La photographie est un grand labyrinthe où les regards se croisent. Janol Apin nous invite à un voyage souterrain parfois candide, souvent drôle mais toujours anecdotique où l’image et le texte se rencontrent. D’ABBESSES à WAGRAM, Jeux de mots, charades et calembours se côtoient. En voiture !

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South Korea, with its craggy hillsides, gnarled trees, and ancient temples, is steeped in tradition yet, at the same time, is thoroughly modern—the tenth-ranking industrial power in the world. Its capital city, Seoul, is one of the most populous cities in the world and home to such cutting-edge buildings as the Samsung Tower Palace.

The beautiful landscape and day-to-day details of life in South Korea are depicted here in images taken by the photographers of Magnum—...

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Hardcover: 568 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; Compact Ed edition (November 27, 2008)
Language: English

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Giselle Freund was one of 20th century's foremost photographers, with achievements in several areas: first-rate photojournalism, portraits of her century's most important writers, artists, and philosophers, and significant scholarly writings on photography. This volume, with more than 200 photographs spanning five decades and put together by the artist shortly before her death features, among others, Freund's coverage of the last pre-Nazi May Day rally in Frankfurt in 1932 and of the 1935 int...

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With the United States and Iran once again squaring up to each other in the Persian Gulf and the actions of firebrand president Ahmadinejad never far from the news, An Eye for Iran provides a welcome opportunity to view images that show the human side of a nation we are being led to distrust. Here and there someone spies the lens as the shutter opens, but the drift of Iranian society we see in these fascinating photographs is caught in the postures of the everyday: human faces in the streets,...

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irst released in 1958, Robert Frank's seminal work, The Americans, is without question the single most important photographer's book published since World War II, and it continues to be profoundly influential, inspiring countless photographers around the world. This catalogue and the traveling exhibition it accompanies mark the fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication. Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans provides a fascinating, in-depth examination of the making of the photographs ...

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Ian Jeffrey is a superb guide in this profusely illustrated introduction to the appreciation of photography as an art form.  Novices and experts alike will gain a deeper understanding of great photographers and their work, as Jeffrey decodes key images and provides essential biographical and historical background. Profiles of more than 100 major photographers, including Alfred Stieglitz, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, highlight particula...

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In this ultimate collection, Mario Giacomelli's most appreciated collection of landscapes, street scenes, still life, and portraits of everyday Italian life are combined with a unique and unseen new series.

Mario Giacomelli (19252000) is one of the most well-known photographers. His work has won many international prizes and has been exposed all over the world. This book is a survey of Giacomelli's work, showcasing more than 150 photographs. It is an astonishing collection of h...

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Pascal Baetens' photography of nudes is critically lauded. Famous for seeking out the woman on the street rather than the super-styled and highly paid supermodel, Belgian Baetens photographs beautiful women in everyday settings. Using industrial environments and natural settings as backdrops, the natural curves of the women's bodies are superbly contrasted, revealing beauty in the superb black and white images. He is particularly noted for being able to achieve a desired end result in his pho...

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In this landmark volume, Rosenblum (A World History of Photography) examines sympathetically the achievements of women in photography since its invention in 1839, and highlights society's failure to give them appropriate recognition. One research obstacle the author encountered was the 19th-century practice of men taking credit for work done by women. Here is work from 250 female camera artists, from Julia Margaret Cameron (b. 1815) to Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949), who, despite strong cultural r...

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"Being a woman in Iran is hard, and working as a woman photographer is even harder."-Shadi Ghadirian

Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran's leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, and her work has been collected by museums worldwide.

She came to the limelight in the late 1990s with her Qajar series, in which she examines the paradoxical position of women in Iran. Women in traditiona...

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A journey that Marco Zanta set out, from 2000 to nowadays, through European countries looking for a common identity. His passion for architecture leads him to thoroughly analyse several architectural projects that were arising in urban centers. Those buildings, created recently, are destined to become the symbol of contemporary towns. So that it takes shape a project that is a dream of great poetry: building, thanks to photography, a composite scenery that could recount an inique identity, a ...

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-Les plus grandes photographies du XXe Siècle-

Livret : David Alan Harvey

Supplément :

Une reproduction Grand format

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Souvenirs d’enfance… Doux parfum des vacances…
Parmi les livres, les bibelots et les souvenirs de toutes sortes, ils trônent, une petite dizaine, dans la bibliothèque de mon bureau.
Le maillot jaune bien sûr, bras levés au ciel dans le geste rituel du vainqueur. Mais aussi le mythique paletot blanc à damiers noirs de l’armada Peugeot. Ou encore la tunique orange que portait l’équipe Bic.
Alors, il m&r...

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« Cibles momentanément abandonnées, les buts se prêtent à la recherche formelle d'un artiste littéralement encagé dans un rythme obsessionnel qu'enrichissent les variations de l'environnement ou du paysage et que rompent quelques étapes insolites, comme ce filet peint en faux trompe-l'oeil sur une muraille bétonnée à Cao Vinh au Vietnam ou ce calvaire de Saint-Jean du Bruel exposant son Crucifié à la viol...

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Hier dédié à l'industrie, le quartier de la Confluence au coeur de Lyon est aujourd'hui le théâtre d'un ambitieux projet de réaménagement urbain.
À la croisée du Rhône et de la Saône, émerge sous nos yeux un nouveau pan du centre-ville, un nouvel ensemble à vivre.
Ce livre restitue à travers un double regard ce projet hors normes. Celui du photographe Jacques Damez qui arpente le ter...

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Photographe de mode à succès, Mario Testino fait partie aujourd hui des plus grands photographes de stars. Nombre de ses portraits glamour sont mondialement connus. TASCHEN présente dans Let Me In (Laissez-moi entrer) sa vision intimiste de plus de 100 célébrités contemporaines parmi les plus fameuses et magnétiques. Puisés dans sa collection personnelle, ces portraits ont été pris sans pose, spontanément, avant, pen...

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Un grand frisson : voilà ce que procurent les images inédites de Ca vous gêne ?... Et une vision sans précédent du monde où évolue, avec un talent rare, le photographe de mode Ma rio Testino. Dans son premier livre, des célébrités se laissent dévisager là où on ne les attendait pas, des beautés offrent leur corps sur fond de paysages naturels et urbains frémissant de sensualité, en c...

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Who took 1970's porn esthetic and made it fashion chic? Terry Richardson. Who made the trailer park trendy and the tractor hat de rigueur? Richardson again. Who's equally at home in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Purple and Vice? Our boy Terry. Who uses his fashion money to fund an X-rated website? Yes, Richardson. And who can't resist getting his clothes off and jumping in front of his own lens? Well, that would be Terry Richardson as well.

Porn stars, supermodels, transsexuals, hill...

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Published in May 2008 by moser verlag München, German and English, 288 pages, size: 24,5x29,4 cm ISBN 978-3-9812344-0-4
Editor: Regina Maria Anzenberger
Essay: Ingo Petz
Texts: Robert Haidinger
Price: Euro 59,-
To order at: www.anzenbergergallery.com or at the book-shops

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Cet ouvrage propose, pour la première fois, une vision d’ensemble des photographies de Stéphane Couturier (né en 1957, en mettant l’accent sur son travail) des dix dernières années : ses images d’espaces urbains et de sites industriels prises dans de nombreuses villes et pays – Paris, Séoul, Moscou – sont ici mises en perspective afin de montrer l’évolution, la variété et la richesse du travail ...

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Photo Poche : cette collection a l'ambition d'offrir des livres de photographies soigneusement imprimés, maniables par leur format, accessibles par leur prix, à tous ceux que passionne un moyen d'expression dont on reconnaît l'importance. Si l'on veut en couvrir tous les champs, la photographie offre une matière inépuisable. Monographies, sujets historiques, thématiques ou techniques varient à l'infini une iconographie qui est restée jusq...

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Broché: 167 pages
Editeur : La Différence (15 avril 1998)
Collection : L'état des lieux
Langue : Français

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In the early 1960s, internationally acclaimed photographer Bruno Barbey sought to capture with his camera the spirit of Italy. Here, his endearing modern commedia dell'arte of beggars, priests, nuns, carabinieri, prostitutes, and mafiosi— archetypal figures whose exotic charms helped to make the films of Pasolini, Visconti, and Fellini so popular—join with the subtle pen of best-selling novelist and essayist Tahar Ben Jelloun to reveal the essence of Italy in that period. The resu...

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Qu’y a-t-il de plus intime, de plus cher pour un être humain qu’un objet dont il a hérité ou qu’il a acquis et qui lui rappelle
son passé, la ville où il a grandi, sa famille, un moment inoubliable de son existence ?


« Sarajevo dans le cœur de Paris » est le premier ouvrage de la maison d'édition Qupé crée en février 2008 par Hana Zec, Frédéric Barrau ...

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