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50 Photo Icons (25)
List Price: HK$ 300.00
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Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836526937
Hardcover, 306 pages, Language: English, 12.3 x 9.9 x 1.4 inches
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The most important landmarks in the history of photography under the microscope
Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world and influencing our perceptions of reality. To demonstrate the unique and profound influence on culture and society that photographs have, Photo Icons puts the most important landmarks in the history of photography under the microscope.
Each chapter of this special edition focuses on a single image which is described and analyzed in detail, in aesthetic, historical, and artistic contexts. The book begins with the very first permanent images (Nicéphore Niépce's 1827 eight-hour-exposure rooftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1839 street scene) and takes the reader up through the present day, via the avant-garde photography of the 1920s and works such as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936), Robert Doisneau's Kiss in Front of City Hall (1950), and Martin Parr's 'New European photography.'
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A Book of Books
List Price: HK$ 530.00
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Publisher: Bulfinch
ISBN: 978-0821227695
Hardcover, 108 pages, 11-3/4
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Publisher's Description
A visual tribute to the printed word, this sumptuous ode to books will be irresistible to anyone who treasures the feel of fine paper and the special allure of a clothbound volume.
A BOOK OF BOOKS showcases Abelardo Morell's extraordinary photographs of unusual books, like an impossibly large dictionary, illustrated tomes whose characters appear to leap off the page, and water-damaged books that take on sculptural form. Bookish quotations by Hawthorne, Borges, Cocteau, and others accompany the photographs throughout.
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A Couple of Ways of Doing Something
List Price: HK$ 470.00
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Publisher: Aperture
ISBN: 978-1597110181
Hardcover, 56 pp., 22 tritone illustrations, 12x15
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A Couple of Ways of Doing Something replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This clothbound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized daguerreotypes printed in rich tritone. Working with daguerreotype master Jerry Spagnoli to conquer the complexities of this venerable process, which yields images of astonishing detail and gravity, Chuck Close photographed many of the same artist-friends who have made regular appearances in his paintings over the years: Laurie Anderson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Bob Holman, Elizabeth Murray, Elizabeth Peyton, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, James Siena, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage and himself.
Each image is complemented by a poem on its subject by Bob Holman, the celebrated and widely published New York School poet who originated and hosted the famous Poetry Slams at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and now runs the Bowery Poetry Club. With the counterpoint of Holmanˇ¦s engaging poetry, the collected work becomes a transfixing group portrait of Closeˇ¦s influential and highly creative circle of friends and colleagues, as well as an exploration of a challenging photographic medium. A traveling exhibition of the work will launch in November 2006 at the Aperture Gallery.
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A Field Guide to the North America Family
List Price: HK$ 220.00
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Publisher: Mark Batty
ISBN: 978-0977985098
Hardcover, 144 pp, Color illustrations throughout, 7x9
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For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully. But when the patriarch of one family dies, a chain reaction brings Bad Habits, Secrets, and Vulnerabilities to the surface. The survivors face a stark imperative: adapt or face extinction.
A Field Guide to the North American Family, an illustrated novella by Garth Risk Hallberg, tracks these two families through the wilderness of modern life. Their stories unfold in 63 entries, each comprising a chapter of text and a visual artistˇ¦s response to the entryˇ¦s title: 'Adolescence,' 'Boredom,' 'Chemistry,' 'CommitmentˇK.' The novella can be read straight through; alphabetical headings and cross-referenced design also enable users to peruse the Field Guide as they would a nonfiction reference work, or to move through the fiction as they see fit.
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A KA R1
List Price: HK$ 330.00
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Publisher: Little More
ISBN: 9784898151501
Softcover,84 pages
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A Play of Selves
List Price: HK$ 360.00
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Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775719421
Hardcover, 128 pages, Language: English, 9.3 x 6.8 x 0.7 inches
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It was in the mid-70s that Cindy Sherman began making her earliest works, in which she explored various manipulations of her own persona. She began by experimenting with makeup and costumes, getting dressed up for parties and surprising her friends. She then moved on to photograph herself in the various personas she had created, producing highly inventive but somewhat more primitive versions of the seminal work for which she would later become known, the Untitled Film Stills series. It was during this early period that Sherman created A Play of Selves--a visual tale of a young woman overwhelmed by various alter-egos that compete inside of her, and her final conquering of self-doubt. Acted out with 16 separate characters, these 72 photographic assemblages mark Sherman's earliest explorations of herself-as-subject in a series of staged photographs. Published here for the first time, these photographs include hundreds of shots of the artist costumed as various characters in dozens of poses. Organized in a four-act "play" with an elaborate, handwritten script, the individual images were cut by the artist from original black-and-white prints. Preface by Cindy Sherman.
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A Portrait In Landscapes
List Price: HK$ 460.00
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Publisher: Nazraeli Press
ISBN: 9781590051603
Hardcover, Photographs by Robert Adams. 52 pp., 43 duotone illustrations, 8½x9½
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Kerstin Adams has often accompanied her husband Robert when he has photographed the rural West. On those trips he would sometimes turn, after making a picture of the landscape, and make another that included her. ˇ§Kerstin loves the forest and prairie and shore,ˇ¨ Adams writes, ˇ§which is part of my love for her. When we are there, portraiture and landscape seem one; she shares natureˇ¦s glory, and nature is warmed by her caring.ˇ¨ A Portrait in Landscapes reproduces a selection of these linked pictures, together with related views. They span almost 40 years, and most have not been published before. Two of the photographs are of Kerstin reading. This volume might itself be understood as a letter. The pictures reproduced in this book record their affection for the places they have been, and for each other. The first printing of A Portrait in Landscapes sold out upon publication; we are delighted to offer a second printing of 500 copies. A Portrait in Landscapes is printed in duotone on matte art paper and bound in Japanese cloth. This beautiful little book offers a heartwarming testament to the power of human love.
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A Twenty Year Retrospective
List Price: HK$ 550.00
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Publisher: Nazraeli Press
ISBN: 978-1590050194
Hardcover, Photographs by Michael Kenna. 172 pp., 130 duotone illustrations, 12x12
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Publisher's Description
Kenna's work has successfully explored the realm of twilight in a way that no other photographer has. His images--filled with deep shadows and graphic forms--evoke mystery and realms just beyond perception. His subject matter ranges from gardens and forests to industrial sites and statues, often photographed at night. The first edition of Kenna's classic "Twenty Year Retrospective" was published in 1994 and subsequently underwent three separate printings before going out-of-print. This new edition is slightly larger in format and now has 1:1 reproductions.
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A Twenty Year Retrospective. The Nazraeli Press edition features a larger format than previous editions, with high fidelity tritones printed 1:1 from original prints. It will serve as a companion book to Kennaˇ¦s Volume Two, to be published by Nazraeli Press in 2004. Born in the industrial north of England, Michael Kenna has lived in San Francisco since 1980. His mysterious photographs, often made at dawn or in the dark hours of night, concentrate on the interaction between natural landscape and man-made structures.
His work has been shown throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan, and is in such permanent collections as The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; The Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; The National Gallery of Art, Washington; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In her foreword, Ruth Bernhard describes Kennaˇ¦s prints as ˇ§exquisitely seductive, spiritual experiences, akin to poetry and music.ˇ¨ An essay by Peter C. Bunnell considers Kennaˇ¦s background and development, providing a thoughtful introduction to the 130 images that represent the twenty-year period from 1974 to 1994.
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Abelardo Morell
List Price: HK$ 450.00
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Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714845722
Hardcover, 140 pages,11.6 x 11.3 x 0.9 inches
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Cuban-born Abelardo Morell (b.1948) began photographing his domestic environment after the birth of his son in 1986. Considering the world from a child's point of view, he photographed household objects from surprising perspectives to produce unfamiliar and disconcerting results that challenge the viewerˇ¦s perception of reality. Morell continues to take photographs that explore reality and illusion and has created images with books, money, maps and paintings as their subject, alongside his best known series of camera obscura photographs.
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Above Zero
List Price: HK$ 700.00
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Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 978-3775724371
Hardcover, Photographs by Olaf Otto Becker. Text by Dr. Konrad Steffan. Interview by Freddi Langer.
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Following Broken Line, a prizewinning portrait of the coast of Greenland, Olaf Otto Becker (born in Travemunde, 1959) turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, Above Zero. Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world. Beckerˇ¦s spectacular portraits of this region are taken during physically strenuous, sometimes life-threatening treks among glacial crevasses and melting ice floes, with a cumbersome largeformat camera. His photo studies draw out the overwhelming beauty of this icy landscape, while documenting their present fragility: dust and rust in the air form black, crusty deposits, which, in conjunction with global warming, accelerate the melting of the ice sheetsˇXwith what will probably be inevitable, catastrophic results. Becker warns that even in these uninhabited regions, human actions can have fatal consequences.
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