Venice - Photographs by Piero Codato & Massimo Venchierutti

Venice is widely known as one of the most beautiful and magical places in the world; a city of water and light; of dreams and romance. But in this collection of stunning black & white photos by master photographers Piero Codato and Massimo Venchierutti, more than mere scenery is revealed. The shifting moods and texture of Venice; its timelessness, the congeniality of its people, and the languorous pace of this city full of gondolas but not a single car, are presented in images that will delight travelers of any age.

Piero Codato and Massimo Venchierutti live in Venice where for twenty years they have run the Camera Photo Company. They have exhibited their photographs in galleries all over the world and have published Venice: Art & Architecture among other books.
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Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company (November 2003)
Language: Multilingual
ISBN-10: 3823845497
ISBN-13: 978-3823845492
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.7 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 15 ounces

Naga - Jacek Jędrzejczak

Cover: Jacek Jędrzejczak, Powietrze


Jacek Jędrzejczak, Ogień


Jacek Jędrzejczak, Powietrze


Jacek Jędrzejczak, Woda

Fotografia aktu to nie tylko fotografia ciała - to przede wszystkim fotografia duszy, w tym niezwykłym cielesnym obnażeniu. Do takiego właśnie przesłania nawiązuje cykl zdjęć "NAGA", stworzony przez znakomitego fotografa, Jacka Jędrzejczaka "Konrada". Na projekt "NAGA" składa się kilkadziesiąt zdjęć zamkniętych w cztery spójne rozdziały. Mamy więc: Wodę, Powietrze, Ogień i Ziemię - obramowane konsekwentnymi klamrami Prologu i Epilogu. Sama zaś treść to kobieta i owe żywioły, kobieta w tych żywiołach, kobieta realizująca się przez te żywioły i wreszcie kobieta utożsamiająca się z tymi żywiołami. Właśnie to znajdziemy na fotografiach Jacka Jędrzejczaka, zmuszających każdego odbiorcę do innego spojrzenia na nagość. Dzięki takiemu spojrzeniu widzimy nagość, której nie ma, nagość, która jest nagim wnętrzem, a nie tylko zewnętrzną powłoką pozbawioną... "majtek". Projekt "NAGA" powstał przede wszystkim z myślą wydania albumu fotograficznego o wysokich walorach artystycznych. Złożył się na tę publikację wybór kilkudziesięciu czarno-białych i kolorowych zdjęć z tysięcy wykonanych przez Jacka Jędrzejczaka "Konrada" w okresie ostatnich lat. Rytm tej fotograficznej opowieści wyznaczają wspomniane wcześniej cztery żywioły. Znakomitym komentarzem do zdjęć są teksty wybitnego psychologa, Jacka Santorskiego, zaś całość zamknęli w projekcie graficznym klasy samej w sobie - prof. Lech Majewski i Justyna Czerniakowska.

"Naga" Zdjęcia: Jacek Jędrzejczak
Eseje: Jacek Santorski
Objętość: 96 str
Format: 305 x 245mm
Oprawa: twarda
Wydawca: Green Publishers, Warszawa, 2005

Lost Angeles - Paul Jasmin (by Sofia Coppola, Bruce Weber)

Cover: Paul Jasmin, Ben Reyer, Los Angeles, 2003


Paul Jasmin, Annie Morton, San Fernando Valley, 2003

In Paul Jasmin's hauntingly beautiful new book, Lost Angeles, the city takes on a quality of light and personality known only to someone who has experienced it first hand. Here are the "tarnished angels" that hang out on Hollywood Boulevard or in local motel rooms, that have come to L.A. looking for the American dream, Hollywood style, and have quickly discovered it takes more than just desire to succeed. Jasmin combines formally fluid pictures of these youths languishing in dreamlike settings or in erotically charged compositions--clothed and unclothed. His images present the viewer with a personal survey of Los Angeles, of the place and the people who live there, some of whom have realized their dreams, some of whom are still searching. A major figure in the world of photography and an influence on many of today's young artists, Jasmin has included among his subjects his friends, including Sofia Coppola, who along with long-time friend and admirer Bruce Weber, have contributed essays that explore the depths of this truly rarefied vision. They add yet another dimension to his portrait of a town they all love.

Hardcover: 120 pages
Publisher: Edition 7L (November 2, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3865210260
ISBN-13: 978-3865210265
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

World Press Photo 08

Every year since 1955 an international jury has convened in Holland under the auspices of the World Press Photo Foundation to choose the finest press photographs of the year. Universally recognized as the definitive competition for photographic reporting, it has been described by Michael Rand - for many years Art Director of The Sunday Times Magazine - as ’the international photographic contest.’

Publishing the results of the most recent annual World Press Photo Contest, this exceptional book contains some of the most haunting and inspiring photographs from 2007 - over 170 pictures submitted by photojournalists, picture agencies, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Selected from over 80,000 images taken by over 5,000 photographers representing 125 countries, these prizewinning photos capture the most powerful, moving and sometimes disturbing events of the year.

ISBN 0500976775
ISBN-13 978-0500976777
29.7 x 23.0 cm
Paperback
160pp
173 illustrations, 131 in colour
First published 2008

Gabriele Basilico - Francesco Bonami

Cover, Gabriele Basilico


Gabriele Basilico, Le Treport, Francia, 1985


Gabriele Basilico, Milano, 1980


Gabriele Basilico, Milano, 1978


More about this title

Gabriele Basilico (b. 1944) is one of the most important Italian photographers. Coming from the long-established tradition of landscape art, his is an idiosyncratic representation of architecture and landscape. His photographs of cityscapes, residential buildings and factories seem to deny the presence of the artist and to ask viewers to form their own conclusions about relationships between structures, and between structures and landscape. Stripping bare the urban context of any human activity, his work transcends mere instances and seeks to reveal the very essence of 'place' and of our relationship with it.

Basilico is one of the best-known 'documentary' photographers in Europe. He eschews the traditional picturesque forms of landscape imagery to turn his attention the city and the industralized landscape photographed in black and white, with a precision and clarity that is almost alarming. An architect by training, Gabriele Basilico's camera imposes discipline on the buildings on which it focuses - he banishes human life to reveal the life of the building itself.

Basilico travels extensively and in-depth, often working with government bodies to catalogue the appearance of the urban landscape for posterity. He travelled to Berlin in 1990, where he documented the gradual demolition of the Berlin Wall. In 1991 he worked in Beirut, capturing the life and remnants of a city after years of war had taken its toll. Each instance of his work is a unique pictorial record of a particular point in time. He avoids romanticism yet manages to reveal the underlying rhythm and life of the modern urban environment.

About the author

Francesco Bonami is currently the Manilow Senior Curator at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and has recently been a member of the Advisory Board of the 2004 Carnegie International and a curator of the 50th Venice Biennale (1993). His books include monographs on Atget, Paul Graham and Maurizio Cattelan, the latter published by Phaidon.

Hardback
210 x 245 mm, 8 1/4 x 9 5/8 in 128 pp
56 duotone photographs
ISBN 0714845671

Steve McCurry by Anthony Bannon

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Born in Philadelphia, Steve McCurry studied history and cinematography at Pennsylvania State University before working as a freelance photographer in India. He is most famous for his evocative color photography, which has captured stories of human experience that, in the finest documentary tradition, transcend boundaries of language and culture.

His career was launched when he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan - just before the Russian invasion - to take the first pictures of the conflict. Since then many of McCurry's images have become modern icons. A high point of his career was the rediscovery of an unidentified Afghan refugee girl, which many have described as the most recognizable photograph in the world today.

His coverage won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, an award dedicated to photographers exhibiting exceptional courage and enterprise. McCurry has covered many areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut and the Gulf War. His travels have also taken him to southeast Asia and the spiritual temples of Angkor Wat and Cambodia, made known to many through his memorable images for National Geographic magazine.

A member of the prestigious international photo agency Magnum since 1986, he is the recipient of numerous awards including Magazine Photographer of the Year, awarded by the National Press Photographers Association. This was awarded in the same year in which he won an unprecedented four first prizes in the World Press Photo Contest. He has won the Olivier Rebbot Memorial Award twice. This monograph on McCurry follows a chronological order, identifying major themes and examining key works; a beautifully produced, affordable introduction to one of the leading figures in photography today.

About the author

Anthony Bannon is Director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. He has curated an exhibition on McCurry's Tibetan works and his publications include Photo Pictorialists of Buffalo (1981).

Hardback
210 x 245 mm, 8 1/4 x 9 5/8 in 128 pp
54 colour illustrations
2 duotone images
ISBN 0714844845

Outland, Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen, Cover


Roger Ballen, Sergeant F. de Bruin, Department of Prisons employee, Orange Free State, 1992


Roger Ballen, Puppy between feet, 1999


Roger Ballen, Dresie and Casie, twins, Western Transvaal, 1993


Roger Ballen, Tommy, Samson and a mask, 2000

Outland is the culmination of almost twenty years work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen and amounts to one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late twentieth century.

Beginning by documenting the small 'dorps' or villages of rural South Africa, Ballen's photography moved on in the late 1980s and early 1990s to their Inhabitants: isolated rural whites, scarred by history, in the process of losing the privileges of apartheid which had provided them livelihoods and sustained their identity for a generation, The results were shocking, both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological studies.
Through the late 1990s and into 2000, Ballen's work has progressed again. Continuing to portray whites on the fringe of South African society, his subjects begin to act.

Where previously his pictures, however troubling, fell firmly into the category of documentary photography, his new work moves into the realms of fiction. Ballen's characters act out dark and discomfiting tableaux, providing images which are exciting and disturbing in equal measure.

One is forced to wonder, whether they are exploited victims, colluding directly in their own ridicule, or newly empowered and active participants within the drama of their representation.

Hardcover: 114 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press (March 26, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0714840580
ISBN-13: 978-0714840581
Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 10 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

Ozcan Agaoglu - Kuba sokaklarin sesi / sound of streets

Cover, Ozcan Agaoglu


Cover & page 69: Ozcan Agaoglu, Havana 2004


page 133: Ozcan Agaoglu, Havana 2004


page 127: Ozcan Agaoglu, Havana 2004


page 107: Ozcan Agaoglu, Havana 2006


page 81: Ozcan Agaoglu, Havana 2006


page 53: Ozcan Agaoglu, Havana 2006


page 35: Ozcan Agaoglu, Havana 2006


Sokakların Sesi / Küba
Küba halkının yaşamını belgele-yen çalışma 2 yıl sürmüştür.
Leica / Panatel sponsorluğunda kitap basılmıştır. Kitap; sert veya yumuşak kapaklı, 25 x 32 cm bo-yutunda, 160 sayfadır.

Sound Of Streets / Kuba
The works documenting the lives of Cubans have taken 2 years to complete. The book was publish-ed under the sponsorship of Leica/Panatel. The book which is published as hard and soft bound editions is 25 x 30 cm and 160 pages.

Pradelli Giancarlo - Eolie

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Giancarlo Pradelli ha scelto come luogo le isole siciliane (Lipari, Vulcano, Salina, Filicudi, Alicudi, Panarea, Stromboli) nel periodo invernale quando la luce è più trasparente e veritiera. Le fotografie non vogliono essere una documentazione delle isole ma riflettono un personale viaggio visivo, nel quale Pradelli si è identificato con i luoghi stessi, assecondandoli e cogliendoli nel loro mutevole umore. Pradelli ha alternato ai ritratti delle isole due sole presenze umane, il pescatore Turi e Angela che nella loro semplice gestualità racchiudono l'essenza stessa della vita.

Titolo: Eolie
Autore: Pradelli Giancarlo
Editore: 5 Continents Editions
Data di Pubblicazione: 2005
Collana: Imago Mundi
ISBN: 8874392419
ISBN-13: 9788874392414
Pagine: 96

Luca Campigotto - VENICEXPOSED

Page 17: Luca Campigotto, Rialto Bridge, 1992


Page 57: Luca Campigotto, Rio De San Marcuola, 1992

Description

A unique nighttime vision of the Venetian lagoon, between a theatrical Venice and the "cinematic" Marghera, is the subject for this new collection from Luca Campigotto. The photographer juxtaposes the familiar images of a "tourist's" Venice with a noirish perception of the Marghera zone, an industrial district of docks and commerce, rarely visited by outsiders. Campigotto is renowned in Italy for his landscape photography-here he treats landscapes as if they were massive theatre sets.

After a degree in history, Campigotto started his career as a photographer, dedicating himself to social photographic essays and to landscape photography. He has been exhibitioned in both Italy and abroad and his work is included in numerous private and public collections.

About the Author
A native of Venice, renowned in the field of landscape photography and architecture. His works have been exhibited both in Italy and abroad.

Hardcover: 120 pages
Publisher: Contrasto (May 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8889032952
ISBN-13: 978-8889032954
Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 10.5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds

Louis Stettner - Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets

Cover & page 282: Louis Stettner, Place Saint Augustin, Paris, 1993


Page 259: Louis Stettner, Truck, Sunset Near 23rd St., New York, c. 1975


Page 264: Louis Stettner, Rue d'Amsterdam, Paris, 1996


Page 189: Louis Stettner, Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn, 1986-87


Page 65: Louis Stettner, Manhattan from the Brooklyn Promenade, 1954


Editorial Reviews
Product Description
My way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul's eye.

The photographs and visual documentaries of Louis Stettner have always attracted critical attention. Pupil and lifelong friend of Brassaï, Stettner has always sought to capture in his glimpses of daily life a profound connection to reality while casting light on human expression in all its facets.

Bringing together for the first time the full scope of his vision, a rich retrospective of his photographs taken from the late 1940s to the present, this magnificent book is both a catalogue of his work and a monument to his art. Punctuated by essays penned by the photographer himself, Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets traces the many phases of Stettner's career in frank and lively prose. Beautifully reproduced photographs reveal images worthy of close imagination; for it is also in the details of his work that he is so highly regarded. A master at framing his subjects, Stettner captures the essence of form in seemingly simple still-lifes.

Destined to become a standard reference for Louis Stettner's photographs, this book celebrates the art of one of America's great photographers.

"A sunny spring day after school, I was on the beach at Coney Island, looking up at the sky while walking. Somehow the ocean, the white sand (it was truly clean and sparkling white in those days) and the fleecy clouds began whirling together, mingling with the intoxicating, gusty aroma of sea spray and the plaintive shrieks of seagulls. I found myself actually moving in space in complete harmony with the movement of the world. I felt a wonderful giddiness. For the first time in my life I was touching eternity, was pulsing along with the universe. I was not just admiring nature, I had become part of it. This was the sharp contrast to the rest of my boyhood in Brooklyn, a long series of suburban houses, telephone poles, empty lots, and floating matchbox boats down the water gutters of the streets."


From the Author
"Photography has always meant interpreting the world around me has it happens. Since life's ebb and flow cannot be predicted, Wisdom cries out in the Streets has taken its own unique shape."

"My way of life, my very being is based on images capable of engraving themselves indelibly in our inner soul's eye."

About the Author
Louis Stettner is born in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. He dedicates his life to photography and continues to photograph in the streets, in Europe and in the United States.

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Flammarion (February 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 2080136739
ISBN-13: 978-2080136732
Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.1 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 pounds

PhotoArt'06 - The Best Authors

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Andrzej Dragan, Jerzy Urban


Jiri Bartos, untitled


Ludek Vojtechovsky, Untitled


Antonin Kratochvil, Liv Tyler


Jan Saudek, Milking the Cow


Antanas Sutkus, J.P. Sartre in Lithuania




Authors:
Jan Saudek
Antanas Sutkus
Jiri Bartos
Antonin Kratochovil
Ludek Vojtechovsky
Andrzej Dragan
Janis Glejzds
Stanko Abadzić
Sergej Borisov
Jan Sibik
Gunars Binde
Hans-Joachim Ellerbrock
Aleksandras Macijauskas
Wilhelm Michajlovskij
Margita Mancova
Romualdas Pozerskis

Disorientations: Eastern Europe in Transition by Pavel Kohout, Hanns J. Friedrichs, Alexander A. Smoltczyk

Cover: Photograph by Andrej Reiser

Photographers:
Andrej Reiser (pages: 17, 18, 23, 26, 33, 52, 59, 60, 65, 69, 79, 81, 86, 88, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98, 100/101, 102, 104),
Hans Madej (pages: 19, 32, 34/35, 42, 45, 46, 47, 51, 54, 55, 56, 70, 74, 80, 84, 85, 87, 95, 99, 110),
Karol Kallay (pages: 20, 40, 82, 83, 105),
Hans Jurgen Burkard (pages: 21, 24/25, 27, 28/29, 30, 31, 39, 48, 49, 53, 58, 62/63, 71, 72/73, 75, 76, 77, 89, 94, 103),
Eberhard Grames (pages: 22, 66, 67, 68),
Rainer Drexel (pages: 36, 38),
Frieder Blickle (pages: 37, 41, 106, 107),
Walter Schmitz (pages: 43, 64),
Ellerbrock & Schafft (page: 61),
Thomas Ernsting (pages: 90, 111),
Dorothea Schmid (page: 91),
Michael Engler (pages: 108, 109),
Milan Horacek (page: 50)

Hardcover: 120 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd (27 April 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0500276773
ISBN-13: 978-0500276778

Ara Güler - Best of - Ara'dan Yetmişyedi Yıl Geçti

Cover and page 217: Ara Guler, guler with a section of his archives at the galatasaray office


Page 15: Ara Guler, galata bridge, istanbul, 1957


Page 51: Ara Guler, two herdsmen, divrigi, 1970


Page 56: Ara Guler, cagaloglu humam, istanbul, 1965


Page 27: Ara Guler, iron workers waiting in a tea-house for their shift to start, divrigi, sivas, 1970


Page 35: Ara Guler, "allah" old mosque, edirne, 1956


Page 41: Ara Guler, a corner, coffeehouse in Hacopulo passage, beyoglu, istanbul, 1958


Page 45: Ara Guler, a husband and wife returning home, zeyrek, istanbul, 1960


Page 44: Ara Guler, galata, istanbul, 1955


Page 46: Ara Guler, children in tophane thrilled by the sight of a camera, istanbul, 1986


Page 48: Ara Guler, sirkeci, istanbul, 1956


Page 49: Ara Guler, trams at galatasaray square on a snowy day, beyoglu, istanbul, 1960


Page 71: Ara Guler, seagulls and boats on the golden horn, galata, istanbul, 1956


Page 75: Ara Guler, the end of the day: waiting for the dolmus on galata bridge, istanbul, 1958


Page 83: Ara Guler, kumkapι fishermen returning to port in the first light of down, 1950


Publisher: Fotoğrafevi
Published: 2005
Language: English - Turkish
Form: Paperback
Pages: 221
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9759808951
EAN 13: 9789759808952