"Lazar Markovich Lissitzky is widely known as a Russian avant-garde artist who made significant contributions to abstract art the 1920s. Until now his experiments with photography, photomontage, and graphic and exhibition designs in the 1920s and throughout the 1930s have not been documented and thoroughly analyzed. This book explores both the political and aesthetic aspects of Lissitzky's late multimedia work from his designs for the Ab ..."
"Herbert List, who died in 1975, was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Early in his career he photographed primarily in Italy and Greece, attracted like many previous travelers to the countries' beauty. List came of age in Germany during the development of the "new objectivity"; his photographs, surreal in aesthetic, in certain ways parallel de Chirico's paintings. After World War II he photographed the ..."
"Der stete Landgewinn der FotokunstDie Ausstellung und der Katalog sind der Landschaftsdarstellung in der postmodernen und zeitgenössischen Fotokunst gewidmet. Seit dem aus- gehenden 18. Jahrhundert prägte die Kunst der -Romantik unsere Vorstellung von idyllischer und -erhabener Natur. Maler wie Philipp Otto Runge, vor allem aber Caspar David Friedrich schoben sie in den Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit. Doch schon Friedrich ging über Runges Ver ..."
"The lush and subtly disturbing landscape photographs of Michael Reisch cannot clearly be defined as depicting either reality or simulation. Using a large-format camera, the artist, who was once a student of Bernd Becher's, photographs long green landscapes, industrial complexes and other strangely energized buildings. Then he digitizes his images and manipulates them on the computer--removing all traces of specific place, time or human ..."
"Sepp Werkmeister made his name as a leading jazz photographer of the 1960s and 70s. Traveling to the biggest and best concerts and festivals, he became a fixture in the community and counted among his subjects Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Oscar Peterson, among many others. Many of Werkmeister s photographs were taken in New York City, home then as now to a thriving jazz scene. While most photography and music enth ..."
"Language: English - 248 pages - color and b/w illustrations - Catalogo della mostra organizzata dalla Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna nel 2004. Testi di Claudio Marra, Ulrich Pohlmann, Peter Weiermair. «L'immagine del corpo è all'origine della fotografia. Furono soprattutto i ritratti e i nudi, nella forma costosa e dispendiosa del dagherrotipo o, in un numero maggiore di copie, della stampa su carta di albumina, a essere messi per p ..."
Les Lieux du Non-Lieu Eine Bestandsaufnahme in der zeitgenossischen Fotografie in Frankreich Un Etat de lieu dans la photographie contemporaine francaise by UlrichPohlmann, Hubertus Von Amelunxen Published 2001 by Verlag Der Kunst, ISBN-13: 978-90-5705-062-6, ISBN: 90-5705-062-5
"The Elegant World of Regina Relang is just that, an enchanting volume of pictures presenting a whirlwind tour through the entrancing world of haute couture that the late German photographer recorded throughout the mid-twentieth century. 160 of the best original images from Relang's estate follow the lady shutterbug's eye as she worked the Paris fashion shows, from her first days at Vogue in 1938 through to her rise as one of the leading ..."
"A collection of works by contemporary Scottish photographers. Artists featured are Calum Colvin, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Gavin Evans, Owen Logan, Calum Angus Mackay, Wendy McMurdo, Ron O'Donnell, Lesley Punton, and Maud Sulter. A variegated and intriguing representation of work, with informative essays."
"Le catalogue d'exposition rassemble une série de clichés et de peintures réalisés par des voyageurs dans l'Italie du XIXe siècle. Il retrace l'évolution de la conception du paysage, de l'architecture, de l'art et de la population de l'Italie jusque là transmise par les Beaux-arts traditionnels (dessin, sculpture, etc.)."
"The Portrait Assessing the breadth of present-day photo-portraiture in over 170 color plates, this volume unfolds the relationship between photographer and sitter across the gamut of idioms. Tina Barney, Clegg & Guttmann, Anton Corbijn, Rineke Dijkstra, Bernhard Fuchs, Nan Goldin, Greg Gorman, Peter Hujar, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Hellen von Meene, Helmut Newton, Thomas Ruff, Beat Streuli and Wolfgang Tillmans are among the majo ..."
"Beatrice Minda (born 1968) was a pupil of Katharina Sieverding at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Since 2003 she has been working on a series of photographs that explore the intertwined subjects of homeland, exile and collective identity as they manifest in the living spaces of Romanian migrants. The earliest photographs of these interiors were taken in Romania, the "atmospheres of the spaces in my childhood" (as the artist testifi ..."
"This volume spotlights the genre of nude photography, presenting for the first time 220 original pictures on the theme from the photography collection of the Munich City Museum, spanning the years from 1845 to 2005.In the course of six chapters, Nude Visions recounts a cultural history of nude photography. Masters from the respective periods are brought together here—starting with photographs from the early nineteenth century inspired b ..."
"Florian Böhm's recent Endcommerical/Reading the City, produced in collaboration with Wolfgang Scheppe and Luca Pizzaroni, demonstrated Böhm's infallible eye for the narrative details of city life with a study of what urbanists call "street furniture"--construction barriers, traffic signs and other sidewalk presences. This follow-up, Wait for Walk, turns the same cataloging eye to the humans navigating around those urban buoys. Böhm pho ..."
"The sixty photographs presented in this hauntingly beautiful volume are among thehandful of original images that remain of von Gloeden's once considerable ..."
"1856, zit. nach Karin Kathöfer: Auf der Suche nach Indien - eurozentristischer
Superlativ und ästhetischer Imperialismus, in: Thomas Theye (Hg.): Der geraubte
Schatten. Photographie als ethnographisches Dokument, München 1989, S. 291
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