Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Other Americas, originally published in France in 1986 and designed by Lelia Wanick Salgado, is Sebastiao Salgados first book. Upon publication it became an award-winning photobook classic, establishing Salgados reputation as the visionary reportage photographer of his generation. With forty-nine black-and-white photographs taken between 1977 and 1984, Salgados distilled survey of a continent…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: First published in 1992, Immediate Family has been lauded by critics as one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland summer home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children reveal truths that embody the individuality of her own family yet ultimately take on a universal quality.…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: An innovative documentary photographer, Berenice Abbott pioneered scientific images and photographed the fast-changing landscape of her times. Abbott studied journalism for a year in Ohio before moving to New York in 1918 to study sculpture, where she met Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. She later moved to France in the 1920s and worked for Ray in his portrait studio before setting out on her own. Her…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: With painstaking care and the use of multiple exposures, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao crafts each of his images with technological precision. Shooting primarily with a large-format film camera, then scanning and digitally editing the negatives, Liao creates enormous, detail-driven panoramas of the social and urban landscape of New York. This oversized monograph includes photographs taken over the last…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Aperture Masters of Photography Series has become a touchstone of Apertures longstanding commitment to introducing the history and art of photography to a broader public. Each volume provides an ongoing comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium. Initially presented as the History of Photography Series in 1976, the first volume featured Henri Cartier-Bresson and was…
Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: Erwin Olaf's approach to storytelling is uniquely evocative and enticingly ambiguous. According to critic Francis Hodgson, Olaf's images lead us to a Stimmung (a sense of atmosphere) which is broad enough to repay many second readings of the pictures and so keep us viewers interested. In this presentation of his most recent work, Olaf expands on his established style of highly polished, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Fans of classic pulp paperbacks will flip over photographer Thomas Allen's delightful reconstructions. Taking covers from the pulpiest of pulp novels, Allen creates witty new scenes inspired by Hollywood noir, westerns, hard-boiled fiction, and femme fatale favorites.
Скачать книгу (размер 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 175) Аннотация: The older paradigm for photojournalists was to simply record events, with the hopeand frequently the expectationthat people and their governments would be moved to respond to the injustices pictured; as witnessed by the impact of certain images during the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Given evolving media and political climates, however, including the billions of images now available…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This Is Mars offers a previously unseen vision of the red planet. Located somewhere between art and science, the book brings together for the first time a series of panoramic images recently sent back by the U.S. observation satellite MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Since its arrival in orbit in 2006, MRO and its HiRISE telescope have been mapping Mars' surface in a series of exceptionally…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Aperture magazine was founded in 1952 by the photographers Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan and Dorothea Lange, and the photography historians Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. These individuals wished to foster the development and appreciation of the photographic medium. Today the magazine maintains the founders' spirit, presenting a diversity of historical work, photojournalism and portfolios…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Plenty, Brian Ulrich's long-awaited first monograph, presents the photographers decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumer society. Ulrich focuses, in part, on photographing the architectural legacies of a retail-driven economy in the midst of collapse shopping malls on the brink of demolition, empty big box stores, and other retail structures in…
Скачать книгу (размер 422 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 84) Аннотация: «In this exquisitely produced book, the influential American photographer Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights, this new edition has been carefully reedited and resequenced by the photographer, who has added 39 previously…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: «Within the simple constraints of a glass globe, the captivating images in Travelers conjure up entire sequences of imaginary worlds and events. Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz collaboratively create mesmerizing miniature snowbound environments, then record them in chilly color photographs. At first glance the work is playful; on closer observation, it often reveals darker narratives: Lone…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 492) Аннотация: People are always fascinated by the bodies of athletes. But the secret of their drive, ambition and passion can be seen in their faces, can be interpreted through their expressions. For this reason the portraits in this book focus on the face. They are the Faces of Sport Giorgio Armani In this exclusive and rich photographic gallery, great athletes — soccer players, boxers, cyclists, swimmers,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Paul Fusco: RFK, published during the fortieth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, is the long-awaited follow-up to Fusco's acclaimed RFK Funeral Train, a body of work heralded as a contemporary classic. This historical new publication features more than 70 never-before-seen images, many selected from the untapped treasure trove of slides that comprise the Library of Congress' Look…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: «In the early 1980s, Barbara Crane embarked on a series of photographs shot during Chicago's various summer festivals. Using a Super Speed Graphic camera and Polaroid film, Crane waded in close to the revelers, tracking down the details of their clothing, hairstyles and gestures. The images are tightly cropped and condensed and therefore terrifically alive, bringing us viscerally into the crush…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Expanded from an earlier catalogue of the same title, Still Time originally accompanied a traveling exhibition featuring more than 20 years of Sally Mann's photography. Now available in paperback, this volume celebrates an artist whose acute perceptions and imagination embrace not only the photographs of children for which she is renowned, but also earlier landscapes and some unexpected,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In Photography After Frank, former New York Times writer and picture editor Philip Gefter narrates the tale of contemporary photography, beginning at the pivotal moment when Robert Frank commenced his seminal works of the 1950s. Along the way, he connects the dots of photography's evolution into what it is today, forging links between its episodes to reveal unsuspected leaps. Gefter takes Frank's…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Founded by photographer and writer Sara Terry, the nonprofit Aftermath Project documents the long-term repercussions of conflict that are so often neglected by the popular media. Terry, whose work has been widely exhibited at such venues as the United Nations and the Museum of Photography in Antwerp, initiated this project after her extensive documentary work on postwar Bosnia. Through grant…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Martin Parr's vast collections of photography books and postcards are world-renowned. Unbeknownst to many, he is also an obsessive collector of photographic and themed objects. In Parrworld: Objects and Postcards, a luscious two-volume set, his affinity for focused accumulation is presented with appropriate thoroughness, and with typical Parrian humor. Some of the items in the first volume,…