The Polaroid Corporation’s photography collection is the greatest portfolio of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes some 23,000 images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world, including pieces by the likes of David Hockney, Andy Warhol, and Jeanloup Sieff. The Polaroid Book dives into these archives, paying tribute to a medium that continues to defy the digital age. Like an oversized Polaroid film...
América Latina 1960-2013
by Luis Camnitzer and Alfonso Morales Carrillo
From 19 November 2013 to 6 April 2014, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will be showing America Latina 1960-2013, organized in collaboration with the Amparo Museum in Puebla (Mexico). The exhibition offers a new perspective on Latin American photography from 1960 to today, focusing on the relationship between text and the photographic image. Bringing together more than seventy artists from eleven different countries, it shows the great diversity of photographic practices by presenti...
Photography is omnipresent; everyone is photographing everything. How do artists and writers reconcile this voracious urge to photograph with a photographic aesthetic and methodology that has tended to value “less is more”? One pairs artists and writers to think about this question. Eight photographers—Marco Breuer, Thomas Joshua Cooper, John Gossage, Trevor Paglen, Alison Rossiter, Victoria Sambunaris, Rebecca Norris Webb and James Welling—were asked to submit one image on the theme of minimal...
Held annually in Madrid since 1998, PHotoEspaña has become one of the most acclaimed and important photography festivals in the world, incorporating exhibitions, workshops, portfolio reviews and a number of other events. The 2011 edition focuses on the theme of “interfaces."
The Uses of Photography
The Uses of Photography examines a network of artists who were active in Southern California between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. These artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of everyday life into the seemingly neutral territory of conceptual art, through photographic works that took on hybrid forms, from books and postcards to video and text-and-image installations. Tracing a cr...
This remarkable book, the broadest and most enterprising survey of its kind, showcases the creativity, ingenuity and inspiration of these up-and-coming photographic artists in over 200 superb images.
Different Kind of Order: The Fourth ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
by Kristen Lubben, J Lehan, C Phillips, and Carol Squiers
Every three years the curators of New York's International Center of Photography gather the most interesting contemporary photography and video from around the world to explore a specific issue, trend, or movement. Past Triennials have focused on themes of identity, environmentalism and fashion. The 2013 Triennial, A Different Kind of Order, presents a variety of artworks that illuminate the new visual and social territory in which photography operates today. Created by 27 international artists,...
It is hard to imagine today that the artistic value of color photography was once questioned and controversial, even as recently as the 1980s. William Eggleston's watershed exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1976, generated plenty of scorn and confusion, as spectators struggled to accept his seemingly ordinary-looking color images of Southern life as art. Early photographs by Stephen Shore, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz and others received similarly hostile or ambivalent review...
Panobook 2011 presents 150 winning pictures from Kolor's 2011 Panoramic Photography Competition. These photographs were selected from more than 2,000 images submitted by professional and amateur photographers who captured a variety of subjects. Browse through images of breathtaking landscapes, cities, beaches, buildings, people, and street scenery, taken by day and by night. This collection of images provides an introduction to the best of today's panoramic photography and serves as inspiration...
Here, 18 photographers document cities from Detroit to Manila, to make a composite portrait of a city of all cities. The photographers are Sibylle Bergemann, J rg Br ggemann, Espen Eichh fer, Annette Hauschild, Harald Hauswald, Pepa Hristov , Andrej Krementschouk, Ute & Werner Mahler, Thomas Meyer, Dawin Meckel, Julian R der, Frank Schinski, Jordis Antonia Schlosser, Anne Sch nharting, Linn Schr der, Heinrich V lkel and Maurice Weiss.
In order to go beyond the rules and the veneration that have characterised the development of photography since its beginnings, it is necessary to transgress, to invent, to play and to flirt with freedom. Some authors, specially in the new generations, have dared to break the rules, without vindications, just out of curiosity, seeking to have and portray fun. Revolving around this idea, Players presents a selection of works by Magnum photographers that have playful approach, either because they...
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated communities in the New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut areas. In response, Foley Gallery and photographer Wyatt Gallery organized an exhibition of iPhone photographs of the storm by the photographers listed above. Hundreds of people attended the one-night event, and almost 400 photographs were purchased. Over a year later, many residents are still struggling to regain normal living conditions. Pre-purchase this groundbreaking book today and help...
In 1943, a wounded soldier aided by a cane limped into the Stage Door Canteen, the American Theatre Wing s fabled New York club created to entertain the Allied forces. Two hours later, he was said to have left with a spring in his step and without the cane. This miracle is recounted in the lavish new book, The American Theatre Wing, an Oral History: 100 Years, 100 Voices, 100 Million Miracles. The other 999,999 miracles are more commonplace, if no less remarkable, told by the impassioned artis...
200: Four Hundred Images Are Worth More Than Four Hundred Thousand Words
by Guido Indij