steidl sep 2021 (7 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -From portraits of Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Penélope Cruz to a voodoo ceremony in Benin, from scenes within the Pentagon to indigenous people in the rainforests of Sarawak, from geishas in Tokyo to a lone iceberg in Antarctica-Alberto Venzago has seemingly had half the world in front of his Leica. This self-taught photographer (not to mention filmmaker) has traveled the globe more times than he can remember, always in search of that next unforgettable moment. Taking Pictures, Making Pictures presents nearly 200 images-many as yet unpublished-selected from the thousands Venzago has made over the past decades, and shows his astute ability to transform the people he photographs into actors who perform for his lens.Perhaps the best example of Venzago's rare talent is his images of the Yakuza gang in Tokyo, one of the world's most powerful crime syndicates. The result of five years' persistence on his part, no little charisma and (in Wim Wenders' words) his 'optimistic sparkling laugh,' Venzago's images of this secret world include private New Year's Eve celebrations, Yakuza boss Masahiro Furushio's office, and even a gang member's hand missing a fingertip (a common gesture to request forgiveness or express submission). Regardless of his subjects, from the oppressed and exploited to the rich and beautiful, this comprehensive book proves Venzago's claim that 'My studio is the world.'Steidl GmbH & Co.OHG, Düstere Straße 4, 37073 Göttingen 264 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fazal Sheikh and Teju Cole's acclaimed text-image vision of a compassionate global community, now redesigned with a new cover.For the past 25 years Fazal Sheikh has highlighted the plight of displaced people and refugees around the world. He has photographed people driven from their homes by war as well as those upended by the redrawing of national borders and the reassertion of racial and ethnic divisions. Sheikh has also made sublime photographs of landscapes altered by political and environmental crises.In the past two years, the shift to the political right in the US has been replicated across Europe, the Middle East, Central and East Africa and Southeast Asia, as authoritarian governments and xenophobia have increased. As an act of refusal to these political trends, Sheikh sought out the celebrated novelist and critic Teju Cole for a collaboration that would reinforce their commitment to the ideal of a compassionate global community as well as the importance of individual courage.The resulting book represents the two authors' distinct visions, their shared values and mutual spirit of cooperation. With Cole's words and Sheikh's photos we are confronted with fundamental and newly necessary questions of co-existence: who is my neighbor Who is kin to me Who is a stranger What does it mean to be human.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From portraits of Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Penélope Cruz to a voodoo ceremony in Benin, from scenes within the Pentagon to indigenous people in the rainforests of Sarawak, from geishas in Tokyo to a lone iceberg in Antarctica-Alberto Venzago has seemingly had half the world in front of his Leica. This self-taught photographer (not to mention filmmaker) has traveled the globe more times than he can remember, always in search of that next unforgettable moment. Taking Pictures, Making Pictures presents nearly 200 images-many as yet unpublished-selected from the thousands Venzago has made over the past decades, and shows his astute ability to transform the people he photographs into actors who perform for his lens.Perhaps the best example of Venzago's rare talent is his images of the Yakuza gang in Tokyo, one of the world's most powerful crime syndicates. The result of five years' persistence on his part, no little charisma and (in Wim Wenders' words) his 'optimistic sparkling laugh,' Venzago's images of this secret world include private New Year's Eve celebrations, Yakuza boss Masahiro Furushio's office, and even a gang member's hand missing a fingertip (a common gesture to request forgiveness or express submission). Regardless of his subjects, from the oppressed and exploited to the rich and beautiful, this comprehensive book proves Venzago's claim that 'My studio is the world.'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between 1978 and 1989, Mitch Epstein made eight trips to India and shot tens of thousands of photographs. He also made three films there with his Indian wife, director Mira Nair. The photographs in this book are the result of Epstein's unusual dual vantage in an extraordinarily complicated culture: through his Indian family life and work, he was both an insider and outsider. Epstein was able to enter a wide swath of subcultures that included a striptease cabaret, the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, Bollywood movie sets, an old-time Punjabi wedding band, and religious pilgrims both Muslim and Hindu. In India is the fruit of Epstein's deep and extended experience of India, where separate worlds converged.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents an overview of the avant-garde photographic oeuvre of Shigeru Onishi from the 1950s. Whether depicting nudes, cityscapes, trees or interiors (or combinations of these realized through multiple exposures or photomontages), most striking about Onishi's photos are his unorthodox printing methods: using a brush to coat the photographic paper with emulsion, fogging, discoloration with acetic acid, creating the effect that the fixing process was incomplete, and color correction by varying the temperature during development. The painterly results show Onishi's interest to be not conventional representation but, in his words, the visual 'formation of ideas,' and bringing out 'the flavors of the image as they change' by embracing all aspects of chance involved in the photographic process. 'In truth,' he argues, 'if your photograph consists only of planned elements, it is essentially identical to a drawing of a single equilateral triangle.'Onishi was furthermore a mathematician and this knowledge underpinned his approach: 'To know the conditions of the object's formation-this is the purpose of my photography, which is founded on a desire to pursue metamathematic propositions such as 'the possibility of existence' and 'the possibility of optional choice.''By an artist largely unknown to the international public during his lifetime, Mathematical Structures, made in collaboration with MEM, Tokyo, is the first comprehensive book presenting Onishi's startingly original vision.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -From portraits of Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Penélope Cruz to a voodoo ceremony in Benin, from scenes within the Pentagon to indigenous people in the rainforests of Sarawak, from geishas in Tokyo to a lone iceberg in Antarctica-Alberto Venzago has seemingly had half the world in front of his Leica. This self-taught photographer (not to mention filmmaker) has traveled the globe more times than he can remember, always in search of that next unforgettable moment. Taking Pictures, Making Pictures presents nearly 200 images-many as yet unpublished-selected from the thousands Venzago has made over the past decades, and shows his astute ability to transform the people he photographs into actors who perform for his lens.Perhaps the best example of Venzago's rare talent is his images of the Yakuza gang in Tokyo, one of the world's most powerful crime syndicates. The result of five years' persistence on his part, no little charisma and (in Wim Wenders' words) his 'optimistic sparkling laugh,' Venzago's images of this secret world include private New Year's Eve celebrations, Yakuza boss Masahiro Furushio's office, and even a gang member's hand missing a fingertip (a common gesture to request forgiveness or express submission). Regardless of his subjects, from the oppressed and exploited to the rich and beautiful, this comprehensive book proves Venzago's claim that 'My studio is the world.' 264 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Timm Rautert hat für dieses Buch aus der Frühzeit seiner fotografischen Tätigkeit der 1970er Jahre siebzehn Bildserien ausgewählt, die einen Einblick in den sozialen Alltag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland geben. Vom Vietnamkongress 1968 in Berlin über das Zechensterben 1974 im Ruhrgebiet bis zur dritten Generation der sogenannten Gastarbeiter 1976, spannt sich der Bogen seiner fotografischen Erfahrungen, hin zu den Lebenserfahrungen einer ganzen Generation. Timm Rautert hat auch Lebensumstände fotografiert, die der bundesdeutsche Durchschnittsbürger vielleicht lieber nicht sehen und wahrhaben wollte: die von Obdachlosen, Langzeitarbeitslosen, jugendlichen Ausreißern. Aber Rauterts Bilder sind nicht allein Fotoreportage oder distanzierte Dokumentation - Rautert kommt Menschen und ihrem Leben wirklich nahe. In seinem einleitenden Text zum Buch spricht Rautert auch davon, wie fotografische Bilder uns teilhaben lassen an modernem Wissen. Dieses Buch zeigt dies und dadurch auch die Kraft und Wirkung der analogen Fotografie.