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on Composition and Improvisation by Larry Fink
25 × 19 × 1 cm€25.00Add to cartLarry Fink (born in Brooklyn, 1941) has been a professor at Yale University School of Art; Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture; Parsons the New School for Design; and Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Currently, he is a tenured professor of photography at Bard College. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States, including solo exhibitions at Light Gallery, New York; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art.The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography : Nathalie Herschdorfer
31.5 × 20.5 × 4.5 cm€92.50Add to cartEdited by Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator, writer, and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland, and was previously a curator at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. She has produced internationally touring exhibitions for the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, including Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast.
The Photographer’s Playbook Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern
23 × 15 × 3 cm€24.00Read moreRead this if you want to take great photographs of people. by Henry Carroll
20 × 1 × 14 cm€19.00Read moreRead this if you want to take great photographs of people. by Henry Carroll
Read this if you want to take great photographs. by Henry Carroll
20 × 1 × 14.5 cm€19.00Read moreRead This If You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll
‘Henry Carroll’s superb new book takes some beating’ (Photography Week)
‘Finally, a book in simple jargon-free terms’ (Psychologies Magazine)
Photobox The Essential Collection : 250 Images you need to see
22 × 3.5 × 17 cm€25.00Read morePhotobox The Essential Collection : 250 Images you need to see
The Photograph as Contemporary Art: Charlotte Cotton
20 × 15 × 1.5 cm€15.00Add to cartIn the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Nearly two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. This book provides an introduction to contemporary art-photography, identifying its most important features and themes and celebrating its exciting pluralism through an overview of its most important and innovative practitioners. The work of nearly 250 photographers is reproduced, from established artists such as Isa Genzken, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Thomas Demand, Nan Goldin, and Sherrie Levine to emerging talents such Walead Beshty, Jason Evans, Lucas Blalock, Sara VanDerBeek, and Viviane Sassen.
This new edition brings the story of contemporary art photography up to date with a revised introduction outlining the evolution of photography from documentary tool to art form, and an updated final chapter focusing on the younger generation of artists who emphasize the technical and material properties of photography, employ it as part of a wider pan-media practice, or respond to evolving new modes of dissemination in the digital age.
Susan Sontag: On Photography
18 × 11 × 1.7 cm€14.20Add to cartSusan Sontag’s On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.
Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the ‘insatiability of the photographing eye’ has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
Regarding the Pain of Others: Susan Sontag
19.5 × 12.5 × .8 cm€13.00Add to cartRegarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag’s searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror.
From Goya’s Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and meanings of images, but about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.Revelations: Diane Arbus
40 × 25 × 3.5 cm€76.00Read moreDiane Arbus Revelationsaffords the first opportunity to explore the origins, scope, and aspirations of what is a wholly original force in photography. Arbus’s frank treatment of her subjects and her faith in the intrinsic power of the medium have produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Presenting many of her lesser-known or previously unpublished photographs in the context of the iconic images reveals a subtle yet persistent view of the world.
