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Le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada fut l’un des premiers musées du monde à reconnaître la photographie comme forme d’art. Cette collection de calibre international se classe parmi les plus étoffées au monde et possède l’une des plus importantes collections en Amérique du Nord d’œuvres du photographe français Eugène Atget. Un essai majeur sur la période est accompané par(...)
February 2010
Photographies françaises du XIXe siècle
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Le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada fut l’un des premiers musées du monde à reconnaître la photographie comme forme d’art. Cette collection de calibre international se classe parmi les plus étoffées au monde et possède l’une des plus importantes collections en Amérique du Nord d’œuvres du photographe français Eugène Atget. Un essai majeur sur la période est accompané par soixannte-six présentations individuelles. Parmi les dizaines d’artistes on retrouve Eugène Atget, Edouard Baldus, Maxime Du Camp, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègre, et Auguste Salzmann. Après Photographies modernistes du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, voici la deuxième publication d'une série dédiée à la collection du Musée.
VU : the story of a magazine
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This book pays tribute to VU’s fundamental contribution to press photography, showing how photographers and publishers became aware of the potential of the medium. Themed picture sections explore the most notable features of VU : striking page layouts, fascinating photo stories, stunning cover designs, chilling images from Nazi Germany, and more. This anthology gives the(...)
VU : the story of a magazine
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This book pays tribute to VU’s fundamental contribution to press photography, showing how photographers and publishers became aware of the potential of the medium. Themed picture sections explore the most notable features of VU : striking page layouts, fascinating photo stories, stunning cover designs, chilling images from Nazi Germany, and more. This anthology gives the reader an insight into how the modern media came into being, as well as offering a snapshot of an entire era.
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A celestial bathroom
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A project to approach both movie icons’ and stars’ beauty: a homage to the female form and to the rite that has celebrated its beauty from time immemorial, bathing. Through photographs that came to light in the Getty Images archives, shining stars of the cinema, women in art, poetry muses, female athletes and starlets of 20th Century enjoy their bodies, relax in their(...)
A celestial bathroom
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A project to approach both movie icons’ and stars’ beauty: a homage to the female form and to the rite that has celebrated its beauty from time immemorial, bathing. Through photographs that came to light in the Getty Images archives, shining stars of the cinema, women in art, poetry muses, female athletes and starlets of 20th Century enjoy their bodies, relax in their bathtubs, appear from behind a shower curtain.
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Despite the rich discourse surrounding it and the dynamic practice that it engendered, the photographic avant-garde in Japan only existed for a brief period during the 1920s and ’30s. Yet it also contributed to the continuation of the production of radical visual arts and played a key role in the education of a post-war generation of Japanese artists who came of age in(...)
Avant-Garde rising: The photographic vanguard in modern Japan
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Despite the rich discourse surrounding it and the dynamic practice that it engendered, the photographic avant-garde in Japan only existed for a brief period during the 1920s and ’30s. Yet it also contributed to the continuation of the production of radical visual arts and played a key role in the education of a post-war generation of Japanese artists who came of age in the 1950s and ’60s. Initially centred around Osaka and the Kansai region, the movement was inspired by contact with the work of photographers and surrealists overseas, at first through magazines and photobooks and later by touring exhibitions in Japan. This catalogue presents an impressive visual history of the movement.
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Thoughtfully illustrated, this volume highlights a selection of photographs of African American family life between the 1970s and the early 2000s—pictures that were lost by their original owners and then found by the artist Zun Lee on a street in Detroit in 2012, marking the beginning of the Fade Resistance collection of more than 4,000 Polaroids. These vivid images(...)
What matters most: Photographs of black life
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Thoughtfully illustrated, this volume highlights a selection of photographs of African American family life between the 1970s and the early 2000s—pictures that were lost by their original owners and then found by the artist Zun Lee on a street in Detroit in 2012, marking the beginning of the Fade Resistance collection of more than 4,000 Polaroids. These vivid images chronicle milestones such as weddings, birthdays and graduations, as well as quiet daily moments, offering contemporary views long ignored or erased by mainstream culture. Together, these works highlight the role snapshots have played in Black life, as tools to challenge stereotypical portrayals and as a means to memorialize family, culture and heritage.
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Flowers have been a source of inspiration for photographers since the medium’s inception; immortalized by luminaries such as Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Today, flower photography has come into full bloom once again, with photographers capturing flowers in inspiring new ways. Featuring two hundred works, ''Flora photographica''(...)
Flora photographica: Masterworks of contemporary flower photography
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Flowers have been a source of inspiration for photographers since the medium’s inception; immortalized by luminaries such as Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Today, flower photography has come into full bloom once again, with photographers capturing flowers in inspiring new ways. Featuring two hundred works, ''Flora photographica'' links the very best of flower photography from the past twenty years with its predecessors- canonical floral images from the realms of photography, illustration, and painting that have marked the collective imagination.
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France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpouring of brilliantly designed books. Making Strange offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring(...)
Making strange: the modernist photobook in France
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France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Avant-garde experiments in photography, text, design, and printing, within the context of a growing modernist publishing scene, contributed to an outpouring of brilliantly designed books. Making Strange offers a detailed examination of photobook innovation in France, exploring seminal publications by Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Pierre Jahan, William Klein, and Germaine Krull. Kim Sichel argues that these books both held a mirror to their time and created an unprecedented modernist visual language. Sichel provides an engaging analysis through the lens of materiality, emphasizing the photobook as an object with which the viewer interacts haptically as well as visually. Rich in historical context and beautifully illustrated, 'Making Strange' reasserts the role of French photobooks in the history of modern art.
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Une enquête photographique collective sur le sentiment d’appartenance à un territoire. Que signifie « être d’ici »? Partant du constat d’une société toujours plus fragmentée socialement et territorialement, le collectif de photographes LesAssociés a mené à l’échelle de la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, une enquête qui vise à élargir cette question identitaire. Et si, à(...)
D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin
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Une enquête photographique collective sur le sentiment d’appartenance à un territoire. Que signifie « être d’ici »? Partant du constat d’une société toujours plus fragmentée socialement et territorialement, le collectif de photographes LesAssociés a mené à l’échelle de la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, une enquête qui vise à élargir cette question identitaire. Et si, à l’heure des nouveaux ensembles – régions, Europe –, nos identités étaient multiples? « D’ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin » invite à trois voyages – géographique, temporel et affectif –, autour de trois questions : quelle ruralité à l’ère des métropoles? quel horizon pour chacun? d’où se raconte l’histoire qu’un territoire inspire? S'incarnant dans une géographie abstraite qui dépasse les frontières du Sud-Ouest, ce livre mêle textes et images en renouvelant les idées de faire culture et de faire société.
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Jeux de mains
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Most artists have, at some point, represented the universal symbol of creation which is the hand. Many of them have also chosen the hand as a recurring pattern in their work. This observation inspired Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi — editor and founder of Chose Commune — to gather the works that caught her attention in a book, following no thematic or chronological order. The(...)
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March 2021
Jeux de mains
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Most artists have, at some point, represented the universal symbol of creation which is the hand. Many of them have also chosen the hand as a recurring pattern in their work. This observation inspired Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi — editor and founder of Chose Commune — to gather the works that caught her attention in a book, following no thematic or chronological order. The selection was made in collaboration with Stephen Ellcock. From Pablo Picasso to Helena Almeida, from Louise Bourgeois to Alberto Giacometti, from John Baldessari to Francesca Woodman, and comprising a multitude of treasures from the ancient ages to documents from popular imagery, 'Jeux de mains' confronts and mixes famous, emerging and anonymous artists from a wide-range of practices. The result is a collection of more than a hundred images compiled intuitively in this book.
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"The Canadians" playfully and affectionately reimagines one of the most revered photography books of the 20th century, Robert Frank’s The Americans. The source for the imagery is the print archive of The Globe and Mail, which contains more than 500,000 prints—24,000 of which have been donated to the newly formed Canadian Institute of Photography, housed within the(...)
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September 2017
The Canadians: photographs from the Globe and Mail archives
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"The Canadians" playfully and affectionately reimagines one of the most revered photography books of the 20th century, Robert Frank’s The Americans. The source for the imagery is the print archive of The Globe and Mail, which contains more than 500,000 prints—24,000 of which have been donated to the newly formed Canadian Institute of Photography, housed within the National Gallery of Canada. Nearly 80 of these photographs have been selected for this book, and also form the basis for a national touring exhibition. These functionary press photographs, made to illustrate news stories—the state of the roads after a severe winter; a politician on the campaign trail; the opening of a new laundromat—hold no pretentions to be works of photographic art. However, taken together, they describe Canadian culture during an era of great transformation. Published in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict, the book begins with an insightful and irreverent introduction by Douglas Coupland, bringing together themes illuminated in these photographs, and taking us on a guided tour of a Canada gone, but not forgotten. "How strange it is to look at these photos of a Canada that was almost dead when I was a child," he writes, "the Canada of my parents and my grandparents, the Canada of the late 1950s and early ‘60s, a country in which, it would seem, people were born, became teenagers, and then, magically, at the age of 21, turned into chain-smoking 50-year olds with undiagnosed cancers."
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