Fotografi

An extraordinarily up close and personal photography collection and journal of the last years of the Vietnam War

"Art has poisoned our life," proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-garde artists and writers sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life. Following the evolution of these revolutionary groups, How to Be Avant-Garde charts its pioneers and radical ideas.From Paris to New York, from Zurich to Moscow and Berlin, avant-gardists challenged the confines of the definition of art along with the confines of the canvas itself. Art historian Morgan Falconer starts with the dynamic Futurist founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose manifesto extolling speed, destruction, and modernity seeded avant-gardes across Europe. In turn, Dadaists Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings sought to replace art with political cabaret, and the Surrealists tried to exchange it for tools to plumb the unconscious.He guides us through the Russian Constructivists with their adventures in advertising and utopianism and then De Stijl with the geometric abstractions of Piet Mondrian. The Bauhaus broke more boundaries, transmuting art into architecture and design. Finally, the Situationists swapped art for politics, with many of their ideas inspiring the 1968 Paris student protests.How to Be Avant-Garde is a journey through the interlocking networks of these richly creative lives with their visions of a better world, their sometimes sympathetic but often strange and turbulent conversations, and their objects and writings that defied categorization.

»Das Betrachten von Kristin Schnells atemberaubender Ode an die Natur, erzählt mit Farben, Formen und Vögeln, erfordert einen Augenblick des Innehaltens, um ihren künstlerischen Schaffensprozess in Zusammenarbeit mit einem lebenden Wesen zu verstehen. Inspiriert von der Schönheit farbiger Kirchenfenster, die sie als Kind erlebte, entwickelte sie eine Sensibilitätfür den Lauf der Sonne, für sich wandelnde Farbtöne und für Konzepte von Zufall und Spiritualität. Ihre Arbeit ist tatsächlicheine Art Altar, gewidmet der Schönheit und Zerbrechlichkeit der Vogelwelt, eingebettet in farbenfrohe Kulissen, die sie selbst entwirft und bemalt.« (Aline Smithson)Die deutsche Fotografin Kristin Schnell präsentiert Vögel in Gefangenschaft als Symbol für den Käfig, den sich Menschen häufig freiwillig bauen. Ihre Fotos wurden vielfach publiziert und international ausgestellt.

Photographer and writer Cig Harvey's new work is a poetic, richly saturated exploration of life through pigment

A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America's soulFrom prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new portrait of America's first great collector of modern art, Albert Coombs Barnes. Raised in a Philadelphia slum shortly after the Civil War, Barnes rose to earn a medical degree and then made a fortune from a pioneering antiseptic treatment for newborns. Never losing sight of the working-class neighbors of his youth, Barnes became a ruthless advocate for their rights and needs. His vast art collection--180 Renoirs, 67 Cézannes, 59 Matisses, 45 Picassos--was dedicated to enriching their cultural lives. A miner was more likely to get access than a mine owner.Gopnik's meticulous research reveals Barnes as a fierce advocate for the egalitarian ideals of his era's progressive movement. But while his friends in the movement worked to reshape American society, Barnes wanted to transform the nation's aesthetic life, taking art out of the hands of the elite and making it available to the average American.The Maverick's Museum offers a vivid picture of one of America's great eccentrics. The sheer ferocity of Barnes's democratic ambitions left him with more enemies than allies among people of all classes, but for a circle of intimates, he was a model of intelligence, generosity, and loyalty. In this compelling portrait, Gopnik reveals a life shaped by contradictions, one that left a lasting impact.

This study demonstrates how African American artists active since the 1970s have instrumentalized performance for the camera to intervene in existing representations of Black and Brown people in America and beyond.

In 1987, The Main: Portrait of a Neighborhood celebrated tolerance and the urban immigrant experience around Montreal's Boulevard Saint Laurent. This 2025 reimagining investigates belonging, identity and memory in a globalized world. In 1987 The Main: Portrait of a Neighborhood was published and quickly sold out. The critically acclaimed project celebrated the communities around Montreal's Boulevard Saint Laurent and contributed to the eventual designation of "The Main" as a Canadian heritage landmark. In 2017 to celebrate the city's 375th anniversary, the author was invited to re-imagine the original book. Returning to his former neighbourhood, his new book weaves old and new photographs with texts and archives, inviting us on a journey into his creative process to reflect on questions of home, identity, time, memory, and the evolving urban landscape, and asking: in a globalized world where people and cities are in constant movement, what happens to places and memories? Can we go home again?

Inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Appendix Project collects 11 talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter. Zambreno's most original and dazzling thinking and writing to date.

Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes-and dead calm-of grief. Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, it is an uncategorisable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence.

Highly illustrated, the book celebrates renovation of textile mills in the North of England. Case studies from interviews with those responsible for these iconic buildings give insights into how other mills may be reused.

Photographs and stories that explore the people and landscapes of small-town Texas

Padded shoulders, big hair, and bright colors: Go back in time to the decade of decadence with Great Britain's most renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Featuring dozens of assignments from the pages of Vogue and Tatler and icons such as Jerry Hall, Tina Turner, and Yves St Laurent.

Fully authorised by The Film and Television Charity and by Buckingham Palace, this book will celebrate the iconic Royal Film Performances

Steven Andres, a 30-year career as a nude photographer for the most wicked magazines in the world. Now available as a high-quality hardcover volume. Hot and unabashed. A must for your private nude photo book collection!___Steven Andres, eine 30jährige Karriere als Aktfotograf für die verruchtesten Magazine der Welt. Jetzt in einem hochwertigem Hardcover Bildband. Heiß und unverblümt. Ein Muss für die private Aktfotobuch-Sammlung.