8 Women presents Schorr's work from the mid-nineties to the present. The works in 8 Women propose a variety of subjects, all of whom are involved in performance, be it as artists, models or musicians. Working between out-takes and manipulations of tear sheets, Schorr questions who the women that desire to be looked at are, as well as what power exists in acknowledging that as a post-feminist position.
In the early 1990s Collier Schorr began working on and off in Southern Germany, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. Combining the overlapping roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist, and family historian, Schorr tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory, nationalism, war, emigration, and family through polaroid photography.
Beady Minces is David Bailey's iconic 1973 photography monograph, capturing the energy and glamour of the Swinging Sixties and early '70s. Featuring roughly 100 black-and-white portraits and travel images, the book includes fashion models, celebrities, and cultural figures of the era, with a foreword by Terence Donovan. It includes Bailey's striking images of Penelope Tree, Jean Shrimpton, Andy Warhol, and others.
An incredible and compelling collection ofimages shot by British photographer Tom Wood spanning twenty years of travel on the Merseyside buses. The result is a long-lasting portrait of Liverpool – it's people, familial relationships, changing fashions and landscapes throughout the 1980s to the 2000s.
during 20 years of travel on the buses of Merseyside. The images provide a visual impression of Liverpool's population, the changing fashions and the changing faces of the city throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Cover to Cover follows artist Michael Snow through a series of disorienting, domestic self-portraits. Snow, who remains quietly composed throughout, is depicted in various ordinary scenarios made ethereal by artful gestures in composition and lighting.
Shot in Taos, New Mexico, where Hopper was based following the production of Easy Rider in the late 60s, this series was taken with disposable cameras and developed in drugstore photo labs.
A facsimile of surrealist artist and poet Jındřıch Štyrský's handmade artist book from 1933 - originally published in an edition of 69 numbered examples. Contains black and white examples of surrealist photography with collage.
Published to accompany the 1996 mid-career survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, I'll Be Your Mirror remains the most comprehensive and critically praised publication on the work of photographer Nan Goldin. Covering two decades of her life and art, from her time in Boston in the 1970s through her move to downtown New York City and her subsequent and stratospheric rise in the art world, Goldin's most memorable work is collected here. Amongst the many powerful images are photographs of friends and lovers sometimes in pain, sometimes in repose; self portraits taken during an abusive relationship, from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; the transvestite and transgendered kings and queens of The Other Side; and more.
A collection of images taken by Lee Friedlander of his wife Maria and his family from 1960 to the 1990s, accompanied by an interview with the photographer.
In Spring 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at the work table in Giorgio Morandi's Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter had sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandi's objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, funnels, watering cans.
In this book, freedom of expression is exhibited at its most casual, with political, commercial, and populist signage jostling for attention in the social landscape, dissecting the current disenchantment that has become American civic life.
The book explores the daily lives and experiences of Black people in Paris during the early 1980 through the photographs of Nicolas Silatsa.
For 25 years, Tom Wood lived in New Brighton, just across the river Mersey from Liverpool. He became known locally as "photieman" because everyday he was out on the streets with his camera. Most of the pictures collected in this book were taken within a five-minute walk from Wood's home. The work focuses on the inhabitants of the town and its regular visitors – youths, friends, lovers, fathers, mothers and babies to provide insight into the area.
This book is a documentation of Daria Pyshna’s hometown, Kyiv, and the area known as Obolon, where she lived until she was 12. Most of the photographs depict static metal beams used for anti-tank defense, and were taken in the surrounding area of Pyshna's primary school.
Paolo Gasparini, although was born in Italy, grew up in Venezuela is his adopted home. He has spent his life documenting the cities and people of Latin America, his lace tracing the contradictions of modernity across the continent. His work evolved within the confluence of European postwar realism and the political awakening of Latin American cities, and this book presents some of his remarkable photographs in full bleed.
Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her "tribe". These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s.
The Nazi is an assortment of 164 photographs portraying actors – from Marlon Brando and Michael Caine to Clint Eastwood, Anthony Hopkins and Donald Pleasence – who appeared as Nazis in a variety of cinematic productions. This series is as much about history as it is about the industry of entertainment.
For two months before the coup and counter-coup, photographer David Turnley explored the breadth of the Soviet Union. The result is a portrait of a nation that in its most dramatic of times.