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Chants to Nature / Cantos a la naturaleza / Cants a la natura

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:05 EST

... one can find a unique correspondence between the tactile character of nature elements and the correlative nature of the photographic image. To achieve it, the artist uses the wet plate collodion process, a technique invented in 1851, which dominated photography for thirty years, and uses it now with the awareness of the importance

Photographs

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:05 EST

In his series featuring German façades, French beach cabanas, and British spa architecture, Götz Diergarten (*1972 in Mannheim) examines the outward appearance of different types of everyday buildings. Following in the footsteps of the Becher School , Diergarten�s works are conceptually rigorous, with a documentary-style straightforwardness. Diergarten�s originality, however, lies in the fact that he adds color as a dimension to this austere concept. In his photographs of standard beach cabanas, it is the color that expresses a sense of originality and uniqueness. In the METROpolis series

Poems & Polaroids

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

With this new book, Kate McBride invites us to journey with her as armchair travelers through eighty-four poems and more than two-hundred Polaroids. The milkiness, the painterly, almost ethereal look of the images and the poetic record of a place and time create what McBride describes as dreamscapes.

Memoires 1984-1987

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Seiichi Furuya's best-known works have been his heart-rending exploration of his relationship with his wife, Christine, who after years of battling mental illness, leapt from their ninth-floor apartment in 1985, leaving him and their child. Over the intervening 25 years, Furuya has published several books including formal portraits of Christine and, even harder to take, everyday-life snapshots that are almost luminescent in their ordinariness. this deeply personal photo essays, the last of Furuya's Memories compositions, covers the Furuya family's everyday life while living in the former East German government system, and the other "fall" that ended a family.

Queen Ann. P.S. Belly Cut Off

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Mariken Wessels� second art book is titled Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off. Here again, the photographs are sourced from an existing person, a middle-aged woman wringing with her self-image in an endless stream of manipulated photographs of herself, making them into a true cabinet of curiosities. The authentic arrangement of the discovered material, with its strange mixture of old and new photographs, film material and collages is strikingly deceptive. In fact, both in Elisabeth - I want to eat - as well as in Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off, it is the hand of the fine craftswoman Mariken Wessels at work.

The Edward Curtis Project

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

The Edward Curtis Project began when the Presentation House Theatre commissioned Marie Clements to write a play that would stage the issues raised by Curtis� monumental but controversial achievement�to dramatize not only the creation of his twenty-volume photographic and ethnographic epic and the enormous commitment, unwavering vision, sacrifice, poverty and ultimate disappointment it represented for the photographer, but also the devastating legacy that his often misrepresentative and imposed vision had on the lives of the people he touched.

Sibir

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

With the recent work Sibir Debby Huysmans continues this photographic research. The two longest rivers of Russia, the Yenissey and the Lena, guide the photographer through the contemporary Siberian landscape. Huysmans concentrates on the individuals, living in these forgotten areas and the signs of human presence in relation to the landscape.

Remainders of dreams of the past and signs of hope for tomorrow appear through the daily environment. The characters seem to experience an 'old' world under the impoverished conditions of a pre-capitalist reality.

The Sundays of Life

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Bela Doka, in his series titled "Sundays of Life", charts a challenging path for himself. How do you photograph the quotidian moments that, while not dramatic, form the core of life�s pleasures and satisfactions? The answer for him is found in a country house owned by the family of his girlfriend. The world that he reveals to us is one of sun-warmed lunch tables, cool afternoon river swims, lazy walks in pathless fields, and tasks that are met with no timetable in mind. If we view these pictures from a hurried, urban mindset, we see nothing.

Emotions in Motion

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Reminiscent of Walker Evans� 1966 classic, Many Are Called, Lebanese-born, English photographer Toufic Beyhum�s photographs of passengers on Berlin�s U-Bahn capture a diverse cast of characters. Beyhum reveals what so many of us see on our daily commute: lovers and loners, the young and the old, punks and businessmen, people sleeping, dogs, graffiti, litter. Captured in the flat light while traveling together underground, everyone seems more similar than they might on the street. Like Evans, Beyhum seems to capture the private thoughts of his subjects as they space out, unaware of the people around them-though some do stare defiantly into the camera, while in other shots Beyhum pulls back to include more of the train or station.

Silvertown

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

In July 1995 more than 7,000 Muslim men were murdered by Serb forces in the Bosnian Muslim enclave of Srebrenica. At the time a Dutch UN battalion is present in the enclave to ensure the safety of its inhabitants. Fifteen years later photographer Daniel Koning went to Srebrenica, a.k.a. Silvertown, to document daily life as it is today.

A Drug Free Land

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Thomas Kern lived and worked in America for eight years. He used this time to travel extensively and compile journalistic essays about the country. Kern is a silent observer, and the subject of his work is the unspectacular every day life of the country and its people. The result is a visual commentary on the state of the nations in pictures that appear to be familiar and available for rapid consumption, and yet remain remarkably resistant.

Cabin and Woods

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Cabin & Woods by Coley Brown and Cristiano Guerri. It tells about the wild and the unknown with shots from the forests of Scandinavia, Colorado, upstate New York, Europe.

One Step Big Shot

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

The title of this important new collection of photographs by renowned movie director Gus Van Sant references a quick and direct act of picture making: the use of Polaroid cameras and films. In the hands of Van Sant, a "big shot" was "one step" in the production of his early films. As a collection, these portraits -- selected from the hundreds taken for casting those films -- exemplify the artist�s considerable talents, and also provoke discussion about representation. The allure of a Van Sant portrait reaches beyond the inherent luminosity and ephemeral nature of an instant positive print. The expressive gesture by an aspiring actor, able to project an appealing gaze and posture, is even more engaging

Views from the Reservation

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

...in 1992, when he first traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota, he assured the elders of the Oglala Lakota Sioux that he would not be exhibiting any of the images he took while there. Over time, however, Willis earned the respect and trust of the community, and the elders - hoping that the photographs might bring aid to their community - urged him to show his work. The product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, "Views from the Reservation" is meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people.

Skate Park

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

The photographs of Arthur Tress capture a split second, creating an eternal moment. In Tress� forthcoming book Skate Park, his compositions are enhanced by the skateboarders� fluidity of movement and the elements of their parks. In his exploration, Tress goes beyond typical sport photography, contemplating each skaters relationship to the larger void of the bowl, half-pipe, or park. Here, cinematic sequences capture their action and interaction. This narrative is at times playful, creating instants where one feels the subjects� camaraderie, fused with moments of detail and intimacy as though the viewer is an unnoticed observer.

Leftovers

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

'In her latest book Lucia Nimcova (with guest writer Michal Moravcik) reinvents archival images of Marian Kusik focusing on 'baby boom' generation of 80ties in eastern Slovakia.'

Nymph Daughters

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

This new book by Todd Hido (b. 1968) is a departure that brings him back to some of his narrative sequencing experiments he played with in graduate school while studying with Larry Sultan. This series started with two photos?the first image of found studio portrait of a mother made in the 1950�s?and another found archival newspaper photograph taken by a reporter of the aftermath of an auto accident. Hido put the portrait at the front of the book and the car crash at the back and worked to narratively connect the two using his own archive of portraits, landscapes, and photographs of houses.

Destroy This Memory

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

The photographs in Richard Misrach's Destroy This Memory are a stark, affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina as told by those on the ground, and seen through the lens of a contemporary master. Rather than simply surveying the damage, Misrach-who has photographed the region regularly since the 1970s, most notably for his ongoing Cancer Alley project-found himself drawn to the hurricane-inspired graffiti: messages scrawled in spray paint, crayons, chalk or whatever materials residents

Quebec

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

A poetic view of the Québec winter. Each copy printed and hand-made by the anonymous photographer. Numbered and "signed" with his thumb-impression in an edition of 25 (listed as (BOOK)).

The book and print combination (listed as (PRINT) below) is accompanied with an outtake image not included in the book.

Julia Margaret Cameron * Roger Fenton

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

The early days of photography in Britain were marked by a plethora of artistic experiments and innovations, both by professional artists and talented amateurs. But two photographers from the Victorian era stand out from the pack: Julia Margaret Cameron and Roger Fenton. Cameron�s fancy-dress recreations of scenes from myth and history and Fenton�s photographs from the battlefields of the Crimean War set new standards for technique�and helped to establish photography as an important, independent art form.

The Original Copy

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of documenting, redefining and disseminating works of art. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up and lighting, as well as through expostfacto techniques of dark room manipulation, collage, montage and assemblage, artists not only interpret the works they record but create stunning reinventions of them. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the one medium has become implicated in the understanding of the other.

Amami

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

A limited-edition artist's book by Dutch photographer Cuny Janssen, known for integrating portraits of schoolchildren - with the serious looks that only children can convey - with images of the natural world, expanding the classic sociodocumentary style into a much more narrative and expansive look at "place." For this project, Janssen made two visits to the sub-tropical island of Amami-Oshima, at the southernmost tip of Japan. This powerful yet graceful book, including 100 images (some of which fold out to double size) creates a feeling of a place almost frozen in time.

Regeneration 2

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Following the success of 2005's groundbreaking book and exhibition reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005-2025, reGeneration 2: Tomorrow's Photographers Today turns the spotlight yet again on the next generation of photography's potential stars. Through over 200 images, this remarkable survey-the only anthology of its kind-showcases the inspiring creativity and ingenuity of 80 up-and-coming photographic artists. For the second incarnation of this international photography competition, curators at the world-renowned Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, selected the winning candidates from hundreds of entries submitted by some 120 of the world's top photography schools.

The Cemetery of Reason

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Templeton has also drawn deeply on artists such as Egon Schiele, Balthus, David Hockney, Larry Clark and Nan Goldin; as with their work, what begins as a very personal chronicle ultimately opens out onto grander horizons-in Templeton's case, a broad meditation on the chaos and the joy of being human. The Cemetery of Reason is the first large monographic museum publication devoted to Templeton's work. Presented as a mid-career retrospective accompanying a spring 2010 exhibition at the S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent, Belgium

The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler / Map Of Babylon

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

At the same time provincial and international, it is a neighborhood populated by ambassadorial residences, embassies, and the lavish private homes of those who are in positions of power and influence in Washington. A project he began with the arrival of a new neighbor, the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and made over a full year's cycle of seasons, these are images from the drift of privilege.

Ontem

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Ontem (yesterday in Portuguese) is the result of a number of years during which André Cepeda became interested in the lives of the people of Porto, photographing landscapes, interiors and portraits. The photographer, concerned with poverty and social injustice, has gained access to theses small closed districts and where people live in families and couples in tiny apartments. There, he managed build relationships with these people who often feel there is no hope or prospects for the future. In these spaces, Cepeda's photographs allow the viewer to hear the silence, which gives the images a charged intensity.

War Is Personal

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

By early 2006, the war in Iraq was entering its fourth year. No weapons of mass destruction had been found. Tens of thousands of Iraqis were reported injured and dead, more than two thousand American soldiers had been killed, and rates of depression and suicide were rising among American military personnel. Yet all the while, Congress and the media debated what the conflict was costing America in image and treasure, and costing the president in popularity. Troubled by the public's growing indifference to the ongoing horrors in Iraq and critical of his own inaction, acclaimed photographer Eugene Richards began documenting the lives of Americans who had been profoundly affected by the Iraq war.

Polaroids

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

One of the Polaroid�s acknowledged masters, Guy Bourdin (1928�1991) brought to the medium an uncanny ability to combine the snapshot feel with a strong patina of glamour, and of course plenty of sexiness. A protégé of Man Ray, and best known today for his controversial fashion photography, Bourdin like his teacher often brought an edge of menace or discomfort to his eroticism,with surrealistic props and implied narratives.

America by Car

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country�s vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual �form� for making photographs. Driving across most of the country�s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country�s eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century.

Maze

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

...Donovan Wylie spent almost a hundred days photographing inside the Maze prison. Through its history of protests, hunger strikes and escapes, this prison, holding both republican and loyalist prisoners, became synonymous with the Northern Ireland conflict.

Comfort Women (Troostmeisjes)

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:05 EST

Raping women seems to be a normal byproduct of wars. During World War II, the Japanese military even set up a system for sex slavery: Tens of thousands of "comfort women" in Asia were forced into prostitution at military brothels. In addition, many girls were abused sexually in railroad wagons, factory warehouses or night after night at home. Most of these women have suffered physical and emotional consequences ever since.