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"The eye of Paris" - as the writer Henry Miller called his friend, the photographer Brassaï, famous for his photographs of Paris at night. Many photographers have focused their camera on the French capital before and since. In "Eyes on Paris", the 130 best books from 1890 to 2010 are documented in a unique picture book that was awarded the "Gold 2012 German Photo Book Prize".
The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre - who has not heard of the most beautiful sights of Paris, at least from the photos? Paris and photography have always been closely linked. The photograph was invented in Paris in 1839. Since then, the French capital has become one of the most photographed cities in the world. Some artists deliberately keep the clichés of everyday life with the camera to find that many photos of Paris show a bistro, a gourmet restaurant or the couples on the Seine. Other photographers look behind the facade of the metropolis: "Eyes on Paris" depicts the dark side, the abyss, the revocation.
"Eyes on Paris" presents 130 of the finest international photo books with Paris at their heart.
Immerse yourself in the photos of the Paris of the Belle Epoque, of the 1950s, the present. Famous photographers from Eugène Atget and Brassaï to Stefania Beretta, William Eggleston and Andreas Gursky.
Publisher: Hirmer
Size: 240 x 300 mm
400 pages, 899 illustrations in colour and black & white; text in German
Eyes on Paris" presents 130 of the finest international photo books with Paris at their heart. Including works by Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Stefania Beretta, William Eggleston and Andreas Gursky
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That Tree is a full colour, 10x10 inch, 192 page, hardcover book documenting a year-in-the-life of a lonely bur oak tree. This photo-journal was photographed by Mark Hirsch exclusively using the camera in his iPhone. That Tree has been featured by NBC News, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Mail, Woodlands & Prairies Magazine, and The Sierra Club among many others.
Size: 10x10"
192 pages
That Tree is a full colour hardcover book documenting a year-in-the-life of a lonely bur oak tree. This photo-journal was photographed by Mark Hirsch exclusively using the camera in his iPhone.
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In this spectacular collection of panoramic images, award-winning photographer Macduff Everton proves why Chile’s Last Hope Province, in the extreme southern corner of Patagonia, is a landscape that kindles the dreams of world travelers. Patagonia, La Última Esperanza is a collaboration with writer and artist Mary Heebner, whose meditative prose reflects the poetry of place. Just as her observations seek to unearth and understand the spirit of the region, her paintings, watercolors, and drawings evocatively counterpoint Everton’s photographs of iconic mountains and glacier-lined fjords. Together they provide a unique perspective on this vast, still mysterious territory and the lives of the people who have made a home here at the tip of the South American continent.
While visitors rush to the landmark peaks of UNESCO-designated Torres del Paine National Park or the wonders of Bernardo O’Higgins National Park, they too often miss equally gorgeous and accessible but less frequented areas. Everton and Heebner explore much more, from the shimmering ice fields and glassy lakes to the island mazes and expansive grasslands where you’re more likely to see condors than another person. They find the beauty and meaning in the fishermen’s harbors, the cowboys’ ranch labors, and the creations of visionary architects, whose stunning constructions mesh concern for the environment with the grandeur of the setting.
Patagonia, La Última Esperanza indelibly captures a place of unending superlatives—the most breathtaking mountain ranges, the most storied valleys, the most inspiring destination for readers and travelers alike.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
235 pages, 144 colour photos, 20 illustrations, 2 maps
Patagonia, La Última Esperanza indelibly captures a place of unending superlatives—the most breathtaking mountain ranges, the most storied valleys, the most inspiring destination for readers and travelers alike.
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In 2011 Vanessa Winship was the recipient of the Henri Cartier Bresson Award which funds an artist to pursue a new photographic project. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. she dances on Jackson presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and portrait exploring the vastness of the United States and attempting to understand the link between a territory and its inhabitants. For Winship this relationship is inextricable; places accrue particular meanings according to the people she meets, what she sees, and by what's happening to her personally. Each human encounter, sound and smell adds extra dimensions to her work and the resulting photographs.
she dances on Jackson marks a progression. Stylistically similar to her previous work using black and white film and a large format camera, Winship’s portraits remain arresting and unnerving but this body of work reveals her to also be a skilled landscape photographer. For Winship photography is a process of literacy, a path by which she understands life. Her intimate approach enables the reader to glimpse the world as she sees it, if only for a moment.
See here for sample images and review.
Publisher: Mack Books
Size: 240 x 270 mm
144 pages, 64 tritone plates
Signed copies. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana, in pursuit of the fabled ‘American dream’. she dances on Jackson presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and portrait.
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"In 1988 and 1989, without speaking a word of French or know anyone except a fellow fellow countrywoman, the photographer lived in Paris with the project a bit crazy to start a gallery apartment. Above all, the trip was the opportunity to live this dream from when his was a teenager and navigate the world of Eugène Atget he had discovered a few years later." (Rémi Coignet)
PARIS 88/89 contains 21 of the Moriyama's Paris photographs accompanied by the translation of his memories chapter dedicated to Paris as well as an unpublished interview with Jean-Kenta Gauthier.
Publisher: Poursuite
Size: 150 x 210 mm
64 pages + 8 page booklet
Second edition of 1500 copies
PARIS 88/89 contains 21 of the Moriyama's Paris photographs accompanied by the translation of his memoiries chapter dedicated to Paris as well as an unpublished interview with Jean-Kenta Gauthier.
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This project records noted Australian photographer Stephen Dupont’s journey through some of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) most important cultural and historical zones: the Highlands, Sepik, Bougainville and the capital city Port Moresby. Through images and personal diaries, this remarkable body of work captures the human spirit of the people of PNG, one of the world’s last truly wild and unique frontiers. This work was conducted with the support of the Robert Gardner Fellowship of Photography from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.The publication consists of two books inside a special slipcase. The first volume is a collection of portraits reproduced in luscious duotone and 4 color; the second is an eclectic collection of the diaries, drawings, contact sheets and documentary photographs that Dupont created as he produced the project, which add to a broader understanding of the images in volume one.
Publisher: Radius
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches.
Volume 1: 144 pages, 80 duotone, 6 color images.
Volume 2: 144 pages, 120 color images.
Publisher's price: £45
This project records noted Australian photographer Stephen Dupont’s journey through some of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) most important cultural and historical zones: the Highlands, Sepik, Bougainville and the capital city Port Moresby.
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Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel’s career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today.
Maisel’s images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the Los Angeles Times has stated, “argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.”
For more details and images, see David Maisel’s website.
Publisher: Steidl
240 pages
Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography.
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From today's perspective it sounds like a fairy tale, when Thomas Hoepker talks about the beginning of his America Reportage.
“Would you like to discover America?” editor-in-chief Horst Mahnke asked one day. “We sat in the conference room of Kristall. ‘Sure’, we said. ‘But what exactly do you want us to do there?’ – ‘I think’, replied the editor, ‘you’ll fly to New York and then you rent a car and you drive westward until you meet the Pacific, and then you drive back on another route and you take pictures and write about what you see. No time limit.’ We liked the brief briefing and nodded. The year was 1963 and I was 27.”
Hoepker and Winter covered a total of 26 785 kilometers by automobile, according to Mahnke, the editor-in-chief, whose editorial to Issue No. 8/1964 on the whole anticipated the tenor of the series, which was critical of the USA: “They saw far beyond the skyscrapers of Manhattan, whose spectacular silhouette is still considered by many Europeans to be typical of America. And once beyond the America of the picture postcard, they discovered some truths of which I think we need to be aware. I believe there are some shocking truths amongst them and in the light of these truths the legendary American way of life no longer looks quite so triumphantly brilliant as people generally imagine.”
In his observations author Hans-Michael Koetzle claims:
Hoepker’s America reportage is still a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. “Heartland” stands for a piece of photo history and at the same time turns out to be oppressively up to date.
Sample images here.
Publisher: Peperoni Books
Size: 24o x 216 mm
84 pages, 68 tritone and 8 colour illustrations
Publisher's Price: £29.95
Hoepker’s America reportage is still a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. “Heartland” stands for a piece of photo history and at the same time turns out to be oppressively up to date.
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A landmark in the annals of American photography and polar adventure, William Bradford's book The Arctic Regions was first published for subscribers in 1873. No more than three hundred copies of the leather-bound elephant folio are known to have been printed. The book has been a prized possession of major American and European museums, libraries, and collectors ever since.
With an introduction written by the noted polar historian Russell A. Potter, The Arctic Regions is now available for the first time to the trade. As the pace of global climate change quickens and the magnificent Arctic icecap dwindles, its publication could not be more timely or important.
"This volume," artist William Bradford explained, "is the result of an expedition to the Arctic regions, made solely for the purposes of art, in the summer of 1869." Bradford had brought with him the eminent Arctic explorer and author Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes, and he had engaged the 450-ton steamer Panther to sail from St. John's, Newfoundland. On July 3rd they departed, carrying a "party of adventurers whose story is partially illustrated by the photographic views contained in this volume." Bradford became one of the first American painters to pursue the dream of painting the Arctic regions firsthand. He had made several previous voyages, but none this ambitious or far-reaching. His purpose was always to study nature under its "terrible" aspects, to acquire material for later use in his artwork and after that in lectures illustrated with stereopticon views. On this voyage Bradford brought along two photographers from Boston, John L. Dunmore and George P. Critcherson. They were the first photographic professionals to document so northerly a voyage. Their images added the crucial aura of "truth" to Bradford's work. While other artists had depicted the northern regions, none had made photography so central a part of the artistic process.
Today, the science-infused and art-driven narrative of The Arctic Regions offers a prophetic prelude to current news of the Earth's climate situation: these regions, first photographed under Bradford's direction, may yet vanish in our lifetime, never to be seen again.
William Bradford (1823-1892) was born and brought up in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Bradford began his professional art career painting ship portraits. In 1861, he obtained financial backing for a journey to sketch and photograph the coast of Labrador. On this and subsequent voyages, he became fascinated with the special qualities of atmospheric light in northern regions. In 1869, Bradford made a notable expedition to the Arctic on the Panther leading to the original publication of The Arctic Regions.
Sample images from the Arctic Regions
Publisher: David R. Godine
200 pages
Publisher's price: $49.95
A landmark in the annals of American photography and polar adventure, William Bradford's book The Arctic Regions was first published for subscribers in 1873. No more than three hundred copies of the leather-bound elephant folio are known to have been printed
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German painter Frank Rödel (born 1954) has a longstanding fascination with the Antarctic, which he photographed during an expedition made by the Alfred Wegener Institute and later reprised in his own paintings. Terra Incognita contains photographs and paintings of vast Antarctic land- and seascapes.
Sample spreads of Terra Incognita
Publisher: Kerber
Size: 11.75 x 9.5"
144 pages, 115 colour, 2 b&w
Publisher's price: $59.95
German painter Frank Rödel has a longstanding fascination with the Antarctic, which he photographed during an expedition made by the Alfred Wegener Institute and later reprised in his own paintings. Terra Incognita contains photographs and paintings of vast Antarctic land- and seascapes.
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Kenna's photographs of the Shinan region of Korea. Due for publication Summer 2013. If you wish to place an advance order and do not wish your card account to be debited until book is ready for despatch, please use Secure Trading payment option.
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Browse Kenna Shinan image archive. The images are not guaranteed to be the same as the contents of the book. We have no information about the cover of the book so the image we have used to illustrate the item is just one chosen from Kenna's image archive.
Standard edition also available.
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Kenna's photographs of the Shinan region of Korea. Due for publication Summer 2013. If you wish to place an advance order and do not wish your card account to be debited until book is ready for despatch, please use Secure Trading payment option.
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Browse Kenna Shinan image archive. The images are not guaranteed to be the same as the contents of the book. We have no information about the cover of the book so the image we have used to illustrate the item is just one chosen from Kenna's image archive.
Limited edition also available.
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Continuing the aerial photography that gave such visual command to his previous National Geographic titles, Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa and Through the Eyes of the Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America, Robert Haas now trains his lenses on the regions that transect the Arctic Circle. His latest project yields stunning images that show not a "blinding storm of white" as one might think—but rather, a dramatic and surprising diversity of brilliant colors and unexpected subjects. Photographing over a three-year period, Haas captured imagery that reflects three key elements of the region: the arctic landforms, the iconic wildlife, and the footprint of man. This book strives for and succeeds in producing a visual record that will reshape our ideas of what the Arctic has to offer and why we should protect it.
Publisher: National Geographic
Size: 11 x 15"
220 pages; 125 color photographs, 7 maps
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Step aboard a private plane for a breathtaking tour of the immense and varied wilderness of Latin America—lush lands and scenic waterways nearly impossible to experience any other way.
Your guide to this remarkable vision is Robert B. Haas, award-winning environmentalist and one of the world's foremost artists in aerial photography. Poignant essays penned by Haas while living in Latin America expand on themes important to understanding the region: culture, economy, development, tourism, and more.
Publisher: National Geographic
Size: 11 x 15"
232 pages
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A prolific landscape record evolved as soon as cameras and equipment could be reliably used outdoors. Most nineteenth-century photographers worked on government-sponsored surveys. Others helped to lure investors westward with the images they made along the routes of the railroads. At the same time, Americans were hanging framed images by such photographic artists as Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge on their parlor walls. Photographs of unspoiled national treasures such as those by Ansel Adams exerted considerable influence on the federal government's efforts to create national parks. Modern and contemporary photographers have recorded their impressions of both man's and nature's impact on the land, from Robert Dawson's images of polluted waterways to Emmet Gowin's views of the aftermath of Mount St. Helens's spectacular eruption.
Seductive beauty, promise, and myth mingle with America's history and its technological and economic progress in these landscape photographs. Whether incorporating the nineteenth-century notion of the sublime or twentieth-century theories of social documentary, each is a witness to a profound and often complex relationship to the land.
Publisher: Smithsonian
Size: 9.1 x 9"
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Presented here in 140 haunting duotone images that could have been made at any time in the past century and a half, David Plowden gives us a remarkable portrait of the barn as an icon of our agricultural heritage and also a touchstone of something essentially American. His images depict barns set in landscapes of vast farmland, revealing minutely details of interior woodwork, painted advertising weathering away, and intricate stone- and brickwork rarely duplicated today. From the round-roofed Gothic barns of Michigan to the gambrelled dairy barns of Wisconsin, these vernacular structures still embody the purpose of their construction and the traditions of their builders.
Publisher: Norton
Size: 11.25 x 11.8"
160 pages
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Radius Books announces publication of the first in a series of four multi-volume sets dedicated to the work of Sam Abell, one of America’s most influential photographers and teachers.
This four-year publishing endeavor, ultimately comprising sixteen separate volumes, is the most comprehensive expression to date of Abell’s work. In each set of four volumes Abell takes up a theme important to the history of art: the photography of places; the photography of nature; the photography of the past; and the photography of ideas. Each volume features Abell’s iconic images set for the first time in the context of his extensive never-before-published work. Essays by Abell appear throughout the sixteen volumes.
The first boxed set begins with an introductory volume, with an illustrated essay by Leah Bendavid-Val, examining Abell’s evolution as an artist. Successive volumes then showcase three distinct cultures—the raw aesthetic of Newfoundland; the refinement of Hagi, Japan; and the reptilian character of Northern Australia.
Publisher: Radius Books
Size: 8 x 9.5"
312 pages, 140 colour illustrations
Publisher's price: £56
The first in a series of four multi-volume sets dedicated to the work of Sam Abell, one of America’s most influential photographers and teachers.
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“I am always immensely grateful to people who do impossible things on my behalf and bring back the picture. It means I don’t have to do it, but at least I know what it looks like.” This is what Salman Rushdie wrote about artist Taryn Simon in his essay in this volume. And, in fact, in her famous series of works, which she finished in 2007, Simon (*1975) does indeed show the hidden, the forbidden and inaccessible within American borders. She reveals what lies concealed beneath the surface of America's mythology and daily functioning. After conducting painstaking negotiations, she uses her large-format camera to capture what is usually only reserved for the initiated: containers of radioactive nuclear waste, the CIA’s art collection, the outdoor facility of a “body farm,” or the inside of a hibernating bear’s cave. The artist annotates each of her almost sixty pictures with descriptive texts highlighting the complexities of both her subjects and the relationship between text and image.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 257 x 340 mm
152 pages, ca. 57 ills.
Seductive photographs and texts that question the American myth. A new edition of the controversial cult book
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Raised in middle-class Blankenese in Hamburg, Arvid Gutschow (1900–1984) came into contact with the medium of photography at a young age. In 1929 he was one of the featured artists in the important New Photography exhibition, Film und Foto (Fifo), in Stuttgart. His images became known to a broad audience in 1930 with the publication of See Sand Sonne (Sea Sand Sun), considered one of the most influential books on style in abstract landscape photography. In this book featuring images of the sea, tidal flats, beach, and coastal plants, Gutschow explored natural structures and formations, such as the reflection of light on the surface of the water or wind blowing across beaches and dunes. The interplay of light and shadow and the divergence of natural forms and abstract imagination are masterfully presented in the autodidact’s photographs.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 212 x 282 mm
128 pages, 66 illustrations.
In this book featuring images of the sea, tidal flats, beach, and coastal plants, Gutschow explored natural structures and formations, such as the reflection of light on the surface of the water or wind blowing across beaches and dunes.
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Bae, Bien-U (*1950 in Yosu, South Korea) gained recognition for his meditative landscape photographs, which possess an almost calligraphic quality. His new series, created over the course of the past twenty years, features landscapes in motion. Trees and grass lean in the wind; steep crags, cliffs, and rocks and stones shaped by water lie enveloped in sea spray and fog in the surf; the lines of the horizon disappear in the white-gray of the sky. As is also the case in Chinese and Japanese, the Korean word commonly used to denote landscape is a compound of the words “wind” and “scenery.” It is closely bound to the traditional cosmological notion of a quintessence that permeates all living things: the ether. The poetic neologism, “windscape,” is a literal translation of this term, which is associated with the same levels of meaning throughout East Asia.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 302 x 262 mm
144 pages, 62 illustrations
Bae, Bien-U gained recognition for his meditative landscape photographs, which possess an almost calligraphic quality. His new series, created over the course of the past twenty years, features landscapes in motion.