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Christopher Morris Americans ENAmericans is the second book in a series on America by Christopher Morris. While the first book My America (Steidl, 2006) focused on Republican nationalism, Americans takes a much broader journey across American society. With an empathetic and critical eye, Morris presents a nation in a state of perpetual loss and its people searching for an identity - stranded within two long-running wars and an economy on the…
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Nobuyoshi Araki ArakiA young woman with her legs spread wide; buttoned-up dressed workers on a city street. Contrasting photos like these of intensely private scenes, and snapshots of nameless passers-by are Nobuyoshi Araki’s early commentary on the ...
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Günter Grass Beim Häuten der Zwiebel DEDas im Vorfeld seiner Erinnerungen Beim Häuten der Zwiebel bekannt gewordene Bekenntnis des Schriftstellers und Nobelpreisträgers Günter Grass, im Alter von 17 Jahren kurz bei der Waffen-SS gewesen zu sein, hat im Blätterwald der Feuilletons viel Staub aufgewirbelt. Vor allem die späte Auseinandersetzung mit seiner Vergangenheit machte den Kritikern offenbar zu schaffen. Jetzt, sagte Grass, sei die Zeit einfach reif…
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Mary Ellen Mark Book of EverythingConceived and edited by film director Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark’s husband and collaborator for 30 years, the Book of Everything celebrates in over 600 images and diverse texts Mark’s extraordinary life, work and vision...
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Bryan Adams) Bryan Adams: ExposedSteidl: In the late nineties Bryan Adams became curious about making photographic self-portraits for his album covers, and so chose to pick up the camera himself. That serendipitous decision was the beginning of a successful photographic career, parallel to Adams impressive achievements as a singer, songwriter and producer. Exposed is a retrospective of Adams photography and features portraits of friends and…
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Saul Leiter Early Black and White ENThe distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter's early black-andwhite photographs stems from his profound response to the dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s. While this technique borrowed aspects of the photo-documentary, Leiter's imagery was more shaped by his highly individual reactions to the people and places he encountered. Like a Magic Realist with a camera, Leiter absorbed the mystery…
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Guy Bourdin, Nicolle Meyer Guy Bourdin ENWith the eye of a painter Guy Bourdin created images containing fascinating stories, compositions and colours. Using fashion photography as his medium, Bourdin explored the provocative and the sublime with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humour. Famed for his suggestive narratives and surreal aesthetics, Bourdin radically broke conventions of commercial photography and in the process captured the imagination of…
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Robert Frank Hold StillHold Still, Keep Going is the long-awaited reprint of the catalogue to Robert Frank's (born 1924) 2001 exhibition at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Though the artist is best known for his seminal photobook The Americans (1959) ...
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Agnes Sire, Sam Stourdze Howard Greenberg Collection ENHoward Greenberg has been a gallery owner for more than 30 years, and is considered one of the pillars of the New York photographic scene. While he is well known as a dealer, his private passion as a collector is now revealed for the first time to a larger public. The Howard Greenberg Collection, which has been carefully assembled over decades, comprises around 500 photographs that distinguish themselves by their…
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Timm Rautert Josef Sudek, Prague 1967 ENTimm Rautert met Josef Sudek for the first time on a study trip to Prague in the spring of 1967. The photography student and the seventy-one-year-old Sudek ― arguably the most important Czech landscape and still-life photographer of the twentieth century and a cult figure in his native country ― instantly took to each other, and Rautert began photographing the artist at his studio and home. He accompanied him on his…
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Sarah Greenough, Stuart Alexander Looking In ENFirst published in France in 1958, then in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans changed the course of twentieth-century photography. In 83 photographs, Frank looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a people plagued by racism, ill-served by their More... politicians and rendered numb by a rapidly expanding culture of consumption. Yet he also found novel areas of beauty in simple,…
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Donovan Wylie North Warning System ENNorth Warning System is Donovan Wylie's third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture, and draws a close to his Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions. The development of long-range bombers and missiles after the Second World War…
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Julien Frydman, Kristine McKenna Paris Photo by David Lynch ENFor the first time, Paris Photo presents an original journey within the galleries: Paris Photo seen by... In 2012, Paris Photo entrusts David Lynch with the task of choosing from among the works exhibited by the gallery owners. An original way for the public to contemplate the works whilst at the same time discovering the artists aesthetic universe. Looking at David Lynchs selection is a bit like visiting Paris…
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Patrick Demarchelier, Anna Wintour Patrick Demarchelier ENThis monograph is the definitive guide to the career of one of the most prodigious fashion photographers of our time. From his earliest work at Harper's Bazaar to his now mythic collaboration with Vogue, Patrick Demarchelier has single-handedly redefined the fashion photograph and the fashion industry along with it. His celebrity portraits have shaped the public personae of figures ranging from Princess Diana to…
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Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac The Americans ENArmed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a couple at city hall in Reno, Nevada, and the despair of the present in a grimy roofscape. He saw the roiling…
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Karl Lagerfeld The Little Black Jacket ENThis book is Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfelds reinterpretation of Chanels iconic little black jacket. Lagerfeld has redesigned the jacket, transforming it into a modern, adaptable garment to be worn by both sexes of all ages. The Little Black Jacket contains Lagerfelds photographs of celebrities wearing the jacket with individual flair sometimes classic, sometimes irreverent, but always Chanel and each styled by…