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Christine Turnauer
Ein prachtvoller Band und eine Zeitreise: Dies ist die erstmals in Buchform erschienene Schwarz-Weiß-Fotoserie von Christine Turnauer aus dem Jahr 1986. Nordamerikanische indigene Völker reisen tausende von Meilen, um bei den traditionellen Tanzwettbewerben, genannt Powwows, teilzunehmen. Christine Turnauer besuchte sie von Nordalberta bis Südmontana mit ihrem mobilen Studiozelt. So entstanden authentische und außergewöhnliche Porträts. Die Tänzer waren ganz sie selbst ¬ und wenn sie ihre traditionellen Kostüme tragen, wird es zu einem spontanen Ausdruck aus Stolz und innerer Freiheit. Es scheint als hätten sie eine innere Verbindung zu ihren Vorfahren. Was auf den ersten Blick an die Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografien eines Edward S. Curtis und anderer Klassiker der »Indianer«-Porträtfotografien des späten 19. und frühen 20.Jahrhunderts erinnern mag, erfährt bei Turnauer eine neue Sichtweise. Denn die Posen sind nicht von der Fotografin gestellt, sondern der aktiven Beteiligung der Fotografierten entsprungen.
Presence
Christine Turnauer is a seeker, a wanderer between the worlds. She has been interested in the individuality and diversity of people since her childhood. For her, they are “like snowflakes.” We all know what it is like to intuitively understand a person, to comprehend someone at a glance, as lovers do. On her extended journeys Turnauer tries to capture this moment of absolute presence in her photographs. Without artificial lighting and in front of a neutral, preexisting background, each one of her touching black-and-white portraits represents an irrevocable encounter. Occasionally, one also sees the back of a person’s neck, a part of the body that signals vulnerability. Great trust and unconditional mutual respect form both the foundation for Turnauer’s artistic work and the core of the incomparable radiance of her portraits of people from very different cultures.
Jakob Tuggener
An exhibition of the Swiss photographer's work.
The City is a Novel
Alexey Titarenko: The city Is a novel' is the first major monograph devoted to over 20 years of the artist's distinguished career (1991-2014). The book features his autobiographical novel "City of Shadows" and a poetic visual narrative of more than 140 photographs focused on four cities: Saint Petersburg, Venice, Havana, and New York. Insightful essays about Titarenko's work are contributed by Gabriel Bauret, photography historian, critic and curator, Paris; Brett Abbott, Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Museum of the City of New York.
Christine Turnauer
A magnificent photobook exploring the religious origins of Ethiopia Ethiopia is characterized by a diversity of religions, ethnicities, and languages, with a history dating back to biblical times. Judaism and Christianity have left many traces in the African country. Christine Turnauer traveled to Ethiopia to explore its Jewish and Christian origins and to photograph deeply religious people. The impressive black-and-white images reveal the interest of the photographer and former assistant to Frank Horvat in the spiritual lives of those she portrays. Sensitivity and empathy as well as mutual trust and respect are important prerequisites for this. Christine Turnauer is a seeker of meaning who looks at the human condition without reservation.
Sapeurs
British photographer Tariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes. Its followers are known as 'Sapeurs' ('Sapeuses' for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they transform themselves into debonair dandies. Sashaying through the streets they are treated like rock stars - turning heads, bringing 'joie de vivre' to their communities and defying their circumstances.
Karlheinz Weinberger
Karlheinz Weinberger's day job may have been relatively uneventful--working in a Siemen's warehouse--but the photos he took in his spare time are anything but conformist. Weinberger's passion, and the focus of this book, is the rebel youth of 1950s and '60s Switzerland, who channeled American rock-'n'-roll culture and made it their own with their rolled-up jeans and denim jackets, bouffant hairdos, striped T-shirts and customized belts boasting images of Elvis and James Dean. Weinberger's lusty, free-spirited and self-confident portraits posit the defiant attitude of youth as a response to the conservative postwar era. Swiss Rebels also includes homoerotic images of rockers, bikers, construc...
Cuba Black and White
In 1961, the US ban on Cuban trade and travel, followed by a break in diplomatic relations, created a de facto embargo on information about Cuba. In 1999, at age 25, Anna Mia Davidson went to Cuba for the first time on a personal journey to capture the isolated island nation. Cuba was just beginning to recover from the "Special Period," the economic crisis that occurred after 1989 when Russia pulled its financial support after nearly four decades. On further travels during the following eight years, Davidson portrayed daily life in the cities, villages and countryside. Her black-and-white photographs are a testimony to the resilience of the Cuban people, who stood their ground during this transitional period with ingenuity and spirit. It was also here that Davidson came into contact with traditional forms of sustainable farming, a passion that has endured over the years.
Richard Renaldi
"Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format eight-by-ten-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually taught to reserve for their close friends and loved ones. Renaldi creates spontaneous and fleeting relationships between strangers, for the camera, often pushing his subjects beyond their comfort levels. These relationships may only last for the moment the shutter is released, but the resulting photographs are moving and provocative, and raise profound questions about the possibilities for positive human connection in a diverse society. -- Provided by publisher."--Publisher's description.
Diane Arbus
An unprecedented overview of the early work of a preeminent 20th-century artist Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence--it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her ...
