"Martin Parr's vast collections of photography books and postcards are world-renowned. Unbeknownst to many, he is also an obsessive collector of photographic and themed objects. In Parrworld: Objects and Postcards, a luscious two-volume set, his affinity for focused accumulation is presented with appropriate thoroughness, and with typical Parrian humor. Some of the items in the first volume, Objects, have already achieved notoriety--for ..."
"Ivory Press' new C Photo series is a five-year project that follows on the heels of C Photo magazine, departing from its predecessor's format by structuring each issue thematically, with guest editorships from various internationally renowned curators. This inaugural issue, edited by Elena Ochoa Foster, is devoted to early and first works by some of the biggest names in photography. These fledgling projects show budding artists striking ..."
"'At the moment, photography is in a phase of change in which an altered conception of the documentary factor is emerging. It is not so much a matter of the portrayal or representation of reality, but rather of an artistically well-grounded idea of the world.' So says Thomas Weski in his essay in this big, bold, and truly essential compendium of documentary and almost-documentary photographs. Featured artists include Diane Arbus, Tina Ba ..."
""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 ..."
"Elvisâs Graceland, a freezer stuffed with food, a Gulf gasoline sign standing in a deserted rural landscapethese are only a few of the iconic images captured by the democratic cameraâ of photographer William Eggleston. Not only has he drawn upon images so telling of American culture, he has produced them with an intensity and balance of color that have helped elevate the entire field of color photography to a fine art, especially ..."
"From Albrecht Fuchs’ magnetic portraits of Sarah Lucas, Raymond Pettibon, Jonathan Meese, Mark Leckey and other international art stars to Wiebke Loeper’s strangely moving and often desolate landscapes to Matthias Koch’s deadpan images of grounded submarines, government ministries and disused military bunkers, this collection highlights 10 new positions in German photography today, as noted by the internationally renowned curator and ph ..."
"How You Look at It is the catalog of a major photographic exhibition organized by the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany. Its thesis--that photography is the defining art of the 20th century--is straightforward, but its organization is unusual. Rather than a chronological survey of iconic images, the book presents only 40 photographers, from the pioneering Frenchman Atget to postwar Americans and modern German masters like Thomas Strut ..."
"with text by Thomas Janzon Albert Renger-Patzsch, together with August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt, was one of the undisputed pioneers of twentieth-century German photography. Indeed, what Sander achieved in portrait photography and Blossfeldt in plant photography, Renger-Patzsch achieved in his renderings of objects and the material world. As a protagonist of the movement t ..."
"Gegenübergestellt werden graue Bilder von Richter aus den Jahren 1965 bis 1974 sowie "Spiegel, Grau / Mirror, Grey" von 1991 mit Fotos von Michael Schmidt aus "Waffenruhe" (1985-1987) und "Berlin Wedding" (1976-1978)."
"Schmidt first gained attention in 1984 with Berlin - Kreuzberg, a series of photographs of the neighborhood where he lives.
Many of his works explore the architecture of urban landscapes, depicting apartment blocks, office buildings, and inhabitants in an austere documentary style.
The meticulously composed black and white photographs, with their rich nuances, come from a number of different series, including Irgendwo, Berlin - Kreuzb ..."
""I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important," William Eggleston once said. This radical attitude guided his ground-breaking work in color photography, work that has prefigured many recent developments in art and photography. Los Alamos presents a series of photographs that has never before been shown, yet it contains a blueprint of Eggleston's aesthetics, his subtle use ..."
How You Look at It(1st Edition) Photographs of the 20th Century द्वारा Heinz Liesbrock, ThomasWeski Hardcover, 528 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2000 द्वारा Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-97592-3, ISBN: 0-500-97592-2
"How you look at it, with its emphasis on the photography of visual reality, combines high artistic aspirations with clear social and historical awareness."
Laurenz Berges Early Then. Photographs द्वारा ThomasWeski, Laurenz Berges Hardcover, 116 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2012 द्वारा Schirmer Mosel ISBN-13: 978-3-8296-0538-0, ISBN: 3-8296-0538-2
"Laurenz Berges, geb. 1966, in Düsseldorf ansässiger Photograph und jüngster Meisterschüler der Becher-Schule, legt eine neue Folge seiner Farbphotographien vor. Er bleibt in diesen Bildern sowohl seinem Stil als auch seinen Sujets treu. Es sind die Details aus verlassenen Wohnungen, geräumten Häusern und verwilderten Gärten, die ihn interessieren und die er zum Gegenstand seiner poetischen Bildgestaltung macht. Fast möchte man von einer ..."
"Dag Alveng's beautiful black and white photographs are a study, as the title suggests, in light. Taken at the Norwegian seashore, these landscapes, seascapes, and family scenes all have something to say about the play of sun and shadow and about the power of light in the Northern summer. These are quiet photographs with the remarkably rich tones that Alveng is known for, and they are exquisitely printed. They have the power to transport ..."
"Neuauflage des 1978 erschienenen BuchesGebundenes BuchNach der Wiederauflage von Michael Schmidts legendärem Fotobuch "Waffenruhe" (1987) erscheint nun das seit langem vergriffene Künstlerbuch "Berlin-Wedding" von 1978 in einer zweiten Auflage. In Berlin-Wedding fotografiert Michael Schmidt den Stadtteil im dokumentarischen Stil. Obwohl das Projekt im Auftrag des Bezirksamts entstand, formuliert Schmidt seine künstlerische Vorstellung d ..."
Michael Schmidt EIN-HEIT द्वारा ThomasWeski Hardcover, प्रकाशित 2022 द्वारा Buchhandlung Walther König ISBN-13: 978-3-7533-0196-9, ISBN: 3-7533-0196-5
"m Gegensatz zu seinen bewusst nüchternen, aber nicht distanzierten Aufnahmen seiner früheren Serien, zeichnet Schmidt in "Waffenruhe" mit atmosphärisch verdichteten, ausschnitthaften und kontrastreichen Schwarzweißaufnahmen von Stadtlandschaften, Naturdetails und Porträts ein subjektives, bleiernes Bild der noch geteilten Stadt. Seine Technik folgt inzwischen nicht mehr den Mitteln reiner Dokumentation, sondern formuliert in überraschen ..."
"C/O Berlin, Museum Folkwang Essen, Sprengel Museum HannoverGebundenes BuchDies ist die erste ausführliche Darstellung von Geschichte, Einflüssen und Wirkungen der "Werkstatt für Photographie", die 1976 vom Berliner Fotografen Michael Schmidt an der Volkshochschule Kreuzberg gegründet wurde.In jenen Jahren entstanden in Westdeutschland Strukturen, die der Emanzipation der Fotografie als Kunstform den Weg ebnen sollten. Dazu gehörten nebe ..."
"Joachim Brohm was among the first of a younger generation of German photographers who discovered in color photography a new medium of self-expression. At the end of the 1970s serious artistic photography was still supposedly only made in black and white, despite major developments such as William Egglestons controversial 1976 show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Brohms OHIO photographs were made in 1983 and 1984 whilst he was l ..."