Nearly four decades of unpublished works from a master of documentary photography.
Consisting solely of previously unpublished photographs, The Way Back is a deep dive through Bruce Davidson's more than 60-year career. The book chronologically presents photos made between 1957 and 1992, showcasing Davidson's exceptional versatility?from his earliest assignments to later seminal bodies of work including his yearlong study of teenage members of a Brooklyn Gang (1959), his extensive coverage of the American Civil Rights Movement in Time of Change (1961-65) and his breakthrough portraits of the residents of a single block in Harlem in East 100th Street (1966-68). Series such as Subway (1980) and Central Park (1992) confirm Davidson as a quintessential chronicler of New York City.
What emerges through this retrospective is Davidson's overt sensibility and empathy for his subjects and his commitment to documenting them in depth over time. Unlike his peers who photographed historical events, Davidson focused on the people within these histories. Now, drawing near the end of his long career, Davidson offers this book as a parting look at his artistic passage, an elegiac goodbye as well as a requiem.
Bruce Davidson (born 1933, Oak Park, IL) became a member of the Magnum Photos agency in 1958; since then his photographs and photo series have been widely published to great acclaim. At Yale University, he studied under photographer Alexey Brodovitch and artist Josef Albers, the latter of whom encouraged him to pursue his work among marginalized people and communities. His artistic influences include Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Superb photographs documenting the people, places and activist movements in apartheid-era South Africa American photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe's understanding of race and class was shaped by Chicago's systemic discriminatory practices; as she later reflected, the city had, "in its own way, a form of apartheid." After encountering Ernest Cole's photographs and training with mentors such as Gordon Parks and Garry Winogrand in the early 1970s, Moutoussamy-Ashe (born 1951) traveled to South Africa at the height of apartheid, armed with her camera. In March 1977 she accompanied her husband Arthur Ashe there, as part of a team filming a TV documentary on sports and apartheid. Returning alone the next year, she visited Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal, and the townships of Alexandra, Kliptown, Lenasia and Soweto, getting to know the country and its people through her lens, gaining special access to various events and documenting encounters with influential figures. In stark black-and-white and vivid color, Moutoussamy-Ashe's images offer a distinct perspective from an African American photographer on a turbulent period in South African history. This publication, winner of the 2024 Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize, features more than 100 of Moutoussamy-Ashe's photographs, many never published before.
À l'été 1975, en attente d'une opération chirurgicale avec risque de paralysie, le jeune Joel Sternfeld part à la recherche d'une dernière échappée qu'il trouve à Nags Head, sur les Outer Banks de Caroline du Nord. De juin à août, il photographie la ville balnéaire, les baigneurs de tous âges profitant des loisirs et faisant la fête dans ce qui est devenu son premier corpus d'oeuvres traitant d'une saison en particulier. Pourtant, ce séjour d'été se trouve tragiquement brisé par la nouvelle de la mort de son frère ; Sternfeld retourne à New York, pour ne jamais retourner à Nags Head. Cette série conduit aux structures de couleur du magnum opus de Sternfeld, American Prospects, la réalisation ambitieuse de ce qu'il a toujours voulu faire : suivre les saisons à travers l'Amérique.
A sumptuous trove of photographs, stills and more from Goldin's innovative work in film.
This is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of Nan Goldin's work as a filmmaker. Accompanying the retrospective show and tour of the same name, organized by Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the book draws from the nearly dozen slideshows and films Goldin has made from thousands of photographs, film sequences, audio tapes and music tracks. The stories told range from the trauma of her family history to the portrayal of her bohemian friends to a journey into the darkness of addiction.
By focusing exclusively on slideshows and video installations, This Will Not End Well aims to fully embrace Goldin's vision of how her work should be experienced. The book retains the presentation of the slide shows by showing all images in the same format on a black background and sequenced as they are in the sources. The 20 texts, the majority of which are newly commissioned by Goldin, complement and deepen the intention of her work.
Nan Goldin (born 1953) lives and works between New York, Paris and Berlin. Given her first camera at the age of 15, she began taking Polaroids of herself and her friends at a hippie commune. In 1972 she moved in with a group of drag queens in Boston, starting her lifelong obsession with photographing queer and transgender communities. In 1978 Goldin moved to New York City, where she presented slideshows in nightclubs and underground cinemas; her best known, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, was published as a landmark book in 1986. In the 1990s, Goldin relocated to Berlin where she published A Double Life with David Armstrong and the first edition of The Other Side. In 2018 Goldin and her colleagues founded P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), a direct-action group advocating harm reduction and education to address the stigma of addiction and the mounting overdose crisis.
Recueil de 131 photographies de Robert Frank réalisées dans les années 1950, dont 22 clichés originaux du reportage photo intitulé Américains, enrichis de 100 images inconnues. Né en Suisse, il émigre aux Etats-Unis en 1947 et commence sa carrière de photographe dans des magazines. Il obtient la bourse de la Guggenheim Fondation en 1955, et réalise de nombreux films.
Publié à l'occasion d'une grande exposition personnelle au Jeu de Paume, Paris, cet ouvrage retrace 25 années de l'oeuvre photographique de Luc Delahaye. Y compris toutes les oeuvres que Delahaye a produites entre 2001 et 2025, le livre couvre la période décisive au cours de laquelle il s'est progressivement distancé du photojournalisme de guerre dans les années 1990 et s'est engagé dans le domaine de l'art. Des premiers tableaux photographiques de Delahaye à ceux composés sur ordinateur ou mis en scène, ainsi que ses polyptyques, séries et vidéos-stills, ces images offrent un récit sobre mais puissant de notre monde troublé et turbulent. Ce catalogue raisonné offre un cadre complet pour retracer l'évolution des méthodes et thèmes de Delahaye, en identifiant des périodes distinctes et en examinant les processus rigoureux par lesquels il dessine la cartographie des temps contemporains. Une variété de textes et un entretien approfondi avec l'artiste donnent un aperçu de l'oeuvre insaisissable de Delahaye-celle qui réfléchit sur la présence dans la représentation du réel, sur l'histoire, la mémoire, la violence et notre responsabilité en tant que spectateurs. Co-édité par le Jeu de Paume, Paris et Photo Élysée, Lausanne.
Publié pour la première fois en 1975, Born Black était alors le premier livre de Gordon Parks à réunir écrits et photographie, notamment avec 9 articles pour le magazine Life de 1963 à 1970. Il constituait une documentation cruciale du mouvement des Black Panthers et de la lutte pour les droits civiques. Cette édition augmentée reprend et enrichit toutes les séries présentées ainsi que les articles originels, un facsimilé de la maquette de 1971, mais aussi des souvenirs de Gordon Parks sur la période, sa correspondance et ses manuscrits. Les neuf séries portent sur la prison de San Quentin, les Blacks Panthers, la mort de Malcolm X et de Martin Luther King, les portraits de Stokely Carmichael, Mohammed Ali et Cleaver, ainsi que le récit de la vie quotidienne dans le plus grand dénuement de la famille noire Fontenelle.
Class, race and labor in a Pittsburgh plant: a rarely seen series by Gordon Parks.
By 1944, Gordon Parks had established himself as a photographer who freely navigated the fields of press and commercial photography, with an unparalleled humanist perspective. That year, Roy Stryker--the former Farm Security Administration official who was now heading the public relations department for the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)--commissioned Parks to travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to document the Penola, Inc. Grease Plant.
Employing his signature style, Parks spent two years chronicling the plant's industry--critical to Pittsburgh's history and character--by photographing its workers. The resulting photographs, dramatically staged and lit and striking in their composition, showed the range of activities engaged in by Black and white workers, divided as they were by roles, race and class. The images were used as marketing materials and made available to local and national newspapers, as well as corporate magazines and newsletters. However, they served as much more than documentation of industry, enduring as an exploration of labor and its social and economic ramifications in World War II America by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
Featuring more than 100 photographs, many previously unpublished, this is the first book to focus exclusively on Parks' photographs for the Standard Oil Company, illuminating an important chapter in his career prior to his landmark career as a staff photographer for Life.
Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. He worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself and becoming a photographer. In addition to his tenures photographing for the FSA (1941-45) and Life magazine (1948-72), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. He died in 2006.
The starting point for this book is Evelyn Hofer's Dublin: A Portrait, which enjoyed great popularity upon its original publication in 1967, and featured an in-depth essay by the well-known British critic and memoirist V.S. Pritchett. Dublin: A Portrait is an example of Evelyn Hofer's (1922-2009) perhaps most important body of work, namely her city portraits--books that present comprehensive prose texts by renowned authors alongside her self-contained visual essays with their own narratives. Dublin: A Portrait was the last book published in this legendary series.
This newly conceived edition of Dublin focuses on the photos Hofer took on behalf of the publisher Harper & Row in 1965 and 1966. In Dublin Hofer repeatedly turned her camera to sights of the city, but mainly to the people who constituted its essence. She made numerous portraits--of writers and public figures, or unknown people in the streets. Her portraits give evidence of an intense, respectful engagement with her subjects, who participate as equal partners in the process of photographing.
Publié pour la première fois en 1985 sous le titre Summer Nights, cette série de Robert Adams regroupe des photos de paysages nocturnes prises dans le Colorado vers le milieu des années 1970. Cette nouvelle édition est enrichie de 40 photos.
Depuis plus de trente ans, les photographies de Thibaut Cuisset évoluent entre les problématiques liées au paysage, à l'environnement et à la notion de territoire. Avec l'acuité contemporaine d'un regard digne des photographes américains de la New Topographics, Thibaut Cuisset s'empare de la singularité de nos campagnes, sans fioritures ni nostalgie. Ses images montrent que le territoire n'a rien de figé, qu'il est le résultat de l'histoire, d'interventions multiples et toujours actives. Ce façonnement perpétuel est le sujet que la photographie vient ici ausculter, authentifier. Avec une grande précision et avec virtuosité dans la retenue des couleurs, elle témoigne des équilibres et bouleversements de nos campagnes.
Typologie libre de toute idée d'inventaire ou d'anecdote, ce livre compose un atlas sensible du monde d'aujourd'hui ; oeuvre autonome d'un grand artiste mais aussi hommage fidèle et précis d'un promeneur attentif à la grande diversité du paysage français.
Henri Cartier-Bresson est fait prisonnier par les allemands en 1940, après deux tentatives infructueuses, il parvient à s'échapper en février 1943. Pendant ce temps là, le MoMA de New-York, pensant que le photographe avait disparu, commençait à préparer une exposition " posthume " de son travail. Quand il réapparut, il fut enchanté d'apprendre que cette exposition aurait lieu, bien qu'il fût toujours vivant. HCB décida de revoir toute son oeuvre et de sélectionner lui-même tout ce qui " tenait ". Il sélectionna et tira plus de 300 images souvent inédites à l'époque puis embarqua pour New York en avril 1946, les tirages dans sa valise. A son arrivée, il acheta un grand album - un " scrap book " - dans lequel il colla toutes les images avant de les montrer au MoMA. L'exposition fut inaugurée le 4 février 1947, juste avant la création de Magnum.
Réédition augmentée de cet album du photoreporter sud-africain David Goldblatt, qui réunit les clichés des mineurs et des mines d'or de Randfontein, sa ville natale.
A luscious celebration of vintage scarves, from Dior to Delaunay, from a designer's magnificent collection.
For nearly 20 years now, French art director and scarf designer Benoit Pierre Emery has been collecting silk scarves--perhaps the ultimate fashion accessory--exploring boutiques and flea markets to amass an astounding assortment of 10,000 pieces (and growing). Carré A Vintage Scarf Collection presents around 6,500 of these scarves, which Emery acquires according to their individual aesthetic merit, not the prestige of the brand that may be printed on them--many pieces remain tantalizingly anonymous, even as others boast the names of renowned fashion houses (Dior, Hermès, Saint Laurent, Lanvin, Balenciaga) and great artists (Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Victor Vasarely, Enzo Mari).
From geometric rhythms to psychedelic designs, from Minimalism to the explosive colors of Pop art and the optical games of Kinetic art, Carré sweeps through many artistic trends from the postwar period to the 1980s. Showing the scarves both in full-page reproductions and in grids, the book gives us an up-close look at the textures and compositions of individual pieces, as well as allowing us to trace patterns, colors and trends across the collection.
Réédition d'un ouvrage publié chez Aperture en 1983. En 1970, Robert Adams et sa famille observèrent une colonne de fumée au-dessus du laboratoire national d'armement nucléaire de Rocky Flats à Denver. Après avoir en vain chercher à savoir si le noyau avait été touché, Robert Adams décida d'enregistrer l'environnement proche du laboratoire, qui pourrait disparaître si une catastrophe nucléaire arrivait. Il a alors photographié la vie quotidienne, les habitants et les activités de Denver et sa banlieue, dans l'ombre de Rocky Flats, représentant une menace toujours existante aujourd'hui bien que sous une autre forme.
Tirés des archives personnelles de photographies, négatifs, feuilles de contact et albums d'Ed Clark, ces deux volumes révèlent le travail d'une figure clé de l'âge d'or du photojournalisme américain. De l'apparat de la politique aux rythmes de la vie des petites villes, des stars de cinéma à la classe ouvrière, Clark a couvert les personnalités et les événements marquants de son âge.
Comme un almanach sur l'univers de la série Whatever You Say, Say Nothing de Gilles Peress, également publié par Steidl prochainement, Annals of the North est un volume imposant de 900 pages qui rassemble les documents, archives, témoignages, essais et histoires autour du conflit en Irlande du Nord.
Avec neuf photos supplémentaires, un format plus grand et une chronologie élargie et mise à jour, cette nouvelle édition révisée de Walking the High Line de Joel Sternfeld documente la voie ferrée de fret surélevée envahie par la végétation au-dessus du West Side de New York, avant d'être transformée en parc public High Line en 2009.
Nicholas Nixon is known for the ease and intimacy of his large format photography. He has photographed porch life in the rural South, the changing Boston cityscape, sick and dying people, the intimacy of couples, and an ongoing annual portrait of his wife Bebe and her three sisters, beginning in 1975. Included in the seminal 1975 exhibition "New Topographics", Nixon is major figure in American photography of the latter half of the twentieth century. In Close Far, Nixon presents a dichotomous group of photos made with his signature large-format view camera, in this case one with an 11x14 inch negative. The first half of the book contains self-portraits, comprising in Nixon's words "sketches of an old man". Filled with anxiety, longing and contentedness, these images chronicle the shapes, slopes and pores of Nixon's face. The second half of the book shows views of buildings in the densest part of Boston. Made from high within the buildings and with the same camera, these images without horizons do not gaze down upon but rather "through" the city. With the lens in the same orientation as his self-portrait photos, Nixon's results are remarkable for their richness of detail and complexity of form.
