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Andrea Zittel: Gouaches and Illustrations
Andrea Zittel, Theodora Vischer

Steidl & Partners, 2008

This volume is the first to compile Andrea Zittel's gouaches and paintings on wood, which she has been creating since 1992. Zittel is best known for A-Z West, her live/work space in the California desert, of which she states, "The A-Z enterprise encompasses all aspects of day to day living. Home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of ...

Dryden Goodwin: Cast
David Chandler, Stephen Bode

Steidl & Partners, 2008

This first major monograph explores the rich dialogue between drawing, photography and video that defines London-based Dryden Goodwin's hybrid practice. This volume includes several new works as well as Cradle , a continuing series of strangers photographed on the street at night.

Glamour of the Gods
Robert Dance, John Taylor

Steidl & Partners, 2008

A treat for fans and scholars alike, Glamour of the Gods is a massive survey of Hollywood photo-portraiture from the industry's golden age--1920-1960. All photographs are drawn from the extraordinary archive of the John Kobal Foundation in London. John Kobal was the last century's preeminent authority on Hollywood photography, as well as the first collector (and later author) to recognize photography's decisive role in creating and marketing ...

Jim Dine: This is How I Remember Now
Jim Dine, Susanne Lange

Steidl & Partners, 2008

Jim Dine may be best known for his prints, paintings and sculptural works--and for being one of the founders of Pop art--but he has also been making photographs since 1996. Most of the photographs are set up in the studio. Often featuring multiple exposures, Gothic imagery and automatic-writing-like text, they tend to convey a tinge of Surrealism. Dine has said about his practice, "I don't use Photoshop with all the things you can do. I ...

Jim Dine: Selected Prints 1996-2006
Diane Kelder, Jim Dine

Steidl & Partners, 2008

From his pioneering 1960s Happenings and Pop art assemblages, to his Expressionistic works from the 1970s and his current fascination with the story of Pinocchio, Jim Dine manages to maintain relevance in the artworld despite, or perhaps because of, the constant changes he has made in his work during the last 40 years. Drawing and printmaking have had a central place in Dine's oeuvre since the 70s, when he began collaborating in earnest with ...

Roman Signer: Street Pictures

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Paula van den Bosch, Roman Signer

Steidl & Partners, 2008

A welcome and important addition to personal, professional, and academic library collections
The collaborative work of architecture critic Gerhard Mack, Paula van den Bosch (Curator of Contemporary Art at Bonnefantunmuseum, Maastrict), and the artist, critic and curator Jeremy Millar, "Roman Singer" offers the reader an extended monograph covering the life and work of the Swiss artist and sculptor Roman Signer who is bet known for creating events in ;which simple materials such as ...

City Image Cologne
Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Jurgen Vollmer

Steidl&Partners, 2007

Cologne doesn't have quite the historical reputation of Berlin, but it has been quietly drawing the gaze of photographers, both foreign and domestic, for over 100 years. In this publication, Cologne's unique urban character emerges in pictures. Elegance and decay, landmarks and backyards, industrial wastelands and new shopping centers are captured by generations of photographers including Margaret Bourke-White, Dirk Reinartz, Julius Shulman, ...

F.C. Gundlach: Photographic Work
Klaus Honnef, Hans-Michael Koetzle, ...

Steidl & Partners, 2008

The photography of F.C. Gundlach defines the look of postwar fashion in Germany. Using strong contrast effects, he was able to create a style that unified model, clothing and backdrop into a single composite, merging, for example, in one famous series, the bold stripes of an Op Art jacket with the pyramids at Giza beyond, or clustering a model in boa feathers within a phalanx of police officers. During the four decades following the end of the ...

The Ferus Gallery

Steidl & Partners, 2008

In 1950s California, and especially in Los Angeles, there existed few venues for contemporary art. To a whole generation of Californian artists, this presented a freedom, since the absence of a context for their work meant that they could coin their own, and in uncommonly interesting ways. The careers of Ed Ruscha, Wallace Berman and Ed Kienholz all begin with this absence: Ruscha turned to books as a means of dissemination, Berman pioneered ...

Jo Longhurst: The Refusal

Steidl & Partners, 2008

For several years, Jo Longhurst has been photographing British whippets by bloodline, working with top breeders in order to explore the exacting and obsessive quest for the perfect show dog. The shaping of the domestic dog has a history in nineteenth-century eugenics, a movement born out of the invention of the photographic process. The Refusal questions ideas of conformity and difference, breeding and eugenics--the search for perfection. ...

John Duncan: Bonfires
Colin Graham, Mary Warner Marien, ...

Steidl & Partners, 2008

In Bonfires , photographer John Duncan documents the long-standing Protestant tradition of bonfire building--part of the annual July 11 celebration commemorating the defeat of James Stuart at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690--in his native Belfast. The large structures on which the fires are lit serve as a powerful assertion of Protestant identity and signal a sense of community solidarity. Duncan's photographs frame these structures against ...

A Picture Book
Ute Eskildsen, Clement Cheroux, ...

Steidl & Partners, 2008

Located in Essen, Germany, and one of today's leading international art museums, the Museum Folkwang's renowned photography collection was established in 1979 with nearly 3,000 works by Otto Steinert. Steinert is well known for his enigmatic images, which emphasize light and shadow, and are quite prescient in their use of now-common conventions like blurring and multiple exposures. He was the founder of the Fotoform movement of postwar German ...

Otto Steinert: Parisian Shapes
Florian Ebner, Ute Eskildsen

Steidl & Partners, 2008

German photographer Otto Steinert did not see the people of Paris, he saw its structures, rhythms and its subtle plays of light and shadow. The building facades lining Steinert's avenues tell the story of Paris during that era, but his blurred figures and vehicles, moving against such stationery backdrops, look strange and fleetingly intangible. In this volume, a series of multiple exposures and luminograms, which were created at landmarks like ...

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
David Strauss, William Johnson, ...

Steidl & Partners, 2008

In his introductory essay to this monograph--featuring the diverse photo practice that has characterized John Wood's nearly 50-year career--David Levi Strauss states, "In photo-historical terms, Wood is thought of as one of those renegades who went against 'pure photography' by incorporating drawing, painting, collage and every other technique he could get his hands on (not to mention explicit political content), into his practice, thus ushering ...

Leo Rubinfien: Wounded Cities

Steidl & Partners, 2008

One week before September 11, 2001, Leo Rubinfien, his wife and small children moved into a new apartment next door to the World Trade Center in New York. They witnessed the violence of that day close up, fled with the evacuees and later returned to a damaged home and a city whose wounds have remained open for years. The physical destruction in Manhattan was plain to all, but Rubinfien quickly understood that the hidden "mental wound" was the ...

Paul McCarthy: Inflatables
Paul McCarthy

Steidl & Partners, 2008

This volume presents the first comprehensive survey of Paul McCarthy's large-scale inflatable sculptures. McCarthy, born in 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and based in the Los Angeles area, where he taught at UCLA for many years, first came to public notice in the 1970s with his shockingly scatological and strangely hypnotic performances and videos; he's now a veteran of solo exhibits at Tate Modern and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among ...

K.K. Klapheck Paintings
Konrad Klapheck

Steidl & Partners, 2008

This volume accompanies a traveling exhibition-curated by art historian and critic Deepak Ananth and supported by Hermes, Paris-of the work of two well-known but unrelated Indian photographers, Raghubir and Dayanita Singh. Raghubir Singh's photographs focus on the iconic Indian car, the Ambassador, which was modeled on the British Morris Oxford. In these oftentimes abstract photographs, shot mostly in the last years of Singh's life, the doors ...

Matthias Schaller: Controfacciata
Richard Dyer

Steidl & Partners, 2008

German-born photographer Matthias Schaller discovered the architectural phenomenon of the controfacciata (counter-facade)--a sort of hall or corridor built out from the first floor of a building--while exploring the palaces along the edges of Venice's canals. From 2004 to 2007, he centered his lens on the twilit windows inside these spaces, which imbue the musty elegance of the busts, furniture and paintings that fill them with an ethereal ...

Man Ray & L. Fritz Gruber: Years of a Friendship 1956 to 1976
Herbert Molderings, Claudia Schubert

Steidl & Partners, 2008

One was a famous artist and a pioneering photographer, the other an ardent collector of photography, a curator and author--known to his many friends as "Mr. Photokina" for his founding and curatorship of the legendary exhibitions at the Photokina photography fair in Cologne. Man Ray (1890-1976) and L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005) nurtured a professional and personal friendship for more than 20 years, enjoying that particular closeness that can ...

Luis Gonzalez Palma: Jerarquias de Intimidad
Elizabeth Culbert, Graciela de Oliveira, ...

Steidl & Partners, 2008

Over the past decade, Luis Gonzalez Palma--who was born in Guatemala in 1957--has become one of the most influential photographers in Latin America. So the legend goes, around 1985, Palma, who had graduated as an architect and filmmaker, made his first photographs of dancers and actors with a borrowed camera. The theatrical aspects of these staged portraits were the basis for his later work, in which painted and scratched photographs were ...

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