"Volume pubblicato in occasione dell'esposizione "Le Scrapbook d'Henri Cartier-Bresson" alla Fondation HCB, Parigi 21 settembre - 23 dicembre 2006. Introduzione di Martine Franck. Scritti di Agnès Sire e Michel Frizot. Fotografie in bianco e nero. Testo in inglese . 4to pp. 262 Rilegato pelle (leather binding) Perfetto (Mint) Henri Cartier-Bresson fu fatto prigioniero dai tedeschi nel 1940. Dopo due tentativi sfortunati, riuscì a scappar ..."
"The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women’s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians, and practitioners. Readers will find ..."
"Helen Chadwick is one of Britain's most prominent and most provocative contemporary artists. This book beautifully displays her work."
Seeking Common Ground Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the United States (Only One Earth Series) by Donna R. Gabaccia, UteEskildsen Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1992 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94387-5, ISBN: 0-275-94387-9
"This book is the first interdisciplinary reader focusing on immigrant women in the United States. Part I includes three chapters by a historian, a sociologist, and an anthropologist summarizing the way research on immigrant women has developed in the three disciplines. Parts II and III, focusing on Immigrant Women of the Past and Immigrant Women Since 1920, provide empirical and interpretive essays on immigrant women from Europe, Latin ..."
"A revelatory book about the life and work of an important fashion photographer and artist Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work offers a unique perspective on the society and politics of the 1930s through the 60s. Born in Berlin, Blumenfeld’s peripatetic career took him first to Amsterdam and then to Paris, where his work in fashion photography began at Vogue in 1938. ..."
"Any examination of the history of the photographic portrait uncovers two very different traditions, shaped by the place where they were made - in the street or in the studio. Both are essentially urban. The street has been the place where small and easily concealed cameras allowed photographers to capture subjects unaware or at least in informal settings. In contrast, the studio offered both photographer and subjects the opportunity to ..."
""So, finally, it can be seen that what I have explored all my life is the world on my doorstep. . . .The artist's world is limitless. It can be found everywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away." -Paul Strand "As in all great art, the photographs of Paul Strand transcend their own immediacy, a feat of eloquence that makes their presence enduring." -Mark Haworth-Booth, Victoria and Albert Museum, London From 1950 to 1976 Pau ..."
"All fields of contemporary Western life are captured by the lens of Thomas Ruff's large-format camera: petit bourgeois homes in the provinces and suburbs; modernist and current architectural structures; the startlingly alien faces of fellow human beings; the technologically sophisticated observation of outer space; studies of local neighborhoods by night; the news industry's non-stop invention of pictures; changing views on how we feel ..."
"The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women’s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians, and practitioners. Readers will find ..."
Paul Strand die Welt vor meiner Tür ; [1950 - 1976]. Ein intimes Portr.; Ausstellung Museum Folkwang Essen; Stadtmuseum München; Kunsthaus Zürich, Catherine Duncan. Kritischer Essay UteEskildsen. [Aus dem Amerikan. von Christel Liesenfeld-Steinberg] by Paul Strand, Catherine Duncan, UteEskildsen Paperback, 141 Pages, Published 1994 by Essen : Verlag Aperture, ISBN-13: 978-0-89381-596-7, ISBN: 0-89381-596-9
"With this carefully researched contribution to the historiography of exile, we also seek to strengthen the culture of remembrance; in addition to reconstructing the lives of refugee and emigrant artists, the books' authors offer in-depth ..."
"This is the first book on the history, influences and impact of the Werkstatt für Photography (Photography Workshop), founded by the Berlin photographer Michael Schmidt at the Volkshochschule Kreuzberg in 1976. In the midst of the Cold War, the Werkstatt initiated a democratic field of experimentation beyond the pale of traditional vocational and political-institutional standards. Those same years witnessed the establishment of infrastr ..."
"C/O Berlin, Museum Folkwang Essen, Sprengel Museum HannoverGebundenes BuchDies ist die erste ausführliche Darstellung von Geschichte, Einflüssen und Wirkungen der "Werkstatt für Photographie", die 1976 vom Berliner Fotografen Michael Schmidt an der Volkshochschule Kreuzberg gegründet wurde.In jenen Jahren entstanden in Westdeutschland Strukturen, die der Emanzipation der Fotografie als Kunstform den Weg ebnen sollten. Dazu gehörten nebe ..."
"A rich photographic history is being unearthed in a series of exhibitions on the history of women photographers working during the Weimar Republic. Views of the World, a wonderful mix of historical documentation and images, features the life of German-Jewish photographer Jeanne Mandello (1907-2011). Trained in 1920s Berlin, Mandello emigrated to Paris in the 1930s, making France her home until the Nazi takeover when she found refuge in ..."