Exploring the realm of photography, David Campany curates a diverse collection of 120 images from renowned photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and William Eggleston. Rather than adhering to traditional categories, the selection reveals its own unique logic, showcasing works ranging from fashion photography to intimate street scenes. Each photograph is paired with insightful commentary that delves into its history, meaning, and cultural context. Inspired by Susan Sontag's seminal work, this book reflects Campany's personal journey in understanding photography's impact.
Originally conceived as an audiovisual slideshow, this project showcases Haas' deep passion for Kodachrome photography. Presented in vibrant color, it offers a visual feast that will captivate both his devoted fans and newcomers alike, highlighting the beauty and artistry of this classic photographic medium.
Benedikt Partenheimer's works explore the relationship between humanity and the Earth amidst the Anthropocene and rapid change. His striking photographs reveal ecological and cultural transformations, highlighting human impact through visuals of pollution and melting glaciers. His art is both aesthetically compelling and politically significant. Partenheimer studied photography in Melbourne and New York and lives in Berlin.
The Swiss company Baloise has a reputation among art experts, but not just as an insurance and financial services company. With its programs that support art, its collaborations with museums, and the renowned Baloise Art Prize for young artists, which is awarded at Art Basel, the company has had a lasting effect on the development of contemporary art. Less well-known up to now is the fact that, parallel to the company's activities, it has also built a first-class art collection, which dates back to the mid-twentieth century. Since turning to contemporary art in the 1990s, the company has collected the works of notable artists. With a focus on photography and works on paper from the 1960s onward, some of the artists represented in the collection are Miriam Cahn, Simon Denny, Katharina Fritsch, Bruce Nauman, and Jeff Wall. Baloise Art is the first publication to provide a broader audience with an overview of the collection. Informative texts by prestigious authors accompany the artworks.
On March 13, 2020 when the global coronavirus pandemic brought life as we know it to an abrupt halt, the International Center of Photography, just weeks after opening in a brand-new building on Manhattan'ss Lower East Side that was buzzing with visitors, was forced to close its doors. Wanting to do more than virtual exhibition tours, ICP announced the #ICPConcerned open call on March 20th, an invitation for people to make, upload, and tag images on Instagram of whatever was going on in their lives wherever they were. What resulted was more than sixty thousand submissions from countries as far flung as France, Singapore, Argentina, Nigeria, Canada, and Iran. From the halls of medical facilities to eerily empty streets and domestic settings converted into home offices and classrooms, the more than 800 photographs collected here are organized chronologically and accompanied by headlines gathered from various global news entities. Taken together, these words and pictures represent the pain, heartbreak, hope, and occasional humor we've all experienced this past year against the backdrop of COVID-19, unrelenting racial injustice, and a divisive political climate. Exhibition: ICP International Center for Photography, New York, USA (01.10.2020 - 03.01.2021).
Image Cities takes us through cities ranked highest in global interconnectedness by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, revealing their transformation behind façades of heightened anticipation. The photographs can be interpreted as a critique of consumerism and a global visual-economic order that envelops local identities. Samoylova’s work refines urban photography clichés: citizens overshadowed by massive images, faces distorted through glass, and the Pop-Cubism of visual collage. The small human figures appear indifferent as they navigate city spaces, their existence a blend of various places and times. Samoylova engages with these clichés, deconstructing and reassembling them, aiming for a pictorial sophistication that transcends simple arguments. She prompts reflection on the disparity between these cities' brand identities and their everyday realities. ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA (*1984), originally from Moscow, moved to the United States in 2008 and earned a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Bradley University, Illinois. Her work examines the tension between staged perceptions of materialism and reality. Based in Miami, Florida, she combines collage-like details with road trip themes, with her recent series Flood Zones and Floridas receiving critical acclaim.
This astonishing book, for which all the photographs have been selected and laid out by William Klein himself, is an inspiring visual history of a long and distinguished career. His chronologically arranged collection of work includes iconic photographs, painted contact sheets and magazine covers, as well as examples of his seminal photo-books of the 1950s and 1960s, represented here by their powerfull jackets and spreads. Black-and-white and colour fashion photographs range from portraits to filmic and surreal tableaux, revealing klein's revolutionary impact on the genre, whilst film posters and stills show the ways in which he captured and commented on the spirit of the times, creating biopics of muhammad ali and Little Richard and Feature films with stars including Donald Pleasance and Serge Gainsbourg. William Klein : ABC Showccases his masterful achievements at their very best. Supplementing the stunning images is an insightful text by David Campany that in Klein's own opinion would be impossible to better as a succint distillation and fine understanding of his life's work accross a wide range of artistic fields.
