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The Rossettis
Carol Jacobi
Tate Publishing, 2023

The Rossettis’ approach to art, love and lifestyles are considered revolutionary. This is explored by a range of short thematic essays containing fresh, and surprising research, accompanied by beautiful and iconic Pre-Raphaelite illustrations. Featuring artworks and writings by Dante Gabriel, Christina and Elizabeth (née Siddal), the book distinguishes the Rossettis from Victorian culture and foregrounds their countercultural roles. The publication accompanies the first retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Tate and the largest exhibition of his iconic pictures in two decades, and what will also be the most comprehensive exhibition of Elizabeth Siddal’s work for 30 years, featuring rare surviving watercolours and important drawings. The Rossettis will take a fresh look at the fascinating myths surrounding the unconventional relationships between Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris.

English - 240 Pages - 24 x 29 cm - 1,4 Kg
ISBN: 9781849768429

Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life

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Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life
Nabila Abdel Nabi, Laura Stamps, Briony Fer, Frances Morris
Tate Publishing, 2023

Although they never met, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian shared a deep dynamic connection to the natural world and began their careers as landscape painters. For them, science and mysticism were not exclusive practices, but part of the same essential framework for understanding the life forces around them. Both artists engaged with science and esoteric thought as tools for exploring the underlying structures of nature and how they give meaning to art and life. Natural forms are abstracted to their atomic levels; cells evolve, dividing and expanding the canvas in colour; sinuous stems spiral into the ether whilst the crystalline formations of grids stretch out to form an infinite universe. Including works never before seen in the UK, this publication will elucidate and invigorate our understanding of two ground-breaking artists and will be sure to get synapses firing.

English - 240 Pages - 25 x 30 cm - 1,6 Kg
ISBN: 9781849768450

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Isaac Julien
Isabella Maidment
Tate Publishing, 2023

An engrossing book about one of the most important and pioneering contemporary artists and filmmakers working today. Celebrated for his powerful and poetic films and installations, Isaac Julien is one of the most important and pioneering contemporary artists and filmmakers working today. His work transgresses the boundaries between artistic disciplines in thought-provoking meditations on race, sexuality, legacies of colonialism, and migration that resonate in the present day. This book showcases a selection of key works spanning Julien's career to date. The wide range of writers and collaborators who have contributed to this book highlight Julien's critical thinking and the way his work breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines, drawing from film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture by using the themes of desire, history and culture.

English - 208 Pages - 23 x 28 cm - 1,4 Kg
ISBN: 9781849768399

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Lucie Rie, The Adventure of Pottery
Andrew Nairne
Kettle's Yard, 2023

Lucie Rie (1902–1995) is one of the finest modern potters of the 20th century. Born and trained in Vienna, her successful early career came to a halt in 1938 when forced to leave Austria to escape the persecution of Jewish people. In exile in London, Rie established a new workshop and over five decades created highly individual bowls, vases and tableware which continue to amaze and inspire today.

English - 240 Pages - 23 x 29 cm - 1,1 Kg
ISBN: 9781904561767

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Jed Johnson: Opulent Restraint
Jay Johnson
Rizzoli, 2023

From humble beginnings in Minnesota, Johnson rose to prominence in the 1970s New York, via the Warhol Factory, to the highest echelons of the rarified world of design. He was named by Architectural Digest in the January 2010 issue one of “The Worlds 20 Greatest Designers of All Time.” His impressive client list included Pierre Berge, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, Richard Gere, and Barbara Streisand. Yet, he never lost his shy humility, generous spirit, and quiet grace. Through a series of essays, project photographs, and personal photographs, we trace the influences on his nascent career, his special relationship with Andy Warhol as recently portrayed in the Netflix series of 2022 “The Andy Warhol Diaries," and his magical effect on others. Many never-before-seen photographs are included by important photographers, among them: Cecil Beaton, Francesco Scavuello, Billy Name, Jack Mitchell, John Hall, Elizabeth Heyert, and Warhol himself. Opulent Restraint is a must have for every interior design office.

English - 224 Pages - 25 x 31 cm - 0,6 Kg
ISBN: 9780847873043

Chairs, 1000 Masterpieces of Modern Design

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Chairs, 1000 Masterpieces of Modern Design
Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell
Welbeck, 2023

This updated edition features chair designs from 1800 up to present day, and features the biggest names in furniture design, art, architecture and craft. Each entry is illustrated with full colour photography and accompanied by text detailing the materials and background of the chair.

English - 784 Pages - 18 x 23 cm - 2,2 Kg
ISBN: 9781802791006

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Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax
Awol Erizku
Aperture, 2023

Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans Erizku's career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons, such as Solange, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, "It's important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people." Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Felix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist's tremendous power and originality.

English - 304 Pages - 25 x 31 cm - 2,3 Kg
ISBN: 9781597115469

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Bridget Riley, Past into Present
Bridget Riley
David Zwirner, 2023

Renowned British artist Bridget Riley's paintings have provoked powerful sensations through their formally taut, abstract compositions over the course of her more than six-decade career. In this new body of work, Riley returns to earlier ideas and takes them into further and surprising directions. Published on the occasion of the 2021 exhibition at David Zwirner, London, this monograph features new scholarship on the artist by art historian Éric de Chassey, who looks at how Riley's past, in addition to the history of art, has led to this body of work.

English - 80 Pages - 24 x 30 cm - 0,9 Kg
ISBN: 9781644230664

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Georgia O’Keeffe, To See Takes Time
Samantha Friedman
The Museum of Modern Art, 2023

A revelatory new volume on the American modernist's lesser-known works on paper, reuniting many serial works for the first time Recalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe later wrote, "I have made this drawing several times--never remembering that I had made it before--and not knowing where the idea came from." These drawings, and the majority of O'Keeffe's works in charcoal, watercolor, pastel and graphite, belong to series in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie between observation and abstraction. In the formative years of 1915 to 1918, she made as many works on paper as she would in the next 40 years, producing sequences in watercolor of abstract lines, organic landscapes and nudes, along with charcoal drawings she would group according to the designation "specials." While her practice turned increasingly toward canvas in subsequent decades, important series on paper reappeared--including charcoal flowers of the 1930s, portraits of the 1940s and aerial views of the 1950s. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this richly illustrated volume highlights the drawings of an artist better known as a painter, and reunites individual sheets with their contextual series to illuminate O'Keeffe's persistently sequential practice.

English - 200 Pages - 24 x 27 cm - 1,1 Kg
ISBN: 9781633451476

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Drawing in the Present Tense
Roger Malbert, Claire Gilman
Thames & Hudson, 2023

Drawing in the Present Tense explores the variety of ways in which contemporary artists from around the world have come to approach drawing as the primary element of their practice. One which is autonomous: an end in itself, rather than a means to an end in another, more substantial medium. In an era of advanced technologies where image production has accelerated—potentially beyond the capacity of human attention—what values can be attributed to the slow, deliberate process of drawing by hand? The artworks featured in this volume are not confined to traditional tools; one can also draw on a computer, tablet, or smartphone, and examples of this are incorporated into the narrative as one mediumamong many. Sections are grouped thematically by specific approaches, including abstraction and figuration, nature and artifice, social observation and critique. With essays and spreads for each section, the book’s selection of seventy contemporary international artists of diverse backgrounds and experience includes not only recognizable names such as Michael Armitage, Camille Henrot, Robert Longo, Amy Sillman, and Kara Walker, but also a host of emerging talents.

English - 280 Pages - 23 x 30 cm - 1,7 Kg
ISBN: 9780500294932

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Beautiful Game: Roman Entrances
Heiner Thofern
Steidl Verlag, 2023

This book explores a uniquely Roman type of building, the palazzina--a four- or five-story residential structure of the most meticulous design, built during the Italian economic miracle between the 1950s and '70s. A Beautiful Game focuses on the extraordinarily imaginative entrances of these buildings. Over many years, Heiner Thofern (born 1959) photographed palazzine during his evening wanderings throughout the north and west districts of Rome. It was the intricately conceived and constructed entrances, realized mostly through collaborations between architects and artists, that particularly caught his eye. A Beautiful Game reveals the varied treasures of Thofern's photographic archive, a rich collection that allows us to examine the particular sense of play and passion for beauty that shapes this era of Italian creativity, a delight in la bella figura, and a desire to constantly reinvent the possibilities of design and architecture.

English - 112 Pages - 19 x 23 cn - 0,6 Kg
ISBN: 9783969990605

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Studio Ceramics
Alun Graves
Thames & Hudson, 2023

Contemporary ceramicists working in Britain, including Rachel Kneebone, Grayson Perry, and Edmund de Waal, are part of a broader international group of artists experimenting with clay, considering how it intersects and works in dialogue with other art forms and culture at large. Recent experimentation with the medium owes much to the rapid evolutionof ceramics into an expanded field, and to the work of mid- to late 20th-century potters and their reinvention of ceramics as a radical and contemporary art practice. The pioneering methods and rethinking of form in the work of exponents such as Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and Alan Caiger-Smith--whose reference points were drawn from East Asia, Africa, the ancient Mediterranean, and the Middle East as much as from their own heritage--continue to influence and inspire contemporary makers. A visual chronology and subsequent A-Z of artists feature illustrated biographical entries on almost 300 major British ceramicists since 1900.

English - 416 Pages - 25 x 29 cm - 2,5 Kg
ISBN: 9780500480892

A Humanist Vision: the Naomi Rosenblum Family Collection

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A Humanist Vision: the Naomi Rosenblum Family Collection
Nina Rosenblum, Lisa Rosenblum
Abbeville Publishing Group, 2023

Naomi Rosenblum (1925–2021) was the leading historian of photography in her lifetime. Her two major books, A World History of Photography and A History of Women Photographers, furthered the recognition of photography as a central art form of the 20th century, and one in which women played a critical role. Rosenblum’s deep knowledge and remarkable eye are evident in the collection of photography that she and her family built in her lifetime. This beautifully designed volume, conceived by Naomi and her daughters, Nina and Lisa, marks the first publication of the family’s exceptional collection, which is focused on work that combines aesthetic considerations with humanist values. The photographers represented range from pioneers like Alfred Stieglitz, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Lewis Hine, Paul Strand (the subject of Naomi Rosenblum’s doctoral dissertation), and her husband, Walter Rosenblum, to acclaimed contemporary practitioners including Mary Ellen Mark, Ming Smith, and Sebastião Salgado. The collection is intergenerational and also includes important examples of 20th century sculpture by such artists as Lynn Chadwick and Barry Flanagan.

English - 232 Pages - 26 x 31 cm - 2,1 Kg
ISBN: 9780789214607

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The World's Most Expensive Watches
Ariel Adams
Acc Art Books, 2023

More than a fashion accessory or means to tell the time, the wristwatch has become a statement of identity; politician or celebrity, scientist or sportsman, what you choose to wear on your wrist speaks volumes about who you are. The World's Most Expensive Watches presents some of the most extravagant, intricate, collectible, decadent, or just plain interesting modern-day timepieces that sit at the top of the price spectrum. Starting at a threshold price of about $200,000, it is a trip through the last decade or so of watches whose values soar incredibly to prices of $5 million dollars or more. Additionally, there is a selection of notable watches that yielded extremely high prices at auction - many of which are historically relevant. A stunning collection that is both informative and entertaining; with detailed descriptions of individual watches and articles that usefully deconstruct the price tag with an explanation of the relevance of craftsmanship and complexity of design, as well as the importance of exclusivity, prestige and collectibility.

English - 400 Pages - 25 x 29 cm - 2,8 Kg
ISBN: 9781788840330

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Louvre Abu Dhabi: A Celebration
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated, 2023

Visitors to Louvre Abu Dhabi usually discover the exceptional architecture of the museum first, in particular its iconic dome. They then discover the universal message of the museum through its collections, exhibitions and unique narrative. Visiting Louvre Abu Dhabi is an invitation to navigate across time, geography and civilisations through its different buildings and pavilions. On the occasion of the museum’s 5th anniversary, this book serves as a celebration of this institution in all its dimensions: its architecture, its rich collections, its interactive programmes, its diverse visitors and the staff who give the museum life. The quotations found in the book are a small selection of those displayed throughout the galleries; here, they invite readers to look at the museum from a different perspective.

English, Français, Arabic - 192 Pages - 25 x 35 cm - 2,1 Kg
ISBN: 9781785514760

Une avant-garde féministe des années 1970

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Une avant-garde féministe des années 1970
Gabrielle Schor
Delpire & Co, 2023

Leurs œuvres sont provocantes, radicales, poétiques ou ironiques… Présentant les travaux de 64 femmes artistes, ce livre dévoile comment, dans les années 1970, celles-ci ont repris contrôle de la représentation féminine dans la photographie, la vidéo et l’art de la performance. Opérant un changement drastique dans la perception des femmes dans l’art, et à rebours de la projection traditionnelle des fantasmes masculins, ces artistes ont donné à voir une nouvelle « image de la femme ». L’ouvrage, à travers cinq thématiques phares (Femme au foyer/Mère/Épouse ; Enfermement/Évasion ; Dictat de la beauté/Corps féminin ; Sexualité féminine ; Identité/Jeu de rôle), présente ainsi une large variété d’œuvres, qui tour à tour dénoncent le sexisme, les inégalités sociales ou les structures du patriarcat. La conservatrice et fondatrice de la Collection Sammlung Verbund, Gabriele Schor, se réfère à ce moment charnière comme à l’« avant-garde féministe », soulignant le rôle pionnier joué par ces artistes qui ont rejeté ce qui avait toujours précédé. Donnant naissance à de nouveaux modes d’expression dans tous les domaines artistiques, celles-ci ont porté une voix émancipatrice qui continue encore aujourd’hui à inspirer la génération contemporaine.

Français - 472 Pages - 24 x 27 cm - 2,1 Kg
ISBN: 9791095821489

Scrapbooks, dans l'imaginaire des cinéastes

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Scrapbooks, dans l'imaginaire des cinéastes
Orlean Matthieu
Delpire & Co, 2023

Cet ouvrage présente quelques-uns des plus beaux scrapbooks de cinéastes d'avant-garde de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle tels Derek Jarman, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Stanley Kubrick, ou plus récemment Pedro Costa et Bertrand Mandico. Il propose un voyage à l'origine de la création de leurs films, donnant accès à des documents privés, dévoilant l'intimité au coeur même du processus créatif. Y sont associées des personnalités ayant, à leur façon, participé à l'élaboration de films comme William S. Burroughs (écrivain et scénariste) ou Marie-Laure de Noailles (peintre et productrice), tous deux adeptes du scrapbooking le plus expérimental, mêlant l'émotionnel et le politique. Le livre, comme l'exposition qu'il accompagne (Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles 2023), se concentre sur des artistes ayant une pratique radicale, repoussant au maximum les frontières de l'autofiction. Pour Matthieu Orléan, si les films constituent un présent de cinéma, le scrapbook est à la fois leur passé (le lieu de leur invention et de leur esquisse) et leur futur (leur archive). Un chaînon, parfois manquant, mais fondamental pour comprendre la circulation, la survivance et l'apothéose des images contemporaines. Artistes présentés : John Truwe, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Robert Duncan & Jess, Agnès Varda, Jane Wodening & Stan Brakhage, Derek Jarman, Christophe Berhault, Bertrand Mandico, Jim Jarmusch, William S. Burroughs, Pedro Costa, Chris Marker, Stanley Kubrick, Christian Patterson

Français - 236 Pages - 23 x 27 cm - 1,1 Kg
ISBN: 9791095821618

La Genèse de la Genèse, illustrée par l'abstraction

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La Genèse de la Genèse, illustrée par l'abstraction
Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Valère Novarina
Diane de Selliers, 2023

Laissez-vous saisir par la nouvelle traduction des onze premiers chapitres de Marc-Alain Ouaknin sublimée par l'abstraction. Nourri des mythes babyloniens, ce texte fondateur est porteur de thèmes universels : la liberté, l'amour de soi, l'écoute, le langage, l'éducation, la traduction, la parole donnée, le désir. Des commentaires de Marc-Alain Ouaknin ponctuent chacun des chapitres, en plus des notes de traduction présentées en fin de volume. En regard de ces onze premiers chapitres de la Genèse, une centaine d'oeuvres abstraites invitent à une lecture intérieure. Des formes et des couleurs, un art libre qui dévoile l'invisible du monde et l'inapparent de la condition humaine. Les oeuvres de soixante-douze artistes de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours sont rassemblées autour du texte biblique. Malevitch, Kandinsky, Mitchell, Klee, Bang Haï-Ja, Francis, Bergman, Af Klint et bien d'autres nous invitent à méditer l'obscurité du premier jour, la ruse du serpent ou l'arc-en-ciel comme signe d'alliance. Des artistes mis à l'honneur dans de récentes expositions. Chaque oeuvre murmure un récit personnel aux yeux et à l'esprit de celui qui la regarde. Une liberté d'interprétation absolue qui fait de cette lecture une expérience universelle.

Français - 379 Pages - 20 x 27 cm - 1,5 Kg
ISBN: 9782364371217

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Odyssée d'Homère
Mimmo Paladino
Diane de Selliers, 2023

Pour cette première édition de la Nuit du Livre, L'Iliade et l'Odyssée illustrées par Mimmo Paladino a été salué par le jury comme un travail d'exception entre l'éditeur, le peintre et l'équipe fabricante. L'adéquation entre les œuvres de Mimmo Paladino et les textes fondateurs d'Homère, la qualité de la mise en page de Richard Médioni, directeur artistique et maquettiste, le choix du papier, de la typographie, de la reliure, ont suscité les plus vives admirations.

Français - 299 Pages - 19 x 26 cm - 1,1 Kg
ISBN: 9782364371002

Vivian Maier révélée, enquête sur une femme libre

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Vivian Maier révélée, enquête sur une femme libre
Ann Marks
Deplire & Co, 2023

Sans l'improbable découverte d'un lot de photographies anonymes lors d'une vente aux enchères en 2007, le travail de Vivian Maier n'aurait jamais été connu. Cette photographe hors norme (New York, 1926 ¿ Chicago, 2009) a produit, tout au long de sa vie, une œuvre considérable (plus de 140 000 images), jamais montrée de son vivant. Fine observatrice de son époque, elle a su saisir avec acuité l'universalité de la condition humaine. Reconnue comme l'une des artistes majeures du XXe siècle, l'engouement et la fascination pour la photographe a aujourd'hui largement dépassé le cercle des amateurs. Mais qui était réellement Vivian Maier ? Cette biographie illustrée de plus de 400 photographies et documents inédits, fruit de six années de recherches, lève enfin le voile sur la vie de ce personnage secret et solitaire. L'auteur, Ann Marks, nous révèle les fragilités et les forces d'une femme libre, féministe et engagée, portée par un sens de l'humour salvateur.

Français - 368 Pages - 17 x 24 cm - 0,8 Kg
ISBN: 9791095821397

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Les Américains
Robert Frank
Deplire & Co, 2023

En 1955, Robert Frank sillonne les Etats-Unis. Appareil photo à la main il immortalise les instants de vie des Américains qu'il croise sur sa route : une serveuse dans un diner, un homme tatoué en train de faire la sieste, des ouvriers au travail, un cireur de chaussures, des fêtards, des amoureux, des motards, la route elle-même... Il ne s'agit pas d'un reportage mais d'un ensemble de notes prises sur le vif : Robert Frank fait naître une nouvelle iconographie où des visages anonymes s'amalgament au bord de routes tristes, dans les excroissances urbaines ou les vides d'un territoire démesuré. Les lieux et les visages pris à la volée sont souvent flous, la composition est parfois décentrée. La fréquence et la profondeur des noirs creusent les images, leur conférant un pouvoir d'abstraction. Pour la première fois en 1958, une sélection de 84 photographies en noir et blanc est publiée par Robert Delpire... dans l'indifférence générale. Jugé triste, pervers, voire subversif à l'époque, le livre devient progressivement un classique de la photographie. 60 ans après sa première publication, l'ouvrage, toujours très actuel, reparaît dans une édition revue et corrigée par Robert Frank lui-même. Couverture, format, papier et traitement des photographies ont été modifiés et se rapprochent de l'édition américaine. La préface de jack Kérouac bénéficie d'une nouvelle traduction de Brice Matthieussent.

Français - 180 Pages - 18 x 21 cm - 1 Kg
ISBN: 9791095821458

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Les anglais
Henri Cartier-Bresson,Martin Parr
Deplire & Co, 2023

En 1962, Henri Cartier-Bresson accepte une commande de la télévision britannique ITV/ABC d'un documentaire sur le nord de l'Angleterre. Exhumé par la Cinémathèque Française en 2021, celui-ci avait été réalisé à partir de photographies et n'avait été diffusé qu'une seule fois. On y découvre des photographies inédites, brossant un portrait amusé des Anglais au travail et de leurs loisirs. En 1989, Martin Parr, photographe déjà reconnu bien que controversé pour ses photographies en couleur de la "middle class" britannique, présente sa candidature à l'agence coopérative Magnum Photos. A l'époque, Henri Cartier-Bresson, co-fondateur de l'agence, s'y oppose fermement. Une rencontre entre les deux photographes permettra finalement une " réconciliation" personnelle ainsi que la coexistence au sein de l'agence de leurs conceptions de la photographie diamétralement opposées. Martin Parr intègrera finalement l'agence en 1994 et en deviendra même président (2013-2017). Dans un texte inédit, François Hébel, directeur de la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, revient sur cette "réconciliation" , et sur ces trois époques vues à travers deux regards pointant, toujours avec humour, l'évolution des moeurs anglaises. Bilingual French and English.

English, Français - 216 Pages - 18 x 21 cm - 1 Kg
ISBN: 9791095821564