Press photographer Emil Brunner was not only a widely traveled reporter, he also retained an eye for the close-up. During the Second World War, he photographed people, especially children, in eleven communities in the Graubünden Oberland. He portrayed them in a touching yet detached way that allowed each person to retain their individuality. A selection from this unique portrait series, comprising around 1,700 photographs, is now being shown for the first time: impressive visual documents from a distant social reality, beyond the idealized world of Heidi, Switzerland.
Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships.
In his second book, Luke Smalley revisits the themes and ideas that resonated throughout his 2002 monograph Gymnasium. Smalley returns to his native Pennsyvania to investigate the small-town interiors and landscapes which are the settings for his portraits of young atheletes. Color photographs, inspired by a more innocent era, depict exercises which combine whimsy with the inexplicable.
The teenage athletes in Luke Smalley's pictures seem inhabitants of some time or place other than the northwestern Pennsylvania towns where the photographer recently found and photographed them. For the past ten years the photographer has painstakingly coordinated the creation of the work presented here, often making his own athletic equipment, props, and costumes.
