52 products
Renee Mussai
5 Continents, 2022
Eloquent portraits and self-portraits by a contemporary African studio photographer that expand on the tradition of Malick Sedibé and Seydou Keita. Since 2012, Dakar-born Omar Victor Diop has been hailed by the art world for his stunning, color-saturated studio photography. His conceptual projects are primarily staged as beautifully costumed portraits and self-portraits, and focus on important historical figures and events from Black history and the African diaspora. In the three projects presented in this book, Diaspora (2014), Liberty (2017) and Allegory (2021), he revisits Black African history in poignant photographs that weave together the past and the present. Text in English and French.
English - 96 Pages - 23 x 2 x 33 cm - 1.1 KgISBN: 9788874399932
Paul Koudounaris
Thames & Hudson, 2022
A macabre, spectacular, and thought-provoking survey of death in life, this book collects the many ways human remains are used in decorative, commemorative, and devotional contexts around the world today.
This compact edition of Memento Mori takes the reader on a ghoulish but beautiful tour of some of the world’s more unusual sacred sites and traditions, in which human remains are displayed for the benefit of the living. From burial caves in Indonesia festooned with bones to skulls smoking cigarettes, wearing beanie hats and sunglasses, and decorated with garlands of flowers in South America, author Paul Koudounaris ventures beyond the grave to find messages of hope and salvation. His glorious color photographs and insightful commentaries reveal that in many places, the realms of the living and the dead are nowhere near so distinct as contemporary Western society would have us believe.
English - 216 Pages - 18 x 28 cm - 1.2 KgISBN: 9780500252611
Carl Douglas
Max Ström, 2022
In the days of sailing ships, the waters off Britain’s south-western coast were among the most treacherous in the world with tidal currents, submerged rocks, storms and murky depths. Thousands of ships were lost there over the centuries.
This magnificent book is the largest ever created on the outstanding collection of pictures of the Gibson Family, with almost 100 exceptional images presented as never before alongside text by Carl Douglas and Björn Hagberg. This book is published in co-operation with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, that holds the unique Gibson collection.
ISBN: 9789171265586
Sabine Weiss
Editions de la Martinière, 2020
Oeil témoin de son temps et dernière représentante de l'école humaniste, Sabine Weiss, en plus de son travail de photographe de mode, de publicité, de reportage, aime arpenter les rues et se laisser surprendre par les scènes fugitives du quotidien. Au gré des villes traversées, des pays parcourus et des rencontres, elle a fixé le hasard d'un mouvement, d'une expression, en s'attachant à celles et ceux que l'on regarde peu : enfants, clochards, vieillards, gitans...
Ses photographies, qui oscillent entre naturalisme et poésie, sont toujours réalisées avec un grand sens du cadrage, de la composition et de la lumière. Sabine Weiss, née en 1924, revient ici sur son travail en noir et blanc en sélectionnant dans ses archives 200 photographies, iconiques ou plus rares, où l'émotion affleure. L'émotion saisie par son objectif. L'émotion qu'elle ressent face à ces instants pris au vol.
Des images qui traduisent sa curiosité de l'autre, son profond amour de la vie et qui attestent d'un travail tout entier dédié à dire la condition humaine.
ISBN: 9782732495897
Lelia Wanick Salgado, Sebastiao Salgado
Taschen, 2016
Over six years and 35 countries, Sebastião Salgado documents the story of human migration. From the Hutu population of Rwanda, hiding out in remote jungles, to the first boats filled with Arabs and sub-Saharan Africans trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea, Salgado captures both the scale of the migrant crisis and the heart-stopping moments of the individual exile story.
English - 432 Pages - 21,4 x 2,2 x 27,4 cm - 3,8 KgISBN: 9780847871971