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Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde explores the extraordinary convergence of artists and other creators in Japan’s capital city during the radically transformative postwar period. Examining works from a range of media--painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, printmaking, video and film, as well as graphic design, architecture, musical composition and dance--this is the(...)
Tokyo 1955-1970: a new avant-garde
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Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde explores the extraordinary convergence of artists and other creators in Japan’s capital city during the radically transformative postwar period. Examining works from a range of media--painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, printmaking, video and film, as well as graphic design, architecture, musical composition and dance--this is the first publication in English to focus in depth on the full scope of postwar art in Japan. Essays by scholars Hayashi Michio and Miryam Sas and curator Mika Yoshitake discuss critical concepts in art and culture at this time, including “graphism,” which manifested itself across various mediums; the development of new sculptural languages; and the “intermedia” tendency that engendered provocative cross-pollination among artistic genres. Masatoshi Nakajima provides an illustrated chronology and Yuri Mitsuda supplies artist biographies.
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An eye-opening book about the 1980s New York art scene, its far-reaching effects on contemporary art, and the rise of some of the biggest names in the art world today. This groundbreaking book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Hirshhorn, tells the story of the evolution of New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s—from a DIY counterculture in the East Village to a(...)
February 2018
Brand new: art and commodity in the 1980s
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An eye-opening book about the 1980s New York art scene, its far-reaching effects on contemporary art, and the rise of some of the biggest names in the art world today. This groundbreaking book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Hirshhorn, tells the story of the evolution of New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s—from a DIY counterculture in the East Village to a legitimate gallery business in SoHo. Coinciding with the rise of modern branding and the onset of the information age, artists’ focus on commodities and consumerism began as satire but came to be much more complex: commodities and associated phenomena, such as advertising, now served as vessels for ideas, politics, and personal relationships in “brand-new” types of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance.
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Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady triumph of its mid-century ascendancy, and the critique it faced in the 1960s and 1970s. His reputation enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict(...)
Richard Neutra and the search for modern architecture
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Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady triumph of its mid-century ascendancy, and the critique it faced in the 1960s and 1970s. His reputation enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict when "Richard Neutra and the search for modern architecture" was first published over twenty years ago. In his seminal critical biography of this modernist master, Thomas S. Hines explores the efforts of Neutra and his modernist contemporaries to find the forms that would be most expressive of the twentieth century. In researching this classic of architectural scholarship, Hines enjoyed unparalleled access to the Neutra archives. Its collection of outstanding black-and-white photography includes a remarkable cache of photographs taken by Julius Shulman-the undisputed master of twentieth-century architectural photography-whose work is beautifully featured here. This revised edition of Richard Neutra includes a new introduction by the author.
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The Soviet Union was unique in its dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the form of the book, the USSR articulated its utopian (and eventually totalitarian) ideologies and expressed its absolute power through avant-garde writing and radical graphic design that was in full flower during the 1920s and 1930s. The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941(...)
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The Soviet photobook, 1920-1941
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The Soviet Union was unique in its dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the form of the book, the USSR articulated its utopian (and eventually totalitarian) ideologies and expressed its absolute power through avant-garde writing and radical graphic design that was in full flower during the 1920s and 1930s. The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 presents 160 produced photobooks from this period and includes more than 400 additional reference illustrations.
Paysages mouvants
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Pensée comme un récit collectif et pluridisciplinaire, la deuxième édition du festival du Jeu de Paume intitulée « Paysages mouvants » convoque de nouveaux imaginaires liés aux espaces naturels, les confrontant aux archétypes – la jungle, l'oasis, le ciel, le désert, la forêt – et aux symboles intemporels que des siècles de représentation ont contribué à ancrer dans(...)
Paysages mouvants
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Pensée comme un récit collectif et pluridisciplinaire, la deuxième édition du festival du Jeu de Paume intitulée « Paysages mouvants » convoque de nouveaux imaginaires liés aux espaces naturels, les confrontant aux archétypes – la jungle, l'oasis, le ciel, le désert, la forêt – et aux symboles intemporels que des siècles de représentation ont contribué à ancrer dans l'inconscient collectif. Le catalogue publié à cette occasion se compose de deux livres assemblés sous une même couverture. Le premier réunit les contributions d'écrivain·e·s invité·e·s à imaginer un récit inspiré par un paysage, allant d'une traversée dans un monde de sensations à une plongée originelle dans le bassin du Congo, et poursuivant le voyage sur une embarcation en Patagonie, invitant à l'aventure au pied d'un glacier, suivant, enfin, les chemins de l'exil et du retour aux sources. Le second livre peut s'ouvrir en vis-à-vis du cahier des textes : il contient un portfolio des œuvres exposées, accompagnées de leurs notices respectives.
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In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove crosscountry and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in(...)
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Ilf and Petrov's American road trip : the 1935 travelogue of two soviet writers
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In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove crosscountry and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost work—filled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographs—is now collected in "Ilf and Petrov's American road trip", the first English translation.
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Photographer Mariana Cook (born 1955) is best known for her intimate character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye, as published in her much-acclaimed collections "Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons, Generations of Women, Couples, Faces of Science and Mathematicians." Cook departs from her portrait work with "Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries", a(...)
Stone walls: personal boundaries
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Photographer Mariana Cook (born 1955) is best known for her intimate character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye, as published in her much-acclaimed collections "Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons, Generations of Women, Couples, Faces of Science and Mathematicians." Cook departs from her portrait work with "Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries", a project that was conceived one day at her home on Martha's Vineyard, when 56 cows strayed through a crumbling section of the stone wall she shares with her neighbor. From this moment, Cook embarked on an eight-year journey, travelling from New England to the American South, Britain, Ireland, the Mediterranean and Peru in pursuit of dry stone walls. Far from being a conventional travelogue, these black-and-white photographs portray the wall in landscape, the wall as abstract form, and the return of rocks to nature. Cook is fascinated with the juxtaposition of stones as an instance of geometric composition, as well as with the resonance between walls of different cultures. With a tribute from Wendell Berry and essays providing a context for the walls of each region, the resulting collection captures a fundamental aspect of the relationship human beings forge with the land they inhabit.
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in(...)
Beyond the binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in which architecture and spatial planning reflect the ideology of apartheid, and how the land continues to bear its legacy in post-apartheid South Africa. His investigations explore both actual structures and how mental constructs reveal how ideology has shaped our landscape. Mofokeng’s photo essays shed light on everyday life in South Africa, beyond the stereotypical news pictures of Soweto depicting violence or poverty. Deeply personal, they record communities in townships and rural areas, religious rituals and landscapes imbued not only with historical significance but spiritual meaning, memory and trauma. The approach of Tamar Garb in Beyond the Binary is both daring and inquisitive—she “scrambles” and reassembles Mofokeng’s and Goldblatt’s photographs, blurring the boundaries between them and creates juxtapositions and insights that challenge prevailing views of these established images. By delineating 15 viewpoints around the themes of “Earthscapes,” “Edifices,” and “Sociality,” Garb decontextualizes the work and creates a platform for comparing and rethinking the artists’ practices.
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Dans le Paris des années 1950, les façades géométriques et bariolées des marchands de couleurs attirent l’oeil du jeune Bâlois Gérard Ifert. Alors au tout début d’une carrière au croisement du design, du design graphique et de la scénographie, Ifert pratique aussi, en flâneur, la photographie. Il enregistre ainsi ces compositions chromatiques qu’il rapproche des oeuvres(...)
Paris couleurs : Gerard Ifert, Ektachromes, 1953-1954
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Dans le Paris des années 1950, les façades géométriques et bariolées des marchands de couleurs attirent l’oeil du jeune Bâlois Gérard Ifert. Alors au tout début d’une carrière au croisement du design, du design graphique et de la scénographie, Ifert pratique aussi, en flâneur, la photographie. Il enregistre ainsi ces compositions chromatiques qu’il rapproche des oeuvres de l’art concret suisse. Cette étonnante collection d’images révèle un art anonyme de la rue aujourd’hui disparu et fournit matière à réflexion sur les liens entre l’art et le design, sur les transformations du paysage urbain et l’esthétique du quotidien. Documentation exceptionnelle sur un art de rue aujourd’hui disparu, la série d’ektachromes qui en résulte est l’occasion de revenir sur un pan de la carrière d’un designer dont on découvre depuis peu le travail. Après l’exposition « Photographismes » du Centre Pompidou qui a révélé un aspect expérimental de la production d’Ifert, le présent livre dévoile une autre facette, celle d’un arpenteur de la ville, attentif aux manifestations d’une culture urbaine vernaculaire. Sur les pas d’Ifert, le texte de Catherine de Smet, où se croisent entre autres Valentine et Ripolin, Picasso et Duchamp, Karl Gerstner et Richard-Paul Lohse, Sophie Taeuber et Victor Vasarely, Verena Loewensberg et Bernard Frize, revient sur ce que nous dit l’éclat bigarré de ces magasins parisiens.
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January 2020
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Quatrième titre de la collection TXT dédiée aux diverses conceptions de l’image photographique et à l'évolution du médium, ce livre apporte un regard nouveau sur la photographie et sa pédagogie. Il rassemble une sélection d’essais sur les œuvres de plusieurs photographes parmi lesquels Ansel Adams, Eugène Atget, Dorothea Lange, Nicholas Nixon, Susan Meiselas, Michael(...)
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Quatrième titre de la collection TXT dédiée aux diverses conceptions de l’image photographique et à l'évolution du médium, ce livre apporte un regard nouveau sur la photographie et sa pédagogie. Il rassemble une sélection d’essais sur les œuvres de plusieurs photographes parmi lesquels Ansel Adams, Eugène Atget, Dorothea Lange, Nicholas Nixon, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Paul Strand, Edward Weston et leurs publications respectives. Le corpus de textes porte également sur différents genres, époques et sujets photographiques tels que l’expérience de l’espace dans l’Ouest américain chez les paysagistes du XIXe siècle, mais aussi des thèmes plus concrets comme les liens entre collectionneurs et photographes, ou comment vivre de sa pratique photographique. Robert Adams aborde également son thème de prédilection, qui sous-tend tout son travail, celui des questions environnementales et de la protection de la planète. Ces essais sont illustrés d’une trentaine de photographies et peintures reproduites en noir et blanc.
Theory of Photography