Depuis plus de trente ans, les photographies de Thibaut Cuisset évoluent entre les problématiques liées au paysage, à l'environnement et à la notion de territoire. Avec l'acuité contemporaine d'un regard digne des photographes américains de la New Topographics, Thibaut Cuisset s'empare de la singularité de nos campagnes, sans fioritures ni nostalgie. Ses images montrent que le territoire n'a rien de figé, qu'il est le résultat de l'histoire, d'interventions multiples et toujours actives. Ce façonnement perpétuel est le sujet que la photographie vient ici ausculter, authentifier. Avec une grande précision et avec virtuosité dans la retenue des couleurs, elle témoigne des équilibres et bouleversements de nos campagnes.
Typologie libre de toute idée d'inventaire ou d'anecdote, ce livre compose un atlas sensible du monde d'aujourd'hui ; oeuvre autonome d'un grand artiste mais aussi hommage fidèle et précis d'un promeneur attentif à la grande diversité du paysage français.
Class, race and labor in a Pittsburgh plant: a rarely seen series by Gordon Parks.
By 1944, Gordon Parks had established himself as a photographer who freely navigated the fields of press and commercial photography, with an unparalleled humanist perspective. That year, Roy Stryker--the former Farm Security Administration official who was now heading the public relations department for the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)--commissioned Parks to travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to document the Penola, Inc. Grease Plant.
Employing his signature style, Parks spent two years chronicling the plant's industry--critical to Pittsburgh's history and character--by photographing its workers. The resulting photographs, dramatically staged and lit and striking in their composition, showed the range of activities engaged in by Black and white workers, divided as they were by roles, race and class. The images were used as marketing materials and made available to local and national newspapers, as well as corporate magazines and newsletters. However, they served as much more than documentation of industry, enduring as an exploration of labor and its social and economic ramifications in World War II America by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
Featuring more than 100 photographs, many previously unpublished, this is the first book to focus exclusively on Parks' photographs for the Standard Oil Company, illuminating an important chapter in his career prior to his landmark career as a staff photographer for Life.
Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. He worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself and becoming a photographer. In addition to his tenures photographing for the FSA (1941-45) and Life magazine (1948-72), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. He died in 2006.
Recueil de 131 photographies de Robert Frank réalisées dans les années 1950, dont 22 clichés originaux du reportage photo intitulé Américains, enrichis de 100 images inconnues. Né en Suisse, il émigre aux Etats-Unis en 1947 et commence sa carrière de photographe dans des magazines. Il obtient la bourse de la Guggenheim Fondation en 1955, et réalise de nombreux films.
Pour la première fois, cet ouvrage rassemble un corpus important dans l'oeuvre de Robert Frank : ses photos prises à Paris au début des années 50. Sa visite à Paris en 1951 constituait son premier retour en Europe après qu'il se soit installé à New York en 1947, et certaines des images réalisées durant ce séjour sont aujourd'hui parmi les plus emblématiques de sa carrière et de l'Histoire de la photographie en général. Les 80 images sélectionnées ici par Robert Frank et Ute Eskildsen témoignent d'un oeil attiré par l'urbanisme européen. Le photographe considérant la rue comme une scène, il s'est principalement focalisé sur les passants et les commerçants, plus particulièrement les marchands de fleurs. Son travail rend ici un hommage appuyé à Eugene Atget et rappelle la tradition du flâneur.
The first ever book on Ellison's lifelong photography practice, from New York scenes to domestic vignettes.
Ralph Ellison is a leading figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser known, however, is his lifelong engagement with photography. Photographer is the first book dedicated to Ellison's extensive work in the medium, which spans the 1930s to the '90s.
Throughout his life, photography played multiple roles for Ellison: a hobby, a source of income, a notetaking tool and an artistic outlet. During his formative years in New York City in the 1940s, he keenly photographed his surroundings--at times alongside fellow photographer Gordon Parks--with many images serving as field notes for his writing. In the last decades of his life, as he grappled with his much-anticipated second novel, Ellison turned inward, and he studied his private universe at home with a Polaroid camera. At all times his photography reveals an artist steeped in modernist thinking who embraced experimentation to interpret the world around him, particularly Black life in America. In a 1956 letter to fellow writer Albert Murray, Ellison underscored photography's importance to his creative process: "You know me, I have to have something between me and reality when I'm dealing with it most intensely." Accompanying the photographs in this book are several essays situating Ellison's work within his broader career as a writer, as well an excerpt from his 1977 essay "The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and His Audience." Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1913. His love of music led him to enroll at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama, as a music major. In 1936 he visited New York City, where he befriended established authors and intellectuals who encouraged him to pursue a career in writing. He joined the Federal Writers' Project and began contributing essays and short stories for publications such as New Masses, The Negro Quarterly, New Republic and Saturday Review. By 1945 he had signed a contract to write what was to become Invisible Man (1952); it won the National Book Award in 1953 but remained his only novel published during his lifetime. He published two subsequent collections of essays, Shadow and Act (1964) and Going to the Territory (1986). For many years Ellison worked on a second novel, which he never completed; its central narrative was published posthumously as Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010). Ellison died in 1994.
An in-depth look at Chanel's collections from the last decade by Karl Lagerfeld and Virginie Viard.
If you're ever lucky enough to make it backstage at one of Chanel's fashion shows, at Paris' Grand Palais or a different exotic location, you might catch a glimpse of a certain photographer passionately clicking away as he weaves his way past models, celebrities and artistic director Virginie Viard. That photographer is Benoît Peverelli, and this book is an in-depth look at Karl Lagerfeld's collections for Chanel from 2010 to his last, shown in March 2019, and reveals the remarkable continuation of the story of the house through Viard's collections.
CHANEL - Fittings and Backstage is the long-awaited revised edition of the original sold-out book of 2018. Containing more than 2,000 photos and nearly 20 new collections, the publication comprises four volumes, one for each of Chanel's collections: Haute Couture, Ready-to-Wear, Cruise and Métiers d'Art, which celebrates the savoir-faire of the numerous ateliers producing embroidery, beading, buttons and more--all by hand. Peverelli depicts the beauty and secrets of the backstage world, but also revealed are the fittings leading up to the show--exclusive meetings between Viard and the Chanel Studio at 31 Rue Cambon, where each model's garment, accessories, make-up and hair are individually adjusted and perfected late through the night for the next morning's show.
Born in 1970 in Switzerland, Benoît Peverelli cofounded the music magazine Vibrations in 1991. In 1993 he relocated to New York, working for publications including the New York Times, Life and John F. Kennedy Jr.'s political magazine George. Peverelli has furthermore photographed musicians throughout the Americas and Africa, as well as record covers for labels including Blue Note and Verve. In 2002 he settled in Paris, where he took up fashion photography while continuing to make portraits and reportage. In 2014 Peverelli coedited the Steidl book Balthus: The Last Studies, and in 2016 he directed the musical film Paysage Cantique / Le Cantique des Cantiques.
Recueil photographique de portraits issus des Gender studies de Bettina Rheims. Des hommes et des femmes qui ont posé devant l'objectif de l'artiste afin d'interroger la modification de l'identité sexuelle et la complexité des genres.
Paris Photo est la plus grande foire d'art au monde consacrée à la photographie. Elle attire annuellement des milliers d'amateurs, d'artistes, de professionnels et de collectionneurs. Cette 21 e édition aura lieu du 9 au 12 novembre 2017. Plus de 180 galeries et éditeurs offriront un panorama complet des pratiques de la photographie contemporaine et historique.
Sous la forme d'un parcours inédit parmi les milliers d'oeuvres présentées à la foire, Karl Lagerfeld partage ses coups de coeur au fil des pages de ce livre publié par Steidl. Une façon originale pour le public de contempler les oeuvres exposées par les galeristes, tout en découvrant l'univers esthétique de Karl Lagerfeld. Une visite guidée par l'un des plus grands esthètes du moment !
Cet ouvrage présente une sélection d'inédits du grand photographe, opérée par son épouse, Barbara, et par Valérie Servant qui, au sein de la société G.I.P., le représenta au Japon durant vingt ans. On y retrouve ses photogaphies, reconnaissables entre toutes par la profondeur de leurs noirs, leur sens du contraste, l'utilisation harmonieuse et sans déformation du grand angle et une lumière apprivoisée avec une justesse rare, de portrait en paysage.
In January 1962, still in his early twenties, David Bailey fulfilled a dream that dated back to his years in Singapore, serving in the Royal Air Force. Heading to the USA, home of the jazz musicians that had inspired him and the source of his original ambition to be a trumpet-player, Bailey was on his first foreign trip for Vogue, together with his model and girlfriend, Jean Shrimpton. The impact of the early Bailey/Shrimpton collaborations set new standards that helped put Britain back on the world map of popular culture. And the attack on the generational chasm Bailey spearheaded is underlined by the warning he was given that, as a representative ofVogue, he was not to wear his leather jacket in the St Regis Hotel. (Of course he ignored the advice).
