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Gathering some of Alex Webb’s most iconic images, many of which were taken in the far corners of the earth, The Suffering of Light brings a fresh perspective to his extensive catalogue.

Recognized as a pioneer of American colour photography, Webb has since the 1970s consistently created photographs characterized by intense colour and light. His work, with its richly layered and complex composition, touches on multiple genres, including street photography, photojournalism and fine art, but as Webb claims, ‘to me it all is photography. You have to go out and explore the world with a camera.’ Webb’s ability to distil gesture, colour and contrasting cultural tensions into single, beguiling frames results in evocative images that convey a sense of enigma, irony and humour.

Featuring key works alongside previously unpublished photographs, The Suffering of Light is Webb’s first comprehensive monograph and provides the most thorough examination to date of this modern master’s prolific, thirty-year career.

About the Author:

Alex Webb’s photographs have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the NewYork Times Magazine, Life, Stern and National Geographic, and have been exhibited internationally. He is a recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000) and the Premio Internacional de Fotografia Alcobendas (2009), and has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1976.

Covering three decades of the artist’s provocative yet intimate large-scale color images capturing the domestic life and private moments of the American and European elite — her family and friends — this book will appeal to contemporary-art lovers, photography book collectors, and anyone with an interest in modern culture.

Internationally acclaimed American artist Tina Barney burst on the scene in the early 1980s with her provocative yet intimate photographs capturing the domestic lives and social rituals of the elite. In choosing color over black and white and producing large-format prints, she broke the tradition of established fine-art photography at the time. Her unstintingly honest portrayal of her subjects, many of whom are family and friends, remains completely original.

Straddling the line between candid and choreographed photography, between engagement and detachment, she captures her subjects in a range of rarefied settings, both private and public. Her iconic tableaux suggest rich narratives or, as she has written, the “synchronization of psychological, emotional, and sociological plots that bind a family together.” Long awaited, this lavish survey is the most definitive book to date on Barney’s work.

About the Author:

Tina Barney began her career in the mid-1970s when she started photographing in color with a large-format view camera. Her iconic images are in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include The Europeans at the Frist Center in Nashville, the Barbican Centre, London, and at the Museum of Art, Salzburg. Peter Galassi is a former chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

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Liam Wong’s debut monograph, a cyberpunk-inspired exploration of nocturnal Tokyo

'I want to take real moments and transform them into something surreal, to make the viewer question the reality depicted in each photograph. This body of work encompasses my three years as a photographer and ultimately the completion of my debut photo series’ Liam Wong

A testament to the deep art of colour composition, this publication – art directed by Wong himself and produced to the highest printing standards – brings together a complete and refined body of images that are evocative, timeless and completely transporting. Rounding out the book’s special treatment is the first publication use of the 45/90 font, designed by Henrik Kubel, of London-based A2-TYPE. The book also features a section that reveals the creative and technical process of Wong’s method, from identifying the right scene to composition, from capturing the essence of a moment to enhancing colour values and deepening an image’s impact – insights are invaluable to admirers and photography enthusiasts alike.

About the Author:

Liam Wong is an award-winning art director, currently based in Japan. Graphic designer, game developer and photographer, he is best known for defining, designing and directing visual identities and was listed as one of Forbes magazine’s influential 30 under 30.

The Polish photographer and filmmaker Tomasz Gudzowaty is actually known for his perfection — clear compositions, precisely chosen image frames, carefully considered down to the last detail. However, the approach to his Sumo series is completely different. For his photographic tribute to the Japanese national sport Sumo, Gudzowaty confronts his subject with the rebellious aesthetic of “are-bure-bokeh”, which means rough, blurred, out of focus. This style developed in Japan in the 1960s as a countercurrent to the prevailing norm of photojournalism of the time. With the help of photography, Gudzowaty attempts to create a visual language that is able to capture documents beyond words. With the publication Sumo he presents a previously unknown side of his artistic work.

About the Autor:

Tomasz Gudzowaty (*1971) is a portrait and documentary photographer and filmmaker. His work has been published in many magazines and newspapers, such as National Geographic and Vogue Italia. He has received numerous awards.

Untitled is the third volume of Diane Arbus’s work and the only one devoted exclusively to a single project. The photographs were taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1969 and 1971, in the last years of Arbus’s life. Although she considered doing a book on the subject, the vast majority of these pictures remained unpublished prior to this volume. 

These photographs achieve a lyricism, an emotional purity that sets them apart from all her other accomplishments. “Finally what I’ve been searching for,” she wrote at the time. The product of her consistently unflinching regard for reality as she found it, the images in this book have less in common with the documentary than with the mythic.

Untitled may well be Arbus’s most transcendent, most romantic vision. It is a celebration of the singularity and connectedness of each and every one of us. For Diane Arbus, this is what making pictures was all about.

This is the first edition in which the image separations were created digitally; the files have been specially prepared by Robert J. Hennessey using prints by Neil Selkirk.

About the Author:

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) revolutionized the terms of the art she practised. Five volumes of her work have been published posthumously and have remained continuously in print: Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972), Diane Arbus: Magazine Work (1984), Untitled: Diane Arbus (1995), Diane Arbus: A Chronology (2011), and Diane Arbus Revelations (Random House, 2003).

The ultimate collection of William Wegman’s Weimaraner photographs, in an accessibly priced format, with over 250 brilliant and witty images from across five decades.

All artists have a muse. Movie directors perfect their craft working again and again with the same actor, while choreographers find their inspiration for some of their greatest works when creating for a particular dancer. Sometimes a muse is a silent partner, the object of an artist's intense and obsessive gaze. At other times the relationship is a kind of performance, a deeply collaborative act. For William Wegman, whose muses have been all of these things and more over the years, inspiration arrived in 1970 when his dog, a Weimaraner named Man Ray, appeared in front of his camera.

William Wegman is a world-renowned American artist whose paintings, photographs, videos and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Today he is perhaps best known for his collaborations with his longstanding muses, an ever-expanding cast of Weimaraners, for whom performing elaborate scenarios or merely posing demurely for their portraits comes as second nature. Curated in close collaboration with distinguished photography author William A. Ewing, William Wegman: Being Human is the most extensive collection of Wegman’s photographic work yet to be published. With over 300 images made over the last four decades, many published here for the first time, Being Human will delight and engage both those who are new to Wegman’s work and those who have admired his art for many years.

The book is organized thematically, presenting a wealth of exceptional work in such a way as to highlight the versatility of Wegman’s ever-inventive mind as he explores what it means to be human. From portraits of characters we so easily recognize – a suburban housewife, a famous actor, a nightclub singer, a golfer dressed in plaid – to imagery that toys with a wide range of visual languages, Wegman quotes freely from fashion photography, Cubism, colour theory, the tradition of the nude and the history of art itself.

With insightful essays by Ewing and Wegman, and an interview that explores the key concepts of the book, Wegman’s approach to his subjects and their life in the studio, Being Human celebrates a creative partnership - a relationship between an artist and his muses - that continues to this day.

Willy Ronis curated and commentated on the iconic images featured in this beautiful volume that retraces his career and contributions to photography and photojournalism.

A key figure in twentieth-century photography, Willy Ronis conveyed the poetic reality of postwar Paris and Provence in iconic black-and-white photographs. Influenced by Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams, and amicable with his contemporary Magnum photographers, Ronis was the first French photographer to contribute to Life magazine. In the 1950s, MoMA curator Edward Steichen featured Ronis — along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, and Brassaï — in the groundbreaking exhibitions The Family of Man and Five French Photographers.

Throughout his life, this powerhouse of humanist photography kept meticulous records of his work, curating each era into albums, which are reproduced here for the first time. Timeless photographs of postwar France and its inhabitants are accompanied by the photographer’s original observations and comments, framing the images within their technical and historical context. Photography historian Matthieu Rivallin’s critical perspective adds nuance to the photographer’s notes, and the ensemble is a groundbreaking and definitive reference on the myriad aspects of the artists’ immense career and an essential volume for all photography aficionados.

About the Author:

Major twentieth-century photographer Willy Ronis (1910–2009) contributed to Life, Vogue, and Time, and he received numerous international awards. Exhibition curator and author Matthieu Rivallin manages the twentieth-century-photography archives at the Mediathèque de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris.

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A magical concoction of the mischievous, tender, whimsical, and debauched real-life adventures of Alan Cumming, told in his own words and pictures. Described by the New York Times as “a bawdy countercultural sprite” and named one of the most fun people in show business by Time magazine, Alan Cumming is a genuine quadruple threat — an internationally acclaimed, award-winning star of stage, television, and film, as well as a New York Times best-selling author whose real-life vivacity, wit, and charm shine through every page of his third book, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams. In these forty-five picture essays, Cumming recounts his real-life adventures (and often, misadventures), illustrated by his own equally entertaining photographs. From an awkward bonding session with Elizabeth Taylor to poignant stories about his family and friends to some harsh words of wisdom imparted by Oprah that make up the title of this collection, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams is as eclectic, enchanting, and alive as its author.

About the Author:

Alan Cumming is the author of two books: Tommy’s Tale: A Novel of Sex, Confusion, and Happy Endings and the #1 New York Times best-selling memoir Not My Father’s Son. He has also had an exhibition of his photographs, Alan Cumming Snaps! His day job is acting, and most recently he was seen on TV as Eli Gold in the CBS drama The Good Wife, on Broadway in his Tony Award–winning role as the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret, and in concert, touring the world with his cabaret show, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, which was also released as a live album. Alan is also a loudmouth — sorry, activist — who believes that knowledge is power and equality is a right, not a privilege. 

In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man presents a sublime -- and often shocking -- visual record of the last few months prior to his sensational ritual suicide in November 1970.

The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar world literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so profoundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown.

In the months prior to the November incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japanese "everyman." In images often suffused with militarism and eroticism, a parade of men, including a sailor, a construction worker, a fisherman, and a soldier, are shown meeting grisly, dramatic ends.

Published for the very first time, these stylized images of men dying alone serve as prologues to the real-world culmination of Mishima's pursuit of total art. Locked in a performance with one inescapable end, Mishima offered his own body as its final act.

With texts by Mishima and his closest intimates and first-person reminiscences of his final moments, this book promises to be an unprecedented interrogation on the nature of performance and the role of artist as actor, provocateur, and revolutionary.

About the Author:

Kishin Shinoyama is one of the titans of Japanese postwar photography. In 2018 Louis Vuitton reprinted his landmark 1981 work on the Silk Road.

Jan Saudek is the most famous living Czech photographer, and simultaneously the most provocative. 

For over four decades Saudek has created a parallel photographic universe, a two-dimensional home full of longing, peopled with the most extraordinary characters and colored by desire. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful pictorial language, with its overtones of medieval genre pictures and Baroque mythology. Rejecting the traditional beauty in his famous nude photographs, Saudek shows the distinctively different: old women, fat women, children; real people in tableaux vivants that remind us of everything from surreal early movies to fin-de-siecle carnival nights. They exist outside time, a uniquely colored and almost mythical theater of dreams. 

Covering his debut in the 1950s through his lesser-known work to recent images, this dazzling collection offers us the true velvet revolution fertile and unsettling images from the dreams we might still have.

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Ян Саудек наряду с фотографами Йозефом Судеком и Франтишеком Дртиколом является одним из самых известных чешских фотографов и самым провокационным.

Его фотографии вызывают неподдельный интерес и едкие отзывы критиков, награды и презрение, восхищенные отзывы и пренебрежение. Почему? Ян Саудек бросает вызов зрителю на каждом шагу. Его взгляд на мир, поступки, манера разговаривать и даже ходить, пританцовывая, его клоунады и показной эротизм – все это носит провокационный характер.

Несмотря на многочисленные статьи о Саудеке, как крупные так и незначительные, опубликованные в разных странах, эта книга – самый исчерпывающий обзор его работ на сегодняшний день. Здесь представлены все этапы развития его карьеры и рассказана захватывающая история жизни мастера, жившего в плену своих образов. Ведь Ян Саудек всегда фотографировал то, что было неразрывно связано с его жизнью и его собственным миром.

Чехия издревле была страной мистики и магии, домом алхимиков, художников, они плели чары, были создателями фантастических миров воображения. Всемирно известный чешский фотограф Ян Саудек (Jan Saudek) не исключение. На протяжении четырех десятилетий Саудек (Saudek) создал параллельную Вселенную. Волшебный театр мечты

Ян Саудек, известный чешский фотограф, родился в Праге (Чехословакия) 13 мая 1935 года.

Во время Второй мировой войны почти вся его семья погибла в концлагере Терезиенштадт. Яна и его брата концлагерь тоже не минует, они попадают в детский концлагерь на польской границе.

В молодости Саудек увлекался музыкой, но интерес к фотографии оказывается сильнее, и в 1963 году он решает заняться фотографией серьезно. В 1969 году Саудек едет в США, где его поддерживает его куратор Хью Эдвардс.

По возвращению в Прагу Саудек вынужден работать подпольно, чтобы не попасть во внимание к тайной полиции. Это положительно сказывается на его творчестве, т.к. позволяет обратиться к запретным темам эротизма и политики.

В 70-х он становится известным на Западе, где начинает активно выставляться. В 1983 выходит первая книга с его работами на английском языке.

Сейчас Саудек живет и работает в Праге.

#NSFW is an Erotic Greatest Hits of photographer Rankin’s nude work. Throughout his twenty-five year career, he has returned time and again to photographing the female form. #NSFW presents a collection of his favourite shots. Unapologetic. Provocative. Beautiful. Designed on a super-size scale, the book takes nude photography to the next level, brazen yet intimate.

 - Photographer Rankin’s most daring shots
 - These images are NOT SAFE FOR WORK
 - A collection of stunning nude photography
 
Always intending to celebrate and empower women, Rankin brings a signature humour and cheek to his nudes, creating playful images that challenge preconceptions.

People understand the artwork of Oleg Dou in different ways. The decadent beauty of his seemingly bloodless creatures and their psychopathic gaze are strangely evocative of the cliched images of fashion photography. But the dedication and diligence with which he creates his images of young people, woven of snow and ice, entice us to seek a living face underneath the thick layer of makeup. Oleg Dou has chosen a very difficult path, dismembering beauty with the surgical scalpel of a pathologist, dissecting a rictus grin until it becomes a paroxysm of suffering

Олег Доу (р. 1983) - один из самых ярких представителей современной русской фотографии на мировой арене. В 2007 году он стал лауреатом международной премии International Photography Awards. В 2009 году получил премию Arte Laguna Art Prize в номинации "Лучший молодой фотограф". Сегодня работы ОД представляют ведущие галереи Франции, Бельгии, Испании, Нидерландов, Америки и России. В 2011 году сайт Artprice опубликовал рейтинг самых успешных фотографов до 30 лет, и ОД занял в нем 3 место. В апреле 2012 года работа фотографа украсила обложку программы Photoshop версии CS6. В художественной практике ОД отражены его взаимоотношения с фотографией как явлением жизни. Переживая свои детские воспоминания о страхе перед постановочной съемкой, уже во взрослом возрасте он использует этот опыт в искусстве как терапию. В то же время сам становится тем, кого всегда боялся. Стиль художника - крупноформатные портреты детей и взрослых с пластифицированными, почти кукольными лицами,...

“I find photography a most mysterious process - capturing that moment in time and space, elusive and fleeting, and crystallizing it. You have made a photograph. It is its own thing now. To me, that is thrilling.”
—Jessica Lange

Actress Jessica Lange’s career spans more than 30 years and 30 films; the winner of two Academy awards, the one-time waitress is one of the most acclaimed performers of both the screen and the stage, as well as one of the most recognizable faces. 50 Photographs, however, finds Lange on the other side of the camera.

Originally drawn to the medium simply as a way to document the lives and growth of her children, Lange has now been photographing on and off for 15 years, approaching the art as an antidote to the constant fervor of Hollywood. “It is a way of working,” she says of her process, “that is the opposite of acting. Photography doesn’t depend on collaboration; it can be solitary and private.” A 2007 feature in Aperture, introduced by Mary Ellen Mark, gave the world its first taste of Lange’s visual work; now, 50 Photographs gathers her impressive portfolio, featuring images from Mexico, Africa, Romania, Russia, Finland, Italy, and France as well as the U.S., into her first-ever photography monograph. Alternately comforting and disquieting, Lange’s striking black-and-whites possess a kind of moody mystery that is appropriately cinematic.

Фотограф из Варшавы Рафал Милах посвятил годы описанию постсоветской России и бывших стран Варшавского договора.

Его книга “Семь комнат” рассказывает о семерых молодых людях из Москвы, Екатеринбурга и Красноярска. “Они родились в СССР, выросли во времена перестройки и начали свою взрослую жизнь в путинской России”, – говорит Рафал о своих героях.

Теперь, когда Владимир Путин с большой вероятностью будет президентом на протяжении еще 12 лет, становится очевидно, что страна движется назад к стилю правления более характерному для Советского Союза. Но как показывают фотографии Рафала, эти времена еще не закончились.

Издание на русском языке. В книге использованы отрывки из книги Светланы Алексиевич “Зачарованные смертью”

John Deakin’s documentary photographs are haunting evocations of life on the streets of London, Paris and Rome in the 1950s and 1960s, yet he is the only person ever to have been hired and fired twice by the same editor at Vogue

His chief focus is on ordinary life. His pictures of people from dog walkers to nuns reveal an empathy to rival that of Doisneau and Brassaï. Equally intriguing are his depictions of life with the participants gone: a vanished vernacular of chalked-up children’s games, of graffitied messages of love or anger, street signs, peeling walls and shop-front banners – signals from another age.

Here is a far broader range of photography than that on which Deakin’s reputation rested in his lifetime. But the creative souls and maverick talents that frequented the streets of Soho in its heyday – Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud among them – make their appearance along with anonymous figures and faces from Paris and Rome.

Both friends and stars appear in Robin Muir’s introduction, which describes both Deakin the man and Deakin the artist. Though a legendary drinking companion in artistic circles, he was not universally popular, yet he was admired by his circle and greatly respected for his originality.

After his death in 1972 Deakin's work lay neglected for a number of years and his reputation dwindled. This book restores him to his proper place as one of the great photographers of the postwar period.