<p>This compendium of sports photography tells the story of the way sport has been shown through the medium of photography from 1900 to the present. Selected from the archives of All sports, a leading name in sports photography and incorporating the Hulton Getty sports collection. The photographs reveal themes from amateurism to professionalism, wide views to tight focus, lack and white to color, and from local to international. The five chapters are introduced with a discussion characterizing the developments of he era, Many of the most famous personalities of the century are represented, including Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Pele, George Best, Ayrton Senna, Shaquille O'Neill, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jesse Owens, Roger Bannister, Jim Jeffries, Stirling Moss and many others.</p>

Sportscape: The Evolution of Sports Photography

Arts & Photography

Wombell, Paul

Photography & Video

Phaidon Press

Foremost among a generation of photographers operating between fashion photography and art photography, Juergen Teller (born 1964) brings his energized, life-loving brashness to family photographs, self-portraits and fashion shoots. Teller often provokes his subjects to extremes of expression, as critic Adrian Searle records in this, Teller’s newest monograph: “I kept wondering when he was going to get round to taking my photograph. The tension was unbearable. I felt like a girl on an unsuccessful date. The next thing I know he’s almost climbing over the table to get at me. There’s a camera in my face and he’s shooting picture after picture after picture, looming closer with each shot… There’s a gleam in his eye and a smile and there’s something relentless about his advances.” Teller applies this lust for encounter and complete involvement to the production of his books, and the beautifully printed Calves and Thighs is no exception: “I consider this catalogue a piece of my work,” he writes, having carefully determined the photographs (all new work), the authors and the design. Alongside Teller’s latest photographs, collaborators, friends and admirers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Sadie Coles, Roni Horn, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Helmut Lang, Charlotte Rampling, Adrian Searle, Gerhard Steidl, Neville Wakefield, Vivienne Westwood and Raquel Zimmermann pose questions to Teller about his process, his career and his life.

Juergen Teller: Calves & Thighs

Searle, Adrian

Teller, Helmut

Paineau, Fabrice

Individual Artists

TF Editores/D.A.P.

End Times

With the ascent of multimedia art, feminist and postcolonial theory, and the collapse of the art gallery's "white walls," the 1970s saw countless upheavals and shifts in the paradigms of Western art--upheavals that were recorded by some of today's finest photographers. The mingling of art and socio-political change in the 1970s is a theme throughout this superb volume, a groundbreaking consideration of one decade's art through the lenses of its greatest photographers. The 70s includes about ten photographs by each of the selected artists: Alberto García-Alix, Allan Sekula, Ana Mendieta, Anders Petersen, Carlos Pazos, Christian Boltanski, Cindy Sherman, Claudia Andujar, David Goldblatt, Douglas Huebler, Ed van der Elsken, Eugene Richards, Fina Miralles, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, Hans-Peter Feldmann, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Karen Knorr, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Malick Sidibé, Sophie Calle, Victor Burgin, Viktor Kolár and William Eggleston. Alongside this parade of great photography, The 70s also includes two illustrated essays by relevant artists of the time, as well as presentation texts of the participating artists and a selection of classic writings on photography published in this decade, by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, John Berger, Allan Sekula and Victor Burgin. Finally, it supplies a detailed chronology of socio-political transformations and the evolution of photography, illustrated with original documents and news media reproductions.

The 70s, Photography and Everyday Life

La Fábrica

<p>Long stored in files or dumped in dusty basements, the spontaneous, seemingly ephemeral portraits taken by working studio photographers have been getting a second look over the past 20 years. Such rediscovered work revealed modern American masters of the vernacular in figures like Mike Disfarmer and E.J. Bellocq. Now the photographs of Lebanese photographer Hashem El Madani are set to be discovered. Over a career of more than 50 years (and counting) of work in Saida, Lebanon, El Madani has documented a people who have suffered great social upheaval but who, when posing for his camera, felt free and safe to be who they wanted. The subjects of his photographs exude dignity, strength, good humor and individuality. The conventions of studio photography remain static, but over time, the parade of faces who passed in front of El Madani's lens would change with the times, forming a shifting collective portrait of a Middle Eastern town in the last half of the twentieth century. “I would have liked to have photographed all the people of Saida,” he said, “because that is where I live.”</p>

Hashem El Madani: Studio Practices

Wright, Stephen

Mind the Gap/Arab Image Foundation

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