"Published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 2010 in collaboration with the Fotomuseum Winterthur.
It does not reiterate a western view of the East, but celebrates how successive generations of photographers from the subcontinent have portrayed themselves and their eras."
"Rineke Dijkstra is renowned for her uncanny and thoughtful portraits series of teenagers and young adults: girls and boys of various nationalities at the beach, children of Bosnian refugees, Spanish bullfighters straight out of the arena, Israeli youngsters before and after military service, and here, documented for the first time, her series of photographs taken of aspiring, young ballet dancers. Her subjects are shown standing, facing ..."
"In der Geschichte der Fotografie gab es schon immer Berührungspunkte zu anderen Disziplinen, von den Wissenschaften bis hin zur Trivialkultur. Diesen weiten Denkraum haben Künstlerinnen und Fotografen in den vergangenen Jahren vermehrt für ihre fotografische Praxis entdeckt und erkunden mit einem quasi-wissenschaftlichen Ansatz ihre Umgebung und die Welt. Auf den Spuren wissenschaftlicher Annäherung, aber befreit vom objektiven Gestus, ..."
"The creator of radical and poetic work, Boris Mikhailov focuses his camera on people's everyday life, capturing both the social and historical conditions in the Soviet Union and the changes that occurred after 1989, with the breakdown of order in the Ukraine. In the 1970s, Mikhailov started to photograph "life the way it is." He dealt with the "city without a main street," the anti-heroic, the incidental, the private sphere and leisure ..."
"As the fragility of both animal and human existence becomes increasingly obvious, Beastly/Tierisch presents an endless flow of animal images borrowed from artworks, advertising, print publications, television and the Internet. That the representation of animals in art has once again become allegorically potent underlines our fraught understanding of the human-animal relationship. The cleverly designed exhibition catalog embraces feeling ..."
Manifeste!(1st Edition) Eine Andere Geschichte Der Fotografie /Allemand by FotomuseumWinterthur, Museum Folkwang, Florian : Ebner Paperback, 420 Pages, Published 2013 by Museum Folkwang FotomuseumWinterthur ISBN-13: 978-3-86930-765-7, ISBN: 3-86930-765-X
"Die radikalsten Äußerungen über die Fotografie stammen von Fotografen selbst. Die Avantgarden des 20."
"Broschiertes BuchDieses Buch zeigt erstmals das facettenreiche Schaffen des Schweizer Fotografen Balthasar Burkhard. Mit seinem Anspruch, den Körper als Skulptur und das fotografische Bild als Leinwand zu erfassen, war Burkhard einer der ersten, der die Fotografie als monumentales "Taleau" in die zeitgenössische Kunst überführte. Bilder aus der Luft, Kamele im Fotostudio oder riesige bedruckte Stoffbahnen - Burkhard arbeitete mit vielen ..."
"La photographie est omniprésente dans les différentes activités du groupe : elle secollectionne et s'échange ; elle accompagne la publication des livres, ..."
"Following Darkside I's survey of photographed sexuality and lust, Darkside 2 explores the other end of the spectrum, or the flipside of the coin--the intimate affinity between death and photography. Images of impairment, disease, degeneration, violence, death, pain, grief and loss have been among photography's subjects from its inception; the photographic recording of death was, along with war reporting, one of photography's earliest du ..."
"Histories of photography, as presented through books or exhibitions in the twentieth century, have been dominated by Europe and America. This publication and the exhibition it accompanies, articulate the untold story of an equally significant history, as rich and as formally innovative, yet embedded in the culture and politics of South Asia. Where Three Dreams Cross traces the characteristics of contemporary photography through its hist ..."
"Ukrainian photographer Sergey Bratkov is internationally acclaimed for his powerful images of contemporary Russia and expressive portraits. But despite his many global exhibitions, his work has rarely been published. Sergey Bratkov remedies this lacuna with a survey of his influential photographic oeuvre.Raised and educated in the Soviet Union, Bratkov has spent his career training his penetrating camera gaze on the fractured lives and ..."