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This paperback edition of the bestselling and award-winning survey, Things as They Are presents the story of photojournalism over 50 years, from 1955 until today. It takes us from the golden era of the illustrated press--the heyday of Life and Picture Post magazines and the moment of The Museum of Modern Art''s defining Family of Man exhibition--to the explosion of digital media in the twenty-first century. This history is told through the presentation of 125 photojournalistic features shot and published around the world. The stories are presented in context--reproduced from the pages of the newspapers and magazines where they originally appeared, as their contemporary public would have experienced them. In this way, Things as They Are reveals how the events of the world, the fine art of photography, and the interests of publishers and the press converged on the printed page. It traces how photojournalism has developed over time alongside changing technology, media, fashions in photography--and a changing world. Includes landmark photo-essays by W. Eugene Smith, Sebastiao Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark and James Nachtwey, among others, each accompanied by expert commentary.

English / French / GermanThe specimens, as things of beauty, are greatly to be prized. The work is valuable and unique. The Boston Globe, on the original editionCulled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains and stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card stockis a work of breathtaking beauty that has set the standard for study of trees and wood. TASCHENs Wood Book reproduces, in painstaking facsimile, all of the specimen pages from the original volumes; for this purpose we have obtained the use of an extremely rare original set of volumes in very good condition, with minimal damage to the wood cuts. For each tree, three different cross-section cuts of wood are represented (radial, horizontal, and vertical), demonstrating the particular characteristics of the grain and the wealth of colors and textures to be found among the many different wood types. Also included in this special edition are lithographs by Charles Sprague Sargent of the leaves and nuts of most trees, as well as texts describing the trees geographical origins and physical characteristics. Interior designers, craftsmen, nature enthusiasts, and artists alike will enjoy this beautiful collection of wood samples which includes many trees that are now very rare or completely extinct.

Sable Island, a small island off the coast of eastern Canada is the site of some 500 wild horses, 500 shipwrecks and 500 years of known history. Never settled, the island, also known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," has seen temporary occupation by shipwrecked sailors, transported convicts, pirates and wreckers. The wild horses, named for the island they inhabit, abandoned there long ago or cast ashore from wrecks, are now the only terrestrial mammals on Sable Island.Roberto Dutesco's twenty years' documentation of Sable Island comes to you as a stunning volume of photographs, an unprecedented collection of extraordinary moments in a place uninhabited by humans, where the wild horses run free, unaware and unafraid of man. Dutesco portrays the wild beauty of these horses as well as the barren and unspoiled quality of the island, creating an immersive photographic memoir that captures the soul and spirit.The Romanian-born Canadian photographer's aim is to document and record this enchanted place for posterity, for our children's children, as an important place in Earth's history, and more so in our current moment, when unique wild places are vanishing. It is Dutesco's life project, celebrating the beauty he encountered in a place forgotten by time, desire and conquest-Sable Island.

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.

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

This is the long-awaited publication of a moving masterwork by one of the greatest photographers of our time. Conceived, designed, written and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer Roy DeCarava (b.1919) in the early 1960s yet unpublished for nearly half a century, The Sound I Saw has largely existed, until now, as a legend among the cognoscenti of the photography world. Presented as a stream of 196 soulful images interspersed with DeCaravas own evocative poetry, the book is, in its form and effect, the printed equivalent of jazz, This is a book about people, about jazz, and about things. The Work between its covers tries to present images for the head and for the heart and, like its subject matter, is particular, subjective, and individual, writes the author. DeCarava is a life-long New Yorker who from his immediate world creates images that transcend the specific to depict universal themes of joy, anticipation, pain and survival. Largely unpublished, he was first recognized for his images of daily life in Harlem (the subject of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, his 1955 collaboration with Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes) and portraits of musicians like Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday. It is these two themesHarlem and jazzinterwoven and inseparable, that are the ostensible subject of the book. However, the seemingly casual yet deeply felt compositions and the deep, rich tones of DeCaravas photographs stir emotions that resonate far beyond one neighborhood and one era.