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This gorgeous gift book reveals nearly 50 years of photography by seasoned National Geographic photographer Bill Allard. Allard was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature as never before seen in the pages of National Geographic. Always in search of "what is happening at the edges," his work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture - through images and narrative - of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century. This gorgeous gift book reveals nearly 50 years of photography by seasoned National Geographic photographer Bill Allard. Allard was a pioneer of color photography with a style that called for entering people's homes and hearts; by winning their confidence he was able to capture "off guard" moments, and reveal the depth of human nature as never before seen in the pages of National Geographic. Always in search of "what is happening at the edges," his work reveals beauty, mystery, and a sense of adventure. Part photography retrospective and part personal memoir, this book paints a full picture - through images and narrative - of the life of a globe-trekking photographer over the past half century.

Les petits miracles de la vie

One of the great chroniclers of Parisian life in the 20th century

Produced in close cooperation with Willy Ronis and featuring images from his archives, this book traces the career of one of France’s most remarkable photographers, to whom, along with Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, and Brassaï, we owe our romantic vision of France. In Ronis’s photos of Paris, the city is inseparable from the working class men, women, and children who inhabit its streets and cafes. He once described his approach to photography in five words: "patience, thinking, chance, form, and time." Working with available light, Ronis sought to capture the fleeting moments of everyday life, and his body of work documents, with timeless beauty and grace, the feel of French life in the 20th century.

The author:
Jean Claude Gautrand, born in 1932, is one of France’s most distinguished experts on photography. An active photographer since 1960, he has also made a name for himself as a historian, journalist and critic, with numerous publications. He is the author of the TASCHEN books Paris mon amour (1999), Doisneau (2003), Brassaï (2004) and Ronis (2005).

Pictures and Stories. Reprint

Travel diary and photoalbum in one, Wenders’ picture stories reveal the views and sentiments of a movie maker inspired by the poetry of the eye and the melody of speech.

The panorama views of infinite landscapes, endless horizons, deserts, and mountain ranges, of street fronts in Havana, Houston, Berlin, Jerusalem, and New York right after 9/11, photographed by globetrotter and filmmaker Wim Wenders, are now available in a smaller-size version.

In his third TASCHEN book, celebrated artist photographer and winner of the 2000 Turner Prize Wolfgang Tillmans takes his exploration of the visible world to a new level. The title truth study center is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the paradox of our desire to find a universal truth and the impossibility of doing so. From evocative nude studies and candid personal portraits of Tony Blair to astronomical views of planet Venus passing over the disc of the sun, for the first time the full width of Tillmans's world is brought together in one book. Also included is an extensive selection of striking new abstract works, which through their vivid colors and compositions evoke bodily as well as atmospheric sensations. From nightlife to still life, Tillmans shows us another side of the world we live in today.

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen. "Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But the ensemble says, So this what women are now -- as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this."

About the Author:

Annie Leibovitz is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In 1970, she began creating what became her legendary work for Rolling Stone. Since the early 1980s, she has expanded her repertoire at Vanity Fair and Vogue and in independent projects. She is the recipient of many honors, including the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society.

Яркие, загадочные, скромные, очаровательные, роковые, прекрасные… Такие разные женщины. Элегантный сборник чувственных фотографий жительниц Нью-Йорка, Лондона и Парижа середины прошлого века.

A collection of rarely seen black-and-white photographs taken of women in the 1950s and 1960s, captured by the renowned New York City fashion photographer and filmmaker. Designed by Ruth Ansel, this elegantly produced volume captures the romance and glamour of women in the 1950s and 1960s. A mix of fashion and portraiture, it includes intimate and striking portraits of Nico, Faye Dunaway, Edie Sedgwick, Sharon Tate, and Catherine Deneuve. Jerry Schatzberg’s moody snapshots of a more innocent and whimsical New York on the brink of the important societal changes of the sixties form a compellingly nostalgic portrait of a stylish moment. Images of jetsetters at an airport terminal, lovers embracing in Central Park, and a woman waltzing in the street in the Financial District portray a time as well as a style. A New York City native, Schatzberg documented the period with the insider’s sensibility of Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese, but with the high-fashion style of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. With a keen eye for the magic of the in-between moment, Schatzberg stealthily captured the elegance and beauty of a woman as her role was redefined in the sixties, while at the same time retaining an element of humor and surprise.

About the Author

Jerry Schatzberg has been published in Vogue, McCall’s, Esquire, Glamour, and Life in the 1960s, and has directed twelve films, including The Panic in Needle Park and Scarecrow. His last monograph, Paris 1962, was published by Rizzoli in 2008.

Julia Morton has contributed to Artnet.com, Art Papers, and New York Press. Her artist’s book essays include Paris 1962.

Gail Buckland is the former curator of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and has curated many major exhibitions, including the recent Who Shot Rock & Roll at the Brooklyn Museum. She is a professor of the history of photography at The Cooper Union in New York.

Faye Dunaway is an Academy Award–winning American actress.

126 duotone photographs 

Published last spring, the compilation of sensual photographs of women is now available as an attractive and original slip-cased Collector's Edition. Stefan May has the same experienced eye for the contours of the human body, which already distinguished his highly erotic photographs in Couples and Men. He presents this look in sensual black and white photographs, full of the energy and vitality of women and their bodies captured in unusual perspectives. The impressive study of female acts is the perfect addition to Couples and Men.

* The perfect addition to Couples and Men
* The ideal gift for collectors of erotic photography

Andy Goldsworthy is one of the most prominent artists in the world today. Although commissions take him all over the world, the landscape of Northern England and his native Scotland remains at the heart of his work. Goldsworthy’s best-selling books for Abrams include A Collaboration with Nature, Time, Stone, and Passage.

Witkin's subject is the reconciliation of religion and art, the overcoming of moral and social taboos. Making 'misfits' the sublime subject of his tableaux, each of them inspired by a classic piece, his juxtapositions and complementing commentaries confront the discriminating power of social norms and the depth of human suffering.

Альбом Александра Родченко "Революция в фотографии" представляет наследие фотографа в нескольких тематических разделах: это "Фотомонтаж", "Эксперименты и ракурсы", "Фоторепортаж", "Спорт и цирк" и "Круг Родченко".

В альбоме собраны работы из "Архива А. Родченко" и собрания музея "Московский Дом фотографии" – помимо фотографий, это обложки журналов и поэтических сборников, рекламные плакаты и коллажи.

Родченко, классик фоторепортажа и ракурсной съемки, сумел "изменить представление о фотографии и роли фотографа. В фотографию вносится проектное мышление. Она оказывается не только отражением действительности, но становится способом визуальной репрезентации динамических мыслительных конструкций" – так характеризует вклад Родченко в мировой художественный процесс Ольга Свиблова в своей вступительной статье "Генератор искусства".

"Хочется сделать фото, каких не делал раньше, чтоб это была сама жизнь, и самая настоящая, чтобы они были простые и сложные одновременно, чтоб они удивляли и поражали" – так сам Родченко определял свою работу в дневнике. В текстовую часть альбома вошел своего рода манифест Родченко "Фотография – искусство" (написанный для журнала "Советское фото" в 1934 году, но впервые опубликованный лишь в 1971-м), эссе Александра Лаврентьева "Александр Родченко: начало фотоавангарда в России", фрагмент воспоминаний Варвары Родченко "Несколько слов о моем отце", а также хроника жизни и творчества фотографа.

Аркадий Шайхет, приехав в Москву из провинциального Николаева, буквально ворвался в рождающуюся советскую фотожурналистику и многие годы был ее признанным лидером. Он олицетворял все основные качества репортера - работоспособность, оперативность, коммуникабельность. Удивительно, что, снимая громоздкой камерой на стеклянную пластину 9 х 12 см, фотограф мог быть таким вездесущим. Кажется, не существовало точек съемки, которые были бы ему недоступны, особенно верхних. Однако в отличие от Александра Родченко и его единомышленников Шайхет никогда не использовал их в качестве эффектного приема - ему были нужны панорама, обзор, размах, масштаб. Его можно назвать певцом индустриализации и коллективизации, но одновременно и психологом, чувствующим и по-своему оценивающим те процессы, которые происходили в новом обществе.
 

Взяв в руки "Лейку", фотограф не изменил своим изобразительным принципам, он стремился максимально образно показывать суть происходивших явлений. Особенно сильно это проявилось на войне: военный репортаж Аркадия Шайхета из лучших страниц в истории отечественной фотографии.