Construction
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Bruno Delamain, photographe des grandes réalisations de la fin du siècle dernier – la Cathédrale d’Evry, le barrage des Trois Gorges en Chine, le Stade de France, Vulcania en Auvergne – a été retenu pour son regard sur l’architecture. Pendant un an il a suivi l’évolution du bâtiment Euralliance à Lille. Dans son carnet de chantier, il a conçu des images en noir et en gris(...)
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Bruno Delamain, photographe des grandes réalisations de la fin du siècle dernier – la Cathédrale d’Evry, le barrage des Trois Gorges en Chine, le Stade de France, Vulcania en Auvergne – a été retenu pour son regard sur l’architecture. Pendant un an il a suivi l’évolution du bâtiment Euralliance à Lille. Dans son carnet de chantier, il a conçu des images en noir et en gris reflétant des ambiances, des instants furtifs et la spécificité d’un lieu en construction. Cet ouvrage nous laisse découvrir à la fois des images académiques et d’autres plus surprenantes.
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Thinking photography
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"Thinking photography" brings debates within the theory and practice of communications and culture, in this case in photography and photography criticism, to a wider audience. Victor Burgin's book is concerned with the production of meaning in photographs ( and so it is fully illustrated). A photograph has traditionally been understood as an expression of the(...)
Thinking photography
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"Thinking photography" brings debates within the theory and practice of communications and culture, in this case in photography and photography criticism, to a wider audience. Victor Burgin's book is concerned with the production of meaning in photographs ( and so it is fully illustrated). A photograph has traditionally been understood as an expression of the photographer's personality, a transparent presentation of a real scene, or more recently in 'modernist' criticism as a purely formal object. Victor Burgin and his collaborators - Umberto Eco, Allan Sekula, John Tagg and Simon Watney - taking their cue from Walter Benjamin's "The author as producer" (also reprinted here), and working from a wide range of photographs, challenge the concept of the autonomous, spontaneously creative artist, the idea of documentary truth in photography and the notion of purely visual languages. They develop an account of the production of the meaning as a photograph within social institutions - advertising, journalism, art - within a society with a history and within the unconscious.
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April 2003, New York
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Paru pour la première fois en 1977, Sur la photographie est devenu le livre culte sur le sujet.
Sur la photographie: oeuvre complète
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Paru pour la première fois en 1977, Sur la photographie est devenu le livre culte sur le sujet.
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January 1900, Paris
Theory of Photography
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A truly ambitious, twice yearly photographic magazine featuring a broad range of contributions, which is published with the ambition of promoting discussion and creation of photography, without cultural, geographical or thematic boundaries. This first issue features among 22 contributions: previously unpublished photographs from the archive of Isamu Noguchi; a portfolio(...)
Theory of Photography
January 2006, London
C international photo magazine, number one
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A truly ambitious, twice yearly photographic magazine featuring a broad range of contributions, which is published with the ambition of promoting discussion and creation of photography, without cultural, geographical or thematic boundaries. This first issue features among 22 contributions: previously unpublished photographs from the archive of Isamu Noguchi; a portfolio including works from Ellen Kooi, Wang Qingsong, Kahn + Selesnick, Yasuma Morimura and Marcos López; vintage photographs from Dmitri Baltermants; and fresh images from Wim Wenders.
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Catalogue. Oeuvres de Christophe Bouguedieu, Yves Trémorin, Joachim Mogarra, Pierre-Étienne Morelle, Dans le champ des étoiles, Brassaï.
Theory of Photography
January 2006
Images au centre 05 : photographie, vidéo & patrimoine
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Catalogue. Oeuvres de Christophe Bouguedieu, Yves Trémorin, Joachim Mogarra, Pierre-Étienne Morelle, Dans le champ des étoiles, Brassaï.
Theory of Photography
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The cased photographic portrait was fashionable from the early 1840s until the end of the 1860s. Around it grew a considerable industry supplying everything from simple leather covered cases, to sophisticated creations in moulded thermoplastic. This book looks at the photographic portrait from daguerrotype to carte de visite, and at the range of cases in which it was(...)
Case histories : the presentation of the photographic portrait 1840-1875
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The cased photographic portrait was fashionable from the early 1840s until the end of the 1860s. Around it grew a considerable industry supplying everything from simple leather covered cases, to sophisticated creations in moulded thermoplastic. This book looks at the photographic portrait from daguerrotype to carte de visite, and at the range of cases in which it was marketed. The cased Victorian photographic portrait was a sophisticated product, with the delicate hand-colouring of the image echoed in the colours of the protective velvet pad and trim with which the case was finished. Hitherto, the relationship between the portrait and its packaging and presentation has not been explored in book form. " Case histories " also highlights British manufacturers of cases and trims, and identifies the only British manufacturer yet found who made moulded thermoplastic cases. Such was the importance of the cased photographic portrait, that moulded picture cases were one of the world’s first uses for moulded plastic.
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The old dream of social belonging and political sovereignty--the dream of nation--was fraught with anxiety and contradiction for many artists and intellectuals in the 1950s. On the one hand, memories of the Second World War remained vivid and the chauvinism that had enabled it threatened to return with the growing tensions of the Cold War. On the other hand, the need to(...)
The pivot of the world : photography and its nation
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The old dream of social belonging and political sovereignty--the dream of nation--was fraught with anxiety and contradiction for many artists and intellectuals in the 1950s. On the one hand, memories of the Second World War remained vivid and the chauvinism that had enabled it threatened to return with the growing tensions of the Cold War. On the other hand, the need to bind together into a new global identity--into a world nation or "family of man"--seemed ever more pressing as a bulwark against the rapidly expanding threat of a nuclear World War III. The Pivot of the World looks at an exceptional effort to work out that geopolitical tension by cultural means as developed in three hugely ambitious photographic projects: The Family of Man exhibition that opened in 1955 and traveled the world for the next decade; Robert Frank's influential book The Americans, photographed in 1955-1956 and first published in 1958; and Bernd and Hilla Becher's typological record of industrial architecture, begun in 1957 and continuing today. Each of these projects worked to release the dream of nation--of belonging and sovereignty--from its old civic trappings through the medium of photography's serial form, in the experience of one photograph followed by another and another and another, so that all seem at once intimately connected and at the same time autonomous and distinct. Innovations in the serial composition of photographic form could open new possibilities for social form while the modern desire for political belonging could be made cosmopolitan, could be globalized--but in the most human of ways. This epic sense of purpose lasted only for a moment--it had already passed by the beginning of the 1960s--but it bears particular interest for any historical understanding of the contest over globalization that continues to hold such great consequence for us now.
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This volume includes over 200 publications carefully selected by Martin Parr and the critic and curator Gerry Badger. All the books are accompanied by extensive commentaries by Badger and are illustrated as three-dimensional objects, providing a true sense of them as art works in their own right.
The photobook : a history, volume II
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This volume includes over 200 publications carefully selected by Martin Parr and the critic and curator Gerry Badger. All the books are accompanied by extensive commentaries by Badger and are illustrated as three-dimensional objects, providing a true sense of them as art works in their own right.
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Iranian photography now
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This publication is a photographic sensation: the visual dynamics of Iranian photography in all its fascinating beauty and heroic resistance is unveiled for the first time, revealing a rich new aesthetics from inside Iran as well as from the Iranian diaspora. We see innovative responses by photographers living in a country under political restrictions, as well as an(...)
Iranian photography now
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This publication is a photographic sensation: the visual dynamics of Iranian photography in all its fascinating beauty and heroic resistance is unveiled for the first time, revealing a rich new aesthetics from inside Iran as well as from the Iranian diaspora. We see innovative responses by photographers living in a country under political restrictions, as well as an important body of work from Iranians who have been living in exile for the last thirty years creating works of great political and cultural relevance.
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William Wylie: Carrara
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The legendary Cava di Gioia quarry in Carrara, Italy, was the source of the luminous white marble used by Michelangelo, Bernini, Henry Moore, and other renowned sculptors. Carrara, a volume of stunning photographs by William Wylie, reveals that the beauty of the quarry itself can be as alluring as the sculptures carved from its stone. Wylie is the first photographer to(...)
William Wylie: Carrara
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The legendary Cava di Gioia quarry in Carrara, Italy, was the source of the luminous white marble used by Michelangelo, Bernini, Henry Moore, and other renowned sculptors. Carrara, a volume of stunning photographs by William Wylie, reveals that the beauty of the quarry itself can be as alluring as the sculptures carved from its stone. Wylie is the first photographer to document Cava di Gioia since Ilario Besi, early in the twentieth century. For six years, Wylie photographed the changing landscape of the quarry, and his images capture the intense physical scale of the site, the dramatic setting, and the character of the stonecutters, or cavatori, who have worked the quarry for generations. Wylie’s astonishing photographs present a remarkable panorama carved by more than twenty centuries of excavation. As well, his images of the stonecutters are sensitive portraits of men shaped by their occupation, toughened and enlivened by their work.