Paris was brimming with life during the 1930s, and Picasso and Brassai were there to make the most of it. Picasso, thrilling the art world with his works, and Brassai, portraying boulevards and gardens, shops and markets, intellectuals and beggars. The contrasts of Paris parade in front of his camera, from the dark underworld to the radiance of its artistic environment, where he profusely portrayed artists and writer friends, such as Dali, Matisse, Giacometti, Genet and, of course, Picasso, whom he met in 1932 and whose sculptural work he was the first to photograph. This book is about that artistic environment, through which the Parisian intelligentsia is shown in beautiful black-and-white images with the unique signature of the Hungarian photographer. The book includes an excerpt by Henri Miller on Brassai, and a chapter of Brassai's autobiography speaking about his relationship with Picasso. AUTHOR: Brassai, name of the Hungarian photographer Gyula Halasz (1899-1984). He studied painting and sculpture in Budapest before working as a journalist in Berlin and later settling in France, where he developed his photographic career. Among his most notable series was Paris de nuit, in which he photographed scenes of the city's nightlife. He also photographed Parisian life extensively, the atmosphere in the streets by day and night, and the social meeting places, from cabarets to gardens, from the coffee shops frequented by intellectuals to the markets at dawn. Between 1936 and 1963, he worked as a photographer for Harper's Bazaar magazine, and was also a filmmaker and author of numerous articles and nearly twenty books. 120 images.
Classic portraits of Spanish and Latin American icons from Borges to Kahlo.
This hardcover volume presents more than 100 images from a unique part of German-born French photographer Gisèle Freund's (1908-2000) oeuvre: her portraits of Spanish and Latin American personalities, intellectuals, writers and artists. These photographs follow Freund's life journey, from her beginnings in Paris, through her period of exile in Argentina, her stays in Uruguay, Chile and Mexico, to her final stage back in Europe. During her time in these places, Freund took photographs of important personalities such as Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda, Nicolás Guillén, Octavio Paz, Alejo Carpentier, Vicente Huidobro, Jorge Luis Borges, Norah Borges, Guillermo de Torre, Eva Perón, Victoria Ocampo, Angélica Ocampo, María Rosa Oliver, Joaquín Torres García, Roberto Matta, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others. Alongside these portraits are her photographs of the Latin American landscape.
Mediterranean Metaphysics is the subtitle of this photographic project by French artist Bernard Plossu, which brings together 106 images taken over the course of thirty years in the south of France, Spain, Greece, Italy and Turkey Photographs in which the omnipresent white light eclipses people, in a visual exercise that reflects upon the real dimension of landscapes and architectural weaving-images shaping timeless spaces, an almost dreamlike journey through time and light.
Ce volume relié accompagne une exposition à Valence en Espagne de février 2019 à février 2020. Il propose un tour d?horizon de la photo japonaise des années 1950 à nos jours, entre groupe Vivo (1957-1961) et la revue Provoke. On y retrouve des grands noms comme Shomei Tomatsu, Akira Sato, Yutaka Takanashi et Daido Moriyama, ou encore Nabuyoshi Araki, Koji Enokura, Tamiko Nishimura ou Hiroshi Hamaya.
Mediterranean metaphysics is the subtitle of this project by the French artist Bernard Plossu. It gathers 150 images taken over the course of 30 years in the south of France, Spain, Greece, Italy and Turkey. In these snapshots, the omnipresent white light eclipses people in a visual exercise that reflects on the real dimension of the landscapes and architectures.
The images shape a timeless space in an almost dream-like journey through time and light.
The main characters in his photographs are the weak, the disowned and all of those who struggle on a daily basis to survive. This book brings together images of workers breaking up boats, abandoned refugees, amateur boxers, garbage collectors in dumps and members of armed gangs among other subjects. Since 2006 Javier Arcenillas has been working on an essay about violence in Central America. His photographs document pain, desperation, impotence and fear. His first works to gain recognition were Sicarios ("Hitmen") and Nota roja ("Red note"), both installments of his trilogy about death in El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, followed by Latidoame rica, its final part, the focus of which shifts to the tales of the victims of the indiscriminate violence prevalent in Honduran society. A number of these photographs have appeared in these countries' newspapers. The group of photographs included in this book goes a long way to define Arcenillas's work: striking images with a precise narrative discourse stir powerful emotions in the viewer.Shooting in black and white, making use of the close-up to introduce his scenes and playing with only partially focused subjects he arrives at his individual and feisty vision.
Une nouvelle édition de la collection de chefs d'oeuvre, cette fois dédié à Chema Conesa. Chema Conesa est un journaliste et photographe (né à Murcie en 1952 , vit à Madrid ) dont la spécialité est le portrait. Il a travaillé pour deux grands journaux espagnols, El Pais et El Mundo. Outre son travail en tant que photographe, Chema Conesa est un éditeur de livres et dirige la collection Photobolsillon.
Il est également commissaire de photographes, tels Ramon Masats , Catala Roca ou Chema Madoz. Il a donné de nombreux séminaires et conférences et a été membre du jury du Prix National de la Photographie en Espagne et du World Press Photo. Sa contribution à la photographie a été reconnue en 2010 avec le Prix Bartolomé Ros de PhotoEspaña pour sa carrière professionnelle en 2011.
Tras el gran éxito de las dos primeras entregas de nuestra colección Obras Maestras (Chema Madoz y Català-Roca), presentamos el libro más completo publicado hasta la fecha de una de las más importantes personalidades de la fotografía española: Isabel Muñoz. La obra de Isabel Muñoz se basa en la investigación y exploración del cuerpo humano, a través de la danza, primero, y de la denuncia social, después. Las geografías de hombres y mujeres, recubiertas de arte, descubren los mundos desconocidos tras la piel y los ojos. Reportera audaz y arriesgada, ha merecido dos veces el World Press Photo. Afincada en Madrid, ha realizado innumerables exposiciones individuales desde 1986 y mantiene una intensa actividad periodística.
This book features the great retrospective of the American photographer Henry Wessel which is exhibited in February at the Centro Jose Guerrero de Granada and which includes a selection of his most representative photographs. A journey to the American West throughout the lens of this photographer in whose photographs light and forms take center stage.
Wessel's visual sensibility captures spontaneous and everyday pictures with a strong attention to quiet and simple scenes, sometimes adding touches of irony and humor. Wessel is known mainly for his black-and-white images that he took traveling around several American states in search of motifs to photograph. His parking lots and beach-goers photos are remarkable.
The book also includes illustrative images by authors contemporary to Henry Wessel, such as Ed Ruscha, Lee Friedlander, Diane Airbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Nicholas Nixon, Robert Adams and Walker Evans.
This new volume of the PHotoBolsillo series focuses on the Venezuelan artist Alexander Apostol through a monograph in which his most outstanding and relevant works are compiled. Throughout his artistic career, Alexander Apostol has explored about the masculinity, homosexuality and the prejudices about them in the Latin American context. Apostol focuses and reflects on the construction of identity and gender in Venezuela, a nation deeply marked by its political circumstances, and some of his works are concentrated on the iconography of the urban landscape across the country. The book also includes a documented text by Diana Lopez, director of the the Archivo Fotografia Urbana in Caracas.
Since 1983, photographer Miguel Bergasa (born 1951) has made 27 trips to Latin America, undertaking an in-depth exploration of the various cultures of each country in which he chooses to work. This PHotoBolsillo volume introduces his work.
Collection la plus accessible du travail de Robert Adams à ce jour, cette version espagnole du livre de l'université de Yale présente une séquence narrative éditée avec soin de plus d'une centaine de photographies à travers 45 ans d'une remarquable carrière, avec une postface de Joshua Chuang et Jock Reynolds. Robert Adams a été décrit comme l'un des chroniqueurs les plus singuliers et originaux de l'Ouest américain. Adams commence la photographie dans les années 1960 dans le but de capturer les changements topographiques rapides dont il est témoin à Denver où il vivait alors. Depuis, il a développé, au fil de ses quarante années de carrière, un style connu pour son austérité, sa particularité et sa vision nuancée. Cette sélection retrace la longue relation entre les images de Robert Adams et la vie aux Etats-Unis, une relation basée sur la beauté de l'humanité et sa communication avec la nature.
Première femme américaine correspondante de guerre, Margaret Bourke-White avait aussi quelque chose d'une star des médias avec son portrait en tenue de vol, sur le point de déclencher son appareil photo lors d'un bombardement aérien, une des pin-up préférée des forces américaines. En se concentrant sur le travail de M. Bourke-White des années 1930 et 40 en Tchécoslovaquie, Allemagne, Italie, Union soviétique et le Royaume-Uni, Moments in History présente 150 photographies classiques accompagnées de correspondances et de publications, M. Bourke- White voulait être les «yeux de l'époque», et ses photos témoignent (comme elle le disait) de son "désir insatiable d'être présente quand l'Histoire est en train de s'écrire." Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) est née Margaret White dans le Bronx, à New York, et a grandi dans le Middlesex dans le New Jersey. Selon son frère Roger, "Son intérêt pour la photographie a commencé comme un hobby, soutenu par l'enthousiasme de son père pour les appareils photographique". Bourke- White a attiré l'attention pour la première fois avec ses photographies de l'usine Otis Steel, qui l'amena à travailler à Life, où elle fit partie de l'équipe de photographes de 1936 à 1940. Elle est morte à Stamford, dans le Connecticut à l'âge de 67 ans en 1971.
Enorme succès lors de la première de l'exposition à Berlin, cet ouvrage comble le manque bibliographique sur l'une des photographes américaines les plus importantes de tous les temps.
