The books
in this section are photography books that focus on the art of portraiture.
These books represent photographs where the subject(s) posed for the
photographer. If
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here is alphabetical by the photographer's last name.
Dust jacket
notes read: "A Wonderful Time captures magnificently the life
of America's elite from coast to coast, in Bermuda, the Caribbean,
and Acapulco. Drawing from thousands of pictures taken since World
War II on assignments for Holiday, Town & Country, Harper's
Bazaar, Life, Vogue, Travel & Leisure, and other publications,
Slim Aarons has put together the best of them--many never before
published--with a narrative of his experiences and impressions while
photographing American aristocrats on their estates and at play
at their favorite resorts. Here are the Cushings of Newport, the
Fords of Grosse Pointe, and the Rockefellers of New York; here are
the kings and queens of Beverly Hills playing croquet, the Cabots
sailing off Boston's North Shore, and Barry Goldwater on the range
in Arizona. Here are the Whitney's entertaining on Long Island,
the Armours in their pool in Lake Forest, the Klebergs on their
Texas ranch, and the scions of Palm Beach, San Francisco, and New
York having a wonderful time."
Richard
Avedon Portraits, Richard
Avedon
2002, Harry N. Abrams
10.62" x 8.58", 64 pgs.
List price: 35.00
With uncompromising
directness, Avedon portrayed his subjects against a white background,
with no extraneous details to distract from the essential specificity
of face, gaze, dress, and gesture. This challenging innovation,
coupled with the artist's intense interest in his subjects and
mastery of his craft, resulted in mesmerizing portraits-among
them Truman Capote, Willem de Kooning, Samuel Beckett, Francis
Bacon, and Marilyn Monroe, as well as the uncelebrated Americans
of his project, "In the American West"-that rival the
greatest works in the portrait tradition.
In
the American West,
Richard Avedon
1996, Harry N. Abrams (Reissue)
14.50" x 11.50", 172 pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
Here, Avedon
abandons fashion photography in favor of this collection of "strong,
occasionally shocking portraits...of miners, drifters, wildcatters,
slaughterhouse workers, and adolescents" - Copyright 1996 Reed
Business Information, Inc.
Beaton: Portraits,
Terence Pepper, et al.
2004, Yale Univ Press
12" x 10", 240 pp.
List price: $50.00
"... This sumptuously
illustrated book--published on the centenary of Beaton's birth--brings
together many of his evocative portraits in celebration of his remarkable
life and work. Gifted in an extraordinary range of fields, Beaton
was noted for his flamboyant sense of style. His portraits, fashion
photographs, book jacket designs, war reportage, designs for theater
and film, and diaries mark him as one of the first international
multi-media artists. This book features an illustrated essay discussing
the wide range of the photographer's career as well as a portfolio
of 160 beautiful reproductions of his most famous portraits and
an extended illustrated chronology. .. - 150
duotones and 80 color plates Read more »
E.
J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits
E.J. Bellocq
original publication: 1970, Museum of Modern Art (Little Brown
& Company)
reprint: 1996, Random House Inc.
9.75" x 11", 33 plates, 88 pgs.
Photographs
from the New Orleans Red Light District, Circa 1912. Preface by
Lee Freedlander, Edited by John Szarkowski.
These reproductions
were made by Lee Freedlander from the original glass plates. The
reproductions in the book are outstanding.
Enduring
Spirit
Phil Borges
1998, Rizzoli International
9.25" x 10.25", 138 pgs.
List price: $30.00
Portraits,
for Amnesty International, of indigenous and tribal people from
around the world.
Introduction by Isabel Allende
Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the
heart of teenage America created a series of 414 “collaborative
portraits,” wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation
now coming of age. Read more »
Chuck
Close Work 2007,
Prestel
11.5" x 13.5", 440 pp
List price: $85.00
The first comprehensive critical examination of
one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented
portraiture almost four decades ago with a series of nine-foot-tall,
black-and-white likenesses of himself and fellow artists, which
astonished an art world dominated by minimalism and conceptualism.
Read more
»
"This
miniature book features pictures by photographer Edward Curtis ...
Chiefs and Warriors gives us striking pictures of tribal
leaders dressed in traditional ceremonial garb or battle regalia."
- 45 quadrotone plates
Portraits
Bruce Davidson
1999, Aperture
9.84" x 11.48", 80pgs.
List price: $35.00
What
happens when a photographer known for his empathetic portraiture
of the marginalized or downtrodden suddenly focuses his extraordinary
eye on the lifestyles of the rich and the famous? In Bruce Davidson's
wildly diverse and typically revealing Personalities witness an
aggressive Joan Crawford, apparently hell-bent on force-feeding
some poor soul; the unwavering intensity of Samuel Beckett during
a rehearsal of Waiting for Godot; and Diana Ross and the Supremes
in the midst of a snowball fight or relaxing backstage at the
Apollo. Seen through Davidson's lens, Newt Gingrich looks as goofy
as Bobby Kennedy seems impenetrable.
Philippe
Halsman's Jump Book, Philippe Halsman
1986, Harry N Abrams (reprint edition)
11.13" x 8.74", 96 pgs.
List price: $14.95
A portrait
photographer for Life magazine in the 1950s, Halsman asked many
of his subjects to jump for his camera. Here are shots of 191 celebrities
in the air, ranging from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to John
Steinbeck. This edition also includes previously unpublished shots,
of Lucille Ball and Art Carney among others. A delightful exercise.
"Photographs
of film celebrities try to reveal more than their movies do. Whether
looking surprised or carefully posed, celebrities have the visual
control of themselves and how they look down to a science. This
large, aggressive book of sometimes astonishing, sometimes quiet
photographs shows the generous archive of black-and-white celebrity
shots left to us by Philippe Halsman (1906 - 1979). Halsman brought
originality, respect, and confidence to his work. ..."
Autoportraits,
Torsten Hattenkerl
13.5
" x 11", 86 pp
2007, Fotohof Editions
List price: $59.95
In a world of camera ubiquity and digital overload,
Torsten Hattenkerl’s Autoportraits are a refreshing
step forward for the European photographic tradition. A future of
portraits. Read more »
Japon, Jean-Baptiste Huynh
2004, 5 Continents Editions
12" x 12", 104 pp.
List price: $49.95
"This
intimate portrait of the traditions and people of Japan reflects
the singular vision of French photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh.
Including both portraits and still-lifes, the photographs offer
emotional insight that is revealed in both the faces of Japanese
men and women and in the environmental and symbolic images presented.
The simple, straightforward images, faces, objects, and landscapes
offer a poetic, timeless vision of Japan."
Mali,
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
2004, 5 Continents Editions
12" x 12", 104 pp.
List price: $49.95
"French
photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh captures the texture of life in
Mali in this photographic collection. Still-life shots, symbolic
images, and portraits of rural life disclose a highly personal vision
of this Western African nation. Images such as an elderly woman
smiling and a child walking his goat demonstrate the beauty in common
moments."
Portraits,
Zoltán Jókay
2004, Hatje Cantz Publishers
7.5" x 10", 192 pp.
List price: $45.00
Essay by Inka Schube
There is nothing cool or distant about Zoltán Jókay’s
portraits. Revolving as they do around themes of intimacy, closeness,
and the sense of being touched, both literally and figuratively,
his images sometimes seem anachronistic, but that is part of their
unique appeal. Jókay’s pictures are "self-images":
forming a personal visual language, they are a tool through which
the photographer can approach his own biography, through which he
can understand it and protect himself against it. The son of Hungarian
immigrants, Jókay grew up on the outskirts of Munich. In
the early 1990s, he attracted attention via a series of portraits
concerned with childhood as a period of vulnerability and loneliness,
works that can be seen as reflections on his own early experiences.
Remembering was followed by three more series during the next decade:
Encountering, Growing Up, and Fremd. The portraits in these groups
speak of the various nuances of happiness and alienation. Richly
illustrated in full color, this book is the first presentation of
these portrait series by Zoltán Jókay.- publisher
80 color
illustrations
Regarding
Heoes
Yousuf Karsh 2009,
David R. Godine
192 pp
List price: $50.00
Yousuf Karsh's life-long ambition was to search
for a form within a face, one that could become a symbol for a life
that was purposeful, meaningful, and generally virtuous. 'I speak
with some experience when I say that I have rarely left the company
of accomplished men and women without feeling that they had in them
real sincerity, integrity – yes, and sometimes vanity of course
– and always a sense of high purpose.' In his sixty-year career,
he seldom wavered from this goal, even when fame and fortune came
his way. More »
Foreword
by Malcolm Rogers, 150 duotone plates - soft bound.
Karsh: A Biography In Images is a full revision of the 1996
60-year retrospective of his work and brings that popular catalogue
back into print in an affordable paperback format. This new edition
covers the photographer's career with greater breadth than its
previous incarnation, adding works from his early experiments
and his photojournalism commissions in Canada. Karsh's reputation
as one of the most sought-after portrait photographers of the
20th century is well established. A roll call of his subjects
is a veritable who's who of the modern age--Winston Churchill,
Jacqueline Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, Walt Disney, Elizabeth Taylor
and Albert Einstein, to name just a few--and this book features
many of these figures, in some of the most recognized images of
our time. But added to the portraits are a number of lesser-known
or previously unpublished photographs--early figure studies, atmospheric
views of the Ottawa theatre and scenes of wheat fields, city streets
and factories across Canada. With its long autobiographical essay
and extensive captions for each photo, many of them new to this
edition, Karsh: A Biography In Images is both an elegant
celebration and an indispensable overview of a life lived in photography.
"This
is the first book about the pioneering photographer Gertrude Kasebier
(1852-1934). In middle age, with three grown children, she began
to study painting and photography, set up a portrait studio on
New York's Fifth Avenue, and became one of the finest and best-known
portraitists and photographic artists of her day. 116 illustrations."
Women, Annie Leibovitz
1999, Random House
12.84" x 10", 248 pgs.
List price: $75.00
Essay by Susan
Sontag
The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially
for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist,
an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners,
movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers,
a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States,
the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers,
singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater
directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen.
"Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan
Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But
the ensemble says, So this what women are now -- as different, as
varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional
as this."
"A collection
of two hundred photographs spans the first two decades of the renowned
photographer's career and includes portraits of Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, David Lynch, and many others."
"The
work of photographer Annie Leibovitz has defined celebrity photography
for thirty years--her iconic images of musicians, actors, dancers
and artists like John Lennon and Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Whoopi Goldberg,
the Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi), Louis Armstrong,
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ray Charles, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keith Haring,
Mick Jagger, Bette Midler, Patti Smith, Clint Eastwood, and Ella
Fitzgerald have defined how we see those figures. "Stardust:
Annie Leibovitz 1970-1999" presents images of all of the
aforementioned performers as well as other famous figures including
Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Carl Lewis, astronaut Eileen Collins,
and Jann Wenner, in work previously published in such magazines
as "Rolling Stone", "Vogue", and "Vanity
Fair".
Neil
Leifer: Portraits,
Neil Leifer
2004, St. Ann's Press
12.25" x 10.75", 132 pp.
List price: $65.00
"Neil
Leifer has shot more covers for Sports Illustrated, Time
and People--over 200--than any other photographer. One
of the world's greatest sports photographers, he has photographed
15 Olympic Games, 4 soccer World Cups, 15 Kentucky Derbies, countless
World Series games, the first 10 Super Bowls and every important
heavyweight title fight since Floyd Patterson beat Ingemar Johansson
to regain the title in 1960. But Neil Leifer has also shot some
of the most exceptional portraits of celebrities and sport stars
ever, from presidents to Hollywood actors to Olympic champions.~Leifer
became a professional photographer while still in his teens. Using
the skills he'd learned in the mid-50s on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan, at the Henry Street Settlement's photo workshop, he quickly
moved from being picture editor at his high-school paper to working
as a freelancer for major national magazines, eventually working
for nearly all of them, including The Saturday Evening Post,
Look, Life, Newsweek, Time, and most often, Sports Illustrated.
During various parts of his career, Leifer has been a staff photographer
at Sports Illustrated and Time, and a contributing
photographer at Life. He now devotes most of his time to
producing and directing films. This is his 10th book and the first
to be devoted to a wide range of his portraits. From the man who
captured Charles Manson, Paul Newman, George Lucas, the British
royal family, Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Ed Koch, Pope John Paul
II, Frank Sinatra, Sylvester Stallone, Willie Nelson, Muhammad Ali,
Billy Crystal, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Fidel Castro, Jimmy Carter
and John F. Kennedy. - 60 color, 40 Black-and-White illustrations
Introduction by Tom Brokaw.
Twins
Mary Ellen Mark
2003, Aperture
13" x 10.74", 96 pgs.
List price: $50.00
"Mary
Ellen Mark, voted by the readers of American Photo as the
most influential woman photographer of all time, has made some of
America's most iconic images in a career spanning more than three
decades. In Twins, Mark turns her eye and her heart to
the extraordinary bond that exists between these very special siblings.
For two years in a row, she set up a studio on the site of America's
premier twins festival and invited participants to be photographed.
Using a twenty-by-twenty-four-inch Polaroid camera, Mark created
an extraordinary body of work-a collection of sometimes beautiful,
often unsettling images-that reveals subtle nuances in the relationships
of the twins she observed. Gorgeously printed in tritone, the book
replicates the stellar quality of her large-format photographs in
a fitting tribute to one of America's preeminent photographers."
"The
first collection of the extensive and superlative work realized
by Mary Ellen Mark in the United States, Mary Ellen Mark is composed
of many previously unpublished images, as well as photographs
from several of her best-known projects. From "Streetwise"
to "The Damm Family," Mary Ellen Mark includes the most
iconic images from these groundbreaking stories, as well as powerful,
never-before-seen photographs Mark accomplished in subsequent
years. She makes a deeply felt commitment to her subjects, and
her empathy and humanity come through in every image. ..."
Redheads
Joel Meyerowitz
1991, Rizzoli
11.5" x 9.75"
(out of print, used copies available)
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."
Moko:
Maori Tattoos,
Hans Neleman
1999, Edition Stemmle
12.75" x 10.25", 144 pp.
(used copies available)
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.
"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
"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."
People
With AIDS,
Nicholas Nixon
1991, David R. Godine
8.73" x 9.64", 168pgs.
(out of print, used copies available)
"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. ..." Soft
bound edition available, list price: $25.00
Drawn from a career spanning seven decades,
Irving Penn Portraits presents thirty photographs of renowned
personalities by one of the most distinguished photographers of
the 20th century. More »
A
Notebook at Random Irving Penn
2004, Bulfinch
9.25" x 12.5", 128 pp
List price: $65.00
From his very first photograph, made for
Vogue in 1943, to startlingly fresh images that he continues
to make for that magazine today, Irving Penn again and again shows
an uncanny ability to surprise the world with his art. ... publisher Read more about this book
One,
Ken Ohara
1997, Taschen America
10.5" x 9", 496 pgs.
(Out of print, used copies available)
This
is a reprint from the original artist's book published as a limited
edition in 1970.
"There
is an expression that if one were to stand at the corner of Seventh
Avenue and 57th Street in Manhattan, everyone you know would eventually
pas by. Ken O'Hara'sONE follows that concept. Shot in
the mod 1960s on the streets of New York, it is a compelling visual
meditation on mankind. O'hara's full bled images study those small
things that make mankind unique. Stripped down to essentials,
each page is eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair. Each page shows both
the human mask and what lies beneath it. What is expressed in
the mouth? What are eyes saying? Each page is a visual equation
and a riddle to which you will consistently return" - from
the book jacket
Studio
Paolo Roversi
11½"x12½", 120
pp
2009,
steidldangin
List price: $70.00
Studio features nearly two decades of
Paolo Roversi’s hugely influential studio portraiture. Within
the confines of his Paris studio, Roversi photographs using a 8
x 10 Polaroid format, often allowing the images to fade before fixing
them to their substrate. His long exposures at close range harness
an aesthetic from the earliest days of studio photography, but with
a renewed urgency that wavers somewhere between history and apparition.
More »
"Revered
as a father of modern photography, August Sander (1876–
1964) so refined the art of portraiture that his moving images
of his fellow countrymen have been heralded both as an important
sociological document and a photographic masterpiece. But those
images make up only a portion of this deluxe seven-volume set,
which will stand as the definitive collection of Sander's considerable
achievement.
The books
include some 150 never-before-seen images and essays by leading
experts on the German photographer's work. Praising Sander's
"vision . . . his knowledge, and his immense photographic
talent," the writer Alfred Döblin said: "Those
who know how to look will learn from his clear and powerful
photographs, and will discover more about themselves and more
about others."
August
Sander: Citizens of the 20th Century: Portrait Photographs 1892-1952
1986, MIT Press
11.67" x 9.54", 512 pgs.
List price: $75.00
"An unobtrusive
portrait photographer who knew what he wanted from his subjects
at the onset of his career, August Sander is the photographer of
the soul and the chronicler of an age. ...
The photography
of August Sander, resounding with clarity and expressiveness, comprises
an extraordinary human document. This volume of the Masters of Photography
series includes forty-three of his portraits that reveal a vast
cross section of German society, from pastry chefs to industrialists,
and provide a provocative glance at the Weimar Republic."
Realities,
Jan Saudek
2002, Arena Editions
9.75" x 12.25", 196 pgs.
(used copies available)
"Drawing
on classical paintings, historical portraiture, and 19th-century
pornographic studio photographs, the erotic images of Jan Saudek
reveal a world of fantasy where artistic play and expression are
given free range. Using elaborate backdrops and magical costumes,
Saudek is both voyeur and participant, photographer and model,
shifting back and forth in a style that lends the term autoportraiture
new meaning. These 146 color photographs, featuring new and previously
unpublished images with Saudek's commentaries, are as much about
the artist as about the characters he creates. As Saudek states,
"I don’t have the capacity to portray other people’s
lives. I am portraying my own." "Spending time with
Saudek’s images is an unsettling experience, a roller-coaster
ride of attraction and repulsion, confirmation and confrontation."
Gary
Schneider: Portraits,
Gary Schneider
2004, Yale University Press
10" x 8.5", 136 pp.
List price: $24.95
"Considered
one of the most thought-provoking photographers practicing today,
South African-born Gary Schneider creates unique luminescent portraits
that transform their specific subject matter and probe the enigmatic
character of identity. This remarkable book is the first to examine
Schneider's innovative portrait work. Deborah Martin Kao discusses
Schneider's re-presentation of nineteenth-century studio portraits,
his handprint photograms, and his fragmented face portraits-all
of which reveal as much about the language of photography as they
do about the subjects being depicted. She shows how Schneider portrays
the collaboration between artist and subject, seen in his use of
a light pen to sculpt or trace his subjects over long exposures,
and in his prints that display traces of movement in time. Kao also
discusses Schneider's work with scientists to create negatives from
which he makes strikingly beautiful images of blood, DNA, and strands
of hair, and how these represent a fascinating evolution in traditional
thinking about the nature of photographic portraiture. Gary
Schneider: Portraits also features an interview with Schneider
that provides insight into the life and working methods of an extraordinary
contemporary photographer."
Malick
Sidibé: Photographs,
Malick Sidibé
2004, Steidl Publishing
11.75" x 11.5", 108 pp.
List price: $60.00
"Malick
Sidibé documented an important period of West African history
with great commitment, enthusiasm, and insight, focusing on Malian
youth in the 1950s and 60s. His portraits and documentary photography
captured the unique atmosphere and vitality of an African capital
in a period of great euphoria. From the earliest days of the postcolonial
period, Sidibé was a privileged witness to a period of tremendous,
euphoric cultural change. As a young but well thought-of photographer,
he captured a time of paradigm shift and youthful insouciance with
a healthy curiosity about the rest of the world, and a valiant sense
of pride and confidence in the future. Sidibé learned the
basic skills of studio photography as an apprentice before he began
making reportage photographs. Since then, he has been devoted to
photography. His portraits and documentary photographs, from the
late 1950s to the mid-1970s, now bear witness to the cultural and
social development of post-colonial Mali. We see joy, hope, beauty,
and power in these psychologically captivating images. Sidibé's
work, originally intended for an African audience, is a unique memoir
and testimony for a world audience." - 100 Tritones
Portaits
Fazal Sheikh
2011, Steidl
List price: $65.00
For more than two decades, the portrait has been the principal means by which Fazal Sheikh has established a link with his subjects and been allowed to enter and document their lives. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their countries, at risk from violence, poverty and prejudice. More »
This is the man who, over the past decade, has
taken
amazing photographs of many of the world’s leading musicians.
Closer is a collection of the works of Soren Solkaer Starbird,
a Danish photographer who has risen to astronomical heights in
the world of international photography. More
»
Sugimoto:
Portraits
Hiroshi Sugimoto
2003, Distributed Art Publishers
12.96" x 10.68", 170 pgs.
List price: $40.00
"Sugimoto:
Portraits is the definitive discussion to date of the thought-provoking
contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Following a career that
has focused on formal studies of museum dioramas, cinema interiors,
and exquisite seascapes, Sugimoto accepted a commission from the
Guggenheim to create a series of life-size black-and-white portraits
of waxwork figures. His latest method of working enables him to
take pictures of people who existed long before the invention of
the camera: "I wanted to be the first sixteenth-century photographer,"
he says of his carefully constructed portraits of Henry VIII and
his six wives. He notes that during the 18th century, wax figures
played the same role of preserving a likeness as a portrait photograph.
Seventy-five of Sugimoto's waxwork portraits are reproduced here
in richly textured duotones. ..."
"In ancient
times, older women were the keepers of primal mysteries and were
revered for their special wisdom. For this very special book, Joyce
Tenneson traveled throughout America to photograph and interview
women ages 65 to l00. What she found was a revelation-women who
were vital, energetic, and deeply beautiful, inside and out. The
80 portraits are of women from all walks of life from the famous,
such as Sandra Day O'Connor, Julie Harris, and Angela Lansbury,
to the ordinary, such as our mothers and grandmothers. Tenneson's
compelling and compassionate portraits, accompanied by short poignant
statements from these remarkable women about the experience of aging,
will help to reawaken us to the power and wisdom of our elders."
"Male
of the Species offers a biocritical essay on Tress and the
development of his photographic vision illustrated with examples
of his own work as well as those of several photographers who
influence him such as Henri Cartier -Bresson and Duane Michals.
Early portraits of boys and adolescent introduce this handsome
volume. The photographs, dating from the 1950's through the 1980's,
depict the beauty of men aging, of various cultures and were taken
in a variety of locales including America, Asia, Europe, Mexico,
and Africa. A selected bibliography is included."
The
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
Andy
Warhol: Headshots,
Andy Warhol
2000, Jablonka Galerie
12.25" x 10", 80 pgs.
(used copies available)
"A
beautiful volume that sheds light on a less well-known part of
Warhol's oeuvre, Andy Warhol: Headshots shows the artist turning
his artistry and intelligence towards portrait-making. Like much
of Warhol's best work, these snapshots play against a world of
images and signatures where the authentic version of an individual
is seemingly nonexistent."
Portraits:
Edward Weston,
Edward Weston
1995, Aperture
11.67" x 9.94", 96 pgs.
List price: $40.00
"Although
revered for his vibrant still lifes and haunting California landscapes,
Edward Weston spent the major part of his towering career, from
1917 to 1948, perfecting a standard of photographic portraiture
that has rarely been surpassed. Weston's timeless images of the
famous and fascinating presences who crowded the canvas of his free-spirited
life-among them Robinson Jeffers, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Tina
Modotti, Igor Stravinsky, James Cagney, Lincoln Steffens, D.H. Lawrence,
Carl Sandburg, e.e. cummings, and Dorothea Lange-compromise a starting
70 percent of the photographer's oeuvre.
Edward
Weston Portraits is the first published collection of Edward
Weston's most revealing portraits and shows the artist at his
most inspired: "rendering the very substance, the deeper
inner image" of sons, lovers, friends, and fellow artists
with such commanding immediacy that they linger in the mind's
eye long after viewing."
