If you click onto Jacob Holdt's fascinating website and read a bit about him you'll find out that he "...was never interested in photography as art so few of my pictures can stand alone..." yet Steidl have published this book, in the classic photo book format of one image to a spread, as ...
Stephen Gill has learnt this: to haunt the places that haunt him. His photo-accumulations demonstrate a tender vision factored out of experience; alert, watchful, not overeager, wary of that mendacious conceit, "closure." There is always flow, momentum, the sense of a man passing through a place that delights him. A sense of stepping down, immediate engagement, politic exchange. Then he remounts ...
" Snowbound delivers what one hopes to see (but is harder to find these days) in an emerging photographer-knowledge of her medium, a rich and varied inner life, fearlessness in vision, and an in-depth study of her chosen subject."-Carol McCusker Photographs with the tranquility one might feel after a fresh snowfall. Five winters long, the young American photographer Lisa M. Robinson took ...
Mark Klett has been photographing the deserts of the American West, in particular the beauties of the Sonoran landscape--a desert that sprawls across southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Along with coyotes and tumbleweeds, saguaro cacti are one of the most recognizable (and stereotypical) features of this region. Klett's portraits of these giant desert plants are straightforward and frontal. ...
SIGNED (both volumes) in black ink on the half-title page by Gossage. 2004 and 2007. First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Berlin in the Time of the Wall: fine black cloth with black and white plates affixed to the front and rear covers (cloth is shown around spine area, as if quarter-bound) and title stamped in gilt on spine, with clear printed acetate dust jacket; Putting Back the ...
In her catalogue essay to this remarkable new collection of photographs of the Icelandic landscape and other abandoned or emptied-out environments there, Art in America's Stephanie Cash writes, "There is a sense of comforting ordinariness that pervades the work of Icelandic artist Spessi. His subjects aren't grandly majestic or fashionably downtrodden. They just are. In various series Spessi has ...
Tom Sandberg's photographs made a splash at New York's P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in February of 2007. Though previously almost unknown to the American public, Sandberg, born in 1953, has quietly produced, over three decades, a superb oeuvre of austere, large-scale black-and-white photography. Focusing on a single object or person in each photograph, and steeping them in a murky, wintry light, ...
I have spent the last few years feeling underwhelmed by most photographers' work & photography books I've seen....and then I received this book in the mail. All I can say is THANK YOU TOD PAPAGEORGE! I mean this book is what photography is about. I am blown away by not only the emotional range, but ...
A stunningly rich portrait of contemporary Gypsy life
This book is wonderful for its abundance of truly great, intimate, revealing photographs -- and for its intelligent and insightful brief texts about a Gypsy culture that has been little understood for centuries.
The book is arranged in seven main sections, each representing an in-depth ...
+ Great purchase + A Phenomenally Skilled Artist Who Lacks Warmth + A powerful set of full-page, full-color images goes far beyond the usual city focus to capture Istanbul's crossroads cultures.
UK photographer Stephen Gill has again used his surroundings as the inspiration for this beautiful and evocative series. Hackney Flowers evolved from Gill's longstanding interest in Hackney, East London. For this volume, Gill collected flowers, seeds, berries and objects from Hackney, then pressed them in his studio and rephotographed them alongside his own photographs and other found ephemera, ...
I am so clearly biased, as my wife and i adopted a baby girl from Bogota, Colombia in February of 2007. These images were part of our journey, adn speak to us on a very personal level. But, having shared the book with many non-adoptive friends and aquaintences, I know they speak to them as as ...
"I often feel beside myself in the wintertime, and I try to go to warmer and lighter places. But the last couple of years I have traveled into the winter and darkness instead--into areas, conditions and encounters in which I don't really know where the outer and inner begin. And even less where they end." Lars Tunbjork's photographic explorations of northern Sweden capture the atmosphere of the ...
Burtynsky shoots stunning pictures. There are many great photographers (and photography books) out there but his pictures are full of color and precision and the subject matter is a wonder to behold.
This book is SO wonderful. It is poetic, has great pictues and is very well printed. One of my favourites. I wish the publisher enabled us to look inside this book!
"In Spring, I am going to go to Hawaii to photograph. Im so excited, and a little anxious - I've never been there before. The idea of Hawaii has been stuck in my mind for many, many years, just as the idea of a place. I try to imagine what its like, and I have a certain image of it - a nostalgic place, a place where time has stopped. When I get there, I'll probably find out its nothing like ...
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