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Habitat
The work of photographer Tom Hegen (b. 1991) deals with human interventions in natural habitats.His photographs document the strong impact human beings' have on our environment and show how we have altered our landscape through our actions.Including many impressive aerial photos, this photo book invites viewers to discover their environment from a new perspective, to comprehend the scale of human interventions on our earth's surface, and, ultimately, to assume responsibility.English and German text.
Tom Hegen
Airports in lockdown: still lifes from a pandemic by an acclaimed aerial photographer German photographer Tom Hegen (born 1991), internationally for with his aerial photographs, here documents Germany's airports at the height of 2020's lockdown, depicting these abandoned zones with geometric clarity.
From Above
Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air – with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, From Above tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created and the photographers that have propelled image–taking to bold new heights. Taking advantage of the amazing sense of perspective that aerial photography offers, this incredible collection of images also offers a unique overview of the events, challenges, and changes of the past 150 years of human history. "[Anyone who buys From Above]– will find thumbing through it over and over again irresistible. Because it contains some of the ...
Max Siedentopf
Due to the necessity of having to spend the Coronavirus pandemic in self-isolation, the artist Max Siedentopf turned his own home upside down and captured the results with his camera. He piled cans into sculptural towers, stitched together haute-couture clothes, crafted monsters and traps, and invented crazy alternatives to toilet paper. But that wasn't all: he also published all of his actions on Instagram and invited followers around the world to copy his various mottos. This handy survival guide consists of different chapters that shed an ironic light upon the process of getting by at home alone, whether one has chosen to isolate or has been ordered to. From "invent a new meal," to "make a painting using toothbrush," to "balance all your beauty products," it's all there. The best pictures from the series, which now numbers more than one thousand photos, are collected here. An effective way to combat boredom whenever. MAX SIEDENTOPF (*1991 in Windhoek, Namibia)—artist, photographer, video director, freelance art director—was the creative director for the KesselsKramer agency from 2013 to 2020. He is the founder of the quarterly art magazine Ordinary.
Uncommon Places
"Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition over the past forty years. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, published by Aperture in 2004, presents a definitive collection of the landmark series, and in the span of a decade, has become a contemporary classic. Now, for this lushly produced reissue, the artist has added twenty rediscovered images and a statement explaini...
The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth
Inka (*1985, Finland) and Niclas (* 1984, Sweden) Lindergard is an award-winning artist duo who work primarily with photography-based art.They have worked together since 2007 and are based in Stockholm. With starting points in popular culture their work circulates around investigations on the photograph as a carrier of a mysterious image of nature.Their imagery spans from the search engines and their algorithmic answers on what nature looks like, to an aesthetic appropriated from nature religions, occultism and spiritual postcards.Their new series The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth revolve around performative photographic acts that can only be experienced through the photograph, an investigation into the act of taking a photograph and the camera's role as a bridge between the physical world and the photographic.This beautiful, large-format publication accompanies the exhibition, The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth at Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, 10 September - 29 October 2016.
Alastair Philip Wiper: Unintended Beauty
Alastair Philip Wiper's precisionist-style color photographs of technology and industry, from CERN to Adidas factories Copenhagen-based British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper (born 1980)--known for his journalistic photography in Wired, The Guardian, Scientific American, Wallpaper and Vice--explores the technological and digital revolution in his color photographs of factories, labs, shipyards and industrial sites in this new monograph.
Milli Bau: Silk Road
In 1956, the journalist and photographer Milli Bau set out in a VW-bus to explore the countries along the Silk Road.She spent a longer period of time at some locations, but only passed through others.She later lived in Tehran and worked as a correspondent.Her Rolleiflex and her journal accompanied her on her extraordinary journey, to lands of which some can hardly still be visited today.In her photographs, it is possible to see nearly 20 years of cultural and contemporary history.This publication is a document of contemporary history by a travelling journalist who left Germany in the 1950s and found herself in the world.Milli Bau is an outstanding example of the life of a woman who should not be forgotten.English and German text.
Sleeveface
Combines head-shot photographs from vinyl record sleeves with inventive poses to create a hilarious series of more than two hundred images from around the globe, in a colorful volume that pays tribute to the international Internet craze. Original.
Magnum Stories
This book explores the 'photo story' through 61 master classes by some of the world's greatest photographers, all members of the international photographic agency Magnum.
