This edition showcases a landmark photobook that has significantly influenced the genre throughout the twentieth century. It highlights the evolution of photographic art and its cultural impact, making it essential for both enthusiasts and scholars. The book features a curated selection of images that exemplify the pivotal moments in photography, reflecting the artistic vision and historical context of its time.
Peter Miller, an artist who explores magic and illusion, utilizes film and photography techniques to create photograms, luminograms, and collages. His work includes a video of 10,000 sunset photos and a unique film projector installation for the Venice Biennale. A comprehensive monograph will accompany his major survey at C/O Berlin.
Wolfgang Tillmans is celebrated for his innovative and ethically driven photographic art, which spans a vast array of genres, including social movements, still lifes, portraits, and abstract works. His continual experimentation invites viewers to engage deeply with his images. This richly illustrated volume accompanies a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and features essays from various writers, alongside a new piece by Tillmans that reveals his unique approach to presenting his photography, reflecting on four decades of his influential career.
This introduction explores the innovative works of French artist Sophie Calle, highlighting her unique approach to storytelling through art. It delves into her exploration of identity, intimacy, and the boundaries between public and private life. The book showcases Calle's diverse projects, which often blend photography, text, and performance, offering insight into her creative process and the themes that define her influential career.
The official publication celebrating Magnum Photos’ 70th anniversary with a fresh and insightful view of Magnum’s history and archive, accompanying a landmark exhibition showing in New York at the International Center of Photography in 2017 before touring worldwide In this landmark photography publication and accompanying exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the renowned photo agency, Clément Chéroux and Clara Bouveresse demonstrate how Magnum Photos owes its preeminence to the ability of its photographers to encompass and navigate the points between photography as art object and photography as documentary evidence. Magnum Manifesto is organized into three parts: Part 1, Human Rights and Wrongs (1947-1968), views the Magnum archive through a humanist lens, focusing on postwar ideals of commonality and utopianism. Part 2, An Inventory of Differences (1969-1989), shows a world fragmenting, with a focus on subcultures, minorities, and outsiders. Part 3, Stories About Endings (1990-present day), charts the ways in which Magnum photographers have captured—and continue to capture—a world in flux and under threat. Featuring both group and individual projects, this volume includes magazine spreads, newspaper features, and letters, putting some of the world’s most recognizable images in creative context. Magnum Manifesto is an expertly curated, essential collection of images and commentary.
Born in 1908 in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. Early on he adopted the versatile 35mm format and helped develop the popular “street photography” style, influencing generations of photographers that followed. In his own words, he expressed that “the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. . . . It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.” In 1947 Cartier-Bresson founded Magnum Photos with four other photographers. August 22 will be the 100th anniversary of his birth.
At the start of the 20th century, long before the triumphal march of the illustrated press, photography in the form of postcards was all the rage. This volume presents the extraordinary inventiveness in postcard production that unites elements of popular culture with photographic images.