Après la publication de son célèbre livre House of Bondage sur les horreurs de l'apartheid en 1967, Ernest Cole déménage à New York et reçoit une bourse de la Fondation Ford pour documenter les communautés noires dans les villes et les régions rurales des États-Unis. Il y documente la vie de Harlem, alterne couleur et street photography en noir et blanc dans les rues de Manhattan. En 1968, il se rend à Chicago, Cleveland, Memphis, Atlanta et Los Angeles, et restitue l'état d'esprit des communuatés noires dans les zones rurales du deep south peu après l'assassinat de Martin Luther King. De son vivant, il a publié très peu d'images issues de ce travail. Les négatifs des photos américaines d'Ernest Cole sont réapparus en Suède en 2017. Cette redécouverte permet un regard unique sur la société américaine et redessine toute son oeuvre, offrant une perspective nouvelle sur le travail d'un homme qui a fui l'Afrique du Sud a fait découvrir l'apartheid au monde entier.
The highly anticipated second volume to the widely acclaimed and celebrated self-portrait series, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness.
In Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Vol. II, Zanele Muholi explores and expands upon new personas and poetic interpretations of personhood, queerness, Blackness, and the possibilities of self. Since the publication of the first volume in 2018, Muholi has continued to photograph themself in a range of new international locations. Drawing on material props found in each environment, Muholi boldly explores their own image and innate possibilities as a Black individual in today's global society, and-most important-speaks emphatically in response to contemporary and historical racisms. Renée Mussai, curator and historian, brings together written contributions from more than ten curators, poets, and authors, building a poetic and experimental framework that extends the idea of speculative futures and the potentiality of multivalent selves. Powerfully arresting, this collection further amplifies Muholi's expressive and radical manifesto. As they state in the first volume, «My practice as a visual activist looks at Black resistance-existence as well as insistence.»
Originally published in 1981, and now in a third edition, Susan Meiselas's Nicaragua is a contemporary classic--a seminal contribution to the literature of concerned photography.
Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979 forms an extraordinary narrative of a nation in turmoil. Starting with a powerful and chilling evocation of the Somoza regime during its decline in the late 1970s, the images trace the evolution of the popular resistance that led to the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in 1979. The book includes interviews with various participants in the revolution, along with letters, poems, and statistics.
In the decades following the original publication, Meiselas has continued to contextualize her photographs and relate them to history as it unfolded. Multiple editions build upon this body of work to evoke and conjure up the reality of people's lives and aspirations, their victories and disappointments. In this new edition, thirty images are linked via QR codes to excerpts from the films Pictures from a Revolution (1991, codirected with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti) in which Meiselas tracks down and interviews the people she photographed, and Reframing History (2004, codirected with Alfred Guzzetti), her collaboration with local communities in installing mural-sized images in the places where they were originally taken, eliciting the memories and reflections of those passing by. By extending and deepening her work, Meiselas asks us "to consider not only the specific timeframe of this book, but to think about the broader perspective of history unfolding, and how in the passage of time a photograph of a single moment in a person's life shifts its meanings as well as our perception of it." An interview with the artist by Magnum Foundation's director, Kristen Lubben, addresses how the work of this evolving project has been circulated, revisited, and repatriated--and how and why it endures.
Part memoir, part document of the DIY, punk-infused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ed Templeton's Wires Crossed pulses with the raw, combustive energy of Templeton's image-making from the last twenty-plus years.
Illustrated by photographs, collages, texts, maps, and other ephemera from Templeton's journals, Wires Crossed offers an insider's look at a subculture in the making and reflects the unique aesthetic stamp that sprang from the skate world he helped create. Templeton occupies the rare position of having been a professional skateboarder, a two-time World Skateboarding champion, as well as a photographer and artist working within the skateboard community as it gained increasing cultural currency in the 1990s and beyond. His work first gained recognition as part of the Beautiful Losers collective loosely gathered around Aaron Rose's Alleged Gallery on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
This work, much of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores Templeton's own journey as an image maker, as well as the lives of professional skateboarders as they spent long hours crisscrossing the world on tour, reveling in their newfound status as rock star-like figures and the eternal search for new terrain to skate. Interviews between Templeton and fellow pro-skaters and friends add compelling detail about the pressures and pleasures of life on the road, and what it's like to obsessively pursue an art form-whether on their decks or behind the camera.
The Photography Workshop Series est une nouvelle collection qui se propose d'éditer une série d'ateliers mis en place avec des grands noms de la photographie contemporaine. Chaque photographe invité choisit un thème et, s'appuyant sur ses propres images, explique son approche créative et ses idées sur la photographie.
Cette monographie présente pour la première fois le travail de la jeune photographe beyrouthine Myriam Boulos, nominée au sein de l'agence Magnum. Elle pose un regard sans concession sur la révolution qui a commencé au Liban en 2019 avec des manifestations contre la corruption gouvernementale et l'austérité, pour culminer avec les conséquences de l'explosion dévastatrice du port de Beyrouth en août 2020. Elle représente la jeunesse bouillonante de son pays, ses amis et sa famille avec une énergie brute et une approche intime, dans la joie et la colère. Myriam Boulos fait du corps dans l'espace public un motif puissant face à la négligence et à la violence de l'État. De son approche de la photographie, elle déclare : « C'est plus un besoin qu'un choix. Je suis obsédée par les choses et je ne sais pas comment gérer ces obsessions autrement que par la photographie. »
Nouvel opus dans la série de petits livres Photography Workshop. Cette fois-ci, c'est la célèbre photographe mexicaine Graciela Iturbide, connue pour ses portraits et paysages empreints à la fois d'une véracité documentaire et d'une certaine poésie, qui détaille son approche très personnelle du médium et qui explique ses méthodes de travail.
In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Graciela Iturbide--known for her portraits and landscapes imbued with poetic ambiguity and documentary truth--explores photographing in ways that employ a deeply personal vision, while also reflecting subjects' rich cultural backgrounds.
Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography--offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Through images and words, Iturbide shares her creative process and artistic inspirations, and discusses a wide range of issues, from portraying spirituality in photographs and engaging with different cultures to the importance of curiosity.
A celebrated return of Robert Frank's seminal photobook, The Americans, to Aperture's catalog--one of the most important bodies of photographic work ever madeIn the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958, and in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American photography. Through eighty-three photographs taken across the country, Frank unveiled an America that had gone previously unacknowledged--confronting its people with an underbelly of racial inequality, corruption and injustice, and the stark reality of the American Dream. Frank's point of view--at once startling and tenacious--is imbued with humanity and lyricism, painting a poignant and incomparable portrait of the nation at a turning point in history.This edition of The Americans is a celebrated return of an iconic title to Aperture's catalog, more than a half-century after the Aperture and Museum of Modern Art edition was published in 1968. Presented on the centennial of Frank's birth and a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, it has been produced following the finest tritone printing from the 2008 edition for which Frank was personally involved in every step of the design and production. Frank's exacting vision, distinct style, and poetic insight changed the course of twentieth-century photography, and influenced subsequent generations of photographers, including Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Danny Lyon, Joel Meyerowitz, Ed Ruscha, and Garry Winogrand. Now extolled as one of the most groundbreaking photobooks of all time, The Americans remains as powerful and provocative as it was upon publication and continues to resonate with audiences today.
Publiée pour accompagner une exposition à la National Gallery of Art de Washington, cette monographie complète revient sur toute la carrière du célèbre photographe des paysages américains en noir et blanc, de 1965 à 2015.
Héraut de la photographie japonaise moderne, Shomei Tomatsu est connu pour ses photographies prises au Japon tout de suite après la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Chewing Gum and Chocolate nous raconte la présence militaire américaine et l'influence de la culture américaine sur la jeunesse et la société. Les cadrages et les gros plans ainsi que le travail sur les textures et les matières saisissent par leur modernité.
An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography's most renowned and celebrated artists.
Throughout his more than sixty-year-long obsession with the medium, Josef Koudelka considers a remarkable range of photographic subjects-from his early theater work, to his seminal project on the Roma and his legendary coverage of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague, to the solitariness of exile and the often-devastating impact humans have had on the landscape. Josef Koudelka: Next embraces all of Koudelka's projects and his evolution as an artist in the context of his life story and working process, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the mind and world of this notoriously private photographer. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of almost a decade with Koudelka-as well as ongoing conversations with his friends, family, colleagues, and collaborators worldwide-this deftly told, richly illustrated biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of this notoriously private photographer. Writer, editor, and curator Melissa Harris has independently crafted a unique, in-depth, and revelatory personal history of both the man and his photography.
Josef Koudelka: Next is richly illustrated with hundreds of photographs, including many biographical and behind-the-scenes images from Koudelka's life, as well as iconic images from his work, from the 1950s to the present. The visual presentation is conceived in collaboration with Koudelka himself, as well as his longtime collaborator, Czech designer Aleš Najbrt.
Le photographe suédois JH Engström poursuit son travail autobiographique à travers l?exploration de son quotidien. Sketch of Paris retrace, en couleur et en noir et blanc, vingt ans de ses séjours dans les mondes interlopes de la ville lumière.
Avec True Colors, le photographe afro-américain Zora J Murff chronique la survie des Noirs américains au sein d'un système structurellement raciste. Ancien travailleur social, il utilise désormais la photographie pour rester aux prises avec une réalité violente, et questionne sans relâche les liens de ce medium artistique avec l'histoire du racisme, ses représentations, et son évolution. Pour cela, il mêle ses propres photographies avec des images trouvées puis parfois modifiées.
True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) is a chronicle of survival by trailblazing artist Zora J Murff.
Murff constructs a manual for coming to terms with the historic and contemporary realities of America's divisive structures of privilege and caste. Since leaving social work to pursue photography over a decade ago, Murff's work has consistently grappled with the complicit entanglement of the medium in the histories of spectacle, commodification, and race, often contextualizing his own photographs with found and appropriated images and commissioned texts. True Colors continues that work, expanding to address the act of remembering and the politics of self, which Murff identifies as "the duality of Black patriotism and the challenges of finding belonging in places not made for me--of creating an affirmation in a moment of crisis as I learn to remake myself in my own image." Nuanced, challenging, and inspiring, True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) is a must-have monograph by a rising and standout artist.
True Colors is the result of the inaugural Next Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, with the generous support of 7G Foundation. An exhibition of the work will open at Baxter St in New York in November 2021.
The Photography Workshop Series est une nouvelle collection qui se propose d'éditer une série d'ateliers mis en place avec des grands noms de la photographie contemporaine. Chaque photographe invité choisit un thème et, s'appuyant sur ses propres images, explique son approche créative et ses idées sur la photographie.
Réputé pour ses scènes de rue de Harlem et ses portraits expressifs, Dawoud Bey poursuit son travail sur l'histoire afro-américaine. Elegy rassemble les trois séries de paysages réalisées à ce jour : Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017), In This Here Place (2021) et Stoney the Road (2023), élucidant la profonde mémoire historique encore ancrée dans la géographie des États-Unis. Ses images représentent l'historique Richmond Slave Trail en Virginie ayant conduit les esclaves Africains aux ventes aux enchères, dans les plantations de Louisiane où ils travaillaient et le long du chemin de fer clandestin dans l'Ohio, où les fugitifs cherchaient de prendre la fuite. Des essais de chercheurs et commissaires d'exposition accompagnent les images, contextualisant le travail de Dawoud Bey dans le contexte historique de référence.
La photographe vietnamienne An-My Lê a suivi pendant plusieurs mois le quotidien des militaires de la Marine américaine. Des exercices d'entraînement aux visites des navires sur place, des missions scientifiques en Arctique et en Antarctique aux missions humanitaires en Afrique et en Asie, elle s'appuie sur ce travail photographique pour révéler l'enjeu de ces interventions.
Young New York, la première monographie dédiée au travail d?Ethan James Green, présente une sélection de portraits des millenials les plus célèbres de New York parmi lesquels l?on retrouve des mannequins, des artistes, des icônes de la vie nocturne, des jeunes homosexuels et des muses gender-fluid de l?univers de la mode. Ethan James Green récolte dans cet ouvrage des clichés capturés au sein de sa communauté d?amis et de proches pendant plus de trois ans, créant un ouvrage dont l?approche humaniste transcende les tendances passagères.
