Individuelle Fotografen

In der Geschichte der Architektur erscheinen die Städte Rom und Las Vegas in starkem Kontrast: Während die ehemalige Hauptstadt des Römischen Reiches als antik, vornehm und vielschichtig wahrgenommen wird, gilt "Sin City", die Stadt der Sünde, als schrill, vulgär und künstlich. Und doch befinden sich beide Städte historisch und zeitgenössisch an der Schnittstelle von Macht und Spiel.Fünfzig Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von Denise Scott Brown und Robert Venturis ikonischem Buch "Lernen von Las Vegas" (1972) offenbaren die Aufnahmen in diesem Buch ungeahnte Übereinstimmungen und Zusammenhänge der beiden Städte, aus der Luft bis zum Fussboden; das Spektakel Las Vegas wird auf Roms Strassen wiederentdeckt. Iwan Baans Fotografien kontrastieren und untergraben herkömmliche Auffassungen von Authentizität und Künstlichkeit und stellen solche polaren Kategorisierungen letztendlich infrage. Auf diese Weise erörtern die Aufnahmen Scott Browns und Venturis Plädoyer, zuerst zu schauen, zu verstehen und erst dann zu urteilen.

A compelling insight into the life of one of the most iconic models in the world of 20th-century fashion<BR><BR> Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992) was a dancer, photographer, stylist and sculptor, but above all one of the most emblematic models of the 20th-century fashion world. She worked with the greatest fashion photographers of her time from 1935 to 1955: Richard Avedon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Louise Dahl- Wolfe, Fernand Fonssagrives, Toni Frissel, Horst P. Horst, whose favourite model she was, George Hoyningen-Huene, Frances Mclaughlin-Gill, Irving Penn, Georges Platt-Lynes and John Rawlings. She was the first model to feature on the cover of Time magazine in September 1949. Wife of Irving Penn from 1950 until her death in 1992, she was, according to Alexander Liberman, artistic director of Vogue magazine, the subject of his greatest photographs. The book features around 150 original vintage prints from her personal collection. Some of these images were published in Vogue France, Vogue US or Harper's Bazaar, and many are previously unpublished, including a large number of photographs of Fernand Fonssagrives, her first husband, and more private portraits taken by Irving Penn.

Fotografie, Fotophilosophie, Dérive, Material zum Nachdenken.Das magazin für alles ist inspiriert von Dieter Roths Zeitschrift für Alles und dem japanischen Fotomagazin Provoke. Das magazin für alles folgt der Musik des Zufalls.

Horticulture has been a core subject for photographer Marina Schinz throughout her career. This found expression in her previous books, Visions of Paradise, The Gardens of Russell Page, and A Tuscan Paradise. Visiting and photographing countless gardens around the world made her engage in gardening herself and culminated in major garden design projects for her houses, first in Westchester County (New York), then in the Hudson Valley (New York), and finally near Piacenza in Italy.In Green Thoughts and Memories, Schinz looks back at her gardening adventures, interweaving horticultural observations with memoirs of her childhood in Zurich. Entertaining and engaging at the same time, full of practical considerations, and rendered with humor and philosophy, the book offers an unconventional appreciation of garden art. It conveys basic knowledge to put budding gardeners and rank beginners on the road to planting a mere tree or starting an entire garden. In 12 chapters, it explores all the elements of gardening, such as weather, soil, labor, planning, flowers, shrubs, and more. Richly illustrated in full color throughout with Schinz's photographs of famous and unknown gardens around the world, this beautiful volume will appeal to anyone with a love of plants and gardens, or with a desire to create a personal paradise.

Mit diesem Buch möchte der Fotograf und Mediengestalter Kalle Klinsky eine Lanze brechen für die Schwarzweißfotografie. In Zeiten der völligen Reizüberflutung kommt sie ruhiger daher, aber auch konzentrierter und intensiver als die Welt der bunten Bilder. Die Fotomedien haben sich verändert, nicht jedoch die fotografischen Grundsätze. Wir sehen bunt und nehmen bunt auf. Doch wer etwas ausdrücken möchte, sollte es ruhig einmal mit einem Ausflug in die künstlerische Welt der Schwarzweißfotografie versuchen. In seinem vorangestellten Essay geht Klinsky der Frage nach dem Warum der Schwarzweißfotografie nach. Seine 6 Thesen lauten:Hell-Dunkel-Kontrast erhöht die Wahrnehmung am stärksten. Farben passen meistens nicht zusammen und lenken ab. Das schwarzweiße Porträt ist reine Menschendarstellung. Reportagefotos zeigen das Geschehen, nicht bunte Szenen. Farbreduzierte Bilder erzählen die besseren Geschichten. Schwarzweiße Landschaftsbilder dramatisieren.Auf 258 Seiten stellt der Fotograf Beispiele aus seinem Schaffensprozess vor, die seine 6 Thesen zur Schwarzweißfotografie unterstreichen. Inhaltlich gliedert er seinen Fotoband in die Genres People, Portrait, Landscape, Architecture und Still.

Nordischer Folklore zufolge deutet ein bläulicher Schein oder ein Irrlicht auf den Ort, an dem Feengold verborgen ist. Dieses mysteriöse, mythische Phänomen, das vermutlich seinen Ursprung im natürlichen Schauspiel des Nordlichts hat, fasziniert Lisa Rosenmeier seit ihrer Kindheit in Dänemark. Heute steht blaues Licht für die Strahlung, die von unzähligen Computer- und Handy-Bildschirmen ausströmt. Blaues Licht illuminiert die Gesichter derer, die ganz in ihre elektronischen Geräte versunken sind. Und die oft derart im Zauberbann ihrer technischen Geräte gefangen sind, dass sie ihre "realen" Umgebungen gar nicht mehr wahrnehmen. Die elektrische blaue Lumineszenz der digitalen Ära verschluckt und überblendet so die konkrete Präsenz privater und öffentlicher Räume und verspricht grenzenlosen Zugang zu den unendlichen Welten hinter und jenseits unserer eigentlichen Welt. In ihrem vielgestaltigen Werk, das in Fotografie wurzelt und auch die Medien der Bewegung und des Lichts in verschiedenen Manifestationen und Dimensionen umfasst, untersucht Rosenmeier genau diese Oszillationen zwischen Realität und Virtualität, Faktizität und Illusion, die unsere gegenwärtige Existenz durchwirken, sowie die komplexen Interrelationen zwischen den natürlichen und technologischen Domänen.

Martina Sauter's (*1974) photographic work portrays interiors with complex planes of space and time that simultaneously explore their construction through the media. Her work focuses on how humans design the spaces in which they live and how internal spaces are created through personal experience and by what is conveyed by the media. Martina Sauter combines photographs that she herself has taken with stills from films and screenshots of newspaper images to create visual spaces with unfamiliar perspectives within which fragmented figures or text appear. This encourages the viewer to explore ostensible representations of reality while challenging them to attempt to solve the spatial pictorial puzzles they depict. One group of works is dedicated to unusual species of animals, which are positioned in new habitats through the use of collages. These works are unique visual events encompassing partial areas that glow in the dark, providing an opening into further additional worlds. The publication ONE/TWO is a book and an object in one and features works created between 2008 and 2022.

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'Seeing' beyond seeingIn photography, mindfulness is like observing something for the first time, even though you may have looked at it a thousand times before and it involves a deep kind of knowing.As experienced photographers, we often create images that are technically "correct" and "well" composed but are still missing some intangible aesthetic that we experienced at the moment of creation. Mindful photography infers that while technical proficiency, and an eye for composition are necessary skills, they are not always sufficient to capture the essence of our experience, and therefore emphasizes the importance of training our minds to use all of your senses in order to experience the world differently; to see awe and wonder in what we normally think of as "ordinary."Mindful photography is an art and rests on the photographer's skill and ability to self-efface and focus on the subject/object, thereby providing an authentic visualisation of the image. This collection of carefully curated photographs has been put together with the view to bring different global landscapes under one luxury book, providing visual art at its best. Packed with inspiration, each image is coupled with a quote from the photographer's circle of friends and family. Each image depicts one moment in time across the many continents which Abhi has travelled to since he was a very young person.

You're reading this because you have two passions in life. First, you love taking photos. You probably carry your camera everywhere with you, just waiting for a chance to snap a candid shot that tells a little story. That's the art of photography and, if you're reading this, you have a passion for that art. But then there's your passion for money. Don't worry, you're not being judged. It's good to be motivated by money. It's what makes the world go 'round, right? Or is that love? Point is, money may not bring happiness, but it sure makes life a whole lot easier to get through. And anyone knows that the best way to make money is to take what you love and turn it into a business. Well, congratulations. You have taken the first step towards making money doing what you love: Taking digital photos. Not many people know that you can make a good living just by selling photos over the Internet. But once you become aware of just how many photos we're exposed to on a daily basis, the realization that you can make money taking great photos should be a no-brainer.Get your copy today!

In Levels of Consciousness and Transformation, Angelika weaves color-saturated threads of emotion into her sumptuous digital tapestries, which explore the themes of awareness, perception, mindfulness, wakefulness, alertness, cognizance, and realization.Angelika is a masterful visual storyteller who layers photographic images, colors, and shapes in a way that defies the 2D format they're presented in. Her limitless creativity revels in the organic intersection of humanity and nature in unexpected ways - inviting me to look at the world and myself in a new light.Levels of Consciousness and Transformation contain some of Angelika's most evocative work yet, and I find myself coming back time and again for the depth of emotions that overtake me when I lose myself in them. Her art is visual poetry that both rips me open and soothes my spirit.

GSM - All photography shot on iPhone is the ultimate photo book entirely shot on an iPhone by French fashion photographer and director Axel Morin. Through his eye as an artist, Axel has developed a poetic storytelling of all the micro-narratives of the city, capturing the very essence of it. Since the beginning of this series initiated in 2014, several generations of iPhone have been used by Morin, who captured these city snapshots. The tones, the lines, the lights follow one another and answer each other in a cinematographic montage, presenting a modern and delicate world-city. This book is an archive of our time, made with the tool we always carry with us, which have become an extension of ourselves. The images are not anticipated or constructed, they are the ones that emerge from the urban monotony and are collected by the phone. The very graphic composition of the photographs draw from the background of Morin as a painter, and the association of lines and colors plunge us into a reenchanted everyday life.

#Loving Sexy DrivelIn The 21st CenturyA eugenestyles1 ProductionSelected PoemsVolume 1Part savant, part libertine, the poet is a lover of beautiful women, gambling, classic rock, and language. His poems, the #Loving Sexy Drivel of the title, are full on full body encounters with love, nature, human frailty and strength. Accompanied by the author's photography and artwork, this gorgeous book will infect your senses and remain with you long after the covers close.

OASIS is a collection of the author's favorite poems, Haibun and Haiku to date, each selected by the author from her books: New Orleans Born the author's poetic homage to her childhood family influencers and he city of New Orleans, New Orleans Between Poetry and the Blues sarcastic humor about New Orleans to the year 2000, and My Dance With Time traversing seven decades of her life with autobiographical tales about the people, eras, and circumstances that shaped her character and life. These personal tales will surely inspire any reader who seeks a deeper understanding of their own lives to remember long forgotten memories.Phyllis Parun is a deeply honest author and a quintessential example of Cocteau's dictum that "writing should be an act of love otherwise its nothing but handwriting."

In this unique new book, The Heart of Drawing, 59 artists from 22 countries exhibit their art and talk about their process of creation to inspire readers and help them find inspiration for their own creative efforts. The book is about what happens during the creation of a drawing, NOT just about the final result. Drawing is described as an act of cognition that can help you develop eye-brain-hand coordination, conceptualize and analyze ideas, think creatively, and express yourself and communicate with others. It's about Drawing to Learn, which is the main focus of the book. The words and images you see express a journey, and the artists are exploring their internal and external realities with shape, line and value. The book promotes gestural or expressive drawing, not necessarily a perfect finished work. Because of this, many of the drawings show restated lines, drawn over erasures and other tentative marks and "draw overs" showing the process of creation. They are not all flawless finished pieces. Though from many countries and with various backgrounds, most of the artists say they began drawing at an early age. And most had someone in their lives encouraging them to create. What most have in common is their gestural and exploratory approach to drawing. Some describe entering a meditative state while drawing when nothing matters except putting marks on a surface. Such drawing is sometimes a felt bodily experience more than an intellectual one. For example, one artist notes "I keep a journal of my thoughts, a kind of reservoir for fleeting feelings and impressions where, like a primordial soup, ideas congeal and give birth to strange creatures that crawl onto the shore, discover wings, and take flight." What's best about The Heart of Drawing is the drawings themselves. How these artists create is as diverse as humanity itself and the whole collection will give aspiring artists ideas for their own creative efforts.

Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this unique memoir, he tells a thousand outrageous and wonderful stories from the back blocks of the American South in the 1950s through to the glittering skylines of the 21st century. His design of the Xintiandi area of Shanghai set the standard for urban renewal across all of China's cities, but that's just the beginning of the amazing tales he has to tell in Into The Dragon's Mouth. A post-war Huckleberry Finn growing up in Georgia, Ben drove across the country while in high school, partook in the Summer of Love, and flew Phantom fighter jets with the USAF in Europe at the height of the Cold War. But his life's work has been the re-imagining of urban life. Ben's approach to architectural design is unique and the stories around all he has done are colorful, thought-provoking and emotionally-driven. Through this marvelous book, redolent of the style of the great Southern story-tellers, Ben Wood weaves a deep wisdom and philosophy, as well as perspectives on China and the United States from one who has seen and done far more than most.

Bildgewaltiger Fotoband zum Leben und Wirken Dr. Albert Hofmanns, des Entdeckers des LSD. Der Fotograf Hansjörg Sahli begleitete den psychedelischen Pionier auf zahlreichen Stationen seines bewegten und 102 Jahre langen Lebens. Mit Fotostrecken vom 60. Jahrestag der Entdeckung der psychoaktiven Wirkungen des LSD, von Buchvernissagen, vom 100. Geburtstag Albert Hofmanns und vielem mehr. Anlässlich des 80. Jahrestags der Entdeckung der psychoaktiven Effekte des LSD durch Dr. Albert Hofmann (Bicycle Day) finden Ausstellungen der Fotografien von Hansjörg Sahli in Basel statt. Mit Beiträgen von Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Peter Gasser, Roger Liggenstorfer und Markus Berger.