Arbeit / Work showcases Chris Killip’s photography from 1969 to 2005, and is a retrospective of a photographer who has influenced an entire generation of younger documentary photographers. Arbeit / Work presents several of Killip’s long- term projects, ...

19.03.2012[ read full story ]

In 1996 Steidl published Roni Horn’s Haraldsdóttir, the tenth book in her “To Place” series about the connections between identity and location. Haraldsdóttir contained portraits of the same Icelandic woman in water; each pose was similar to emphasise the infinite number of potential facial ex...

15.03.2012[ read full story ]

Jakob Tuggener’s Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is considered to be a milestone in the history of photography books. The series of 72 photographs in this Photo Epos of Technology is oriented toward the expressionist aesthetic of the silent movie. It imparts a sceptical view of the destru...

16.03.2012[ read full story ]

This book tells the remarkable story of the Kodak Girl, one of the most durable and successful marketing campaigns in advertising history. Created by George Eastman, inventor of the inexpensive hand-held camera, the Kodak Girl traces the intersection of American culture with photography as ...

14.03.2012[ read full story ]

I wanted to be a painter. I wanted to be a rock star. I ended up being neither – and both.
I was raised in New Jersey, came of age in San Diego, gained notoriety in Los Angeles, now calls the world my home and Nashville my return address.

11.04.2012[ read full story ]

Silent pictures, the telling of the dizziness of the link, unalterable, whole, the difficult task of accompanying a child elsewhere, outside, in the world that calls and excludes, invisible solitude. Attempting to archive time. Little daily things, intimate, harmless, repeated. The need ...

16.03.2012[ read full story ]

Sarah Rhymes with Clara is a revelation of the poetic in the seemingly banal. Paulsen’s theme in this book is her daily life: family, friends, her surroundings and the nude, in locations including Westchester, Block Island and Mabou. Yet as much as Paulsen’s images exp...

07.03.2012[ read full story ]

In 1976, in the book La Photo written with Chenz, Jeanloup Sieff described “advertising photography as a compromise between what the client asked for, what the agency wants, and what the photographer hopes for!...”

12.03.2012[ read full story ]

20 Now: Contemporary Photographers is a book that presents 20 western photographers to South East Asia. From Adam Fuss to David Hilliard’s Panoralic photography, the book shows different approaches and idea sto the medium of contemporary photography.

13.03.2012[ read full story ]

All the new media, including the press, are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumption,” Marshall McLuhan observed. We live in a time when new media is so ubiquitous as to be omnipresent and the only escape from the world we’ve built is to be out of satellit...

12.03.2012[ read full story ]