The seminal work by photographer and artist Roger Ballen, re&amp;hyphen;released in an expanded edition with never&amp;hyphen;before-seen images from Ballen’s archive.
The culmination of nearly 20 years of work, Outland marked Ballen’s move from documentary photography into the realms of fiction and propelled him into the international spotlight. Disturbing, exciting and impossible to forget, Ballen’s images captured people living on the fringes of South African society. His powerful psychological studies influenced a generation of artists and still resonate today.
First published in 2001, Outland is back in print and expanded to include 50 never&amp;hyphen;before&amp;hyphen;seen images from Ballen’s archive with illuminating new commentary from the artist himself.

Outland

Arts & Photography

Sussman, Elisabeth

Weiermair, Peter

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

The dramatic, expressionist work of Berlin-based artist Xenia Hausner intelligently captures the personal and social conflicts of both the artist and her subjects. With unflinching directness, she engages the viewer using radical color and aggressive brushstrokes. As we are drawn into Hausner's paintings, her characters reveal themselves with an abandon akin to the artist's bold and daring technique. Heart Matters showcases work that combines the energetic and unsettling style of such German artists as Otto Dix and Max Beckman with the warmth and subjective immediacy of figurative art. In portraying the emotional lives of her subjects with an attentive eye and heart, Hausner highlights the passion for love, desire, survival and knowledge that still exists within our fragmented and often cold and disorienting culture. Via her unique approach, Hausner offers an insight into the hopes and dreams of the people she paints, enabling us to see them as figures with a past, present and future--revealing, in the process, the truths and paradoxes inherent in her life and ours.

Xenia Hausner: Heart Matters

Kuspit, Donald

SCHMIED, WIELAND

Borovsky, Aleksandr

Forum Gallery, New York

Portraits: Das Portrait in der zeitgenössischen Photographie = Portraits in contemporary photography = Le portrait dans la photographie contemporaine (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Edition Stemmle

Erwin Wurm is a sculptor who does not mold clay, chisel stone, or carve wood. Instead, he provides objects such as pullovers, brooms, and boxes to spectators who are then meant to do something with these objects. The resulting situations, in which a person pulls on a pullover, or balances a broom, or puts a box over her head, are grotesque, unstable, and very temporary, and all that remains of them afterwards are photographs and videos of their short life. In dynamic works such as these, which Wurm collectively titles "One Minute Sculptures," the very concept of sculpture is challenged and expanded, continuing a line of inquiry begun with Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades and furthered by Bruce Nauman and Gilbert & George's performative sculpture works. Wurm is similarly concerned with reinvigorating the static, unchanging art object by introducing ideas of process, action, and the living body, but he adds an element of time to the mixture, insisting on spontaneity, brevity, and endless permutations. Fat Survival provides a broad survey of Wurm's oeuvre from the early 1990s to the present.

Erwin Wurm: Fat Survival

DURAND, Régis

Weibel, Peter

Wurm, Erwin

Damianovic, Maia

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." Ophelia, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina are evidence that other writers and artists have agreed. Fusing Poe's sentiment with the Buddhist imperative to muse daily on one's own death, Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru asks Japanese and European actresses and models to collaborate with him in staging their own demises. The resulting images bring a melancholic palate and impeccable technique to an assortment of figures who have expired with perfect coiffure--made up and sporting couture by such designers as Vivienne Westwood, Gucci, Prada and Dior. There is something filmic about Kaoru's framing, which alternates between long shot and close-up, yet the narrative remains shadowy. This volume assembles for the first time 43 such scenes from 1993 to the present. They are influenced by art historical references ranging from traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts to contemporary Pop.

Izima Kaoru: Landscapes With a Corpse

Hasegawa, Yuko

Hatje Cantz

A collection of erotic photographs by Wilhelm von Gloeden.

Wilhelm Von Gloeden

Photography & Video

Taschen

A passion for Arcadian scenes peopled with beautiful boys and girls took Wilhelm von Pluschow (who changed his name to Guglielmo and dropped the "von") to Italy. There, at the turn of the century, he found the freedom to indulge his dreams, and took the erotic photographs featured in this album.

Guglielmo Pluschow : Erotische Photographien (German Edition)

History

Europe

Benedikt Taschen Verlag

Das Verborgene Bild (German Edition)

Art Books Intl Ltd

The title may say “please,” but the 19 artists featured here are anything but polite in their rejection of traditional notions of fashion, gender and beauty. The media strategies employed are manifold, from staged photographic images, projections and performances to body sculptures, video and film. From Jeff Bark’s painterly and perverse “Flesh Rainbow” to Sophia Wallace’s portraits of feminized male models, these daring and reckless experiments veer closer to the ceremonies and rituals of body art than to fashion, and reinvent the red-carpet question: “who are you wearing?” Participating artists include Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace and Bruce Weber.

No Fashion, Please!: Photography Between Gender and Lifestyle

Viola, Eugenio

Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

This series of images from contemporary photographers including Sugimoto and Gursky, and painters including Rothko, Martin, Mondrian and Friedrich, juxtaposes horizontal landscapes with horizontally structured abstract works. Its concentrated selection reveals formal analogies and similarities of both content and effect: the horizontal reads as a synonym for calm, concentration, and transcendental experience.

The Perception of the Horizontal

Köb, Edelbert

Martin, Agnes

Rosenblum, Robert

Hapkemeyer, Andreas

Kirschl, Wilfried

Schmeid, Wieland

Speck, Rainer

Walther König, Köln

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