a city freshly seen. In the words of renowned urbanist Ken Greenberg, "This project will have great value not only for Toronto, but should also say something new about ways of portraying and revealing cities."
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Composed of 50 photographs of the Sierra Nevada this book is a portrait of the mountain world of the High Sierra in California.
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October 2006, New York
Anselm Adams : Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail
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Composed of 50 photographs of the Sierra Nevada this book is a portrait of the mountain world of the High Sierra in California.
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Abelardo Morell's elegant photographs of books are presented in duotone reproductions, highlighting the grace and sensuality of the printed page. Morell has selected unusual books, like a leather-bound volume that is smaller than a paper clip, an impossibly large dictionary, and illustrated books whose characters appear to leap off of the page. He has photographed the(...)
Abelardo Morell : a book of books, reduced-format edition
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Abelardo Morell's elegant photographs of books are presented in duotone reproductions, highlighting the grace and sensuality of the printed page. Morell has selected unusual books, like a leather-bound volume that is smaller than a paper clip, an impossibly large dictionary, and illustrated books whose characters appear to leap off of the page. He has photographed the endless ocean of books in a library and the strikingly beautiful way in which weathered and water-damaged books take on sculptural form.
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Images of buildings and places, seen from the American road. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl—with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction— the photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless,(...)
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September 2006, New York / London
Approaching nowhere : photographs by Jeff Brouws
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Images of buildings and places, seen from the American road. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl—with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction— the photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape.
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