Chongqing

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

The Chinese city of Chongqing is little known in the West. Yet with its 32 million inhabitants, the city is twice as big as the Netherlands. Located on the Yangtze river in southwestern China, it is one of China�s most rapidly growing cities.
Ferit Kuyas stayed in Chongqing on dozens of occasions for long periods and became totally fascinated by the megalomaniacal construction fervour he witnessed there, as well as its beauty.

John Baldessari

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

He has maintained his interest in the relationship of words and imagery, of delighting in the absurd, and pointing out the irony in contemporary art theory for more than 35 years. Baldessari has been active as a printmaker since 1970; John Baldessari, A Catalogue Raisonné of Prints and Multiples 1971 �2007 marks the first comprehensive accounting of this tremendous body of work and the influence this artist has had on the international art world.

The Cubans

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

Asked to conjure an image of Cuba, most Americans see a country of elegant, crumbling buildings and old American cars. While it takes less than twenty-five minutes to fly from Miami to Havana, the United States and its island neighbor have been mired in hostility and distrust since the Castro Revolution ousted the American-backed puppet Batista fifty years ago.

Life Geos On

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

Life On Geos is a photo diary and a personal journey through Cape Town. The black and white photographs paint a portrait of the city from an outsider's point of view, a city which is said to be one of the most beautiful in the world. For centuries, Cape Town has fascinated adventurers, sailors, writers and artists. Swedish photographer Per Englund has seen beyond the beauty and for four years been scratching on the polished surface of the city. He has pointed his camera towards what aroused interest, amusement or concern. Street scenes, urban landscapes, bars and hotel rooms, tell the story of a post-apartheid city. A city with strong contrasts and a rich political, colonial, and traditional African heritage.

Black Passport

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

The archetype of the war correspondent is freighted with an outsize heroic mythos to which worldrenowned conflict photographer Stanley Greene is no stranger. Black Passport is his autobiographical monograph-cum-scrapbook, and it transports the viewer behind the news as Greene reflects upon his career, oscillating between the relative safety of life in theWest and the traumas of wars abroad.

Show

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

The noir-styled images in SHOW are variously amusing, sexy, and harsh�true reflections of the world they document. The book covers a myriad of burlesque-style performance, including drag, fetish, and sideshow. Horenstein says, "these performers are today's version of the 'starving artist'�living on the margins and delivering their personal expression through song, dance, comedy, and narrative�charged sexually and often highly political."

Unleashed 3

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

For his newest book, Josef Hoflehner turned moments into magic. From the Golden Gate Bridge to the Pyramids of Giza, and from the Grand Canal to the Strait of Malacca. Hoflehner continues to raise known views to new visions. Unleashed 3 has his recent landscape work from four continents. More than 75 stunning photographs have been selected, including from Malaysia, Borneo, Taiwan, France, Italy, California, New York, Florida and Egypt.

True

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

Charting a two year journey to the polar regions of the Atlantic basin, 'True' presents new works from the series 'The World's Edge' - an ongoing work that seeks to map the extremities of the land and islands that surround the Atlantic Ocean.

A Season in Hell

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:05 EST

Thus, 20 year old Arthur Rimbaud starts his revolutionary prose poem �A Season in Hell� shaking and leveling poetic foundations, -his words remaining as shocking today as they were in the late 19th century!
Rimbaud�s status has remained legendary and his influence runs through literature into the heart of the arts and out the mouth of Rock and Roll!

The Regulars

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

A bartender-photographer trains her eye on the patrons at McGlinchey's bar

It's four o'clock in the afternoon and the regulars start to file into the perpetual twilight of a downtown bar in Philadelphia. Bartender Sarah Stolfa pours out the drinks then picks up her camera.

Rewind

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Memory and history, and all they evoke, are the subjects here for Swedish-American photographer Nina Korhonen in this third volume of her powerful personal trilogy. Korhonen examines issues of identity and self-discovery, continuing and uniting the tales she has been telling of her life and her family, especially about her childhood, and the lives of her mother, grandmother and other female role models. The selfportraits and the family scenes, all beautiful color images, blend once again into an emotionally charged work which draws its strength from subtle feelings of love, death, joy and pain.

Wien 2

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Photographer Annelies Oberdanner�s second book of images of Vienna, this volume deepens her exploration of this magical city, delving even further into its color and atmosphere. At first glance, Oberdanner�s photos seem to be telling only part of the story, but they reveal a mystery as the viewer studies each image. Don�t expect picture-postcard scenes: she focuses on non-descript areas of town, looking behind the obvious facades at the surprising beauty of bare-branched trees mantled in snow, a potted plant abandoned on a sidewalk, high-rises sprouting from rubble. These unembellished, almost casual, scenes give a truer portrait of Vienna than any glossy guidebook.

The Jazz Loft Project

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

He recorded, as well, legends such as pianists Eddie Costa, and Sonny Clark, drummers Ronnie Free and Edgar Bateman, saxophonist Lin Halliday, bassist Henry Grimes, and multi-instrumentalist Eddie Listengart. Also dropping in on the nighttime scene were the likes of Doris Duke, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Salvador Dali, as well as pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, thieves, photography students, local cops, building inspectors, marijuana dealers, and others.

Attachment. 1967-2008.

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

In Attachment 1967-2008, Péter Korniss, Hungarian documentary photographer and humanitarian artist, records more than forty years of the disappearing peasant way of life and culture. He focuses on the village folk, industrial workers, children and the old people of Hungary and Transylvania, and through his eyes, we become fond of these people and their culture.

Love Point

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

The book contains an original short story by Richard Curtis Hauschild. First printing was 1000 copies.

In Hokkaido

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

The 2nd printing of this gorgeous artist's book, published by RAM (Tokyo) on the occasion of Michael Kenna's exhibition at the Kushiro Art Museum in Hokkaido, Japan, is distributed in the United States by Nazraeli Press. From the afterword by Daido Moriyama: "The land of Hokkaido as Michael responds to it, with a perspective foreign to us Japanese, appears entirely new.

My Father Is the Boss

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

�My father is the boss.� When Austrian photographer Christoph Burtscher was eight years old, in 1974, he began a school writing assignment with those words. In this two-part work, he has created a unique and engrossing photographic memoir, combining snapshots he took during the 1970s with facsimiles of school compositions.

Stock Car

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Stock car racing in the United States has long outgrown its country-bumpkin origins � under the aegis of NASCAR, it�s one of the fastest-growing American sports, thick with corporate sponsors and fat purses for drivers. But in the United Kingdom, stock car racing is still true to its rough-and-tumble origins.

100 Flowers

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

This book is made up of one hundred photographs of flower beds installed by the Chinese government before the Olympic games. Its title and images are a play on the 100 Flowers Movement initiated by Communist party chairman Mao Tse Toung. After the dust of the Communist Revolution had settled, Mao encouraged intellectuals, artists and other thinkers to offer "healthy criticism" of the government's progress. When they came forward and expressed concern Mao was furious and began a process that eventually led to the Cultural Revolution

New Topographics

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

The New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape was one of those rare exhibitions that permanently alters how an art form is perceived. Held at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester, New York, in January 1975, it was curated byWilliam Jenkins, who brought together ten contemporary photographers: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and HenryWessel, Jr.

Above Zero

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Following Broken Line, a prizewinning portrait of the coast of Greenland, Olaf Otto Becker (born in Travemünde, 1959) turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, Above Zero. Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world. Becker�s spectacular portraits of this region are taken during physically strenuous, sometimes life-threatening treks among glacial crevasses and melting ice floes, with a cumbersome largeformat camera.

Asor

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

In Asor, the human subject is the reader alone, dream borne, on a journey in which all places remain nameless, time cannot be ascertained and the course is lost to the imagination. Loosely inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Iturbide constructs her intimate and contemporary extension of Lewis Carroll's classic tale without words, making equal use of the narrative and compositional elements of Iturbide's photographs to startle her readers with visual riddles and quick shifts of perspective.

Mercy Mercer

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

From abandoned rural New Zealand landscapes and the residents of the alternative communities that line the Waikato River, to Maori teenagers and workers at the Waitoa Slaughterhouse, to fashion models and intimate moments from his private life, Henderson�s vast and varied subject matter is united by an approach marked by a kind of democratic naturalism, where all phenomena, no matter how insignificant or commonplace, is given equal attention.

The Corinthians

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

A compilation of Kodachrome snapshots - the film stock of a century past.

Coming to Grips

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Coming to Grips is a selection of photographs from his ongoing series tentatively titled "Wires Crossed" which is 15 years of documenting skateboarders and the lifestyle surrounding them.

Coming to Grips represents a some of the newer photographs I have taken for this body of work as well as some older ones. As a professional skateboarder I get unprecedented access to my subjects and instead of looking in from the outside, I am able to see from within this rich culture that tells many stories of youth and fame that expand beyond the small world of skateboarding and speak of human commonalities

Redheads

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

This book is a remake of the book "REDHEADS" by Joel Meyerowitz published in 1991. This masterful suite of portraits by one of the most acclaimed photigrapher in america is a celebration of all readheads people, young and old, male and female.

For more than ten years Joel Meyerowitz has been captivated by their aesthetic allure-as if he were fisherman, he writes in the introduction to this book, finding rare tropical fish. Intrigued by what they have described to him as their common spiritual bond, Meyerowitz has sought them out in places-on the beach, at nightclubs-

Displaced

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Displaced is a deeply personal handmade book about finding external beauty in the midst of intense internal crisis. Landscape photographer Lauren Henkin has created an introspective book which resides at the zenith of craftsmanship, and one which describes a hunger for inspiration during the breakup of her marriage.

Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

In celebration of the centenary of Bacon�s birth, and chiming with an exhibition at the Dublin City Gallery, A Terrible Beauty excavates Bacon�s studio to reveal the methods,materials and processes through which Bacon arrived at his paintings. Drawing on the Hugh Lane�s vast archive of materials, it gathers new scholarship and insights from Rebecca Daniels, Barbara Dawson,Marcel Fincke,Martin Harrison, Jessica O�Donnell, Joanna Shepard and Logan Sisley, and is a major publication for Bacon fans and scholars alike.

Within Arm�s Reach

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Marcopoulos always appears to have forged a strong connection with the people he photographs,whether celebrated figures�fromAndyWarhol to Kiki Smith, John Cage to LL Cool J�ormore obscure personalities, so that he captures,without sentimentality or voyeurism, the intimate sensation of their daily lives.His images are particular to a time and place, but reach out to us via familiar themes such as family and the longing for adventure.The first retrospective onMarcopoulos,Within Arm�s Reach collects work fromthree decades, and is supplemented with an essay by Stephanie Cannizzo.

Sigur Rós

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

It documents the creation of this album-whose title translates loosely as �with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly�-through Eva Vermandel�s informal and intimate photographs, and Nicholas Abrahams� two DVD films of the band: one a feature-length portrait of the complete recording of the song �Ara Batur� at Abbey Road with full choir and orchestra...the filming of the famous �Gobbledigook� video (made in collaboration with Ryan McGinley)

You and Me or the Art of Give and Take

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:05 EST

Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944) came of age as an artist in late-1960s Los Angeles, where he was part of the burgeoning L.A. Conceptual movement�that unique band of artists that included Bas Jan Ader, Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, Allan McColllum and William Wegman. Like these artists and other L.A. Conceptual pioneers such as Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari, Ruppersberg used photographs (both made and found) in combination with text and narrative strategies to mingle, blend and upend both fiction and fact�most famously in �Where's Al?� (1972) and �Between the Scenes� (1973).

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