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El tercer volumen de la serie The Waiting Game aborda una figura que está inscrita en nuestras imágenes visuales pero rara vez representada en la fotografía: la imagen de un perro custodiando la propiedad en ausencia de sus dueños, generalmente encadenado y pasando sus dias detras de una cerca o un muro, vigilando un complejo industrial, una granja, un complejo de desguace de automoviles o un chalet de lujo.Perros que sienten como sus horas se vuelven interminables. Aburridos, maltratados, emocionalmente abandonados y, a la vez, obedientes, preparados para cumplir su mision a cambio de algo de comida y agua, su punto mas alto de su sumision conlleva un aburrimiento absoluto y aniquila las expectativas. Se trata de perros que nacen y mueren en el mismo lugar, tratados como un recurso instrumental: un claro paradigma de la relacion distopica entre los humanos y nuestro entorno.

The Waiting Game II es la continuación del proyecto con el que Txema Salvans ganó el Concurso Fotolibro RM 2012. Si en el primer libro los personajes que esperan son siempre prostitutas, en el segundo, los protagonistas son pescadores de acequia, pantano o puerto. Pescadores, en definitiva, dotados de una resiliencia infinita que solo buscan evadirse de su cotidianidad. Todas las esperas comparten un mismo espacio geografico, Txema Salvans lo subraya editando dos libros exactamente iguales donde lo unico que se desplaza es la palabra “Waiting”. Luz, distancia y momento unifican los dos proyectos, y si el primer libro aparentemente era un trabajo sobre la prostitucion , este segundo libro suma complejidad para hablarnos de algo tan universal como es “La espera”.

The Waiting Game reúne la serie fotográfica que Txema Salvans realizó durante seis años a lo largo de la costa mediterránea española. Se trata de un cuadro certero sobre la necesidad y el deseo, donde concepto y plasticidad encajan perfectamente. La esencia de su trabajo radica en la exploracion de la amplia y variada paleta de conductas y anhelos humanos a menudo sorprendente.En su recorrido, Txema fotografio en su contexto la prostitucion que se ejerce en la carretera: los cruces y las rotondas, las calles sin salida de los poligonos, los arcenes; espacios que quedan al margen de todo y que le sirven como marco escenico para mostrar una actividad tan sobreexpuesta como la prostitucion.La busqueda y el procedimiento que Txema Salvans utilizo para lograr su objetivo, lo acercan a la indagacion de tipo cientifico; es decir, primero detecto los lugares y a sus protagonistas, y despues se dirigio a ellos camuflado como un topografo.Solo asi fue como pudo acceder a la posibilidad de desarrollar un trabajo que esta entre la diseccion sociologica y la narracion naturalista. En este acercamiento a la prostitucion, la figura solitaria de la mujer que se mantiene a la espera, con su imagen estereotipada de objeto sexual, aparece en una media distancia que resulta chocante y a veces incluso tragica.

The Waiting Game reúne la serie fotográfica que Txema Salvans realizó durante seis años a lo largo de la costa mediterránea española. Se trata de un cuadro certero sobre la necesidad y el deseo, donde concepto y plasticidad encajan perfectamente. La esencia de su trabajo radica en la exploracion de la amplia y variada paleta de conductas y anhelos humanos a menudo sorprendente. En su recorrido, Txema fotografio en su contexto la prostitucion que se ejerce en la carretera: los cruces y las rotondas, las calles sin salida de los poligonos, los arcenes; espacios que quedan al margen de todo y que le sirven como marco escenico para mostrar una actividad tan sobreexpuesta como la prostitucion.La busqueda y el procedimiento que Txema Salvans utilizo para lograr su objetivo, lo acercan a la indagacion de tipo cientifico; es decir, primero detecto los lugares y a sus protagonistas, y despues se dirigio a ellos camuflado como un topografo. Solo asi fue como pudo acceder a la posibilidad de desarrollar un trabajo que esta entre la diseccion sociologica y la narracion naturalista. En este acercamiento a la prostitucion, la figura solitaria de la mujer que se mantiene a la espera, con su imagen estereotipada de objeto sexual, aparece en una media distancia que resulta chocante y a veces incluso tragica.

Compendio de las mejores obras realizadas por el artista alemán Wolfgang H. Scholz desde los años setenta hasta la fechaEn esta publicación se recoge el proceso vital del artista alemán en su constante busqueda del sentido de las cosas que le conmueven, en un proceso continuo que no termina, porquecada proyecto es un hito, pero no la meta. Ilustrado con una bella fotografia que refleja como el movimiento, el tiempo y el espacio son elementos cruciales en la obra del artista, quien se expresa a traves de multiples facetas artisticas: perfomances multimedia con bailarines, series fotograficas, video-instalaciones, pintura, dibujo e, incluso, documentales y peliculasde cine, que nos trasmiten una vision intensa y tragica de la realidad que nos rodea.Se incluyen un texto de Irving Dominguez, curador y critico de arte mexicano, y unaentrevista del artista con Boris Groys, escritor y pensador aleman.

Simply having a certain camera or lens isn't going to make you a better photographer. So, what will? Understanding your camera. Thinking differently. Studying photographs and knowing what they provoke in you, and why. Giving the craft time to grow. Looking to painters, designers, and others who work in two dimensions and learning from them. Relentlessly looking for light, lines, and moments. Making photographs-thousands and thousands of photographs. There's no magic bullet to achieving success, but in these pages you will learn the value of studying, practice, and remembering that your most important assets as an artist are imagination, passion, patience, receptivity, curiosity, and a dogged refusal to follow the rules. THE VISUAL TOOLBOX is photographer David duChemin's curriculum for learning not just how to use a camera-but how to make stronger photographs. He has developed 60 lessons, each one a stepping stone to becoming more proficient with the tools of this art, and the means to create deeper visual experiences with your images. David introduces you to the technical side of the craft but quickly moves on to composition, the creative process, and the principles that have always been responsible for making great photographs; he shows you these principles and invites you to play with them, turn them on their heads, and try a different approach to create beautiful, compelling images with your camera. * Features action-oriented micro-chapters designed to improve your photography immediately* Includes explanations of 60 concepts with an assignment for nearly every chapter* Covers such topics as balance, using negative space, exploring color contrast, waiting for the moment, learning to incorporate mood and motion, and much more

The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie after the two met in January 2003 Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior three months and had lost all her hair from the treatments At the end of January she had surgery followed by radiation therapy The affair took place in different locations and Ernaux describes how shortly after it began she found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about chairs out of place and the remains of their last meal of the evening still on the table and how painful it felt to put things back in order afterwards She went and got her camera and began to take photographs of the scenes of disarray When she told Marc Marie what she had done he said he had felt the same desire Translated by Alison L Strayer into English for the first time The Use of Photography is an extraordinary meditation on eroticism photography and writing a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

The first sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter's abundant archive of colour slides.Now widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923-2013) remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter's images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. His complex and impressionistic photographs are as much about evoking an atmosphere as nailing the decisive moment.Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh and moved to New York City in 1946. He pioneered a painterly approach to colour photography starting in the late 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Esquire and Harper's Bazaar before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. The publication in 2006 of his first monograph, Early Color, inspired an avid 'rediscovery' of Leiter's work by contemporary audiences.

Actualmente considerado un pionero de la fotografía en color, Saul Leiter pasó relativamente desapercibido hasta sus ochenta años, cuando su obra fue redescubierta por comisarios y críticos. A su muerte, en 2013, dejo una coleccion de mas de 40.000 diapositivas en color, de las que solo una parte habia visto la luz. Este libro muestra setenta y seis imagenes recien desenterradas de este extraordinario tesoro fotografico, publicadas aqui por primera vez.

The title of this book is a phrase that Steve McCurry uses a lot when talking about his work - he is always trying to capture those ''unguarded moments'' when people are at their most unselfconscious and natural. McCurry takes photographs all over the world, for National Geographic magazine and his own projects, so this book includes the places, colours and forms of Yemen, Mali, Niger, Chad, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), France and the former Yugoslavia, among others. "The Unguarded Moment" is the same size as South Southeast, but apart from the wider range of countries and continents covered, another key difference between the two titles is that all the images in this new book are landscape format. In "The Unguarded Moment", people go about their everyday business in extraordinary circumstances and settings, like the young tea vendor wading through the waist-deep monsoon waters in India, the fishermen casting their nets in the Niger river in Mali''s Sahel Desert and the boy working in a candy factory in Kabul, Afghanistan. This book includes striking portraits of a Tuareg woman in Mali, an intense you ng gypsy boy in Marseille, France and pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma. There are children paying close attention to their teachers in school rooms in Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, as well as five young monks happily playing with computer games at a monastery in India, just like any other boys their age would.

Success is not founded on miracles, but is almost always the product of a clear concept-the pinnacle of an ambitious, even stridently innovative idea. However, the aura of Ferrari does indeed approach the miraculous. What lies behind this phenomenon? What is the source of fascination for a brand whose creative designs are internationally recognized and enthusiastically received? First, even today-70 years after the company was founded-the miracle of Ferrari is still due in large part to the personality of Il Commendatore, Enzo Ferrari. Patience, passion, and being hard on himself and those around him gave the brand, under the emblem of the Cavallino Rampante, the power to become what it is today: sheer fascination on four wheels. Second, the long list of international racing victories is equally important. There is no class, no competition, that Ferrari did not set its sights on and win more or less immediately during the company's last 70 years. Finally, Ferrari is synonymous with aesthetics, elegance, and trend-setting design. The true value of a brand and its products is measured in the currency of impassioned devotion. This is the third and perhaps most vital element confirming the Ferrari miracle: The Ferrari Book - Passion for Design traces the evolution of the miracle and lets us experience passion given automotive form in a large and engrossing format.

First published in 1994 The Traveling Tree by world renowned photographer Michio Hoshino is a literary classic In this enduringly popular collection naturalist mystic and adventurer Michio Hoshino reflects on the world around him Michio Hoshino s life was changed after coming across a book containing an aerial photograph of the tiny Inupuiak village Shishmaref in a used bookstore in Tokyo The teenager was immediately enchanted by this tiny cluster of dwellings on the Arctic Sea What sort of people lived in such a desolate place seemingly at the ends of the Earth The photograph intrigued him so much that he decided to write a letter asking if he could visit the village Not knowing to whom he should address the letter he made it out to simply Mayor Shishmaref To his surprise he received a response from an Inupiak family willing to host him and spent the next summer at the age of 19 immersed in their way of life After this introduction to Alaska Hoshino was smitten with America s northernmost state and dedicated the remainder of his life to photographing and writing about it The Traveling Tree is a collection of his writing published at the peak of his artistic prowess only two years before his career was tragically cut short at the age of 43 by