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Victor Hasselblad is the founder of Hasselblad, a Swedish photographic company specializing in the production of medium format cameras, image scanners as well as other photographic material. The cameras become famous during the Apollo mission, where the first ever humans landed on the moon. The company was previously established in 1841, by Victor’s great-grand father as a series of shops and photo labs. He opened his own photo lab company in Sweden in 1937 and in 1941 became well established, after he was asked to develop an aerial camera for the Swedish military during World War II. At this time, his company had more than 20 employees.
Mark Seliger's (b. 1959) photography has dominated magazine covers, feature articles, and media campaigns for decades. With signature compositions and painterly flair, he has built an incredible body of work, featuring unforgettable portraits of the world's leading personalities in music, fashion, politics, business, and entertainment. This book showcases Seliger's best-known portraiture, as well as select standouts from his landscape and creative work. His extraordinary portfolio is 30 years in the making and features some of the most famous and influential faces of our time, including Kurt Cobain, Nelson Mandela, Emma Watson, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Sarandon, Drew Barrymore, Bruce Springsteen, David Byrne, Matthew Barney, Jennifer Lawrence, Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz, Jerry Seinfeld, Kerry Washington, Misty Copeland, Amy Schumer, and Tony Bennett. This is his most diverse and comprehensive book since Physiognomy (1999).
Even among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad stands out for the versatile nature of his work & his daredevil use of materials & technology. This book examines his work, and includes an interview with Arad plus plates, sketches and renderings of over 150 objects and spaces.
A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. High-Tech Trash analyzes creative strategies in glitch, noise, and error to chart the development of an aesthetic paradigm rooted in failure. Carolyn L. Kane explores how technologically influenced creative practices, primarily from the second half of the twentieth and first quarter of the twenty-first centuries, critically offset a broader culture of pervasive risk and discontent. In so doing, she questions how we continue onward, striving to do better and acquire more, despite inevitable disappointment. High-Tech Trash speaks to a paradox in contemporary society in which failure is disavowed yet necessary for technological innovation.
Introduction : "A camera is a tool for learning how to see ...".
De Wallen: Amsterdam's Red Light District A limited edition hand-printed artists' book by social documentary photographer Daniel D. Teoli Jr.De Wallen: Amsterdam's Red Light District is 8 1/2 inch square format, spiral bound and hand printed with Epson inkjet printers using archival pigment ink sets on acid free DUO paper. The book contains 91 photographs in color and black and white. Archival plastic interleaf separates the photographs and is incorporated in the spiral binding.The books have artisan made marbled end sheets and hand rounded corners. Pebbled plastic covers finish the book. A CD with image files of all photographs contained in De Wallen: Amsterdam's Red Light District accompany each book.Edition size is 50 books and 2 proof books. Price of book is $2800.00 USD
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This Encyclopedia presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography. To bring this history alive for the reader, the set is illustrated in black and white throughout, and each volume contains a color plate section. A useful glossary of terms is also included.