Best known for her work documenting the political upheaval in Central America during the 1970s and '80s, American photographer Susan Meiselas has been at the forefront of ethical debates around documentary photography for most of her career. Through close engagement with subjects such as war and exploitation, she has interrogated her own relationship to what she's photographing, the circulation and dissemination of these images, and the pivotal questions around social and cultural representation and memory. Her influential contribution to the way audiences approach and engage with photography is as vital and resonant today as it was forty years ago.
The perfect primer on acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle.
Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist and conceptual artist. Her work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is renowned for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives, which she has deployed in her acclaimed works Suite Venitienne, The Hotel and Address Book. She has had major exhibitions all over the world, including at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and has worked closely with the writer Paul Auster. The Guardian called her 'the Marcel Duchamp of dirty laundry', and she was among the names in Blake Gopnik's list 'The 10 Most Important Artists of Today', with Gopnik arguing, 'It is the unartiness of Calle's work - its refusal to fit any of the standard pigeonholes, or over anyone's sofa - that makes it deserve space in museums.'
Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Now back in print, the series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography.
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1938, Koudelka left the country in 1968 and was awarded asylum in England. He had already produced two first-class reportages, one on the Prague Spring and its aftermath and the other on gypsy communities in Romania. This book confirms and illustrates Koudelka's powerful gift for exposing conditions in the European social, political, and physical landscape.
An appreciation of the life and art of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomin books, which are adored by children and adults across the globe.
This book provides fresh insights and a deeper appreciation of the life and art of Tove Jansson (1914-2001), one of the most original, influential and perennially enjoyed illustrators of the 20th century. Jansson's flourishing Moomin books are examined in detail, as are her interpretations of such classics as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Hunting of the Snark, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
Born in Helsinki among the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority, Jansson was brought up with a love for making art and stories in a supportive artistic family. Her first illustrated tales were published when she was fourteen years old. From a year later until 1953, she drew humorous and political cartoons as well as striking front covers for the satirical magazine Garm, responding to the Second World War and its aftermath as she developed from art student to painter and muralist, bohemian and lesbian. This book also explores the emergence of her Moomin world, appearing in her first children's book in 1945 and then in newspaper strips. These would lead to her being headhunted by the London Evening News, the world's biggest-selling evening paper, to write and draw a daily Moomin newspaper cartoon. This body of work is one of her great achievements, expanding her stories, settings and cast and invigorating her drawing and writing. Jansson also wrote many novels, documented here along with personal commentaries from her own writings.
This revised edition of Sarah Moon is one of two new books this season in Thames & Hudsons acclaimed Photofile series. Each book brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Hailed by The Times as finely produced, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains some sixty full-page reproductions, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.
"One advantage I think is my design sense. When you're drawing, every element, every line, makes up what it is; and there is a feeling of that when I think about a shot." - Tim Burton
Tim Burton is the creative force behind some of the most celebrated films of the last four decades. He is internationally recognised as a master of the comically grotesque and the endearingly misfit. The World of Tim Burton will invite visitors into his world through an exploration of the design of his unique aesthetic. While most well-known for his cinematic work, this show will display the full extent of his production as an illustrator, painter, photographer, and author, as well as exploring some of the key collaborations that have helped shape his world. As a multi-disciplinary artist, his creations extend beyond the limits of mediums and formats. Drawn from Tim Burton's personal archive and representing the artist's creative output from childhood to the present day, this exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, props, sculptural installations, storyboards and set design focuses on the recurrent visual themes and motifs found in the distinctive characters and worlds found in Burton's art and films.
This book will be the official catalogue for the exhibition, as well as the first publication to explore the relationship between Tim Burton's artistic creations and the world of design. The reader will be invited into an examination of what is now broadly referred to as the 'Burtonesque', exploring his iconic style and the impact his unique design aesthetic has on broader visual culture. The catalogue will unpack Tim Burton's distinctive visual language, exploring the intersection of gothic, carnivalesque and fantastical elements that define his cinematic masterpieces. Insightful essays by design experts and film critics, interspersed with images featured in the exhibition, will offer a deeper understanding of the director's creative process, making this catalogue an homage to the role that design practice plays in the hauntingly beautiful worlds he creates.
This volume brings together the most important photographs from the long career of Louis Stettner. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1922, Stettner's life would span nearly a century, his work reflecting the unique vision of one of the twentieth-century's master photographers.
Organized chronologically, Louis Stettner presents approximately 190 photographs from Stettner's career, featuring his iconic images of New York and Paris; the architecture of urban wonders such as Penn Station, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the New York City subway; as well as candid and empathetic street photographs of the people who inhabit these metropolitan centers.
While celebrated for his black-and-white works, the book also includes Stettner's works in color, many previously unpublished and unknown. The authors investigate the influence of his experiences as a photographer in World War II on his life and work. They also explore his experience with the celebrated Photo League cooperative and his relationships with photographers such as Weegee, Sid Grossman, Ruth Orkin, and Berenice Abbott. The result is a definitive book on Stettner's photography--making the work of the great lensman available to generations of readers.
A master of contradiction, Christobal Balenciaga combined simplicity and mastery of techique with an eccentric and abstract daring. The timeless genius of his creations is captured in colour photographs of his finely-tailored suits, coats and dresses which are a testimony to the austerity and exuberant baroque of the Spanish style.
Cet imposant catalogue accompagne la grande exposition « Van Eyck. Une Révolution optique » au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand (MSK Gent) au printemps 2020. L'exposition s'articule autour des volets extérieurs restaurés de «L'Adoration de l'Agneau mystique» et d'autres oeuvres de Van Eyck. Outre le retable, seule une vingtaine d'oeuvres du Maître flamand Van Eyck sont conservées de par le monde. Tout à fait exceptionnellement, au moins la moitié d'entre elles feront le voyage jusqu'à Gand en 2020, pour l'exposition.
Au beau mileu d'un concert, une petite note de musique s'échappe de sa partition et s'envole dans New York. Du Carnegie Hall à Central Park, d'un club de jazz aux lumières de Broadway, cette petite note espiègle se faufile d'une mélodie à une autre et s'invite dans tous les instruments qu'elle croise. Des pages découpées au laser qui subliment la mécanique graphique des instruments de musique.
The paint-loaded palettes of fifty world-renowned artists are displayed alongside the paintings the artists created using those hues, and the colours and brushstrokes employed are analysed to uncover surprising new stories about each artist and their work.
Presented broadly chronologically, the artists featured in this revelatory book range from those working in the 17th century to the present day, including Artemisia Gentileschi, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe and Bridget Riley. Each artist's palette - whether photographed or visible in self-portraits - is paired with one or more works by the artist that reflect the colours of the paint remaining on the palette. Colour expert and art historian Alexandra Loske skilfully analyses each artist's colour palette and brushstrokes to reveal not only exactly how they used colour in their work but also to tell the story of their journey with colour and the influence of their approach on the wider culture to which they belonged. For example, Georges Seurat meticulously arranged the paints on his palette in prismatic order, isolating the colours and pairing each with a blot of white paint. His pointillist technique was equally apparent on his palette and his canvas. Kerry James Marshall uses blots of zinc white and smears of pale pink on the surfaces of symbolically oversized white palettes held by black artists in his portraits, raising provocative questions about the role of colour in the story of black history and white western art.
The Artist's Palette will appeal to an art history audience, a wider audience eager to learn more about the use of colour by the great artists and amateur painters looking for inspiration in the creation of their own work.
Entre sa philosophie, son lyrisme et sa maîtrise des couleurs et des compositions, Saul Leiter fascine. Enfin republié en anglais, All About Saul Leiter contient plus de 200 oeuvres inédites ou célèbres du photographe américain , ses photographies, ses peintures, sa correspondance et quelques objets personnels. Ce livre couvre ainsi la carrière commencée dans les années 1940 de l'un des plus grands noms de l'histoire de ce médium.
The wealth of surface pattern and three-dimensional ornamentation in the many objects that enrich our lives is testament to the inventiveness of designers and craftspeople around the globe and throughout history.
This richly illustrated, easy-to-navigate sourcebook presents more than 1,000 historic and contemporary examples of pattern and ornamentation from around the world, each one succinctly identified and explained. Arranged thematically, it is unique among pattern books, as it includes examples not
A substantial new appraisal of Consuelo Kanaga, one of the pioneers of modern American photography.
Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978) was one of the pioneers of modern American photography. Beginning her career in 1915 as a photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, Kanaga quickly became a highly skilled darkroom technician, developing a distinctly artistic aesthetic style inspired by the photography of Alfred Stieglitz. Over the next six decades, she produced beautifully composed images over a wide range of subjects, characterized by an abiding interest in the social conflicts of her time, including urban poverty, workers' rights, racial segregation, and prevailing inequality. She became especially known for her emotional and introspective portraits of African Americans, which combined modernist formal technique and radical documentary commentary.
Featuring two hundred photographs from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, this substantial new appraisal of Consuelo Kanaga's work establishes her place as one of America's most vital twentieth-century photographers.
Published to accompany a major touring exhibition from 2024-2026 at Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid; SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Art; and Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Après l'Espagne, le Portugal, l'Italie et le Japon, la revue Monocle du célèbre Tyler Brulé poursuit sa série de livres haut de gamme sur les destinations les plus prisées, pays par pays. France, The Monocle Handbook présente nos endroits préférés à travers cette nation ensoleillée, de Paris et Marseille en passant par le Pays Basque et la Corse. Découvrez des shops innovants et des hôtels de charme, ainsi que des musées, lieux culturels et galeries de premier plan -, quelques curiosités architecturales remarquables de l'Hexagone, des sites naturels exceptionnels et, bien sûr, un vignoble ou deux. Le tout est accompagné par des portraits de quelques personnes qui ont suffisamment accroché avec le pays pour y poser durablement leurs valises, et par un carnet d'adresses.
Pour les 125 ans de la mort de William Morris, cette monographie produite avec le Victoria & Albert Museum revient de manière exhaustive sur le parcours du célèbre créateur anglais, fer de lance du mouvement Arts & Crafts, connu pour avoir remis les compétences artisanales en valeur à l'heure de la Révolution Industrielle. Papiers peints, vitraux, architecture, dessins, mobilier, vaisselle, textile, calligraphie, écrits théoriques libertaires et éditions, tous les aspects de son art sont abordés par Anna Mason, spécialiste du mouvement, à qui l'ont doit notamment l'exosition sur sa fille, May Morris, présentée au Victoria & Albert Museum en 2015.
Make your own paper plane designs inspired by some of art's greatest names. Simply cut out, fold and fly!
Paper plane expert Trevor Bounford has spent years sharing his creative templates for paper pilots of all skill level. Now his ingenious imagination propels the work of some of history's greatest artists to the skies.
With 16 templates - each reimagining an instantly recognisable masterpiece as an elegantly cultured flying machine - simply cut out, fold and enjoy flying these spectacularly swooping works of art. Whether you're launching Hokusai's iconic Great Wave off Kanagawa into the air, or watching Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie soar, the simple instructions and cut out templates in this kit promise paper plane delight! With the designs carefully conceived to reflect a range of artists and art forms the selection also includes the work of Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint and Sonia Delaunay.
Major survey of the artistic provocateur and trailblazer Linder (b.1954, Liverpool). Offers an illuminating overview of the past 50 years of this iconic artist's career, exploring the full range of Linder's thought-provoking work and underscoring the experimental and feminist impulses of her practice.
Linder first emerged in the late 1970s as a prominent figure within the dynamic landscapes of punk and post-punk music; her photomontage on the cover of Buzzcocks' single 'Orgasm Addict' in 1977 became an iconic image of the punk scene. Following her punk period, Linder went on to become an internationally recognised artist renowned for her multifaceted practice. Her journey has been one of relentless exploration, venturing into realms as varied as fashion, music, performance, perfume, textiles, and film. At the heart of her explorations lies a profound engagement with the poetics of protest, where artistic inquiry intertwines seamlessly with cultural critique.
Throughout her career, Linder has used photomontage as a potent instrument for dissecting and reshaping the portrayal and commercialisation of gender norms and sexual identity. Drawing from source materials extracted from magazines of the late twentieth century, she exposes the weighty stereotypes imposed on both ends of the gender spectrum: automobiles, DIY culture and pornography for men; fashion and domesticity for women. In addition to using found images from magazines, Linder has also used photographs of herself taking on various feminine personae, which navigate concepts of personal invention and the performative dimensions of identity. Her art is informed by a rich tapestry of influences spanning religious art, surrealism, mysticism, and the ever-evolving landscape of social media.
This volume - with new essays by Rachel Thomas, Marina Warner and Chris Kraus, and an interview with the artist by Gillian Fox - accompanies a major touring exhibition.
A delightful gift book devoted to the art and design of Vanessa Bell, a central figure in the internationally popular Bloomsbury group.
The painter Vanessa Bell initiated a step change in modern British art, bringing the bright palette and bold stylization of the Parisian avant-garde to London. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbury group, alongside members of her family and close circle including Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell and Duncan Grant.
