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Inferno
James Nachtwey
List price: $125.00
1999, Phaidon Press
15" x 11.5", 480 pp.
Amazon price: $87.50
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"A document
of war and strife during the 1990s, this volume of photographs by
the photojournalist James Nachtwey includes dramatic and shocking
images of human suffering in Rwanda, Somalia, Romania, Bosnia, Chechnya
and India, a well as photographs of the conflict in Kosovo. An essay
by the author Luc Sante is included. The book is published to coincide
with an exhibition of Nachtwey's work at the International Centre
of Photography, New York." - publisher |
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Lost
China : The Photographs of Leone Nani,
2004, Skira
11" x 9.5", 224 pp.
List price: $55.00 |
"Using a mobile studio and working with glass
plates that he developed and printed on his own, Nani captured images
of young couples, families , dignitaries, peasants, and artisans.
His curiosity and respect for a culture whose values were not his
own and whose customs were foreign becomes clear through photographs
ranging from portraits, to images of architecture and the landscape.
His skills as a detailed observer of local habits and customs make
Lost China: The Photographs of Leone Nani an intimate exploration
of China during the early twentieth-century-a time which has, for
the most part, been restricted to the descriptions of travelers." |
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Eye
to Eye,
Graham Nash
2004, Steidl Publishing
192 pp.
List price: $60.00 |
"Eye
to Eye gathers for the first time more than 150 photographs
by rock musician Graham Nash. While best known as a founding member
of the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and (sometimes) Young, Nash
also developed a parallel career as a photographer, collector, and
pioneer of digital imaging. Shot between 1969 and 2003, Nash's photographs
include revealing portraits of family and friends, images of life
on the road, still lifes and landscapes, street photographs, and
a unique series of self-portraits which often shows him reflected
in windows and mirrors. Eye to Eye establishes Nash as
a masterful visual artist with a keen eye for moments and scenes
not immediately available to the common eye." |
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Holding
Out and Hanging On,
Thomas Neff
2007, University of Missouri Press
128 pp.
List price: $34.95 |
Marketing Words cannot adequately convey the human
dimension of the devastation wreaked on New Orleans by Hurricane
Katrina. Thomas Neff's photographs can. As a volunteer in the city
in the early days after the flood, this Baton Rouge photographer
witnessed firsthand the confusion and suffering that was New Orleans-as
well as the persistence and strength of those who stuck it out.
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Night
Chicas,
Hans Neleman
2003, Graphis Press
8.75" x 6.75", 272 pp.
List price: $50.00 |
Essays by
Ana Castillo, George Pitts, A.D. Coleman and Laura Asturias
"Night Chicas is a complex, anthropological tour through
a damaged landscape of various Guatemalan prostitutes. Tackling
the difficult subject of prostitution with scrutiny and sensitivity,
Hans Neleman traveled to Guatemalan brothels to photograph the women
and girls who make their livings there. The result is over 200 color
photographs, giving us a compassionate portrayal in which Neleman
deftly fills the gap between documentary and rigorously staged portraiture,
and ultimately restores the human value of these marginalized women." |
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Silence,
Hans Neleman
2000, Edition Stemmle
13.25" x 10.5", 112pp.
(used copies available) |
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Moko:
Maori Tattoos,
Hans Neleman
1999, Edition Stemmle
12.75" x 10.25", 144 pp.
(used copies available) |
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Arnold
Newman: Five Decades
Arnold Newman
1987, Harcourt
124 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available) |
Newman
makes "environmental portraits" that refer by surroundings
or design to the person's life or work oras in his demonic portrait
of the German Arms manufacturer Kruppsoul. Ollman's introduction
analyzes Newman's aesthetics. The photographs are arranged roughly
chronologically; reproduction quality would please even master
printer Newman. The book begins with early documentary work and
collage photographs, and proceeds to the (indexed) portraits of
painters, composers, architects, scientists, writers, political
and religious leaders, and others that make up a gallery of familiar
mid-20th century faces known best through Newman's portraits.
The latest Shaker work and two-dimensional abstractions are included
as well. This highly recommended book best shows Newman's development
and range. Kathleen Collins, Library of Congress - Copyright 1987
Reed Business Information, Inc. |
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Arnold
Newman,
Arnold Newman
2000,
Taschen America
13.14" x 10.78", 276 pgs.
List price: $39.99 |
"...
His career began in 1941 but took off in 1946, when he moved to
New York and received his first commission from Life magazine--a
portrait of Eugene O'Neill in his library--and then from Harper's
Bazaar--the portrait of Igor Stravinsky, all piano with the musician
in the corner of the frame. Since then he has constructed an immaculate,
cosmopolitan oeuvre that has captured the essential of its subject
better than most others, from Piet Mondrian and his rigid easel
to Max Ernst in a cloud of smoke and Surrealist objects, from
Marcel Duchamp with a ready-made backdrop to Leonard Bernstein
in an empty concert hall, from Woody Allen scribbling notes to
Joan Miró smiling like Puck. And here they all are, a wonderful
cast of artist, poets, scientists, and other characters, alongside
an interview with the photographer and a thoughtful essay on his
work.
Edited
by Pierre Bonhomme, Michael Juul Holm and Lars Schwander.~Foreword
by Poul Erik Tøjner.~Introduction by Pierre Borhan.~Afterword
Lars Schwander. |
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Helmut
Newton: Sex and Landscapes,
June Newton, Philippe Garner
2004, Taschen
9.5" x 12.75", 112 pp.
List price: $39.99 |
The collection “Sex & Landscapes”
brings together a rich selection from Helmut Newton’s little-known
landscape and travel photographs, as well as unseen “tougher”
sex pictures, described by Philippe Garner of de Pury & Luxembourg
as “Helmut’s world of dark, brooding seas, baroque statuary,
crashing waves, a long desert highway under threatening skies, a
Berlin park at dusk, enigmatic apartment buildings at night, the
Rhine seen from the air, the shadows of airplanes, all this interwoven
with hard and voyeuristic sexual imagery, plus a touch of his high
style and glamour.” ... - publisher - Read
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Helmut
Newton's SUMO
Helmut
Newton
2000, Taschen America
31" x 32", 480 pgs.
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Bringing
an entirely new slant to the concept of the coffee-table book,
SUMO is a suitably enormous homage to 79-year-old Helmut Newton,
the master of subversive and erotic photography. "I wanted
to build a monument to the most important photographer of the
20th century," comments Benedikt Taschen, the publisher
behind SUMO. He delivers. Weighing over 65 pounds, measuring
more than two feet long, and breaking any previous size record
in book publishing, SUMO contains 480 pages of every aspect
of Newton's outstanding career in photography. Each copy of
the book is bound by hand and numbered and signed by the artist.
In order to showcase this colossus, the book is packaged with
its own stand designed by Philippe Starck.
This
outsized volume contains the body of Newton's controversial
yet iconographic work, documenting fashion, fetishism, and above
all an overriding obsession with voyeurism that can make the
viewer feel complicit or uneasy by turns. Newton himself describes
SUMO as "terrifying and outrageous. I don't even look at
it as a book.... I look at it as an object." --Catherine
Taylor, Amazon.co.uk
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White
Women
Helmut Newton
2001, Thunder's Mouth Press
11.7" x 8.84", 130 pgs.
List price: $29.95 |
"White
Women, Helmut Newton's legendary first work, appeared more than
twenty years ago. With it's superior mixture of aesthetics, technical
perfection and bourgeois decadence it has lost nothing of its
potency and attractiveness. Newton's work encompasses a wealth
of themes, also embodying facets of the mass-media world of glamour,
masquerade and show. Using subtle, yet striking images--like those
of Paloma Picasso, Veruschka, Elsa Peretti, Karl Lagerfeld, David
Hockney, and Charlotte Rampling--Newton embraces the delicate,
natural beauty of the naked female body. White Women is a masterpiece
of erotic visual literature." |
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Pola
Women: English/German Edition,
Helmut Newton
2001, Schirmer/Mosel
12.16" x 9.16", 152 pgs.
List price: $29.95 |
"Poring
over this collection of more than one hundred and fifty wonderfully
diverse photos offers us an enthralling experience akin to being
on location with Helmut Newton. “Pola” stands for
Polaroid—the “instant” images that so many photographers
use to help them frame and finish their shots. Here, like a master
painter proffering his sketches, Newton’s collection of
Polaroids give us a window into his technique. In this marvelous
display of two decades of fashion and erotic photography at the
rough-draft level, all the brilliance of a Newton photo is here:
the exquisite light, the insouciant models, the surprise, the
attitude, and the glamour. But unlike a typical photographer’s
monograph, there is an element of rawness rarely seen in Newton’s
meticulous finished work. Indeed it is these pictures’ lack
of perfection, still effortlessly accomplished, that makes Pola
Woman the perfect book with which to experience Helmut Newton’s
singular vision, the depth of his skill, and the boundless wealth
of his imagination." |
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Portraits:
Photographs from Europe and America,
Helmut Newton
1998, te Neus Publishing Company
11.56" x 9.15", 248 pgs.
List price: $35.00 |
"Those
familiar with Newton's fashion work for Vogue , Elle , etc., his
photo essays for Life , or his earlier books will not be surprised
by these portraits of celebrities shown as never before. Newton's
dancers, designers, and grand dames, indeed "elite society's
newsmakers, nightlifers, and would-be transgressors," act
a part in dramas he has contrived. From Salvador Dali to Grace
Jones to Natassia Kinski (dancing with a Marlene Dietrich doll)
to Prince Rainier, Newton's portraits are often shocking, manipulative,
and bizarre; they are never boring. Fine, full-page reproductions
and Carol Squiers's revealing interview with Newton enhance the
work." Ann Copeland, Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, - Copyright
1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Softbound
edition - list price: $35.00 |
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Helmut
Newton's Illustrated:
No. 1-No. 4,
Helmut Newton
2000, Thunder's Mouth Press
10.5" x 8.38", 136 pgs.
List price: $34.95 |
Between
1985 and 1995 Helmut Newton published his most powerful pictures
in his own magazine, Helmut Newton's Illustrated. Only
four issues were ever published, and these rare collector's editions
have now been combined in one volume. In its mix of erotic nudes
and provocative journalistic photography, Helmut Newton's Illustrated
documents some of the strongest visual images of the past two
decades. Salon reports that the photographer who gained worldwide
notoriety for his stylish portraits of naked women says he will
never shoot nudes again; Helmut Newton's Illustrated
showcases much of the last work in his signature genre. |
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Helmut
Newton: Archivs De Nuit,
Helmut Newton
2001, Schirmer/Mosel
11.87" x 9.46", 80 pgs.
List price: $24.95 |
"This
astonishing collection of previously unpublished photographs,
culled from his archive of more than 10,000 contact prints, represents
the distinctive, universal quality of Helmut Newton’s work.
While he is largely known for his forthright photos of famous
men and women, these images of unknown subjects in largely conventional
settings manage to be even more arresting than Newton’s
more popular work. Posed in cluttered kitchens, in storefront
windows, in hotel rooms and hospital wards, Newton’s models
are at once active and passive, whimsical and wistful, domestic
and feral. Although these images are neither aggressively seductive
nor glamorous, Newton’s presence is felt nevertheless—in
his pictures’ self-confidence, their assertiveness, their
defiance of society’s rules and their embrace of its taboos.
Brilliantly juxtaposed to emphasize their narrative power, the
photographs here not only tell individual stories of brutality,
gentleness, irony and sentimentality—they combine to create
a masterpiece of erotic and visual literature writ large by one
of the most powerful and important photographers of our time." |
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Helmut
Newton WORK,
Helmut Newton
2000,
Taschen, America
12.50" x 10"
(out of print, used copies available) |
Turning
80 is not so bad when the occasion is marked by a sweeping retrospective
of your life's work. An exhibition of 300 Helmut Newton photographs,
curated by June Newton and TASCHEN editor Manfred Heiting, opened
on October 30th, 2000 at the National Gallery in Berlin. TASCHEN
is proud to bring you HELMUT NEWTON - WORK, the catalog
of the exhibition. WORK
features for the first time all aspects of Newton’s oeuvre:
carefully selected fashion and advertising photographs, nudes,
portraits, montages and experiments. All together, photographs
that span Newton's entire career as one of the most influential
photographers of the 20th century.
Embracing without
reservation the somewhat menacing sexuality of strong women,
Newton’s work has a history of creating extreme discomfort
– even outrage - in the viewer. Legs apart, breasts exposed
or girded in erotically charged undergarments, these über-women
stare the viewer down and dare him or her to approach. Even
in the notorious shot of a model wearing both riding boots and
a saddle, Newton’s women truly own their sexuality and
that is a threatening stance to many. Knowing this about his
work, celebrities allow themselves a more blatantly sexual persona
in front of his camera than they might for any other photographer
resulting in truly astonishing images of Sigourney Weaver, Catherine
Deneuve, Elisabeth Shue and others.
WORK
is the perfect book for those who coveted TASCHEN’s record-breaking
book of Newton’s work, SUMO, but who could not meet its
$1500 price. WORK is SUMO for the rest of us!
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Acid Bloom,
Mika Ninagawa
2004, Nazraeli Press
13" x 9.5", 84 pp.
List price: $60.00
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About ten years ago, the Japanese critic
Kotaro Iizawa coined the expression “onnanoko shashinka,”
which loosely translates as “girlie photographers.”
He was referring to a hugely popular group of young Japanese women
photographers whose subject matter – simple, everyday things
– was captured using a “point-and-shoot” technique.
Mika Ninagawa has been described as second generation “onnanoko
shashinka,” a very skillful photographer with perhaps a more
mature approach to her work – but still with a wonderful mix
of fun and flair. The pictures in this stunningly beautiful book
are large and saturated, a dazzling array of flowers, trees, grass
and insects – close-up and ablaze with color. Acid Bloom
is an electrifying body of work. This first Nazraeli Press edition
is limited to 1,000 copies. - 46 four-color plates |
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Live,
Love, Look Last
Nicholas Nixon
2010,
Steidl
9" x 11", 148
pp
List price: $49.95 |
An early associate of the New Topographics movement,
Nicholas Nixon (born 1947) achieved fame for his widely exhibited
ongoing project The Brown Sisters (begun in 1975), for
which he has made one black-and-white portrait per year of four
sisters, one of whom is Nixon’s wife. More
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Nicholas
Nixon: The Brown Sisters,
Nicholas Nixon
2002, Museum of Modern Art
9.64" x 11.4",64 pgs.
List price: $29.95 |
"The
Brown Sisters presents a photographic project as compelling
in effect as it is simple in conception: four women, 25 years.
Each year since 1975 photographer Nicholas Nixon has made a group
portrait of his wife and her three sisters facing the camera in
the same order: Heather, Mimi, Bebe, and Laurie. The series now
measures a quarter century in the lives of the sisters, who in
1975 ranged in age from 15 to 25; each picture is dense with allusions
to the year of experience that separates it from the one before." |
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People
With AIDS,
Nicholas Nixon
1991, David R. Godine
8.73" x 9.64", 168pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
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"Nicholas
Nixon, a well-known photographer who has been favorably compared
to Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, began to photograph AIDS patients
in the summer of 1987. The 15 men and women who appear in this
book responded to Nixon's call for volunteers and chose to reveal
themselves throughout the stages of their illness. These photographs,
which are accompanied by a text written by Bebe Nixon and feature
the words of the subjects themselves, present dramatic visual
evidence of the ravages of AIDS. These are not pretty pictures
but they are serious works of art; like any powerful photographic
image, they evoke a strong response. The reader is seeing not
cold impersonal statistics but human beings confronting their
mortality. ..."
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Afghanistan
- Chronotopia,
Simon Norfolk
2002, Dewi Lewsi Publishing
11.5" x 13", 96 pp.
List price: $45.00 |
This year’s winner of the European Publishers
Award for Photography is London based photographer Simon Norfolk.
The work has already received massive critical acclaim and more
than a dozen simultaneous exhibitions are scheduled throughout
the world from Autumn 2002 in venues including Hereford Photography
Festival; Side Gallery, Newcastle: Photofusion, London: Trace
Gallery, Weymouth: Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Museum of Architecture,
Frankfurt, Germany; The Halsey Gallery, South Carolina, USA; Blue
Sky Gallery, Portland, USA; Benham Gallery, Seattle, USA.
‘Afghanistan is unlike Sarajevo or Kigali
or any other war-ravaged landscape I have ever photographed. In
Kabul in particular, the devastation has a bizarre layering; the
different destructive eras lying on top of each other. I was reminded
of the story of Schliemann’s discovery of the remains of
the classical city of Troy in the 1870s; digging down, he found
nine cities layered upon each other, each one in its turn rebuilt
and destroyed. Walking a Kabul street can be like walking through
a Museum of the Archaeology of War – different moments of
destruction lie like sediment on top of each other. There are
places near Bagram Air Base or on the Shomali Plain where the
front line has passed back and forth eight or nine times –
each leaving a deadly flotsam of destroyed homes and fields seeded
with landmines. The landscapes of Afghanistan are the scenes that
I knew first from the ‘Illustrated Children’s Bible’
given to me by my parents when I was a child. When David battled
Goliath, these mountains and deserts were behind them. When Joshua
fought the battle of Jericho, these fauna and flora were over
his shoulders. More accurately, these landscapes are how my childish
imagination pictured the Apocalypse or Armageddon; utter destruction
on a massive, Babylonian scale bathed in the crystal light of
a desert sunrise.’ – Simon Norfolk
Simon Norfolk’s photographs have appeared
in titles as varied as the New York Times Magazine, the
Sunday Times Magazine, the South China Morning Post
and La Republicca Magazine and in 2001 he won a prestigious
World Press Award. His first book ‘For Most Of It I
Have No Words’ (Dewi Lewis Publishing) about the landscapes
of the places that have seen Genocide was published in 1998 to
wide acclaim including praise from the novelist Anne Michaels
and from Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor of the War Crimes Tribunal
in The Hague. - publisher - 47 color illustrations |
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