This book presents the work of five artists – Chris Killip, Graham Smith, John Davies, Martin Parr, and Paul Graham – who each are represented a new approach to social documentary photography.
By visually examining the ways in which gender is dressed, made up and culturally enforced, Sherman has for many become an icon of feminism and postmodernism. More than 270 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centrefolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.
Cindy Sherman: The Early Works, 1975-1977 gathers all of the artist's work from moment in which Sherman was formulating her conceptions of gender and identity construction, gathering her toolkit of props (wigs, makeup, costumes) and becoming friends with artists such as Robert Longo (with whom she would establish the Hallwalls gallery in New York).
A technical anthology on the use of contact sheets, with examples and commentary from 43 contemporary photographers – including Robert Adams, Elliot Erwitt, Charles Gatewood, Eikoh Hosoe, Robert Mapplethorpe and more.
Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990 presents a selection of high-profile fashion photographs influenced by two aesthetic strategies: cinema and the amateur photograph. Featuring works by by photographers such as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cedric Buchet, Glen Luchford, Tina Barney, Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin and Larry Sultan, among others.
This book makes an argument for photography as the definitive art form of the twentieth century by presenting whole series of works by the medium's pioneers, instead of isolated individual photographs. Arranged thematically rather chronologically, the connections between seemingly disparate bodies of work are made clear. Cindy Sherman's early film stills sit easily across the page from Lee Friedlander's sly shadow self portraits; Robert Adams' desolate suburban sprawls lead a path to Larry Clark's strung-out dopers in Tulsa several pages later; and more.
A collection of powerful images by seminal photographers, realist painters and sculptors exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery – including Tierney Gearon, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol.
In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present was a major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 1996 that showcased the work of 30 African photographers, covering the period from the beginning of decolonization to the modern era. The exhibition, and this accompanying book, presented a diverse range of photography, from 1940s studio portraits by artists like Seydou Keita to contemporary art by photographers such as Samuel Fosso and Zarina Bhimji, and explored themes of identity, representation, and cultural transformation.
This catalogue was published to coincide with an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago featureing established and emerging Dutch photographers – including Rineke Dijkstra, Bertien van Manen, Hans van der Meer, Celine van Balen, Koos Breukel, Juul Hondius, Hellen van Meene, and more.
A collection of images showing how the modern world, between 1943 and 1959, was shaped in America's image. It contains photographs of momentous historical events like the Yalta Conference, the liberation of the concentration camps, the Atomic Test programme and the beginnings of the Space Race; the dominant political figures of the era - Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin; and contemporary icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn and Joe Di Maggio.
L'Armour Fou explores the crucial role photography did in fact play in the Surrealist movement, featuring photographic works from artists including Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Breton, Brassaï, Salvador Dalí, André Kertész, and Hans Bellmer.
A collection of photographs and essays exploring the nude body from Jain Kelly Bravo, Manuel Alvarez, Harry Callaghan, Lucien Clergue, Ralph Gibson, Kenneth Josephson, Andre Kertesz, Duane Michals and Helmut Newton.
Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities. Featuring the works of 84 photographers past and present – including Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Zanele Muholi, Libuse Jarcovjakova, Sunil Gupta, Peter Hujar, Lola Flash and more.
This phootgraphic anthology brings together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographs active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s. Seen through the lens of Britain’s sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both lived experience and historical investigation to explore the communities, experiments, collaborations, and complexities that defined the decades. Includes the works of Maxine Walker, Ingrid Pollard, Claudette Holmes, Mohini Chandra, Carole Wright, Sutapa Biswas, Maud Sulter, Brenda Agard, Anita McKenzie, and more.
Colour and black and white images of boys mainly shot in Puerto Rico during the filming of "Lord of the Flies".