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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This issue of La Fábrica's PHotoBolsillo series chronicles the work of award-winning Spanish documentary photographer Cristina de Middel (born 1975). De Middel is internationally known for The Afronauts, a self-published photobook that investigates the short-lived Zambian space program started in 1964.
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.
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.
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.
Female sexuality is the central theme in the photographs of the Catalan Laia Abril. With their warm feel of a family documentary, her images dislocate viewers, who find themselves suddenly trapped in the intimacy of others and required to take a stance on uncomfortable realities that remain veiled in society. Abril combines photography with other multimedia tools, such as video and graphic design, in a work in progress which La Fábrica attests to in its PHotoBolsillo collection.
Notebooks, post-its, facades, dustbins, cars... And people. The eye of the photographer who arrives in London as a foreigner captures an entire universe of insignificant things (trifles) which, however, can mean a lot to the newcomer.
Nominated for World Press Photo and a finalist for the Gran Prix Fotofestival, in The Observation of Trifles the Madrid-born photographer Carlos Alba suggests a unique, random guide through the conventionalisms of a London seen through objects found on its streets. This London is a far cry from postcards and is defined by both these everyday objects (which are therefore forgotten in the routine) and the look of the people that Alba photographed in the neighbourhoods of Hackney and Tower Hamlets, which make up a panoply of stories which may be analytical or superficial but are always poetic.
Wuhan before Wuhan captures a transformation process, both personal and photographic, of the Spanish photographer Jorquera, who reached in 2007 this Chinese city, at that time completely unknow for the West. He chose Wuhan, located in the country's hinterland, far from the megacities like Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, in order to settle there and create bonds, to focus on a more doable place, nestle into the context. But the lack of referents and communication led him to feel isolated, and isolation led to disorientation. Thus Jorquera began to undertake a more introspective odyssey, a journey inwards, where Wuhan represents something very basic yet universal: the quest for identity. AUTHOR: Born in Pontevedra (Spain) in 1972, Jorquera is one of the great names in young contemporary Spanish photography. A founding member of the Nophoto collective and editor of various publications, his professional work is focused on China since 2002. His work Wuhan before Wuhan, his most ambitious to date, comes after nine years living in the city. The photographic essay is organised into interior and exterior atmospheres, into moods that shape an autobiographical story that is simultaneously a quest and a pathway of interpretation. His intention was to break through where there are no recognisable coordinates or familiar parameters, and throughout the process he managed to settle, to build himself. To inhabit oddness. 215 images.
Cristóbal Hara (Madrid, 1946) est des plus importants photographes contemporains espagnols. Il prend pour sujet les célébrations et rites populaires d'Espagne et en fait un langage singulier qui parle à la fois de son identité propre et de celle de son pays.
Ai Weiwei: On the Table surveys the full scope of Weiwei's career, from his early days in 1980s New York to his present-day status as the best-known and most influential Chinese artist in the world. Work by this media-savvy activist calling for greater freedom in China can now be found in leading contemporary art museums and collections worldwide; the image of his taunting, irreverent middle finger imposed atop touristy monuments and landscape photos has become ubiquitous, his sunflower seed installations iconic. This volume includes previously unseen new work, as well as a range of key pieces from the past 35 years, presented in a beautiful clothbound format.
Le chroniqueur le plus acclamé de la culture catalane, Joan Colom (né 1921) est l'un des plus importants Photographes espagnols de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. Ce livre présente plus de 500 d'images de sa carrière. Il comprend ses plus connues images des années 1950 et 60, pris un peu clandestinement dans le quartier rouge de Célèbre Barrio Chino de Barcelone et portraits en noir et blanc de la vie souterrain de la rue de la ville qui sont depuis devenus emblématiques.
On y trouve aussi un côté moins familier de sa carrière : son reportage des années 1990, où il a commencé à utiliser la couleur, montrés ici pour la première fois.
