Margaret Bourke-White: Fotografa

Arts & Photography

Sean Callahan

History & Criticism

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<div> Paradiso was born in an exploration of the spaces planned by architect Mario Botta and in an intuition of architecture as the art of rendering the void livable. This concept is linked to Silvio Wolf's poetical understanding of the questions of absence, of the void, and of elsewhere, which recur throughout his photography and his multimedia installations.</div>

Paradiso: Photography and Video by Silvio Wolf

Wolf, Silvio

Individual Artists

The long-awaited anthology of David Goldblatt’s works, published on the occasion of the 2006 exhibition in Arles (with Martin Parr as curator), which afterward will tour internationally.
 David Goldblatt is South Africa’s most important photographer. He has produced a body of work that is an original and extensive study of South Africa during and after apartheid. His On The Mines (1973), with a text by Nadine Gordimer, Some Afrikaners Photographed (1975), and Lifetimes: Under Apartheid (1986), again with a text by Gordimer, document the complexity of South African lives, and are considered milestones in the history of photography. His following work on built structures, the human landscape that speaks of the forces shaping South African society from colonial times up to the end of white domination, led to the exhibition of his most somber works, “Structures,” at The Museum of Modern Art, and to publication of South Africa: the Structure of Things Then (1998).
 In 1999 he began working in color for the first time, manipulating colors and composing the images according to his nuanced view of things. This change in Goldblatt’s narrative style is registered in his publication of Belonging, on the new South African identity and urban areas, and more recently in Intersections (2005), on rural places and South African natural landscapes.
 Goldblatt’s photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The South African National Gallery, Cape Town; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and in The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2006, Goldblatt won the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.

David Goldblatt Photographs

Goldblatt, David

A history of interiors and industrial design created and produced in its world capital city, Milan, in the last decades. The book discusses the places, relationship networks on the territory, men, designers (inventors, entrepreneurs, and craftsmen), and innovative objects representing the typical Milanese capability to generate creativity: absolute protagonists of a limitless creativity factory, representing the idea of “Made in Italy.” MILANOMADEINDESIGN is also the catalog of a successful exhibition held in Toronto and in the Milk Gallery in New York in 2006, when it will continue its tour in America.

MILANOMADEINDESIGN

Decorative Arts & Design

The Cotroneos’ Collection includes masterpieces of many of the most renowned names of photography and contemporary art. This book, especially dedicated to Italian photography and video, includes artwork by: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mimmo Jodice, Antonio Biasiucci, Silvio Wolf, Vettor Pisani, Bruna Esposito, Raffaela Mariniello, Luigi Ghirri, Francesco Jodice, Ferdinando Scianna, Gabriele Basilico, Mario Giacomelli, Vincenzo Castella, Luigi Ontani, Franco Fontana, Grazia Toderi, Luciano D’Alessandro, Elisabetta Catalano, Paolo Mussat Sartor, Claudio Abate, Alfredo Pirri, Paul Thorel, and Paolo Ventura.  The book will be published to coordinate with an exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the start of an international tour.

UNE HISTOIRE PRIVEE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC CHOICE IN THE COTRONEOS' COLLECTION (French Edition)

Over the past two years, Jessica Dimmock has photographed a group of die-hard heroin users living on “The Ninth Floor” of a Manhattan building in a surprising, powerful, and intimate way. The tale of the terrible consequences of heroin abuse has been documented many times before, but Dimmock epitomizes the attitude of the concerned photographer by her deep compassion for the people she portrays. The photographs brilliantly capture the chaotic atmosphere of human lives spinning out of control. Dimmock’s contemporary visual language, coupled with a strong narrative approach, compels the viewer to understanding and to care.

The Ninth Floor

Photography & Video

Their names are Lewis Hine, Sebastião Salgado, Eugene Smith, Tom Stoddart, and Igor Kostin. They tackled hunger, drought, ecological catastrophes, HIV. They are documentary photographers, authors, and journalists who decided to aim their cameras at a series of unknown stories that had to be revealed, told, understood, and denounced.
 Our Brothers’ keepers gathers twenty protagonists and twenty exemplary stories of documentary photography. Each one is presented by an introductory text, and a selection of photographs conveys the sense and value of these extremely important reports. It is a peculiar way to track the history of our days, as well as the one of photography, of those concerned authors who wanted to show things that had to be corrected, who wanted to show things that had to be appreciated.

My brother's keeper: Documentary Photographers and Human Rights

<div> Rajasthan is a book on the love of a man for this beautiful land and the breathtaking impression the images he shot have produced on a woman. With the images in this book, architect and photographer Tito Dalmau leads us gently through the fascinating scenario of the different forms of the inhabited landscape in Rajasthan. The pictures are accompanied by historical circumstances and geographical notes by Maka Abraham, whose words provide us with all the data about the reality that will bring us back into this timeless world, where the house is conceived as home for the extended family. </div>

Rajasthan

Travel

Contacts is the first collection of William Klein’s famous contact sheets, revamped and over-painted. The most important and famous works of this great artist have been chosen and printed from these contact sheets—those very same works that have made him one of the most acclaimed all-around photographers and artists in the last thirty years. The large prints in the book, some of which have never been published, are reproductions of painted contact sheets, and can be either detached and framed or kept in their original form in the book.

William Klein Contacts

Lost in seeing covers a thirty-year journey through the changes of the Italian scene.
Mimmo Jodice, one of the greatest Italian photographers, offers unexpected visions and unseen things, famous places and territories of the imagination. He crossed Italy from the north to the south in his modern Grand Tour, drawing a comprehensive portrait of striking images. Jodice’s magical realism leads us through the Mediterranean islands, the Italian countryside, the restoration of St. Peter’s church in Rome, the decommissioning of Venice-Marghera, the remains of Pompeii, and the urban transformations and the sites of archaeology.
Seen through his lens, Italy takes on a whole new aspect; even its landmarks vibrate with movement and possibility.

Lost in Seeing: Italy, thirty years of visions

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