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Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: From the world's most foremost photographer of women comes the splendid celebrations of female form and mystique — a massive collection that spans 300 pages and covers every aspect of Peter Lindbergh's impressive body of work. Nearly every beautiful woman of the past two decades has posed for Peter Lindbergh, from supermodels to movie stars. This splendid monograph represents the definitive…

Скачать книгу (размер 825 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 163) Аннотация: Balthus (1908-2001) is one of the truly enigmatic personalities among the painters of the 20th century. Born Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, he grew up in Berlin, Switzerland and Paris, and later moved back and forth between France, the Far East and Rome. Continually crossing all sorts of borders, he remained an outsider throughout his life. His art was a sensuous and poetical admixture of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt is known for his candid black-and-white shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings. First published in 1997 and designed by the artist himself, this reprint presents his official Magnum pictures and many personal exposures.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: German photo artist Thomas Ruff is a master of conceptual serial photography. He made a name for himself in the early eighties with oversized, superrealistic color portraits of his artist friends and as a pioneer of the Diasec process used to mount photographic images onto acrylic glass, thereby obviating frames, liberating photography from the print gallery and paving the way to the grand…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Herb Ritts: L.A. Style traces the life and career of the iconic Californian photographer through a compelling selection of renowned, as well as previously unpublished, photographs and two insightful essays.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: In the mosaic that forms the seemingly immortal image of Marilyn Monroe this is probably the last, and certainly the finest, previously unpublished piece: the photographs of Milton H. Greene, from 1953 to 1957 Marilyn's photographer, artistic adviser, and business partner. In a series of skillful maneuvers Greene freed Marilyn from the shackles of her slave contract with Twentieth Century-Fox and…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The story of the life of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson reads like a novel: a gifted young man from a wealthy Paris family finds his calling via painting, the Surrealists, acting, and film. Turning his Leica camera into a magic instrument, he revolutionizes the art of photography. First published on the occasion of his 100th birthday, his illustrated biography is now available again.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664) was one of the great Spanish painters of the Baroque period. Today, his idiosyncratic, very Catholic imagery fascinates us even as it has become alien and, in essence, inaccessible. In its aesthetic-religious dimension, his work — indebted to the Spanish mysticism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — possesses a unique depth and rigor. Christ on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Anton Corbijn's new feature film is a suspense thriller titled The American, starring George Clooney. Its world-wide release is scheduled for fall 2010. Based on Martin Booth s 1992 novel A Very Private Gentleman, the movie is set in Sweden and in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The protagonist is a gunsmith and sometime hitman who tries to change his life, only to find out the hard way that you can…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Ein Überblick über die Karriere von Henri Cartier-Bressons durch 300 Fotographien vom Vermögen seines Pariser Fundaments: seine berühmtesten Ikonen sowie fremde Schüsse, vollenden Sie mit ausführlichen Chronologies seines Berufsreisens und seiner Bildergeschichten, wie sie in Zeitschriften erschienen. Veröffentlicht, um eine Hauptretrospektive am Museum der…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Karl Blossfeldt’s plant photographs from the 1920s are a milestone in 20th-century photography. Celebrated by artists, craftsmen and architects alike, for whom they were intended as a catalogue of ornamental and structural forms.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design, acclaimed by the critics as an intoxicating book remains the most attractive homage to the uncrowned king of haute couture. Pictures taken by the world's leading fashion photographers trace the success of Saint Laurent's designs, which, since conquering the fashion world five decades ago, have caused sensation after sensation each year. The book also…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 640 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 519) Аннотация: Die Photographien von Frida Kahlo in einem Buch. Eine kunsthistorische Sensation, auch wenn nur ganz wenige dieser Photographien von Frida Kahlo selbst photographiert wurden. Wäre die Kahlo eine Privatperson, würden wir von ihrem Photoalbum sprechen. Aufgrund ihres Künstlerberufs und der großen Zahl der im Nachlass aufgefundenen photographischen Dokumente, müssen wir von…

Скачать книгу (размер 779 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 154) Аннотация: Bettina Rheims has been one of the most acclaimed woman photographers of France since the early 80s, when she first showed her sensational female nudes and portraits. Film stars, actresses and artists, models, friends, country fair acrobats and strippers— known and unknown women have posed in front of her lens during the past twenty years. Female Trouble, first published in 1989 by…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 661 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 327) Аннотация: Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) war der erste Kurator für Photographie am Museum of Modern Art, New York. Unterstützt von Ansel Adams baute er ab 1940 die Abteilung — die erste ihrer Art in einem Museum — auf, nachdem er bereits 1937 eine legendäre Ausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag der Photographie im MoMA organisiert hatte. Der damalige Katalog wurde zur Grundlage seiner Geschichte der…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 207) Аннотация: Was die Pop Art in den 60er Jahren in New York, das war die Popmusik zur gleichen Zeit in London: eine echte Revolution, die, von schöpferisch-jugendlichen Kräften geführt, binnen kurzem das Lebensgefühl auf der ganzen Welt friedlich veränderte. Unser Buch, das eine Ausstellung der National Portrait Gallery in London begleitet, ist den Helden der britischen Popmusik und…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 546) Аннотация: Zu den großen Kostbarkeiten der botanischen Literatur zählt das Buch, das der Nürnberger Apotheker Basilius Besler (1561-1629) im Jahr 1613 über den von ihm für den Fürstbischof von Eichstätt angelegten Garten herausgab. Der Eichstätter Garten war ein weit über die Grenzen Deutschlands hinaus berühmtes Wunderwerk der Botanik, Zier und Nutzgarten,…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: This book gets its name from 60 unusually dark and cryptic photographs. When Newton opened his «Archives of the Night» in the 90’s, gloomy images emerged like flocks of bats. His famous «Domestic Nudes» appeared in pairs and tableaus together with sinister landscapes. Palace architecture was displayed next to morbid vanitas paintings as were bodies cut open from an anatomical museum of wax…

Скачать книгу (размер 672 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 133) Аннотация: Globetrotting filmmaker Wim Wenders always takes his old panorama camera with him, using it whenever the sheer wealth of what he sees and the impression it leaves on him breaks the normal scale of things. Infinite landscapes, endless horizons, deserts, and mountain ranges overwhelm by their emptiness and silence, street fronts in Havana, Houston, Berlin, or Jerusalem offer deep insights into the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Jim Rakete hat sich schon immer für Menschen interessiert, die etwas bewegen — ob in der Politik, auf der Bühne, in den Medien oder in der Kunstszene. Schauplatz ist im wesentlichen Berlin, und sein Spektrum reicht von der Bundeskanzlerin über Kulturschaffende jeder Couleur bis zum Boxweltmeister. Wir sehen uns lauter»vertrauten Fremden»gegenüber, deren Namen jeder kennt, die…