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The first monograph of trailblazing photographer Anastasia Samoylova is a vital – and gently humorous – meditation on environmentalism, consumer culture and our disorientating times

Adaptation is the first career survey on Anastasia Samoylova, one of the most dynamic image makers to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together her six major bodies of work, it reveals the enormous range of artistic influences and ideas that inform her art, as well as the threads of connection that unite them. While each series explores different themes, they share a formal beauty, a masterly use of colour and an original approach to visual culture for which she is rightly celebrated.

Russian born and now a native of Florida, Samoylova moves between observational photography and studio practice, often incorporating collage and painting. Her virtuoso compositions are layered meditations on an everyday life made precarious by rising sea levels, image overload, gentrification and corporate culture. This is a provocative vision of the 21st century, at once sublimely beautiful and incisive in its assessment of the challenges we face.

About the Author:

Anastasia Samoylova is an American, born in the USSR in 1984. Her previous books include Floridas (2022), Flood Zone (2019) and Image Cities (2022). David Campany is a renowned writer and curator with particular expertise in American photography. His many books include William Klein: YES (2023), The Open Road: Photography and The American Road Trip (2014) and Walker Evans: the Magazine Work (2014). He is Curator at Large for the International Center of Photography, New York. Lucy Sante is a Belgian-born American writer, critic, artist and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Mia Fineman is Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Shortlisted for The Photographer’s Gallery’s Photography Foundation Prize

FloodZone is Anastasia Samoylova’s photographic account of life on the climatic knife-edge of the southern United States. Serious climate change is upon us, but this is not a visualization of disaster or catastrophe. These beautifully subtle and often unsettling images capture the mood of waiting, of knowing the climate is changing, of living with it. The color palette is tropical: lush greens, azure blues, pastel pinks. But the mood is pensive and melancholy. As new luxury high-rises soar, their foundations are in water. Crumbling walls carry images of tourist paradise. In the heat and humidity nature threatens to return the place to tangled wilderness. Manatees appear in odd places, sensitive to environmental change. Liquid permeates Samoylova’s urban scenes and unexpected views: waves, ripples, puddles, pools, splashes and spray. Water is everywhere and water is the problem. Mixing lyric documentary, gently staged photos and epic aerial vistas, FloodZone crosses boundaries to express the deep contradictions of the place. The carefully paced sequence of photographs, arranged as interlocking chapters, make no judgment. They simply show; elegant, sincere, acute and perhaps redemptive.

The coast of the southern United States looks and feels like a paradise, but all is not what it seems. As sea levels rise and hurricanes threaten, the beauty of the place becomes bittersweet. The future is uncertain but life goes on. FloodZone is a book about living with the contradiction.
Anastasia Samoylova

About the Author:

Born in Moscow in 1984, Anastasia Samoylova moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. She has exhibited at the Aperture Foundation, New York; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston; and at festivals in Brazil, Belgium, France, Holland, China, South Korea and Germany. Samoylova has published her work in Smithsonian Magazine, FOAM, Art Press, Monocle and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Imaginaries in reality photography's role in the visual culture of the city

Image Cities is the latest project of photographer Anastasia Samoylova. In the series, carried out in cities across the globe, Samoylova studies the proliferation of photographic images in urban environments. She observes how in our neo-liberal era of networked economic markets and networked imagery the global centers of internationalized money and culture are becoming increasingly aligned and similar. At the same time, however, these cities attempt to promote their individuality, often by repurposing their specific histories. Samoylova’s work reveals how the cities she photographs are moving towards a generic urban landscape of anonymous steel and glass, and it also points to the role photography plays in creating this ideological gap between branded urban identity and lived reality.

About the Author:

Anastasia Samoylova (b. 1984) lives and works in Miami, Florida. Her photographs have been shown at museums in Europe and the USA. She is the winner of numerous prizes including the Fundación MAPFRE’s KBr Photo Award (2021).

André Kertész is one of the figures who shaped modern photography. From the First World War onwards, his independent spirit led him to practise an art based on spontaneity and sincerity, seeking out the chance moments that ‘capture the true nature of things.’ Tender, nostalgic, modest, he forged a new path for photography, a kind of poetic realism that was neither forced nor showy. ‘I never document,’ he said, ‘I give my own interpretation.’

PHOTOFILE brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers, in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Handsome and collectable, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. The series has been awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography, New York.

The first retrospective monograph of one of the most fascinating talents in contemporary photography

Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by the Norwegian photographer. Niemi’s work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition of conceptual self-portraiture. She works alone and always in character. With her purposeful and elaborate stagings, Niemi is photographer, director and female lead, inserting herself into the lives of her fictional characters. Extending the genre of self-portraiture, Niemi is at heart a story-teller, a creator of fictions. Her images offer a multilayered, cinematic exploration of identity, gender roles and, crucially, our relationship with ourselves.

Anja Niemi is at the ‘breakout moment’ in her career, having had exhibitions in Amsterdam, London, New York, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco and Shanghai, and with her first museum retrospective show opening in February at Fotografiska in Stockholm. This book features over 170 photographs organized into the six series – Do Not Disturb, Starlets, Darlene & Me, Short Stories, The Woman Who Never Existed, and her latest series She Could Have Been A Cowboy – that have marked her career to date, supported by an essay and interview by Max Houghton, co-author of Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now. It is the perfect introduction for those encountering Niemi’s work for the first time, and a comprehensive retrospective of her career to date for her long-time followers.

About the Author:

Anja Niemi (b. 1976, Oslo) studied at the London College of Printing and Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York, and has exhibited in galleries worldwide. Three previous monographs of her work have been published, and her work appeared in Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Contents List:

Introduction • Do Not Disturb • Starlets • Darlene & Me • Short Stories • The Woman Who Never Existed • She Could Have Been a Cowboy

The first art book containing the work of Spanish photographers Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda.

For Anna and Daniel, every unique story needs a unique location to be told in. Luckily for them, there are plenty of beautiful places on our planet waiting to be discovered. Set in all sorts of real-life environments, their images do not only celebrate constructions all over the world but also the cities they were built in.

In ‘Happytecture’, Anna and Daniel challenge us to look at the immediate world around us in a way we’ve never seen it before, unfolding the hidden beauty of street elements such as doors, windows and other urban vernacular to which we might tend not to give a second look.

The result is a visual love letter to architecture and urban design that is both personal and relatable.

For many people images of the major national parks in the US exist in the mind's eye as Ansel Adams photographs.

A dedicated environmentalist as well as a renowned artist, he was one of the 20th century's most ardent champions of the parks system. Through his photos, essays and letter-writing campaigns, he helped create new parks and better protect existing ones. He worked in more than 40 national parks over 50 years - including Shenandoah, the Great Smoky Mountains and Acadia in the East - and his work in the California High Sierra resulted in some of the most indelible images of the natural world ever made with a camera. 50 of the images in this volume have not been published in any authorized Ansel Adams book previously; many more are rarely seen. A substantial essay by photographic critic and historian Richard B. Woodward lays out Adams' significant role in tracing the history of American conservation.

The selection of photographs was made by Andrea G. Stillman, Adams' assistant late in life and a foremost expert on his work. A group of thumbnail images with brief narratives, enlivened by quotations from Adams, appears at the back of the book.

Beautifully reproduced and cleanly presented, the four hundred images in this volume represent the finest work of a pre-eminent landscape photographer. The photographs are arranged chronologically into five major periods in order to convey Adams's maturation as an artist - from his first photographs in 1916 to his last great photograph in 1968.

ANSEL ADAMS' 400 PHOTOGRAPHS is intended as a must-have gift and reference book for anyone who appreciates photography and the allure of the natural world. Few artists or photographers of any era can claim to have produced four hundred images of lasting beauty and significance. It is a testament to Ansel's vision and his prodigious output that a book of this scale can be justified, and it is a point of pride for Little, Brown to publish a comprehensive overview of the work of Ansel Adams in a single well-packaged volume.

The invitation to photograph the nation's parklands was the perfect assignment for Adams, as it allowed him to express his deepest convictions as artist, conservationist, and citizen. These stunning photographs of the natural geysers and terraces in Yellowstone, the rocks and ravines in the Grand Canyon, the winding rivers and majestic mountains in Glacier and Grand Teton national parks, the mysterious Carlsbad Caverns, the architecture of ancient Indian villages, and many other evocative views of the American West demonstrate the genius of Adams' technical and aesthetic inventiveness.

In these glorious, seminal images we see the inspired reverence for the wilderness that has made Ansel Adams' work an enduring influence on environmentalism as well as art.

About the Author:

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) was one of the most prolific and highly acclaimed photographers of the twentieth century, and the author of dozens of publications. He helped establish the department of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and founded the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. A member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years, Adams was instrumental in the growth of the American conservationist movement.

Чудова монографія про фотографа Ара Гюлера, відомого як «Око Стамбула».

Будучи свідченням багатої історії Туреччини,A Play of Light and Shadow пропонує сучасний погляд на творчість Ґюлера, а також надає можливість дослідити її знакові та невідомі частини.

З текстовими внесками історика мистецтва Кім Нопперс, куратора та керівника відділу фотографії Istanbul Modern, Демет Йилдіз Дінчер, фотографа та кінорежисера Ахмета Полата та Клаарт’є ван Дейк, куратора та керівника виставок у Foam в Амстердамі.

Про фотографа:

Народився 16 серпня 1928 року Ара Гюлер, турецький фотожурналіст, також відомий як «Око Стамбула». Його батько був власником аптеки, але мав багато друзів, які належали до світу мистецтва. Ара познайомився з цими людьми, і вони надихнули його вибрати кар’єру в кіно/кінематографі. Він працював на кіностудіях і вступив на курси драми під керівництвом Мухсіна Ертугрула. Пізніше він схилився до журналістики і закинув кіно. У 1950 році він приєднався до Yeni Istanbul, турецької газети, як фотожурналіст. У той же час він вивчав економіку в Стамбульському університеті. Потім почав працювати в Hurriyet.

У 1958 році, коли американське видання Time-Life відкрило свій філіал у Туреччині, Ара Гюлер став його першим кореспондентом. Невдовзі він почав отримувати замовлення від інших міжнародних журналів, таких як Stern, Paris Match і Sunday Times, Лондон. У 1961 році він був прийнятий на роботу в журнал Hayat на посаду головного фотографа.

У цей час він познайомився з Марком Рібу та Анрі Картьє-Брессоном, які залучили його до Magnum Photos. Ара була представлена ​​в 1961 році в British Photography Yearbook. У тому ж році Американське товариство журнальних фотографів прийняло його першим турецьким фотографом, який став членом цієї організації.

У 1960-х роках роботи Ара використовувалися в книгах відомих авторів як засіб ілюстрації та демонструвалися на різних виставках по всьому світу. У 1968 році його роботи були представлені в Музеї сучасного мистецтва в Нью-Йорку на виставці під назвою «Десять майстрів кольорової фотографії». Крім того, його фотографії також були показані на ярмарку в Кельні Photokina в Німеччині. Через два роки в Туреччині вийшов його фотоальбом. Його зображення, пов’язані з мистецтвом та його історією, були представлені в таких журналах, як Horizon, Life, Time та Newsweek.

A young woman with her legs spread wide; buttoned-up dressed workers on a city street. Contrasting photos like these of intensely private scenes, and snapshots of nameless passers-by are Nobuyoshi Araki’s early commentary on the heterogeneity of Japanese society, calling the moral responsibility of its members into question. This book combines Araki’s Tokyo series from his early works with a selection of his recent Polaroid collages and newly developed slide shows — all of them exploring the contradictions between anonymity and intimacy, the public and private sphere, reality and dream.

The legendary Araki is one of the most influential and widely discussed artists today, one who deals with nakedness, sexuality and the body in a radical and realistic way. Through an extreme emotional and physical closeness with his subjects, he becomes not only part of their lives but plays a central role in his own photos, thus transcending voyeurism. Together with Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Boris Mikhailov, Araki is considered one of the pioneers of intimate subjective photography.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn’t. Nobuyoshi Araki 

About the Author:

Born in Tokyo in 1940, Nobuyoshi Araki worked in advertising after completing his studies in photography and film at Chiba University in Tokyo; he devoted himself exclusively to photography from the mid-1960s. Araki’s oeuvre spans erotic portraits of women, artificial still lifes, images of plants, documentary-style depictions of everyday life, architectural photography, as well as diaristic photos of himself and his deceased wife Yoko. He has published around 400 books, shown in many international exhibitions, and his work is part of important collections worldwide. Araki lives and works in Tokyo.

The definitive monograph of Ari Marcopoulos, the renowned photographer whose explicit and startling visual intimacy bridges art and street photography. For nearly four decades, Ari Marcopoulos has broken conventions with his candid and raw style. His photographs documenting subcultures such as skateboarding, snowboarding, and hip-hop; his tendencies to photograph stark landscapes, portraits of artists, and celebrities; and his extremely quiet and intimate photos of his family and friends have all been hugely influential in helping to establish the visual rawness of youth culture, as well as the ephemeral aesthetic of contemporary photography. Ari Marcopoulos: Not Yet is an unprecedented journey through the artist’s celebrated career, from skateboarding and snowboarding to rural landscapes and cityscapes. This volume includes both iconic and never-before-published photographs from the 1980s to now. Each chapter is edited by a different celebrated artist or family member — all close to Marcopoulos — and it is through these personal reflections on the artist’s work that this monograph takes on a deeper level of intimacy, drawing a more complete portrait of his oeuvre.

About the Author:

Ari Marcopoulos is an artist whose photographs and films have been exhibited, collected, and published around the world. Robert Slifkin is an associate professor of fine arts at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. Catherine Taft is a writer and curator based in Los Angelese. Neville Wakefield is a curator and writer on contemporary art and culture.

Довгоочікувана нова книга художниці та авторки бестселерів New York Times Саллі Манн про виклики та трансцендентні задоволення творчого процесу

Art Work фотографки та письменниці Саллі Манн пропонує захопливу суміш диких та повчальних історій, практичних (і деяких непрактичних) порад та життєвих уроків для художників і письменників – або будь-кого, хто цікавиться творчим шляхом. Написана в тому ж відвертому, безстрашному та часом епатажному тоні її бестселерів-мемуарів Hold Still, ця нова книга підтверджує Манн як унікальний та резонансний голос нашого часу та призначена стати класикою.

Ілюстрована фотографіями, записами в щоденниках та листами, які додають оповіді безпосередності та зворушливості, Art Work сповнене спонукаючих до роздумів ідей про небезпеки ранніх обіцянок; непередбачувану роль удачі; цінність роботи, роботи, роботи і ще раз наполегливої ​​праці; труднощі відмови та відволікання; важливість ризику; та винагороди за знання того, чому і коли ти кажеш «так». У блискучій прозі та продумано поєднаних візуальних та ефемерних елементах, Art Work – це щедре, провокаційне та захопливе дослідження творчості від одного з наших найоригінальніших мислителів.

Про автора:

Саллі Манн – стипендіатка Гуггенхайма та тричі лауреатка стипендії Національного фонду мистецтв. У 2001 році журнал Time назвав її «Найкращим фотографом Америки». У 2021 році вона отримала премію Prix Pictet і була введена до Міжнародної зали слави фотографії. Вона стала героїнею двох документальних фільмів: «Кровні узи» (1994), який був номінований на премію «Оскар», та «Що залишається» (2006), прем’єра якого відбулася на кінофестивалі «Санденс» і була номінована на премію «Еммі» за найкращий документальний фільм. Книга Саллі Манн Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (Little, Brown, 2015) отримала загальне визнання критиків і був фіналістом Національної книжкової премії.

Avedon 100 відзначає тривалий вплив Річарда Аведона на фотографію та пояснює його глибокий вплив на візуальну культуру в усьому світі.

Опублікований з нагоди однойменної виставки в Гагосяні, Нью-Йорк, у 2023 році, цей вражаючий ілюстрований каталог відзначає сторіччя з дня народження культового фотографа. Понад сто відомих художників, дизайнерів, музикантів, письменників, кураторів та діячів світу моди попросили вибрати фотографію Аведона та детально розповісти про те, як і зображення, і художник вплинули на їхнє життя. Серед учасників були Хілтон Алс, Наомі Кемпбелл, Елтон Джон, Спайк Лі, Саллі Манн, Поллі Меллен, Кейт Мосс, Хлоя Севіньї, Тарін Саймон, Крісті Терлінгтон та Джонас Вуд.

Avedon 100 відзначає тривалий вплив Аведона на фотографію та пояснює його глибокий вплив на візуальну культуру в усьому світі. Книга представляє різні періоди його творчості, включаючи широко відому серію «На американському Заході», зображення руху за соціальну справедливість, класичні портрети, рекламу та роботи у сфері моди. Відтворені фотографії розкривають величезну та захопливу різноманітність сюжетів Аведона, а коментарі відомих селекціонерів підкреслюють широту та довговічність його спадщини.

Avedon 100 містить передмову Ларрі Гагосяна, тексти Дерека Бласберга та Джейка Скітса, а також есе Сари Елізабет Льюїс.

Про автора:

Дерек Бласберг — письменник, редактор моди та автор бестселерів New York Times. Він приєднався до Гагосяна у 2014 році та є виконавчим редактором Gagosian Quarterly.

Ларрі Гагосян відкрив свою першу галерею сучасного та сучасного мистецтва у 1980 році в Лос-Анджелесі. Сьогодні Гагосян має дев'ятнадцять виставкових просторів у Сполучених Штатах, Європі та Азії, спроектованих відомими архітекторами. Ініціативи галереї включають інноваційні онлайн-зали для перегляду, що збігаються з великими художніми ярмарками, що пропонують прозорий та всебічний аналіз ринку; видавничий підрозділ, який випускає каталоги наукових виставок, монографії художників, каталоги-резоне та журнал Gagosian Quarterly; а також самобутні роздрібні магазини.

Сара Елізабет Льюїс — доцентка історії мистецтва та архітектури, а також афро- та афроамериканських досліджень у Гарвардському університеті, засновниця проекту «Бачення та справедливість».

Джейк Скітс — автор книги «Очі, пляшка, темрява, з повним ротом квітів», переможця Національної поетичної серії, премії «Відкриття Кейт Тафтс», Американської книжкової премії та премії Уайтінг. Він походить з народу навахо та викладає в Університеті Оклахоми.

The first book of photography to be published by the Academy Award-winning film director and photographer Spike Jonze. Will appeal to every fan of Beastie Boys and golden-era hip hop, as well as photography and Spike Jonze's own focused audiences.

Spike Jonze and Beastie Boys met for the first time in Los Angeles in 1991, when Jonze went out to photograph the band for the cover of Dirt magazine. A connection formed between the three MCs and the young photographer, which has lasted throughout their careers.

Almost thirty years later -- published to coincide with the release on Apple+ of a new documentary, Beastie Boys Story -- this book collects for the first time more than two hundred of Spike Jonze's personal photographs of his time spent with the group. Edited and with an afterword by Jonze, and including new writing by Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz themselves, this book shows an intimate look at the greatest act of the hip-hop generation in their truest colors as only a close friend could see them -- from performing live onstage to writing together at Mike's apartment; getting into character for a video to dressing up as old men to hit the basketball court; recording music in the studio to goofing around on the streets of New York.

From the music video for "Sabotage" to the cover of the Sounds of Science album, Spike Jonze is responsible for some of the most iconic images of the band ever made. But here, the emphasis is on the candid, the unexpected, and the real -- just pictures of friends who like making stuff together.

About the Author:

Spike Jonze is an award-winning American film director, photographer, and writer. He has won Academy Awards for Best Director (Being John Malkovich, 2000) and for Best Original Screenplay (Her, 2013), as well as a Grammy Award for Best Music Video (Weapon of Choice, 2002). He has written, directed, or produced ten feature films, more than twenty documentaries and shorts, several television shows, and dozens of BMX, skateboarding, and music videos. He is currently the creative director of Vice Media and its television channel Viceland. He lives in Los Angeles and New York.