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Významný český fotograf Jaroslav Kučera vydává u příležitosti výstavy Sametová revoluce 1989 Pád železné opony konané v Letohrádku královny Anny na Pražském hradě od 30. 6. do 30. 11. 2019 knihu Sametová revoluce, která zachycuje na 81 autorových fotografiích jeho pohled na historickou událost, která vedla k pádu komunistické režimu a svobodným volbám. V edici ČERNOBÍLE vychází tato kniha jako třetí v řadě. Z textu historičky umění PhDr. Daniely Mrázkové: Jeho fotografie okamžiku, kdy disident Václav Havel padá kolem krku ikonické postavě Pražského jara Alexandru Dubčekovi poté, co rezignovalo československé komunistické vedení státu, vyšla v roce 2005 na celé dvoustraně jubilejní publikace World Press Photo nazvané This Critical Mirror, Kritické zrcadlo, jíž pořadatel prestižní světové soutěže prezentoval velké fotografie velkých historických událostí. Jeho snímek blonďaté dívčiny držící se státní vlajkou v ruce na pražském Václavském náměstí studentskou stráž, stejně jako záběr starého vousáče na rampě Národního muzea vášnivě mávajícího praporem nebo fotografie kněze Malého či Havla při prvních listopadových projevech k rozbouřeným lidským davům a řada dalších, včetně snímku vlčáka s čs. vlajkou na zádech dojemně čekajícího uprostřed - po mohutné demonstraci se vylidňující - Letenské pláně, se staly klíčovými obrazy velkých souborných výstav Rok 1989 očima fotografů z r. 1999 a 2009, které po domácím uvedení několik let putovaly světem. A na několika kontinentech tlumočily lidskou naději na svobodu - sen, v jehož uskutečnění se mnozí už ani neodvažovali doufat.

Významný český fotograf Jaroslav Kučera vydává u příležitosti výstavy Sametová revoluce 1989 Pád železné opony konané v Letohrádku královny Anny na Pražském hradě od 30. 6. do 30. 11. 2019 knihu Sametová revoluce, která zachycuje na 81 autorových fotografiích jeho pohled na historickou událost, která vedla k pádu komunistické režimu a svobodným volbám. V edici ČERNOBÍLE vychází tato kniha jako třetí v řadě. Z textu historičky umění PhDr. Daniely Mrázkové: Jeho fotografie okamžiku, kdy disident Václav Havel padá kolem krku ikonické postavě Pražského jara Alexandru Dubčekovi poté, co rezignovalo československé komunistické vedení státu, vyšla v roce 2005 na celé dvoustraně jubilejní publikace World Press Photo nazvané This Critical Mirror, Kritické zrcadlo, jíž pořadatel prestižní světové soutěže prezentoval velké fotografie velkých historických událostí. Jeho snímek blonďaté dívčiny držící se státní vlajkou v ruce na pražském Václavském náměstí studentskou stráž, stejně jako záběr starého vousáče na rampě Národního muzea vášnivě mávajícího praporem nebo fotografie kněze Malého či Havla při prvních listopadových projevech k rozbouřeným lidským davům a řada dalších, včetně snímku vlčáka s čs. vlajkou na zádech dojemně čekajícího uprostřed - po mohutné demonstraci se vylidňující - Letenské pláně, se staly klíčovými obrazy velkých souborných výstav Rok 1989 očima fotografů z r. 1999 a 2009, které po domácím uvedení několik let putovaly světem. A na několika kontinentech tlumočily lidskou naději na svobodu - sen, v jehož uskutečnění se mnozí už ani neodvažovali doufat.

Chile stretches along the Pacific coast of South America, west of the Andes, and is the longest country in the world from north to south. The contrasting landscape offers the Atacama Desert in the north—the driest area on earth—and in the south are rainforests, lake landscapes, and glaciers. More than 400 photographs present this country from north to south with its fascinating world of desert landscapes, volcanoes, glaciers, and a rich flora and fauna.

Fresh, inspiring, insightful, thought-provoking: here is an overview and introduction to 161 of the most exciting contemporary photographers from cultures around the world. This book celebrates excellence in the visual language of photography in all genres: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, portrait, street photography, abstract, landscape, architecture, nature, alternative process, experimental, poetic, personal, and more. From the already world-famous, to brand new discoveries and emerging talents, anyone who is serious about the current state of photography around the globe will be delighted and surprised to discover the rich variety of photographers and their imagery presented in these pages. Who are the people practicing this profound universal language with "fluency" in our image-saturated world today? This book attempts to answer that question. The editors of this volume believe it takes the critical eyes of curators and experts in the field to discover and celebrate true excellence, finding those images that stand out from the crowd and deserve our considered attention. In addition to appearing in the pages of this book, all of these photographers have been featured in exhibitions and shows at large-scale international photo festivals and events around the world in the past year, including London, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo.

Jan's defining images cross all kinds of fashion barriers. His respect for the models he works with is evident. His models are raw, sometimes slighty unconventional beauties, quite often with very little hair and make-up. Jan's images are pure, powerful and evocative, getting to the very soul of the subject. Whether its an androgynous looking girl with a cowboy hat, a model smoking a cigarette on a beach, a movie star or a picture of his wife or children, the pictures are captivating in their simplicity with a very clear style that belongs only to him. His approach to his craft remains unchanged over decades, his style clear, avant-gard and transcendent of trends. Featured are among others Cate Blanchett, Helena Christensen, Eva Herzigova, PJ Harvey, Drew Barrymore, Kirsten Owen, Kylie Minogue, Tatjana Patitz, Jessica Chastain, Christy Turlington, Tilda Swinton, Vanessa Paradis, Gisele Bundchen, Natalia Vodianova, Courtney Love, Doutzen Kroes, Laetitia Casta, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jennifer Connelly, Milla Jovovich, Bella Haddid and Helen Mirren.

This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, considers Cindy Sherman's oeuvre through the lens of portraiture. Featuring key examples of her work - from her earliest photographs through to her most recent - it explores the mercurial relationship between appearance and reality Cindy Sherman is among the most influential artists of her generation. Using herself as model, wearing a range of costumes and portraying herself in invented situations, she interrogates the imagery employed by the mass media, po pular culture and fine art. Television, advertising, magazines, fashion and Old Master paintings all form part of her visual language. Whether using make-up, costumes, props and prosthetics to manipulate her own appearance, or devising elaborate tableaux, her entire body of 40 years' work constitutes a highly distinctive response to contemporary and earlier culture, whose stylistic tropes she appropriates and quotes. This book will explore the rich cultural sources that Sherman plunders in creating provocative and ambiguous images that lead us to question the things we see. Sherman's work is surveyed through two related themes. Examining Sherman's art within the context of portraiture it explores the way that identity is constructed from appearance. It also considers the nature of Sherman's involvement with a range of styles by positioning her work in the context of the pre-existing imagery that she appropriates.

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Photographer Marc Lagrange had a gift for illuminating intoxicating beauty and communicating timeless elegance. Filled with longing and sensuality, his photographs are a celebration of fantasy and desire. In the early 1990s, Lagrange began to work quite intensively with Polaroid film, and his nude portraiture found a more dramatic and touching look. As a medium, Polaroid film corresponded perfectly to his aesthetic and artistic vision and it rapidly became a valid means of expression for him. The Belgian artist particularly fell for the unique quality and cool-brown tone coloration of the rare Polaroid 100 Chocolate, one of the last types of film ever to be produced before the Polaroid factory closed down permanently in 2009. Chocolate contains an enticing series of carefully selected and mostly unpublished works shot by Marc Lagrange on Polaroid 100 Chocolate film. More than just preliminary studies of his sophisticated image compositions, the photographs impress with their warm colors, rough textures, and painterly aesthetic. His sensual Polaroids are a powerful example of his craft, as well as his attention to detail.

We see famous faces every day: campaign shoots, promotional pictures, and paparazzi photos plaster the pages of print and digital media. But how did these well-known personalities present in front of the camera before they made it big, becoming the highly-recognized celebrities of today? In Before They Were Famous, David Drebin has rummaged through his archive to curate some of his best pictures of today's most familiar faces. Whether Charlize Theron before her Oscar win, John Legend before he stormed the charts, or Steve Jobs just before the introduction of the legendary first iPod, David Drebin photographed them all on their path to fame. With this captivating line up, the New York City-based multidisciplinary artist not only offers an intimate and original look at now world-famous celebrities, but also shares his own career beginnings presenting images before they were sold out or close to be sold out. These limited edition photographs were all created before Drebin, too, became famous, providing a unique and rare document of his own creative journey. Alongside the portraits, the book also shows original works, from femmes fatales to landscapes, which would come to define his practice and are today sold as limited edition photographs in the finest galleries worldwide.

Na knižný trh prichádza ďalšia fotografická veta pod názvom „Krajinou detstva“ autora Antona Diváckého. Je to veta z cyklu „Život“, ktorá je spracovaná do knižnej podoby. Primárne fotografická publikácia je opäť ilustrovaná básňou. Autor sa v nej vracia do detských liet a snaží sa rozpomenúť na tie krásne, bezstarostné a čarovné chvíle v živote človeka, ktoré síce nedávajú v dospelom veku príliš zmysel, ku ktorým sa ale radi s nostalgiou a láskou v srdci vraciame... Kniha obsahuje čiernobiele kolorované fotografie a je vhodná pre milovníkov fotografie, poézie, pre milovníkov umenia, pre fanúšikov autora, ale aj ako hodnotný a netradičný darček pre Vašich priateľov a známych...

Comet presents the amazing story of the Rosetta space probe and its interstellar voyage to the comet Tchoury. Its mission - to find clues to the origins of our solar system and the emergence of life on Earth. Following a ten-year voyage and a journey spanning millions of kilometres through our Solar System, the Rosetta entered the comet's orbit. Its lander, Philae - a miniature science laboratory - landed directly on Tchoury's surface and was able to take the photographs presented here. This triumph of scientific endeavour brought back a raft of incredible new photographs, the best of which are featured here. The book is built around the various phases in Rosetta's journey: leaving Earth, breaching its atmosphere and watching the lights of home recede; skirting the Moon and coming close to Mars; plunging into the cosmos' starry void and approaching the comet; and, finally, landing on Tchoury. The photographs are accompanied by a text that reflects on the objectives of the mission and the accomplishment of such a technological feat for humanity. Detailed captions provide the reader with accessible scientific information, enabling them to get to the heart of the subject.

Bologna Portraits is the portrait of one of the most charming and least well-known Italian cities portrayed through the faces of the people who live there today. It started during the artist's many stays in the town. Discovering Bologna little by little, Jacopo Benassi took pictures, like a sort of notebook, of the faces of the most interesting people he met during his time there. After a few months he already had a large portfolio of people which, like in a mosaic, built a bigger portrait of the whole city today. Bologna is probably the best-kept secret of the Italian cities with a great past. Large-scale tourism has never affected it, but in recent years it has been discovered by a growing group of sophisticated travellers passionate about art, culture, cinema and food. The portraits are a mix of young artists, writers, minor and great musicians, leading businessmen, famous bar tenders, tailors, professors at the local university (the oldest in the Western world), personalities and international artists such as Nino Migliori and Luigi Ontani. All of them born or living in Bologna. The whole book is a study of real faces that are able to be meaningful and to tell a story, and recall a tradition like the study of faces by Pier Paolo Pasolini in some of his films, or Andy Warhol's Screen Tests. But at the same time, they recall a masterpiece like Un Paese, the book produced by Paul Strand and Cesare Zavattini. The book includes a text by art critic Antonio Grulli.

Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing science and building human knowledge--from micro to macro levels and everything in between. Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface between the sciences and the public. Our understanding of outer space depends on images sent to Earth from the Hubble Space Telescope, just as our understanding of our own bodies depends on X-rays. Images make visible what lies beyond human perception. Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have engaged with some of the same scientific principles, using photography to imagine the world differently and present us with new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both perspectives exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring over three hundred images and sixty short texts. Together they engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our knowledge is formed and transformed through our interactions with photographic imagery.

The first book to showcase and critically explore the groundbreaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century For nearly a century, fashion magazines have provided sophisticated platforms for cutting-edge photography - work that challenges conventions and often reaches far beyond fashion itself. In this book, acclaimed photography critic Vince Aletti has selected 100 significant magazine issues from his expansive personal archive, revealing images by photographers rarely seen outside their original context. With his characteristic elan and featuring stunning images, Aletti has created a fresh, idiosyncratic, and previously unexplored angle on the history of photography.

Elmgreen & Dragset's constructed environments have been celebrated all over the world for their mischievous, cerebral, and accessible nature. This is the first comprehensive presentation of the duo's work, from their early performative pieces in the late 1990s to their most recent public projects Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen & Dragset's work reconfigure the familiar with characteristic and subversive wit. Their sculptures and installations, also known as 'Powerless Structures', have redefined what it means to experience art - the cover features their work Van Gogh's Ear, a sculpture in the form of a swimming pool, which is located on Fifth Avenue in New York at the entrance to the Rockefeller Center. This book includes all of their most significant projects, from the transformation of New York's Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan desert in 2005, and the installation of the statue of a child on a rocking horse on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012. Elmgreen & Dragset is the latest addition to the acclaimed Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series.

The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-50-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Creed. His films have been nominated for 52 Academy Awards, includingfive movies for Best Picture, and have won 12. And Winkler is still working. Creed II, starring MichaelB. Jordan, opens this fall, followed by Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, a major mafia saga for Netflixstarring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. In A Life in Movies, his charming and insightful memoir, Winkler tells the stories of his careerthrough his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes inHollywood over the past decades. Winkler started in the famous William Morris mailroom and made hisfirst film-starring Elvis-in the last days of the old studio system. Beginning in the late 1960s, and thenfor decades to come, he produced a string of provocative andinfluential films, making him one of the most critically lauded,prolific, and commercially successfulproducers of his era. This is an engrossing and candid book, a beguilingexploration of what it means to be a producer, from howrights get purchased and scripts developed to actors cast,directors managed, film edited, and awards won. Filled withtales of legendary and beloved films, as well as some not-so-legendaryand forgotten ones, A Life in Movies takes readersbehind the scenes and into the history of Hollywood.Irwin Winkler is an American film producer, writer, and director. He is the recipient of numerous American and international honors.

On July 20, 1969, science fiction became reality. Revisit the momentous moon landing in the 50thanniversary editionof Norman Mailer’s classic book on the Apollo 11 mission. This volume includes hundreds of imagessourced from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections, documenting the lead up to, aftermath, and breathtaking moments of that giant leap for mankind. It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collinsmet John F. Kennedy’s call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of billions, and the most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Norman Mailerwas hired byLIFEmagazine in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. He enhanced his reportage in the brilliantly crafted book, Of a Fire on the Moon, which is excerpted here. Equally adept at examiningthe science of space travel and the psychology of the people involved—from Saturn V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun to the crucial NASA support staff to the three astronauts—Mailer provides provocative and trenchant insights into this epoch-making event. Illustrating this volume are hundreds of photographsand maps from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. These images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the command module and on the Moon’s surface, and the world’s jubilant reaction to the landing. This 50-year anniversary editionincludes captions by leading Apollo 11 expertsthat explain the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log, publications of the day, and postflight astronaut interviews; while an evocative introduction by Colum McCanncelebrates Mailer’s incomparable skill at transforming “the science of space... the weight of history... the breadth of mythology” into prose. The author Norman Mailer(1923–2007) was one of the 20th century’s greatest and most influential writers, as well as one of America’s most renowned and controversial literary figures. The best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction, he also wrote stage plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of essays, two books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. The contributing author Colum McCannis the author of eight books, including Let the Great World Spin. He has written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Times(London), The Irish Times, and La República.

Only a handful of people have attempted to climb the "Volcanic Seven Summits" -the continents' tallest volcanoes. Adrian Rohnfelder, a photographer with a keen interest in volcanoes and adventure, has embarked on this extraordinary journey. Adrian Rohnfelder cycles high above the steaming rainforests in the Kilimanjaro massif, crosses the seething heat of the Atacama Desert in Chile, and climbs the summit of Orizaba under dramatic circumstances. He knows the no-man's-land of the Antarctic and the spectacularly-glaciated Mount Sidley, so remote that only a handful of people have ever seen it. Rohnfelder is the first travel and adventure photographer to climb the seven highest volcanoes across the Earth's seven continents. Since 2008, when the "firework virus" first struck him in Indonesia, he has remained mesmerized by these glowing giants. His goal is not the volcano summit itself, but the photographs that emerge all along the journey there. His images tell the full story of his spectacular trips, recording the unique splendor of each country he encounters. The result is a photography book that not only portrays the beauty and spectacle of volcanoes-the surface lava, the smoke, the intense heat, and colors-but also celebrates the rich beauty of our planet and its many peoples. Through these dramatic images, we see both the power of the natural world and the diversity of human cultures around the globe. And contrary to common conception, Rohnfelder also shows us that from fire to ice is often less than a stone's throw away.

Ikonické momenty z dějin lidstva v živých barvách, jak je viděli tenkrát. Přes 120 černobílých fotografií bylo realisticky a se smyslem pro historický detail kolorováno, a uvedeno v nový život. Cestujte časem a prožijte příběhy od vynálezu fotografie, přes postavení Eiffelovky, potopení Titaniku, významné objevy až k událostem obou světových válek. Díky výjimečné spolupráci výtvarníka Jordana Lloyda a kurátora Wolfganga Wilda ožije před vašima očima doba téměř dvou století. Speciálně pro české vydání autoři knihy kolorovali 5 nových fotografií. Barevné zpracování poskytne nečekaný vhled do událostí, které z médií či učebnic dávno považujeme za všední. Zasvěcené komentáře a dobové citáty u každého snímku vtahují do děje a dovolí nám historii prožít tak, jako by se události nestaly před desítkami let či v předminulém století, ale včera. Revoluční kolekce fotografií se tak moc blíží skutečnému cestování časem, jak je to jen možné. Mezi vyobrazeními najdeme dobové kuriozity, jako je např. pouliční prodavač mumií a jiných záhrobních předmětů z Egypta 19. století nebo nahrávání řvu lva pro filmovou znělku studií MGM. Spatříme stavbu pařížské baziliky Sacré-Coeur i Eiffelovy věže (natřena byla nespočetněkrát, ale původně to byla benátská červeň); ledovec, do nějž s největší pravděpodobností narazil Titanik; pokusy s kluzákem bratří Wrightů i první přelet francouzského pilota Louise Blériota z Calais do Doveru, jenž se ocitnul také na obálce knihy. Zcela úchvatný je výhled z polární jeskyně během expedice Roberta Falcona Scotta Terra Nova (díky rozsáhlému průzkumu autoři tvrdí, že nepromokavé bundy tragicky zahynuvších polárníků byly doopravdy žluté). A pohled do očí imigrantů, kteří do Spojených států přicházeli ze všech končin světa přes Ellis Island, nás zase přesvědčí o pravdivosti pojmu tavicí kotlík. Z dějin fotografie spatříme první fotografický autoportrét i silné a sociálně-kritické snímky od Dorothey Langeové, jako je Kočující matka, anebo Mechanik od Lewise Hinea. Pro mnohé z nás se historie udála v černé a bílé. Rozumem dobře chápeme, že to není pravda, stejně jako je nám jasné, že lidé ve filmech z počátku 20. století ve skutečnosti nechodili, jako by je někdo zrychlil. Jenže když naše oko spočine na černobílé fotografii, jako by to potvrdilo náš předpoklad, že přesně takhle minulost vypadala. Jenže se mýlíme: Minulost nebyla malá, vybledlá, poškrábaná a potrhaná. Byla tak jako nikdy nekončící přítomný okamžik velká, čistá, ostrá, kompletní a plná barev. Minulost a současnost byly totéž, jsou totéž,tvrdí Wolfgang Wild, spoluautor výpravné obrazové knihy Historie v barvě. Cílem kolorizátora je vytvořit obrázek natolik přesvědčivý, že barva v něm se stane samozřejmě přehlíženou součástí obrazu. Snímky v této knize jsou pro mě obrovsky silné, a to bez ohledu na to, jestli dostaly barevný kabát, nebo ne, prohlašuje anglický výtvarník Jordan J. Lloyd, který se ve svém studiu Dynachrome profesionálně zabývá kolorováním historických fotografií. Pracuje pro komerční klienty, jakými jsou Jim Beam, Indian Motorcycles, magazíny Surfer nebo National Geographic, pro řadu vydavatelů včetně Time Life a instituce jako Imperial War Museum, BBC nebo University of Cambridge. Přednášel na konferencích Applu, Adobe a Britského filmového institutu. Spolupracuje s řadou archivů a muzeí, měl výstavy v Londýně, Drážďanech a New Yorku.