Beyond Architecture Michael Kenna

Beyond Architecture Michael Kenna
Author: Yvonne Meyer-Lohr
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 3791385828

A stunning selection of black-and-white photographs taken by Michael Kenna over the past forty-five years. Michael Kenna is regarded as one of the most accomplished photographers working today. This book charts Kenna's work in the field of architectural photography, showing how his approach to the built environment informs his style, whether he's capturing natural or human-made structures. In page after page of lush duotone illustrations, the book creates dialogs between images to show how Kenna applies light, shadow, composition, and perspective to similar effect in different settings. Yvonne Meyer-Lohr's astute curatorial approach helps us understand how deftly Kenna moves between techniques, whether he is capturing the network of cables on a suspension bridge, the glittering jewels of a nighttime cityscape, or the haunting silhouette of a factory tower. Accompanied by insightful texts by Meyer-Lohr, this volume is a comprehensive look at a brilliant photographer whose dedication to craft and technique sets him apart from his contemporaries.

Paris Changing

Paris Changing
Author: Christopher Rauschenberg
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007-10-04
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781568986807

Between 1888 and 1927 Eugne Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environs, capturing in thousands of photographs the city's parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. His images preserved the vanishing architecture of the ancien rgime as Paris grew into a modern capital and established Atget as one of the twentieth century's greatest and most revered photographers. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the late '90s revisiting and rephotographing many of Atget's same locations. Paris Changing features seventy-four pairs of images beautifully reproduced in duotone. By meticulously replicating the emotional as well as aesthetic qualities of Atget's images, Rauschenberg vividly captures both the changes the city has undergone and its enduring beauty. His work is both an homage to his predecessor and an artistic study of Paris in its own right. Each site is indicated on a map of the city, inviting readers to follow in the steps of Atget and Rauschenberg themselves. Essays by Clark Worswick and Alison Nordstrom give insight into Atget's life and situate Rauschenberg's work in the context of other rephotography projects. The book concludes with an epilogue by Rosamond Bernier as well as a portfolioof other images of contemporary Paris by Rauschenberg. If a trip to the city of lights is not in your immediate future, this luscious portrait of Paris then and now is definitely the next best thing.

If You Go, All the Plants Will Die

If You Go, All the Plants Will Die
Author: Fred Mitchell
Publisher: Yoffy Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781949608243

Like a country song but without the country part, If You Go, All the Plants Will Die explores failed relationships through dead plants. While living in Las Vegas and suffering through the stages of a deteriorating relationship, Fred Mitchell became hyper-aware of dying plants all around, mirroring and mocking his private life. He decided to embrace the absurdity and began documenting the haunting flora both in nature and in the studio. The book has a hand-crafted feel - the pages are semi-transparent to allow color fields to come through and impact the imagery, and the book is saddle-stitched with a silk-screened cover.

Attention Servicemember

Attention Servicemember
Author: Ben Brody
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997216318

Attention Servicemember is Ben Brody's searing elegy to the experience of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brody was a soldier assigned to make visual propaganda during the Iraq War. After leaving the army, he traveled to Afghanistan as an independent civilian journalist. Returning to rural New England after 12 years at war, he found his home unrecognizable - even his own backyard radiated menace and threat. So he continued photographing the war as it exists in his own mind. This critically-acclaimed photobook was shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo First Book Award and is now in its second printing.

Why Photographs Work

Why Photographs Work
Author: George Barr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781933952703

Photographic equipment & techniques.

Living in Nature

Living in Nature
Author: Phaidon Phaidon Editors
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781838662509

An awe-inspiring collection of contemporary homes designed to foster a connection with the essential elements of landscape Living in Nature showcases a selection of architect-designed houses that have something fundamental in common: a special relationship with the natural world. Each of the book's 50 homes is carefully chosen for its stunning location, whether cocooned within the earth itself or soaring high amongst treetops, surrounded by cooling waters, or resisting the desert heat. With a wealth of photographs showcasing each house inside and out, Living in Nature offers inspiration -- and tranquillity.

Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning

Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning
Author: Richard Misrach
Publisher: Aperture
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781597114776

In 'The Photography Workshop Series', Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography - offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography.00In this book, Richard Misrach - well known for his sublime and expansive landscapes that focus on the relationship between humans and their environment - offers his insight on creating photographs that are visually beautiful and have cultural implications. Through images and words, he shares his own creative process and discusses a wide range of issues, from the language of color photography and the play of light and atmosphere, to transcending place and time through metaphor, myth, and abstraction.

Permanent Error

Permanent Error
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 3791345206

The most recent publication from the award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo reveals the devastating consequences of toxic waste on one community in Africa. In his previous well-received volumes of photographs, Hugo offers unflinching yet striking portraits of humans, animals, societies, and landscapes that shock and disturb, but also demand our attention. In Permanent Error, he documents a garbage dump in Ghana that has become the repository for discarded computers from around the world. These haunting images document the true cost of a misguided policy-the shipping of millions of tons of obsolete computers to developing countries. The computers are burned to extract valuable metals, effectively turning the site into a toxic wasteland that contaminates air, soil, and groundwater for miles around. These amazing portraits tell a story of a marginal community overwhelmed by poverty, but where human strength and resilience shine through the inhuman conditions Hugo lays bare.

Real Fake Art

Real Fake Art
Author: Michael Wolf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2011
Genre: Art forgers
ISBN: 9783941825208

The Photography of Bedford Lemere & Co

The Photography of Bedford Lemere & Co
Author: Nicholas Cooper
Publisher: Historic England Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781848020610

Bedford Lemere and Co was the pre-eminent English firm of architectural photographers from 1890-1930, a time of extraordinary change and unparalleled optimism. Complemented with an informative introduction and captions by the author, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest inphotography, architecture and social history.