| Photography Books for the Recent Graduates on Your List!
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| | OUR TOP SUGGESTIONS FOR RECENT GRADUATES OF PHOTOGRAPHY OR PHOTO HISTORY PROGRAMS.APERTURE  Today color photography is so ubiquitous that it’s hard to believe there was a time when this was not the case. Color Rush explores the developments that led us to this point, looking at the way color photographs circulated and appeared at the time of their making. From magazine pages to gallery walls, from advertisements to photojournalism, Color Rush charts the history of color photography in the United States from the [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 288 pgs / 260 color.
ISBN 9781597112260
Publication Date: 4/30/2013 FRAENKEL GALLERY  Since the invention of photography almost 175 years ago, the medium has proven itself understandably adept at capturing what is there to be photographed: the solid, the concrete, that which can be seen. Another tradition exists, however; a parallel tradition in which photographers and artists have attempted to depict via photographic means that which is not so easily photographed: dreams, ghosts, god, thought, time. The Unphotographable explores this parallel tradition, and [more]
Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 50 color.
ISBN 9781881337331
Publication Date: 3/31/2013 D.A.P./SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART  Artists who arrive fully formed at a young age always dazzle, and Francesca Woodman was one of the most gifted and dazzling artist prodigies in recent history. In 1972, the 13-year-old Woodman made a black-and-white photograph of herself sitting at the far end of a sofa in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her face is obscured by her hair, light radiates from an unseen source behind her out at the viewer [more]
Clth, 9.25 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 13 color / 18 b&w / 144 duotone.
ISBN 9781935202660
Publication Date: 3/31/2013 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK  Bill Brandt was the preeminent British photographer of the twentieth century, a founding father of photography’s modernist tradition whose half-century-long career defies neat categorization. This publication presents the photographer’s entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of English life in the 1930s and his innovative late nudes. The Museum of Modern Art has been exhibiting and collecting Brandt’s photographs since the late 1940s, and has recently more than doubled its [more]
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 254 duotone.
ISBN 9780870708459
Publication Date: 3/31/2013 APERTURE  Hugely influential among contemporary art photographers, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs for more than 35 years. Operating in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture and traditional photography, Welling is first and foremost a photographic practitioner enthralled with the possibilities of the medium. James Welling: Monograph provides the most thorough presentation of the artist’s work to date. Since the mid-1970s, Welling’s work has explored realism and transparency, abstraction and [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9781597112093
Publication Date: 3/31/2013 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK  More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums. The original edition of American Photographs was a carefully prepared letterpress production, published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Evans that captured [more]
Clth, 7.75 x 8.75 in. / 208 pgs / 87 duotone.
ISBN 9780870708350
Publication Date: 8/31/2012 D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS  The Bitter Years was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its fiftieth anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935–41, as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression, included [more]
Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 229 duotone.
ISBN 9781935202868
Publication Date: 9/30/2012 GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS  This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on Rineke Dijkstra to be published in the United States. The catalogue accompanies the first U.S. mid-career survey of this important Dutch artist’s work in photography and video; it features the Beach Portraits and other early works such as the photographs of new mothers and bullfighters, together with selections from Dijkstra’s later work including her most recent video installations. Also included are series that [more]
Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 170 color.
ISBN 9780892074242
Publication Date: 3/31/2012 APERTURE  First published in 1986, 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. Twenty-five years [more]
Hbk, 10 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 130 color.
ISBN 9781597112086
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS  Lee Friedlander’s exploration of one of photography’s most enduring genres began almost by chance, in the late 1970s, when a teacher colleague at Rice University in Houston lined up a regular schedule of nude models for his students. Almost immediately, Friedlander found that he preferred to photograph the models at their homes, and ingeniously deployed household objects such as bedside lamps, potted plants and sofa fabrics to play off against the [more]
Hbk, 11 x 9.75 in. / 168 pgs / 84 duotone.
ISBN 9781938922008
Publication Date: 3/31/2013 |
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