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Diane Arbus: A Biography:
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Diane Arbus Revelations:
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Diane Arbus:
Diane Arbus (2003. 184 S. m. 81 Duotone-Taf.)
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Diane Arbus:
Diane Arbus's photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks
were becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in
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Allan Arbus; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and
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Diane Arbus:
Diane Arbus's photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks
were becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in
1971. This book examines Diane's life through: her childhood; her marriage to
Allan Arbus; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and
more., Diane Arbus
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Diane Arbus:
DIANE ARBUS''s unsettling photographs of dwarves and twins, transvestites and
giants, both polarized and inspired, and her work had already become legendary
when she committed suicide in 1971...
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Diane Arbus: Magazine Work:
Photography ; Individual Photographer ; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions,
Diane Arbus: Magazine Work
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Diane Arbus: Magazine Work:
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Diane Arbus: Family Albums:
Diane Arbus: Family Albums (2003. n. pag. With numerous col. plates.)
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph:
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Blind Date with the Angel: The Diane Arbus Poems:
Poetry, Blind Date with the Angel: The Diane Arbus Poems
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Diane Arbus Revelations:
Featuring 562 color photos, 'Revelations' is an intimate and comprehensive study
of the work of one of the most powerful photographers of the 20th century.,
Photography ; General ; Individual Photographer, Diane Arbus Revelations
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Diane Arbus Revelations:
Diane Arbus redefined the concerns and the range of the art she practiced. Her
bold subject matter and photographic approach have established her preeminence
in the world of the visual arts...
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Diane Arbus: A Biography:
Diane Arbus's unsettling photographs of dwarves, twins, transvestites, and
giants both polarized and inspired, and her work had already become legendary
when she committed suicide in 1971. This groundbreaking biography examines the
private life behind Arbus's controversial art., Biography / Autobiography ;
Women ; Artists, Architects, Photographers ; Photographers. Women Architects
Artists, Diane Arbus: A Biography
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph:
This 25th anniversary edition celebrates one of the most important photographic
books in history on the work of a single artist. Every image has been printed
from a new 300-line screen duotone film, bringing to the reproductions clarity
and brilliance unattainable before., Photography ; Individual Photographer ;
Subjects & Themes - Portraits, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph:
This 25th anniversary edition celebrates one of the most important photographic
books in history on the work of a single artist. Every image has been printed
from a new 300-line screen duotone film, bringing to the reproductions clarity
and brilliance unattainable before., Photography ; Individual Photographer ;
Subjects & Themes - Portraits, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
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when she committed suicide in 1971. This groundbreaking biography examines the
private life behind Arbus's controversial art.
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Diane Arbus: Revelations (Hardcover):
A stunning retrospective spanning Diane Arbus s entire career features two
hundred full-page duotones, many never before seen, accompanied by an essay on
the artist s work, a discussion of her printing techniques, a definitive
chronology, more than three hundred color illustrations, and previously
unpublished excerpts from letters, notebooks, and other writings. 50,000 first
printing. Author: Arbus, Diane. Published On: 2003/09/01. Language: ENGLISH
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Diane Arbus. Die kleine Monographie., An Aperture Monograph:
Fotograf - Fotografin ; Photographie ; Amerika ; Fotografin ( Fotograf ) ;
Fotografen/-innen (Einz.), Diane Arbus. Die kleine Monographie.
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Diane Arbus. Die kleine Monographie., An Aperture Monograph:
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Diane Arbus - Bosworth, Patricia:
ISBN: 0099470365 Published: Oct 2005 Format: Paperback Pages: 384 Diane Arbus's
startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed
from the first to redefine both the normal and the abnormal in our lives; they
were already becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed
suicide in 1971. Arbus herself remained an enigma until the publication of this
first full biography. Patricia Bosworth examines the life behind the eerie,
mesmerizing photographs: Diane's pampered childhood; her passionate marriage to
Allan Arbus and their work together as fashion photographers during the fifties;
the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and the radically
dark, liberating, and ultimately tragic turn Diane's art took during the
sixties. Bosworth's engrossing book is a compassionate portrait of the woman
behind some of the most powerful photographs of our time. Brief Description:
Diane Arbus's photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks
were becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in
1971. This book examines Diane's life through: her childhood; her marriage to
Allan Arbus; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and
more.
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Revelations: Diane Arbus (Hardback) - Arbus, Doon:
ISBN: 0224071831 Stock status: Temporarily out of stock Published: Sep 2003
Format: Hardback Pages: 192 Between 1954 and her suicide in 1971 Diane Arbus
took some 150,000 photographs. She was the daughter of an upper middle class
Jewish family that owned a Fifth Avenue clothing store. Her posthumous
retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972.
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Diane Arbus: Family Albums, Catalogue of the exhibition at Mount Holyoke College
Museum of Art and the Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas:
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is renowned for her provocative and unsettling portraits
of modern Americans. This book presents a significant body of previously
unpublished pictures by Arbus and proposes a radically new way to understand her
goals, strategies, and over-all work. Diane Arbus: Family Albums examines
unknown contact sheets from several of Arbus's portrait sessions, including more
than three hundred photographs she took of a New York family one weekend in
1969. Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz put to the test Arbus's claim that she was
developing a 'family album.' They present other images Arbus shot for Esquire
magazine (including pictures of the families of Ricky Nelson, Jayne Mansfield,
and Ogden Reid) and discuss her interest in photographic groupings of both
traditional and alternative families. Challenging common interpretations of
Arbus, the authors reveal a photographer far more savvy with the camera, more
aware of photography as an artistic and commercial practice, and more sensitive
to the social, Photography ; Fotografen/-innen (Einz.) ; Ausstellungskataloge;
Fotografie ; Arbus, Diane ; Photoessays & Documentaries, Diane Arbus: Family
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Diane Arbus:
A mysterious and tender body of images that has remained largely unseen,
Untitled is the third volume of Arbus''s work and the only one devoted
exclusively to a single project...
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Diane Arbus: Revelations:
Featuring 562 color photos, Revelations is an intimate and comprehensive study
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (Paperback):
Author: Arbus, Diane. Published On: 1996/11/01. Language: ENGLISH
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Schwarz und Weiss, Das Leben der Diane Arbus:
Fotograf - Fotografin ; Fotografin ( Fotograf ) ; Fotografen/-innen (Einz.) ;
Arbus, Diane, Schwarz und Weiss
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Schwarz und Weiss, Das Leben der Diane Arbus:
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Arbus, Diane, Schwarz und Weiss
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American Photographers: Capturing the Image:
Includes: Mathew B. Brady, Jacob A. Riis, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Wickes Hine,
Man Ray, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Diane Arbus, and
Gordon Parks., Photography ; Children's Books / Ages 9-12 Biography ; Biography
& Autobiography - Art, American Photographers: Capturing the Image
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American Photographers: Capturing the Image:
Includes: Mathew B. Brady, Jacob A. Riis, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Wickes Hine,
Man Ray, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Diane Arbus, and
Gordon Parks., Photography ; Children's Books / Ages 9-12 Biography ; Biography
& Autobiography - Art, American Photographers: Capturing the Image
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Schwarz & Weiss:
""Ich glaube wirklich, dass es Dinge gibt, die niemand sähe, wenn ich sie nicht
fotografieren würde."" Diane Arbus gehörte zu den größten amerikanischen
Fotokünstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts, bis zu ihrem Selbstmord 1971 schuf sie eine
neue Ästhetik in der Fotografie. Ihre Porträts von Außenseitern und Freaks
setzten Maßstäbe selbst für die Avantgarde. Norman Mailer urteilte 1963 beim
Anblick seines Porträts: ""Einer Arbus eine Kamera zu geben, ist, als ließe man
ein Kind mit einer scharfen Handgranate spielen."" Diane Arbus wurde wie Frida
Kahlo und Sylvia Plath zur Ikone einer Künstlerin. Auf den Filmfestspielen in
Cannes 2006 wird der Film ""Fur"" (Pelz) vorgestellt, der das Leben der Diane
Arbus auf die Leinwand bringt - mit Nicole Kidman in der Hauptrolle. Der Film
basiert auf Patricia Bosworths Biografie. In 'Schwarz & Weiß' sind Gespräche mit
der gesamten New Yorker Künstler-Avantgarde eingeflossen. So wird diese
Biografie nicht nur zum präzisen, einfühlsamen Porträt, sondern zuglei
ch zu einer spannenden Kulturgeschichte der Kunstfotografie im 20. Jahrhundert.
(2006. 439 S. m. 26 Abb.)
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""Ich glaube wirklich, dass es Dinge gibt, die niemand sähe, wenn ich sie nicht
fotografieren würde."" Diane Arbus gehörte zu den größten amerikanischen
Fotokünstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts, bis zu ihrem Selbstmord 1971 schuf sie eine
neue Ästhetik in der Fotografie. Ihre Porträts von Außenseitern und Freaks
setzten Maßstäbe selbst für die Avantgarde. Norman Mailer urteilte 1963 beim
Anblick seines Porträts: ""Einer Arbus eine Kamera zu geben, ist, als ließe man
ein Kind mit einer scharfen Handgranate spielen."" Diane Arbus wurde wie Frida
Kahlo und Sylvia Plath zur Ikone einer Künstlerin. Auf den Filmfestspielen in
Cannes 2006 wird der Film ""Fur"" (Pelz) vorgestellt, der das Leben der Diane
Arbus auf die Leinwand bringt - mit Nicole Kidman in der Hauptrolle. Der Film
basiert auf Patricia Bosworths Biografie. In 'Schwarz & Weiß' sind Gespräche mit
der gesamten New Yorker Künstler-Avantgarde eingeflossen. So wird diese
Biografie nicht nur zum präzisen, einfühlsamen Porträt, sondern zugleich zu
einer spannenden Kulturgeschichte der Kunstfotografie im 20. Jahrhundert.
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Animal Love:
From one of cinema's most notorious and acclaimed documentarians, Ulrich Seidl
(Dog Days, Jesus, You Know, Models), Animal Love is a darkly comical and
provocatively disturbing glimpse into the strange and eccentric world of animal
lovers on the fringes of modern society.Meticulously shot in Diane Arbus
fashion, Seidl's protagonists sublimate their emotional needs and desire for
intimacy through their four-legged friends. A compulsive yet utterly disturbing
tour of the underside of human nature.
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Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century Selections from the Helen
Kornblum Collection:
This book celebrates an international array of both historic and contemporary
women photographers, whose important contributions to art and photography have
provided a collective perspective on life, the self, the world, and each other.
From well-known luminaries of the medium such as Diane Arbus, Margaret
Bourke-White, Nan Goldin, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Cindy
Sherman, Tina Barney, and Annie Leibovitz, to far lesser-known figures, this
book is not so much comprehensive as an ideal cross-section of those women whose
images have shaped the way we view the world., Photography ; Criticism ;
Photoessays & Documentaries, Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th
Century Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection
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Picturing Modernity:
Highlights from the Photography Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art<P>The SF MoMA was one of the first museums in the world to present
photography as a fine art. More importantly, however, the museum recognized
photography as one of the most vital and expressive art forms of the modern
period.<P>This superb collection of photographs features works from over 70
photographers including: Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Man Ray,
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Alfred Stieglitz and Paul
Strand., Photography ; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions ; Exhibitions Catalogs
Collections, Picturing Modernity
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American Art: Treasures of the Whitney Museum of American Art:
A Whitney Museum in New York is one of the country's premier showcases for
20th-century American art.This survey, filled with remarkable examples from the
Whitney's permanent collection, presents works by the most notable American
artists in a variety of media. Among the more than 200 images are paintings by
Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Stella, Franz Kline, Andy Warhol, and
Jasper Johns; sculpture by Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, and David Smith;
photographs by Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, and
Diane Arbus; and drawings by Hopper, Philip Guston, and Jackson Pollock. The
publication of this Tiny Folio is timed to coincide with the opening of the
Whitney's permanent collection.
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Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century Selections from the Helen
Kornblum Collection, Women Photographers of the 20th Century - Selections from:
This book celebrates an international array of both historic and contemporary
women photographers, whose important contributions to art and photography have
provided a collective perspective on life, the self, the world, and each other.
From well-known luminaries of the medium such as Diane Arbus, Margaret
Bourke-White, Nan Goldin, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Cindy
Sherman, Tina Barney, and Annie Leibovitz, to far lesser-known figures, this
book is not so much comprehensive as an ideal cross-section of those women whose
images have shaped the way we view the world., Photography ; photography &
photographs ; individual artists ; history of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
; Criticism, Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century Selections
from the Helen Kornblum Collection
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American Art: Treasures of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Tiny Folio S.,
Treasures of the Whitney Museum of American Art:
A Whitney Museum in New York is one of the country's premier showcases for
20th-century American art.<P>This survey, filled with remarkable examples from
the Whitney's permanent collection, presents works by the most notable American
artists in a variety of media. Among the more than 200 images are paintings by
Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Stella, Franz Kline, Andy Warhol, and
Jasper Johns; sculpture by Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, and David Smith;
photographs by Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, and
Diane Arbus; and drawings by Hopper, Philip Guston, and Jackson Pollock. The
publication of this Tiny Folio is timed to coincide with the opening of the
Whitney's permanent collection., Art & Art Instruction ; history of art / art &
design styles ; museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides ; History - General
; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum, American Art: Treasures of the
Whitney Museum of American Art. Tiny Folio S.
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Times Squared:
Times Square has been called the crossroads of the world, and is probably the
most photographed location on the planet! For over 25 years, Toby Old has had a
photographic dialogue with Times Square -- at different times of day, in all
lights, and during all seasons, with its multitude of events, parades, theater,
sports, sex shops and industries. Old offers us a different look at Times
Square, pulling no punches. In a fraction of a second, his square format camera
captures the freakish moments of the fringes of our culture. His photographs are
presented as a quartet: Boxing, Fashion, Disco and Times Square itself. He is a
voyeur in the photographic tradition of Weegee, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus.,
Photography ; Photoessays & Documentaries, Times Squared
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American Art: Treasures of the Whitney Museum of American Art:
A Whitney Museum in New York is one of the country's premier showcases for
20th-century American art.<P>This survey, filled with remarkable examples from
the Whitney's permanent collection, presents works by the most notable American
artists in a variety of media. Among the more than 200 images are paintings by
Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Stella, Franz Kline, Andy Warhol, and
Jasper Johns; sculpture by Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, and David Smith;
photographs by Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, and
Diane Arbus; and drawings by Hopper, Philip Guston, and Jackson Pollock. The
publication of this Tiny Folio is timed to coincide with the opening of the
Whitney's permanent collection., Art & Art Instruction ; History - General ;
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum ; Exhibitions - Museum. History -
General Catalogs Collections, American Art: Treasures of the Whitney Museum of
American Art
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Animals and Nudes:
When Peter Hujar (1934-1987) died at the age of 53, his remarkable oeuvre fell
into neglect. Sporadic exhibitions and catalogues failed to give Hujar his
critical due, or to make the work widely accessible. Now, on the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the publication of his first book, Portraits in Life and Death
(1976), a concerted effort to exhibit and publish Hujar's work has begun. This
book is a prelude to upcoming exhibitions examining Hujar's incomparable
portraits of animals and nudes, all of which he though to be self-portraits. A
student of Lisette Model, admirer of August Sander, and friend of Diane Arbus,
Hujar made his photographs distinctly his own: a perfect and unmistakable mirror
of his own body and mileau., Photography ; Photoessays & Documentaries ;
Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals ; Subjects & Themes - Erotica, Animals and
Nudes
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Times Squared:
Times Square has been called the crossroads of the world, and is probably the
most photographed location on the planet! For over 25 years, Toby Old has had a
photographic dialogue with Times Square -- at different times of day, in all
lights, and during all seasons, with its multitude of events, parades, theater,
sports, sex shops and industries. Old offers us a different look at Times
Square, pulling no punches. In a fraction of a second, his square format camera
captures the freakish moments of the fringes of our culture. His photographs are
presented as a quartet: Boxing, Fashion, Disco and Times Square itself. He is a
voyeur in the photographic tradition of Weegee, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus.,
Photography ; Photoessays & Documentaries, Times Squared
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Cruel and Tender., Zärtlich und Grausam - Fotografie und das Wirkliche.:
Cruel and Tender vereint Arbeiten von über zwanzig Fotografinnen und Fotografen,
die im Bereich der wirklichkeitsbeschreibenden Fotografie im 20. und beginnenden
21. Jahrhundert stilbildend gearbeitet haben beziehungsweise arbeiten.
Umfassende Werkgruppen von Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd und
Hilla Becher, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Walker
Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky, Boris
Mikhailov, Martin Parr, Nicholas Nixon, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Thomas Ruff,
August Sander, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Michael Schmidt, Thomas Struth und
Garry Winogrand werden präsentiert. Allesamt Künstler, die besonders stark an
der Darstellung ungeschminkter Realität interessiert sind. Ihre Beiträge sind
gekennzeichnet durch betont sachliche Fotografien, die aber bei genauerer
Betrachtung deutlich persönliche Handschriften sowie ein ausgeprägtes Interesse
am Aufnahmegegenstand erkennen lassen. Auf dieses Paradoxon von Distanz und
Engagement weist auc, Ausstellungskatalog / Kunsthandwerk, Design, Fotografie ;
Fotografie / Dokumentarfotografie, Geschichte ; Fotografie ; London; Museen ;
Köln; Museen, Cruel and Tender.
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In the Middle of the Night, 150 Neuerwerbungen seit 1996. Katalog zur
Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2005:
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 150 Neuerwerbungen seit 1996 Seit 1996 bilanziert die
Kunsthalle Bielefeld 150 Neuerwerbungen, von Pablo Picasso zu Hiroshi Sugimoto,
von Edvard Munch zu Jonathan Meese.
Die erworbenen Arbeiten, darunter mehr als zwanzig Skulpturen, mehr als dreißig
Gemälde und circa vierzig Fotografien, wurden bisher nur wenig oder noch nie
gezeigt.
Das umfangreiche Werkverzeichnis aller Erwerbungen, Kunstgeschenke und
Dauerleihgaben präsentiert diese Werke nun der Öffentlichkeit und stellt damit
das engagierte bürgerliche Selbstverständnis und den heutigen Sammlungsauftrag
des ehemals städtischen Museums zur Diskussion.
Künstler Diane Arbus, Jean Arp, Vanessa Beecroft, Louise Bourgeois, George
Condo, Olafur Eliasson, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Peter Fischli/David Weiss,
Adam Fuss, Carl Hofer, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Frantisek Kupka, Robert Longo,
Jonathan Meese, Georg Muche, Matthias Müller, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Pablo
Picasso, Man Ray,, Künstler ; Ausstellungskatalog / Kunst (allgemein) ;
Ausstellungskataloge; Kunst ; Bielefeld; Museen ; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, In the
Middle of the Night
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Frauen sehen Frauen. Sonderausgabe, Eine Bildgeschichte der Frauen-Photographie
von Julia Margaret Cameron bis Inez van Lamsweerde. Mit e. Essay v. Elisabeth B:
Unsere Anthologie Frauen sehen Frauen, die große Frauenbilder weiblicher
Photographen versammelt, ist mittlerweile zu einem gefragten Standardwerk
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Frauen sehen Frauen. Sonderausgabe, Eine Bildgeschichte der Frauen-Photographie
von Julia Margaret Cameron bis Inez van Lamsweerde. Mit e. Essay v. Elisabeth B:
Unsere Anthologie Frauen sehen Frauen, die große Frauenbilder weiblicher
Photographen versammelt, ist mittlerweile zu einem gefragten Standardwerk
geworden. Sie folgt anhand ausgesuchter Bildbeispiele der Fragestellung, ob es
so etwas wie einen 'weiblichen' Blick in der Photographie gibt. Umfassend
geraten hier die vier großen Themenbereiche der sozialen Realität, der Familie,
des weiblichen Körpers und der virtuellen Realität mit ihren vielseitigen
Bildern aus Literatur, Mode, Tanz und Showbusiness ins Blickfeld.Der zeitliche
Rahmen der Betrachtung ist ebenfalls weit gespannt: Sie beginnt mit den beiden
großen Photographinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts, Lady Clementine Hawarden und Julia
Margaret Cameron, und führt über einen Zeitraum von mehr als 100 Jahren bis in
die unmittelbare Gegenwart.Mit einem Einführungstext der Kunst- und
Kulturkritikerin Elisabeth Bronfen und rund 160 Photographien von mehr als 70
Photographinnen - unter ihnen Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus,, Erotik / Fotobände
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The Heartbeat of Fashion, Katalog zur Ausstellung im Haus der Photographie,
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2006/2007:
Das Buch präsentiert Fotografien aus dem Zeitraum von 1860 bis ins Jahr 2006 der
Sammlung F. C. Gundlach, aus der Sicht des Sammlers selbst, und macht damit die
sich verändernde Zeitzeugenschaft des Mediums Fotografie sichtbar. Einen
Schwerpunkt bilden Fotografien, die das Bild des Menschen im Medium seiner
äußeren Erscheinung reflektieren, also der Moden, der Posen, der Mimik und der
Gestik. Die der Sammlung zu Grunde gelegte Definition von ¿Mode¿ als ¿Zeitgeist¿
verlangt dabei zugleich eine Berücksichtigung auch jener Fotografien, die nicht
als Modefotografien im engeren Sinne zu interpretieren sind, jedoch
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konstant sein Konzept veränderte, andere Schwerpunkte setzte und auf
gesellschaftliche Veränderungen reagierte.Beteiligte Fotografinnen und
Fotografen: Hill und Adamson, Madame d¿Ora, George Hoyningen-Huene, Yva, Regina
Relang, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Ro, Fotografie /
Modefotografie ; Fotografie ; Modefotografie ; Hamburg; Museen ;
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In the Middle of the Night, 150 Neuerwerbungen seit 1996. Katalog zur
Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2005:
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 150 Neuerwerbungen seit 1996 Seit 1996 bilanziert die
Kunsthalle Bielefeld 150 Neuerwerbungen, von Pablo Picasso zu Hiroshi Sugimoto,
von Edvard Munch zu Jonathan Meese.
Die erworbenen Arbeiten, darunter mehr als zwanzig Skulpturen, mehr als dreißig
Gemälde und circa vierzig Fotografien, wurden bisher nur wenig oder noch nie
gezeigt.
Das umfangreiche Werkverzeichnis aller Erwerbungen, Kunstgeschenke und
Dauerleihgaben präsentiert diese Werke nun der Öffentlichkeit und stellt damit
das engagierte bürgerliche Selbstverständnis und den heutigen Sammlungsauftrag
des ehemals städtischen Museums zur Diskussion.
Künstler Diane Arbus, Jean Arp, Vanessa Beecroft, Louise Bourgeois, George
Condo, Olafur Eliasson, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Peter Fischli/David Weiss,
Adam Fuss, Carl Hofer, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Frantisek Kupka, Robert Longo,
Jonathan Meese, Georg Muche, Matthias Müller, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Pablo
Picasso, Man Ray,, Künstler ; Ausstellungskatalog / Kunst (allgemein) ;
Ausstellungskataloge; Kunst ; Bielefeld; Museen ; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, In the
Middle of the Night
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Cruel and Tender., Zärtlich und Grausam - Fotografie und das Wirkliche.:
Cruel and Tender vereint Arbeiten von über zwanzig Fotografinnen und Fotografen,
die im Bereich der wirklichkeitsbeschreibenden Fotografie im 20. und beginnenden
21. Jahrhundert stilbildend gearbeitet haben beziehungsweise arbeiten.
Umfassende Werkgruppen von Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd und
Hilla Becher, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Walker
Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky, Boris
Mikhailov, Martin Parr, Nicholas Nixon, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Thomas Ruff,
August Sander, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Michael Schmidt, Thomas Struth und
Garry Winogrand werden präsentiert. Allesamt Künstler, die besonders stark an
der Darstellung ungeschminkter Realität interessiert sind. Ihre Beiträge sind
gekennzeichnet durch betont sachliche Fotografien, die aber bei genauerer
Betrachtung deutlich persönliche Handschriften sowie ein ausgeprägtes Interesse
am Aufnahmegegenstand erkennen lassen. Auf dieses Paradoxon von Distanz und
Engagement weist auc, Ausstellungskatalog / Kunsthandwerk, Design, Fotografie ;
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Köln; Museen, Cruel and Tender.
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Cruel and Tender., Zärtlich und Grausam - Fotografie und das Wirkliche.:
Cruel and Tender vereint Arbeiten von über zwanzig Fotografinnen und Fotografen,
die im Bereich der wirklichkeitsbeschreibenden Fotografie im 20. und beginnenden
21. Jahrhundert stilbildend gearbeitet haben beziehungsweise arbeiten.
Umfassende Werkgruppen von Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd und
Hilla Becher, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Walker
Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky, Boris
Mikhailov, Martin Parr, Nicholas Nixon, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Thomas Ruff,
August Sander, Fazal Sheikh, Stephen Shore, Michael Schmidt, Thomas Struth und
Garry Winogrand werden präsentiert. Allesamt Künstler, die besonders stark an
der Darstellung ungeschminkter Realität interessiert sind. Ihre Beiträge sind
gekennzeichnet durch betont sachliche Fotografien, die aber bei genauerer
Betrachtung deutlich persönliche Handschriften sowie ein ausgeprägtes Interesse
am Aufnahmegegenstand erkennen lassen. Auf dieses Paradoxon von Distanz und
Engagement weist auc, Ausstellungskatalog / Kunsthandwerk, Design, Fotografie ;
Fotografie / Dokumentarfotografie, Geschichte ; Fotografie ; London; Museen ;
Köln; Museen, Cruel and Tender.
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The Heartbeat of Fashion, Katalog zur Ausstellung im Haus der Photographie,
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2006/2007:
Das Buch präsentiert Fotografien aus dem Zeitraum von 1860 bis ins Jahr 2006 der
Sammlung F. C. Gundlach, aus der Sicht des Sammlers selbst, und macht damit die
sich verändernde Zeitzeugenschaft des Mediums Fotografie sichtbar. Einen
Schwerpunkt bilden Fotografien, die das Bild des Menschen im Medium seiner
äußeren Erscheinung reflektieren, also der Moden, der Posen, der Mimik und der
Gestik. Die der Sammlung zu Grunde gelegte Definition von ¿Mode¿ als ¿Zeitgeist¿
verlangt dabei zugleich eine Berücksichtigung auch jener Fotografien, die nicht
als Modefotografien im engeren Sinne zu interpretieren sind, jedoch
Zeitzeugenschaft reflektieren. Darüber hinaus zeigt das Buch, wie F. C. Gundlach
konstant sein Konzept veränderte, andere Schwerpunkte setzte und auf
gesellschaftliche Veränderungen reagierte.Beteiligte Fotografinnen und
Fotografen: Hill und Adamson, Madame d¿Ora, George Hoyningen-Huene, Yva, Regina
Relang, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Guy Bourdin, Ro, Fotografie /
Modefotografie ; Fotografie ; Modefotografie ; Hamburg; Museen ;
Ausstellungskataloge; Fotografie, The Heartbeat of Fashion
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In the Middle of the Night, 150 Neuerwerbungen seit 1996. Katalog zur
Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2005:
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 150 Neuerwerbungen seit 1996 Seit 1996 bilanziert die
Kunsthalle Bielefeld 150 Neuerwerbungen, von Pablo Picasso zu Hiroshi Sugimoto,
von Edvard Munch zu Jonathan Meese. Die erworbenen Arbeiten, darunter mehr als
zwanzig Skulpturen, mehr als dreißig Gemälde und circa vierzig Fotografien,
wurden bisher nur wenig oder noch nie gezeigt. Das umfangreiche Werkverzeichnis
aller Erwerbungen, Kunstgeschenke und Dauerleihgaben präsentiert diese Werke nun
der Öffentlichkeit und stellt damit das engagierte bürgerliche Selbstverständnis
und den heutigen Sammlungsauftrag des ehemals städtischen Museums zur
Diskussion. Künstler Diane Arbus, Jean Arp, Vanessa Beecroft, Louise Bourgeois,
George Condo, Olafur Eliasson, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Peter Fischli/David
Weiss, Adam Fuss, Carl Hofer, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Frantisek Kupka, Robert
Longo, Jonathan Meese, Georg Muche, Matthias Müller, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde,
Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Christia, Künstler ; Ausstellungskatalog / Kunst
(allgemein) ; Ausstellungskataloge; Kunst ; Bielefeld; Museen ; Kunsthalle
Bielefeld, In the Middle of the Night
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Points of View: Masterpieces of Photography and Their Stories:
The triumphal march of photography into the halls of art has proceeded
unhindered since the early 1970s: no other medium has risen in the public's
esteem in quite the same way. The story of its success cannot be separated from
the people who have worked toward its recognition, and who continue to do so.
They include the artists themselves, curators, collectors, gallery owners,
dealers, publicists, and art lovers. This extraordinary compendium brings
together more than 100 masterpieces from the history of photography, each
presented with commentary from one of the more than 10 of those key figures in
the development and reception of the medium, including, among others, John
Szarkowski. Points of View covers artists from Richard Avedon to Yva, from Diane
Arbus to Umbo, and from Bernd and Hilla Becher to Edward Weston, alongside more
than 100 personal statements from those whose expertise and passion have made
the medium a permanent fixture in the art world.
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Human Oddities: Short Stories:
In Human Oddities, by newcomer Noria Jablonski, we meet Siamese twins, newly
separated, drag queens, and seedy hospital orderlies. A corpse washed up on the
beach, cancer diagnoses, and tummy tuck operations all intrude abruptly into
characters' lives; sadness is interrupted by hilarity. Jablonski's characters
cope with the drama of the body and what it means, what it feels like, to be
marked as different. If Ludwig Wittgenstein's belief that the human body is the
best picture of the human soul is right, what does that say about the diseased
body, the less-than-perfect body? Without flinching, Noria Jablonski shows us
the passions and longings of her characters, made more vivid by their bodies in
doubt, on hold, in transit. Her earthy, pungent characters and deadpan narrative
style leave their mark on a reader. With the blunt, gritty impact of a Diane
Arbus photograph, these are stories of lives not commonly recorded, and the
characters -- often physically unique, some might say monstrous -- are delivered
with compassion, dignity, and a hopeful, therapeutic humor. Brought to light,
they deepen our understanding of the human condition, revealing us to ourselves.
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Fantastic Tales: The Photography of Nan Goldin (Hardback) - Weinberg,
Jonathan;Robinson, Joyce Henri:
ISBN: 1854376608 Published: Mar 2006 Format: Hardback Pages: 80 Over the last
thirty years Nan Goldin has achieved international fame as a photographer who,
building on the tradition of Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, chronicles the lives
of outsiders. In Goldin's case, those outsiders are her friends and
acquaintances, the inhabitants of a bohemian demi-monde where divisions between
gender and sexual orientation are blurred. Tenderness is coupled with a brutal
honesty only possible through the empathy that exists between photographer and
subject. Instead of concentrating on the documentary aspect of Goldin's work, as
many previous authors have done, Jonathan Weinberg examines the way in which her
photographs operate as 'Fantastic Tales', each containing the seed of a story
for the viewer to explore, including many iconic images, as well as more recent
forays into landscape photography. Produced in a luxuriously bound, eminently
collectable edition, this is a fitting tribute to one of the masters of the
modern-day photographic image. Brief Description: Presents a selection of Nan
Goldin's memorable artworks, produced in collaboration with the artist. This
work includes images, as well as forays into landscape photography.
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Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews:
Through astonishing images and the surprisingly touching words of its subjects,
Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews explores the new sex machine
underground in America and the homespun inventors and users who propel it. After
contacting an active but intensely private Internet community of sex machine
inventors, photographer Timothy Archibald eventually won their trust and was
invited into workshops and homes. The resulting book is a powerful document that
is by turns thought provoking, humorous, and always fascinating. Sex Machines
celebrates the American spirit of invention while exploring the desires and
confusions that exist between men and women in our changing culture. Many of the
inventors seen within these pages are otherwise ordinary family men who were
inspired to help repair strained relationships or simply enhance their wives'
sexual pleasure. Some inventors have expanded their hobby into thriving cottage
industries, selling their creations on eBay and adult stores online. Archibald
covers the broad spectrum of the makers-from the elusive creator of the Sybian,
the forefather of sex machines, to lesser-known inventors like Paul Gaertner,
who, laid off from his job in the high-tech industry, founded a new business by
transforming a thrift store pasta maker into a high-powered sexual appliance.
After receiving an apocalyptic vision of a future without men, Louis Walker
constructs a sex machine prototype for the women survivors. Eric Reynolds
credits his apparatus for saving his marriage, and Jon Traven uses his sex
device as a form of Christian-based marriage counseling. Like the work of Bill
Owens, Studs Terkel, and Diane Arbus, Archibald's photographsand interviews find
unexpected beauty and mystery among the lives of regular people-this time, as
they engender a new form of marriage enhancement and sexual liberation in the
suburbs and small towns across America.
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Face to Face: The Art of Portrait Photography:
Great photographers and celebrities come together in this glittering collection
of over 200 iconic portraits. In Face to Face Paul Ardenne sharpens our
awareness of what it means to be photographed, to be taken hostage by the
photographic image. He explores questions of authenticity, value, and the
capacity for a portrait to create an illusion. The photographs, by the greatest
names in photography, have been carefully juxtaposed to demonstrate the
diversity of photographic styles. Photographs by: Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney,
Cecil Beaton, Constantin Brancusi, Harry Callahan, Sophie Calle, Robert Capa,
Larry Clark, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, David Hockney,
Dorothea Lange, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mappelthorpe,
Yasumasa Morimura, Helmut Newton, Orlan, Pierre & Gilles, Man Ray, Bettina
Rheims, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, William WegmanFeaturing:
Mao Tse-tung, Che Guevara, Abraham Lincoln, Lady Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed, Fidel
Castro, Jacqueline Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Marcel Duchamp,
Catherine Deneuve, Billie Holiday, Greta Garbo, Man Ray, Georgia O'Keefe,
Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner, Kate Moss, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marilyn
Munroe, Ingrid Bergman, Uma Thurman, David Bowie, Brooke Shields, Robert
Redford, Sylvester Stallone, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Elton John, Sammy
Davis Jr., Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Keith Richards, John Lennon and Yoko
Ono, Liza Minelli, Bianca Jagger, Barry Manilow
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The Royal Scam:
When they concocted The Royal Scam, in 1976, Donald Fagen and Walter
Becker were under the influence of "a seemingly inexhaustible supply of
whatever" (as they put it in their notes to the 1999 reissue), which surely
helped them summon the on-the-edge characters who populate the album. "Kid
Charlemagne," which describes the misadventures of a San Francisco acid dealer
who has run out of customers and time, introduces a song cycle on which making a
getaway is high on the agenda of practically every one of the protagonists.
These urban desperadoes are captured by Fagen and Becker in vignettes as sharply
focused and unromanticized as Diane Arbus photos -- such as the conjugal
combatants of "Everything You Did," one of whom interrupts the hurling of
recriminations to civilly suggest, "Turn up the Eagles/The neighbors are
listening."The individual performances seem to rise out of the narrative itself,
thanks to the rarefied capabilities of the hired studio help; having dispensed
with their original lineup three years earlier, Fagen and Becker assembled a
talent pool composed primarily of jazz specialists who showed they could rock
and swing all at once when so inspired. Drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie lashes
out the roiling grooves on most of the nine tracks, establishing the album's
anxious feel, and Larry Carlton's jaw-dropping guitar work provides a running
commentary to Fagen's strangulated vocals, notably on the noir rocker "Don't
Take Me Alive," in which the howling, jagged opening riff brutally articulates
the psyche of a bookkeeper's son gone wild. On "Haitian Divorce," Dean Parks'
extended guitar solo is transformed by Becker's talk-box manipulation into the
quintessence of henpecking. These are not the sort of Steely Dan songs favored
by smooth-jazz stations. The Royal Scam vividly encapsulates that
post-Watergate/pre-punk/coked-up moment when you could trust no one, least of
all yourself. (RS 959 - Oct. 14, 2004)
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Fat Girl: A True Story:
For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how
she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to
fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl
is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss.
From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F.
K.Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore's deep longing
for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks,
saddens and tickles.
“Frank, often funny—intelligent and entertaining.”
—Vick Boughton, People (four out of four stars)
“Moore's unflinching memoir sets a new standard for literature about women and
their bodies. Grade:A.”
—Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly (editor's choice)
“Searingly honest without affectation . . . Moore emerged fromher hellish
upbringing as a kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera.”
—Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, The Seattle Times
“Stark . . . lyrical, and often funny, Judith Moore ambushes you on the very
first page, and in short order has lifted you up and broken your heart.”
—Peg Tyre, Newsweek
“God, I love this book. It is wise, funny, painful, revealing, and profoundly
honest.”
—Anne Lamott
“Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life
in the fat lane.”
—David Sedaris
“A slap-in-the-face of a book—courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly
funny.”
—Augusten Burroughs
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