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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.

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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.

Группа AES существует с 1987 года. С 1995 года художники стали сотрудничать с фотографом Владимиром Фридкесом и объединились в группу AES+F. На сегодняшний день они одни из самых ярких современных российских художников, чей видеопроект «Последнее восстание» был представлен в Российском павильоне на 52-й Биеннале современного искусства в Венеции. В 2007 году AES+F - участники Стамбульской биеннале, их ретроспектива проходит в Русском музее в Санкт-Петербурге. Выставка «Рай безгорестный...» группы AES+F объединяет проекты, выполненные художниками в последние десять лет (1997-2007), посвященные проблеме детства и отрочества в современном обществе и современной культуре. Дети всегда являются главным фактором человеческих надежд; каждая цивилизация создает свою мифологию детства, и в то же время дети и подростки - увеличивающее зеркало общества. Группе AES+F свойственна жесткая постановка философских, экзистенциальных и социальных вопросов, предельная артикуляция художественного концепта, имеющего ярко выраженную профетическую направленность. Каждый их новый проект, будь то «Подозреваемые» (1997) или «Action Half Life» (2003), - своеобразная провокация, побуждающая к кардинальному пересмотру наших привычных представлений о добре и зле, грехе и невинности, добродетели и пороке.

As Leni Riefenstahl turns 100, TASCHEN celebrates with a tribute to her remarkable Africa oeuvre. When she was in her early sixties, Riefenstahl began voyaging frequently to the African continent, where she has worked on various film and photography projects over the last half century. Her favorite destination was in Sudan, where she lived with and photographed the Nuba tribes people, learning their language and becoming their friend. The Nuba were a loving and peaceful people who welcomed Riefenstahl as one of their own. Her images of the Nuba, as well as of the Dinka, Shilluk, Masai, and other tribes, are gathered in this monumental book. Riefenstahl remembers her experiences in Africa as the happiest moments in her life. Her beautiful, skilled photographs represent a landmark in the extraordinary career of the 20th century's most unforgettable artistic pioneer.

In four previous books, acclaimed photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have documented vanishing tribal customs in Africa and won an enormous following. Now, after nearly a decade of travel and research, they have created their masterwork-a monumental two-volume exploration of traditional African rites and rituals. Spanning the continent, Beckwith and Fisher open our eyes to scores of exotic and wondrous ceremonies-baby namings, initiations, weddings, harvest blessings, coronations, healing exorcisms, and funerals, among others. Many of these rituals will never be performed again; few have been pictured and described with the intimacy, knowledge, and skill of Beckwith and Fisher.

Overflowing with nearly 850 magnificent color photographs, African Ceremonies is one of the most important works on Africa ever published.

This book contains all of the diaries, programs, essays, and major articles written by Alexander Rodchenko between 1911 and 1956.

The word "experiment" was a keyword for the artist, who conceived of his multimedia oeuvre as one huge experiment. Referred to by his friends and contemporaries as "a scout of the future," Rodchenko sought new paths in graphic design and painting, sculpture and architecture, poster design and cinema, photography and book design, and furniture and theatre design.

The first chapter in this volume covers the early life of Rodchenko and relates to the time of his studies in the Kazan art school. His diaries from 1911-15 relate the vivid atmosphere of the school, explain the artist's early tastes for theatrical, oriental and medieval motifs, and recall the moments when he first met Varvara Stepanova, his lifetime partner and fellow artist.

The second chapter covers the most active years of the Russian avant-garde movement: 1916-21. Here Rodchenko is linked to Vladimir Tatlin and his evolution as a non-objective painter comes about. His writings from this period explore his interest in the artistic process, in the way ideas are born, and often make comparisons with other artistic trends of the time: suprematism, cubism, and impressionism.

The third chapter runs through the 20s and the height of the constructivist movement, when Rodchenko became one of the leading designers of the time. This chapter is the most comprehensive, featuring writings dedicated to industrial design education, graphic design, advertising, photomontage and photography.

The fourth chapter reveals the artist's mood and the general Soviet culture situation of the 30s, a time of political change, accusations of formalism, and great success in photography.

The last chapter is dedicated to the war and postwar period and contains only diary texts in which the artist recounts his family's evacuation to the country, his subsequent hard living and working conditions, as well as his musings on the cultural politics of the time and life in general.

Originally published in 1996 in Moscow by Rodchenko's family, Experiments for the Future appears here in its first English edition. This new edition contains additional material and features a different design and images, but the content remains essentially unchanged.

Pioneers in photography as an art form. Highlights from Stieglitz's legendary photo journal (1903–1917)

Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a visionary far ahead of his time. Around the turn of the 20th century, he founded the Photo-Secession, a progressive movement concerned with advancing the creative possibilities of photography, and by 1903 began publishing Camera Work, an avant-garde magazine devoted to voicing the ideas, both in images and words, of the Photo-Secession. Camera Work was the first photo journal whose focus was visual, rather than technical, and its illustrations were of the highest quality hand-pulled photogravure printed on Japanese tissue. This book brings together all photographs from the journal’s 50 issues.

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Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

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О книге alfred Stieglitz. Camera work

Alfred Stieglitz. Camera work рассказывает о знаменитом фотографе, Альфреде Стиглице. О его вкладе в преображение фотографии к виду искусства и легендарных снимков в журнале Camera work (1903-1917).

Фотограф, писатель, издатель и куратор известного журнала, Альфред Стиглиц (1864-1946) видел намного дальше своего времени. Примерно, на рубеже 20-го века он основал Photo-Secession – прогрессивное движение, связанное с повышением творческих возможностей в фотографии. И к 1903 году начал принимать участие в издательстве CameraWork – авангардного журнала, посвященного новым идеям в писательстве и фотографии.

Alfred Stieglitz. Camera work расскажет, как журнал Camera Work стал первым фотожурналом, который фокусировался на визуализации, а его иллюстрации – были высококачественными гравюрами, выполненными вручную на японской ткани. В этой книге собраны все фотографии из 50 номеров журнала.

Alice Springs Photographs. Retrospective at the Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin

Starting in 1970, June Newton created own photographic works under the pseudonym Alice Springs. These have been exhibited regularly at the Helmut Newton Foundation since 2005, namely in "June’s Room." The current retrospective in Berlin provides for the first time a comprehensive look at the four decades that span her work, presenting photographs from advertising and fashion as well as nudes and portraits.

Her own photographic oeuvre began with a bout of influenza suffered by Helmut Newton in Paris, 1970. June Newton had her husband show her how to handle the camera and light meter and in his place photographed an advertisement for the French cigarette brand Gitanes. The portrait of the smoking model would be the jump-start of a new career. In the early 1970s, Alice Springs shot several campaigns for the French hairstylist Jean Louis David; the photographs appeared under her byline as a full-page ads in renowned fashion magazines. 1974 later saw the first Alice Springs cover image adorning French Elle. By this time she had also received innumerable commissions for portraits, some of which have become iconic. The roster of artists, actors and musicians depicted by Alice Springs over the last 40 years reads like a "who’s who" of the international cultural scene on both sides of the Atlantic. Many portraits were magazine assignments from Paris to Los Angeles; others resulted from private initiative.

Alice Springs does more than document the appearance of celebrities and anonymous contemporaries; she captures their charisma, their aura. It might be that her deep knowledge of acting helps, how to simultaneously look at and beyond the human façade. This is particularly evident in her double portraits, in which the protagonists’ interaction is perfectly staged.

There is a certain sense of familiarity in her images; actually they oscillate between distance and intimacy. In her subtle portraits, we encounter the haughty stance alongside natural self-confidence as well as the shy glance.

The artist:

June Browne was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1923. As a young woman she was passionately interested in the theatre. She changed her maiden name to June Brunell for there was another Melbourne actress called June Brown. She received the Erik Kuttner award for best actress in theatre in 1956. She married the photographer Helmut Newton in Melbourne in 1948 and became a photographer herself in 1970 in Paris, changing her name once again to Alice Springs. She has had numerous exhibitions and books published. June Newton has lived in London and Paris and for the last thirty years has resided in Monte Carlo. Her husband died in 2004, leaving her in charge of the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin.