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Photographier en normandie 1840-1890 : Un dialogue pionnier entre les arts

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Terrain d'expérimentation pour les peintres du plein air, la Normandie a aussi joué un rôle décisif dans les débuts de la photographie. Chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture et de la photographie se répondent dans cette exposition qui fait de la Normandie le lieu idéal pour mesurer l'influence réciproque des arts. Enregistrant le riche patrimoine normand, la photographie permet d'en mesurer toute l'importance mais aussi la fragilité. Elle suit la transformation des côtes par l'architecture balnéaire et l'arrivée de riches estivants, recherche le pittoresque des campagnes, s'attaque aux scènes de genre et aux vues maritimes affirmant très clairement ses ambitions artistiques.

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Reverie and reality : nineteenth-century photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection

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From its beginnings in the 1840s, one of the earliest uses of photography was to use the camera to record and distribute images of exotic countries or locales. These photographs provided a glimpse of the world to a curious public, few of whom could ever hope to visit those places in person. In addition to such obvious photographic destinations as the temples and monuments of Egypt, Greece, and Italy were added the mysterious and exotic attractions of India. In "Reverie and Reality", a visual history of India in the 19th century unfolds. Images by some of the earliest and most significant practitioners of the medium will be on view in this exhibition, including Linnaeus Tripe, Samuel Bourne, John Murray, and the Indian Lala Din Dayal. The subject matter ranges from famous architectural monuments to images of the natural landscape. The variety of humanity that inhabited this country during the time period is recorded in a series of photographs that range from scenes of daily life in villages to sumptuous and formal visits of foreign royalty. Essays accompany the lavish illustrations in this catalogue to the exhibition drawing on images from the Ehrenfeld Collection.

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Our home: Shek Kip Mei 1954-2006

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Shek Kip Mei was the first public housing estate development in Hong Kong built by the British colonial government in 1954. The resettlement project was an immediate response to the need for temporary relief as a result of the massive fire that destroyed the Shek Kip Mei squatter area on Christmas Eve 1953, when over 53,000 Chinese immigrants lost their makeshift homes overnight. This carefully designed book reproduces and explains the documentation of the aerea made by Governor Sir Alexander Grantham in 1954 to the British Government on the Great Fire. It includes a letter of appeal to the Governor, statistics about the residents, but abovw all it shows in 128, mostly full page b/w photographs, the appartments of the complex and their habitants.

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Around the world: The grand tour in photo albums

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Snapshots, passenger lists, itineraries, and postcards: From Cairo to Burma and back again, authors Barbara Levine and Kirsten Jensen transport readers back to the dawn of world travel when the middle class toured the world for the first time. In beautifully designed pages Around the World traces the development of the travel photo album. The book features a wealth of turn-of-the-twentieth-century photographs and ephemera, evoking the pleasures of a time when the surroundings were taken in slowly and travel was an art of itself.

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Industries

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En 1986, Josef Koudelka commence à utiliser un appareil photo au format panoramique et participe à la mission photographique de la DATAR, dont l'objectif est de "représenter le paysage français des années 1980". Il sillonne alors la France, puis le monde entier, pour rendre compte de l'influence de l'homme moderne sur le paysage. Le livre est composé de quarante photographies panoramiques choisies par l'artiste et François Hébel parmi les plus emblématiques de ce thème. Ces images, prises sur tous les continents, témoignent des grands travaux humains, allant des usines aux carrières, en passant par d'énormes complexes miniers et des zones abandonnées.

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CCCP (Multilingual Edition)

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This publication explores 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the fourth age of Soviet architecture, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no “school” or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, architects went far beyond modernism, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). Then comes the “speaking architecture” widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Crematorium, Kiev), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Institute of Scientific Research, Kiev), a political center watching you like Big Brother (House of Soviets, Kaliningrad).

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Shooting time: Pompeii and its' surroundings

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The exhibition “Shooting Time. Pompeii and its Surroundings” by Claudio Sabatino allows us to reflect, in a museum such as the Archaeological Museum of Naples, on the tricky issue of the relationship between archaeological context, landscape and the finds that come from them. Preventing the gradual process of change, the result of human interaction, of the remaining landscape would be pure utopia. That it also generates a culture of respect, which goes from a deep knowledge of history and allows for conscious protection, is another. This catalogue allows us to examine how in many symbolic places symbol (Baths of Caracalla, Pompeii, Naples, The Phlegraean Fields), there is an often antithetical ‘before’ and ‘after’, which reveal, on one side, the yielding of a conservation effort in the face of building expansion policies and, on the other, from the fact that in Italy there has been greater attention on the exhibition sites rather than on the territory.

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Postcards fromCheckpoint Charlie: images of the Berlin wall

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Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of August 13, 1961, hundreds of East German troops began erecting the Berlin wall—a barrier that would take nearly twenty years to complete and would eventually span 166 kilometers. In Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie, the Bodleian Library assembles a stunning collection of images to document the wall’s impact worldwide. The postcards in this fascinating volume trace the development of the wall—from its beginnings as a simple stretch of barbed wire to the daunting final structure made of concrete and containing over 300 watchtowers. The images capture scenes of tension and urgency, such as those at Checkpoint Charlie, where we see Allied and East German soldiers coldly observing one another through binoculars.

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Picturing indians: photographics encounters and tourist fantasies in H.H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells

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The interactions between Indian and white man, photographer amd photographed, suggested a relationship in which commercial motives and friendly feelings mixed, though not necessarily in equal measure. The Ho-Chunk resourcefully sought new ways to survive in the increasingly tourist-driven economy of the Dells. Bennett, struggling to keep his photography business alive, capitalized on America's comfortably nostalgic image of Native peoples as a vanishing race, no longer treatening and now safe for white consumption.

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America and the tintype

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition America and the Tintype organized by Steven Kasher and Brian Wallis for the International Center of Photography, New York. September 19, 2008 to January 4, 2009