"Batho graduated in photography from the École des arts appliqués in 1956. She went on to work in the archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France where she met her husband, John Batho, also a photographer. Her black-and-white photographs document details of the inside of her home: a broom leaning against a wall, a fading bunch of flowers, her little daughter asleep on the couch, all represented with surprising intensity, evoking a f ..."
"In the early 1900s, as the Ottoman Empire collapsed, a fiercely nationalistic movement took power. As with all ideologies, their taking hold meant the termination of what didn't fit its new identity—its Christian Armenian citizens.Memory of Trees follows the remains and traces of an ambiguous, dark history—the great crime recognized today as genocide by more than a dozen countries. Kathryn Cook traveled across Turkey and Armenia, to Syr ..."
"Karlheinz Weinberger's day job may have been relatively uneventful--working in a Siemen's warehouse--but the photos he took in his spare time are anything but conformist.Weinberger's passion, and the focus of this book, is the rebel youth of 1950s and '60s Switzerland, who channeled American rock-'n'-roll culture and made it their own with their rolled-up jeans and denim jackets, bouffant hairdos, striped T-shirts and customized belts b ..."
Jake Verzosa(1st Edition) The Last Tattooed Women of Kallinga: Steidl Book Award Asia 2017 by Jake Verzosa, FrançoisCheval, Natividad Sugguiyao Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Steidl ISBN-13: 978-3-95829-317-5, ISBN: 3-95829-317-4
"The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga presents a series of portraits by Jake Verzosa who laments and celebrates a dying tradition of tattooing in villages throughout the Cordillera mountains in the northern Philippines. For nearly a thousand years the Kalinga women have proudly worn these lace-like patterns or batok on their skin as symbols of beauty, wealth, stature and fortitude. Applied as part of a painful ritual, the vivid tattoos--ab ..."
"For forty-five years, Jeffrey Silverthorne has been working steadily on an extensive body of work. With a background in the fine arts and the American photographic tradition, Silverthorne developed a photographic oeuvre that moves and balances between personal experiences, public spaces of presentation, and staged scenes.His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; Museum of ..."
"This is the first monograph to document the clear, striking work of Swiss photographer Delphine Burtin (born 1974). Burtin's mostly black-and-white, sculptural images feature geometric forms and found objects, including her own prints that she has cut and folded."
"L'exposition présente le Pavillon populaire, à partir des négatifs déposés au musée Nicéphore-Niépce à Chalon-sur-Saône, offre pour la première fois en France l'occasion de faire l'expérience visuelle directe de ce qu'il ..."
"François Cheval, conservateur du musée Nicéphore Niépce et Caroline Lossent, responsable du service des publics des musées de Chalon-sur-Saône, rendent compte de l'intérêt de ces nouvelles approches muséales à travers plusieurs ..."
"Code du voyage et du tourisme, textes législatifs officiels, avions, bateaux,
chemins de fer, douanes, hôtels de tourisme, chasse, pêche, camping, jeux dans
les casinos, ill. de Dubout, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Maurice Gonon, 1960, 243 pp., ill.
en noir et en coul., pl. en coul., cart. ill. en coul. *Code général des impôts, texte
officiel, extraits choisis et commentés par X. G. Renard et J. Edward, ill. de
Dubout, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Ma ..."
"Claude Dityvons photographs offer a unique look at the events of May 1968, when France was gripped by civil unrest, with massive demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories across the country. Upon first hearing of the initial clashes on the radio, he went out into the streets and snapped pictures for himself; to participate, to make memories, not seeking to be present at the crucial moments or to f ..."
"A travers plus de 200 photographies, dont un grand nombre inédites, ce livre raconte un demi-siècle de mode et nous fait voyager dans l'univers ludique et joyeux d'un artiste complet, qui tout à la fois saisit la vision des créateurs, ..."
"Denis Brihat porte un regard intense et subtil sur la nature. Chez Brihat, écrivait Hervé Guibert, « chaque légume récupère ses artères, son sexe, sa vie. Les racines d’un oignon se métamorphosent en forêt vierge, les lamelles d’ail en étoffes, les épis en oiseaux, les cuivres des écorces virent à l’or vif sous l’effort patient du manipulateur qui filtre les couleurs de son herbier. » La particularité de son travail réside aussi dan ..."
"L'oeuvre des photographes Blanc et Demilly s'élabore de 1924 à 1962 et se partage entre une activité commerciale courante, celle traditionnelle de studio et d'illustration, et une pratique créatrice, inventive et féconde tant par sa ..."
"Using interviews, photographs, and other material, the book examines mankind’s need for faith, striving to understand the modern myth of extraterrestrial visitors, and especially the role our eternal search for substance in the face of ..."
"A travers ses photographies, Claude Batho (1935-1981) s'est attachée aux objets les plus simples qui constituaient son quotidien, aux paysages familiers, à son proche entourage."
""Every page is seen by millions of people, so we are responsible for the taste of tomorrow. Our images are the essence itself of the page, and every page needs its proper face, its proper spirit, in order to catch the attention of millions. Else it is nothing else but a piece of paper printed upon." Erwin Blumenfeld Erwin Blumenfeld was one of the most sought-after and best-paid fashion photographers of his time, shooting for Vogue, Har ..."