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Book Lauren Marsolier  Transition

Download or read book Lauren Marsolier Transition written by W. M. Hunt and published by Kerber Verlag. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Marsolier creates spaces that are convincingly real using multiple photographs, unrelated fragments of reality collected over time in a wide variety of locations.Located somewhere between idea and reality, her images represent a mental landscape affected by a world of constant change. We are reminded of the cool, stark aesthetic in many contemporary architecture and lifestyle magazines, but with a pervading unease - a sleek minimalism transmuted to desolation.This book is enhanced with texts by W.M. Hunt and Stefan Mattessich.Published to accompany the exhibition at Galerie Richard, Paris, 29 November 2014 - 10 January2015; Galerie Richard, New York, April 2015; and at Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, Winter 2015.

Book Contemporary Photography in France

Download or read book Contemporary Photography in France written by Olga Smith and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography’s development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy – the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Rancière – to produce an innovative study of the intersections between the photographic image, text, practice, and theory. This analysis is guided by an understanding of photography as deeply engaged with historical, cultural, and intellectual events that defined French national experience in the contemporary period. Landscape provides a particular focus to study issues of key significance, including national identification, colonial past, legacies of modernization and environmental breakdown.

Book Photographer s Paradise

Download or read book Photographer s Paradise written by Jean-Pierre Laffont and published by G Editions LLC. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Best Books of 2015 - Photo District News Photo AnnualThe photographs that make up this first book by renowned photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont serve as a powerful and provocative examination of the American dream. For nearly three decades, Laffont traveled the breadth of the United States, a true embodiment of American freedom. Documenting the country in all of its facets - from national crises and unsightly social injustices to heartfelt protest and solidarity, the photographer took full advantage of the access granted to him bythe world's greatest democracy. He traveled all fifty of the United States to document a broad swath of the country's fabric, capturing America through some of its most turbulent eras. From the electric chair at Sing Sing to Women's Jello Wrestling, the Watkins Glen rock festival to the Kent State shooting protest in Washington DC, Laffont was front and centre to history as it unfolded. Never working on assignment, Laffont chased stories of his own volition with a lens that was at once compassionate, humanistic, and unflinching. Taken together, these pages tell the story of the chaotic, often painful, birth of twenty-first-century America - a place where a black president, gay marriage, and women executives have become the new norm. Photographer's Paradise reminds us of the power of the freedom of speech, as Laffont speaks truth to power through his camera lens. Contents: Foreword by Sir Harold Evans; Introduction: America As I Lived It; The 1960s / Expanded History: 1960s: 42nd Street; The Savage Skulls; Transvestites; Electric Chair, Sing Sing; Arkansas Prison Cummins Farm; The Krishnas; Rock Festival at Watkins Glen, 1973; The Funeral of Robert Kennedy; An Accident at Chappaquiddick. The 1970s / Expanded History: 1970s: Guam; Bombs; Protest in Washington DC against the Kent State Shooting; Boxing: Ali vs Frasier; The KKK at Home; KKK Secret Army; Carter County, Georgia; Explo 72; The Sorcerers of Brooklyn; Energy Crisis of 1973; Printing Dollars. The 1980s / Expanded History: 1980s: Women's Jello Wrestling; Children and Guns; The Rajneesh American Farmers in the 1980s.

Book Bertrand Stofleth  Rhodanie

Download or read book Bertrand Stofleth Rhodanie written by and published by Actes Sud Editions. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Bertrand Stofleth (born 1978) journeyed down the Rhone river, from its Swiss glacial spring to its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea, setting out to methodically follow its course and chart its immediate surroundings. This book compiles the large-format images of the landscape in its sometimes domesticated, sometimes wild state.

Book At the Edge of the World

Download or read book At the Edge of the World written by Alain Laboile and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touching and powerful images of the natural and uninhibited lifestyle lived by Alain Laboile's children in the south of France.

Book Landmark

    Book Details:
  • Author : William A Ewing
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2014-09-16
  • ISBN : 0500544336
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Landmark written by William A Ewing and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent global survey of contemporary landscape photography as seen through the eyes of the leading photographers of today Landscape photography has traveled far from its origins in the picturesque or pastoral. It is at the cutting edge of contemporary image-making with leading photographers creating work that transcends definitions of “art” or “documentary.” This is the first truly international survey of a vibrant, burgeoning field of photography, its masterful image-makers, and their work. William A. Ewing has selected more than 230 photographs by over 100 photographers, ranging from renowned figures such as Susan Derges, Edward Burtynsky, and Simon Norfolk, to younger rising stars including Pieter Hugo, Olaf Otto Becker, and Penelope Umbrico. Each of them represents an individual viewpoint of a shared concern for our changing landscape and environment. Organized into ten themes—Sublime; Pastoral; Artefacts; Rupture; Playground; Scar; Control; Enigma; Hallucination; and Reverie—Landmark is an intelligent and poetic survey which captures a genre of photography to perfection.

Book Jan Kaplick   Drawings

Download or read book Jan Kaplick Drawings written by Ivan Margolius and published by Circa. This book was released on 2015 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings are an architect's essential tools of expression: a way of communicating, of formulating ideas, of connecting the hand, the mind and the eye to the sheet of paper. Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in Jan Kaplický Drawings. These drawings date from the early years of his independent practice, Future Systems, in the 1970s, to his final ink drawings, executed in the mid-1990s. Featured projects range from design studies for the International Space Station, undertaken with NASA, to the Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, winner of the 1999 Stirling Prize. Kaplický was one of the world's last great architect-poet-draughtsmen, upholding a heritage that has its roots in the early Renaissance and has since all but vanished with the advent of computer-aided design. If this book has one central message for architects, it is that drawing as an art and a discipline must not be forgotten.

Book A New American Picture

Download or read book A New American Picture written by David Campany and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of images captured by Google Street View.

Book Grays the Mountain Sends

Download or read book Grays the Mountain Sends written by Kevin Messina and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grays the Mountain Sends by Bryan Schutmaat documents the rugged landscapes and people of the great American West. The images describe a series of mining sites and small mountain towns and the people who have worked in them, built them, and a few younger people who might, or might not, be looking for a way out of them.

Book Painting and Photography  1839 1914

Download or read book Painting and Photography 1839 1914 written by Dominique de Font-Réaulx and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2012 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact that photography's birth and development had on the classical art form of painting. It provides exploration by genre -- from portraiture and still life to landscapes, tableaux vivantes, and nudes -- of the various issues triggered by the encounter between 19th century pictorial creation and the invention of photography.

Book Summer of the Fawn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alain Laboile
  • Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
  • Release : 2019-02
  • ISBN : 9783868288957
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Summer of the Fawn written by Alain Laboile and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laboile's timeless and universal images inspire longing for the endless summer days of our childhood.

Book The Vanquished

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Gerwarth
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2016-11-15
  • ISBN : 0374282455
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book The Vanquished written by Robert Gerwarth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "account of the continuing ethnic and state violence after the end of WWI--conflicts that more than anything else set the stage for WWII"--Provided by publisher.

Book Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites

Download or read book Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites written by Li Wei and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have attracted substantial interest due to their chemical variability, structural diversity and favorable physical properties the past decade. This materials class encompasses other important families such as formates, azides, dicyanamides, cyanides and dicyanometallates. The book summarizes the chemical variability and structural diversity of all known hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites subclasses including halides, azides, formates, dicyanamides, cyanides and dicyanometallates. It also presents a comprehensive account of their intriguing physical properties, including photovoltaic, optoelectronic, dielectric, magnetic, ferroelectric, ferroelastic and multiferroic properties. Moreover, the current challenges and future opportunities in this exciting field are also been discussed. This timely book shows the readers a complete landscape of hybrid organic-inorganic pervoskites and associated multifuctionalities.

Book Tao of Photography

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philippe L. Gross
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2012-08-01
  • ISBN : 1607741989
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Tao of Photography written by Philippe L. Gross and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative, visually stunning volume draws upon Taoist teachings to explore the creative and spiritual dimensions of the art of photography. Excerpts from the Taoist classic the Chuang-tzu and the writings of Western aesthetes are complemented by over 60 photographs from the work of such canonical photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Stieglitz, and Dorothea Lange. Lucid instructional text and enlightening exercises assure that photographers of all levels will be able to incorporate the lessons of the Tao into their own work.

Book The Chemistry of Metal Organic Frameworks

Download or read book The Chemistry of Metal Organic Frameworks written by Stefan Kaskel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing vital knowledge on the design and synthesis of specific metal-organic framework (MOF) classes as well as their properties, this ready reference summarizes the state of the art in chemistry. Divided into four parts, the first begins with a basic introduction to typical cluster units or coordination geometries and provides examples of recent and advanced MOF structures and applications typical for the respective class. Part II covers recent progress in linker chemistries, while special MOF classes and morphology design are described in Part III. The fourth part deals with advanced characterization techniques, such as NMR, in situ studies, and modelling. A final unique feature is the inclusion of data sheets of commercially available MOFs in the appendix, enabling experts and newcomers to the field to select the appropriate MOF for a desired application. A must-have reference for chemists, materials scientists, and engineers in academia and industry working in the field of catalysis, gas and water purification, energy storage, separation, and sensors.

Book Climates

Download or read book Climates written by James Graham and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary brings together discussions and projects at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Comprehensive essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate influences our conception of what architecture is and does. 0Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural rami?cations of climate change at the interfaces between resiliency, sustainability and eco-technology? New approaches to understanding climate in architecture based on research as well as the work of leading practitioners make this forward-thinking book invaluable. 0.

Book Adsorption and Diffusion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hellmut G. Karge
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-06-17
  • ISBN : 3540739661
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book Adsorption and Diffusion written by Hellmut G. Karge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Molecular Sieves - Science and Technology" covers, in a comprehensive manner, the science and technology of zeolites and all related microporous and mesoporous materials. The contributions are grouped together topically in such a way that each volume deals with a specific sub-field. Volume 7 treats fundamentals and analyses of adsorption and diffusion in zeolites including single-file diffusion. Various methods of measuring adsorption and diffusion are described and discussed.