BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9 x 10.75 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/5/2018 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 11
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783775744096TRADE List Price: $55.00 CAD $75.00
AVAILABILITY In stock
TERRITORY NA LA
PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDE:
■ Henri Cartier-Bresson
■ Gigi Cifali
■ Stuart Franklin
■ Harry Gruyaert
■ Emma Hartvig
■ Jacques Henri Lartigue
■ Joel Meyerowitz
■ Martin Parr
■ Paolo Pellegrin
■ Mack Sennett
■ Alec Soth
■ Larry Sultan
■ Alex Webb
The Swimming Pool in Photography invites readers to dive into the cultural history of swimming pools.
As long as 5,000 years ago, the allure of the sea inspired humans to recreate its essence in miniature artistic forms, such as public baths where ancient rituals would take place. Since then, swimming pools have become status symbols and a source for a gamut of purposes from athletics to the simple pleasure of just being in water. It is no wonder, then, that filmmakers and photographers constantly return to the swimming pool as a subject and setting.
Reflections of water and light are captured in countless unique ways in the more than 200 compelling images of pools and swimmers that comprise this catalog. The Swimming Pool in Photography includes works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gigi Cifali, Stuart Franklin, Harry Gruyaert, Emma Hartvig, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Joel Meyerowitz, Martin Parr, Paolo Pelligrin, Mack Sennett, Alec Soth, Larry Sultan, Alex Webb and many others.
"House on the cliff" features the architecture of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos as photographed by Diego Opazo and is reproduced from "The Swimming Pool in Photography."
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
W Magazine
Stephanie Eckhardt
Dive into some of the world's most enticing pools.
Creative Boom
From the Art Nouveau-style bathing houses at the turn of the last century to the history behind the design of American pools in the 1950s to the basins that were repurposed as skate parks in California in the 1970s, you can enjoy immersing yourself in the destinations we long for on hot days.
AnOther
Tish Wrigley
As this joyous edit of images proves, our relationship with the pool is far more complex than simply somewhere to exercise in or laze around nearby.
CNN Style
Oscar Holland
Whether it's an infinity pool in Alicante, Spain, or the rooftop of Le Corbusier's "Cité Radieuse" in Marseille, pools are, perhaps, objects of beauty in their own right.
Vanity Fair
Eric Bard
Captures the swimming pool in various forms around the world, in cities present and eras passed... a reminder that pool hopping through a memory can outline a life.
Cool Hunting
Striking imagery showcase everything from the artificial beach inside the Ocean Dome in Miyazaki, Japan to empty outdoor pools in Kabul.
Paris Review
Hunter Braithwaite
Hodgson’s book is a demonstration of how swimming pools are genetically photogenic. Perhaps it’s that a pool somewhat resembles a photograph: a field of glittering action, bordered by white. Or that before digital cameras, to develop a photograph meant to submerge it in a series of three pools—developer, stop bath, fixer. Or that both center around the joys of seeing—light dancing on water, bodies glowing in the sun. Photography might as well have been invented for swimming pools.
Wall Street Journal
Alexandra Wolfe
Chronicles the history of the pool from its health-minded origins in the late 1800s through its emergence as a status symbol to photograph.
LA Weekly
Beige Luciano-Adams
A watery lens through which to view class, gender, culture, fashion, art, nationalism, economics and ecology. It is the people, objects and architecture in and around the water that you will respond to.
New York Magazine
Take a refreshing dip through the best swimming pools ever captured in still images.
Kirkus
Ideal for the photography lover or anyone in cold climates who needs a visual reminder of warmer spots.
People
Kim Hubbard
Old ones, new ones, drained ones, blue ones. An improbably mesmerizing look at swimming pools and their patrons through the ages.
Stained Page News
Andrea Gyorody
Iannone’s vibrantly rendered “accumulation of recipes” represents one of the best examples of the cookbook-as-artwork
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This 1950s H. Armstrong Roberts photograph of an American woman sunbathing by the side of a pool is one of 200 vintage and contemporary images collected in Summertime Staff Favorite,The Swimming Pool in Photography. "Water is a metaphorical gift, of course," Francis Hodgson writes. "In mythology, it is routinely the place where transformation happens: sirens and selkies and mermaids and baptism and the birth of Venus… no need to hammer home the point… Even in the relative tameness of a pool, water is a gift to a photographer: it gives near-nudity, and it gives light, both at the same time. No wonder photographers love pools." continue to blog
This 1962 photograph of Blandine Fagedet, winner of a women's diving contest, plunging into the Piscine Georges-Vallery in Paris, is reproduced from
The Swimming Pool in Photography. "It is just a tub of water, big enough to get into," Francis Hodgson writes. "But the stories come from everywhere. Out of the fears, one group of strands of history: fear of disease, fear of the industrial working class, fear of water. Out of the joys, another group of strands: the joy of immersion, of swimming itself, of skin and the hope of sex, of sun and health and leisure. Stories out of architecture and social planning: out of wealth itself. The swimming pool has been at different times and places suburban, exotic, utterly private, boisterously public, a threat or a blessing. It is, quite obviously, capable of every kind of symbolism from the rude assertion of financial status to an almost mystical fluidity of meanings that neatly complements the great puddle of chlorinated water that it holds." continue to blog
Diego Opalo's 2012 photograph of the infinity pool at a cliffside house by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Alicante, Spain, is reproduced from The Swimming Pool in Photography, a summertime staff favorite featured this week in the Wall Street Journal. "It is the social history of the pools which is extraordinary," Francis Hodgson writes in his Introduction, "as though the water really did permit every kind of transformation. There always seems to be some kind of liberation fighting to emerge from the water. And there is always a camera there to hold the view." continue to blog
Reproduced from Hatje Cantz's addictive new summer release, The Swimming Pool in Photography, this 1961 photograph captures an unusual parking debacle, in which a drunken driver has attempted to park his vehicle in a Beverly Hills pool, believing it to be a parking space. (Nobody was injured in the process.) This year, there is no better book to celebrate the beginning of the swim season. Features photographs by Martin Parr, Deanna Templeton, Joel Meyerowitz, Alec Soth, Slim Aarons, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carol M. Highsmith and dozens more! continue to blog
July 10-16, please join ARTBOOK | D.A.P. in the Aesthetic Movement Showroom (AmericasMart, Building 1, #1-9-B7, 9th Floor) at the Atlanta Gift Market to view new books on art & culture! continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $75 ISBN: 9783775744096 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 6/5/2018 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Francis Hodgson.
A photographic leap into cooling waters
The Swimming Pool in Photography invites readers to dive into the cultural history of swimming pools.
As long as 5,000 years ago, the allure of the sea inspired humans to recreate its essence in miniature artistic forms, such as public baths where ancient rituals would take place. Since then, swimming pools have become status symbols and a source for a gamut of purposes from athletics to the simple pleasure of just being in water. It is no wonder, then, that filmmakers and photographers constantly return to the swimming pool as a subject and setting.
Reflections of water and light are captured in countless unique ways in the more than 200 compelling images of pools and swimmers that comprise this catalog. The Swimming Pool in Photography includes works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gigi Cifali, Stuart Franklin, Harry Gruyaert, Emma Hartvig, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Joel Meyerowitz, Martin Parr, Paolo Pelligrin, Mack Sennett, Alec Soth, Larry Sultan, Alex Webb and many others.
