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This work, much of it previously unpublished and unseen, explores Templeton's own journey as an image maker, as well as the lives of professional skateboarders as they spent long hours crisscrossing the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.
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.
Cette série, présentée à la fondation Cartier Bresson en 2020 puis au SF MOMA en 2021, a été réalisée par le photographe Gregory Halpern lors d'une résidence en Guadeloupe. Le titre, référence à Aimé Césaire, traduit le caractère hybride du travail d'Halpern qui a voulu témoigner à travers paysages et portraits de l'histoire mouvementée de l'archipel mais aussi de sa nature luxuriante.
Ari Marcopoulos is an inveterate maker of zines. This project collects in one volume for the first time a selection of zines by Marcopoulos, many never before released, providing a unique insight and overview into an essential part of this influential artist's daily practice. Often self-published or created in collaboration with boutique and independent publishers like ROMA, Dashwood Books, and PPP Editions, these informal, DIY-aesthetic creations function as sketchbook, diary, installation space, and a means of processing Marcopoulos's daily practice of photographing his life, his family, his neighborhood, and the rarified cultural milieu in which he operates.
This collection showcases an impressive array of printed zines, exploring each as an artistic object through an engaging layout. Beginning in 2015 and presented chronologically per year, key zines are featured-including some made during the pandemic, when Marcopoulos worked primarily on the screen, making PDF zines-and punctuated by individual images presented full scale. An interview with Hamza Walker underscores the role of zines as an essential part of Marcopoulos's artistic practice, emphasizing the personal, diaristic element within the work, while an essay from Maggie Nelson meditates on the work's position within a wider social and cultural context. Ari Marcopoulos: Zines is a must-have for anyone interested in this prolific artist's personal practice and zine culture.
Après des numéros consacrés aux scènes photographiques de Delhi, Mexico, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo et São Paulo, la revue Aperture s'intéresse à la ville d'Accra et à la culture visuelle au Ghana et en Afrique de l'Ouest. Avec les premières photographies de studio dès les années 50 et le photojournalisme de James Barnor, les travaux sensibles et expérimentaux d'Eric Gyamfi, Accra est au centre des dialogues autour du panafricanisme et est un point de retour pour la diaspora africaine. Edité en collaboration avec Lyle Ashton Harris et Nii Obodai, Accra comprend des contributions de Ekow Eshun, Zohra Opoku, John Akomfrah, Lloyd Foster et pbien d'autres.
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.
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.
Quelques semaines après le passage de l'ouragan Katrina, Richard Misrach a photographié les graffiti laissés sur les murs des maisons par les habitants abandonnés à leur sort. Autant de témoignages de l'impact de ce cataclysme sur les hommes.
The first major publication dedicated to one of Norway's most important photographers Working in a signature modulating gray scale, the late Norwegian photographer Tom Sandberg spent decades rendering the world according to an exacting vision, training his eye on the shapes and forms of the everyday-dark abstractions of asphalt and sea, the hard edges of an automobile, an ominously curved tunnel, an anonymous figure casting a shadow-to plumb the nature of photographic seeing. His pictures are subtle yet transformative, studies of stillness that radiate mystery. A perfectionist in the darkroom, Sandberg was acutely sensitive to the rich spectrum of black and white, and his handmade prints, at times printed on aluminum and canvas, project a powerful physical presence.
Although Sandberg is esteemed in his native Norway and throughout Scandinavia and Europe, his oeuvre is less known in the United States and other parts of the world. This monograph, produced in close collaboration with the Tom Sandberg Foundation in Oslo, is a long-overdue celebration of this distinguished artist.
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.
Ce livre rassemble une série de texte de Rebecca Bengal, critique spécialisée dans la photographie contemporaine. Elle analyse ici la relation qui nous lie depuis plus d'un siècle au medium photographique, sa puissance narrative, le rapport radical à l'intimité chez Nan Goldin ou la mise en scène de la liberté adolescente chez Justine Kurland, les maisons où Prince a vécu, les explorations d'Alec Soth... un regard contemporain sur la photographie américaine.
À l'heure où les photographies se dématérialisent et sont conservées sur des disques durs, ce livre nous plonge dans l'album photographique comme objet personnel, à travers ceux de personnalités aussi diverses que l'écrivain John Burroughs, l'ethnologue Edward Curtis, la réalisatrice de propagande Leni Riefenstahl, le général Patton ou les photographes Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Danny Lyon et Duane Michals.
Le photographe américain Matthew Porter présente ici un portfolio de 25 images. On y retrouve ses voitures anciennes suspendues en hauteur au-dessus de carrefours dans un décor typiquement américain. Une série qui oscille entre les scènes cultes de course-poursuite du cinéma comme Bullitt avec une certaine nostalgie et un aspect topographique qui rappelle la réalité américaine d'aujourd'hui.
Cet ouvrage se concentre sur un aspect méconnu de la pratique de Barry McGee, qui relève de l'art urbain et de la culture skate. Il a en réalité utilisé la photographie pour documenter sa vie quotidienne, son travail artistique, notamment ses installations, et pour éditer des fanzines qu'il distribuait lui-même.
This monograph is the first to collect the photographs of internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Barry McGee.
Though best known for the inventive graphic sensibility of his paintings and drawings, McGee's use of photography is an essential, often underappreciated, component of his artistic vision. Captured at all hours and around the world with whatever camera is at hand, McGee's images are immediate, casual, intimate, and anarchic all at once. His work boldly employs geometric shapes, clusters of framed drawings and paintings, distinctive characters, and found objects such as empty bottles, surfboards, and wrecked vehicles. Whether incorporated into his iconic multi-element compositions, or printed in the innumerable fanzines and artist's books that often accompany his exhibitions, photographs pervade McGee's practice. Barry McGee: Photography provides unique insight into the process of a major American artist, and is a testament to the immense amount of visual information McGee has absorbed to build one of the most eclectic and innovative artistic legacies of our time.
This summer, Aperture magazine presents «Being & Becoming: Asian in America,» a landmark issue that considers how artists use the medium of photography to grapple with questions of visibility, belonging, and what it means to be Asian American. Spanning photography from the nineteenth century to the present, and featuring the work of acclaimed figures such as An-My Lê and Reagan Louie, «Being & Becoming» is guest edited by Stephanie Hueon Tung, curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.
«I hope this publication provides an opportunity to discover generative ways of seeing that are rooted in connection and empathy,» says Tung, who contributes a powerful essay to the magazine about the importance of envisioning Asian American lives. «It is through the work of artists that we can change our perceptions of the past and heal generational wounds.» In «Being & Becoming,» Ryan Lee Wong interviews An-My Lê and Pao Houa Her about photography, fiction, and truth in the aftermath of war. Bakirathi Mani looks at artists engaging with collections and public archives shaped by colonial histories, while Xueli Wang writes about those making work in domestic spaces as a way to push back against assimilation. Ken Chen discusses Toyo Miyatake's striking record of life inside the Manzanar prison camp in the central Californian desert. Simon Wu reflects on performative conceptual photographer and documentarian of East Village life Tseng Kwong Chi and his downtown New York era. And Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander speakswith Reagan Louie, who has spent more than fifty years addressing issues of migration, cultural transformation, and intergenerational dialogue through photography.
Among the artist portfolios in «Being & Becoming,» Gina Osterloh-whose work is featured on the cover- experiments with the legibility and illegibility of identity. Leonard Suryajaya constructs exuberant scenes of life in Indonesia and Chicago. Arthur Ou considers the act of seeing the world as a precursor to understanding his place in it. Guanyu Xu layers images of domestic spaces, filled with symbols of home, history, and affection. Priya Suresh Kambli mines family photographs to produce collages about migration and memory, and Jarod Lew composes «deliberately uncluttered» images of his family in Detroit. This issue also features essays from Phoebe Chen, Tausif Noor, Mimi Wong, Amy Sadao, Xuan Juliana Wang, Amitava Kumar, and Simon Han.
In The PhotoBook Review-included within every issue of Aperture as of summer 2022-Taous Dahmani speaks with Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, bookmaker and co-founder of the Marseille-based independent publisher Chose Commune. Lena Fritsch reviews an expansive new book that charts Japan's unparalleled history of photography in print publications. In addition, Aperture's editors review new and notable photobooks.
Né en 1920, Walter Chandoha est le père de la photographie animalière en studio qu'il pratique depuis les années 1940. Ses clichés ont été publiés dans toute la presse, de Life à National Geographic. Ce petit livre, qui rassemble une cinquantaine de photos de chats domestiques des années 60 à 80 restitue avec humour le kitsch de son époque.
