Fotoboeken / Fotografie

This book tells the story of the Big Easy's ascent, its extraordinary people, great moments, and feats of architecture. From the earliest European maps of the region to superb photography of its most famous sights, the book picks out images that best represent key moments in the development of New Orleans as we know it today. It includes photographs of the city's best loved sights, such as the French Quarter, Vieux Carre, the Garden District, riverboats plying the Mississippi, and Mardi Gras, as well as fascinating fragments of history, including vintage photos of plantation life outside the city, street jazz in the early twentieth century, and the elegant Cabildo building.

Catalogus van de gelijknamige manifestatie te Amsterdam, 15 mei t/m 1 juni 1986.

Gathers photographs of Kafka, his family, and Prague, both in his time and the present day, and includes quotations from his work

Readers will discover Hasselblad's enormous potential and its comprehensive range of lenses and accessories. Presented in an easily accessible format, this book shows not only the working and manipulation of individual cameras, but also provides insight into the ways in which these superb cameras and their ancillary equipment may be best utilized to create professional quality images. Detailed illustrations of the system dissect the equipment to show how it functions. The Hasselblad Manual also includes 80 photographs from well-known photographers, illustrating a variety of photographic techniques using a Hasselblad Camera. * Covers new H1 camera system, new XPan II camera, new information about all V system cameras such as 905SWC, the El and 200 camera models * Explains flash and close-up photography, digital imaging, effective use and operation of lenses. * Shows the operation and best application of the different cameras for producing high quality images in different situations

This comprehensive photobook publication presents a retrospective overview of the work of Paul M. Smith, a British photographer and pioneer in combining documentary photography with theatrical and digital manipulation. Smith challenges traditional notions of photography and realism by placing his own body and staged scenarios at the centre of his images, with themes ranging from war and masculinity to identity and performance. The photographs are carefully constructed and offer a critical and visually challenging perspective on the boundaries between truth and artificial construction in contemporary photography.

Drawing on classical paintings, historical portraiture, and 19th-century pornographic studio photographs, the erotic images of Jan Saudek reveal a world of fantasy where artistic play and expression are given free range. Using elaborate backdrops and magical costumes, Saudek is both voyeur and participant, photographer and model, shifting back and forth in a style that lends the term autoportraiture new meaning. These 146 color photographs, featuring new and previously unpublished images with Saudek's commentaries, are as much about the artist as about the characters he creates. As Saudek states, I dont have the capacity to portray other peoples lives. I am portraying my own. Spending time with Saudeks images is an unsettling experience, a roller-coaster ride of attraction and repulsion, confirmation and confrontation. The Spectator

Featuring performers such as Jennifer Aniston, Johnny Depp, Alicia Silverstone and Michael Stipe, this is a collection of photographs of pop culture icons. Designed by Rolling Stone's art director, it features photographs by innovative artists like Mark Seliger and Anton Corbijn.

Overzicht van het werk van de Nederlandse popkunstenaar (1948- ).

Studie met veel kleurenfoto's naar het fenomeen van lichtbollen die zich vooral goed laten fotograferen op energetische krachtplaatsen.

A unique survey of photography from its origins until now From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman`s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world. The continually expanding photography collection contains over 400,000 images and negatives - among them the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams and others - as well as 23,000 cinema films, five million film stills, one of the most important silent film collections, technical equipment and a library with 40,000 books on photography and film. The George Eastman House is a pilgrimage site and a place of worship for researchers, photographers and collectors from all over the world.

This volume shows in chronological order the most impressive images and the most important developments in the art of light that is photography. It provides in its huge collection and themes a unique survey of the medium from its origins until now.

LHTB'ers uit de hele wereld strijken in de maand augustus massaal in Amsterdam neer voor de Gay Pride, de Drag Queen Olympics en de Hartjesdagen. De regenboogvlag gaat uit en tijdens de botenparade is iedereen 'pretty in pink'. De feestmaand is pas voorbij nadat extravagant uitgedoste drag queens over de Zeedijk hebben geparadeerd tijdens het eeuwenoude volksfeest Hartjesdag. Fotografe Shirley Agudo raakte gefascineerd door deze uitbundige en vrijgevochten manifestaties. Ze fotografeerde jarenlang de bezoekers van de festiviteiten en toont in het tweetalige boek 'Amsterdam Streethearts' hun flamboyante uitdossingen. Backstage mocht zij ook van dichtbij het proces van de transformatie volgen en dat zien we hier voor het eerst in boekvorm.

Willem Frederik Hermans koesterde een grote belangstelling voor de kunst en het ambacht van de fotografie. Decennialang was hij zelf actief als fotograaf en ook schreef hij geregeld over het onderwerp. Hermans had daarnaast een voorliefde voor de collagetechniek. Hij knipte illustraties uit tijdschriften en kranten om er, vaak in combinatie met eigen foto's, absurdistische collages van te maken. Hoewel hij maar spaarzaam foto's en collages publiceerde, verschenen er in de laatste jaren van Hermans' schrijverschap toch drie titels waarin dergelijk beeldend werk was verzameld: 'Koningin Eenoog' (1986), dat een keuze uit zijn foto's uit de periode 1948-1985 bevatte, 'Het hoedenparadijs' (1991), een selectie van zijn collages, en de bijzondere fotokaartenset 'Een foto uit eigen doos!' (1994). In dit achttiende deel van de 'Volledige Werken' zijn deze titels voor het eerst in één band bijeengebracht. Het deel opent met 'Fotobiografie' (1969), Hermans' autobiografie in foto's en documenten.

"This publication accompanies Fondation Beyeler?s survey on the great photographic innovator Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968). Tillmans first made a name for himself in the early 1990s, with photographs that captured an entire generation and a youth culture of which he was part, and which are now iconic images of that era. However, he quickly expanded his focus, creating works with and without a camera, producing photographs printed as C-prints on photographic paper, as inkjet prints on paper, or as photocopies. Some of these photographs acquire a sculptural, objectlike quality. Tillmans has also developed new compositional and formal, anti-hierarchical ways of installing his pictures in spaces. This substantial volume offers a comprehensive overview of his achievements."

De kern van de tentoonstelling wordt gevormd door vijf fotografen met wie Huis Marseille de afgelopen periode meermalen samenwerkte: Valérie Belin, Jacqueline Hassink, Naoya Hatakeyama, Sarah Jones en Rob Nypels. Zij zijn uitgenodigd om ieder een zaal met eigen werk in te richten en de actualiteit te combineren met eerdere aankopen uit de collectie van Huis Marseille. Zo wordt bij ieder van hen de persoonlijke, artistieke groei over de afgelopen vijftien jaar zichtbaar.

Published with Rijksmuseum.

Presenting a selection of more than 300 photographs from the large and important collection of the Rijksmuseum, New Realities provides an impressive overview of the international development of photography. Major highlights include the earliest travel photos, motion studies by Eadweard Muybridge, advertising photography, portraiture, scenes of everyday life, the earliest photograph taken in Suriname and amazing shots that were made by microscopes and telescopes.

The invention of photography in 1839 led to a revolution in visual culture: photography both portrayed and created the modern world. For the first time, it was possible to depict and unlock every facet of that world. Photography secured a position in every field: in science, the arts, daily life and news reportage. New Realities conveys the dizzying breadth of its impact across cultures and disciplines.

One of the most influential figures of his time, today Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) stands as an example to emerging photographers who continue to experiment with the boundaries of acceptability and concepts of the beautiful.

This publication highlights over 70 hidden gems from the Wingender collection, one of the most comprehensive collections of Dutch photobooks today. Since 1956 Jan Wingender accumulated 7000 photobooks, ranging from the 19th century to now. The collection comprises sought-after artist books by such photographers as Ed van der Elsken and Eva Besnyö, as well as rare vernacular publications such as photographically illustrated company books, schoolbooks, and political pamphlets. As such it offers an overview of a rapidly transforming visual culture in the Netherlands, and makes the development of applied Dutch photography insightful. The collection was acquired by the Nederlands Fotomuseum in 2013.

Walker Evans's radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography that recognized advertising, movies, and car culture as central images of modern American identity. Published in conjunction with the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions (MoMA2000) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book focuses on Evans as a central figure in the arts of the 1920s and 1930s.

This superbly illustrated volume includes works in photography and other mediums that influenced Evans or were influenced by him, or which resonate in a significant way with aspects of his imagery, sensibility, and style. Among the other artists whose work is featured are: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Stuart Davis, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, August Sander, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston.

Volume 3: "Since the invention of photography, legions of practitioners have mined its artistic and practical potential, paying particular attention to its novel depiction of space and time, its utility as a tool for documentation and exploration, and its distinctive take on modernism and modernity. This volume explores the ways in which this new medium -- photography -- and this new apparatus -- the camera -- evolved during its first century, from the masterworks of William Henry Fox Talbot, one of photography’s inventors, to the portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, and Gertrude Käsebier; the motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge; surveys of landscape and architecture by American and European practitioners; the documentary images of Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, and Lewis Hine; and the modernist works of Karl Blossfeldt, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand. This publication provides a wide-ranging look at a medium so thoroughly and instantly modern that it is represented in MoMA’s collection by works that predate any of the Museum’s paintings or sculptures by a full forty years. And now, more than 175 years later, the modern spirit of early photography remains intact, and Photography at MoMA: 1840 to 1920 provides a record of its contradictions, aspirations, and achievements. This is the final volume in the three-volume Photography at MoMA series, which draws upon the exceptional depth of the Museum's collection to tell a new history of photography."--Publisher website.

Eve Arnold, born in 1912 to Russian immigrant parents in Philadelphia, died in London in 2012 shortly before her 100th birthday. One of the great women photographers of the 20th century, Eve Arnold joined the legendary Magnum agency in 1951 and became its first full female member in 1957. Published in honor of her 100th birthday and in memory of the grande dame of photojournalism, this lavishly illustrated monograph is a collection of Eve Arnold's most famous photo documentaries. Accompanied by her commentaries, these include New York by Night, Fashion Shows in Harlem (1950), A Baby's Momentous First Five Minutes, Haiti Voodoo, and Malcolm X, as well as her travel photographs from Afghanistan (from the late 60s), China and India (circa 1980), and her legendary portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Isabella Rossellini, Clark Gable, Peter O'Toole, and Anthony Quinn.

Robert Mapplethorpe's wide, provocative and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. The American photographer is mostly known for images that simultaneously challenge and adhere to classical aesthetic standards: stylised compositions of male and female nudes, delicate flower still lifes and studio portraits of artists and celebrities, to list a few of his preferred genres. Since 1977 Germano Celant has come in contact with Robert Mapplethorpe, realising interviews and writing essays on the occasion of several publications and exhibitions. For the first time, this volume gathers the complete anthology of Celant's writings on the artist: from the 1983 exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, projected with the collaboration of the artist himself, to the posthumous writings published in the catalogues prepared on the occasion of the exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg since 1990. This book, through over 140 images and texts that appear both personal and scientific, aims to pay tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe's contribution to the history of photography.