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QuickviewAmerican Reflections: Tom Arndt
Magazines & PhotobooksFor this beautiful hard-cover monograph, Tom Arndt, one of the masters of documentary photography, opened his archives. Half a century of American history is told in a wandering road-movie through over 100 images. Under a sociological and empathetic gaze, Arndt captures fragments of the lives of women and men from the middle class, the agricultural world, the dreary suburbs and the hectic streets of great metropolises such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or Minneapolis. The illuminated signs, the reflections in the windows (themes that run through all of the photographer's work) and the silhouettes taken from life are all details that structure the photographic image. Lights and architectural lines compose powerful images, icons of a timeless America. Two essays by Sarah Hermanson Meister, former director of photography at MoMA NY and current director of the Aperture Foundation in New York, and Yasufumi Nakamori, senior curator at the Tate Modern in London, contextualise Arndt's work in the history of American photography. - Published February 2023$110.00$110.00 -
QuickviewCalifornia Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties Book
Magazines & PhotobooksThis title features images of legendary surfers such as Joe Quigg, Tom Zahn and Dale Velzy in locations such as Rincon, Malibu, South Bay and San Onofre; and famous climbers such as Warren Harding, Royal Robbins and Wayne Merry, photographed mostly in the Yosemite Valley by the likes of Bob Swift, Alan Steck, Jerry Gallwas and Frank Hoover. Soaked in surf, sun and adrenaline, these photographs depict the birth of an era and an exhilarating moment in Californian history. The story told by the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties takes place against the larger backdrop of postwar America: Truman and Eisenhower, the Korean War, the Cold War and the Red Scare. Young people were embracing new symbols of non-conformity: Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and James Dean. All along the California coast, surfing became popular as heavy balsawood boards were replaced with lightweight ones crafted from polyurethane foam, fiberglass and resin. Meanwhile, climbers descended on Tahquitz Rock in the south and Yosemite Valley to the north to test handcrafted equipment that would set new standards for safety, technique and performance.$95.00$95.00 -
QuickviewTina Barney : The Beginning Book
Magazines & PhotobooksOver the course of her 40-year career, Tina Barney has observed the generational repetition of familial traditions and rituals in domestic settings. In the summer of 2020 Barney began to sort through her archive, which contained thousands of 35mm negatives taken between 1976 and 1980. This book encompasses Barney’s nostalgic exploration of her earliest work in the medium, and further reflects a self-examination of this formative period through a critical lens. Finding these long-forgotten images engendered a rediscovery of some of her most intimate memories as a young artist: 'the photographs in this book seem like X-rays of my mind and thoughts through the summers I spent with family and friends on the East Coast and in Sun Valley, Idaho. The photographs of Tina Barney (born 1945) are in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Nicola Erni Collection, Zug, Switzerland. Barney's work has been the subject of major recent exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art; Frist Center, Nashville; and the Barbican, London.$125.00$125.00
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