Aperture jun 2005 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Eugène Atget. The book closes with two essays on 'working conditions' in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the essay 'Two Landscapes.' Adams writes: At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 'Scotlandfuturebog,' photographers Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick construct a strange world that they describe as being of 'infinite promise that cannot possibly be described or communicated except by direct experience.' The characters we meet are bogdwellers, inhabitants of a planet emptied by an apocalyptic event. Left to perform obscure ceremonies in an intriguing but uninviting terrain, the bogdwellers exist in a historical vacuum. This is a first-edition slip-cased book, signed and numbered by the artists.Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have been collaborating for more than a decade. They have exhibited worldwide and their work is held in galleries, museums and private collections.Scotlandfuturebog features a short story by Ben Marcus whose second novel, 'Notable American Women,' was published in 2002 by Vintage. …

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