Photography helped shape art in the late twentieth century; in the twenty-first, it has begun to dominate it.
Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters, with their pieces commanding unprecedented prices.
This stunning survey presents the work of eighty of the most important and best-loved artist-photographers... czytaj więcej
ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING FOR PHOTOGRAPHY clearly explains the use of artificial lighting of all types through a rich combination of detailed diagrams, visual examples, and practical instruction. Written for beginning photographers, the book introduces and explains the basic concepts of lighting techniques and the relevant equipment and hardware before going on to cover the latest advances in lighting equipment and digital capture devices. This fundame... czytaj więcej
Body art, performance, 'Aktionism', Happenings: these are all names for the many late 20th century art forms that have used the artist's own body as the subject and object of the artwork itself. Whether acting out the gestures of painting (Jackson Pollock, Yves Klein, the Gutai group); voguing for the camera (Hannah Wilke, Mariko Mori); subjecting oneself to acts of violence (Chris Burden, Gunter Brus, Gina Pane); displaying acts of athletic prow... czytaj więcej
In 1996, the photographer Jean mohr was convalescing from a serious operation in the mountains near Geneva known locally as "the End of the World". Having just come close to the very edge or end of his own existence, the idea came to Mohr to revisit the places that in the past had struck him as being truly on the edge - remote as to common experience or geographical location, or both. This book is a record of Mohr's journey to such places as Roma... czytaj więcej
The Hungarian-Dutch photographer Ata KandĂł was born in Budapest in 1913. In 1932 she left for Paris with her first husband, the artist Gyula KandĂł, with whom she had three children. After the war she joined the Magnum photo agency as an assistant. In 1954 she married the Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken and moved to Holland with him. KandĂł first made her name with compassionate photographs of refugees fleeing Hungary after the suppressed u... czytaj więcej
One of the legendary classics among German photography books, August Sander's Face of Our Time, is now available again. Compiled by August Sander himself, the book was first published in 1929, with a foreword by German writer Alfred D????blin. On its first publication, it was advertised as follows: "The sixty shots of twentieth-century Germans which the author includes in his Face of Our Time represent only a small selection drawn from August San... czytaj więcej
Newton, chimeryczny ekshibicjonista o skłonnościach do narcyzmu i perwersji, człowiek o niezwykłej intuicji artystycznej, robi ze swej biografii iście hollywoodzką kreację. Seks, kariera, małżeństwo, skandale towarzyskie, moda i polityka, ale nade wszystko sztuka – takimi drogami biegnie życie fotografa, który zrewolucjonizował spojrzenie na nagie ciało kobiety.
Helmut Newton (1920–2004), słynny, a przede wszystkim kontrowersyjny... czytaj więcej
with essays by Marcia Tucker, Marcia Tanner, Linda Goode Bryant, and Cheryl Dunye Unconventional and distinctly "unladylike," Bad Girls considers many issues and controversies raised by the recent exhibitions "Bad Girls" and "Bad Girls West," mounted in New York and Los Angeles respectively. But the central issues it examines are humor, transgression, and the critical and constructive potential of laughter in the work of a new generation of Ba... czytaj więcej
Oto wiersz jednej z najwybitniejszych polskich poetek. To kanon literatury dziecięcej. Ta książeczka powinna znaleźć się w każdej biblioteczce.. czytaj więcej
Bernd and Hilla Becher are among those rare artists whose work is part of widely differing collections all over the world. In the visual arts, they have ranked since the 1960s alongside major figures in minimal and conceptual art such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Smithson and Sol LeWitt. In the history of photography, their work is mentioned in the same breath as Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, Karl Blossfeldt and August Sander, with whom the B... czytaj więcej
His photographs not only portray the harsh reality of life in this region but also the beauty and fun that persists among its inhabitants' - Wanderlust This is a new look at one of the most fascinating cradles of nomadism. The deserts of Arabia stretch from Jordan to Yemen: Wadi Rum, the Nefud, Ad-Dahna and Rub al Khali - known as the Empty Quarter - which borders Yemen and extends to the Sultanate of Oman. Many of these areas remain an e... czytaj więcej
Street art is a phenomenon which exists across the world?s urban centres. What was once regarded as a nuisance at best or vandalism at worst, is now increasingly being recognised as an important art form. This book brings together the finest examples of street art in Berlin, a city bursting with artistic energy and expression. Working primarily at night, street artists, some of whom like London's Banksy have achieved cult status, leave their mess... czytaj więcej
A follow-up to the successful and acclaimed "Best Business Practices for Photographers", this updated and expanded edition serves as an even more comprehensive guide to achieving financial success and personal satisfaction in your business as a photographer. Included in this new edition are sections on licensing your work, making the career change from a staff photographer to a freelancer, surviving an IRS audit, and more. This book includes best... czytaj więcej
Does anybody really know the "next-generation photographers," the successors to Newton, Lindbergh, von Unwerth, and Ritts? The shots in this volume are an introduction to these newcomers and their accomplished, sexy, romantic work—the best of today’s nude photography in black and white. Classic black-and-white photography shows clearly who knows how to take a good picture and who doesn’t. The photographers contributing to this v... czytaj więcej
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