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Best known for her work documenting the political upheaval in Central America during the 1970s and '80s, American photographer Susan Meiselas has been at the forefront of ethical debates around documentary photography for most of her career. Through close engagement with subjects such as war and exploitation, she has interrogated her own relationship to what she's photographing, the circulation and dissemination of these images, and the pivotal questions around social and cultural representation and memory. Her influential contribution to the way audiences approach and engage with photography is as vital and resonant today as it was forty years ago.
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The perfect primer on acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle.
Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist and conceptual artist. Her work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is renowned for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives, which she has deployed in her acclaimed works Suite Venitienne, The Hotel and Address Book. She has had major exhibitions all over the world, including at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and has worked closely with the writer Paul Auster. The Guardian called her 'the Marcel Duchamp of dirty laundry', and she was among the names in Blake Gopnik's list 'The 10 Most Important Artists of Today', with Gopnik arguing, 'It is the unartiness of Calle's work - its refusal to fit any of the standard pigeonholes, or over anyone's sofa - that makes it deserve space in museums.' -
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Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography.
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1938, Koudelka left the country in 1968 and was awarded asylum in England. He had already produced two first-class reportages, one on the Prague Spring and its aftermath and the other on gypsy communities in Romania. This book confirms and illustrates Koudelka's powerful gift for exposing conditions in the European social, political, and physical landscape. -
This revised edition of Sarah Moon is one of two new books this season in Thames & Hudsons acclaimed Photofile series. Each book brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Hailed by The Times as finely produced, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains some sixty full-page reproductions, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
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Dans cette rétrospective définitive, une riche collection des oeuvres célébrées de Dennis Morris, photographe britannique, est réunie pour la première fois. Depuis ses premiers projets documentaires explorant la race et l'identité dans la Grande-Bretagne des années 1970 jusqu'à ses portraits emblématiques de légendes de la musique, le livre inclut également des images inédites qui insufflent une nouvelle vitalité au récit visuel déjà remarquable de Morris. Né en Jamaïque, Morris arrive en Angleterre à l'âge de cinq ans et rejoint, à neuf ans, le club photo de son église locale à Dalston, ce qui déclenchera sa passion pour la photographie. À seulement 11 ans, une de ses photographies d'une manifestation londonienne fait la une du Daily Mirror. Durant son adolescence, Morris fait l'école buissonnière pour attendre Bob Marley avant une balance au Speakeasy Club de Londres; Marley invite alors le jeune photographe à le suivre durant toute sa tournée pour prendre des photos, marquant le début d'une amitié durable. Morris devient ensuite le photographe officiel des Sex Pistols, et ses aventures dans le reggae et le punk des années 1970 posent les bases d'une carrière de plusieurs décennies dans la photographie, la direction artistique, le design et la musique.
Avec des contributions écrites de Stuart Hall, Sean O'Hagan, Simon Baker et Shoair Mavlian, ce livre se divise en deux parties complémentaires : vie et musique. La première met en lumière l'exploration par Morris des questions de race, de culture et d'identité dans la Grande-Bretagne des années 1970, tandis que la seconde célèbre ses collaborations avec des légendes de la musique telles que Lee Scratch Perry, Gregory Isaacs, Marianne Faithfull, Patti Smith, Grace Jones, les Stone Roses, Oasis, et bien d'autres.
Le livre accompagne une exposition à la MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, du 5 février au 18 mai 2025, puis à The Photographers' Gallery, Londres, du 27 juin au 21 septembre 2025. -
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"One advantage I think is my design sense. When you're drawing, every element, every line, makes up what it is; and there is a feeling of that when I think about a shot." - Tim Burton
Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades. He is internationally recognised as a master of the comically grotesque and the endearingly misfit. The World of Tim Burton will invite visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show will display the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author, as well as exploring some of the key collaborations that have helped shape his world. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats. Drawn from Tim Burton's personal archive and representing the artist's creative output from childhood to the present day, this exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, props, sculptural installations, storyboards and set design focuses on the recurrent visual themes and motifs found in the distinctive characters and worlds found in Burton's art and films.
This book will be the official catalogue for the exhibition, as well as the first publication to explore the relationship between Tim Burton's artistic creations and the world of design. The reader will be invited into an examination of what is now broadly referred to as the 'Burtonesque', exploring his iconic style and the impact his unique design aesthetic has on broader visual culture. The catalogue will unpack Tim Burton's distinctive visual language, exploring the intersection of gothic, carnivalesque and fantastical elements that define his cinematic masterpieces. Insightful essays by design experts and film critics, interspersed with images featured in the exhibition, will offer a deeper understanding of the director's creative process, making this catalogue an homage to the role that design practice plays in the hauntingly beautiful worlds he creates. -
Entre sa philosophie, son lyrisme et sa maîtrise des couleurs et des compositions, Saul Leiter fascine. Enfin republié en anglais, All About Saul Leiter contient plus de 200 oeuvres inédites ou célèbres du photographe américain , ses photographies, ses peintures, sa correspondance et quelques objets personnels. Ce livre couvre ainsi la carrière commencée dans les années 1940 de l'un des plus grands noms de l'histoire de ce médium.
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Première rétrospective de l'un des photographes les plus importants de Chine, exposition à Arles en 2024
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Stephen shore uncommon places - the complete works (new edition)
Stephen Shore
- Thames & Hudson
- 20 Octobre 2014
- 9780500544457
À l'occasion de la réédition de ce grand classique de la photographie américaine, Stephen Shore a rajouté une vingtaine d'images inédites. Une conversation du photographe avec l'écrivain Lynne Tillman à propos de son passage à la Factory nous éclaire sur l'influence de Warhol dans son approche de la photographie.
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Consuelo kanaga : Fondation Mapfre
Shana Lopes, Ellen Macfarlane, Shalon Parker, Drew Sawyer
- Thames & Hudson
- 18 Mai 2024
- 9780500028360
A substantial new appraisal of Consuelo Kanaga, one of the pioneers of modern American photography.
Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978) was one of the pioneers of modern American photography. Beginning her career in 1915 as a photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, Kanaga quickly became a highly skilled darkroom technician, developing a distinctly artistic aesthetic style inspired by the photography of Alfred Stieglitz. Over the next six decades, she produced beautifully composed images over a wide range of subjects, characterized by an abiding interest in the social conflicts of her time, including urban poverty, workers' rights, racial segregation, and prevailing inequality. She became especially known for her emotional and introspective portraits of African Americans, which combined modernist formal technique and radical documentary commentary.
Featuring two hundred photographs from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, this substantial new appraisal of Consuelo Kanaga's work establishes her place as one of America's most vital twentieth-century photographers.
Published to accompany a major touring exhibition from 2024-2026 at Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid; SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Art; and Brooklyn Museum, New York. -
The definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip (1946-2020), one of the UK's most important and influential post-war documentary photographers.
'I didn't set out to be the photographer of the English de-Industrial Revolution. It happened all around me during the time I was photographing' Chris Killip, 2019 Grounded in sustained immersion and participation in the communities he photographed, Chris Killip's keenly observed work chronicled ordinary people's lives in stark, yet sympathetic, detail. His photographs are recognized as some of the most important visual records of 1980s Britain; as editor of this book Ken Grant reflects, they tell the story of those who 'had history "done to them", who felt its malicious disregard and yet, like the photographer with whom they shared so much of their lives, refused to yield or look away.' Published to coincide with the first full retrospective of Killip's life and work at the Photographers' Gallery, London, this book, designed by Niall Sweeney & Nigel Truswell at Pony Ltd, presents photographs from each of his major series alongside lesser-known works. It includes a foreword by Brett Rogers, in-depth texts by Ken Grant tracing Killip's life and career, and essays by Gregory Halpern, Amanda Maddox and Lynsey Hanley. -
Ravens & red lipstick : japanese photography since 1945
Lena Fritsch
- Thames & Hudson
- 15 Mai 2024
- 9780500297629
La photographie japonaise a été longtemps ignorée des Occidentaux mais connaît depuis peu une véritable renaissance. Ravens and Red Lipstick, du nom de deux célèbres séries, propose d´étudier cette production de 1945 à nos jours, du réalisme d´après-guerre, en passant par le groupe « Vivo » des années 1960 et la mode du « Girl power » des années 1990 jusqu´aux tendances contemporaines. Au fil des pages, les lecteurs rencontrent les figures-clés entrées dans l´histoire de la photographie, comme Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki ou Rinko Kawauchi.
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Reconnu comme un pionnier de la photographie couleur, Alex Webb est connu pour sa capacité à intégrer dans son cadrage photo le geste, la couleur et les contrastes culturels pour créer des images à la fois belles et fortes, à plusieurs niveaux de lecture. Son livre Dislocations, publié pour la première fois en 1998 sous forme de leporello en édition limitée avec des tirages laser (alors considérés comme les meilleurs), rassemblait des images de diverses périodes de l'oeuvre d'Alex Webb. Il considérait cet ensemble comme une réflexion sur l'acte de la photographie comme une forme de dislocation. Poussé par la pandémie, le photographe a reconsidéré ce groupement d'images : le résultat est cette édition réinventée de Dislocations, qui comprend de nouvelles photographies prises dans les vingt-cinq années suivant l'originale. Ce livre apporte une nouvelle perspective sur son travail et parle du sens palpable de la dislocation à notre époque.
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Hyperborea tisse un récit visuel sur la la vie dans l'Arctique sibérien tel que le connaît la photographe Evgenia Arbugaeva depuis son enfance à Tiksi, une ville sur les rives de la mer de Laptev, en République de Yakoutie. Son travail révèle à la fois la fragilité et la belle désolation de la terre et de ceux qui l'habitent, et ses photographies rigoureusement composées évoquent, avec des couleurs sourdes, un monde presque irréel. Elle restitue ainsi la vivacité brute d'un climat extrême et de l'isolement des habitants. Ce livre rassemble une décennie de travail, avec des photographies extraites de ses différentes séries, pour créer un voyage le long de la côte arctique russe et rencontrer des gens vivant dans ces endroits éloignés et inhospitaliers.
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Man Ray : The liberating photography
Wendy Grossman, Nathalie Herschdorfer
- Thames & Hudson
- 12 Juin 2024
- 9780500028117
Publié pour accompagner une exposition à Photo Elysée au printemps 2024 et à l'occasion du centenaire de la publication du Manifeste surréaliste d'André Breton, cet ouvrage présente plus de 150 portraits de Man Ray, réalisés principalement dans les années 1920 et 1930, ayant pour sujets des figures émblematiques de la scène artistique de l'époque tels que Marcel Duchamp, Robert Delaunay, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti et Pablo Picasso, ainsi qu'une sélection de ses photos de mode.
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Ce catalogue documente une exposition présentée à la Halle Saint-Pierre du 7 septembre 2019 au 31 juillet 2020. Organisé de manière thématique, il accompagne la première rétrospective de grande envergure consacrée au célèbre artiste sud-africain en France. Il présente son travail, entre photos et installations, ainsi que sa propre collection d'art brut.
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Chloé Catwalk : the complete collections
Suzy Menkes, Lou Stoppard
- Thames & Hudson
- 5 Novembre 2022
- 9780500023839
The first comprehensive overview of Chloe's collections presented through catwalk photography, published in collaboration with Chloe to celebrate the house's 70th anniversary in 2022.
Founded by Egyptian-born Gaby Aghion in 1952, Chloe pioneered luxury ready-to-wear that was all about ease and femininity, offering an elegant haute bohemian style for the modern, liberated Parisienne. Resolutely contemporary, the house spotted and hired a young Karl Lagerfeld as early as the 1960s: he stayed for over two decades, achieving fame and recognition worldwide through his Chloe work, before Stella McCartney (and her then assistant Phoebe Philo) succeeded him straight out of fashion school.
This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house of Chloe before exploring the collections themselves, which are organized chronologically. Each new era in Chloe's history opens with a brief overview and biography of the new designer, while individual collections are introduced by a short text unveiling their influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.
After Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Versace, Chloe is the eighth in a series of high-end, cloth-bound books that offer an unrivalled overview of the collections of the world's top fashion houses through original catwalk photography. -
The synthetic eye photography transformed in the age of AI
Fred Ritchin
- Thames & Hudson
- 28 Février 2025
- 9780500297391
A revelatory glimpse into the future of photography, one where the very nature of how images are created is fundamentally transformed by artificial intelligence. An invaluable roadmap in a new world.
The revolution caused by artificial intelligence in terms of what a photograph can and cannot do is profound. This book looks at photography's strengths, what it has meant for individuals and for society, its massive transformations caused by a variety of factors in the digital age, and the newer possibilities for image making. These include old and new media, with an emphasis on synthetic imaging as both a positive and terrifying development.
In 1840, a year after photography's invention, the painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed, "From now on, painting is dead." Photography was quicker and cheaper as a representational medium and more realistic, its invention also liberated painters to become much more adventurous, embracing approaches that included impressionism, cubism, minimalism, and abstract expressionism. So too photographers are being challenged today. Many have responded with new strategies, but more innovation is needed. Can photographers be as radically expansive and revolutionary as painters were? Can they preserve or even expand the photograph's role in society as a credible witness? Can the photographic image morph into forms previously unimagined?
The Synthetic Eye is about this transformative revolution. How can synthetic imagery be utilized to amplify our understanding of ourselves and our worlds? Can an alternative photography deepen and expand the medium's previous reach? What are the pitfalls? How will our senses of the real, the possible, and the actual be affected? -
Du 19/11/17 au 28/05/18, le MoMA expose les réalisations de Stephen Shore sur plus de 50 ans, de ses premières photographies argentiques sur gélatine à ses dernières oeuvres digitales produites pour les réseaux sociaux. Cet ouvrage retrace la carrière du photographe et permet ainsi une meilleure compréhension de son travail, incarné par la quête perpétuelle d'explorer les multiples possibilités offertes par la photographie.
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Balenciaga Kublin : A fashion record
Ana Balda, Maria Kublin
- Thames & Hudson
- 26 Septembre 2024
- 9780500026533
An exquisite photography book featuring the collaborative work of fashion photographer Tom Kublin and renowned haute couture designer Cristóbal Balenciaga.
This is the first book to document the short yet prolific artistic career of fashion photographer and filmmaker Tom Kublin, and a celebration of his creative union with Cristóbal Balenciaga during the fashion house's postwar heyday in Paris. More than 140 photographs and film stills by Kublin capture the golden age of Balenciaga couture in the 1950s and 1960s, from the impeccable elegance of the collection shoots - including exclusive film footage of Balenciaga himself at work - to striking covers and editorials for high-profile magazines.
The book begins with a foreword by the photographer's daughter, María Kublin, and continues with a biography by Ana Balda, charting Kublin's career, his place in the artistic milieu of the European avant-garde, and his working relationship with Cristóbal Balenciaga. Miren Vives, head of the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, also contributes.
Additional texts come from the fashion industry professionals who worked with and knew Kublin best: an interview with his partner and muse, the model Katinka Bleeker; memories from the Italian fashion photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri, who began his career as Kublin's assistant in Paris in the 1960s; and a piece by Lydia Slater, editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar UK, who looks back on Kublin's work for the magazine at a pivotal time in its history.
Honouring the successes and innovations of Tom Kublin's stellar career, this book records for posterity his contribution to fashion photography and to the iconography of the House of Balenciaga.