In celebration of Michael Kenna's fiftieth year as a photographer, we are thrilled to announce the publication of Michael Kenna: Photographs and Stories. This gorgeous new monograph, beautifully printed on Japanese Kasadaka paper and bound in custom deep blue cloth, is limited to 2,000 casebound copies. It is published in association with the Center for Photographic Art to coincide with a traveling exhibition opening at their historic Carmel, California exhibition space in November 2023. Kenna has selected one image for each year beginning 1973, when he enrolled in the Banbury School of Art, and for each subsequent year. Following the «Photographs» section is «Stories,» in which Kenna gives context to each image and considers how it connected to his own life at the time. Michael Kenna is arguably the most influential landscape photographer of his generation. Often working at dawn or during the night, he has concentrated primarily on the interaction between the ephemeral atmospheric conditions of the natural landscape, and human-made structures and sculptural mass. Over ninety books and catalogs have been published on his work. His exquisite, hand crafted, silver gelatin prints have been exhibited throughout the world and are included in such permanent museum collections as The National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2022, Mr. Kenna was made an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. «This book is a journey, navigating places foreign and familiar, winding through black and white scenes full of spacious calm. It is a great pleasure to look at these images, to feel that maybe everything is going to be all right after all, that the world isn't such a bad place, and magic still exists. There is a reassuring quality to these photographs, and I, for one, am grateful for Michael Kenna's half century of watching the light and recording his vision.»- From the Introduction by Ann Jastrab
Jungjin Lee's extraordinary new artist's book, Voice, comprises 46 large-scale photographs made in 2018 and 2019. While the photographs were originally made in deserts, mountains, oceans and plains, the artist writes, «My images should be seen as metaphors, a form of meditation. I do not depict landscapes or nature. The desert allows me to see my inner self, and my goal is to make images of what I feel there: the eternal sense of being open and present to the world.» Lee's work has expanded the boundaries of the photographic process to create images that are simultaneously textural and minimalist. After printing an image on hand-emulsified cotton or mulberry paper, she then alters its finish, using technological processes that result in a distinct, high contrast image. Born in Korea in 1961, Lee began photographing while a student at Hongik University in Seoul, where she earned a BFA in ceramics in 1984. After graduating, Lee worked as a photo journalist and freelance photographer. She earned an MA in Photography from New York University in 1991. While in New York City, Lee worked for the photographer Robert Frank. Later, she traveled across the country and was deeply moved by the American desert, which became the subject of several of her photographic series. Lee's work has been exhibited widely and is in countless collections, including the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, LA County Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Korea, the Seoul Museum of Art, and the Goeun Museum of Photography in Busan, Korea. Her work has been the subject of numerous publications; Voice is the Jungjin Lee's third monograph with Nazraeli Press.
Pour Jungjin Lee, photographier le paysage est une exploration de son propre esprit et de ses états introspectifs. Son projet Unnamed Road, déjà publié en 2015, aborde les territoires contestés d'Israël et de la Cisjordanie du point de vue du paysage. Ses images en noir et blanc sont des mondes autonomes d'immobilité et d'émerveillement. Ses images suggèrent que malgré l'apparence de fluctuation, certaines vérités fondamentales ne changent pas : tout comme la surface de l'océan est en constante évolution, ses profondeurs restent en realité figées. Dans le travail de Jungjin Lee la matérialité et la technique d'impression occupent toujours une place d'exception : depuis vingt ans, elle utilise une émulsion photosensible liquide appliquée au pinceau sur du papier de riz fait main, une méthode proche de la peinture. Dans Unnamed Road, elle emploie pour la première fois des processus numériques. Les images restent néanmoins des explorations du hasard et de l'imperfection.
Conçu comme un accompagnement à sa monographie acclamée par la critique South Central (Nazraeli Press, 2006), Mark Steinmetz se concentre ici sur Athena et Atlanta, la Nouvelle-Orléans, Memphis et East Tennessee, ainsi que sur les routes qui les séparent.
Réédition de la première série publiée de Todd Hido pour les 20 ans de sa parution. Dans cette série, le photographe présente des vue grand format de l'extérieur et parfois de l'intérieur de maisons de banlieue présentant une fresque étonnamment nostalgique de la morosité des suburbs américians.
Carol E. Richards is a fine art photographer who captures the fleeting images of her avian subjects through a viewing scope, creating detailed portraits - simultaneously distant and near. Each feathered body in Dreams of Birds nearly fills the scope's small oculus, as if in a spotlight before departing their small stage. To emphasize impermanence, the artist also documents the spaces left behind, prompting us to consider how we too are changed by absence. Seen as diptychs, her work explores the ephemeral natural world, «intimate yet vague, like a memory of a dream.» Richards lived in Los Angeles for 30 years where she worked in commercial photography, television production, and art consulting while continuing her photography practice. Her artwork resides in numerous private and corporate collections. This first edition volume of Dreams of Birds is limited to 750 copies. The book comprises 47 images beautifully printed on matte art paper and bound in cloth over boards. The artist's first book, Birds have Wings, was published by Nazraeli Press in 2013 as part of our One Picture Book series.
Réédition de cette série publiée en 2009 par Mark Steinmetz et depuis épuisée. Steinmetz y complète sa trilogie South avec un titre consacré à la ville d'Atlanta et à ses environs, reprenant des motifs tels que l'automobile et le téléphone d'abord développés dans South Central. Un ensemble de paysages et de portraits tissent une investigation lyrique et poétique autour de la notion de progrès et interrogent la société américaine dans sa complexitée.
Réputé pour ses photographies modestes mais puissantes qui capturent le sentiment de non-conformité et d'isolement ressenti par de nombreux jeunes Américains, Mark Steinmetz s'est rendu à Knoxville et dans ses environs, dans le Tennessee, pour composer South Central. Le titre du livre est dérivé de la compagnie de téléphone qui dessert Knoxville, et leurs téléphones publics sont un thème récurrent dans ce travail; un rappel emblématique de la condition socio-économique de la région. L'artiste possède une étonnante capacité à reproduire simultanément la folie, l'agression et la tendresse à travers son objectif et livre avec ce livre un roman visuel puissant et touchant de la condition humaine.
En 1960, Enrico Natali, alors assistant du photographe Anton Bruehl, réalise des instantanés du métro new-yorkais qui témoignent de la vie de personnes ordinaires vaquant à leurs occupations quotidiennes. C'est cette série de photos qui lui fit prendre la décision de devenir photographe.
Entre 2006 et 2013, Lucas Foglia a sillonné les grands espaces ruraux du Montana, du Nevada, du Texas, du Wyoming, du Nouveau Mexique et de l'Idaho. Entre paysages naturels sans fin, sites industriels et portraits plus intimes, il y documente la vie de ceux qui occupent ce grand Ouest américain profondément transformé par les industries minières.
Les efforts héroïques de Madong Ma pour sauver des parties de Fuzhou, sa ville natale, des inondations comprenaient le démontage physique, le transport et la reconstruction de nombreuses structures, ainsi que quelque 10 000 arbres, dans un complexe à des centaines de kilomètres de là qu'il construisait à cette fin. Le photographe Kenro Izu a décidé d'immortaliser les maisons majestueuses restantes et d'autres structures traditionnelles de l'ancien village pour la postérité. Le livre qui en résulte nous rappelle que de nombreux endroits sur Terre, monuments de l'humanité et véritables ponts vers notre passé, sont trop souvent effacés dans l'intérêt de l'aménagement du territoire.
Aujourd?hui photographe indépendant, Jason Langer a longtemps travaillé comme assistant et tireur pour des grands noms de la photographie noir et blanc comme Arthur Tress et Michael Kenna. Possession regroupe des clichés de New-York, Paris et la Nouvelle Orléans, dans des noir et blancs d'une rare perfection, auxquels viennent se mêler des photographies de corps féminins, nous plongeant dans une atmosphère poétique proche du film noir.
Ce livre présente une sélection de quatre-vingts images prises par le photographe américain Mark Steinmetz dans des colonies d'étés à Cape Cod, et dans le Wisconsin, Southern Illinois, North Carolina et Georgia, entre 1986 et 1997.
"Chroma" is published to coincide with a solo exhibition of the artist's work at The High Museum of Art running through November, 2011. After working as a classic black-and-white street photographer for most of his career, Simone embraced digital technology and color output in the year 2000, moving his experimentations with the medium into fresh and invigorating territory. Simone describes his work as spontaneous and improvisational: "Like jazz music, the photographs resonate with the eccentric impulses and private curiosities that led me to them. These are the most intimate images I've ever shown, not for what they depict but for what they reveal." Chip Simone's work has been widely exhibited and collected, and is represented in the permanent collections of such institutions as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The High Museum, Atlanta; and The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC. This beautifully produced monograph features 35 of Simone's most powerful images made during the past decade.
"My appetite to see and discover new work is insatiable, so when Marcelo Brodsky suggested that I meet some young Argentine photographers while I was considering who to show at the Brighton Photo Biennial for 2010, I jumped at this opportunity. By the time I had seen the third image in Chaskielberg's folio I was convinced this was a major new photographer. I had never seen any images like this before and few with such maturity from a new photographer. On one level his work documents a rural community living on the banks of the Parana river delta. But there is so much more than this. All taken during the full moon, his photos are a virtuoso exploration of how flash, torches, moonlight and posed portraits all fuse together in a seamless manner. The photographer has combined subject and methodology so convincingly that you know he has resolved this brilliantly. So much so, you hardly notice the thin line between subject and style." - From the Introduction by Martin Parr. "La Creciente" is the sixth title in our popular series Parr/Nazraeli Series of Ten.
Réédition d'un livre conçu par Martin Parr qui rassemble 50 portraits réalisés par Jan Banning, représentant des fonctionnaires de 8 pays dans leurs environnements : la Bolivie, la Chine, la France, l'Inde, le Liberia, la Russie, les Etats-Unis et le Yémen.
Le photographe japonais Kenro Izu poursuit depuis 1984 un travail contemplatif des sites sacrés du monde entier. Il capte le mystère des religions disparues et des traditions séculaires dans des prises de vue et des tirages d'une qualité technique exceptionnelle.
