Dog Days Bogotá

Author : Alec Soth
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131711652

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Dog Days Bogotá by Alec Soth Pdf

After completing the shooting of Sleeping by the Mississippi in 2002, Alec Soth traveled to Bogot�, Colombia to adopt a baby girl. While the courts processed paperwork, he and his wife spent two months in the capital city waiting to take their new baby home. "The baby's birth mother gave the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity," she wrote, "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things." With these words as a mission statement, Soth began making his own book for his daughter. Soth writes, "In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I've described some of the beauty in this hard place." Beauty makes itself known through ramshackle architecture, the companionship of animals, and the perseverance of the human spirit. Yet, in Dog Days, Bogot�, Soth's photographs transcend the simple description of beauty and poetically roam through a cast of strays, tough souls, and hints of hope. Alec Soth, born in 1969, is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the recipient of several major fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was awarded the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Soth's photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and S�o Paulo Biennials. His monographs Sleeping by the Mississippi and NIAGARA were published by Steidl. Soth is an associate photographer with Magnum Photos

Author : Juana Medina
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763672089

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Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina Pdf

A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.

Author : Bernardo Recamán
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486842417

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The Bogota Puzzles by Bernardo Recamán Pdf

"A Colombian mathematician assembled these eighty brainteasers, forming a stimulating collection of word problems, puzzles involving chess pieces, sudoku-style challenges, and other math-based diversions. The book includes solutions"--

Author : Tom Feiling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846145841

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Short Walks from Bogotá by Tom Feiling Pdf

For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now travel to Colombia and South America is on the rise, and it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? Writer and journalist Tom Feiling, author of the acclaimed study of cocaine The Candy Machine, has journeyed throughout Colombia, down roads that were until recently too dangerous to travel, to paint a fresh picture of one of the world's most notorious and least-understood countries. He talks to former guerrilla fighters and their ex-captives; women whose sons were 'disappeared' by paramilitaries; the nomadic tribe who once thought they were the only people on earth and now charge $10 for a photo; the Japanese 'emerald cowboy' who made a fortune from mining; and revels in the stories that countless ordinary Colombians tell. How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores become a byword for hell on earth? Why is one of the world's most unequal nations also one of its happiest? How is it rebuilding itself after decades of violence, and how successful has the process been so far? Vital, shocking, often funny and never simplistic, Short Walks from Bogota unpicks the tangled fabric of Colombia, to create a stunning work of reportage, history and travel writing.

Author : Alec Soth,Philip Brookman,Richard Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
ISBN : 3865212336

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Niagara by Alec Soth,Philip Brookman,Richard Ford Pdf

Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, "Sleeping by the Mississippi elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie." In the book's 46 ruthlessly edited pictures, "writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime learning art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex." Like Robert Frank's classic "The Americans, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust.

Author : Brad Zellar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1566893704

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House of Coates by Brad Zellar Pdf

The life and photographs of Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse. Can a man living in the shadows find redemption?

Author : Alec Soth,Patricia Hampl,Anne Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131647658

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Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth,Patricia Hampl,Anne Tucker Pdf

Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large format color photographs describe an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, his book elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing and reverie. "In the book's forty-six ruthlessly edited pictures," writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex... The coherence of the project places Soth's book exactly within the tradition of Walker Evans' American Photographs and Robert Frank's The Americans." Like Frank's classic book, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust. This is the third print run and third new cover of a book which has become one of the most highly collected and widely acclaimed photo-books of recent times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Photography of interiors
ISBN : 1912339315

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I Know How Furiously Your Hear T Is Beating by Anonim Pdf

"Taking its name from a line in the Wallace Stevens' poem "The Gray Room," Alec Soth's latest book is a lyrical exploration of the limitations of photographic representation. While these large-format color photographs are made all over the world, they aren't about any particular place or population. By a process of intimate and often extended engagement, Soth's portraits and images of his subject's surroundings involve an enquiry into the extent to which a photographic likeness can depict more than the outer surface of an individual, and perhaps even plumb the depths of something unknowable about both the sitter and the photographer"--The publisher.

Author : Geoff Dyer,Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3775727507

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From Here to There by Geoff Dyer,Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minn.) Pdf

Author : Alec Soth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fashion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131767860

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Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth Pdf

After the success of Fashion Magazine by Martin Parr and Bruce Gilden, Magnum Photos entrusts the creation of the third edition to the talented young photograher Alec Soth. Published to coincide with an exhibition of Soths latest body of work at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, this publication will like the previous two Fashion Magazines become a collectors item.

Author : Lester B. Morrison,Alec Soth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Altered books
ISBN : 3869301996

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Broken Manual by Lester B. Morrison,Alec Soth Pdf

Created over four years (2006-2010), Alec Soth's newest book represents a significant departure from his three previous Steidl publications. Entitled Broken Manual, Soth investigates the places in which people retreat to escape civilization. Soth photographs monks, survivalists, hermits and runaways, but this isn't a conventional documentary book on life "off the grid." Instead, working with the writer Lester B. Morrison, the authors have created an underground instruction manual for those looking to escape their lives.

Author : Jonas Bendiksen
Publisher : Aperture Direct
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : UCSD:31822035570837

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The Places We Live by Jonas Bendiksen Pdf

The year 2008 has witnessed a major shift in the way people across the world live: for the first time in human history more people live in cities than in rural areas. This triumph of the urban, however, does not entirely represent progress as the number of people living in urban slumsoften in abject conditionswill soon exceed one billion. From 2005 to 2007 Jonas Bendiksen documented life in the slums of four different cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Mumbai, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Caracas, Venezuela; . His lyrical images capture the diversity of personal histories and outlooks found in these dense neighborhoods that, despite commonly held assumptions, are not simply places of poverty and misery. Yet, slum residents continuously face enormous challenges, such as the lack of health care, sanitation, and electricity. The Places We Live includes twenty double gatefold images, each representing an individual home and its denizens story. Through its innovative design and experiential approach, The Places We Live brings the modern-day Dickensian reality of these individuals into sharp focus

Author : Larry Towell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Families
ISBN : 190571209X

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The World from My Front Porch by Larry Towell Pdf

An album featuring the best of 20 years of award-winning Magnum member Larry Towell's photographs of family life in rural Ontario. Towell's idyllic and beautiful photo-essay is accompanied by an extensive autobiographical text illustrated with over 160 photographs, objects and songs chosen by Towell. These are presented in an extended introduction and afterword to the book, exploring the history of his front porch (Larry's house was built by the man who first carved Ontario into farm units) and his journeys from the security of his home and family into the war zones of the world. Between them, the photo essay and the accompanying materials, The World From My Front Porch makes a poetic and moving statement about land and belonging, the central theme of Towell's work. The book is dramatically designed in the manner of an Edwardian album, and accompanies a retrospective touring exhibition.

Author : Francesco Zanot
Publisher : Logos
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 8869654095

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Ping Pong Conversations by Francesco Zanot Pdf

World-renowned photographer Alec Soth discusses the history and the language of photography in a broad conversation with Francesco Zanot.

Author : Patty Rodriguez,Ariana Stein
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781947971707

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VÁMONOS: Tegucigalpa by Patty Rodriguez,Ariana Stein Pdf

Introduce little ones to the lovely city of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, in both English and Spanish! Introduce your little readers to Tegucigalpa, the ever-growing capital of Honduras. Your little ones will discover the hidden gems – secret parks, hilly terrains, and stone steps – and feel like they’re on top of the world at El Picacho. They will bear witness to the natural phenomenon of the lluvia de peces, visit the national park of La Tigra, and dig into the country’s beloved platter of anafre! Parents will want to get their hands on these travel books to engage their little ones in the beauty of exploring new cultures and countries without ever necessarily leaving the comfort of their homes and just using their imagination!