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Desert Diaries: Photojournalists on the War in Iraq

Arts & Photography

Storm, Brian

Photographics, Channel

Photography & Video

Channel Photographics

A large volume, private exhibition of decadent classicism in contemporary photos. This unusual suite of photographs uses the poetic form of Sestina combined with other signature Stivers' elements: Romanticism, mysticism, Gothic and Baroque art, Symbolism and film. With a contemporary edge eerily recalling the past, the photos seem dredged up from a seance. Named after a complex French poetic form based upon repetition, the Sestina was practiced by Swinburne, Kipling and Auden, and transformed by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Elizabeth Bishop. Here, John Woods' poetry illuminates Stivers' surreal imagery.

Sestina

Literature & Fiction

Robert Stivers

John, Wood

Poetry

Of all the sacred sites that Kenro Izu has photographed since 1979, Angkor Wat is undoubtedly his spiritual and psychological base camp. While he has so often succeeded in representing the sacred and ancient landscape, Angkor Wat is the creative thread that weaves itself through all of his work. Angkor Wat is the touchstone - it supports Izu's output and indeed holds it together like the geometrical matrix of the spider's web.For these reasons, Passage to Angkor artfully reexamines this most important aspect of Izu's career spanning the last quarter century, presenting Izu's most accomplished Angkor Wat photographs in a rarefied book form that is remarkable for its physical beauty.Passage to Angkor is accomplished by poems by Helen Ibbitson Jessup that were inspired by Izu's photographs. Proceeds will be donated to Friends without a Border, a charity founded in 1995 by Kenro Izu as a way of returning something to Cambodia for the many images he captured there.

Passage to Angkor

Jessup, Helen Ibbitson

IZU, Kenro

The remarkable characters who color surfing's past and present. This portrait, in lavish photographs and fascinating stories, chronicles a pantheon of living surf maestros from the historic and contemporary surfing communities: * surf champions * master board builders * underground cult figures This photographic surf journey led from La Jolla to the North Shore; from Malibu to Oregon; and from Noosa Heads to Windan Sea -- led by a popular surf personality and a leg endary celebrity photographer.

SURF BOOK

Halsband, Michael

These unusual and frank photos celebrate the beauty of random human encounters and turn everyday experiences into profound visual testaments. Zuckerman's fresh appreciation of the extraordinary nature of people and other beings is evident in his affecting images. Each meeting is documented by a photograph and paired with personal explanations of the circumstances. Kindsight® reveals the emotional, raw and intimate vistas of everyday life as streets, taxis, offices, front doors, and restaurants display richness, divinity and grace.

Kindsight: Images and Words From the Flow

Zuckerman, Robert

Religion & Spirituality

Explores the human costs and consequences of war in Bosnia, with photographs that illuminate the promises and contradictions of this post-war society. Marked by ethnic cleansing and the worst genocide since World War II, Bosnia has been quiet since the tanks rolled out and the journalists went home. The country is still deep in the throes of rebuilding a civil society, and this book pays witness to the process: 
*the exhumation and identification of approximately 20,000 victims of ethnic cleansing 
*the widows of Srebrenica, who lost more than 7,000 men to the July 1995 massacre by Serbs 
*refugee families who return to rebuild homes and villages destroyed in the war 
*the youth of Sarajevo 
*and the Bosnians who bear scars of war, including the 3K Sarajevo wheelchair basketball team. AUTHORBIO: Sara Terry was a staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor for ten years. Her work has also appeared in the NYT Magazine, Rolling Stone, and the Boston Globe. She is a 2005 recipient of the Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her reportage on Bosnia. 
Lawrence Weschler, a staff writer for The New Yorker for over 20 years, has written about political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, and of a Lannan Literary Award. The author of eleven books, including Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Vermeer in Bosnia, he has taught at Princeton, Columbia, Bard, and the UCSC He currently serves as the director of the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU.

Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace

Politics & Social Sciences

Sara Terry

Politics & Government

Snapshots from the turn of the 20th century to the early 1930s, featuring people and dogs in ordinary settings and daily routines. This particular collection features * small format * unposed subjects * days-gone-by aesthetic This treatment imbues the subject with the visual vocabulary of memory and contemplates the bond of companionship between man and dog with a powerful nostalgia. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Humane Society.

Canine Familiaris

Catharine Johnson

Individual Artists

Innovative photos of 1970s NYC, most never published. Throughout his storied career, Lopez kept a visual photographic diary of the people--including Andy Warhol--who visited his studio, elaborating each into a sequence then exploring the potential fantasy within each series. Like the sequential photographs of Eadweard Muybridge, but rougher and more intuitive, these images capture a panoply of emotion.

Antonio Lopez: Instamatics

Antonio López

An amazingly handsome volume of panoramic images of nighttime India, pulsing with exotic surprises like no other country in the world. Driven by Foster's passion of India, this book marks the fiftieth anniversary since the artist began photographing there. Within a dreamy nocturnal world, he captures the changes in India that have occurred since his first visit: the explosion of population, the increase in traffic, and the proliferation of the naked lightbulb. A glorious book by an artist devoted to Mother India.

Festival Of Lights: Photographs Of India At Night

Foster, Giraud

History & Criticism

The acclaimed Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century recognizes David LaChapelle’s 1996 LaChapelle Land as its 101st book. And rightly so. The marriage of LaChapelle’s vivid, high-octane images with graphic artist, Tadanori Yokoo’s supersaturated designs make for an astonishing physical object. The reissue of this now classic, long out-of-print volume showcases all the lollipop giddiness of the original now lavishly reproduced in a larger format. There’s a tradition of celebrity portraiture that attempts to uncover the real person’ behind the trappings of their celebrity. I am more interested in those trappings,” says LaChapelle. Indeed, he exaggerates the artificiality of fame and Hollywood culture in a head on collision of color, plastic, and whimsy. His photographs confront our visual taste and challenge our ideas of celebrity, all the while taking us on a roller coaster ride through his hyper-sensationalized galaxy. Lil’ Kim becomes the ultimate status symbol, tattooed in the Louis Vuitton pattern. Madonna rises from pink waters as a mystical dragon princess. Pamela Anderson hatches out of an egg; and Alexander McQueen burns down the castle dressed as the Queen of Hearts. David LaChapelle’s uncompromising originality is legendary in the worlds of fashion, film, and advertising. His images, both bizarre and gorgeous, have appeared on and in between the covers of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Vibe and more. La Chapelle Land is fun park America gone surrealistically wrong but in such an attractive way.

LaChapelle Land

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