Антологии

It was in interwar central Europe that photography as a modern art form was established.

It fired the imagination of hundreds of progressive artists across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary and Poland.
It became a symbol of modernity for millions through its use in magazines, newspapers, advertising and books.

Published to accompany an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this book presents the work that redefined the very notion of art and embodied at times a dizzying freedom from traditional social roles.

Familiar names such as László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Sudek and the Bauhaus are connected to a wealth of individuals and organizations whose influence is being recovered for the first time.

The perceptive text explores topics ranging from the avant-garde (surrealism, experimental photography) to popular culture (tabloids, sports, the ‘new woman’) to extremist politics and war. Particular attention is given to photomontage, a technique that epitomized the era and found broad acceptance among artists and mass media outlets.

Includes maps, biographies of the featured photographers, and a scholarly bibliography.

While the world evaporates into the digital, the anachronistic Polaroid snapshot dominates media and advertising. The recent sale of the photography collection owned by Polaroid’s inventor Edwin Land to the Viennese photography museum WestLicht marks an art-market trend toward the analog. Beginning in the sixties, Polaroid supplied artists around the world, from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, with each one of the imperium’s latest products. In return, 4,400 works by 800 photographers found their way into the company’s International Collection at their European headquarters near Frankfurt am Main. In 2008, when the last instant film factory was rescued from demolition by the company Impossible, the founder’s commitment to collecting could be carried on as well. This publication features selected Polaroid masterpieces and new Impossible instant photography by contemporary artists such as Stefanie Schneider and Nobuyoshi Araki.

Skateboarding in New York City is a singular experience. It is impossible not to feel the magnitude of the landscape, and with the city in constant motion, skateboarding is both exhilarating and extremely dangerous. There is no right or wrong way to navigate this vast terrain. Only one thing is certain - the skaters and images produced in New York City are wholly unique.

The shots in Full Bleed span 30 years, with contributions from over 40 photographers. This is the first-ever comprehensive overview of the one of the most diverse and rich skating locations in the world, bringing together legendary skaters and iconic photographers.

Featuring the work of: Giovanni Reda, Jessica Bard, Ivory Serra, Tobin Yelland, Miki Vuckovich, Thomas Campbell, Larry Clark, Ed Templeton, Jerry Hsu, Atiba Jefferson, Bryce Knights, Angela Boatwright, Athena Currey, Kenneth Cappello, Charlie Samuels, Andy Kessler, Mike O’Meally, Sammy Glucksman, Allen Ying, and more.

10 volume set of photos and text from each decade of the 1900s: '00s through '90s. In English, Spanish and Italian. Each volume is 400 pages with 370 pictures. Organized by themes, including politics, pop, art and sport

Graphis Photography Annual 2008 is a beautiful collection of the year’s best photographs. Shot by some of the world’s most respected artists, these stunning images are organized by category for easy referencing. Each photo has earned a new Graphis Gold Award for excellence. This year’s book also features interviews with internationally renown Photographers Parish Kohanim, Henry Leutwyler and Hugh Kretschmer. Detailed credits and indexes complete the Annual.

Hasselblad - manufacturer of the finest photographic technology for more than five decades - sponsors the elite Masters contest each year, recognizing both the top established and upcoming photographers. Starting with 1,700 accomplished entrants who submitted ten photographs each, the Hasselblad team rigorously narrowed the selection to 100 finalists. Five editors of respected international photo magazines were then assigned the difficult task of choosing ten ultimate winners. These ten Hasselblad masters were given access to the finest photographic equipment and asked to interpret the theme "emotion" in their own distinctive ways.

This book contains compelling projects from each of the winning photographers.

Drawn from the archives of Italo Zannier, the "grand old man" of Italian photography, a teacher, collector and photographer himself, the over 260 images in this volume document the history of the "marvelous invention" from its beginnings to the tendencies of the present day, from the daguerreotypes of the late 19th century to the Italian neorealism of the thirties and forties, from the years of "la dolce vita" in Rome with its stars and paparazzi to the seventies and eighties when photography began to reflect on itself and its language through its first tentative experiments with disintegration of the image. A true story told in pictures, an incredible and gripping tale of Italy and of photography, the history of a burning passion that has driven Zannier to collect, catalog and preserve thousands of images and objects.
Italo Zannier (1932) has taught at the DAMS in Bologna, at the Department of the Cultural Heritage of Ravenna University and the Catholic University in Milan. He is a member of the Société Européenne d'Histoire de la Photographie and chair of the advisory board of the Museo di Storia della Fotografia Alinari in Florence. Zannier has also devoted himself to an intense exhibition activity, organizing dozens of events. In particular the one on the Mediterranean landscape staged in Seville during the 1992 Expo and the photographic section of Italian Metamorphosis, the major exhibition on Italian art held at the Guggenheim in New York in 1994. The author of over 500 scientific and publications and photographic books, he edits the series of studies of the history of photography "Fotologia," published by Alinari.

About the Author

Denis Curti is a photography critic, journalist, curator of photo exhibitions and expert on the photography market. He is vice-president and director of institutional relations of Forma-Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, director of the Milan branch of the Contrasto photo agency and since 2006 director of the photography and visual design master program, created in association with NABA.  He is the author of several photography collections and coauthor of the Dizionario Mondiale della fotografia published by Rizzoli-Contrasto. He is periodically involved in teaching photographic culture at several Italian universities: the Bocconi, State University of Milan, IULM and Sacro Cuore.
Italo Zannier has taught the history of photography for many years. He is a member of the Societe Europeenne d’Histoire de la Photographie and chair of the advisory board of the Museo di Storia della Fotografia Alinari in Florence. Zannier has also devoted himself to organizing dozens of exhibitions over the years.

Interest in the greatest military conflict of all time has never been stronger. Written by leading military historian Richard Holmes, "The Second World War in Photographs" presents his selection of images in year-by-year chapters, covering every theater of operations. The images themselves are largely drawn from the immense collection of the Imperial War Museum in London, and include many rarely seen photographs. Dramatic, hard hitting and intensely moving, this is a unique visual testament to the millions of men and women who lost their lives in the war, and a reminder to today's generations of both the heroism and horror of global conflict.

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

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.

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.

'Happiness is like a kiss - in order to get any good out of it you have to give it to somebody else' - Anonymous. What's in a kiss? Whether passionate or playful, friendly or flirtatious, a kiss is the ultimate expression of affection. With classic photographs and quotes, this little book celebrates the kiss in all its glorious variety.

When Fedrico Fellini first began shooting his film in the Via Veneto, he probably never imagined that he would create a new era in fashion and in world cinema. At the end of the 50s, Rome had become a crossroads, witnessing the transit of international stars, famous singers, actors, emerging stars, starlets, the sex symbol industry, politicians, princes, princesses and billionaires. With these players, Italian nights became the symbol of a "sweet and lazy" way of life, made up of fashion and gossip, paparazzi and tabloid scandal, relationships and forbidden love. From Rome to Portofino, from Capri to Venice, the Italian jet set was the epitome of this phenomenon. A new photographic book tells the story of those Italian years and its unforgettable icons, from Fellini to Anita Ekberg, Ava Gardner, Liz Taylor, Brigitte Bardot and Soraya. Documenting, amongst other things, striptease and elite parties, the book includes 600 rare images rediscovered and selected from Scalarchives in Italy and Europe to accompany the text by Italian journalist Marco Gasparini.

“Coffee and photography are children of our age. Both generate energy and both are fastly enjoyed. Neither needs to be decoded.” - Francesca Lavazza.

For twenty years Lavazza has been producing calendars with the exclusive involvement of master photographers who have made history. Photographers who have contributed to the Lavazza calendar over the years have included Helmut Newton, Ellen Von Unwerth, Ferdinando Scianna, Elliott Erwitt, David La Chapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Finlay MacKay, Miles Aldridge, Mark Seliger and many others.

For the first time collected together in a book, these photographs are a depiction of seduction and taste, of beauty and pleasure. Designed as an imaginary voyage of the senses in which the female figure becomes an icon and guide to a parallel world of pleasure and beauty, this remarkable package also features original drawings by one of Italy’s best known masters of erotic graphic novels and comics, Milo Manara, paired with a narrative by one of Italy’s leading screenwriters, Vincent Cerami.

As a special feature, the book also includes the 2012 calendar in which Lavazza continues to celebrate the intimate connection between photography and espresso, pleasure and sensuality.