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Juliet Hacking has been Programme Director of the MA in Photography (contemporary and historical) at Sotheby’s
Juliet Hacking
Institute of Art since 2006. Before that, she was for three years Head of the Photographs Department of Sotheby’s in London. Juliet has worked as a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Derby and Reading and at the Courtauld
People have always tried to capture moments as images to be shared with others. Over many centuries it was the task of artists to select subjects and set them
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down using charcoal, paint and other media, but in 18 a new and in many ways more immediate medium appeared: photography. Originally messy and time-
Institute, and curated the exhibition ‘Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield’ for the National Portrait Gallery, London.
consuming, the photograph rapidly evolved to becom a means of capturing the world literally in the blink of an eye. But in a world where billions of snapshots are taken every year, why are some individual photograp
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Edited by Stephen Farthing Foreword by Richard Cork With over 1,100 colour illustrations Cinema: The Whole Story Edited by Philip Kemp Foreword by Sir Christopher Frayling With over 1,100 colour illustrations Other titles of interest How to Read a Photograph Understanding, Interpreting and Enjoying the Great Photographers
Photography: The Whole Story is a celebration of the most beautiful, meaningful and inspiring photographs that have arisen from this very modern medium. The book begins with a succinct overview of photography, placing it in the context of the social and cultural developments that have taken place globally since its arrival. Organized chronologically, the book then traces the rapid evolution of photographic style, period by period and movement by movement. Illustrated, in-depth essays cover every photographic genre, from the early portraits and tableaux to the digitally manipulated montages, splitsecond sports images, and conceptual photographs of today. The ideas and works of key photographers are assessed to reveal what motivated them, who influenced whom, and what each was striving to achieve. Detailed cultural and individual artist timelines clarify historical context. If you love photography and would like to know more, Photography: The Whole Story is for you. Ian Jeffrey Foreword by Max Kozloff With 380 illustrations, 48 in colour
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Photography: The Whole Story is a celebration of the
beautiful, meaningful and inspiring photographs that arisen from this very modern medium – whose name, literally meaning ‘writing with light’, hints at its potent to capture the significant moments in our lives. The b
begins with a succinct overview of photography, plac it in the context of the social and cultural developmen that have taken place globally since its arrival. Organi chronologically, the book then traces the rapid evolut
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our conception of ourselves and the world around us. Organized chronologically, the book traces the evolution of creative photography period by period, while detailed timelines provide historical and cultural context.
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landscapes; the erotic, or the chilling, undertones of n studies; and the humour, anger or pathos of conceptu works. If you love photography and would like to kno
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• An ambitious and vibrant publication leads you through the world’s most iconic photographs – those innovative images that have become key reference points in our conception of ourselves and the world around us. • In the same format as Thames & Hudson’s hugely successful Art: The Whole Story (ISBN 978 0 500 288955) and Cinema: The Whole Story (ISBN 978 0 500 289471).
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• Supporting each essay are close analyses of key works that exemplify the characteristics of each period or movement. • Places photographic masterpieces in the context of cultural and social developments, with timelines pinpointing key works, influences and events. • Highlights the photographers who best exemplify each photographic genre, with in-depth analysis of their works. • Written by an international team of art critics, journalists and scholars. Author
Juliet Hacking has been Programme Director of the MA in Photography (contemporary and historical) at Sotheby’s Institute of Art since 2006. Before that she was for three years Head of the Photographs Department of Sotheby’s in London. Juliet has worked as a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Derby and Reading and at the Courtauld Institute, and curated the exhibition ‘Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield’ for the National Portrait Gallery, London. 22 March 2012
what motivated them, who influenced whom, and wh each was striving to achieve. Detailed cultural and individual artist timelines clarify historical context.
technical innovations, enabling you to grasp each wo full meaning. You will appreciate the tiny but telling d of social portraits; the stark, graphic qualities of urban
• Written by an international team of art critics, journalists and scholars.
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to the digitally manipulated montages, split-second s images and conceptual photographs of today. The ide and works of key photographers are assessed to revea
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developments, with timelines pinpointing key works, influences and events.
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Advance Information Coming into Fashion
N at h a l i e h e r s c h d o r f e r
A Century of Photography at Condé Nast
Nathalie Herschdorfer Fashion photography is said to have begun with the distinguished American photographer Edward Steichen in 1911, and in the more than hundred years since then the genre has attracted some of the most talented photographers in the history of the medium. Many of them started their careers thanks to the editors and art directors of Vogue, Glamour and other Condé Nast publications. This book, featuring the work of 85 of the great fashion photographers past and present, drawn from the Condé Nast archives in New York, Paris and Milan, illustrates the early work of such celebrated practitioners as Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, Corinne Day, Ellen von Unwerth and Mario Testino that appeared in the pages of the company’s magazines. The book is arranged chronologically from 1910 to 2010, and each plate section is interleaved with texts that recount the major photographers of the period and the changing styles of photography and fashion. The book also includes an interview with Franca Sozzani, the editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia, essays by Olivier Saillard and Sylvie Lécallier from the Musée Galliera, Paris, and an introduction by author Nathalie Herschdorfer, photography historian and curator. A brief biography of each photographer is included at the back of the book.
Coming into
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A C E N T U R Y O F P H O T O G R A P H Y AT C O N D É N A S T
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• A century of fashion photography from the archives of Condé Nast showcasing exquisite images by legendary photographers at the outset of their careers.
Price £42.00 ISBN 978 0 500 544174
• Features the work of 85 of the most well-known and eminent photographers in the history of the medium, including Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Corinne Day and Mario Testino. • Over 200 photographs illustrate the whole history of fashion photography since its inception at the beginning of the 20th century to now. • Based on unparalleled access to the Condé Nast archives in New York, Paris and Milan and includes both original images and spreads and covers from Vogue and other magazines. • Accompanies a major touring exhibition opening in Berlin in Autumn 2012, and showing thereafter at Milan, Edinburgh, Paris and Palm Beach. Author
Nathalie Herschdorfer is Curator, FEP (Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography) and Director of the Festival Alt. +1000 in Switzerland. Among her other books are Afterwards and reGeneration, both published by Thames & Hudson. 22 March 2012
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Advance Information The Bitter Years Edited by Françoise Poos ‘The Bitter Years’ was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its 50th anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935–41 as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Great Depression of the 1930s defined a generation in modern American history and was still a vivid memory in 1962. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography – testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. The Bitter Years celebrates some of the most iconic photographs ofthe 20th century and, since no proper catalogue was produced at the time, provides a whole new insight into Steichen’s impact on the history of documentary photography.
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• Published to accompany a permanent display of the original exhibition opening at the Château d’Eau, close to the National Audio Visual Centre in Luxembourg, Steichen’s country of birth, in autumn 2012.
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THE BITTER YEARS THE FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPHS
THROUGH THE EYES OF EDWARD STEICHEN ESSAYS BY
Jean Back, Gabriel Bauret, Antoinette Lorang, Miles Orvell and Ariane Pollet
THE BITTER YEARS
The Farm Security Administration Photographs Through the Eyes of Edward Steichen
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THE BITTER YEARS THE FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPHS
THROUGH THE EYES OF EDWARD STEICHEN
With 229 illustrations
On the jacket, front: Dorothea Lange, Eloy, Arizona (detail), November, 1940. © the Dorothea Lange collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor. back: Arthur Rothstein, Cimarron County, Oklahoma (detail), April, 1936.
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Extent 288pp Size 30.5 x 24.1cm Illustrations 229 illustrations Binding Hardback Price £38.00 ISBN 978 0 500 544181
• All the photographs in the original show are featured in the book, in a structure and sequence that reflect those devised by Steichen for the exhibition. • Essays by the book’s editor, Françoise Poos, and four international writers and teachers on photography discuss the FSA and its changing role in the American psyche, Steichen and the origins, impact and legacy of the exhibition, and make illuminating comparisons with the evolution of European documentary photography in the same period. Author
Françoise Poos is a curator at the National Audio Visual Centre, Luxembourg. Ellen Handy is Chair of the Photography Department, City College of the City University, New York. Gabriel Bauret is the author of books on Colour Photography, Alexey Brodovitch and Peter Knapp. He has been artistic director of Le Mois de la Photo, Paris. Ariane Pollet wrote her doctorate at the University of Lausanne on Steichen’s work at MoMA, New York. Antoinette Lorang received her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. 12 April 2012
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‘The Bitter Years’ was a seminal exhibition curated by Edward Steichen in 1962 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The show featured 208 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935–41 as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Great Depression of the 1930s defined a generation in modern American history and was still a vivid memory in 1962. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography – testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. ‘The Bitter Years’ was the last exhibition curated by Steichen, who was not only a distinguished photographer in his own right, but also a celebrated director of the photography department at MoMA, where he had won international acclaim in 1955 for ‘The Family of Man’ exhibition. This book is published in association with the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel and the Ministry of Culture in Luxembourg. It accompanies a permanent display at the Château d’Eau in Dudelange of the original exhibition, given by Steichen, who was born in Luxembourg. No proper catalogue was produced of the exhibition in 1962 so this book provides a unique opportunity to see all the photographs in a structure and sequence that reflect those devised by Steichen for the original show. Jean Back, Director of the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, contributes an introduction to the book and the four essays by international writers and teachers on photography discuss the FSA, its place in the history of 20th-century photography and the continuing role of its archive, Steichen and the origins, impact and legacy of the exhibition, and its new location in Luxembourg. The Bitter Years celebrates some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century and provides a whole new insight into Steichen’s impact on the history of documentary photography.
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Advance Information Cardiff After Dark Maciej Dakowicz Introductory essay by Sean O’Hagan
‘When last orders are called in Cardiff, the party is just beginning. Out on the streets the full pantomime is both engaging and revealing and this series gives us a ring side view.’ MARTIN PARR
Cardiff After Dark is the first monograph by British-based Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz. Dakowicz spent five years photographing the nighttime revelries that take place in Cardiff over the weekend. Focused around a few pedestrianized streets in the city centre, Dakowicz’s images capture nightlife fueled by alcohol and emotions. The arc of an evening’s entertainment is captured in these candid photographs, which reveal fun and hilarity as well as fighting and drunken exhaustion. There are stag nights and hen parties, men dressed as superheroes and women dressed as Playboy bunnies, mountains of discarded chip wrappers, arrests by the police, and lots and lots of posing for photographs. Dakowicz’s images, at times shocking or upsetting, form an important documentary photobook of British urban life in the early part of the 21st century.
‘All human life is here: sadness, despair, joy, abandon, humiliation, camaraderie, anger, loneliness, reverie, regret... The full gamut of exaggerated human emotion as it is played out each weekend.’ SEAN O’ HAGAN
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• The first monograph from up-and-coming photographer Maciej Dakowicz, featuring powerfully gritty documentary photographs of nightlife in the Welsh capital. • Dakowicz’s work was a highlight of Street Photography Now (T&H, 2010) and has been exhibited around the world. • Intimate photographs that range from shocking to hilarious, capturing the range of human emotions and exposing a raw slice of contemporary urban British life.
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Extent 128pp Size 24.0 x 29.0cm (landscape) Illustrations 99 colour illustrations Binding PLC Price £24.95 ISBN 978 0 500 544198
• Dakowicz’s photographic work makes use of the most recent developments in digital SLR cameras, showcasing the possibilities of candid low-light photography. • Sean O’Hagan, who writes for the Guardian and the Observer, is the winner of the 2011 award from the Royal Photographic Society ‘for major achievement in the field of photographic criticism’. Contents
Introduction by Sean O’Hagan; 99 Photographs with captions Author
Maciej Dakowicz (b. 1976) is a street photographer, photojournalist and gallerist. Dakowicz currently lives in Cardiff, Wales, working as a photojournalist and at the Third Floor Gallery, which he set up and runs with Joni Karanka and Bartosz Nowicki. 29 March 2012
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Story Teller
Tim Walker
TIm WALker’s photographs remind us to be alive to the incongruous and the unexpected. Or at least to pause, allow our escapist impulses to take hold and to see things again through eyes like Lartigue’s: not yet disillusioned, still inexhaustibly inquisitive. You step into them and live in that environment. I suppose over the last twenty years it’s become more
Tim Walker is one of the most visually exciting photographers of our time. This book showcases many of his most dazzling images – ‘his daydreams turned into photographs’, dating from around the last seven years of his career. Some of the biggest names in fashion and contemporary culture are here: Alber Elbaz sporting a pair of rabbit ears; Agyness Deyn in the sand dunes of Namibia; Alexander McQueen and a memento mori of skull and cigarettes; Helena Bonham Carter poised with Ray-Bans and a Diet Coke; Stella Tennant in a pink cloud among the rhododendrons of an English country garden… The singer and musician Kate Bush contributes a foreword and Walker himself an afterword, as well as illuminating his pictures throughout with personal observations. This exceptional and beautifully designed overview of a career caught in mid-flow reveals just how much one man’s singular vision has influenced contemporary tastes in fashion, beauty, glamour and portraiture. polished, but I’m still touring my imagination, visiting places that don’t really exist.’ He still sees the world through a child’s eyes, one honed to the singularly beautiful, the other
primed for the monster under the bed or, as he puts it, ‘watching the bee tapping against the
window’turning up or someone walking out of a
frame unexpectedly or someone relaxing between
takes and I see the beauty in their naturalness. Sometimes what interests me most comes about from human error.’
Paper cover Karlie Kloss and broken Humpty Dumpty Fashion: Gaultier Paris rye, east Sussex, 2010
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Tim Walker
TIM WALKER STORY TELLER
• Wildly original, highly accomplished: an exceptionally well illustrated, designed and produced overview of Tim Walker’s career. • Published to accompany the Tim Walker photography exhibition opening in October 2012 at Somerset House, London. • Features 175 images, often elaborately staged with sets and props, portraying Walker’s trademark eccentric, opulent, romantic world, in which Spitfires crashland in drawing rooms, Chanel-clad girls levitate, giant dolls go for walks in the woods and models in Prada fly in UFOs across the English countryside. • Includes on-location fashion photography, studio portraits and ravishing still lifes, with captions identifying model/sitter, clothing designer, location and date, as appropriate. • Also includes spreads from Walker’s scrapbooks displaying his collages of inspirational imagery, as well as Polaroids and snapshots from his personal archives. • A must-have for anyone inspired by fashion or photography; a gift for anyone with a sense of humour or an appetite for imaginative flights of fancy. Author
Tim Walker’s work appears regularly in the world’s best fashion magazines, including Vanity Fair, Love magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and British Vogue. 28 March 2012
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Advance Information Lomology 20/20 Years of Analogue Camera Cool
Lomology Attention all hipsters! In November 2012, the world’s coolest camera brand celebrates its 20th anniversary with the publication of this official two-volume slipcased title. Book I features specially commissioned photography showing off all cameras in the vast Lomography range, including every limited edition and the best one-offs ever made. Book II traces the story of the last 20 years of Lomography, as seen through the wonderful and varied world of Lomo lenses. Anecdotes and recollections relate the stuff of Lomo legend. Chronologically organized and featuring the very best photographic material from the 1.5 million-strong Lomography community, this volume is a snapshot of every corner of the lomographic world. This is an absolute must-have package for designers, photographers and hipsters the world over. The future is analogue!
Provisional Publication November 2012
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• The world’s hippest camera brand celebrates its 20th anniversary. • Lomography is a worldwide phenomenon – a film-based camera company with over 150 models and a vast and expanding global community of enthusiasts devoted to the ingenious range of Lomography film cameras and the brand’s ethos: ‘don’t think, just shoot!’ • Specially commissioned photography shows off every camera in the vast Lomography range. • Sample shots display the full range of trademark effects, from multilens to fisheye to panoramic to analogue movie.
Size 21.4 x 19.7cm Illustrations c. 1,500 illustrations, c. 1,400 in colour Binding Slipcased hardbacks Price £30.00 ISBN 978 0 500 544211
• Features contributions and collaborations with a host of international superstars – Paul Smith, Robert Ryan, Mike Perry, Dalek, Corso Como, The White Stripes, Moby, Araki, Tori Amos, Wong Kar-Wai and more. • Graphic cross-referencing links each camera with its relevant accessories, making this book essential kit and inspiration for Lomography newbies and analogue pros alike. Contents
Book I:The Lomography Camera Book • Book II: The Lomography Story Author
Lomography began when two students in Vienna stumbled upon a small Russian camera called the Lomo Kompakt Automat (LC-A). Its trademark vignette shadowing, light-leaks and saturated colours were like nothing they had ever seen before. Setting themselves up as distributors, they soon attracted a cult following, and in no time the Lomography community expanded into a worldwide phenomenon. 12 April 2012
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