"Architecture has always been a natural subject matter for photographers, but for most of the twentieth century the practice of architectural photography has been a professional endeavor--anonymous photographs taken for clients for specific, commercial reasons. This book concerns itself with another aspect of the phenomenon: the photography of architecture as an art practice. It considers the work of seven contemporary photographers who ..."
"How does photography come to life? How do you transform 2-D into 3-D? Can a photograph move on the printed page? This newest issue of the high-concept fashion quarterly Visionaire pushes the limits of paper with an issue devoted to pop-ups. Visionaire 55: Surprise presents 12 hardcover pop-up books, boxed together, with projects by Steven Meisel, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, Sophie Calle, Andreas Gursky, Cai Guo-Qiang, Guido Mocafico, S ..."
"In this book the Dsseldorf-London-based artist group HobbyPopMuseum gives insight into their new work which mixes images, words, sound, and action, into an artistic reality that has resulted in invitations by institutions like the Tate Britain, and initiated collaborations with artists such as Andreas Gursky. The book contains a CD with selected compositions from HobbyPopMuseum's 2001-2004 exhibitions."
"Our image of the world, our conduct and our thinking is to an increasing degree influenced and determined by visual media. Each day presents an ever larger amount of images and media messages to process--to cope, we develop mental filters that exclude unwanted visual impressions. Breaking these mental filters necessitates constantly new and unexpected media strategies, most recently the use of techniques geared to the immersion of the v ..."
"How does a museum build up its own collection? How do the choices made by an institution, and the eventual content of its collection, compare to that of a private collection? These questions and many more about the nature of art collecting are addressed in Imagine You Are Standing here in Front of Me, an attractive, generously illustrated overview of the Caldic Collectie, the sizeable, kaleidoscopic, and willfully accumulated private co ..."
"Here, "Parkett" showcases the work of four artists whose work foregrounds the distance between the observer and the thing observed. The observer in question may be simultaneously the artist and the viewer, and the observations may concern the world, the society or the self--but in each case, these artists subvert the laws of objectivity versus subjectivity, conceptualism versus realism, the verbal versus the visual. Cultural nomads or a ..."
"A new book from sensational artist Andreas Gursky is always a publishing event. This stunning, large-format exhibition catalog from Gursky's recent solo show in Munich is made up of works mostly created since his Museum of Modern Art show in 2001.Gursky's photos exploit the visual codes of a globalized world. They combine collective memories into rhythmic images that appear familiar and intelligible to viewers because the situations hav ..."
""Ruhr Views" presents portraits of the Ruhr valley region in West Germany by 11 internationally renowned cross-generation photographers: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Joachim Brohm, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andreas Gursky, Jitka Hanzlova, Candida Hofer, Matthias Koch, Elisabeth Neudorfl, Jorg Sasse and Thomas Struth. All of these photographers had made work in the Ruhr previously, and selected their own subjects to photograph for ..."
"The first Valencia Biennial promoted and fostered communication between the arts, and addressed the imperative of innovation as the libido of contemporary culture. Featured artists include Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Greenaway, Mona Hatoum, Clegg & Guttmann, Richard Billingham, Maja Bajevic, Cecily Brown, John Bock, David Byrne and Anish Kapoor."
"During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive ..."
"Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Günter Förg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jörg Sasse, "XL-Photography" presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum ..."
"Hektisch tätige Aktienhändler an der Börse von Tokyo, begeisterte Zuschauermassen bei einem Rockkonzert, ein gigantischer Wohnblock in Paris oder die Oberflächenstruktur des Teppichbodens in der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Die Werke des Fotokünstlers Andreas Gursky bewegen sich zwischen Realismus und Abstraktion, lassen sich aus der Distanz wie der Nähe betrachten und zeigen in der Tiefe eine Zustandsbeschreibung der modernen Welt. Die vorli ..."
"A Japanese power plant, dilapidated slums, the patterned facades of an apartment complex in Paris--in the work of German art photographer Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, both private dwellings and the domains of industrial and political power are made into sometimes awe-inspiring and always overpowering forces of urban life. Gursky's signature mix of epic sweep and extreme detail is ideally suited to the portrayal of large-scal ..."
"Everything is made in Mexico, from decorative mirrors to silver jewelry to plastic dolls and ceramic dishware--and contemporary art. Made in Mexico examines recent art produced within and about Mexico. Historically, Mexico has always welcomed artists and writers from abroad as a way of enriching and diversifying the national character. This publication examines the phenomenon from a contemporary perspective for the first time. Made in M ..."
"This phonebook-sized survey of current contemporary art is the world's first look at the collection of the brand-new Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and LeAn, in Spain. MUSAC's stated mission is to serve as a museum of the present, an ever-changing art environment in a "living space that opens the door to a wide range of contemporary artistic expressions... a series of game boards on which action is the leading player." The museu ..."
" The art of the 20th century can be understood fully only from a perspective that ignores boundaries between countries and continents. Werner Spies (b. 1937), teacher, critic, curator of major international exhibitions, and close friend to many major artists, has always had an open eye and mind. His critical appraisals of trends in both Europe and the United States continue to stimulate art lovers around the globe. Spies's collected wri ..."
"Greek collector Dakis Joannou is one of the preeminent collectors of contemporary art in the world, with a collection that stands as a virtual who's who of artists from the 1980s through today. Eighty-five of those artists are represented in Monument to Now--the most utterly relevant to today, of course. Leading curators from New York, Milan, and Paris have contributed essays and selected the included artists. Designed by acclaime ..."
"Water is the source of all life on this planet, yet more than one billion people have it in insufficient supply. Representing this vital element in all our lives are a kaleidoscopic selection of photographs from among others, Nan Goldin, Mario Sorrenti and Fabien Baron, demonstrating both our dependence and our carelessness towards this precious natural supply. In Water Culture, Francesca Sorrenti and Marisha Shibuya of the SKe GROUP pr ..."
"Damien Hirst's Alone Yet Together, a pseudoscientific installation of fish suspended in formaldehyde in small, identical glass boxes, graces the cover of this volume. As the singular image selected to represent the Pisces Collection, it demands some exploration of wordplay. Pisces is, after all, the zoological term for fish and also the name of a zodiac sign--the astrological sign, as it happens, of the collection's anonymous owner. Dev ..."