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Part of a series, this title is composed of polaroids, that continues the journey into Frank's realm and imagery, showing us snapshots from his travels, of his friends and everyday curiosities.
Includes five comprehensive volumes: New YorkEarly Work, The American Scene, Deep Woods, Greenwich Village, and, The Americans.
Inspired by a semi-autobiographical book by the mid-20th century German printmaker HAP Grieshaber, the author has used Grieshaber's idea to create a story of fifty years as a printmaker. He includes interviews with his printers and memories of his life around the prints he made at that time.
Originally published in 1986 to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the same name organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has long been out of print. The chronology and personal spirit of Frank's complex career as a photographer and filmmaker are evoked with previously unpublished letters, pictures, reviews and letters.
Robert Frank's film "One Hour" is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O'Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan's Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July, 1990 the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. This book deals with the film.
A 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, it presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and explores the relationship between nature and humanity.
A photographic journey from the author's hometown in the outskirts of Bari in southern Italy, that takes us to Mexico City, Cairo, Ankara, Anatolia, Sicily, Tunisia, and as far as Mesopotamia.
Using dense charcoal and dripping washes, this book depicts the sinister edge to Carlo Collodis story and Pinocchios isolation in the author's quest to become a real boy. It presents the his portrait of Gerhard Steidl, an ambitious suite of nine drawings made by the artist in his Gottingen studio.
From 2006 to 2011, Canada sent nearly 3,000 military personnel to Afghanistan in support of NATO's International Security Assistance Force. This title presents Donovan Wylie's photographs of Forward Operating Bases constructed in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan.
Waikiki, one of Honolulu's most famous neighbourhoods, had already become a crowded tourist destination when Wessel photographed there in the late seventies and early eighties. This book contains Wessel's edit of these pictures and is a record of American leisure at this time: of surf, sand and inexhaustible pleasure-seekers.
Catalogues the work of Massimo Vitali, an Italian master of the photographic medium. This title includes a giant poster which maps the family tree of Vitali's works, a visual geneology which is also the history of the artist's work.
Jim Dine is commonly seen as a prolific painter, printmaker and photographer whose central practice is drawing. This book shows that sculpture is just as important in his oeuvre. It lets us discover Dines favourite motifs: hearts, tools, skulls, and Pinocchio, as well as Classical sculpture in the form of Venus de Milo and Winged Victory.
In a remote landscape near Bordeaux, Mona Kuhn owns a little house: simple, bare and even without electricity. Kuhn travels here each year to entertain family and friends as they drop by. This title contains portraits of these people dear to Kuhn made over the years, as well as landscape photographs.
Does any family not have family photos? Every other picture taken is a family photograph and most are glanced at quickly and just as quickly wiped from memory. In this book, the author shows life after he has parked his cruiser in the garage, turned off the scanner and hung his uniform in the closet.
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