Vivid, bold, spectacular and unexpected : Flora Photographica provides a definitive overview of one of contemporary photography's most innovative fields, showcasing flower imagery by more than 120 of the world's leading practitioners.

Flora Photographica - The Flower in Contemporary Photography

All artists have a muse. Movie directors perfect their craft working again and again with the same actor, while choreographers find inspiration for some of their greatest works when creating for a particular dancer. Sometimes a muse is a silent partner, the object of an artist's intense and obsessive gaze. At other times the relationship is a kind of performance, a deeply collaborative act. For William Wegman, whose muses have been all of these things and more over the years, inspiration arrived in 1970 when his dog, a Weimaraner named Man Ray, appeared in front of his camera. William Wegman is a world-renowned American artist whose paintings, photographs, videos and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Today he is perhaps best known for his collaborations with his longstanding muses, an ever-expanding cast of Weimaraners, for whom performing elaborate scenarios or merely posing demurely for their portraits comes as second nature. Curated in close collaboration with distinguished photography author William A. Ewing, William Wegman : Being Human is the most extensive collection of Wegman's photographic work yet to be published. With over 300 images made over the last four decades, many published here for the first time, Being Human will delight and engage both those who are new to Wegman's work and those who have admired his art for many years.

Being Human

Présentant plus de 300 photographies - dont de nombreux inédits - ce livre est un ensemble totalement nouveau des images mondialement célèbres de William Wegman. Soigneusement choisies avec William A. Ewing, elles retracent plus de quarante ans de travail. "Plonger dans mes boîtes d'archives fut pour moi une expérience inoubliable. J'ai vu tous mes chiens bien-aimés rajeunir et rajeunir encore, jusqu'à Man Ray, mon premier braque de Weimar, en 1970, avec qui tout a commencé" confie le photographe. Drôles, poétiques, absurdes, ces images de Wegman n'incarnent pas seulement son humour légendaire. Elles témoignent d'un véritable travail d'équipe entre le photographe et ses si talentueux braques de Weimar pour nous tendre un miroir facétieux. Car c'est bien de nous, êtres humains, qu'il s'agit. Les chiens de Wegman font partie de la famille, la sienne, la nôtre.

Willam Wegman - Etre humain

De 1900 aux années 1960, Steichen se consacre à la photographie : artistique, industrielle, de mode, de nus, portraits ou paysages. Son héritage reste omniprésent.

Edward Steichen

Civilization - The way we live now

Les êtres humains, la politique, l'économie, la technologie, la nature, la société : en un mot, la civilisation. Plus de 140 photographes venus du monde entier documentent ici nos modes de vie contemporains, dressant ainsi un portrait saisissant de la société complexe qui est la nôtre.

Civilization - Quelle époque !

Eléments essentiels Avec une introduction de William A. Ewing et un essai de Joshua Schuster, Eléments essentiels est la première monographie d'Edward Burtynsky en français. Cet ouvrage fournit une vue d'ensemble de l'oeuvre du photographe canadien à travers quatre décennies, grâce à une savante confrontation d'images emblématiques et inédites imaginée par l'artiste et William A. Ewing. Le livre explore le travail de Burtynsky à travers cinq parties qui associent son langage visuel unique à son attachement pour l'exploration de paysages inaccessibles. Cette sélection de 140 photographies, enrichie de textes extraits de publications précédentes et d'articles de Burtynsky lui-même, offre une compréhension complète du regard de l'artiste sur le monde.

Eléments essentiels

Lois Greenfield's unique approach to photographing the human form in motion has redefined the genre of dance photography and transcended its limitations. Rather than shooting literal moments from a dance, Greenfield captures split-second movements created specifically for her camera. Her astonishing images of dancers in mid-flight appear to defy all laws of physics, with her performers seeming to levitate and assume incredible sculptural forms. Moving Still charts Greenfield's shift to colour photography and from shooting with a film camera to a digital camera. It also illustrates the evolution of her individual style pioneered in her previous books, Breaking Bounds and Airborne. These radical changes over the last fifteen years or so have influenced the way she conceives her pictures and have seen Greenfield move from capturing high-energy moments to exploring more ambiguous and enigmatic scenarios - without any digital manipulation. The book showcases more than 150 of these breathtaking new images featuring leading contemporary dancers and well-known dance companies. Divided into four picture sections, the free-flowing, rhythmic design of the book reflects the dynamism and grace of Greenfield's photographs. William A. Ewing, the eminent photography writer and curator, contributes an interview with the photographer about her work, as well as an introduction. Greenfield herself, through commentaries on the photographs, offers fascinating insights into her creative process behind the camera and the challenges she faces in shooting these images. The result is an absorbing journey through Greenfield's work that celebrates not only contemporary dance, but also the transformative power of photography.

Flora Photographica - The Flower in Contemporary Photography

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