Thomas R. Schiff : prospect
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From vernacular movie theaters of the 1930s and spectacular hotel resorts to libraries, private residences, universities, museums and the fantastical buildings of Las Vegas, Thomas Schiff's "Prospect "documents quintessential American architecture at its grandest. Schiff uses panoramic views to draw out vertiginous effects of scale and drama from the sweeping interiors he(...)
Thomas R. Schiff : prospect
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From vernacular movie theaters of the 1930s and spectacular hotel resorts to libraries, private residences, universities, museums and the fantastical buildings of Las Vegas, Thomas Schiff's "Prospect "documents quintessential American architecture at its grandest. Schiff uses panoramic views to draw out vertiginous effects of scale and drama from the sweeping interiors he portrays: "In the past, I've always looked for a photograph and tried to isolate a tiny area that would make a good print," Schiff says. "With panoramic photography, you approach it a different way. Instead of trying to isolate a photograph, you look for an entire area where there is a good view in all directions." Among the more than 200 photographs in "Prospect" are buildings by some of the titans of contemporary architecture, such as Norman Foster, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Zaha Hadid and Renzo Piano.
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Thomas Demand’s photographic practice - the depiction of meticulously recreated life-size interiors and environments - takes on a new twist with this volume. The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles is home to the architectural maquettes of architect John Lautner, whose buildings are highlights of Californian architecture. Lautner’s space-age structures - such as the(...)
Thomas Demand : model studies
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Thomas Demand’s photographic practice - the depiction of meticulously recreated life-size interiors and environments - takes on a new twist with this volume. The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles is home to the architectural maquettes of architect John Lautner, whose buildings are highlights of Californian architecture. Lautner’s space-age structures - such as the legendary “Chemosphere,” a four-bedroom house resembling a flying saucer, mounted atop a 20-foot concrete pillar - are particularly toy-like in their maquette versions, and for this project, Demand photographed 12 of these models in close-up detail. Model Studies includes more than 130 color images of Lautner’s models. With this volume, Demand, who has always been concerned with the intersections of art and architecture, now looks at the architect as sculptor, paying tribute to Lautner on the centenary of the architect’s birth.
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In The Raw and the Cooked, Peter Bialobrzeski (born 1961) sets forth the most complete account of his vision of the Asian megacity. From the simplest shack to the tallest highrise, from vernacular buildings made from scavenged materials to corporate buildings made from steel, concrete and glass, Bialobrzeski records the demented proliferation as Asia’s cities reach higher(...)
Peter Bialobrzeski: the raw and the cooked
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In The Raw and the Cooked, Peter Bialobrzeski (born 1961) sets forth the most complete account of his vision of the Asian megacity. From the simplest shack to the tallest highrise, from vernacular buildings made from scavenged materials to corporate buildings made from steel, concrete and glass, Bialobrzeski records the demented proliferation as Asia’s cities reach higher into the sky and farther across the land. This publication collects a series of tableaux from 14 countries around the world, in which economic transformations are shown to have brought dizzying disparities between wealth and poverty. It depicts these cities with a seductive glow that renders them eerie and unreal as expressions of progress.
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Pablo Lopez Luz
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The aerial photographs of Pablo Lopez Luz (born 1979) rove across the urban landscapes of his native Mexico, capturing scenes of dense civic activity and more pastoral areas on urban perimeters. Luz's bird's-eye viewpoint endows his images with the feel of staged artifice, while also permitting the viewer the rare possibility of appraising a vast spread of visual(...)
Pablo Lopez Luz
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The aerial photographs of Pablo Lopez Luz (born 1979) rove across the urban landscapes of his native Mexico, capturing scenes of dense civic activity and more pastoral areas on urban perimeters. Luz's bird's-eye viewpoint endows his images with the feel of staged artifice, while also permitting the viewer the rare possibility of appraising a vast spread of visual information, and the extraordinary impact that urban populations have as they encroach in ever-increasing circles upon the landscape around them. "Pablo Lopez Luz" contains color photographs produced over the last five years in Acapulco, Chiapas, Mexico City and Tijuana, plus another series made in Hong Kong.
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An encounter with Aaron Siskind inspired American photographer Alan Cohen (born 1943) to abandon his doctoral program in thermodynamics and instead pursue a career in photography under Siskind’s tutelage. For the past two decades Cohen has traveled the world, using the medium of black-and-white photography to record places marked by the political acts or the covert(...)
Alan Cohen: Earth with meaning
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An encounter with Aaron Siskind inspired American photographer Alan Cohen (born 1943) to abandon his doctoral program in thermodynamics and instead pursue a career in photography under Siskind’s tutelage. For the past two decades Cohen has traveled the world, using the medium of black-and-white photography to record places marked by the political acts or the covert actions of others; places marked by time through the course of natural and often catastrophic occurrences. Crumbling stone walls and other near-invisible demarcations of political boundaries are among the mute witnesses he chooses as his subjects. “I have come to understand that history, in a contemporary image, can be sited,” Cohen writes. “Events can--and do--become geography.” This book tracks the evolution of Cohen’s work over a 40-year career, reflecting the artist’s belief in photography as both a social document and a meditative art.
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From 1989 until his death in 2007, Horst Ademeit documented the presence of "cold rays" - unseen negative forces permeating everyday objects - in thousands of Polaroids and digital photographs, as well as notebooks full of meticulously logged data. "Secret Universe" shows images of the "cold rays" at work, in enigmatic images of street scenes, grocery items and bizarre(...)
Secret universe : Horst Ademeit
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From 1989 until his death in 2007, Horst Ademeit documented the presence of "cold rays" - unseen negative forces permeating everyday objects - in thousands of Polaroids and digital photographs, as well as notebooks full of meticulously logged data. "Secret Universe" shows images of the "cold rays" at work, in enigmatic images of street scenes, grocery items and bizarre measuring instruments.
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In her carefully staged photographs of domestic spaces, Sarah Hobbs (born 1970) explores phobias and obsessive-compulsive behavior with affection and even celebration, filling rooms with (for example) meticulously arranged color swatches or hundreds of pieces of scrunched-up paper. This volume compiles three photographic series.
Sara Hobbs: small problems in living
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In her carefully staged photographs of domestic spaces, Sarah Hobbs (born 1970) explores phobias and obsessive-compulsive behavior with affection and even celebration, filling rooms with (for example) meticulously arranged color swatches or hundreds of pieces of scrunched-up paper. This volume compiles three photographic series.
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The urban photographs of Swiss artist Beat Streuli (born 1957) record what he calls “the glamour of the usual”--people walking the streets in familiar states of pedestrian reverie, photographed with professional care (“glamour”) but without drama (“the usual”). Public Work 1996–2011 surveys his large-scale installations in public spaces.
Beat Streuli: public work 1996-2011
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The urban photographs of Swiss artist Beat Streuli (born 1957) record what he calls “the glamour of the usual”--people walking the streets in familiar states of pedestrian reverie, photographed with professional care (“glamour”) but without drama (“the usual”). Public Work 1996–2011 surveys his large-scale installations in public spaces.
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002) est une figure tutélaire de la photographie mexicaine. A bien des égards, une grande part de son œuvre se lit comme l’exact miroir d’un pays et plus encore d’une civilisation. Du Mexique, il a tout exploré, tout montré, tout interprété sans jamais céder au pittoresque : des sites mythiques de la civilisation maya aux fresques muralistes(...)
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002) est une figure tutélaire de la photographie mexicaine. A bien des égards, une grande part de son œuvre se lit comme l’exact miroir d’un pays et plus encore d’une civilisation. Du Mexique, il a tout exploré, tout montré, tout interprété sans jamais céder au pittoresque : des sites mythiques de la civilisation maya aux fresques muralistes en passant par les drames de la révolution zapatiste (cf. L’ouvrier assassiné), il a passionnément interrogé l’essence, la texture, la subtile alchimie d’un pays et d’une nation dont il dresse le portrait philosophique définitif.
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Photo Express: Tokyo is a facsimile of the legendary series of twelve booklets published by Keizo Kitajima on the occasion of his exhibition "Photo Express: Tokyo" at CAMP gallery in Tokyo in 1979. The booklets were numbered from one to twelve and one was released each month for a year. Each contained sixteen pages of photographs from Kitajima's legendary nocturnal(...)
Keizo Kitajima 1979 : photo express Tokyo
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Photo Express: Tokyo is a facsimile of the legendary series of twelve booklets published by Keizo Kitajima on the occasion of his exhibition "Photo Express: Tokyo" at CAMP gallery in Tokyo in 1979. The booklets were numbered from one to twelve and one was released each month for a year. Each contained sixteen pages of photographs from Kitajima's legendary nocturnal wanderings in Tokyo and conveys the spirit of the happenings he organized at the time. Kitajima's original booklets have now become cult objects, and this new edition is set to become a collector's item.
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