Elvis' Graceland, a freezer stuffed with food, a Gulf gasoline sign standing in a deserted rural landscape - these are only a few of the iconic images captured by the "democratic camera" of photographer William Eggleston. Not only has he drawn upon images so telling of American culture, he has produced them with an intensity and balance of colour ...
"Los Alamos" presents a series of photos that have never before been shown, yet it contains a blueprint of Eggleston's aesthetics, his subtle use of subdued color hues, the casual elegance of his trenchant observations of the mysteries of the mundane.
Albert Renger-Patzsch has often been described as one of the pioneers of 20th-century German photography, focusing on objects and the material world. As a protagonist of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit (new objectivity), he wanted to record the exact appearance of objects - their form, material and surface. Believing that ...
At the moment, photography is in a phase of change in which an altered conception of the documentary factor is emerging. It is not so much a matter of the "portrayal" or representation of reality, but rather of an artistically well-grounded "idea" of the world." So says Thomas Weski in his essay in this big, bold, and truly essential compendium of ...
Andreas Beyer says of artists' workplaces, "Places where important works were created have always been fascinating one is immediately on the hunt for clues of the persona and the greatness of what has been made there, trying to locate them on the desk, the walls, the chairs, even in the curtains." The Mill documents the living and working spaces ...
Is there such a thing as a unique "Zurich photography"? Is it possible that a photographic viewpoint can develop from a particular place that distinguishes itself from the rest of contemporary photography? Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Zurich School of Art and Design's photography department, "Photography, Made in ...
This work accompanies Tate Modern's first exhibition of photography, Summer 2003. It reproduces over 200 photographs by the century's most important photographers, together with essays and biographies of the photographers featured.
Mickey Mouse with brightly colored saints, Nike logos with Day of the Dead skulls, and Coca-Cola with cacti--here acclaimed British photographer Martin Parr focuses on Mexico's eclectic and colorful culture.
The New West is a reprint of the photography book, first issued in 1974, that was a formative influence on a whole generation of American photographers. In the book Robert Adams documents the changing landscape of the United States in the 60s and 70s.
Focusing on photography as the definitive art form of the 20th century, this stunning volume presents a whole series of works by the medium's pioneers and arranges them thematically to illustrate the connections between seemingly disparate bodies of work. 104 color, 300 duotone photos.
Many of the images that have come to sum up the most turbulent century in human history belong to the realist tradition of photography. At once objective and polemical, disengaged and yet concerned, the documentary photograph has not merely recorded, but also shaped the way we see our world. Over 200 photographs by the century's most important ...
From Albrecht Fuchs' magnetic portraits of Sarah Lucas, Raymond Pettibon, Jonathan Meese, Mark Leckey and other international art stars to Wiebke Loeper's strangely moving and often desolate landscapes to Matthias Koch's deadpan images of grounded submarines, government ministries and disused military bunkers, this collection highlights 10 new ...
This collection explores the various ways in which photography shaped our view of the 20th century, at the same time providing a record of the radical changes undergone by our towns, landscapes and private lives. Carefully juxtaposed with the photographs are paintings and sculptures.
"Off Piste" is a very funny and powerful satire. It looks at the enormous changes to Austria's alpine region, the Tyrol, over recent decades. It juxtaposes images from two very different worlds - the old, 'traditional' rural Austria and the increasingly consumer driven culture of today. Wonderful ironies abound, yet despite the humour that ...
It is by now apparent that the medium of photography, now 150 years old, has atained a status of undisputed art-historical significance. In Germany, however, photography as an art form in its own right has attained recognition to only a moderate extent. German museums, for example, have rather neglected photography; it is rare that a museum will ...
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
