Joel-Peter Witkin is one of the most controversial artists working today, unsurprising for an artist whose career began photographing sideshow performers at Coney Island as a teenager and who cites his witnessing of the decapitation of a child in an accident as an influential childhood experience. Witkin's extraordinary visual sensibility produces ...
Reproduces many of Degas's photographic portraits (mostly taken in 1895) in the the form of duotone and tritone plates. The photographs - chiefly of family and friends, and never publicly displayed in the artist's lifetime - feature in a travelling exhibition opening in New York in October 1998.
Adam Fuss has emerged as one of the bold and truly creative artists utilizing photography today. Fuss's photograms clearly break from those of his predecessors, Man Ray, Moholy Nagy, and Talbot, and while striking a chord of homage, the images redefine how and what we see in pictures, viscerally and intellectually....ADAM FUSS, the first major ...
"Joel-Peter Witkin" is one of four new titles being published this spring in Thames & Hudsons acclaimed "Photofile" series. Each book brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Hailed by "The Times" as finely produced, the books are printed to the highest standards. ...
For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this ...
Soon after George Eastman House opened, curator Beaumont Newhall sought to acquire the work of Alfred Stieglitz, arguably the most important photographer of the twentieth century. He worked closely with Georgia O'Keeffe and gathered a group of 152 photographs that represent the full range of Stieglitz's ideology and career. He also collected ...
Gustave Le Gray (1820-1882) was one of the most technically accomplished and aesthetically enlightened of the early "artist-photographers." Trained as a painter of portraits and landscapes, Le Gray was attracted in the 1840s to the artistic potential of photographic processes. As a photographer he evolved and refined much of photography's primary ...
Linda J Ging, born in 1941 in Hutchinson, Kansas, is an American transcendentalist who has worked in quiet obscurity for nearly thirty years. Her paintings, rooted in the immense spaces and changing skies of rural Kansas, are not landscapes. They are not about things. They are dust, astral dust. Linda Ging rigorously eradicates all suggestions of ...
These large-format photographs characterized by an intense, sulfuric color explore with profound wit and irony Nagatani's deep understanding of nuclear fear in our time.
This eerie, haunting work stakes out a unique territory between true-crime compendium and coffee-table photo book, belles lettres and conceptual art. Eugenia Parry has compiled graphic crime-scene photographs taken in Paris in the last decades of the 19th century, most taken by the eccentric criminologist Alphonse Bertillon. Accompanying each ...
Even in her earliest works, Georgia O'Keeffe was a visionary who intuitively created her own definitions of the sublime, enhanced the perception of its visual symbols, and provided new ways to view the surrounding environment and explore one's inner self. Over the past two centuries, the concept of the sublime has been substantially redefined by a ...
In this luxuriously produced limited edition, Paolo Ventura invents an imaginative series of photographs depicting scenes from the memory banks of an old circus performer as he looks back on his life. What the performer revisits are not moments of great drama, but rather fleetingly recalled glimpses of an everyday life, "images that he had thought ...
"Wind" showcases the most recent work of the widely acclaimed and exhibited Korean photographer Jungjin Lee. Known for her laborious and textured photographic process, Lee brushes liquid emulsion onto the surface of handmade rice paper, endowing her images with a uniquely painterly effect. "Wind" captures the ethereal quality of the element in a ...
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