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René Burri photographies
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Connu dans le monde entier pour ses images emblématiques de Che Guevara et de Brasilia, René Burri est l'un des photographes les plus talentueux de notre époque. Membre de la prestigieuse agence Magnum Photos, il se singularise par un enthousiasme et un refus des clivages qui lui ont permis d'enquêter mieux que quiconque sur les temps forts et les grands noms des(...)
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Connu dans le monde entier pour ses images emblématiques de Che Guevara et de Brasilia, René Burri est l'un des photographes les plus talentueux de notre époque. Membre de la prestigieuse agence Magnum Photos, il se singularise par un enthousiasme et un refus des clivages qui lui ont permis d'enquêter mieux que quiconque sur les temps forts et les grands noms des(...)
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Connu dans le monde entier pour ses images emblématiques de Che Guevara et de Brasilia, René Burri est l'un des photographes les plus talentueux de notre époque. Membre de la prestigieuse agence Magnum Photos, il se singularise par un enthousiasme et un refus des clivages qui lui ont permis d'enquêter mieux que quiconque sur les temps forts et les grands noms des cinquante dernières années. Figure de l'histoire de la photographie, René Burri s'est attiré le respect de toute une profession par son regard bienveillant et son aptitude à fixer sur la pellicule la vérité de ses personnages. Son parcours hors du commun est retracé ici pour la première fois à travers plus de quatre cents images bichromes, dont beaucoup sont inédites. Rédigé et orchestré par l'écrivain Hans-Michael Koetzle en étroite collaboration avec René Burri, cet ouvrage témoigne du lien unique qui unit le photographe aux événements politiques majeurs de ces cinquante dernières années ainsi qu'à l'élite politique, artistique et culturelle de son temps.
René Burri photographies
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Connu dans le monde entier pour ses images emblématiques de Che Guevara et de Brasilia, René Burri est l'un des photographes les plus talentueux de notre époque. Membre de la prestigieuse agence Magnum Photos, il se singularise par un enthousiasme et un refus des clivages qui lui ont permis d'enquêter mieux que quiconque sur les temps forts et les grands noms des cinquante dernières années. Figure de l'histoire de la photographie, René Burri s'est attiré le respect de toute une profession par son regard bienveillant et son aptitude à fixer sur la pellicule la vérité de ses personnages. Son parcours hors du commun est retracé ici pour la première fois à travers plus de quatre cents images bichromes, dont beaucoup sont inédites. Rédigé et orchestré par l'écrivain Hans-Michael Koetzle en étroite collaboration avec René Burri, cet ouvrage témoigne du lien unique qui unit le photographe aux événements politiques majeurs de ces cinquante dernières années ainsi qu'à l'élite politique, artistique et culturelle de son temps.
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janvier 2004, Paris
janvier 2004, Paris
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Territorium : Theo Baart
Territorium : Theo Baart
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Five years ago, the celebrated Dutch photographer Theo Baart (Snelweg/Highways in the Netherlands, 1996; Bouwlust, 1999; Atlas of Change, 2000) moved from the center of Amsterdam to Amsterdam Southeast, to an area known as the Bijlmermeer. Designed in accordance with modernist urban planning principles, with a lot of high-rise flats in a park-like setting, the Bijlmer(...)
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Five years ago, the celebrated Dutch photographer Theo Baart (Snelweg/Highways in the Netherlands, 1996; Bouwlust, 1999; Atlas of Change, 2000) moved from the center of Amsterdam to Amsterdam Southeast, to an area known as the Bijlmermeer. Designed in accordance with modernist urban planning principles, with a lot of high-rise flats in a park-like setting, the Bijlmer(...)
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Territorium : Theo Baart
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Five years ago, the celebrated Dutch photographer Theo Baart (Snelweg/Highways in the Netherlands, 1996; Bouwlust, 1999; Atlas of Change, 2000) moved from the center of Amsterdam to Amsterdam Southeast, to an area known as the Bijlmermeer. Designed in accordance with modernist urban planning principles, with a lot of high-rise flats in a park-like setting, the Bijlmer experiment in social engineering was quickly overtaken by reality and the Bijlmer became notorious for its intractable social problems and exceptionally high crime rate. A mammoth, fifteen-year regeneration scheme (1992 - 2009) is set to change all that. Much of the existing high-rise is being replaced by less anonymous neighbourhoods of low-rise. It is here that Theo Baart and his family settled. Since their relocation, Baart has photographed the gradual transformation of an area of the Bijlmer defined by the radius of action of his two school-age children. Baart's interviews with his neighbours, discussions with policymakers and his superb photography provide a fascinating insight into the regeneration process currently taking place in the Bijlmer.
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Five years ago, the celebrated Dutch photographer Theo Baart (Snelweg/Highways in the Netherlands, 1996; Bouwlust, 1999; Atlas of Change, 2000) moved from the center of Amsterdam to Amsterdam Southeast, to an area known as the Bijlmermeer. Designed in accordance with modernist urban planning principles, with a lot of high-rise flats in a park-like setting, the Bijlmer experiment in social engineering was quickly overtaken by reality and the Bijlmer became notorious for its intractable social problems and exceptionally high crime rate. A mammoth, fifteen-year regeneration scheme (1992 - 2009) is set to change all that. Much of the existing high-rise is being replaced by less anonymous neighbourhoods of low-rise. It is here that Theo Baart and his family settled. Since their relocation, Baart has photographed the gradual transformation of an area of the Bijlmer defined by the radius of action of his two school-age children. Baart's interviews with his neighbours, discussions with policymakers and his superb photography provide a fascinating insight into the regeneration process currently taking place in the Bijlmer.
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août 2003, Rotterdam
août 2003, Rotterdam
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The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand contains an essay on the life and work of the photographer by John Szarkowski and a plate section presenting the photographs thematically. Grouped under the following titles-- Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and(...)
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The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand contains an essay on the life and work of the photographer by John Szarkowski and a plate section presenting the photographs thematically. Grouped under the following titles-- Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and(...)
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Winogrand : figments from the real world
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The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand contains an essay on the life and work of the photographer by John Szarkowski and a plate section presenting the photographs thematically. Grouped under the following titles-- Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and Unfinished Work-- many of the 179 plates are works that had never before been published. The last section includes 25 pictures chosen from the enormous body of work that Winogrand left unedited at the time of his death in 1984. In his essay, Szarkowski, who knew the photographer well during most of his career, describes the development of Winogrand's pictorial strategies during his years as a photojournalist, the increasing complexity of his motifs as he pursued more personal goals, and the challenge posed for other photographers by the powerful and distinctive authority of Winogrand's best work.
Winogrand : figments from the real world
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The first comprehensive overview of the work of Garry Winogrand contains an essay on the life and work of the photographer by John Szarkowski and a plate section presenting the photographs thematically. Grouped under the following titles-- Eisenhower Years, The Street, Women, The Zoo, On the Road, The Sixties, Etc, The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, Airport, and Unfinished Work-- many of the 179 plates are works that had never before been published. The last section includes 25 pictures chosen from the enormous body of work that Winogrand left unedited at the time of his death in 1984. In his essay, Szarkowski, who knew the photographer well during most of his career, describes the development of Winogrand's pictorial strategies during his years as a photojournalist, the increasing complexity of his motifs as he pursued more personal goals, and the challenge posed for other photographers by the powerful and distinctive authority of Winogrand's best work.
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janvier 1900, New York
janvier 1900, New York
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Lee Friedlander : Staglieno
Lee Friedlander : Staglieno
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The Staglieno cemetery near Genoa was created in the 19th century. It is home not only to those whose bones lie buried beneath, but also to the ornate display of sculptures erected in their memory. Printed in duotone on matte art paper and bound in velvet, with an introduction by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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The Staglieno cemetery near Genoa was created in the 19th century. It is home not only to those whose bones lie buried beneath, but also to the ornate display of sculptures erected in their memory. Printed in duotone on matte art paper and bound in velvet, with an introduction by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Lee Friedlander : Staglieno
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The Staglieno cemetery near Genoa was created in the 19th century. It is home not only to those whose bones lie buried beneath, but also to the ornate display of sculptures erected in their memory. Printed in duotone on matte art paper and bound in velvet, with an introduction by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Lee Friedlander : Staglieno
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The Staglieno cemetery near Genoa was created in the 19th century. It is home not only to those whose bones lie buried beneath, but also to the ornate display of sculptures erected in their memory. Printed in duotone on matte art paper and bound in velvet, with an introduction by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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janvier 1900, Tucson
janvier 1900, Tucson
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming(...)
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming(...)
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janvier 2004, Princeton
janvier 2004, Princeton
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Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine : a Victorian photographer abroad
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming something of a celebrity in photographic circles. This book, the first to place Frith's Egyptian and Levantine images in cultural context, reveals the distinct meanings these ostensibly "topographic" pictures held for the photographer and his Victorian audience. A Quaker by birth and an entrepreneur by nature, Frith brought to his photographic projects a sense of mission: to revive and confirm the stories of the Bible, while offering the region to armchair travelers as a seamless Oriental milieu of Romantic reverie. Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine narrates the political, intellectual, and social concerns that make Frith representative of England's encounter with the East in the nineteenth century. Historian of photography Douglas R. Nickel brings a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to bear on the subject in order to expose the complexity of Frith's image-making, setting the photographs against a Victorian backdrop of religious debate, imperialist thought, Romantic philosophy, and Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics.
Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine : a Victorian photographer abroad
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In 1856, the English photographer Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Traveling up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, Frith systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He then published his views in England and America in a variety of formats, becoming something of a celebrity in photographic circles. This book, the first to place Frith's Egyptian and Levantine images in cultural context, reveals the distinct meanings these ostensibly "topographic" pictures held for the photographer and his Victorian audience. A Quaker by birth and an entrepreneur by nature, Frith brought to his photographic projects a sense of mission: to revive and confirm the stories of the Bible, while offering the region to armchair travelers as a seamless Oriental milieu of Romantic reverie. Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine narrates the political, intellectual, and social concerns that make Frith representative of England's encounter with the East in the nineteenth century. Historian of photography Douglas R. Nickel brings a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to bear on the subject in order to expose the complexity of Frith's image-making, setting the photographs against a Victorian backdrop of religious debate, imperialist thought, Romantic philosophy, and Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics.
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janvier 2004, Princeton
janvier 2004, Princeton
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Walker Evans
Walker Evans
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for documenting the people and living conditions of the American South during the Great Depression. But his photographic accomplishments were much broader than these famous images: modernist views of New York City, such as his Flatiron Building, New York (1928-29) and Brooklyn Bridge (1929); architectural studies of Victorian homes(...)
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for documenting the people and living conditions of the American South during the Great Depression. But his photographic accomplishments were much broader than these famous images: modernist views of New York City, such as his Flatiron Building, New York (1928-29) and Brooklyn Bridge (1929); architectural studies of Victorian homes(...)
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Walker Evans
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for documenting the people and living conditions of the American South during the Great Depression. But his photographic accomplishments were much broader than these famous images: modernist views of New York City, such as his Flatiron Building, New York (1928-29) and Brooklyn Bridge (1929); architectural studies of Victorian homes and other buildings in Boston, Cape Cod, Saratoga Springs, and small towns in upstate New York; a series of spontaneous and surreptitious portraits taken on the Manhattan subway; scenes from Cuba in the 1930s; and his commercial assignments as a staff photographer and writer for Fortune magazine. The familiar work from his Farm Security Administration project is also here-views of the rural South immortalized in his collaborative book with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, along with urban images from New Orleans and Savannah. Essays by Christian A. Peterson, associate curator of photography at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, describe Evans's photographic vision and include information about the acquisition history of many of the photographs in this book. Illustrated with almost one hundred high-quality black-and-white photographs, Walker Evans presents the full breadth of Evans's expansive and varied photographic art.
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for documenting the people and living conditions of the American South during the Great Depression. But his photographic accomplishments were much broader than these famous images: modernist views of New York City, such as his Flatiron Building, New York (1928-29) and Brooklyn Bridge (1929); architectural studies of Victorian homes and other buildings in Boston, Cape Cod, Saratoga Springs, and small towns in upstate New York; a series of spontaneous and surreptitious portraits taken on the Manhattan subway; scenes from Cuba in the 1930s; and his commercial assignments as a staff photographer and writer for Fortune magazine. The familiar work from his Farm Security Administration project is also here-views of the rural South immortalized in his collaborative book with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, along with urban images from New Orleans and Savannah. Essays by Christian A. Peterson, associate curator of photography at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, describe Evans's photographic vision and include information about the acquisition history of many of the photographs in this book. Illustrated with almost one hundred high-quality black-and-white photographs, Walker Evans presents the full breadth of Evans's expansive and varied photographic art.
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juillet 2003, Minneapolis
juillet 2003, Minneapolis
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This beautifully designed and produced volume showcases photographer David Paul Bayles' extraordinary vision of urban trees and their often precarious, sometimes triumphant place in the human landscape.
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This beautifully designed and produced volume showcases photographer David Paul Bayles' extraordinary vision of urban trees and their often precarious, sometimes triumphant place in the human landscape.
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Urban forest : images of trees in the human landscape
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This beautifully designed and produced volume showcases photographer David Paul Bayles' extraordinary vision of urban trees and their often precarious, sometimes triumphant place in the human landscape.
Urban forest : images of trees in the human landscape
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This beautifully designed and produced volume showcases photographer David Paul Bayles' extraordinary vision of urban trees and their often precarious, sometimes triumphant place in the human landscape.
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octobre 2003, San Franscisco
octobre 2003, San Franscisco
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From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance, from strikes to stoic determination. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a record of this photographer's vision and of America's land and(...)
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From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance, from strikes to stoic determination. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a record of this photographer's vision and of America's land and(...)
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John Vachon's America : photographs and letters from the Depression to World War II
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From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance, from strikes to stoic determination. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a record of this photographer's vision and of America's land and people as the country moved from the depths of the Depression to the dramatic mobilization for World War II. Vachon's portraits of white and black Americans are among the most affecting that FSA photographers produced; and his portrayals of the American landscape, from rural scenes to small towns and urban centers, present a remarkable visual account of these pivotal years, in a style that is transitional from Walker Evans to Robert Frank.
John Vachon's America : photographs and letters from the Depression to World War II
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From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance, from strikes to stoic determination. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a record of this photographer's vision and of America's land and people as the country moved from the depths of the Depression to the dramatic mobilization for World War II. Vachon's portraits of white and black Americans are among the most affecting that FSA photographers produced; and his portrayals of the American landscape, from rural scenes to small towns and urban centers, present a remarkable visual account of these pivotal years, in a style that is transitional from Walker Evans to Robert Frank.
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novembre 2003, Berkeley
novembre 2003, Berkeley
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Catalogue of Ruwedel's September 2002 exhibition at Presentation House Gallery. The book covers Ruwedel's work from 1990 to the present, divided into three sections: The Ice Age; Pictures of Hell; and Westward The Course of Empire. These three series are interrelated, as archeological history, land use and the act of naming places combined to form a picture of human(...)
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Catalogue of Ruwedel's September 2002 exhibition at Presentation House Gallery. The book covers Ruwedel's work from 1990 to the present, divided into three sections: The Ice Age; Pictures of Hell; and Westward The Course of Empire. These three series are interrelated, as archeological history, land use and the act of naming places combined to form a picture of human(...)
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janvier 1900, North Vancouver
janvier 1900, North Vancouver
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Mark Ruwedel : written on the land
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Catalogue of Ruwedel's September 2002 exhibition at Presentation House Gallery. The book covers Ruwedel's work from 1990 to the present, divided into three sections: The Ice Age; Pictures of Hell; and Westward The Course of Empire. These three series are interrelated, as archeological history, land use and the act of naming places combined to form a picture of human interaction with the land.
Mark Ruwedel : written on the land
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Catalogue of Ruwedel's September 2002 exhibition at Presentation House Gallery. The book covers Ruwedel's work from 1990 to the present, divided into three sections: The Ice Age; Pictures of Hell; and Westward The Course of Empire. These three series are interrelated, as archeological history, land use and the act of naming places combined to form a picture of human interaction with the land.
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janvier 1900, North Vancouver
janvier 1900, North Vancouver
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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.
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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août 2003, San Francisco
août 2003, San Francisco
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