This beautifully illustrated book draws together for the first time the work of French artist Claude Cahun (1894–1954) and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963). Although they were born almost a century apart, their work shares similar themes―gender, identity, masquerade, and performance. In 2015, Sarah Howgate traveled with Wearing to the island of Jersey,…
Many graffiti artists carry sketchbooks, called black books, and they ask crew members and others whose work they admire to inscribe their books with lettering or drawings. A few years ago, the Getty Research Institute invited artists, including Angst, Axis, Big Sleeps, Chaz, Cre8, Defer, EyeOne, Fishe, Heaven, Hyde, Look, ManOne, and Prime, to consider…
Through more than 200 photographs, this luxurious volume presents Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide’s most iconic works alongside an important selection of previously unpublished photographs and a series of color photographs specially commissioned by the Fondation Cartier.Working mainly in black and white, Iturbide has explored the cohabitation between ancestral traditions and Catholic rites in Mexico, humanity’s…
In Handbook of the Spontaneous Other, Aikaterini Gegisian brings together a diverse range of found photographic material produced in Western Europe and the USA during the 1960s and 1970s. Composed of a series of 59 collages, the book playfully recontextualises images from popular culture that Gegisian has sourced — from pornographic magazines, tourist catalogues and…
Following on Hans Bol’s 2018 publication ‘God’s Allies’, in which he presented his black-and-white photographs of crows and ravens, ‘Revisited’ features silver gelatin prints that depict the darker and perhaps more divine side of these intriguing birds. After all, crows and ravens have gained a reputation for being intelligent, alert, and playful, and are often…
The Decisive Moment (Images à la Sauvette in French) is one of the greatest photography books ever published. It brings together photographic material from the first twenty years of Henri Cartier-Bresson s career. Images à la Sauvette was published in 1952 by Verve, with an original cover by Matisse. It was the result of a collaboration between the…
‘In the morning, we dash along the sidewalks – you on your side, me on mine, watching as people cross the busy street.’ In I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours, photographers Carolyn Drake and Andres Gonzalez embark on a collaborative journey along the US–Mexico border, creating an imaginative…
A critical and celebratory counternarrative to what we know of Japanese photography today. I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the lived experiences and perspectives of women in…
A timely and explosive book by acclaimed artist and writer Carmen Winant, Instructional Photography offers an investigation of a genre of photographs Winant calls “instructional.” It asks: can photographs teach, in and of themselves? Alternating between found images and shorter, text-based observations, Winant delves into this category of images through her own collection, understanding them…
Jake Clark is a sculptor, ceramicist, and painter who lives and works between Melbourne, NYC and Los Angeles. Clark’s work is rich in historic and artistic references from Grecian urns and funerary vessels to the work of artists such as David Hockney and Keith Haring. Taking inspiration from the world around him, Clark’s work captures…
Marking the influential photographer’s first major European survey, this book features highlights from four decades of James Welling’s oeuvre. Emerging out of the “Picture Generation”—a group of artists focused on a critique of photographic media—James Welling has gone on to experiment successfully in nearly every photographic genre. This monograph, designed by Joseph Logan in close…
Hugely influential among contemporary art photographers, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs for more than 35 years. Operating in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture and traditional photography, Welling is first and foremost a photographic practitioner enthralled with the possibilities of the medium. James Welling: Monograph provides the most thorough presentation of the…
No two of the little houses are the same… carefully proportioned furnishings here are wildly contradicted with slapdash decorations over there. Everyone has thought about their buildings, brought materials, laid walls, used power drills, insulated, glued things, extended the previous tenant’s shed, retro-fitted a bigger window, added a television antenna. They are strange hybrid buildings,…
‘Scapes’ compiles some of John Divola’s most memorable photographic series in black and white, including “Four Landscapes , “As Far as I Could Get”, and “Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert”. Based in Southern California, Divola is a post-conceptual visual artist whose photographic endeavours impart a sense of being existentially universal. As curator David…
The most comprehensive monograph on the enigmatic French artist – updated to include brand-new work Filled with stunning photography, this extraordinary monograph charts a range of JR’s collaborative projects executed across the globe. Created in close collaboration with the artist, it features chapters on each of JR’s major bodies of work – from Expo2Rue, using the street…
The American architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910 2009) is one of the few image makers to have documented, as well as witnessed, nearly an entire century of Los Angeles history. His captivating photographs serve as a visual record of the dramatic evolution of this exciting and diverse metropolis.Shulman s best-known images consist of mid-century views…