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1 preliminary leaf, 207 pages including plates frontispiece, plates 24 x 19 cm
New York, A. Wessels Company, 1901.
The rise of the book-plate; being an exemplification of the art, signified by various book-plates, from its earliest to its most recent practice. Illustrated by reproductions in miniature and otherwise. Text by W.G. Bowdoin, with an introduction and chapter on the study and arrangement of book-plates by Henry Blackwell.
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New York, A. Wessels Company, 1901.
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"Soft eyes", the late Henry Wessel once wrote in describing the way he went about looking for photographs, “is a physical sensation. You are not looking for something. You are open, receptive. At some point you are in front of something that you cannot ignore.” In this smart and tender act of homage, Wessel’s photographs (many of them previously unpublished) are combined(...)
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Soft Eyes
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"Soft eyes", the late Henry Wessel once wrote in describing the way he went about looking for photographs, “is a physical sensation. You are not looking for something. You are open, receptive. At some point you are in front of something that you cannot ignore.” In this smart and tender act of homage, Wessel’s photographs (many of them previously unpublished) are combined with the work of two younger California photographers, Austin Leong and Adrian Martinez, and the resulting work is a surprising exploration of influence as well as a study of the sorts of connective tissue that provide a throughline in photography’s long and fascinating history of lineage. In some sense, "Soft Eyes" is a case of two photographers chasing a dead man’s shadows, but Leong and Martinez are both disciplined and devoted, and Wessel’s shadows are all over his old stomping grounds of Northern and Southern California, eternally pooling in expected and unexpected places and hiding in plain sight under the bleaching California sun.
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''Extérieurs. Annie Ernaux et Photographie'' rassemble les écrits célèbres d'Annie Ernaux, lauréate du prix Nobel de littérature, avec des photographies de la collection de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie par des photographes tels que Harry Callahan, Claude Dityvon, Dolorès Marat, Daido Moriyama, Janine Niépce, Issei Suda, Henry Wessel et Bernard Pierre(...)
Extérieurs. Annie Ernaux et la photographie
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''Extérieurs. Annie Ernaux et Photographie'' rassemble les écrits célèbres d'Annie Ernaux, lauréate du prix Nobel de littérature, avec des photographies de la collection de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie par des photographes tels que Harry Callahan, Claude Dityvon, Dolorès Marat, Daido Moriyama, Janine Niépce, Issei Suda, Henry Wessel et Bernard Pierre Wolff. Reprenant la démarche artistique unique d'Ernaux consistant à "décrire la réalité comme à travers les yeux d'un photographe et à préserver le mystère et l'opacité des vies que j'ai rencontrées", ce projet de l'écrivaine et commissaire d'exposition Lou Stoppard dévoile les manières profondes dont l'image écrite et visuelle peuvent s'informer et s'infléchir mutuellement. Ce faisant, il propose une nouvelle façon de penser la littérature et la photographie, et la manière dont des thèmes communs - tels que la classe sociale, le voyage, les stéréotypes sociaux et l'identité individuelle dans l'environnement urbain moderne - peuvent être explorés entre ces deux formes d'art.
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New Topographics
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The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape was one of those rare exhibitions that permanently alters how an art form is perceived. Held at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, in January 1975, curator William Jenkins brought together ten contemporary photographers: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal,(...)
New Topographics
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The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape was one of those rare exhibitions that permanently alters how an art form is perceived. Held at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, in January 1975, curator William Jenkins brought together ten contemporary photographers: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr. Signaling the emergence of a new approach to landscape, New Topographics has since come to be understood as marking a paradigm shift, for the show occurred just as photography ceased to be an isolated, self-defined practice and took its place within the contemporary art world. In this vital reassessment of the genre, essays by Britt Salvesen and Alison Nordström accompany illustrations of selected works from the 1975 exhibition, with installation views and contextual comparisons, to demonstrate both the historical significance of New Topographics and its continued relevance today.
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