Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Individual Photographers - Artists' Books

"The discussions with Quentin Bajac led to the following chapters in the book: "

1. A Glimmer of Hope -- The Early Years

2. A British Obsession -- About the 80's and being English: Bad weather, last resort, cost of living, sign of the times

3. A Promiscuous Photographer -- Parr's becoming international in the 90s. Small world; Common Sense and the diversification of his work (ress, mode, advertising)

4. The Advantage of Being Magnum -- Parr's history with Magnum since '88 - '89 and his position today between documentary and art.

5. The Maturity of Time -- His taste for...

5,683 miles is the distance between Tel Aviv and New York. From this distance, Yael Ben-Zion has been looking back at her homeland for the last ten years, considering the meaning of "normal life" in this charged place. Ben-Zion has created nuanced and layered images that capture the texture of Israelis' day-to-day life.While personal and intimate in nature, the photographs allude to the complexity of the political climate in Israel.

Yael Ben-Zion's work has been exhibited in the United States and in Europe. This is her first monograph, released to coincide with a solo show at...

In 2009 photo artist Harvey Benge had the idea of getting a group of photographers together to shoot a book in a day. On June 21, 2010--the day of the solstice--ten of the world's leading photographers each shot a series for a book in different places around the world. The result is a truly unique collector's item, a boxed set including ten individual and elaborately designed hardcover books.

Jessica Backhaus lives in Berlin and New York. Since 2005 she has published four photobooks and has exhibited internationally.

Gerry Badger is a London photo historian,...

One of the most innovative Northwest artists of her time, Virna Haffer was an internationally recognized and respected Tacoma photographer who has slipped from both regional and national art history books. In a career spanning more than six decades, Haffer found success as a photographer, printmaker, painter, musician, sculptor, and published writer, though she is primarily known as a photographer. Self-taught, she began her ambitious career in the early 1920s, both running a successful portrait studio and also exhibiting her unique artistic images around the world. Margaret E. Bullock,...

Since the late 1960s, Peter Downsbrough (b. 1940) has been an important figure in contemporary art, associated with such major international art movements as minimal art, conceptual art, and visual poetry. His artistic work embraces an equally wide range of media: sculpture, architecture, books, film, and photography.

This book provides, for the first time, a profound insight into Downsbrough's diverse and complex use of photography within his artistic work over the last 40 years. A substantial essay by Alexander Streitberger discusses the artist's photographic work which includes...