Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: With painstaking care and the use of multiple exposures, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao crafts each of his images with technological precision. Shooting primarily with a large-format film camera, then scanning and digitally editing the negatives, Liao creates enormous, detail-driven panoramas of the social and urban landscape of New York. This oversized monograph includes photographs taken over the last…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Aperture Masters of Photography Series has become a touchstone of Apertures longstanding commitment to introducing the history and art of photography to a broader public. Each volume provides an ongoing comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium. Initially presented as the History of Photography Series in 1976, the first volume featured Henri Cartier-Bresson and was…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Aperture Masters of Photography Series has become a touchstone of Apertures longstanding commitment to introducing the history and art of photography to a broader public. Each volume provides an ongoing comprehensive view of the artists who have helped shape the medium. Initially presented as the History of Photography Series in 1976, the first volume featured Henri Cartier-Bresson and was…
Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: Erwin Olaf's approach to storytelling is uniquely evocative and enticingly ambiguous. According to critic Francis Hodgson, Olaf's images lead us to a Stimmung (a sense of atmosphere) which is broad enough to repay many second readings of the pictures and so keep us viewers interested. In this presentation of his most recent work, Olaf expands on his established style of highly polished, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 335 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 263) Аннотация: Photography Changes Everything drawn from the online Smithsonian Photography Initiative offers a provocative rethinking of photography's impact on our culture and our lives. It is a reader-friendly exploration of the many ways photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world. At this transitional moment in visual…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In 2001, Rinko Kawauchi launched her career with the simultaneous publication of three astonishing photobooks — Utatane, Hanabi and Hanako — firmly establishing herself as one of the most innovative newcomers to contemporary photography, not just in Japan, but across the globe. In the years that followed, she published other notable monographs, including Aila (2004), The Eyes, the Ear (2005) and…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Fans of classic pulp paperbacks will flip over photographer Thomas Allen's delightful reconstructions. Taking covers from the pulpiest of pulp novels, Allen creates witty new scenes inspired by Hollywood noir, westerns, hard-boiled fiction, and femme fatale favorites.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 275) Аннотация: Josef Koudelka has consistently produced images that provoke a connection to the larger questions of human existence. This volume is the first to present his most eloquent images in a single volume. Spans Koudelkas entire career, from his earliest work with the Semafor Theatre in 1960s Prague to his most recent landscape studies in Camargue, France.
Скачать книгу (размер 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 175) Аннотация: The older paradigm for photojournalists was to simply record events, with the hopeand frequently the expectationthat people and their governments would be moved to respond to the injustices pictured; as witnessed by the impact of certain images during the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Given evolving media and political climates, however, including the billions of images now available…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 253 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 247) Аннотация: A leading voice in the field of photography criticism, Vicki Goldberg is well known for her cogent and perceptive writing. Aperture is pleased to release in paperback Light Matters, a selection of this remarkable authors essays and criticism culled from the past twenty-five years. Goldbergs take on photography is both insightful and expansive: her subjects range from pop icons to the imagery of…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Rinko Kawauchi has gained international recognition for her nuanced, lushly colored images that offer closely observed fragments of everyday life. In her latest work, she shifts her attention from the micro to the macro. The title, Ametsuchi, is comprised of two Japanese characters meaning heaven and earth, and is taken from the title of one of the oldest pangrams in Japanesea chant in which each…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This Is Mars offers a previously unseen vision of the red planet. Located somewhere between art and science, the book brings together for the first time a series of panoramic images recently sent back by the U.S. observation satellite MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Since its arrival in orbit in 2006, MRO and its HiRISE telescope have been mapping Mars' surface in a series of exceptionally…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Aperture magazine was founded in 1952 by the photographers Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan and Dorothea Lange, and the photography historians Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. These individuals wished to foster the development and appreciation of the photographic medium. Today the magazine maintains the founders' spirit, presenting a diversity of historical work, photojournalism and portfolios…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Taken against the Arcadian backdrop of her woodland home in Virginia, Sally Mann's extraordinary, intimate photographs of her children — Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia — reveal truths that embody the individuality of her immediate family and ultimately take on a universal quality. Mann states that her work is about everybody's memories, as well as their fears, a theme echoed by Reynolds Price in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: As photography became an increasingly accessible medium in the twentieth century, the popularity of the photographic album exploded, yielding a wonderful range of objects made for varying purposes — to memorialize, document (officially or unofficially), promote, or educate and sometimes simply to channel creative energy. Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography traces the rise of…
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she was already a significant influence — even something of a legend — for serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972 — along with a posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art — offered the general…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Plenty, Brian Ulrich's long-awaited first monograph, presents the photographers decade-long exploration of the shifting tectonic plates that make up American consumer society. Ulrich focuses, in part, on photographing the architectural legacies of a retail-driven economy in the midst of collapse shopping malls on the brink of demolition, empty big box stores, and other retail structures in…
Скачать книгу (размер 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 178) Аннотация: Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to reading a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential, and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbuss extensive correspondence with friends, family, and colleagues; personal notebooks; and other unpublished writings, this beautifully produced volume exposes the private thoughts and…
Скачать книгу (размер 422 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 84) Аннотация: In this exquisitely produced book, the influential American photographer Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights, this new edition has been carefully reedited and resequenced by the photographer, who has added 39 previously…
Скачать книгу (размер 830 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 164) Аннотация: For the past 15 years, Dawoud Bey has been making striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social and ethnic spectrum--and intensely attentive to their poses and gestures--he has created a highly diverse group portrait of a generation that intentionally challenges teenage stereotypes. Bey spends two to…