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Go
No Go,
Ad van Denderen
2003, Actes Sud
10.5" x 8.25", 268 pp.
List price: $65.00
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"In
Go No Go Ad van Denderen leads us along the edges of Europe
where immigrants try to reach the West along smugglers' paths, with
varying success. He takes us along to the police stations and refugee
centers where, surrounded by their fist-thick dossiers, investigators
try to determine the identities of the refugees. He shows us how
men kill time in pensions until a band of smugglers can get them
over the umpteenth border. He follows the refugees right up to the
barbed wire at the rail tunnel at Calais, where they cut their way
through, and further, until they are confronted with the next fence
laced with barbed wire." - publisher |
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James
VanDerZee 55,
James VanDerZee
2003, Phaidon Press
6.16" x 5.5", 128 pp.
List price: $9.95
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"JAMES
VANDERZEE (1886-1983) was Harlem's leading photographer from 1916
onwards when he opened his studio Guarantee Photos. VanDerZee's
photo-graphic range was wide - he made portraits and photographed
weddings and public events - and it was this hybrid style which
attracted the attention of photo-graphic audiences in the 1990s.
Many of his works were featured in the important 1969 exhibition
of African-American art 'Harlem on my Mind' at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York." |
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James Vanderzee Studio,
James Vanderzee
2004, Art Institute of Chicago Museum
8.5" x 7.5", 36 pp.
List price: $9.95 |
"From
1916 until 1969, James VanDerZee operated a portrait studio at various
addresses in Harlem. In his heyday, from the 20s to the 40s, he
took pictures of prominent Harlem figures like Marcus Garvey, the
preacher Daddy Grace, and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. But in the latter
part of his career, he spent more of his time on a mail-order business
re-touching and restoring other people's old photographs. The same
year that he closed his last location, however, his work was featured
in the exhibition Harlem on My Mind at New York's Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Although the exhibition was controversial, the attention
that it attracted to VanDerZee's work finally brought the photographer,
at age 83, the acclaim he deserved. This intimate catalogue recalls
the environment in which VanDerZee worked and lived. While he did
make portraits of local celebrities, including the stars of the
many legitimate theaters open in Harlem before the war, his real
bread-and-butter were clients from the community's thriving middle
class. Despite laboring under related commercial constraints, VanDerZee
pursued his work with imagination and verve, photographing his clients
before elaborate backdrops or sets, making complex group portraits
of Elks' lodge members, jazz bands, and ladies' clubs in their own
settings." - 22 color illustrations |
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Ops
Opis,
Ron van Dongen
2004, Nazraeli Press
14" x 17", 56 pp
List price: $75.00
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... Superbly printed in duotone, hardbound,
and covered in Japanese green cloth, Ops Opis presents
a new selection of the artist’s utterly seductive images.
The focal point of van Dongen’s lens ranges from the mouth-wateringly
perfect bunch of grapes, to the glorious exuberance of flowers
in full bloom and the daintier, more demure floral specimens.
- publisher Read
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Tout
va disparaître
Hellen van Meene
2009,
Schirmer/Mosel
Hardbound,
12¼" x 12¼", 80
pp
List price: $65.00 |
New Photographs, Hellen van Meene's third book
with Schirmer/Mosel, contains new portraits and, for the first time,
interiors, still-lifes, and panorama shots. Van Meene's subjects
are standing in front of miserable shacks on the peripheries of
major American cities, on stairs cast in shadow, or next to gray-beige
upholstered suits in rural-looking houses in Eastern Europe, sitting
on unmade beds or posing awkwardly on car radiators. More
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A
Vanished World
Roman Vishniac
1986, Farrar Straus & Girous
11.5" x 11.75", 179 pgs.
(used copies available) |
"Roman
Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record
of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years
immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew,
began to take photographs of village life during World War I,
when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being
German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany,
where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the
anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies
stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection.
As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the
more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the
faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but
perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets
and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory,
thanks in part to Vishniac's compassionate eye."
Softbound
editions available, list price: $35.00 - 1986, Noonday
Press |
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Give Them Light, The Legacy of Roamn Vishniac,
Roman Vishniac
1993, Simon & Schuster
10.5" x 10.5", 158 pgs.
(used copies available) |
"Vishniac
(1897-1990) traveled thoroughout eastern Europe in the years preceding
WWII. His photographs of Jews and Jewish life before the war are
presented here, edited posthumously by Marion Wiesel, with a preface
by Elie Wiesel." |
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Landscape
and Figures,
Massimo Vitali
2004, Steidl
15.25" x 11.75", 300pp
List price: $90.00 |
Massimo Vitali’s large-scale color images
apply a topographical clarity and wealth of detail to the rites
and rituals of modern leisure. With this volume, he enlarges the
scope of his survey and includes beaches and discos from around
the world, plus a couple of ski resorts and swimming pools thrown
in for good fun. Simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar, his images
are of places we've been and people we've played with--but as if
seen from outside the body, from an unearthly vantage point. Some
combination of Vitali's experience working in film and the 12-to-15-foot
platform that he shoots from shifts his still images from documentary
realism towards the surreal. Combining the minute detail of view-camera
photography with a fascination for the fickle world of appearances,
Vitali's aesthetic and subject matter can be compared with the work
of the Becher school--but with Vitali, figure and environment cohabit
the space of the image, thus lessening the need for a metaphysical
reading. - publisher |
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Vishniac
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