Michael Schmelling: the plan
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Between 2003 and 2005, Michael Schmelling photographed 12 private residences in the company of Disaster Masters, a New York-based company specializing in cleaning up homes and counseling compulsive hoarders. Featuring 490 photographs printed in black-and-white on 576 newsprint pages, this volume devotes one chapter to each home--producing an arresting art object and a(...)
Michael Schmelling: the plan
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Between 2003 and 2005, Michael Schmelling photographed 12 private residences in the company of Disaster Masters, a New York-based company specializing in cleaning up homes and counseling compulsive hoarders. Featuring 490 photographs printed in black-and-white on 576 newsprint pages, this volume devotes one chapter to each home--producing an arresting art object and a fantastic document of urban archaeology and psychology.
Theory of Photography
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This first publication to assemble the architectural photographs of metropolises and megacities by H.G. Esch bears witness to the artist's fascination with rapidly growing boomtowns--especially those in Asia and the United Arab Emirates, where Esch has carried out commissions for numerous German and international architects.
H.G. Esch: city and structure
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This first publication to assemble the architectural photographs of metropolises and megacities by H.G. Esch bears witness to the artist's fascination with rapidly growing boomtowns--especially those in Asia and the United Arab Emirates, where Esch has carried out commissions for numerous German and international architects.
Theory of Photography
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The contributors analyze how in specific cultural and and historical contexts, the camera has affected experiences of time and subjectivity, practices of ritual and tradition, and understandings of death. Taken together, the essays chart a bravely interdisciplinary path to visual studies, one that places the particular knowledge of a historicized anthropology in a(...)
Theory of Photography
April 2009, Durham/London
Photographies East: the camera and its histories in East and Southeast Asia
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The contributors analyze how in specific cultural and and historical contexts, the camera has affected experiences of time and subjectivity, practices of ritual and tradition, and understandings of death. Taken together, the essays chart a bravely interdisciplinary path to visual studies, one that places the particular knowledge of a historicized anthropology in a comparative frame in conversation with aesthetics and history.
Theory of Photography
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En 1953, l’écrivain-voyageur suisse Nicolas Bouvier quitte Genève pour un voyage de quatre ans qui se terminera au Japon, avec pour seuls luxes une Fiat Toppolino qui offre la liberté d'aller où l'on veut et une lenteur érigée en art. «L’Usage du monde», récit de cette aventure, est devenu un livre culte dans le monde entier. En 2004-2005, le photographe Frédéric(...)
L'usure du monde : hommage à Nicolas Bouvier
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En 1953, l’écrivain-voyageur suisse Nicolas Bouvier quitte Genève pour un voyage de quatre ans qui se terminera au Japon, avec pour seuls luxes une Fiat Toppolino qui offre la liberté d'aller où l'on veut et une lenteur érigée en art. «L’Usage du monde», récit de cette aventure, est devenu un livre culte dans le monde entier. En 2004-2005, le photographe Frédéric Lecloux refait cette route, en voiture. «L'Usure du monde», ainsi nommé en hommage à Nicolas Bouvier, alterne photographies et récit de voyage, et conduit le lecteur dans un glissement poétique à travers les pays de l'ex-Yougoslavie, la Turquie, l'Iran, le Pakistan et l'Afghanistan.
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Iranian photography now
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This publication is a photographic sensation: the visual dynamics of Iranian photography in all its fascinating beauty and heroic resistance is unveiled for the first time, revealing a rich new aesthetics from inside Iran as well as from the Iranian diaspora. We see innovative responses by photographers living in a country under political restrictions, as well as an(...)
Iranian photography now
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This publication is a photographic sensation: the visual dynamics of Iranian photography in all its fascinating beauty and heroic resistance is unveiled for the first time, revealing a rich new aesthetics from inside Iran as well as from the Iranian diaspora. We see innovative responses by photographers living in a country under political restrictions, as well as an important body of work from Iranians who have been living in exile for the last thirty years creating works of great political and cultural relevance.
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Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
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This exquisitely produced exhibition catalogue highlights the powerful role of such camaraderie in shaping photography at this seminal time, before the emergence of a market for photography and before widespread artistic acceptance of the medium. It brings to light contrasting philosophies of the artist/photographer's role (influenced by Existentialism for Siskind and by(...)
Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
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This exquisitely produced exhibition catalogue highlights the powerful role of such camaraderie in shaping photography at this seminal time, before the emergence of a market for photography and before widespread artistic acceptance of the medium. It brings to light contrasting philosophies of the artist/photographer's role (influenced by Existentialism for Siskind and by the writings of Spinoza for Sommer), the interest in chance as an artistic process, the expressive potential of photographic found objects and collage, experimental abstraction, close affiliations with fine art movements (New Bauhaus, Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism), and changing attitudes toward the fine-print tradition.
Theory of Photography
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Into the Sunset examines how photography has pictured, established and transformed the idea of the American West, from 1850 to the present. The development of photography coincided with the exploration and settlement of the West, and this simultaneous growth resulted in a complex relationship that has shaped the perception of that region's physical and social landscape to(...)
Into the sunset: photography's image of the american west
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Into the Sunset examines how photography has pictured, established and transformed the idea of the American West, from 1850 to the present. The development of photography coincided with the exploration and settlement of the West, and this simultaneous growth resulted in a complex relationship that has shaped the perception of that region's physical and social landscape to this day. Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Into the Sunset charts changing myths and cultural attitudes about the West through photographs dating from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. An expansive and dynamic survey, it brings together photographers as diverse as Carleton E. Watkins and Stephen Shore, Darius Kinsey and Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank and Cindy Sherman, an unknown daguerreotypist and Richard Prince. More than 120 works are organized thematically to highlight the artists' differing views of the West's land and people.
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William Wylie: Carrara
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The legendary Cava di Gioia quarry in Carrara, Italy, was the source of the luminous white marble used by Michelangelo, Bernini, Henry Moore, and other renowned sculptors. Carrara, a volume of stunning photographs by William Wylie, reveals that the beauty of the quarry itself can be as alluring as the sculptures carved from its stone. Wylie is the first photographer to(...)
William Wylie: Carrara
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The legendary Cava di Gioia quarry in Carrara, Italy, was the source of the luminous white marble used by Michelangelo, Bernini, Henry Moore, and other renowned sculptors. Carrara, a volume of stunning photographs by William Wylie, reveals that the beauty of the quarry itself can be as alluring as the sculptures carved from its stone. Wylie is the first photographer to document Cava di Gioia since Ilario Besi, early in the twentieth century. For six years, Wylie photographed the changing landscape of the quarry, and his images capture the intense physical scale of the site, the dramatic setting, and the character of the stonecutters, or cavatori, who have worked the quarry for generations. Wylie’s astonishing photographs present a remarkable panorama carved by more than twenty centuries of excavation. As well, his images of the stonecutters are sensitive portraits of men shaped by their occupation, toughened and enlivened by their work.
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This collection of Frampton's writings presents his critical essays (many written for Artforum and October) along with additional material, including lectures, correspondence, interviews, production notes, and scripts. It replaces—and supersedes—the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion, published in 1983.
Theory of Photography
April 2009, Cambridge, London
On the camera arts and consecutive matters: the writtings of Hollis Frampton
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This collection of Frampton's writings presents his critical essays (many written for Artforum and October) along with additional material, including lectures, correspondence, interviews, production notes, and scripts. It replaces—and supersedes—the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion, published in 1983.
Theory of Photography
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Paru pour la première fois en 1977, Sur la photographie est devenu le livre culte sur le sujet.
Sur la photographie: oeuvre complète
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Paru pour la première fois en 1977, Sur la photographie est devenu le livre culte sur le sujet.
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Theory of Photography