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The Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection: Medical Photographs from Japan Around 1900

3 reviews
Ikkaku Ochi, Wilhelm Gloeden, ...

Scalo Publishers, 2003

As Important a Document as it is Fascinating!
It is rare that the public has the opportunity to view 'medical abnormalities' in a platform that is not related to sideshows/circuses. This beautifully presented collection of people born with aberrant bodies, or who developed the sequelae of diseases once thought of as 'unclean' and therefore not to be observed, is the work of the Japanese physician Dr. Ikkaku Ochi a quiet genius who not only ...

David Armstrong: All Day Every Day
David Armstrong

Scalo Publishers, 2002

Beauty was never a dirty word for David Armstrong. Untroubled by others' puritan fears of sensuality or by the follies of this or that zeitgeist, Armstrong has long pursued his twin vision of urban romance and bucolic serenity. All Day Every Day presents the artist's landscapes, interiors, and cityscapes, wistful and evocative images that discreetly suggest stories of love and loss, that bespeak the solitary pleasures of a flaneur adrift on ...

Journey For Peace: His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama
Matthieu Ricard, Christian Schmidt

Scalo Publishers, 2005

Photographer Manuel Bauer has photographed the Dalai Lama for years. The privileged access granted him by His Holiness and his entourage have enabled Bauer to offer us these powerful images, oscillating between the spiritual and the personal, the public and the intimate, the epic and the anecdotal. About the Swiss-born photographer the Dalai Lama says: "Manuel Bauer is more than simply a professional: he is a close friend of mine. He also knows ...

Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs

41 reviews
Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, ...

Scalo Publishers, 2002

The Girl In Tower 1
The absolute best book out there on 9/11. I wish they had a volume 2 and 3 and 4, as there were enough photos. The haunting image of this book is not the leg, it's the one of the girl standing in the burned out hole in Tower 1 looking down. How she survived to that point, with not a mark on her, is beyond comprerhension, but you later see her in mid-fall. I wish I knew her name so she could ...

Us and Them

3 reviews
Helmut Newton, Alice Springs

Scalo Publishers, 1999

Multidimensional Perspectives of Photography
This book has one of the most interesting premises of any photography book I have had the pleasure to examine. Spouses, Helmut Newton and Alice Springs, share their photographic perspectives of each other, themselves, and the same models. These different views echo around in your mind to help you understand the personalities, purposes, and methods of two interesting photographers. In the ...

Los Alamos

4 reviews
William Eggleston

Scalo Publishers, 2003

It's not about Los Alamos
The photos in this book are not about Los Alamos, New Mexico. Although some of them may have been taken there, many--maybe most--are from Eggleston's familiar Deep South. One is done in an airplane flying over God-knows-where. But the photos aren't about the locations. They are about color. And the main colors are red, white and blue. If Eggleston's "...Guide" was photographed under the ...

The Silver Cord

Scalo Publishers, 1997

David Armstrong's photos have garnered critical raves over the past decade, and this collection provides ample supporting evidence. Amazingly tactile and vibrant, Armstrong's photos--a mix of realistic portraits of mostly young men, interspersed with dreamlike location images--bring us into a dream world created by the artist out of his sexual desires and experiences. The Silver Cord manages to be sexy without ever being overtly sexual, ...

Heteroptera

1 review
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

Scalo Publishers, 2002

truely weird......
Well,I got this book as a source for my own artmaking...It was not at all what I expected.This is a book full of visual drawings of insects,and how man made disasters,such as chernobyl, caused mutations in insects and other species of life. I don't know what else to say, But I wasn't happy with it,it was not for my purposes.

Robert Frank: The Americans

19 reviews
Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac

Scalo Publishers, 1998

My Life
I've been a professional photographer, still in love with photography after 40 years shooting, still shooting every day. Thank you Robert Frank. You've had a vision that is the best photography book ever done, I wish I could do it!!!!

The Valley

1 review
Larry Sultan

Scalo Publishers, 2004

The intimate Valley
Larry Sultan's The Valley is an elegant social doumentation. He depicts a portrait of a "typical" middle-high class lifestyle through the most private point of view: the interiors of private houses. At the same time he documents the working days of a very peculiar type of professionals: actors and workers of the adult movie industry. In my view the topic of this book is intimacy, interpreted ...

Hart Island

2 reviews
Melinda Hunt

Scalo Publishers, 1998

Haunting, beautiful and sublime.
If I was a better writer I would find better words than haunting, beautiful and sublime for this incredible book. If I could, I would PAY people to read it. (On the condition that they give me the money back if they agree that it's as good as I say it is!) It gives a lovely, painful and unforgetable look at how forgetable we can be. The shots of the bleachers from Ebbets Field! Broke my ...

Flamingo

2 reviews
Robert Frank, Lars Hall, ...

Scalo Publishers, 1997

Very Nice Work from Robert Frank
Some of the best work of Robert Frank in this book. The flamingo is a master piece. This is the catalogue accompanied the exhibition Flamingo, which opened at the Hasselblad Center in conjunction with the ceremony in Goteborg, Sweden, when Robert Frank received the Hasselblad Award 1996.

Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886-1902

8 reviews
Eugenia Parry, Alphonse Bertillon

Scalo Publishers, 2000

crime album
This is a very disturbing book, with some extremely gruesome photographs of real-life violent crime scenes and murder victims from Paris around a hundred years ago. The author gives us the fascinatingly tragic and horrible stories behind the photographs, showing us that fact is sometimes stranger and more disturbing than fiction. From the murder of a courtesan to a limbless torso found in a ...

Boris Mikhailov: The Hasselblad Award 2000
Gunilla Knape, Boris Groys

Scalo Publishers, 2001

This past year Boris Mikhailov joined the ranks of William Eggleston, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Frank as the recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Award, confirming the international stature and critical acclaim he has earned in the last few years with one-person exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, London's Photographer's Gallery, and the DAAD Gallery in Berlin as well as representation in major international surveys such as the ...

Tina Barney Photographs: Theater of Manners

1 review
Tina Barney, Andy Grundberg

Scalo Publishers, 1997

Have you wondered how the upper class relaxes?
Barney photographs the upper class at play. Her pictures are set-ups. She is the director. Every person is an actor (even if a Barney friend). The location is a stage. Her choice of details is impeccable. In fact, it is the DETAILS that make the images. You forget the images aren't candids. Barney bravely puts herself in many of the images.

Paul Bowles Photographs: "How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert?"

1 review
Paul Bowles, Simon Bischoff

Scalo Publishers, 1994

A better world
A fabulous book of photographs that show Morocco through the lens of Paul Bowles. Like a photo essay of Bowles's life in the desert, it shows his literary, erotic, and visual obsessions. Images of Jane are particularly cryptic.

Bill Henson: Lux et Nox

7 reviews
Bill Henson, Dennis Cooper

Scalo Publishers, 2002

It's "Sumptuous," "Captivating," Etc.; Furthermore, It Complements "Mnemosyne"
I purchased "Mnemosyne" by Henson, which was published in 2005. Pages 446-493 of that book have color photos from various untitled series 1994/95-2003/04 of adolescents and outdoor scenes at night. They struck chords in me concerning innocence vs. experience, loneliness vs. togetherness, darkness vs. light, voyeurism vs. compassion, youth vs. age, and so forth. Because this book (which is ...

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

Scalo Publishers, 1994

Telex: Iran : In the Name of Revolution

2 reviews

Scalo Publishers, 1997

Staggering Documentary of a Revolution
One of the finest photo-documentary studies I have ever seen. Riveting, haunting, teller of truths.

Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China

2 reviews
Karen Smith

Scalo Publishers, 2005

A profusely illustrated, 453-page, in-depth mapping of the history of modern or avant-garde art in China
Nine Lives: The Birth Of Avant-Garde Art In New China by Karen Smith (an acknowledged expert in avant-garde art and art history) is a profusely illustrated, 453-page, in-depth mapping of the history of modern or avant-garde art in China since around 1993 to the present. Providing readers with a detailed and historically accurate depiction of the progression of contemporary art and artistic ...

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