books by Aperture     books:       Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph16 reviews Aperture, 1997 "Cast A Cold Eye On Life, On Death. Horseman, Pass By!" Epitaph of W.B. Yeats It is not overstating the case to say that creating these photographs cost Diane Arbus her life, her suicide followed soon after they were assembled. When you study them, (and you study them, you don't look at them), you quickly understand why. Arbus was a brittle and emotionally volatile woman long before taking these haunting images, the product of a privileged upbringing who cut her teeth in ...             Henri Cartier-Bresson (Aperture Masters of Photography)8 reviews Aperture, 1997 A True Master If Cartier-Bresson did not invent the art of 35mm street photography, he certainly brought it to the attention of other serious photographers and the public. Trained as a painter, his eye for composition was unerring, but it was his instinct for the defining human gesture--that he termed "the decisive moment"--that made him one of the immortals of photographic history. As one of the founding ...             Immediate Family35 reviews Aperture, 1994 Grand Photographic Book I love these photographs. They have amazing soul and power inside them. Brilliant exposures and a great looking family.             The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range2 reviews Robert Adams Aperture, 2008 The (old) new west The New West is one of the most significant works of photography in the 20th century, presenting the reality of the western landscape in harsh contrast to the mythology of the other Adams... The pictures cut straight to the bone, showing the damage done to a landscape by our progress, but always the light is perfect, the skies brilliant, and the distant horizon intact. This work is a challenge ...             Zalami: Silent Exodus Khaled Hosseini Aperture/UNHCR, 2008 In early 2008, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that an estimated 4.4 million Iraqis had been displaced from their homes as a result of the war. While nearly half were uprooted internally, the remaining citizens escaped to neighboring countries. The New York Times called the escalating crisis, "the largest exodus since the mass migrations associated with the creation of the state of Israel in 1948." Today, the ...             Why People Photograph7 reviews Robert Adams Aperture, 1996 Photographers -- this book is your friend. If you are not connected with any photography/art community, this book is for you. If none of your friends has an MFA, and if you are in need of someone who can speak intelligently about photography as art, then again, this book is for you. Robert Adams' writing is clear, concise, and insightful. Adams tells us why we photograph, for example, why we photograph landscapes. The answers include: ...             Jock Sturges: Misty Dawn Aperture, 2008 Over the course of his career, Jock Sturges' long-term engagement with his subjects has been a cornerstone of his work. Misty Dawn, one of his primary and most popular muses, is one such subject; he has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years. Lithe, beautiful, classically proportioned, she is the personification of Sturges' philosophy of being at home in one's body. This volume follows her growth from a shy, tomboyish child to a gorgeous, ...             Josef Koudelka: Invasion 68 Aperture, 2008 In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a 30-year-old acclaimed theater photographer who had never made pictures of a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as Prague Spring. Koudelka had returned home the day before from photographing gypsies in Romania. In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led ...             Martin Parr: Parrworld Aperture, 2008 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, Objects, have already achieved notoriety--for ...             Erwin Olaf Aperture, 2008 "Vermeer Noir" might be an apt description of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf's disquieting image repertoire. His subjects are posed indoors, immobile, somewhat in reverie, and bathed in nearby window light--but not tranquilly so. An atmosphere of sinister but clinical indifference attends both them and their environments, rendering them into beautiful but dislocated mannequins in catalogue-furnished interiors. All sense of belonging to a place is ...             Michal Chelbin: Strangely Familiar Leah Ollman Aperture, 2008 In her sympathetic pictures of contortionists, dwarves, ballroom dancers and wrestlers from small towns in Israel, Ukraine, Eastern Europe and England, Michal Chelbin offers a glimpse into worlds both strange and familiar. Her subjects--usually individuals on society's margins--tend to be portrayed offstage, at home or on the street or in a park, and in a disarmingly direct engagement with the viewer: "My aim is to record a scene where there is ...             Jonas Bendiksen: Satellites6 reviews Jonas Bendiksen Aperture, 2006 Beautifully documented with a lyrical eye! I've never written an Amazon review, but after finding this book, I want to say how much I loved it! Jonas Bendiksen takes a remarkable concept: the former Soviet Republics as "orbiting satellites held together by the gravity of Moscow" and through his photographs exposes the complexities of obscure regions in which he spent years traveling. It is beautifully documented with a lyrical eye. It is ...             Photo Art Aperture, 2008 More adventurous in scope than other comparable compendiums, Photo Art is a vast critical survey of contemporary conceptual-oriented photography. It particularly addresses the work of artists emerging in Western and Eastern Europe--many of whom will be new to American audiences--and presents critical contexts for their work in accompanying essays. Gathering more than 120 image-makers from around the globe, this luscious compendium reads like ...             Uncommon Places: The Complete Works10 reviews Lynn Tillman, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen Aperture, 2004 a TRUE master this is one of the first great works of color photography, and is still as fresh and significant as it was 30 years ago. forget all the imitators of today's contemporary scene, this was one of the first and is still better than anything to come along since (with the exception of sternfeld's american prospects which is equally great). and for those who say this is snapshot photography, think ...             Art Photography Now6 reviews Susan Bright Aperture, 2006 A trip to 80 (good) art galleries in a single book It is difficult to find good contemporary photography overviews -- typically, you could go to galleries or museums for several years or buy a stack of art photography books and spend days going through them -- assuming you had a strong Art background. This book offers a nice alternative and it is one of the best overviews of contemporary fine art photography available. Aperture, a respected ...             Jock Sturges: Notes14 reviews Aperture, 2004 This review is going to be............ ....about my own credo of America, and of the First Amendment. My online purchase of this is analagous to the story of a Yale professor I read about a few years ago...having no interest in guns, or hunting, he still believes in the Second Amendment; he bought a cheap shotgun, fired it once, and set it aside. That makes him a gun owner, "one of us". I haven't read this book; it is shelved in a ...             The Places We Live Aperture, 2008             The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers8 reviews Aperture, 1999 An Apologia For Intuition Yes, this is a small book, and, possibly too much of it is taken up in verbal bouquets tossed to old friends, tourist information about side-trips to various countries, and practical advice to would-be photojournalists. But those asides aren't the guts of this wonderful book. The important message from this man, who without question was the most influential photographer of the twentieth ...             Luigi Ghirri: It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It...1 review Germano Celant Aperture, 2008 Filled with countless color photos, as well as essays covering Ghirri's reflections "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It..." is not just a book title; it's a statement that perfectly sums up this newest collection of photography from Luigi Ghirri. Filled with countless color photos, as well as essays covering Ghirri's reflections on the time he took the photos and the atmosphere surrounding the events, "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It..." adds a personal touch to the gorgeous shots on ...             Radiant Identities: Photographs by Jock Sturges29 reviews Aperture, 1994 The early Jock Sturges I first came across this book about ten years ago and when I did I instantly became a Jock Sturges fan. But it wasn't until resonantly that I realized just how powerful and deep his art can be. Visiting an art gallery I was stunned by the detail, contrast and the three dimensional quality of Jock's full sized prints. 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