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A photographic meditation on the empty spaces between time, inspired by Japanese aestheticsThe Dutch-born photographer Martien Mulder‿s (born 1971) new book of images springs from the Japanese concept of ma, which can be described as a pause in time, an interval, or emptiness in space. Teaming up with Amsterdam-based creatives Stef Bakker and Carsten Klein, Mulder embarked on an extensive quest to reveal the ma in her own images, editing from an archive of 25 years of photography. The images in this book are studies of the in-between; some center on details photographed at such close quarters that they lose their context, while others show only the negative space, inactivity or quiet nothingness. The viewing direction of the book is not dictated, nor is the beginning or the end, nor the pace: it can be opened to any page at any time, functioning as an object of contemplation.

Ranunculus offers advice on how to care for and propagate these colourful cultivated members of the buttercup family. Naomi Slade explores a wide range of ranunculus species and cultivars, all beautifully photographed by Georgianna Lane in their technicolour glory from palest pink to deep burgundy via white, orange, red and yellow.

Suitable for those needing to get to grips with the many aspects of timecode, whether in-house or on location, this book includes: timecode and DVD, LTC & VITC in HANC packets in the serial digital TV interfaces; timecode in IEEE1395 (Firewire); and, timecode and digital video cassettes.

La famosa citazione di Jean Dubuffet è celebre tra coloro che si interessano all'Art Brut. Questa sollecitazione che invita ad esplorare è molto chiara, e offre a chiunque l'accoglie gli indizi utili affinché si possa scoprire ciò che non si considera perché troppo vicino, e ciò che non si vede perché lontano dagli spazi espositivi più consueti. Questo è il caso delle fotografie di famiglie trovate nei mercati delle pulci e nei negozi di seconda mano dai collezionisti autori della presente pubblicazione. Antoine Gentil e Lucas Reitalov, dopo essersi incontrati nel 2017, hanno iniziato insieme una raccolta di fotografie di famiglia che oggi vanta diverse decine di migliaia di stampe e qualche centinaio di photomachinées tutte pubblicate in questo libro. Tale neologismo, inventato dai due collezionisti, indica forme che non sono né interamente fotografie né oggetti: sono piccoli feticci carichi di emozioni che non sono mai stati pensati per essere esposti. Grazie a una paziente ricerca i collezionisti hanno dato vita a una raccolta di ricordi altrimenti condannati all'oblio, che comprende semplici ritagli così come messe in scena più complesse dove le fotografie originali diventano parte di una narrazione articolata. Queste creazioni, realizzate a partire dalla fine del XIX secolo, sono via via scomparse contemporaneamente al cadere in disuso della stampa delle fotografie su carta e al subentrare coevo della tecnologia digitale. L'osservazione attenta di queste photomachinées ha fatto sì che si evidenziassero delle somiglianze indipendenti dal luogo di origine e dall'epoca di produzione, e ha consentito ai collezionisti di dare vita a insiemi omogenei: photorejetées, photorescapées, photocaviardées, photoencadrées, photoadorées...

Sex sells. Alles Offensichtliche wird und wurde bereits im Überangebot gezeigt. In einer Direktheit und einem Bloßstellen, die das menschliche Auge mehr peinigen, als dass es wirklich gelänge, das Feine, das Überraschende und das Geheimnisvolle sinnlich zu treffen. Aber darin liegt doch das eigentliche Spiel der Erotik? Die umfassende subtile Schönheit und Wahrheit der Natur macht es vor. Somit kommt die Personality der Blume des Verruchten im Buchprojekt durch die Fotografiesicht der Künstlerin genauso zum Vorschein wie die süße Pflanze der Unschuld in ihrer ganzen Verletzbarkeit und Zartheit. Ihre ganze faszinierende Bandbreite, zwischen Stolz und Zerbrechlichkeit, wird sichtbar. Hildegard Theodora Monssen gewährt in dem geplanten Buch ihren einzigartigen Einblick in eine verborgende Welt."Zur Sammlung des Museums van Bommeln van Dam in Venlo zählen vier Fotoarbeiten der deutschen Künstlerin Hildegard Theodora Monssen (geb. 1948 in Vorst). Diese Arbeiten sind ausschließlich mit natürlichem Licht entstanden. (...) Von den neuen Sichtwinkeln begeistert und inspiriert, schafft die Lichtbildnerin schließlich 2012 eine bemerkenswerte Full-Color-Serie. Sie fängt ihre Motive dabei in extremen Nahaufnahmen ein und kombiniert sensibel welkende Blumen mit der entsprechenden Lichtstimmung.Die ausdrucksstarken, dennoch geheimnisvollen, farbenfrohen Blumenwelten verwandeln sich in magische Blumenlandschaften. Hierbei wird der Mikrokosmos auf subtile Weise zum Makrokosmos. In Ihrer Arbeit zeigt Hildegard Theodora Monßen mit bedachtsam gewählten Ausschnitten die Schönheit der Vergänglichkeit und Zeitlichkeit im philosophischen Sinn. Verfallen und Sterben sind gepaart mit einer in vielerlei Hinsicht verblüffenden Ästhetik."- Rick Vercauteren, Directeur van Bommel van Dam (bis 2004 bis 2016)"

I am not sure what the future will bring, but it is not by the hands of demonic wizards it will be given. A different undercurrent underlies the world, one that cannot be managed. It is through instinct that world will be saved, the anxiety of those who still feel, the uncontrollable. It is through the momentum given by the excitement of catastrophe, the overcoming of odds, the propulsion of anger which fuels escape from the abuses of asylum-founders. It is not the trained soldiers, or armed gunsman who ensure the future. It is the poets, enduring a harsh world. It is those consumed by the earth, and not the ones who righteously sacrifice themselves-and others. Nature takes, nature takes wooden beams, nature takes words back into empty cave chasms. Nature takes the snowy plover and arctic tern back into her arms. If we enjoy life as a cloud for a time, its only arrogance we remain a cloud forever. We must remember our instincts, so that we can end pain, when the bars come in too tight all around us. Nature takes the bars back into her arms. An arm raised back to pull a string, to turn a top, and spin, gliding across, until meeting the beach. A black beach, whose string-keeper comes to finally meet a waiting, unspun top. One puts umbrellas aside, having been necessary, the spirit is strong enough to go back to dance in the cold rain.

Toiletpaper is an artists¿ magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists¿ mental outbursts. Since the first issue, in June 2010, Toiletpaper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art, which, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.

Athênai, In Search of Home expands Niko J. Kallianiotis' first monograph America in a Trance, and the work produced in Pennsylvania, which for two decades became his second home. If America in a Trance was about his departure from Athens, Athênai, In Search of Home is about coming back to his roots, eager to assimilate within a place that over the years grew to be foreign but at the same time maintained its layers of familiarity. The photographs navigate through the metro areas of Athens within an utterly diverse setting, all the way to the periphery and within a more rural and industrial stage that is vital to the character and condition of Athens. Throughout the years the city and the surrounding territories have experienced their share of socio-economic struggles and topographic transformations that have altered its identity. Despite these facts the city still stands, at times proudly and at others solemn, but always fervent to maintain its uniqueness and its yearning for a new identity, in search of new home, within one that already exists. And the city of Athens in Kallianiotis' photographs is elliptically delineated as a vibrant environment that binds together luxury and social inequality, through which a colourful language of images and symbols makes itself all the more present, a city unpredictable and saturated with history. Kallianiotis eloquently depicts in this series of photographs a city in which the temporal and the spatial elements often clash with each other, while conducting his research for a home that has changed over the years as much as he did.

?Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial exhibition that is scheduled for Fall 2022 and will run at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center until Spring 2023. This project considers the historic and contemporary role that photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath while examining the social lives of Black Americans within various places including the land, at home, in photographic albums, at historic sites, and in public memory.This exhibition acknowledges artists' constant involvement with efforts to explore the possibilities of freedom and their relationship to it. Their quest to be ?as free as they want to be' is envisioned in the subject matter they explore as well as in their persistent drive to innovate aesthetic practices in photographic media. The publication presents some 20 artists working in photography, video, silkscreen, projection, and mixed media installation. Free as they want to be is inspired by the words of James Baldwin and the timely theme of FotoFocus, World Record, as well as events of late that have shaped the world as we know it. The artists selected for this publication are on the frontlines, creating, documenting, and writing. The works they have conceived reflect defining moments in the struggle for racial justice and equality. Free as they want to be presents an occasion to reflect upon the past, to mark significant defining moments - both triumphs and tragedies - that characterize a people and their experiences in the present - and to propose future possibilities. The artists offer images that advance a different sense of empowerment. Their images thus play an integral part in casting resilient narratives as they commemorate endurance, longevity, and accomplishment.The timing of a publication like this could not be more urgent given the human toll of the pandemic, widening economic disparities, the threat of war, voting rights, global migration crises, and quotidian violence. Proposed Artists: Terry Adkins; Radcliffe Bailey; J.P. Ball Studio; Sadie Barnett; Dawoud Bey; Sheila Pree Bright; Bisa Butler; Omar Victor Diop; Nona Faustine; Adama Delphine Fawundu; Daesha Devon Harris; Isaac Julien; Cathy Opie; Hank Willis Thomas; Lava Thomas; Carrie Mae Weems; Wendel White; William Earle Williams; anonymous tintype photographer - photo album

"Patrick's work offers a mesmerising journey around the world in search of the divine, offering a timeless portrait of people living on the fringe, creating life on their own terms." - i-D For more than 25 years, French photographer Patrick Cariou has traveled to far out places around the globe, documenting people living on the fringes of society and making a way for themselves. Whether photographing surfers, gypsies, Rastafarians, or rude boys of Kingston, Cariou celebrates his subjects as they are: peoples of the earth who meet the struggles of life with honor, dignity, and joy. Bringing together works from his groundbreaking monographs including Surfers, Yes Rasta, Trenchtown Love, and Gypsies, Works 1985-2005 takes us on a scenic journey around the world, offering an intimate and captivating look at cultures that distance themselves from the blessings and curses of modernism. Given access to these hermetic realms, Cariou presents a fascinating portrait of resistance in a multiplicity of forms. The landscape plays a vital role in CariouâEUR(TM)s work, revealing how people live shapes their identity and destiny in equal part. Whether following the waves, living in the mountains, or surviving urban and rural poverty, CariouâEUR(TM)s subjects reval the importance of preserving oneâEUR(TM)s native culture at a time of Western cultural hegemony. The spirit of pride and defiance comes alive in his work; each of the peoples portrayed have found a way to survive despite the brutality facing them and the earth alike.

Famed photojournalist Steve Schapiro and his son Theophilus Donoghue have collaborated on seventy thirty, a photo project that is 70% Schapiro, 30% Donoghue. Seventy thirty depicts the various faces and expressions of humanity, from metropolitans to migrants, unseen homeless to conspicuous celebrities, such as Alec Guinness, Allen Ginsberg, Muhammad Ali, Robert De Niro, René Magritte, Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, and the Velvet Underground. Schapiro photographs early New York skateboarders while Donoghue documents current Colombian breakdancers. Father and son both capture philosophically poignant moments that rouse reflection. Schapiro includes his classic photo "Man on Iceberg,? which was the opening double-page spread of a Life story on existentialism. In a similar fashion, Donoghue contributes his contemplative "Hindsight Intersection,? which was recently featured in ARTSY's 20 21 Artists in Support of Human Rights Watch benefit auction. Shooting in monochrome with an occasional dash of colour, Schapiro and Donoghue portray the proud and lofty as well as the humble and humorous. Alternately profound and playful, Schapiro and Donoghue's photographs capture a vast range of human emotion and experience. Like his father, Donoghue is equally concerned with social justice issues. For this project, Schapiro has selected images from the 60s civil rights movement and, with Donoghue, provided photos from today's Black Lives Matter protests and environmental rallies. Apart from numerous stateside locations, their project includes images from India, Italy, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador. Together father and son provide a touching overview of humanity throughout the world from the 1950s to present day.

This new and expanded edition of Roger Ballen's widely acclaimed 1979 photobook Boyhood features new and unpublished images taken by the photographer in the ?70. Quoted by André Kertesz, Bruce Davidson and Elliott Erwitt as a rare and intimate view of the spirit of youth, these images are able to bring back the childhood of everyone.In photographs and stories, Ballen leads us across the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America in search of boyhood: boyhood as it is lived in the Himalayas of Nepal, the islands of Indonesia, the provinces of China, the streets of America. Each stunning black and white photograph (culled from 15,000 boy photos shot during Ballen's four-year quest of his subject) depicts the magic of boys revealed in their games, their adventures, their dreams, their mischief. Boyhood is able to connect boys all around the world across the borders of nationality and culture.More of an ode or a memory than a literal document, Ballen's first book is as powerful and current today as it was 43 years ago presenting a stunning series of timeless images that transcend social and cultural particularities.

Elaine Mayes was a young photographer living in San Francisco's lively Haight-Ashbury District during the 1960s. She had photographed the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and, later that year, during the waning days of the Summer of Love, embarked on a set of portraits of youth culture in her neighborhood. By that time, the hippie movement had turned from euphoria to harder drugs, and the Haight had become less of a blissed-out haven for young people seeking a better way of life than a halfway house to runaway teens. Realizing the gravity of the cultural moment, Mayes shifted from the photojournalistic approach she had applied to musicians and concert-goers in Monterey to making formal portraits of people she met on the street. Choosing casual and familiar settings, such as stoops, doorways, parks, and interiors, Mayes instructed her subjects to look into her square-format camera, to concentrate and be still: she made her exposures as they exhaled. Mayes' familiarity with her subjects helped her to evade mediatized stereotypes of hippies as radically utopian and casually tragic, presenting instead an understated and unsentimental group portrait of the individual inventors of a fleeting cultural moment. Elaine Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968 is the first monograph on one of the decade's most important bodies of work, presenting more than forty images from Mayes' extensive series. An essay by art historian Kevin Moore elaborates an important chapter in the history of West Coast photography during this critical cultural and artistic period.

Pierre Fatumbi Verger is considered one of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century as well as a recognized researcher in the field of African Diaspora and religion studies. Verger traveled to the United States of America in 1934 and 1937, during the Great Depression, producing a collection of stunning images that document the national symbols that configure American identity and the challenging social and economic atmosphere of the time. Verger was able to capture with great sensibility the complex cultural and racial diversity of the country where many citizens still confront segregation and poverty, while struggling to live a better life. Verger¿s photographs constitute an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of the 1930¿s in the U.S., and to the growth of photojournalism, documentary and artistic photography, representing the world from new and enriching perspectives.In the introduction, Javier Escudero Rodríguez frames Verger¿s significant contribution to modern photography as well as the lasting relevance of this new collection of iconic images of the Great Depression. The 150 images included in the book, the majority of them never published before, were selected among 1110 negatives, after a meticulous research from Verger¿s archive at the Pierre Verger Foundation in Salvador.

Like seventeenth century Dutch painters who made otherwise ordinary interior scenes appear charged with meaning, Jessica Todd Harper looks for the worth in everyday moments. The characters in her imagery are the people around her- her friends, herself, family- but it is not so much they who are important as the way in which they are organized and lit. A woman helping her child practice the piano is not a particularly sacred moment but as in a Vermeer painting, the way the composition and lighting influence the content suggests that perhaps it is.Most of the time everyday scenes don't mean anything to us- in fact, it is a modern truism that we seek to be distracted from them. We scroll through our phones rather than be alone with our thoughts, our selves or even our families. This collection of photographs makes use of what is right in front of me, what is here, a place that many of us came to contemplate especially during the pandemic. Beauty, goodness and truth can reveal themselves in daily life, much like in Kant's notion of the Sublime or simply in the Dutch paintings of everyday domestic scenes that are somehow lit up with purport. Our unexamined or even boring surroundings can sometimes be illuminating.

In this new collection, the internationally exhibited and award-winning documentary and fine art photographer, David Lurie returns to the terrain of the city, but this time with a specific visual agenda in mind which he shapes with the eye for a carefully composed frame of both a documentarist and a fine artist. Lurie¿s new collection strikes at the very heart of the dilemma of unequal access to the technological means of production ¿ the digital sphere, usually reached via the ubiquitous smartphone. With his aesthetic eye, skilful sense of composition, lighting and colour and, most importantly, a keen sense of the topicality and socio-political importance of what is contained within his frames, in his new project Lurie visually dramatizes the explosion of cheap and available camera technology built into smartphones, which has coincided with a corresponding explosion of the platforms on which their images can be seen ¿ social media. This seemingly extreme democratisation of image making in fact also disempowers, by turning the data inherent in all images ¿ locations, faces, frequency of images, likes and dislikes ¿ into monetisable information to be harvested and deployed by social media corporations. Street photography started out as a means to document and thereby understand new ways of living that rapid urbanisation and industrial work and leisure practices had brought about. As a medium, street photography focused on popular culture and the working classes as a result. The novelty of having one¿s lifestyle and values disseminated photographically is a mainstay of the street photography idiom ¿ one that is now overshadowed by the ubiquity of its post-capitalist, self-initiated forms. This very ubiquity conceals the ideology behind a variable and radically unequal access to digital culture, still very much organised along class and racial lines.

Published to mark the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, Fulvio Roiter: High-Rise New York celebrates the city and people of New York. Consisting of over 60 colour photographs taken during 1984-1998 by the internationally-acclaimed Italian photographer Fulvio Roiter (1926-2016), they illustrate the traits of beauty, strength, resilience and hope with a sense of poignant immediacy and timeless elegance. They recall a New York that once was, its instantly recognizable skyline irreparably and arbitrarily altered by the tragic set of events that unfolded just a few years afterwards. They collectively present a New York City over an imaginary 24-hour period, key historical events such as the immigration surge of the late 19th century and the 9/11 attacks subtly woven into the volume's poetic narrative with sensitivity and respect. As New York emerges from yet another life-changing experience caused by the Covid-19 global pandemic, Roiter's intimate portrait of New York and its inhabitants stands as a stoic reminder of life after death, of light after darkness.

Since 2016, French documentary photographer Zen Lefort has undertaken road trips from Arizona to New Mexico, crossed Utah, Colorado, and South Dakota. Living with and documenting the life of Native Americans, he witnessed the largest gathering in Native American history: the Standing Rock protests against a Dakota pipeline project-a demonstration of resistance in both a defense of Indigenous sovereignty and cultural preservation. His series Indian Land is a sensitive and honest engagement with the lives of North America's indigenous peoples today. Members of the Navajo and Lakota tribes relate their story to Lefort, and paint a picture of indigenous life in the reservation, their persisting rituals, and their contemporary culture. Thus, the volume draws a portrait that bears traces of a violent history and tells of political struggles by unequal means.Born in Corse, ZEN LEFORT (*1993) started working as a photographer's assistant in Paris at the age of 17. Documenting the conflict in Central Africa in 2014 and later the Maïdan revolution and the war in Eastern Ukraine as a press photographer, he has devoted himself to longer term projects since 2016. He spent six years in the United States documenting the lives of Native Americans, and lived several months immersed in Indian reservations.

A New Western View of Ancient Eastern CultureA Zen garden is the symbiotic fusion of Japanese philosophy and the art of landscape design, a spiritual place of meditation and inner reflection that teaches mindfulness and brings joy to the eyes and the soul. If you want to truly experience this garden culture, nowhere in the world will you find so many wonderful gems in one place as in the city of Kyoto.This is where Thomas Kierok photographed these unique gardens in all four seasons. Through encounters with leading Japanese garden designers, he was able to develop his own photographic perspective inspired by the spirit of Zen. Poems by renowned Zen poets complement the visual masterpieces.The book is a sanctuary for the soul, a retreat between two covers whenever there is need for calm, inspiration and grounding. With a preface by Masuno Shunmyo-, best-selling author, garden architect, and professor of garden art at Tama Art University in Tokyo.

«The Never Taken Images» dokumentiert ein einzigartiges Langzeitprojekt, das Françoise und Daniel Cartier seit 1998 verfolgen: Sie haben mehr als 900 verschiedene unfixierte Fotopapiere, Glasnegative und Filme aus der Zeit von 1880 bis 1990 zusammengetragen. Proben davon sind in Rahmen und Vitrinen montiert und entwickeln sich unter Lichteinwirkung während Ausstellungen über den Zeitverlauf höchst unterschiedliche Farbsättigungen. Die unter dem Titel «Wait and See» gezeigten Installationen ermöglichen es den Betrachtenden, der Zeit beim Vergehen zuzusehen.Dieses Buch präsentiert den gesamten Testkatalog, den die Cartiers bis heute zusammengetragen haben. Rund 1000 Faksimileabbildungen der verschiedenen Fotopapiere vermitteln einen faszinierend realitätsnahen Eindruck der Farben und Materialitäten. Essays der Fotohistorikerin und Kuratorin Kathrin Schönegg sowie des Kunsthistorikers und Kritikers Thilo Koenig stellen diese künstlerische Forschung in den historischen und technologischen Kontext der Medienkunst. Zugleich ist «The Never Taken Images» eine Hommage an die industriell hergestellten lichtempfindlichen Bildträger als zentrale Symbole der langen vor-digitalen Periode der Fotogeschichte.

Das Löwendenkmal beim Luzerner Gletschergarten erinnert an Schweizergardisten im Dienste des französischen Königs Ludwig XVI., die beim Sturm auf den Tuilerien-Palast in Paris am 10. August 1792 gefallen sind. Das nach einem Entwurf des dänischen Bildhauers Bertel Thorvaldsen direkt in die Felswand gehauene Denkmal wurde am 10. August 1821 feierlich eingeweiht.Im Hinblick auf das 200-Jahr-Jubiläum des Löwendenkmals entwickelten die Kunsthalle Luzern und der Verein L21 ein Programm aus Ausstellungen, Performances, Podien und interdisziplinären Veranstaltungen, die über vier Jahre hinweg das Monument künstlerisch befragten. Die Kunstprojekte zeigten unterschiedlichste künstlerische Haltungen und stellten das Denkmal in Bezug zu verschiedensten Themen. Dieses Buch dokumentiert zum einen mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Texten und Gesprächen das gesamte Projekt. Zum anderen liegt damit ein gesellschaftlich engagiertes Referenzbuch für die künstlerische Kontextualisierung von Denkmälern vor, das die Erkenntnisse des L21-Projekts festhält und reflektiert.

Seit Tausenden von Jahren haben Menschen sogenannte Kalenderbauten errichtet: Gebäude, die als Sonnenuhren der Zeitmessung dienten oder für astronomische Berechnungen verwendet wurden. Zu den bekanntesten gehören die Pyramiden von Gizeh, die Tempelbauten auf Malta, die Sonnenuhr des Kaisers Augustus auf dem Marsfeld in Rom oder die frühesten Sternwarten in Korea, Bagdad, Kairo oder Samarkand. Die älteste Sonnenuhr datiert von etwa 6000 v. Chr. und wurde erst vor zwanzig Jahren im ägyptischen Nabta entdeckt.Der Berliner Fotograf Hans Pieler (1951-2012) hat sich diesen Kalenderbauten in umfassender Weise verschrieben. In einem gross angelegten, über fünfzehn Jahre dauernden fotografischen Projekt bereiste Pieler die Welt auf der Suche nach solchen Zeit-Stätten, studierte sie und hielt zahlreiche von ihnen in eindrücklichen Fotografien fest. Sein Interesse galt dabei sowohl der Architektur und ihrer besonderen Kodierung durch die jeweilige Kultur wie auch der Theorie der Fotografie, der allegorischen Bildzeit. Durch Pielers frühen Tod 2012 blieb das faszinierende Projekt unvollendet. Nun wird es in Form eines Buchs doch noch der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt: Durch die wichtigsten Aufnahmen aus dem Nachlass und einordnende Texten wird diese fotografische Studie über Architekturen, deren Sinn und Ausrichtung in der steinernen Abbildung von Zeit liegt, erlebbar.