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Book Gilles Peress and Chris Klatell  Annals of the North

Download or read book Gilles Peress and Chris Klatell Annals of the North written by Chris Klatell and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An almanac to the world of Gilles Peress' Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, delineating the decades of conflict in Northern Ireland In Annals of the North, New York-based photographer Gilles Peress (born 1946) and writer and lawyer Chris Klatell combine essays, stories, photographs, documents and testimonies to open up for the reader the complicated and contradictory storylines that emerged from the conflict in the North of Ireland. Weighed down by 800 years of colonization but only the size of Connecticut (with half its population), Northern Ireland provides a remarkably intimate stage set. Interweaving text and image, Annals of the Northexamines the multifaceted struggle between Irish Republicans and Nationalists, Protestant Unionists and Loyalists, and the imperial British, to explore broader themes of empire, retribution and betrayal, as well as the tense dialectic between the ordinary demands of everyday life and periodic explosions of violence. The book is at once wide-ranging yet deeply personal and political, alternately dense and humorous, legal and literary.

Book Object to Be Destroyed

Download or read book Object to Be Destroyed written by Pamela M. Lee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Pamela M. Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s—particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices—and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs. Although highly regarded during his short life—and honored by artists and architects today—the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts." Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space. Have art historians written so little about Matta-Clark's work because of its ephemerality, or, as Pamela M. Lee argues, because of its historiographic, political, and social dimensions? What did the activity of carving up a building-in anticipation of its destruction—suggest about the conditions of art making, architecture, and urbanism in the 1970s? What was one to make of the paradox attendant on its making—that the production of the object was contingent upon its ruination? How do these projects address the very writing of history, a history that imagines itself building toward an ideal work in the service of progress? In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s—particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices—and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs.

Book Here is New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Rose George
  • Publisher : Scalo Verla AG
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 3908247667
  • Pages : 861 pages

Download or read book Here is New York written by Alice Rose George and published by Scalo Verla AG. This book was released on 2002 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an exhibition of photographics originally shown at a store front in the Soho district of New York City. The focus of the exhibition is on the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster and its aftermath.

Book Telex Iran

Download or read book Telex Iran written by Gilles Peress and published by Scalo Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telex : Iran is an extraordinarily personal document of a public event. The photographs Gilles Peress took over a five-week period during the 1979/80 seizure of the American embassy in Tehran form neither a study nor an analysis. Peress didn't plan to go to Iran: the instant imagery, the caricatures of "fanatics" on his TV got to him. He felt the need to understand for himself the apparent madness about which the Western media could only generalize

Book Gabriel Garc  a M  rquez  The Early Years

Download or read book Gabriel Garc a M rquez The Early Years written by Ilan Stavans and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of García Márquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As García Márquez's impact endures on well into his ninth decade, Stavans's keen insights constitute the definitive re-appraisal of the literary giant's life and corpus. The later part of his life will be covered in a second book.

Book Since 1839

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clement Cheroux
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2021-11-09
  • ISBN : 026204577X
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Since 1839 written by Clement Cheroux and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on a range of photographic topics by the recently appointed Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA Since 1839... offers a selection of essays by the renowned photography historian Clément Chéroux. Appointed Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 2020, Chéroux takes on a variety of topics, from the history of vernacular photography to the influence of documentary photography on Surrealism. These texts, newly translated into English and published together in one volume for the first time, reflect the breadth of Chéroux’s thinking, the rigor of his approach, and his endless curiosity about photographs. In this strikingly designed and generously illustrated volume, Chéroux presents unique case studies and untold stories. He discusses ways of sharing images, from the nineteenth century to the digital age; considers the utopian ideals of early photography; and analyzes the duality of amateur photography. Among other things, he describes the appeal of photographs snapped from a speeding train and explains historical value of first-generation prints of photographs. Through an analysis of key photographs taken on 9/11, Chéroux shows that the same six images were seen again and again in the press. Widely ranging, erudite, and engaging, these essays present Chéroux's innovative investigations of the histories of photography.

Book Larry Bendeco Johannes Von Sloop

Download or read book Larry Bendeco Johannes Von Sloop written by Larry V. and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two cake-baking brothers learn whether fancy and formal, or simple and friendly, lead to a better happier bakery.

Book Sim  n Bol  var  el Libertador  Patriot  Warrior  Statesman  Father of Five Nations

Download or read book Sim n Bol var el Libertador Patriot Warrior Statesman Father of Five Nations written by Guillermo Antonio Sherwell and published by Washington. This book was released on 1921 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Here is New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. B. White
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2011-03-30
  • ISBN : 1590174798
  • Pages : 59 pages

Download or read book Here is New York written by E. B. White and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”

Book Means  Material  Wheeeeels  Superimposition  Masks  Body building  Studio  Time  Violence  Eyes  Language  Home

Download or read book Means Material Wheeeeels Superimposition Masks Body building Studio Time Violence Eyes Language Home written by Stan Vanderbeek and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which accompanied a groundbreaking exhibition, presents a multilayered picture of influence and experimentation between a family of artists. A few years before his death in 1984, the conceptual artist Stan VanDerBeek recalled a dream he had of the ideal exhibition space, which he playfully referred to as 'Amazement Park'. Taking inspiration from that dream, this project combines artwork by the influential filmmaker and artist with work by his daughter, Sara, and son, Johannes, both contemporary artists. This unique book captures the ensuing exhibition: a studio-like space that changed every month for one year and featured works by all three artists. The drawings, photographs, video, and sculpture that revolved in and out of the exhibition reflect the artists' common interest in recombination and collage, ephemeral materials, and architectural forms. AUTHOR: Ian Berry is Associate Director and The Susan Rabinowitz Malloy Curator of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Anne Ellegood is Senior Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Book Who Are You  Trudy Herman

Download or read book Who Are You Trudy Herman written by B. E. Beck and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenager struggles to live up to the values and ideals her grandfather inspired as she encounters prejudice, injustice, and racism. After two years in a German-American Internment Camp in Texas, Trudy Herman's family is released, and they move to Mississippi. Here, Trudy comes face-to-face with discrimination and must decide whether to look the other way or become the person her beloved grandfather believed she could be?

Book My Name Is Leon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kit de Waal
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2016-06-02
  • ISBN : 0241973392
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book My Name Is Leon written by Kit de Waal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE IRISH NOVEL PRIZE Soon to be a major BBC film starring Sir Lenny Henry, Malachi Kirby, Monica Dolan, Olivia Williams and Christopher Eccleston. It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother Jake have gone to live with Maureen. They've lost one home, but have they found another? Maureen feeds and looks after them. She has wild red hair and mutters swearwords under her breath when she thinks they can't hear. She claims everything will be okay. But will they ever see their mother again? Who are the couple who secretly visit Jake? Between the street violence and the street parties, Leon must find a way to reunite his family . . . 'Startlingly funny. Balances the gritty with the feel good' Observer 'Vivid and endearing - a very powerful book' Emma Healey, bestselling author of Elizabeth is Missing 'Authentic and beautiful, urgent and honest, this novel makes room in your heart' Chris Cleave, bestselling author of The Other Hand SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD & THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE

Book Carver

Download or read book Carver written by Chris Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an absence of five years, globe trotting and notorious gentleman of fortune Francis Carver returns to Paris in 1923. He has come back to aid Catherine Ayers, the wife of a wealthy Parisian socialite and the only woman he has ever loved. Her daughter has been kidnapped by the leader of a crazed anarchist gang, a man named Stacker Lee. In order to bring the girl home, Francis will have to crawl through the underbelly of the city while confronting the demons of his past, before being faced with a final choice: succumb to the man he has become, or take that mask off and be the hero he always wanted to be. "CARVER is my homage to CORTO MALTESE," said Chris Hunt, "I'm bringing a modern edge and sensibility to classic, serialized adventure storytelling, starting with the first storyline CARVER: A PARIS STORY." Like an American Corto Maltese Carver combines the best elements of European and American Comics into a wonderful synthesis Featuring a back up story and essay by Paul Pope.

Book Photographs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eudora Welty
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2019-03-18
  • ISBN : 1496823923
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Photographs written by Eudora Welty and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eudora Welty’s Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer’s photographs. Her camera’s viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artist’s sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects. Also included in the book are pictures from Welty’s travels to New York, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mexico, and Europe in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. The photographs in this edition are new digital scans of Welty’s original negatives and authentic prints, restoring the images to their original glory. It also features sixteen additional images, several of which were selected by Welty for her 1936 photography exhibit in New York City and have never before been reproduced for publication, along with a resonant, new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey.

Book Junie B  Jones is on Her Way

Download or read book Junie B Jones is on Her Way written by Barbara Park and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Helmut Newton  Sumo  20th Anniversary

Download or read book Helmut Newton Sumo 20th Anniversary written by June Newton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un tributo a uno dei fotografi più influenti, intriganti e controversi del XX secolo. Il SUMO è stato un libro titanico sotto tutti gli aspetti: ha infranto ogni record quanto a peso, dimensioni e valore di mercato Helmut Newton (1920-2004) ha sempre dimostrato un sano disprezzo per le soluzioni facili o prevedibili. Il SUMO - un'audace avventura editoriale senza precedenti - era un progetto irresistibile. L'idea di una raccolta spettacolare di immagini, un libro con le proporzioni di un'esposizione privata, riprodotta su pagine di dimensioni eccezionali e con standard di stampa all'avanguardia, è nata nel corso di una conversazione aperta e conoscitiva tra fotografo e editore. Con l'imponenza fisica del SUMO, che arrivava a pesare - con scatola e cellophane - 35,4 chilogrammi, Newton ha creato una pietra miliare che spiccava nettamente su qualsiasi altra cosa tentata in precedenza, sia in termini di stravaganza concettuale che di specifiche tecniche. Pubblicato in una tiratura limitata di 10.000 copie firmate e numerate, il SUMO è andato esaurito quasi subito dopo la pubblicazione e ha visto moltiplicare rapidamente il suo valore. Questo fenomeno editoriale è ora parte di importanti collezioni in tutto il mondo, inclusa quella del Museum of Modern Art di New York. La leggendaria copia n.1 del SUMO, autografata da oltre 100 delle celebrità fotografate al suo interno, ha stabilito anche il record del libro più costoso pubblicato nel XX secolo, battuto a un'asta a Berlino il 6 aprile 2000 per 620.000 marchi, circa 317.000 ?. Il SUMO ha stabilito nuovi parametri nel settore della monografia artistica, conquistandosi un posto di tutto rispetto nella storia dei libri di fotografia. Questa nuova edizione, attentamente rivista da June Newton, realizza un'ambizione di Helmut Newton nata alcuni anni fa. A lui avrebbe certamente fatto piacere che il SUMO - ora in un formato che permette una distribuzione più democratica, un decennio dopo la sua prima pubblicazione - raggiungesse un pubblico il più vasto possibile. In ogni caso, gli orgogliosi proprietari della nuova edizione non dovranno lottare con la loro copia del libro, che è dotata di un leggio unico per esporlo a casa propria.

Book Women of the Sun

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nico B
  • Publisher : Cult Epics
  • Release : 2020-06-09
  • ISBN : 9780999862742
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Women of the Sun written by Nico B and published by Cult Epics. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer photographer Bunny Yeager, lauded for her collaborations with pin-up legend Bettie Page (the Queen of Cheesecake was never captured better), this new coffee-table hardcover book showcases a stunning collection of unique photos shot South of the Border during the mid-1960s that has remained largely unseen--until now. Over 200 rare images in both color and b&w are included, many previously unpublished, revealing Bunny Yeager's photography at her most artistic, exotic, and intimate. Awe-inspired by the epic backdrop of the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuac n, or the silent city of Chich n Itz --and with a roster of fabulous, natural models to pose--this is a landmark photographer unleashed at her creative peak. Women of the Sun: Bunny Yeager in Mexico is an essential book release for both casual and ardent pin-up fans alike.