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Ratcliffe Power Station
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Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is located in Nottinghamshire, England. Michael Kenna first began photographing the power station in the early 1980s, and over the past several years he has visited the site many times, producing a body of work as ominous as it is beautiful. The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the(...)
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Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is located in Nottinghamshire, England. Michael Kenna first began photographing the power station in the early 1980s, and over the past several years he has visited the site many times, producing a body of work as ominous as it is beautiful. The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half-light, Kenna’s grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the grey skies of Northern England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna’s Ratcliffe photographs create the impression of an atmospherically foggy day, registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of his work. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper, Ratcliffe Power Station is published in a first edition of 3,000 copies.
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janvier 2004, Tucson
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Over the last thrity years, Candida Hofer has created meticulously composed images of the interiors of public and institutional spaces-spaces marked with the richness of human activity, yet largely devoid of human presence. "Architecture of absence" examines how Hofer's oeuvre and the relationship to her architecture work to that of the Becher circle-noted students of(...)
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octobre 2004, New York
Candida Hofer : architecture of absence
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Over the last thrity years, Candida Hofer has created meticulously composed images of the interiors of public and institutional spaces-spaces marked with the richness of human activity, yet largely devoid of human presence. "Architecture of absence" examines how Hofer's oeuvre and the relationship to her architecture work to that of the Becher circle-noted students of the Dusseldorf Art Academy's renowed professor Bernd Becher, including Thomas Ruff, Thomas Stuth, Andreas Gursky and Axel Hutte.
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octobre 2004, New York
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The only thing better than one boring building is hundreds of them. Far from the glamourous and avant-garde architectural features that make Los Angeles justifiably famous are the humble apartment buildings known as "dingbats." But "Pretty Vacant" dares to elevate the low-rise, the boxy, the not remarkably well-constructed to the architecturally sublime. In this brick of(...)
Pretty vacant : the Los Angeles dingbat observed
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The only thing better than one boring building is hundreds of them. Far from the glamourous and avant-garde architectural features that make Los Angeles justifiably famous are the humble apartment buildings known as "dingbats." But "Pretty Vacant" dares to elevate the low-rise, the boxy, the not remarkably well-constructed to the architecturally sublime. In this brick of a book, through scads of photographs of these underappreciated gems, their boundless surfacey charms are soon obvious. Combining funky textures, streamlined sconces, and future-retro ornamentation, these buildings practically define LA vernacular in their optimistic mix of mid-century modishness and darling details. Clive Piercy's photographs provide a streetside glimpse into the curious lives of these buildings, with charming names that range from the regal (Kings Studios) to the space-age (The Galaxie). Assembled in a compact but weighty package with more than 480 images, "Pretty Vacant" provides a snapshot tour and kitschy homage to this underdog architectural form.
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American photographer John Pfahl has an ongoing fascination with man's complex interaction with nature. 'Extreme Horticulture' is his photographic survey of gardening and the natural landscape at its boldest, most bizarre and most exuberant. Subjects include huge bright orange Japanese maples, Jeff Koons' monumental Puppy, and The Largest Fig Tree in the United States.(...)
John Pfahl : extreme horticulture
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American photographer John Pfahl has an ongoing fascination with man's complex interaction with nature. 'Extreme Horticulture' is his photographic survey of gardening and the natural landscape at its boldest, most bizarre and most exuberant. Subjects include huge bright orange Japanese maples, Jeff Koons' monumental Puppy, and The Largest Fig Tree in the United States. Each photograph is accompanied by a detailed caption.
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André Kertész
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André Kertész est de ceux qui ont façonné le style de la photographie moderne. Son esprit d'indépendance l'a conduit, dès les années 1910, à pratiquer un art de la spontanéité et de la sincérité, à la recherche de ces instants de grâce fortuite qui «fixent le caractère propre des choses». Tendre, nostalgique, pudique, il a révélé des voies nouvelles pour la photographie,(...)
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janvier 2008, Arles
André Kertész
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André Kertész est de ceux qui ont façonné le style de la photographie moderne. Son esprit d'indépendance l'a conduit, dès les années 1910, à pratiquer un art de la spontanéité et de la sincérité, à la recherche de ces instants de grâce fortuite qui «fixent le caractère propre des choses». Tendre, nostalgique, pudique, il a révélé des voies nouvelles pour la photographie, à la lisière poétique du réalisme, sans insistance ni emphase. «Je ne documente jamais, je donne une interprétation», dit-il.
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Walter Pfeiffer, whose work in the 1970s and 1980s prefigured many of the decisive developments in contemporary art today, is a classic artist's artist. Famous and beloved among art aficionados, Pfeiffer almost has been forgotten by the public at large. Now it's time to discover him, as his images seem more timely than ever. "Welcome Aboard! Photographs 1980 -- 2000" is(...)
Walter Pfeiffer Welcome Aboard
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Walter Pfeiffer, whose work in the 1970s and 1980s prefigured many of the decisive developments in contemporary art today, is a classic artist's artist. Famous and beloved among art aficionados, Pfeiffer almost has been forgotten by the public at large. Now it's time to discover him, as his images seem more timely than ever. "Welcome Aboard! Photographs 1980 -- 2000" is both a monograph on Pfeiffer's photographic work and an artist's book, a photo-novel all of its own. Pfeiffer takes you on a long trip from suburban bliss to the horse race at Ascot, from wind-swept beaches to majestic mountaintops. Pfeiffer knows our dreams and artfully plays with them. In his still-lifes, landscapes, and portraits of beautiful boys and mischievous women, Pfeiffer celebrates his quest for beauty and glamour with sophistication, irony, and wit. Pfeiffer leads you into a world between reality and reverie, snapshot and mise-en-scène. The book is a photo album from Arcadia. With simple means Pfeiffer creates intelligent and classic images of beauty and bliss, imbued with a wistful awareness of their artifice. Stylish, suggestive, and erotic, his images are an encyclopedia of desire.
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The street is the workplace of the artist Paulien Oltheten (b. Nijmegen, 1982). Seemingly in passing, she seeks out precisely those moments when there is contact between people, things and the public space with her still and moving viewfinders. She also has a remarkable eye for the small and the subtle: her photos are often profoundly touching. Street Theory brings(...)
Paulien Oltheten: Theory of the street
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The street is the workplace of the artist Paulien Oltheten (b. Nijmegen, 1982). Seemingly in passing, she seeks out precisely those moments when there is contact between people, things and the public space with her still and moving viewfinders. She also has a remarkable eye for the small and the subtle: her photos are often profoundly touching. Street Theory brings together about a hundred photos, video stills and drawings by Oltheten, each of which testifies to how we use, move through, sit, lounge and behave in the public domain, and above all how we relate to other people and objects. Oltheten often annotates these striking images and intriguing situations with handwritten notes that become an integral part of the whole, adding a new, narrative layer of meaning.
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Friederike von Rauch. Sites
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"...before I take my pictures, I explore the sites ... I never touch locations, neither by tyding up nor by cordoning off ... my favourite lighting is an overcast white sky giving a shadowless, diffuse atmosphere ... I wait until the scene is as I want it: completely deserted ... I refuse to work in a hurry. I've decided that my focus is on focusing ... I take my(...)
Friederike von Rauch. Sites
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"...before I take my pictures, I explore the sites ... I never touch locations, neither by tyding up nor by cordoning off ... my favourite lighting is an overcast white sky giving a shadowless, diffuse atmosphere ... I wait until the scene is as I want it: completely deserted ... I refuse to work in a hurry. I've decided that my focus is on focusing ... I take my pictures with an analogue Roelleiflex"
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How does twenty-first-century Germany deal with the remaining Fascist architecture of the 1930s and 1940s? Between 2001 and 2006, the German photographer Ralf Meyer created a collection of 130 photographs, taken at 32 locations across the country. The photographs were not intended to be mere reproductions of facades; instead, they were meant to investigate how German(...)
Architectural rearguard, Ralf Meyer
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How does twenty-first-century Germany deal with the remaining Fascist architecture of the 1930s and 1940s? Between 2001 and 2006, the German photographer Ralf Meyer created a collection of 130 photographs, taken at 32 locations across the country. The photographs were not intended to be mere reproductions of facades; instead, they were meant to investigate how German citizens deal with the results of the overwhelming historical architecture that surrounds them. Each one of the buildings Meyer sought out was constructed for an ideological purpose: can these implicit messages still be detected in the architecture? What is life like in and around these buildings, now that so much has changed?
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In post-colonial Africa, «White Elephant» was the name given to buildings erected with international money and never put to use; relic of an enormous waste. Europe has its own fair share of such mammoths: a pratically unused railway station designed by Santiago Calatrava near Lyon, the frame of an Aldo Rossi shopping mall in Berlin, a lonely feeder road in the middle of(...)
Weisse Elefanten / White Elephants
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In post-colonial Africa, «White Elephant» was the name given to buildings erected with international money and never put to use; relic of an enormous waste. Europe has its own fair share of such mammoths: a pratically unused railway station designed by Santiago Calatrava near Lyon, the frame of an Aldo Rossi shopping mall in Berlin, a lonely feeder road in the middle of nowhere, now slowly being reclaimed by nature... On his search for new developments in ruins, the Swiss photographer Christian Helmle discovered a vast amount of monumental solitary buildings and complexes throughout Europe's cities and countrysides. Relieved of their original functions, the barren structures have lost any connection to their environments, appearing alien and surreal. Throught Christian Helmle's shots they develop their own individual, touchingly melancholic aesthetic.
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