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“When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the most unusual spots. . . . I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange.”
Wim Wenders—painter, writer, and one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers around—has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken in countries all over the world. From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, this book presents the full range of Wenders’s photography.
This new edition features seven new photographs taken in Germany and Fukushima as well as an essay by Wim Wenders on analogue and digital photography.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 172 x 206 mm
140 pages, 44 illustrations, 8 foldouts
Wim Wenders—painter, writer, and one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers around—has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken in countries all over the world.
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Andrey Tarkovsky was the most important Russian filmmaker of the post-war era, and one of the world’s most renowned cinematic geniuses.
Tarkovsky’s films are characterized by metaphysical themes, extended takes, an absence of conventional dramatic structure and plot, and a dream-like, visionary style of cinematography. They achieve a spiritual intensity and transcendent beauty that many consider to be without parallel.
He directed the first five of his seven films – Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker – in the Soviet Union, but in 1982 defected to Italy, where he made Nostalgia. His final film, The Sacrifice, was produced in Sweden in 1985.
This book presents extended sequences of stills from each of the films alongside synopses and cast and crew listings. It includes reflections on Tarkovsky’s work from fellow artists and writers including Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman, for whom Tarkovsky was ‘the greatest, the one who invented a new language.’
Extracts from Tarkovsky’s own writings and diaries offer a wealth of insights into his poetic and philosophical views on cinematography, which he described as ‘sculpting in time’. The book also reproduces many personal Polaroid photographs that confirm the extraordinary poetic vision of a great artist who died aged only 54, but who remains a potent influence on artists and filmmakers today.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Size: 305 x 245 mm
320 pages, with 350 illustrations in colour and black and white
Andrey Tarkovsky was the most important Russian filmmaker of the post-war era, and one of the world’s most renowned cinematic geniuses.
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Abbas Kiarostami (*1940 in Teheran) became known primarily for his films made in the seventies, which were awarded prizes at film festivals such as Cannes (Golden Palm 1997) and Venice. Despite large-scale solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the photographic oeuvre of this artist, who studied painting, has yet to be showcased in germanophone countries. Whereas Kiarostami’s films contain haunting images of the human experience, he trains his photographic eye on untouched landscapes, often taking years to develop the images into series such as Snow White (1978–2004) and Rain and Wind (2007). This publication explores the correlation between photographic and filmic vision, between still and moving images.
Whereas Kiarostami’s films contain haunting images of the human experience, he trains his photographic eye on untouched landscapes, often taking years to develop the images into series.
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‘A Hurrell portrait is to the ordinary publicity still about what a Rolls-Royce is to a roller-skate.’ Esquire, 1936.
George Hurrell is one of the greatest portrait photographers of Hollywood’s Golden Age. His strong contrast black and white images and groundbreaking use of negative retouching revolutionized the medium of Hollywood portraiture during the 1930s and 1940s.
This lavish book captures the enduring glamour of his photography and presents the very finest reproductions of his work yet seen in print. It features several unseen images of cinema’s most iconic faces. All images have been taken from The Kobal Collection. One of the most distinguished archives of classic Hollywood imagery in the world, it has the largest collection of Hurrell material in existence.
Publisher: Real Art Press
Size: 300 x 250 mm
288 pages, 260 b/w photographs
George Hurrell is one of the greatest portrait photographers of Hollywood’s Golden Age. His strong contrast black and white images and groundbreaking use of negative retouching revolutionized the medium of Hollywood portraiture during the 1930s and 1940s.
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The documentary Hot Spots: Martin Parr in the American South, examines the photography of Magnum's most controversial and prolific member as he gathers images for his first commission by a major American art museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
Acclaimed Magnum photographer Martin Parr focuses on Atlanta while documentary filmmaker Neal Broffman turns his lens on Parr.
So it begins at the Cactus Car Wash on Ponce de Leon Avenue in a frantic rush of wash, dry, polish and chrome brightness. Martin Parr is out of the car, the camera flashes away. He strikes up a conversation with one of the washers about tips from customers. So begins his first day in Atlanta.
From the first click at the car wash to the Atlanta Steeple Chase, to the doggy daycare, to gallery soirées and tattooed partiers at the Drive Invasion Parr moves across the Atlanta landscape as he likes to do. His journey is guided by humor and instinct (with some help from the locals). Martin Parr's energy and x-ray vision burn through Atlanta like a modern day William Hogarth.
The film features interviews with Susan Meiselas, Philip Gefter, Julian Cox and John Gossage. Hot Spots shows us Martin Parr at his best.
Hot Spots: Martin Parr in the American South is produced by One Production Place in collaboration with Contrasto and Fall Line Press.
The film is distributed by F-Stop Films.
The film and the international edition of the book Up and Down Peachtree, published by Contrasto, run together with the homonymous exhibition beginning on June 9 until to September 2, 2012 at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
See two-minute trailer here.
Publisher: Contrasto
Size: 138 x 188 mm
60 minutes
This documentary examines the photography of Magnum's most controversial and prolific member as he gathers images for his first commission by a major American art museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
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"This wonderful book brought back many memories of my endless hours spent in the studio stills gallery posing for countless photographers in a variety of 'turn 'em on' outfits!...Most of the photographs in this fascinating book of pictures, some of which have never been seen before, are of that sweet and innocent kind, overseen by a protective studio system that by the early 1960s no longer existed." Joan Collins
Hollywood Unseen is a tribute to the incredible inventiveness and ingenuity of the great Hollywood film studios: Columbia, Paramount, MGM, Universal, Warner Brothers, RKO and Twentieth Century Fox. From the late 1920s to the early 1950s these studios presided over the 'Golden Age of Cinema', and their publicity departments created some of the most stunning and iconic images of Hollywood's stars ever taken.
Here, for the first time, are photographs showing the 'ordinary lives' of the stars, including Rita Hayworth, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. In reality, these photographs were as carefully constructed and prepared as any classic portrait or scene, and they depicted the actors and actresses exactly as the studios wanted them to be seen. The publicity departments cleverly formed an idealised view of the husbands, wives, children, pets, parties, premieres and hobbies of the stars. Ironically, many of the images were only used once or twice, and were then never seen again. Drawn from the extensive archive of the John Kobal Foundation, this book showcases an extraordinary collection of these hidden photographic gems.
Publisher: ACC Editions
Size: 300 x 237 mm
244 pages, 200 black & white images
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"For 30 years Douglas Kirkland has made his living by doing what some photographers might gladly do without charge: taking pictures of glamorous celebrities. In creating the kind of poster-perfect images publicity agents dream of - Marilyn Monroe clad only in silk sheets, for example - he has few peers." Andy Grunberg, The New York Times
"Though portraiture is a great strength - [Kirkland's] initial apprenticeship was with Irving Penn - it's his journalistic eye that makes for the most striking images." Fred Schruers, Portfolio Magazine
On assignment for Look magazine to photograph the movie star in 1961, Douglas Kirkland photographed Marilyn Monroe and made history for both himself and for the actress. Working in the intimate confines of an unmade bed, the result - still amazing today - is a series of some of the most spontaneous and flirtatious photographs ever taken of this film legend. They made the photographer's career and added a new facet to that of the actress.
The complete collection of the shoot is accompained here ina book that belongs on the shelf of every collector, devotee, and connoisseur of the icon that was Marilyn Monroe, the genius that is Douglas Kirkland, or both.
Publisher: Glitterati Incorporated
Size: 342 x 247 mm
144 pages, 60 colour, 13 black & white images
Celebrate Marilyn Monroe, whose monumental reputation endures well beyond the decades since her death; in a gorgeous presentation that is as glamorous as the actress herself.
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Wim Wenders’ photographs show us the beauty of some places in nowhere land.
“When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. . . . I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange.”
Wim Wenders—painter, actor, writer, and one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers around—has assembled a fascinating series of large-format photographs taken from 1983 to 2011 in countries all over the world. A small selection of Wenders’s photographic oeuvre, ranging from his iconic exteriors and buildings to the impressive panoramas, is offered in this set of twelve postcards.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 125 x 184 mm
A small selection of Wenders’s photographic oeuvre, ranging from his iconic exteriors and buildings to the impressive panoramas, is offered in this set of twelve postcards.
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Many of the most famous Marilyn images were Milton Greene’s: the chiffon dress, the wicker chair, the red sweater; the Slip and Mink series; the White Series and the Black Series. Marilyn in the crux of an oak tree; Marilyn pulling up her stockings; the filming of Bus Stop and Showgirl. Nobody before and after photographed Marilyn as erotic, elegant, and seductive as Milton Greene. Composed by Milton’s son Joshua, this Marilyn classic is available again in its immortal beauty.
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Size: 145 x 175 mm
220 pages, 109 colour and 105 duotone plates
Nobody before and after photographed Marilyn as erotic, elegant, and seductive as Milton Greene. Composed by Milton’s son Joshua, this Marilyn classic is available again in its immortal beauty.
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is a defining film of the silent era and science fiction genre. But the work of the film’s still photographer Horst von Harbou has remained obscure. Von Harbou, brother of Thea von Harbou, Lang’s then wife and co-screenwriter of Metropolis, photographed filmed scenes as well as off-camera action, and made an album of thirty-five photographs which he gave to the film’s young star Brigitte Helm. The book Metropolis is a careful reconstruction of this album, showing the photographs and some of their backsides which feature hand-written notes. Von Harbou’s photographs not only offer a rare insight into Lang’s film, but have been crucial in reconstructing missing scenes from it.
Publisher: Steidl/Edition 7L
Size: 230 x 170 mm
84 pages, 35 colour plates
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Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is a defining film of the silent era and science fiction genre. But the work of the film’s still photographer Horst von Harbou has remained obscure. Von Harbou, brother of Thea von Harbou, Lang’s then wife and co-screenwriter of Metropolis, photographed filmed scenes as well as off-camera action, and made an album of thirty-five photographs which he gave to the film’s young star Brigitte Helm. The book Metropolis is a careful reconstruction of this album, showing the photographs and some of their backsides which feature hand-written notes. Von Harbou’s photographs not only offer a rare insight into Lang’s film, but have been crucial in reconstructing missing scenes from it.
Publisher: Steidl/Edition 7L
Size: 230 x 170 mm
84 pages, 35 colour plates
“When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. … I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange.”
Wim Wenders—painter, actor, writer, and one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers around—has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken from 1983 to 2011 in countries all over the world. From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, this book presents the full range of Wenders’s photography.
You can view images from this book on the Hatje Cantz website.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 171 x 205 mm
124 pages, 37 colour illustrations, 8 foldouts
Publisher's Description
“When you travel a lot, and when you love to just wander around and get lost, you can end up in the strangest spots. … I don’t know, it must be some sort of built-in radar that often directs me to places that are strangely quiet, or quietly strange.”
Wim Wenders—painter, actor, writer, and one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers around—has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken from 1983 to 2011 in countries all over the world. From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, this book presents the full range of Wenders’s photography.
You can view images from this book on the Hatje Cantz website.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 171 x 205 mm
124 pages, 37 colour illustrations, 8 foldouts
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English photographer Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford by photographing a galloping horse. Muybridge invented a complex system of electric shutter releases that captured freeze frames—proving conclusively, for the first time, that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground for a fraction of a second. For the next three decades, Muybridge continued his quest to fully catalog many aspects of human and animal movement, shooting hundreds of horses and other animals—and of nude or draped subjects engaged in various activities such as running, walking, boxing, fencing, and descending a staircase (the latter study inspired Marcel Duchamp’s famous 1912 painting).
This resplendent book traces the life and work of Muybridge, from his early thinking about anatomy and movement to his latest photographic experiments. The complete 781 plates of Muybridge’s groundbreaking Animal Locomotion (1887) are reproduced here. In addition, Muybridge’s handmade and extremely rare first illustrated album, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1881) is reproduced in its entirety. A detailed chronology by British researcher Stephen Herbert throws new light on one of the most important pioneers of photography.
Exhibition Eadweard Muybridge at Tate Britain, London, 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011.
Publisher: Taschen
Size: 332 x 243 mm
804 pages
Publisher's Description
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneer in visual studies of human and animal locomotion. In 1872, he famously helped settle a bet for former California governor Leland Stanford by photographing a galloping horse. Muybridge invented a complex system of electric shutter releases that captured freeze frames—proving conclusively, for the first time, that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground for a fraction of a second. For the next three decades, Muybridge continued his quest to fully catalog many aspects of human and animal movement, shooting hundreds of horses and other animals—and of nude or draped subjects engaged in various activities such as running, walking, boxing, fencing, and descending a staircase (the latter study inspired Marcel Duchamp’s famous 1912 painting).
This resplendent book traces the life and work of Muybridge, from his early thinking about anatomy and movement to his latest photographic experiments. The complete 781 plates of Muybridge’s groundbreaking Animal Locomotion (1887) are reproduced here. In addition, Muybridge’s handmade and extremely rare first illustrated album, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1881) is reproduced in its entirety. A detailed chronology by British researcher Stephen Herbert throws new light on one of the most important pioneers of photography.
Exhibition Eadweard Muybridge at Tate Britain, London, 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011.
Publisher: Taschen
Size: 332 x 243 mm
804 pages
While visiting Rome, world-renowned photographer Gregory Crewdson was invited to tour the legendary Italian film studio Cinecittà, where directors such as Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini shot their iconic works. He found the elaborate film sets had fallen into ruin and was captivated by their decaying beauty. He knew immediately that he had found his next project. While Crewdson’s earlier series were enormously elaborate and required massive production crews, custom-built sound stages, and hired actors, he returned to Rome with only a small team and worked mostly with available lighting to create haunting black-and-white portraits of crumbling façades and deserted streets. However, all this does not really indicate a break with his earlier series, for the dramatic subtext so often found in his photographs, the uncanny feeling that they bring the past back to life, remains.
Publisher: Abrams
Size: 393 x 311 mm
96 pages, 41 illustrations in tritone
Cover illustration shows Hatje Cantz version, Abrams version may differ.
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While visiting Rome, world-renowned photographer Gregory Crewdson was invited to tour the legendary Italian film studio Cinecittà, where directors such as Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini shot their iconic works. He found the elaborate film sets had fallen into ruin and was captivated by their decaying beauty. He knew immediately that he had found his next project. While Crewdson’s earlier series were enormously elaborate and required massive production crews, custom-built sound stages, and hired actors, he returned to Rome with only a small team and worked mostly with available lighting to create haunting black-and-white portraits of crumbling façades and deserted streets. However, all this does not really indicate a break with his earlier series, for the dramatic subtext so often found in his photographs, the uncanny feeling that they bring the past back to life, remains.
Publisher: Abrams
Size: 393 x 311 mm
96 pages, 41 illustrations in tritone
Cover illustration shows Hatje Cantz version, Abrams version may differ.
Charming photographs of icons from the history of cinema: Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Marilyn Monroe—and countless others
The amiably spontaneous pictures taken by Sam Shaw (1912–1999) are well known: the native and life-long New Yorker shot countless cover photographs for Life and Look in the fifties and sixties, and later also took the still images for the films he produced himself. Shaw and Marilyn Monroe were friends, and he captured her unique aura in countless unpretentious portraits. During the filming of The Seven Year Itch, he staged his probably best known picture with her: Marilyn standing over a subway grate, a waft of air blowing the skirt of her white dress above her knees.
Sam Shaw also portrayed almost every major Hollywood star of his day, consistently capturing the moment in his quest for truthfulness, with enthusiasm and from a new perspective, just as if he were selecting the camera angle for a film sequence. The researcher and author Lorie Karnath, the book’s editor, enhances the publication with very personal memories of her long-time friend.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 265 x 305 mm
224 pages, 150 illustrations
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Charming photographs of icons from the history of cinema: Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Marilyn Monroe—and countless others
The amiably spontaneous pictures taken by Sam Shaw (1912–1999) are well known: the native and life-long New Yorker shot countless cover photographs for Life and Look in the fifties and sixties, and later also took the still images for the films he produced himself. Shaw and Marilyn Monroe were friends, and he captured her unique aura in countless unpretentious portraits. During the filming of The Seven Year Itch, he staged his probably best known picture with her: Marilyn standing over a subway grate, a waft of air blowing the skirt of her white dress above her knees.
Sam Shaw also portrayed almost every major Hollywood star of his day, consistently capturing the moment in his quest for truthfulness, with enthusiasm and from a new perspective, just as if he were selecting the camera angle for a film sequence. The researcher and author Lorie Karnath, the book’s editor, enhances the publication with very personal memories of her long-time friend.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 265 x 305 mm
224 pages, 150 illustrations
ZELLULOID is dedicated to a particular genre of artistic film, in which the image is generated directly, by physically processing the film strip.
Unlike other forms of experimental film, the film material is interpreted as if it were a canvas by using a diverse range of artistic processes: through painting, drawing, collage on the celluloid, scores and scratches in the photographic emulsion, chemical manipulation or the direct lighting of photo-sensitive media.
This exhibition catalogue contains outstanding examples of ‘films without a camera’ and features some 20 international artists and filmmakers from the 1930s to the present day.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Zelluloid: Film ohne Kamera, June – August 2010, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
English and German text.
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Size: 170 x 240 mm
193 pages, 224 colour, 102 b&w illustrations
Publisher's Description
ZELLULOID is dedicated to a particular genre of artistic film, in which the image is generated directly, by physically processing the film strip.
Unlike other forms of experimental film, the film material is interpreted as if it were a canvas by using a diverse range of artistic processes: through painting, drawing, collage on the celluloid, scores and scratches in the photographic emulsion, chemical manipulation or the direct lighting of photo-sensitive media.
This exhibition catalogue contains outstanding examples of ‘films without a camera’ and features some 20 international artists and filmmakers from the 1930s to the present day.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Zelluloid: Film ohne Kamera, June – August 2010, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
English and German text.
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Size: 170 x 240 mm
193 pages, 224 colour, 102 b&w illustrations
Since the 1950s, Magnum photographers have regularly, and sometimes exclusively, accompanied movie productions. Twelve productions were selected for this book, with stunning pictures, summaries of the plots, and background information. Schirmer/Mosel. Edited by Isabel Siben and Andrea Holzherr. With texts by Hans Helmut Prinzler.
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Size: 320 x 280 mm
140 pages, 128 duotones
Publisher's Description
Since the 1950s, Magnum photographers have regularly, and sometimes exclusively, accompanied movie productions. Twelve productions were selected for this book, with stunning pictures, summaries of the plots, and background information. Schirmer/Mosel. Edited by Isabel Siben and Andrea Holzherr. With texts by Hans Helmut Prinzler.
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Size: 320 x 280 mm
140 pages, 128 duotones
Jamaican born Mark Liddell is considered to be one of the world’s foremost celebrity photographers, having published more than 300 top international magazine covers as well as many celebrity-driven advertising campaigns. Liddell focuses on what is “behind the eyes,” with a signature style that brings together what he sees as four essential elements: strength, sensuality, seduction and soul. He has photographed many of the worlds most beautiful and intriguing personalities including Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise, Heath Ledger, Nicole Kidman and Cindy Crawford.
EXPOSED: 10 YEARS IN HOLLYWOOD goes behind the lens of more than 100 photo shoots with photographer Mark Liddell and today’s most sought-after musicians, supermodels, media darlings, and the Hollywood A-list, exposing it all. Including an informative Q&A with all the answers to the questions you have wanted to know about what goes on behind-the-scenes of today’s celebrity photo shoots. Exclusive insider commentary from Halle Berry, Britney Spears, Sharon Stone, Annie Lennox, Avril Lavigne, Paris Hilton and more. This book brings attention to many of today’s issues and causes with a portion of all proceeds going to THE TREVOR PROJECT: A suicide prevention helpline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and to JENESSE, the Women’s Domestic Abuse center.
Publisher: Channel Photographics
Size: 355 x 280 mm
208 pages, 100 colour photographs
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Publisher's Description
Jamaican born Mark Liddell is considered to be one of the world’s foremost celebrity photographers, having published more than 300 top international magazine covers as well as many celebrity-driven advertising campaigns. Liddell focuses on what is “behind the eyes,” with a signature style that brings together what he sees as four essential elements: strength, sensuality, seduction and soul. He has photographed many of the worlds most beautiful and intriguing personalities including Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise, Heath Ledger, Nicole Kidman and Cindy Crawford.
EXPOSED: 10 YEARS IN HOLLYWOOD goes behind the lens of more than 100 photo shoots with photographer Mark Liddell and today’s most sought-after musicians, supermodels, media darlings, and the Hollywood A-list, exposing it all. Including an informative Q&A with all the answers to the questions you have wanted to know about what goes on behind-the-scenes of today’s celebrity photo shoots. Exclusive insider commentary from Halle Berry, Britney Spears, Sharon Stone, Annie Lennox, Avril Lavigne, Paris Hilton and more. This book brings attention to many of today’s issues and causes with a portion of all proceeds going to THE TREVOR PROJECT: A suicide prevention helpline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and to JENESSE, the Women’s Domestic Abuse center.
Publisher: Channel Photographics
Size: 355 x 280 mm
208 pages, 100 colour photographs
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Dennis Hopper – a rebel with a cause called New Hollywood. The road movie Easy Rider, 1969, was a huge commercial hit and a seminal film for the American new wave. In the United States that Hopper both depicted and embodies as a young man, rock music met with pop art, realism cohabited with psychedelic experience, and the producer-driven Hollywood of old caved into the demands of a new generation. An inverted image of the American dream and a borderline icon for the greatest film directors of modern times (Coppola, Peckinpah, Altman, Wenders, Lynch , Ferrara), Dennis Hopper has always kept one foot in the anti-establishment, but the other in mainstream cinema and television series. A true chameleon, he has crossed the borders of fiction and reality, art and cinema. This work, accompanying an exhibition conceived and organised by the Cinematheque Francaise, showcases masterpieces from Dennis Hopper’s collection that encapsulate the American counterculture of the last forty years. From Andy Warhol to Ed Ruscha, from Roy Lichtenstein to Jean-Michel Basquait, the selection, which also includes a number of Hopper’s own paintings and photographs, brings to light the relationship between Hopper’s artwork and his cinematographic career.
Publisher: Flammarion
Size: 250 x 215 mm
192 Pages, 340 Images
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Publisher's Description
Dennis Hopper – a rebel with a cause called New Hollywood. The road movie Easy Rider, 1969, was a huge commercial hit and a seminal film for the American new wave. In the United States that Hopper both depicted and embodies as a young man, rock music met with pop art, realism cohabited with psychedelic experience, and the producer-driven Hollywood of old caved into the demands of a new generation. An inverted image of the American dream and a borderline icon for the greatest film directors of modern times (Coppola, Peckinpah, Altman, Wenders, Lynch , Ferrara), Dennis Hopper has always kept one foot in the anti-establishment, but the other in mainstream cinema and television series. A true chameleon, he has crossed the borders of fiction and reality, art and cinema. This work, accompanying an exhibition conceived and organised by the Cinematheque Francaise, showcases masterpieces from Dennis Hopper’s collection that encapsulate the American counterculture of the last forty years. From Andy Warhol to Ed Ruscha, from Roy Lichtenstein to Jean-Michel Basquait, the selection, which also includes a number of Hopper’s own paintings and photographs, brings to light the relationship between Hopper’s artwork and his cinematographic career.
Publisher: Flammarion
Size: 250 x 215 mm
192 Pages, 340 Images
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