photography photographic contemporary retrospective

books:

Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography

2 reviews
Gilles Lipovetsky, Valerie Williams, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002

Amazing
I love the work in this book and have been seeking out several of the photographers. Mikael Jansson, Larry Sultan, Terry Richardson, Alexei Hay, Antonio Spinoza... the work is amazing. This book is a great collection.

Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999

1 review
Wendy Ewald, Adam D. Weinberg, ...

Scalo Publishers, 2000

Simply amazing
I was fortunate enough to see an exhibition of Wendy Ewald's work two years ago, and it completely changed the way I look at photography. Some accuse her of exploiting children (almost all of 'her' work is either collaboration with children or the work of the children she's taught), but I have to disagree. Rather, I think she's given a voice to children (most of whom are from low income ...

Joachim Brohm: Areal

1 review
Urs Stahel

Steidl/Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2003

middle middle uber alles
Areal is a project about a project. First there's the urban renewal project centering on a square block in Munich, Germany. Then there's the ten-year documentary project about this same area conducted by german photographer Joachim Brohm. In some ways, Brohm's book is about change-from an industrial site to a housing complex, but, in some ways it's about how things remain the same. The stained ...

Darkside

Steidl Publishing, 2008

The Best of Helmut Newton

7 reviews
Urs Stahel

Thunder's Mouth Press, 1996

Wow...
Don't believe the nay sayers. These are stunning photos and shoots of the so called "big nudes", the celebrities and the notorious from the fifties to the eighties. A pictorial history like no other, drenched in helmut newton's decadent/art-nouveau style, it has jaw dropping scenarios with beautiful models. Like I said elsewhere, Leibowitz, Ritts, Scavullo, helmut newton. They will open your ...

Gregory Crewdson

6 reviews
Martin Hochleitner, Urs Stahel

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005

A timely retrospective from one of the most referenced visual artists
Having spoken several times with the artist Gregory Crewdson, I'm comfortable in saying that a retrospective of his art is an insight only into his (r)evolutionary techniques and dream narratives. The man himself is a slightly bemused, curious artist with an assured but uncaring knowledge of his impact. A recent panel at Princeton, pitted Gregory against motion pictures' reigning dream narrative ...

The Best of Helmut Newton: Selections From His Photographic Work (Schirmer Art Books on Art, Photography & ...

2 reviews
Zdenek Felix

Schirmer/Mosel, 2004

Nice book
Decent printing of a nice choice of photographs. If you like Hemut Newton's work, you will enjoy it.

If on a Winter's Night...Roni Horn
Elisabeth Lebovici, Thierry de Duve, ...

Steidl/Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2003

To enter Roni Horn's realm requires courage. But you only become aware of this after the fact, when it's already too late to back away, to erase the ever-repeating images from your mind. Attracted by the endless pictures of water or blurring images of clouds and clowns, seduced by dozens of young girl faces and pairs of eyes, you enter her realm somewhat unsuspectingly. And then the lock clicks behind you, almost silently, and you are standing ...

RICHARD AVEDON: BOOK OF EXPERTS
RICHARD). Avedon, Richard, Willi Suter, Charlie Crowe & Urs Stahel (AVEDON

McCann-Erickson, 2000

Ja, was ist sie denn, die Fotografie?
Urs Stahel

Scalo Verlag AG, 2004

Remake Berlin
Laszlo Foldenyi, Thomas Kapielski, ...

Steidl, 2002

The Old Berlin is lost, as would be any city that has been destroyed more than once. No "Remake" can change this. What then is the new Berlin? Only one thing is certain, that Berlin, today, can only be described as a stringing together of fast-changing phenomena. A city suspended amidst massive developments, Berlin now exists as a metaphor for the unknown. Remake Berlin attempts to do the impossible, to pull together a visual and textual ...

Paul Graham: New Europe
Urs Stahel

Cornerhouse/Photomuseum Winterthur, 2004

This is the first U.S. release of this widely praised book. New Europe seeks to dig beneath the utopian dream of a united continent arising to face the dawn of the 21st century. Paul Graham's photographs reflect on the inescapable shadow of history that falls over each nation's conscience, from the dictatorships of Franco and Hitler, to the Holocaust and the Irish conflict. Thus burden is interwoven with a questioning of the banality of modern ...

Hans Danuser: Frost
Hans Danuser, Urs Stahel

Scalo Publishers, 2002

The various environments of modern science--genetic engineering, atomic energy, pathology, and animal testing--are the subjects of Hans Danuser's austerely beautiful black-and-white photographs. Recent series included in "Frost" push his signature motifs toward abstraction, revealing the microscopic secrets of frozen embryos, the precious yet precarious body fragments of murder victims, and the terrifying beauty of eroded soil. In an ...

Peter Hujar: A Retrospective
Peter Hujar, Urs Stahel, ...

Scalo Publishers, 1994

Ecstasy Of Things, The
Norbert Bolz, Gerda Breuer, ...

Steidl/Fotomuseum Winterthur/Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, 2005

The 20th century was--among all else--a century of things. From the handmade object to the mass produced, these things that once served a purpose soon became harbingers of beauty, modernity, and innovation. Beyond the material, these objects have stimulated fantasies that convey an image about a time and a place, so that now even an everyday telephone or radio that has long been discontinued can experience a rebirth as a cult object only to be ...

Order & Chaos
Urs Stahel

Christoph Merian Verlag,Switzerland, 2004

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