"Laurie Simmons has been dealing with issues from In and Around the House since the mid-1970s. Her seminal early work was some of the first to use set-up photography to create images with intensely psychological subtexts and forcefully feminist content. The 1950s-style constructed interiors used dolls, dollhouse furnishings, miniature props, postcards, interior decoration books, pamphlets and magazines to create images that questioned fe ..."
"A seminal volume celebrating the career of influential American artist Barbara Kruger, made in collaboration with the artist. Bold, philosophical, radical, subversive: the art of Barbara Kruger focuses on decoding the social-psychological messages embedded in popular culture. Marrying pictures to words in a variety of media and sites, Kruger raises issues of power politics, sexuality, and representation. Borrowing slogans and phrases fr ..."
"Presenting the works of 50 contemporary artists and photographers from around the world, Strangers explores the different roles the camera now plays in negotiating the boundaries between public and private life, trust and fear, intimacy and isolation. Accompanying the first recurring exhibition of its kind devoted to photography and related media at the International Center of Photography in New York, Strangers investigates the social w ..."
"A shocking new exploration of the photographer as voyeur Since the rise of the photographic medium in the late 19th century, people have been fascinated by the camera’s ability to record striking moments both public and private. From Mathew Brady’s haunting images of the Civil War to the present day paparazzi’s brand of voyeurism-for-hire, photography has long served to capture not only the posed portrait but also the personal, the inti ..."
"One of the most powerful people in the art world--and the only Canadian on that list--Ydessa Hendeles is renowned not only as one of the foremost supporters of contemporary art but also as a brilliant curator and collector. The collection she has assembled under the auspices of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation is one of the most original, prescient, and highly regarded contemporary art collections in the world--if one of the lesser kn ..."
"Every three years, New York's International Center of Photography (ICP) presents a global survey of the most exciting and challenging new work in photography and video--the only recurrent U.S. exhibition to specialize in this field. Opening in September 2009, the Third ICP Triennial will take place within a year-long cycle of ICP exhibitions that critically examine fashion and its relation to contemporary art and other cultural phenomen ..."
"The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women’s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians, and practitioners. Readers will find ..."
"Bringing together a group of stylistically diverse but similarly adventurous and innovative artists, this book explores the intense creative experimentation in photography that has occurred since the 1970s. Few people ask, "What is a painting? A drawing? A sculpture?" But the medium of photography, especially since the 1970s, has been constantly changing as technological developments allow for endless experimentation--until the very def ..."
"Drawn from the International Center of Photography's archives, this book highlights the incomparable style and fascinating career of Weegee, one of New York City's quintessential press photographers. For a decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee made a name for himself snapping crime scenes, victims, and perpetrators. Armed with a Speed Graphic camera and a police-band radio, Weegee often beat the cops to the story, determined to sell his ..."
""Out of the Dark Room" comprises a selection of more than 150 works drawn from the exceptional collection of modern and contemporary photographs of Irish-American collector David Kronn, which he has pledged to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in its entirety. As diverse as photography itself the collection traces some of the key developments in twentieth century photography's approach to architecture, landscape and portraiture whilst also ..."
"Highlighting the increasing overlay of networked reality onto the human experience of the world, this volume identifies some of the new types of imagery that are beginning to coalesce into a 21st-century digital vernacular. Every three years the curators of New York's International Center of Photography gather the most interesting contemporary photography and video from around the world to explore a specific issue, trend, or movement. P ..."
Avedon fashion(1st Edition) 1944 - 2000. In conjunction with the Exhibition Avedon Fashion 1944 - 2000 ; exhibition dates: May 15 - September 6, 2009]., ; Vince Aletti. With an introd. by Philippe Garner. In assoc. with the International Center of Photography and The Richard Avedon Foundation द्वारा Richard Avedon, CarolSquiers, Walter Schwarz, Vince Aletti, Philippe Garner Hardcover, 372 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2009 द्वारा Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh ISBN-13: 978-3-8296-0422-2, ISBN: 3-8296-0422-X
"Avedon Fashion 1944-2000Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 encompasses seven decades of extraordinary images by Richard Avedon, the most influential fashion photographer of the 20th century.This comprehensive volume offers a definitive survey, from Avedon's groundbreaking early photographs for Harper's Bazaar through his constantly inventive contributions to Vogue, Egoiste, and The New Yorker. Each carefully selected image represents an artistic ..."
"Le livre Avedon Fashion embrasse sept décennies du travail de Richard Avedon (1923-2004), l''un des plus influents photographes de mode du XXe siècle.A travers 245 photographies dont 45 en couleurs, cet ouvrage très complet donne la juste mesure de son talent, de ses premiers essais révolutionnaires pour le Harper''s Bazaar à ses contributions inventives pour Vogue, Egoïste ou The New Yorker. Richard Avedon a bouleversé les codes de la ..."
The Body at Risk Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing द्वारा CarolSquiers Paperback, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2006 द्वारा University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24733-8, ISBN: 0-520-24733-7
"The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing is the first book to explore the ways that photojournalists and social documentarians have conceptualized the human subject as a site of both good and ill health. The volume looks at photographs depicting child laborers; Depression-era health programs; general medical care in the southern United States at mid-century; people with HIV, AIDS, and polio, along with their caret ..."
"Featuring Laurie Simmons' early works from 1976-78, the black-and-white photographs show fifties-style interiors furnished true to detail with dolls and dolls' furniture, miniature objects, postcards, books, pamphlets and magazines, all ..."
"This book combines a first person account of the events of September 11 with a uniquely artistic view of the DNA recovery effort. Gripping texts and award winning photography combine to create a unique documentary of Mikey Flowers' experience. On the morning of September 11, 2001, a florist and volunteer Emergency Medical Technician named Mikey Flowers grabbed his digital camera and ran the few blocks from his store to the World Trade C ..."
"After more than 50 years in storage, a selection of images from the famed Kinsey Institute archive has been made available to the public in Peek. Alfred C. Kinsey, biology professor and pioneer in the field of sex research, began collecting erotic images in the late 1930s. This collection was kept hidden from the public eye until an uncooperative customs official outed a foreign shipment on its way to the Indianapolis institute in 1950; ..."