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Includes "America: un Viaje a traves de la injustica", "Para verte major, America Latina", "Algeria" "Sanrizuka", and, "Immagini del No".
In August 2008, the author began taking notes of events unfolding around him during a typical working day as an editor at "Steidl Publishers". Until January 2009 he made such daily jottings, candid observations of the organised chaos that is book-making at Steidl. This book depicts the eclectic personalities and experiences that shape Steidl.
Presents two volumes that include "The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler", which about a neighborhood populated by ambassadorial residences, embassies, and the lavish private homes of those who are in positions of power in Washington; and the "Map of Babylon", that features photographs ranging from Washington, to Germany, to China and places in-between.
Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Musee dArt and Moderne de la Ville de Paris. This title comprises of fifteen pairs of portraits collected from throughout a lifetime.
Robert Frank's father, Henry, was both the proprietor of a bicycle shop in Zurich, and a keen amateur photographer. This work features a selection of Henry Frank's photographs including landscapes, family portraits, still-lifes and cityscapes.
In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of oil and the mechanical advantage of the internal combustion engine. It was then that I began the oil project.
As Paris and its shopping arcades were to the 19th Century, Dubai and its wondrous malls may be to the new millennium. In this work, the author uses his iPhone camera to get past mass media images of the Emirate as Disney World on the Persian Gulf, and find a human component.
Presents a selection of David Bailey's photographs spanning from 1962 to 2008. Mostly black-and-white, some in color, this work features influential directors, artists, fashion designers and musicians, including Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Saint Laurent, John Huston and Ellsworth Kelly.
This work is about the phenomena of appearance and disappearance. The book shows 36 head-shots of a clown. If mutability of appearance is integral to the phenomenon of the cloud - since dissolution or erasure is inevitable - the converse is proposed for the clown.
David Bailey, born in London in 1938, is one of the most successful photographers of his generation. By the 1960s his work, especially for "Vogue", had already made him a cult figure. This title features 130 photographs of Damien Hirst taken by Bailey during a single shoot lasting eight minutes.
Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the more important. This book is a self-portrait that emerges out of the printing process, one plate and one color at a time.
Juergen Teller carried out a study of the "Reichsparteitagsgelande". The results amount to a study of mortality, the process of birth, growth and death. This book combines these works with self-portraits and family photographs through the same period, adding the perspective of the personal and quotidian life cycle.
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