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From its earliest days, photography could not escape the pictorial traditions that had gone before it. This book, the first comprehensive study of Pictorialism in Europe, analyses the remarkable diversity of approaches taken by photographers across the Continent whose practice was infused with contemporary debate about photography’s relationship to art. Written by an international team of art and photography historians, Impressionist Camera examines the ways in which practitioners realized their pictorial vision, from the re-creation of Academic painting in photography to the use of soft focus to lend images an impressionistic quality. Also explored are the cross-currents with photography in America – where Pictorialism went on to flourish – including the seminal work of Alfred Stieglitz.

The first book to deal comprehensively with European Pictorialism, one of the major movements in the history of photography
Stunningly illustrated throughout with photographs from some of the most important collections worldwide
An essential reference for anyone interested in the development of photography and photographic techniques

Imploring gestures, encircling hands; a moment’s anticipation of powerful physical pleasure; sometimes letting go, sometimes taking the initiative by touching and stroking the other’s body. Perhaps already in gentle love-union or coming to a wildly exciting climax together. An ever-changing cauldron of steamy scenes, with attractive soft focus exposures followed by ones in sharp focus. In the natural heat of the summer, this demands active participation and total surrender. Muscles take on an almost tactile look; the entwining of two bodies becomes irresistible. “In Flagranti”, Norbert Guthier’s new volume of photos, reveals the creative tension inherent in beauty and vitality. Sometimes his subjects are lying in darkness; sometimes they are brightly lit in the fullness of life. Sometimes the camera is demanding and takes the initiative; sometimes it is only a passive observer, quietly recording the action.

The unique thing is that I like to view the pictures at more or less the same distance as I imagine was required between the camera and its subject. The photos vary between posed scenes and more relaxed shots, between the camera actively drawing the subject towards it, and the photographer quickly being forgotten. Norbert Guthier is master of all of these techniques.

The Collectors Series edition of In Focus is simply the existing book at a smaller trim size. This magnificent collection of 280 photographs by many of the world's greatest photographers tells the tale of portrait photography over time in page after page of arresting images. Each photograph stands proudly on its own, yet taken together, they tell a much more complex and subtle story of the ever-evolving art form in constant creative response to new ideas, new eras, and new technologies.

Simply being the son or daughter of someone famous does not guarantee success, and in order to step out of the shadow of your well-known dad, you need to muster up more than just good genes. Nevertheless, some celebrity fathers are so inspirational that they entice their brood to choose very similar career paths. This book celebrates the most famous father-son and father-daughter combinations in the world of sport, politics, entertainment, business, science, art and literature.

In Praise of the Backside celebrates the most sensual part of the female body. The insightful text by expert Hans-Jürgen Döpp discusses the backside as a feature that stands for both powerful eroticism and supple femininity, seducing famous artists from every genre. This title is sure to entice and delight a wide audience with its lively, provocative images.

In his forty year career, Greg Gorman has seen miles of red carpet pass before his lens with a fine assortment of stars, from Al Pacino to Raquel Welch and on to Sharon Stone and John Travolta, just to name some of them. His unmistakable black and white, together with an equally rare capacity of introspection, has led to such virtuosity of style as to elicit from Richard Gere: “Greg Gorman is to the camera what Eric Clapton is to the guitar: sure and true”. Away from the spotlights for a moment Gorman has culled from his archives and put together a collection of more than 200 portraits of young men, many of whom became famous. An album that reveals the evergreen fascination of youth, when time has yet to obfuscate ingenuousness, melancholic gentleness and, above all, the beauty that characterises life’s âge d’or. The photographer writes in the introduction: “My photographs have often captured the sensuality that goes hand in hand with vulnerability. When the subject has an unawareness of the camera, he reveals an inward truth, that maybe he doesn’t even realize is coming forth in the pictures”. From Tom Cruise to Kevin Costner, from Leonardo di Caprio to Brad Pitt and on to Patrick Dempsey, Charlie Sexton, Rupert Everett, Johnny Depp and many others, In their Youth is a manifesto of the agonising, sensual and “Wildean" promise of beauty.

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Featuring rare and unpublished images of India, Sri Lanka and the subcontinent taken from the extensive archives of Getty Images. A history of India in images from Beato's photographs of the Mutiny to Tandulkar's record breaking 200 runs in 2010. Includes features on India's great photographers including Samuel Bourne, Felice Beato's and Julia Margaret Cameron.

Landschaftlich und architektonisch ist Indien so reich und vielfältig wie kaum ein anderes Land Asiens. Seine Größe, die unterschiedlichen Klimazonen und Ethnien, seine Geschichte, Kultur und Religionen übersteigen jeden »normaleuropäischen « Maßstab und sind, wenn überhaupt, nur im Breitwandformat zu erfassen. Der indische Photograph Amit Pasricha hat die Herausforderung angenommen – zunächst für die obere Hälfte seines Landes: Mit einer Panorama-Kamera bereiste er den Norden vom Himalaya bis Rajasthan und hielt, was er unterwegs an Sehenswürdigkeiten aufsuchte und an landschaftlicher Schönheit entdeckte, in grandiosen Bildern fest: Berge, Wüsten und Megastädte, buddhistische Klöster, jainistische und hinduistische Tempel, islamische Moscheen, die Prachtbauten der Moguln, natürlich das Taj Mahal in Agra, die steinzeitlichen Felsmalereien in Bhimbetka bis hin zur Architektur der britischen Kolonialzeit und Corbusiers Planstadt Candigarh. Ein in jeder Beziehung beeindruckendes Buch ist daraus geworden, das auch die notwendigen Informationen mitliefert, verfasst von dem indischen Historiker und Denkmalpfleger Aman Nath.

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160 black & white plates

Jeanloup Sieff was the complete photographer. He was gifted in every arena of the medium: fashion and advertising, nude, reportage, portraits and landscape. Sieff claimed to be superficial and droll, without ever being very convincing, and left a rich collection of works created from the 1950s until the turn of the 21st century before his demise. He was a prodigiously productive artist and was often overtaken by the speed of the medium and his own success, normally short of the necessary time to delve into his archive. Hence many of the works published in this book have never been seen or previously published. With his characteristic sense of humour and light-hearted approach he wrote: my pictures are little black and white pebbles that I dropped on my way to adulthood, meant for leading me back to my adolescence.

Hilarious, charming and inventive, INDOGNITO is Karen Ngo's visual treat for today's breed of dog lovers. A whimsical collection of stylishly photographed dog portraits, it affectionately embraces the quirky spirit of the primped pooch.

Photographer Karen Ngo brings together dresed-up dogs of many breeds to entertain and surprise you and make you laugh out loud. From Howloween parades to bark mitzvahs, from dog weddings (think bow vows) to birthday paw-ties, Americans are dressing up their dogs in record numbers. The book pays tribute to all those dogs who have patiently permitted their humans to dress them up as Dogzilla, a piece of fruit, or even Davy Crockett…and continue to be their best friend.

Two artists, one vision. The enigmatic and genre-defying work of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

"It is typical of the photographic art of van Lamsweerde and Matadin that they urge their image-making to de-stabilise the pristine surfaces expected of consumer culture; to this end, they make use, in turn, of the Gothic, inscrutability, androgyny, comedy, eroticism, surrealism, fantasy, montage, cinema, replication, image manipulation, Pop art, fetishism and art historical nuance." — Michael Bracewell

Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s work has graced the walls and pages of some of the world’s finest galleries and fashion magazines, and if it is surprising that their photographs easily float between these worlds, it is by virtue of their ease in creating imagery that seeks homes in both culturally elite and mainstream outlets. For some of their photographs, such as their portrait of Björk or campaign for Givenchy, van Lamsweerde and Matadin have worked in collaboration with the art directors M/M (Paris), who have also designed this retrospective that looks back at "pretty much everything" that the photographers have been working on for over two decades and that has brought them to the forefront in the fields of both art and fashion.

This standard TASCHEN edition — an affordable version adapted from the limited edition — comes with a sheet of stickers so you can personalize your cover!

“This wondrous retrospective presents over two decades of witty, glamorous, and subversive images by Dutch photography duo van Lamsweerde and Matadin…the book will take pride of place in the collections of any fan of fashion and art photography.”
— Publisher’s Weekly, New York

“… 26 years of bold, inventive editorial and fashion work…like their subjects, the pictures are playful and dramatic in subtle ways and more memorable for it.”
— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles

“Truly a collection for art historians to indulge... a piece of collectable and rare art in itself.”
— Dreaminggenius.com

“An indispensable work.”
— Glamour, Paris

“This wondrous retrospective presents over two decades of witty, glamorous, and subversive images by Dutch photography duo van Lamsweerde and Matadin…the book will take pride of place in the collections of any fan of fashion and art photography.”
— Publisher’s Weekly, New York

Luis Durante, aged 52, is originally from Soria/Spain and spent his childhood in Madrid, where he started to paint and draw. When he was 17 he took off for the rest of Europe, becoming a street actor. He settled in Paris for four years where he studied photography. Returning to Madrid, he has created wonderful erotic art ever since.

Idoia means “source” and was the name given to the voluptuous maid who according to myth served Dionysus. In the world of “El Inferno”, you will find she is very much alive and quite the mistress of the house. Her desire is so free and natural she will delight you from the first. This book is a stroll through the erotic fantasies of a photographer and the lady who is his model, lover and muse. Not as bizarre as it may at first seem, each atmospheric photo is the product of a process of seduction. Idoia knows what the lens of her Pygmalion lover wants to see, and voluptuously surrenders to his erotic desires. After the gates of the “El Inferno” club have shut, how can mere social convention have any meaning? The outside world has now ceased to exist; there is only the endless drive of desire and the impulse to fulfil the sexual appetite of the animal in us.

Luis Durante ist 52, stammt aus Soria in Spanien und verbrachte seine Kindheit in Madrid, wo er mit Malen und Zeichnen anfing. Mit 17 zog er als Straßenkünstler durch Europa und studierte danach in Paris für 4 Jahre Fotografie. Nach diversen Tätigkeiten in der Werbebranche konzentrierte sich Luis ganz auf das Thema Fotografie.

Der Name Idoia bedeutet Quelle. Idoia, die wolllüstige Dienerin des Dionysos, lebt und herrscht im Club „El Inferno“. Ihre Lust ist so frei und natürlich, dass sie Sie vom ersten Augenblick an entzücken wird.

Dieses Buch ist ein kleiner Spaziergang durch die Welt der erotischen Fantasien, die ein Fotograf und sein Model, zugleich seine Geliebte und Muse, unternommen haben. Jede Stimmung, jedes Bild, so bizarr es auch sein mag, ist ein Produkt der Verführung: Sie weiß, was die Linse ihres Pygmalion sehen will, und gibt sich wolllüstig den erotischen Wünschen ihres Liebhabers hin. Was bedeuten schon soziale Konventionen, wenn sich die Pforten des Clubs „El Inferno“ schließen? Nichts von draußen existiert, es gibt nur das unendliche Begehren und die ursprünglichen Genüsse des erotischen Tieres in uns.

This book celebrates a remarkable achievement - the successful cooperation between one of the greatest photographers of the 20th Century, Irving Penn, and the Japanese designer Issey Miyake. Together they have managed not only to combine the Occident with the Orient but raise fashion to the status of art. The result is classical and futuristic at once, their fruitful encounter achieving a remarkable stylistic symbiosis.

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Der japanische Modedesigner Issey Miyake hat einen Sonderstatus. Das liegt nicht zuletzt auch daran, dass er für «Mode» nichts übrig hat, das Wort «Designer» für unzutreffend hält und sich lieber als «Kleiderfabrikant» bezeichnet. Aber macht der heute 61jährige Entwerfer wirklich nur Kleider? «Making Things» hiess seine letzte Ausstellung (NZZ 6. 1. 99): Als (Kunst-)Gegenstände sind denn auch Miyakes Kreationen seit den späten siebziger Jahren immer wieder in Museen gezeigt worden. 

In seinen fast 200 Aufnahmen, die seit 1986 entstanden und von denen jetzt 112 im Bildband «Irving Penn betrachtet das Werk von Issey Miyake» veröffentlicht worden sind, begreift auch der Photograph Irving Penn Miyakes Kleider als Kunstgegenstände. Das Buch hält, was sein Titel verspricht, mehr aber auch nicht. Der einleitende Essay kann weder inhaltlich noch sprachlich befriedigen. Vergeblich sucht man eine Erklärung für jene Photos, auf denen eine Etappe aus dem Entstehungsprozess eines Kleidungsstücks abgebildet ist. Dabei sind die vielfältigen, originellen Methoden, mit einem (Roh-)Stoff umzugehen, Miyakes Markenzeichen; ohne Erläuterungen vermag man auf besagten Abbildungen oft nicht mehr zu erkennen als verknotete Taschentücher oder dreifarbige Metallstreifen. Auch was die fertigen Kleider betrifft, hätte man ein paar Angaben zu den Materialien, den Models usw. erwartet.

Doch wo die Form zu wünschen übriglässt, beglückt der Inhalt. Penn, der sowohl Traumfrauen für «Vogue» als auch Eingeborenenstämme in Neuguinea oder Dahomey photographiert hat, betrachtet Miyakes Kleider wie selbständige Wesen mit einem magischen Eigenleben. Eine Form von Animismus schwingt mit. Das Model tritt demgegenüber zurück: Arme und Beine sind entweder gar nicht zu sehen oder in grotesken, rituellen, in jedem Fall unnatürlichen Stellungen; die Gesichter werden bald durch eine Kapuze, bald durch eine Perücke verdeckt oder zu Masken geschminkt. Das widerspricht zwar Miyakes Wunsch, dass seine Kreationen wie eine zweite Haut wirken sollten, fördert jedoch deren expressives Potential zutage, das im Suggestiven, Märchenhaft-Verwunschenen wurzelt. 

So wirkt das Buch wie ein Reigen von mysteriösen, keck-ironischen, manchmal auch beängstigenden, stets aber hoch individualisierten Kreaturen aus (viel) Stoff und (ein wenig) Haut: Ritter in schwarzglänzenden Papierrüstungen mit riesigen Halskrausen, breitbeinige Clowns mit aufblasbaren Spitzhüten aus Plastic, ein Plüschaffe mit grossen, kakaofarbenen Gürteltaschen zum Bananensammeln, ein hautfarbener Ganzkörperbody mit aufgedruckten Tattoo-Mustern, ein abstrakt-silberner, plissierter Weihnachtsbaum. Stoffe, so ursprünglich wie Erde, so zart wie Spinnweben. Als letztes Bild ein Anzug aus der (wie der Bildband verschweigt) «Starburst»-Linie von 1998: Recycling-Kleider für Grossstadtastronauten, mit aufgepressten Metallblättern, goldbronzen schimmernd. Zum Auf-den-Mond-Fliegen.

112 colour plates and 22 illustrations

- This book celebrates a remarkable achievement - the successful cooperation between one of the greatest photographers of the 20th Century, Irving Penn, and the Japanese designer Issey Miyake. Together they have managed not only to combine the Occident with the Orient but raise fashion to the status of art. The result is classical and futuristic at once, their fruitful encounter achieving a remarkable stylistic symbiosis.
- Issey Miyake's Kleider in Photographien von Irving Penn

The definitive book on the work of a virtuosic and revered American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century.

Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous attention to composition, nuance, and detail.

This indispensable book features one of the largest selections of Penn's photographs ever compiled, including famous and beloved images as well as works that have never been published. Celebrating the centennial of Penn's birth, this lavish volume spans the entirety of his groundbreaking career. An enlightening introduction situates his work in the context of the various artistic, social, and political environments and events that affected the content of his photographs.

Lively essays acquaint readers with Penn's primary subjects and campaigns, including early documentary scenes and imagery; portraits; fashion; female nudes; peoples of Peru, Dahomey (Benin), New Guinea, and Morocco; still lifes; and much more.

Irving Penn: Centennial is essential for any fan of this artist's work or the history of 20th-century photography.

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The catalogue produced to accompany the landmark "Irving Penn: Centennial" retrospective (on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 24 through July 30) offers an extensive and scholarly look at the many facets of Penn’s career.

An enlightening introduction situates his work in the context of the various artistic, social, and political environments and events that affected the content of his photographs. Lively essays acquaint readers with Penn's primary subjects and campaigns, including early documentary scenes and imagery; portraits of cultural figures and celebrities; fashion; female nudes; peoples of Peru, Dahomey (Benin), New Guinea, and Morocco; and still-lifes. Rounding out the book are discussions of Penn's advertising pictures and his painstaking printing processes, as well as an illustrated chronology. 

Irving Penn: Centennial, by Maria Morris Hambourg, Jeff L. Rosenheim; with contributions by Alexandra Dennett, Philippe Garner, Adam Kirsch, Harald E.L. Prins, Vasilios Zatse

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Printed in Italy
372 pages; 365 color, tritone, and quadtone illustrations; chronology; index

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