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The first retrospective monograph on photographer Jonathan Becker, one of the great visual storytellers of our time
Over the course of five decades, Jonathan Becker has produced a body of evocative photographic work that documents lives of the twentieth-century beau monde.
A protégé of legendary Parisian photographer Brassaï and a longtime contributor to Vanity Fair, Becker's work provides a link between fine-art photography and the notion of the photographer as social observer.
Bringing together commissioned and personal work, this stunning collection presents more than 200 images from across Becker's career, charting his journeys in New York, Paris, London, and Buenos Aires from the 1970s to the 2010s. Portraits of artists Ed Ruscha and Cindy Sherman, writers Arthur Miller and Eudora Welty, musicians David Bowie and Mick Jagger, and others reveal Becker's exceptional eye and astute sociological observations.
The monograph includes an introductory text by the book's editor, Mark Holborn, along with a narrative text by Becker about his life, travels, and encounters with some of the most well-known figures in the twentieth century. Brilliantly reproduced and housed in a cloth case, this luxurious collection is a captivating and essential book that reveals Becker as one of the premier chroniclers of our time.
Includes Becker's portraits of figures such as: Peter Beard, HRH King Charles III, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arthur Miller, Jackie O., Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Sherman, André Leon Talley, François Truffaut, Gloria Vanderbilt, Gore Vidal, Diana Vreeland, Andy Warhol, and many more. -
Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz's surprising - and surprised - account of her encounters with fashion.
'Looking back at my work, I see that fashion has always been there,' Annie Leibovitz observes in the preface to her new book, Wonderland.
'Fashion plays a part in the scheme of everything, but photography always comes first for me.
The photograph is the most important part.
And photography is so big that it can encompass journalism, portraiture, reportage, family photographs, fashion. . . . My work for Vogue fueled the fire for a kind of photography that I might not otherwise have explored.'
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Intimate and elegant photographs taken just before Kate Moss's rise to fame, in a stylish new edition.
This gorgeously produced book features intimate portraits of a young and undiscovered Kate Moss, taken in the early 1990s by her then-boyfriend, Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti. Seen by Calvin Klein, the photographs gave life to the famous Obsession campaign, which launched Moss to international superstardom.
Sumptuously reproduced in tritone, Kate is a stunning photographic portfolio of one of contemporary culture's most iconic figures. It includes an introductory essay by Sorrenti, which puts the work in its uniquely personal context. This book, which celebrates the dawn of two legendary careers, and the start of the highly influential aesthetic of 1990s fashion photography, is a must-have for Kate Moss's fans, for fashion devotees, and for lovers of traditional portraiture and fashion photography. -
An expansive and timely survey on contemporary British photographer and artist Nick Waplington, with work spanning his entire 40-year career - his first comprehensive retrospective volume.
London- and New York-based artist Nick Waplington uses photography to capture the complex and far-reaching aspects of our lived experience. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s with Living Room and has since become known for his unfiltered depictions of people and places, and the sociopolitical backgrounds that define them.
From the chaos, violence, and euphoria of riots, protests, and free parties to the surreal, hypnotic quiet of his large-format landscapes, Waplington's work (in all its messy humanness) transcends stereotypes and confounds expectations, and this book is no exception. Including never-before-published images, offering new insight into both well- and lesser-known projects, as well as Waplington's painting and artistic practice, the book opens with a newly commissioned introduction from Simon Baker, one of the leading curators of contemporary photography in Europe and director of the Maison Européenne de la photographie (MEP), Paris.
This is the most extensive survey of Waplington's work to date, and includes previously unpublished photographs, as well as paintings, sketchbooks, and other artworks that complement his practice. -
Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers
Mark Holborn, Collectif
- Phaidon Press
- 6 Juin 2024
- 9781838668211
The definitive collection of Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs in a sophisticated new edition.
Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the twentieth century's most important artists, known for his ground-breaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera, in 1970. Beginning in 1973 and until his death in 1989, Mapplethorpe explored the flower with extraordinary dedication, using a range of photographic processes - from Polaroids to dye-transfer color works.
In carefully constructed compositions, he captured roses, orchids, snapdragons, daisies, tulips and other species - both common and rare - and forever transformed the way we perceive a classic and familiar subject. The result - a stunning body of work - is collected in this elegant book, with a foreword by Mapplethorpe's close friend Dimitri Levas and an introduction by Herbert Muschamp. -
A revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive survey published of Mapplethorpe's photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the twentieth century's most important and infl uential artists, known for his groundbreaking and provocative work. He studied painting, drawing, and sculpture in Brooklyn in the 1960s and started taking photographs when he acquired a Polaroid camera in 1970. This comprehensive monograph is an overview of the artist's black-and-white photography of fl oral still lifes, nudes, selfportraits, and portraits, among other subjects- and also includes a selection of his color images.
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Linda Evangelista photographed by Steven Meisel
Linda Evangelista
- Phaidon Press
- 14 Septembre 2023
- 9781838667030
A stunning tribute to one of fashion's most iconic and enduring collaborations.
Evident from their first photoshoot in 1987, legendary photographer Steven Meisel's images of Linda Evangelista, one of the original 'supermodels' of the 1980s, are the result of a remarkable creative symbiosis between photographer and muse. Featuring more than 180 images shot over the course of twenty-five years, this long-awaited book chronicles Meisel's constantly evolving vision of Evangelista, pictured in a vast range of imaginative narrative contexts. Art directed by Jason Duzansky, the book includes an introduction by fashion editor William Norwich, which tells the story of their friendship and situates it in the wider context of the fashion industry. With gorgeous reproductions and packaged in a luxurious cloth case, this extraordinary title is Meisel's first retrospective monograph. It celebrates a collaboration that has produced some of fashion history's most memorable images. -
Annie Leibovitz: portraits 2005-2016
Annie Leibovitz, Alexandra Fuller
- Phaidon Press
- 22 Septembre 2022
- 9781838665920
Influential photographer Annie Leibovitz presents her remarkable portraits in this acclaimed and bestselling collection.
Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005-2016 is the photographer's follow-up to her two landmark compilations, Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990 and A Photographer's Life, 1990- 2005. For this collection, Leibovitz has selected the best and most representative portraits from her work between 2005 and 2016. The pictures document contemporary culture with an artist's eye, wit, and an uncanny ability to personalize even the most recognizable and distinguished figures. -
Stephen Shore is a pioneering photographer and influential teacher. From Galilee to the Negev is an intimate portrait of a multi-faceted place, exploring the landscape of Israel and the West Bank; its complexities and its contradictions. Shore travelled the length and breadth of the region, questioning and revealing through his camera lens. His visual inquiry explores the landscape itself and the people who live in it - the daily lives and the narratives that combine to create this fascinating place - at once beautiful and ugly, safe and hostile. A selection of texts by a diverse range of writers - who have each selected one photograph as a spring board - will be interspersed amongst the photographs, offering a gathering of voices and perspectives.
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Luigi & Iango: unveiled
Luigi & Iango, Thierry-maxime Loriot
- Phaidon Press
- 5 Octobre 2023
- 9781838667603
The first monograph on the celebrated photographic duo Luigi & Iango, accompanying a major exhibition of their work.
While many photographers seek to capture the aesthetics of a moment, Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi aspire to transcend a single genre, capturing a timeless quest for pluralistic beauty and artistic expression. One of the most creative imagemakers working in the industry today, Luigi & Iango share their stunning portfolio of work - from icons of contemporary culture and supermodels to Japanese Kabuki and portraits of artists and performers - in their first ever monograph. Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi (known as Luigi & Iango) are a Swiss-Italian photography duo. Since starting to work together in 2013, they have photographed stories and series for the world's leading magazines, captured iconic celebrities such as Madonna, Gisele Bündchen, Rihanna, Penélope Cruz, and Cate Blanchett among others. -
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Deep sea river, an american photographer's journey in Shanxi, China
Danny Lyon
- Phaidon Press
- 23 Juin 2011
- 9780714861043
-A limited edition facsimile of Danny Lyon's original photobook/diary compiled after his six trips to Shanxi Province in northeast China -A pioneer of 'New Journalism', Lyon's fearless determination to immerse himself in local culture enabled him to create a unique portrait of the place and its people -Lyon's vivid descriptions bring the photographs alive to portray the traditions and idiosyncrasies of a rapidly changing nation -A unique and highly collectable edition
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Long awaited, the first survey of the work of one of America's foremost contemporary fine art photographers.
For almost 40 years, Catherine Opie has been documenting with psychological acuity the cultural and geographic identity of contemporary America. This unique artist monograph presents a compelling visual narrative of Opie's work since the early 1980s, pairing images across bodies of work to form a full picture of her artistic vision. With more than 300 beautiful illustrations and made in close collaboration with Opie, the book marks a turning point in the consideration of this artist's work to date.
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Published on the occasion of Magnum Photos' seventieth anniversary, this fascinating in-depth survey brings Magnum's history alive through the genre of the photobook - an essential vehicle for photographers to share their work.
Its pages include unpublished behind-thescenes material, together with ephemera from the photographers' archives about the making of their books. With an introduction by Fred Ritchin and texts by Carole Naggar, this book explores the evolution of the photobook, as well as the important role that Magnum has played in the history of documentary photography.
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Une toute nouvelle série de photographies d'enfants par Nan Goldin, photographe parmi les plus en vue et les plus influentes de notre époque.
Depuis plus de 30 ans, Nan Goldin crée des photographies intimes qui sont autant de récits d'histoires personnelles de relations, d'amitiés, d'identités et de chroniques parlant d'époques diverses et de la fuite du temps.
Présentant de nombreuses oeuvres inédites, cet ouvrage saisit l'énergie, lémotion et le mystère de l'enfance.
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Tibet has suffered extreme political turmoil and upheaval over the last 50 odd years. Occupied in 1950, Red Guards destroyed thousands of official buildings and holy places during the Cultural Revolution, and religious freedom and traditional education are still severely under threat.
Due to the strength of Tibetan faith in Buddha, in the Dalai Lama, and against the odds, many buildings have been reconstructed, their devotion and belief remain extraordinarily strong. Buddhism permeates every aspect of a Tibetan's life, whether living in Tibet or in exile in Nepal, India or the United States.
A magnificent and time-stopping work, The Path to Buddha is divided into five parts, in which we see the monks in animated discussion, meditation and prayer; and we follow the devout believers on their arduous journeys to prayer. The two main chapters are interspersed with sections of portraits of this proud and dignified people whose own innate sense of their own being can be seen in the simplest of things, such as the way they dress and adorn themselves.
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Questions without answers ; the world in pictures by the photographers of VII
Collectif
- Phaidon Press
- 7 Mai 2012
- 9780714848402
- A powerful visual history of the world from the end of the Cold War to the present - day, by the photographers at groundbreaking photo agency VII.
- Features a startlingly wide variety of work; from coverage of the war in Iraq - - and the events of 9/11 to an exploration of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, from portraits of our most significant cultural figures to dispatches from the current economic crisis.
- The VII photographers are leaders in their field and include eminent figures such - as Christopher Morris, John Stanmeyer and Alexandra Boulat, alongside exciting emerging photojournalists such as Joachim Ladefoged and Marcus Bleasdale.
- A moving and compelling record of conflict - environmental, social and political, - - both violent and non-violent - through photo-stories from around the world.
- An introduction by David Friend, former director of photography at - Life - magazine, provides a context for the work and a commentary on world events in the 21st century.
VII derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists who, in September 2001, formed this collectively owned photo agency. Responsible for creating and relaying to the world many of the images that define the turbulent opening years of the 21st century, VII documents the changes and development of society and culture worldwide. David Friend is Vanity Fair's editor of Creative Development and served as Life magazine's director of photography during the 1990s. An Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer, he is the author of Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 (2006).
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Taking my time ; coffret Tome 1 et Tome 2
Joel Meyerowitz
- Phaidon Press
- 9 Novembre 2012
- 9780714865027
Taking My Time is the retrospective monograph covering the life and career of Joel Meyerowitz and provides you with an unprecedented insight into the mind and work of this iconic American photographer.
This two-volume limited edition is presented in a slipcase and includes a signed print (Paris, France, 1967), a DVD of Meyerowitz's award-winning film, Pop, a unique 'graphic novel' insert that tells the story of Pop and a second insert for Meyerowitz's lesson in colour versus black and white photography.
Showing the growth and development of Meyerowitz and his photography from the 1960s to the present day, Taking My Time explores the pivotal points of Meyerowitz's career and his experiments in both colour and black and white photography and explorations of human intimacy, architecture, light and space. Including text that Meyerowitz, one of photography's most articulate practitioners, has contributed, Taking My Time is a unique body of work and an unbeatable account of a significant period of evolution in photography.
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The Seventh Dog is a new monograph/photobook by American photographer Danny Lyon. Organised chronologically, this artist's book tells the story of Danny Lyon's 50-year-career as one of America's most original and influential documentary photographers. Groundbreaking as a photobook in itself, Lyon tells this story starting in the present day and going back in time to the beginning of his career in the 1960s when he photographed the American civil rights movement and the Chicago bikeriders. Through text and image - colour and b&w photographs, original photo collages, letters and other ephemera (many published here for the first time), and Lyon's own writings - this is a story of Danny Lyon's personal journey as a photographer - a story about photojournalism, the move from film to digital photography, about Lyon's life and quest as a photographer, and of America.
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A new collection of photographs from award-winning photographer, Steve McCurry, featuring previously unpublished images taken while on assignment to coffee-growing communities around the world.
From the foothills of the Andes to the slopes of Kilimanjaro, vibrant full-colour images document the realities of life for the people working at the source of this familiar commodity.
Far-ranging photographs from Colombia, Honduras, Peru, Brazil, Ethiopia, Tanzania, India and Vietnam include portraits of children, workers and everyday community life, alongside stunning natural landscapes.
Steve McCurry is one of Phaidon's best-selling photographers and one of the most admired and well-represented photojournalists working today. This book will be a widely sought-after addition to his popular body of work.
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A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography - Heralded as a masterpiece by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger in The Photobook: A History Volume II - Revolutionary in the 1970s, Lyon's record of life inside the Texas prison system was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera and has been out of print for over 40 years - A valuable collector's item, first edition hardbacks in good condition sell for over $1000 - Updated with a new afterword by Danny Lyon The growth of the prison population in the US - currently the largest in the world - and recent debate over the drugs used in carrying out the death penalty highlight the continued relevance of this book today