Guillermo Srodek Hart

Author : Guillermo Srodek-Hart,Anne Tucker
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Commercial buildings
ISBN : 379138144X

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Guillermo Srodek-Hart by Guillermo Srodek-Hart,Anne Tucker Pdf

Located in the rural areas outside of bustling Buenos Aires, the commercial establishments - butcheries, bakeries, bars, repair shops, garages, dry cleaners - depicted in this collection by photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart appear steeped in history and are packed with details dripping with colour. These photographs, shot with a large-format camera, are imbued with a narrative power not unlike an Edward Hopper painting. Details such as bottles, hides, groceries and hubcaps are heightened by Srodek-Hart's masterful technique and composition. Throughout the collection hangs an air of abandonment, of time passing, or perhaps stopping. Whether or not that is true, Srodek-Hart has memorialised a culture, worlds apart from the city that lies a short distance away. AUTHOR: Guillermo Srodek-Hart was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1977. He holds an MFA from Mass College of Art in Boston, MA, and his works are held in a number of private and public collections worldwide. 160 colour illustrations

Author : Henry Horenstein
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780316472456

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Make Better Pictures by Henry Horenstein Pdf

Henry Horenstein may be the world's bestselling photography teacher, with more than 700,000 copies of his photography manuals sold. Now, in this easily digestible book of wisdom, he distills a career's worth of instruction into one hundred memorable pieces of advice. Photography has never been a bigger part of our lives. But how do you transform everyday snapshots into enduring images -- or merely upgrade your Instagram game? With images illustrating the impact of each tip, and with examples drawn from iconic artists, Horenstein shows casual and expert photographers alike how to take the best photographs on every device--from a DSLR to an iPhone.

Author : Laurel Reuter
Publisher : Center for American Places
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124094249

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Marking the Land by Laurel Reuter Pdf

The demanding frontier life of My Ántonia or Little House on the Prairie may be long gone, but the idyllic small town still exists as a cherished icon of American community life. Yet sprawl and urban density, rather than small towns and farms, are the predominant features of our modern society, agribusiness and other commercial forces have rapidly taken over family farms and ranches, and even the open spaces we think of as natural retreats only retain the barest façade of their former frontier austerity. The fading communities, social upheaval, and enduring heritage of the Northern Plains are the subject of Jim Dow's Marking the Land, a stirring photographic tribute to the complex and unyielding landscape of North Dakota. Jim Dow began making pilgrimages to this remote territory in 1981 and, with a commission from the North Dakota Museum of Art, he took photographs of the passing human presence on the land. The simple, stolid pieces of architecture carved out against the Dakota skies--whether the local schoolhouse, car wash, prison, homes, hunting lodge, or churches--evoke in their spare lines and weather-battered frames the stoic and toughened spirit of the people within their walls. Folk art is also an integral part of the landscape in Dow's visual study, and he examines the subtle evolution of local craftsmanship from homemade sculptures, murals, and carvings to carefully crafted pieces aimed at tourists. Anchoring all of these explorations is the raw and striking landscape of the North Dakota plains. Marking the Land is a moving reflection by a leading American photographer on the state of the Northern Plains today, forcing us all to rethink our conceptions of America's forgotten frontier.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Colombian
ISBN : PSU:000059668428

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Art Nexus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Jewett Mather,Frederic Fairchild Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822036971356

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Art in America by Frank Jewett Mather,Frederic Fairchild Sherman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Photographic art galleries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133540349

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Photograph by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elinor Carucci
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781580935296

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Midlife by Elinor Carucci Pdf

From acclaimed photographer Elinor Carucci, a vivid chronicle of one woman's passage through aging, family, illness, and intimacy. It is a period in life that is universal, at some point, to everyone, yet in our day-to-day and cultural dialogue, nearly invisible. Midlife is a moving and empathetic portrait of an artist at the point in her life when inexorable change is more apparent than ever. Elinor Carucci, whose work has been collected in the previous acclaimed volumes Closer (2002, 2009) and Mother (2013), continues her immersive and close-up examination of her own life in this volume, portraying this moment in vibrant detail. As one of the most autobiographically rigorous photographers of her generation, Carucci recruits and revisits the same members of her family that we have seen since her work gained prominence two decades ago. Even as we observe telling details--graying hair, the pressures and joys of marriage, episodes of pronounced illness, the evolution of her aging parents' roles as grandparents, her children's increasing independence--we are invited to reflect on the experiences that we all share contending with the challenges of life, love, and change.

Author : Robert Harbison
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781780234762

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Ruins and Fragments by Robert Harbison Pdf

What is it about ruins that are so alluring, so puzzling, that they can hold some of us in endless wonder over the half-erased story they tell? In this elegant book, Robert Harbison explores the captivating hold these remains and broken pieces—from architecture, art, and literature—have on us. Why are we, he asks, so suspicious of things that are too smooth, too continuous? What makes us feel, when we look upon a fragment, that its very incompletion has a kind of meaning in itself? Is it that our experience on earth is inherently discontinuous, or that we are simply unable to believe in anything whole? Harbison guides us through ruins and fragments, both ancient and modern, visual and textual, showing us how they are crucial to understanding our current mindset and how we arrived here. First looking at ancient fragments, he examines the ways we have recovered, restored, and exhibited them as artworks. Then he moves on to modernist architecture and the ways that it seeks a fragmentary form, examining modern projects that have been designed into existing ruins, such as the Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy and the reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin. From there he explores literature and the works of T. S. Eliot, Montaigne, Coleridge, Joyce, and Sterne, and how they have used fragments as the foundation for creating new work. Likewise he examines the visual arts, from Schwitters’ collages to Ruskin’s drawings, as well as cinematic works from Sergei Eisenstein to Julien Temple, never shying from more deliberate creators of ruin, from Gordon Matta-Clark to countless graffiti artists. From ancient to modern times and across every imaginable form of art, Harbison takes a poetic look at how ruins have offered us a way of understanding history and how they have enabled us to create the new.

Author : Julia Solis,Martina Gedeck,Bryan Papciak
Publisher : Prestel Pub
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3791348191

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Stages of Decay by Julia Solis,Martina Gedeck,Bryan Papciak Pdf

Julia Solis's photographs of abandoned theaters from across the United States and Europe conjure the remaining magic of the decaying buildings and rooms, though the screenings and performances ceased long ago -- Back cover.

Author : Cynthia Young,Robert Capa
Publisher : Prestel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : PHOTOGRAPHY
ISBN : 3791353500

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Capa in Color by Cynthia Young,Robert Capa Pdf

This text looks at Robert Capa's colour photography, a little-known but important aspect of the great photographer's work, and includes many never-before-published images. Capa regularly used colour film from the 1940s until his death in 1954. Some of these photographs were published in magazines of the day, but the majority have never been printed, seen, or even studied. "Capa in Color" presents this work an integral part of his post-war career and fundamental in remaining relevant to magazines.

Author : Despina Stratigakos
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300187601

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Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos Pdf

A look at Adolf Hitler’s residences and their role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad. Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator’s preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by the aesthetic and ideological management of his domestic architecture. Hitler’s bachelor life stirred rumors, and the Nazi regime relied on the dictator’s three dwellings—the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg—to foster the myth of the Führer as a morally upstanding and refined man. Author Despina Stratigakos also reveals the previously untold story of Hitler’s interior designer, Gerdy Troost, through newly discovered archival sources. At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler’s homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. After the war, fascination with Hitler’s domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book’s rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler’s homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him. “Inarguably the powder-keg title of the year.”—Mitchell Owen, Architectural Digest “A fascinating read, which reminds us that in Nazi Germany the architectural and the political can never be disentangled. Like his own confected image, Hitler’s buildings cannot be divorced from their odious political hinterland.”—Roger Moorhouse, Times

Author : Judy Sund
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714876372

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Exotic by Judy Sund Pdf

A fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western culture Exotic explores our obsession with the lure of distant lands and their promise of the weird and wonderful, the beautiful and grotesque. Through a host of evocative images, this book shows how the absorption of 'the foreign,' through arts, design, architecture, and other cultural elements, has consistently enriched Western society, contributing to it cultural dynamism and artistic energy. Exotic's focus is especially relevant to the modern globalized world in which our engagement with cultures and traditions from around the globe is easier – and potentially more fraught – than ever before.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Photography of sports
ISBN : 3791349430

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DIY/underground Skateparks by Anonim Pdf

A skateboarding book like no other, this collection of stunning color photographs from around the world reveals an authentic, unsentimental view of an often overglamorized subculture. The Irish photographer and skateboarder Richard Gilligan spent four years traveling through Europe and the US to photograph homemade skateparks. The resulting photographs are not your run-of-the-mill action shots filled with miraculous body moves, slashes, twists, and turns. Instead, Gilligan chooses to focus on the sport's "negative space": the out-of-the-way concrete embankments, nondescript suburban lots where kids come to practice, a simple wooden ramp so insubstantial that no one but a skateboarder would recognize its use. Many of these photographs can be appreciated as unique, if prosaic, landscapes, but Gilligan also populates his pictures with skaters at rest, smoking alone, hanging out together, or walking home, board in hand. The images offer a grittily beautiful tribute to the ineffable hunger that unites all skateboarders--young, old, rich, poor. In these photographs Gilligan realizes the act of skating represents more than a quest for glory, but a means of self expression.

Author : Pablo De Greiff,Alexander Mayer-Rieckh
Publisher : SSRC
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780979077210

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Justice as Prevention by Pablo De Greiff,Alexander Mayer-Rieckh Pdf

Countries emerging from armed conflict or authoritarian rule face difficult questions about what to do with public employees who perpetrated past human rights abuses and the institutional structures that allowed such abuses to happen. Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies examines the transitional reform known as "vetting"-the process by which abusive or corrupt employees are excluded from public office. More than a means of punishing individuals, vetting represents an important transitional justice measure aimed at reforming institutions and preventing the recurrence of abuses. The book is the culmination of a multiyear project headed by the International Center for Transitional Justice that included human rights lawyers, experts on police and judicial reform, and scholars of transitional justice and reconciliation. It features case studies of Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, the former German Democratic Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and South Africa, as well as chapters on due process, information management, and intersections between other institutional reforms.

Author : J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere,André Magnin
Publisher : Scalo Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114760817

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J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere by J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere,André Magnin Pdf

No other aspect of fashion is as fleeting and ephemeral as hairstyles. Whereas we might ponder the length of hemlines and the fabric du jour, hair often escapes the passionate fashionista's fastidious and discerning gaze. J.D 'Okhai Ojeikere (born 1930), who worked as an advertising photographer for most of his life, has documented the hairstyles of his native Nigeria in painstaking detail for over thirty years Plaited, braided, in buns and in towering tresses Ojeikere's photographs hair reveals its sculptural qualities. His deceptively simple, classically composed photographs display hairstyles as a sheer play of forms -- minimal, abstract, transient artworks. But Ojeikere's photographs do not merely purvey aesthetic pleasures They provide and unexpected insight into Nigerian culture. Detailed captions tell us by whom and for which occasion a particular hairdo was worn, leading the reader into a previously unfamiliar social milieu. In an exhaustive text Ojeikere recounts his life as a photographer, giving us a glimpse of the nascent African mass media culture of the 60s and 70s.