Henk van Rensbergen is a Boeing 787 pilot who flies around the globe. While his crew rests at the swimming pool, he goes out to explore abandoned places in our world. From the breakaway state of Abkhazia, a floating warship cemetery in France, a forgotten love hotel in Japan to an abandoned rail depot in Detroit, van Rensbergen searches for the beauty of their desolation and pinpoints the richness of their decay. Van Rensbergen is a pioneering urban explorer. His Abandoned Places photo books (1, 2, 3 and The Photographer's Selection) have been highly successful. This complete revised edition shows his most iconic photos of the past 25 years, including new unpublished material and anecdotes.
Depuis 1955, le concours annuel World Press Photo est le rendez-vous mondial du journalisme visuel. Ce livre présente les gagnants du World Press Photo 2020, à travers les images les plus marquantes et les reportages les plus convaincants qui ont été retenus parmi les 73 966 photos prises par 4282 photographes de 125 pays. Sélectionnés par un jury indépendant de professionnels, les gagnants des prix sont mis à l'honneur dans ce document empreint d'émotions et représentatif du meilleur journalisme visuel de l'année 2019.
Une grâce absolue se dégage de ce nouvel opus consacré à Saul Leiter, maître de la photographie couleur. Ce nouveau volet prolonge l'émotion du premier, "All about Saul Leiter", déjà réimprimé deux fois. Un prix très accessible pour un "petit beau-livre" généreux en images : 250 reproductions.
« J'aime le soleil ; il n'y en a plus à Paris », aurait déclaré Helmut Newton à l'officier monégasque en charge d'instruire son dossier. Nous sommes en 1981, et c'est sur un trait d'humour que le photographe d'origine allemande arrive à Monte-Carlo, après vingt ans passés à Paris.
Son installation à Monaco n'a rien d'une retraite. Cette période est même une des plus prolifiques et, sans conteste, la plus libre de sa carrière. Il s'essaye ainsi au paysage et développe une de ses séries les plus personnelles, « Yellow Press », images étranges, d'un glamour inquiétant, inspirées de scènes de crimes.
Naturellement, Monaco offre à Newton un cadre original à ses photographies de mode. C'est là aussi qu'il réalise de très nombreux portraits de beautiful people. Ils ont pour noms David Bowie, Michael Cimino, Isabelle Huppert, Paloma Picasso, Robert Evans, etc. Il portraiture également les danseurs des Ballets de Monte-Carlo et la famille princière, notamment la princesse Caroline dont il est proche.
L'exposition « Newton, Riviera » laisse apparaître, d'image en image, un Newton solaire portant un regard à la fois ironique et fasciné sur un mode de vie élégant et facile, un monde d'apparences et de faux-semblants, dont il était à la fois l'acteur et le témoin privilégié.
Recadrant notre vision de la mode, la légendaire photographe Annie Leibovitz partage ses images iconiques et indélébiles.
« En regardant mon travail, je vois que la mode a toujours été là », constate Annie Leibovitz dans la préface de cet ouvrage. « Mais pour moi, la photographie passe toujours avant. Et elle est si vaste qu'elle englobe le journalisme, le portrait, le reportage, les photos de famille, la mode...
Mon travail pour Vogue m'a orientée vers un type de photographie que je n'aurais peut-être pas exploré autrement. »
Coiffée du Sacré-Coeur, la butte Montmartre se repère de loin dans le ciel de Paris. Mais ses venelles tortueuses et ses maisons de guingois la distinguent de la capitale au regard de laquelle elle a des allures de village. Sa légende a pourtant fait le tour du monde, accrochée à ses peintres, à ses danseuses de cancan, à ses chansonniers et à ses gamins des rues. D'une volée d'escalier à l'autre, en voici l'album de famille composé par les plus grands photographes : Nadar, Atget, Brassaï, Kertész, Ronis, Doisneau...
Montmartre, a village between earth and sky Topped by the pristine white Sacré-Coeur, the Montmartre hillside can be seen from afar in the Paris sky. Considered more like a village, its winding alleys and ramshackle houses distinguish it from the capital. However, its legend has spread around the world, clinging to its painters, its cancan dancers, its singers and its street urchins. From one flight of stairs to another, here is a family album composed by the greatest photographers: Nadar, Atget, Brassaï, Kertész, Ronis, Doisneau...
La série White Shirts, connue dans le monde entier, a été réalisée sur une plage de Malibu, en 1988. Simples, mais décisives, ces photographies ont révélé Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Rachel Williams, Karen Alexander, Tatjana Patitz et Estelle Lefébure. Cela a marqué le début d'une ère qui redéfinit la beauté et Lindbergh a poursuivi son oeuvre pour transformer le paysage de la photographie de mode pendant les décennies qui ont suivi.
Ce livre réunit plus de 300 clichés tirés des quarantes années de la carrière de Lindbergh. Il retrace l'inclinaison du photographe pour le cinéma et son approche humaniste, qui a donné vie à des images relevant tout autant de la séduction que de l'introspection.
En 1980, Rei Kawakubo a demandé à Lindbergh de réaliser la campagne de Comme des Garçons, une de ses premières incursions dans la photographie à visée commerciale. Kawakubo lui a donné carte blanche. Les années suivantes ont apporté leur lot de collaborations avec les plus grands noms de la mode et ont engendré des relations de respect mutuel. Le respect de Lindbergh pour l'un des plus grand designer de notre temps est palpable dans son portrait. Parmi ceux qui ont été photographiés, on compte Azzedine Alaïa, Giorgio Armani, Alber Elbaz, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler, Yves Saint Laurent, Jil Sander et Yohji Yamamoto.
Précurseur dans son domaine, Lindbergh a délaissé les normes de la beauté et a célébré l'âme et l'individualité de ses sujets. Il a été une figure déterminante dans l'ascension de modèles comme Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Mariacarla Boscono, Lara Stone, Claudia Schiffer, Amber Valletta, Nadja Auermann et Kristen McMenamy.
Les oeuvres de Lindbergh l'ont mené jusqu'à Hollywood et au-delà : Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Richard Gere, Isabelle Huppert, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Brad Pitt, Catherine Deneuve et Jeanne Moreau apparaissent dans ses oeuvres. De l'image sélectionnée par Anna Wintour pour la couverture de son premier Vogue au légendaire shooting avec Tina Turner sur la tour Eiffel, ce ne sont jamais les vêtements, les célébrités ou le glamour qui occupent le devant de la scène dans une photographie de Lindbergh. Chaque photographie convie l'humanité de son sujet - une sereine mélancolie empreinte d'émotion, purement et indubitablement Lindbergh.
Dès ses débuts, Lindbergh a été reconnu dans le monde de l'art contemporain, où ses photographies ont été exposées dans des galeries bien avant leurs publications dans des magazines. Cette édition réunit une introduction mise à jour adaptée d'une interview de 2016 dans laquelle le photographe raconte ses premières collaborations, la proximité entre l'aspect commercial et les beaux-arts et le pouvoir de la narration, proposant ainsi un aperçu derrière l'objectif de Lindbergh.
Photographer Anders Petersen was hanging out at a dive bar on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in 1968 when someone grabbed his camera from the table where he was sitting and started taking pictures. Petersen used the opportunity to photograph the culprit-and the rest of the bar's motley crew of patrons.
The resulting project is one of the most revered photobooks of all time, a celebration of a gritty city at the tail end of the sixties, and the cornerstone of Petersen's storied career. The images have become classics of their genre; Tom Waits used one for the cover of his legendary album Rain Dogs. Their candidness and authenticity remain as eloquent today as when they were first published in 1978.
This sumptuously produced reissue features a new foreword by Waits, and is certain to find a new audience, who will appreciate the stunning analog photography and its elegiac collective portrait of the fringes of society.
En 1952, le magazine américain Life demande à Ernst Haas de travailler en couleur sur New York, alors que le photographe expérimente depuis quelques temps déjà avec cette nouveauté encore très difficile à manier techniquement. Il photographie alors la ville dont il a rêvé quand il était jeune garçon, subissant le trauma de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale dans une famille juive autrichienne. Ces images, rassemblées dans ce livre, marqueront tout une génération de photographes amateurs et contribueront à faire changer la perception de la couleur en photographie.
It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for the first time-from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand-tens. The exhibits selected shed new light on Ungerer's oeuvre by making it possible to comprehend the artistic dimension of the political and stylistic lines and breaks in his oeuvre as a 'freewheeling artist'. His passion for experimenting across genres and the interplay between drawing, collage, and assemblage through which he searched for identity and humanity is thus shown in his work again and again. Developed by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg in cooperation with the Tomi Ungerer Estate and the Musee Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg, the volume brings together contributions on Tomi Ungerer's life's work by Thomas David, Belinda Grace Gardner, Aria Ungerer, and Therese Willer, with a foreword by Dirk Luckow and Harald Falckenberg.
It was in 1978, during my first summer of making portraits while using an 8x10 inch large format camera, that I found myself drawn to photographing redheads.
I have often been asked; 'why redheads,' and I've often felt it was because in summer redheads seem to bloom in the sun more gloriously than the rest of us. But it also might have been my living far out on the tip of Cape Cod, surrounded by all the blue light of sea and sky, which made me pay more attention to the flamboyant qualities of redheads. Their hair and the exotic markings of their skin in sunlight became even rosier and more astonishing in that blue atmosphere.
Redheads, like film itself, are transformed by sunlight. It seems natural to me now that I would have paid attention to this new phenomenon as it appeared within the larger subject of the Cape itself. After making more than 50 portraits that first month, in which at least 30 were of redheads, I understood that this was an impulse to be taken seriously.
I ran an ad in the local paper, the Provincetown Advocate: "REMARKABLE PEOPLE! If you are a redhead or know someone who is, I'd like to make your portrait, call...." They began coming to my deck, bringing with them their courage and their shyness, their curiosity and their dreams, and they shared their stories of what it was like to be a redhead. They spoke of the painful remembrances of childhood, the violations of privacy and name calling-"Hey, red," "freckle face," "carrot head." They also shared with me their sense of personal victory at having overcome this early, unwanted celebrity, and how like giants or dwarfs or athletes they had finally grown into their specialness and by surviving had been ennobled by it. You could say that they had been baptized by their own fire, and that their shared experience had formed a "blood knot" among them. I had begun making portraits with the intention of photographing ordinary people. But redheads are both ordinary and special.
Their slender slice of the genetic pie accounts for only 2 or 3 percent of the world's population. As different as redheads are in terms of nationality and religion, they often give the appearance of a strong familial connection.
My way of making portraits is not by getting down on my hands and knees, nor climbing high on a ladder, nor getting into bed with a celebrity, but simply standing eye to eye with anyone has found their way to me, young or old. I need only one or two sheets of film and the patience to see it through.
This new edition of 'Redheads' will have a number of new and previously unseen portraits.
The English illustrator Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was in every respect a modern woman. For the publication of her plant collections she used the latest technology, the recently invented cyanotype. In 1843 she used the process to create the first photo book in history, with images of breathtaking beauty and originality which often look like modern art.
At first Anna Atkins worked for and with her father, the zoologist John George Children; later she chose the objects for her scientific compositions herself: algae and ferns. Atkins placed them on light-sensitive paper that turned dark blue in water after being developed, with the exception of the places that had been covered by the plants. Initially alone, and then with her friend Anne Dixon, she produced well over 10,000 copies of her photograms and assembled them in several books like albums. Today these rare copies are regarded as treasures and are preserved in museums and libraries.
An engaging introduction to the work and the world of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
Arresting Beauty presents more than 100 images drawn from the most extensive collection of Cameron's work anywhere in the world, now including treasures from the Royal Photographic Society. Exploring Cameron's unique artistry, this book reaffirms her position as one of the most innovative and influential photographers in history.
Paris was brimming with life during the 1930s, and Picasso and Brassai were there to make the most of it. Picasso, thrilling the art world with his works, and Brassai, portraying boulevards and gardens, shops and markets, intellectuals and beggars. The contrasts of Paris parade in front of his camera, from the dark underworld to the radiance of its artistic environment, where he profusely portrayed artists and writer friends, such as Dali, Matisse, Giacometti, Genet and, of course, Picasso, whom he met in 1932 and whose sculptural work he was the first to photograph. This book is about that artistic environment, through which the Parisian intelligentsia is shown in beautiful black-and-white images with the unique signature of the Hungarian photographer. The book includes an excerpt by Henri Miller on Brassai, and a chapter of Brassai's autobiography speaking about his relationship with Picasso. AUTHOR: Brassai, name of the Hungarian photographer Gyula Halasz (1899-1984). He studied painting and sculpture in Budapest before working as a journalist in Berlin and later settling in France, where he developed his photographic career. Among his most notable series was Paris de nuit, in which he photographed scenes of the city's nightlife. He also photographed Parisian life extensively, the atmosphere in the streets by day and night, and the social meeting places, from cabarets to gardens, from the coffee shops frequented by intellectuals to the markets at dawn. Between 1936 and 1963, he worked as a photographer for Harper's Bazaar magazine, and was also a filmmaker and author of numerous articles and nearly twenty books. 120 images.
Par une nuit d'hiver à New York, en 1949, Walter Chandoha, jeune étudiant en marketing et photographe en herbe, découvre un chaton abandonné dans la neige. Il l'enveloppe dans son manteau et le rapporte chez lui, loin de se douter qu'il vient de rencontrer sa muse, celle qui va déterminer le cours de sa vie. Chandoha pointe son objectif sur son nouvel ami félin, prénommé Loco, et est si inspiré par le résultat qu'il commence à photographier les chatons du refuge local. Ces images marquent le point de départ d'une exceptionnelle carrière de 70 ans.
Bien avant Internet et les chats sur Instagram, Chandoha fascine le public avec ses adorables boules de poils. De la publicité aux cartes de voeux, des puzzles aux boîtes d'aliments pour animaux, ses clichés renvoient un mélange d'amour sincère pour ces créatures, d'éthique professionnelle et de maîtrise technique sans failles. Caractéristique du style de Chandoha, la lumière glamour, qui met en valeur la fourrure de chaque félin, s'impose comme un incontournable du portrait animalier durant des générations et inspire des maîtres comme Andy Warhol qui puise parmi les charmants portraits de Chandoha pour son livre d'illustration de chats.Cats nous plonge dans les archives uniques en leur genre de l'artiste et en a extrait photos couleur prises en studio, portraits saisis dans leur contexte, clichés de rue noir et blanc, images vintage capturées lors d'expositions félines, charmants tableaux de chats et d'enfants, et bien d'autres. Cet ouvrage rend un hommage mérité à ces créatures fascinantes, mais aussi à un photographe décédé en 2019 à l'âge de 98 ans et dont la compassion et l'amour des animaux transparaissent dans la moindre de ses oeuvres.
The general public's image of Mondrian is of a serious man in a suit and tie with a reserved, rather aloof look. It is the same group of some ten photographs that shaped this image over time, although there are around 400 known photographs of the artist and his studios that provide a far more balanced and livelier image of Mondrian.
This gorgeous book is not a biography, but rather a visual and emotional reference work for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the world of this extraordinarily modern artist. The studios in Amsterdam, Paris, and New York are works of art themselves, as fascinating as the guests in these rooms. There are snapshots showing his private life, taken during journeys or visits, photographs of vernissages and dinners as well as formal portraits that he uses to promote the image of a serious, uncompromising artist. Detailed captions and richly illustrated essays on the significance of photography in the context of Mondrian's work make this book an extraordinary document of his time.
Photographs are everywhere. They 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. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
À l'occasion du 50e anniversaire de la première publication du livre mythique de Robert Frank, cette réédition en anglais revue et corrigée par le photographe lui-même est un véritable événement !
A new wave of Black photographers and artists - across portraiture, fine art, documentary and fashion - are depicting Black subjects in completely original ways, and in doing so laying claim to their own stories of identity. As We See It brings together over 30 of these key image makers, who are investigating visually refreshing narratives on the representation of Black cultural identity.
Photographe, écrivain, éditeur et conservateur, Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) était un visionnaire, très en avance sur son temps. Au tournant du XXe siècle, il fonda la «Photo-Sécession», un mouvement progressiste qui cherchait à faire évoluer les possibilités créatives de la photographie et, en 1903, il commença à publier Camera Work, un magazine d'avant-garde consacré à la diffusion des idées, par les mots et par l'image, de la Photo-Sécession. Camera Work, qui se concentrait davantage sur l'aspect visuel que sur la technique et qui proposait des illustrations d'une excellente qualité par photogravure sur papier japon, est le premier journal d'art photographique. Cet ouvrage rassemble l'ensemble des photographies publiées dans les 50 numéros de ce magazine.
Ai Weiwei is not only one of the most important contemporary artists; he is also an untiring activist and critic of authoritarian systems. "Humanity" includes key works from all phases of the artist's career and examines in detail the aspect of humanity and artistic responsibility in the oeuvre of Ai Weiwei.
The catalogue sheds light on concepts such as surveillance, censorship, human rights, freedom of expression, human displacement, radical responsibility, the power of beauty, and the truth of poetry. Guided by these thoughts, it offers new perspectives to understand the relevance of Ai Weiwei's artistic language. It will encompass a wide range of art-historical paradigms (such as the readymade) alongside more radical activist strategies, all aimed at exploring the extremes of the contemporary human condition on a global scale.
Exhibition details: Abertina Modern, Mar 13 - June 26, 2022.
An autobiography, in which the author - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s.
