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Text engl. Issued also in French under the same title.

Dt. Ausgabe 50 Jahre Israel in magnum Photographien. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1998. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 09.2001.

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Text dt., engl. - [Text at Schaden.com:] „Eine Wiederentdeckung aus dem Jahr 1994! James Welling, langjähriger Assistent von John Baldessari und Mr. New Abstractions himself, wurde vom Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg eingeladen, die "Volkswagenstadt" abzulichten. Die S/W-Aufnahmen bewegen sich zwischen Architekturfotografie, Stadtentwicklung, Industriefotografie, Automobilproduktion und der dunklen Vergangenheit des Ortes. J. W. burnt, trotz seines sachlichen und nüchternen Blickes auf die Dinge, oder vielleicht gerade deswegen.“

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Incl. biographies. - "A major traveling exhibition, accompanied by a finely produced book, that reproduces images and writings by fifty of America's leading photographers and writers. The exhibition and book are the result of a five-year project known as the National Millennium Survey. The survey commissioned thirty-five prominent photographers and fifteen nationally recognized writers. Among the fifty artists are a large number of Guggenheim fellows, MacArthur fellows, and Pulitzer Prize winners. The exhibition is devoted to reflections of American life and culture through the vision and interpretation of contemporary photographers and writers. The works in the book and exhibition were produced over the period 1995-2000. The photographic works include documentary series, installations, visual essays, and individual images. The writing includes essays, poetry, and narrative. Among the cultural touchstones represented by the artists are diversity, mobility, family, forces of tradition, ritual, the search for community, immigration, consumerism, the aged, and spiritual continuity." (Publisher).

Published on the occasion of the gift from the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago to The Art Institute of Chicago of the complete set of Beach Portraits (formerly known as 'Bathers'), made between 1992 and 1998, by Rineke Dijkstra. "Tall, skinny, short, round, squat, awkward, slouched, tanned, bashful, and sometimes unknowingly beautiful, the adolescents in Rineke Dijkstra's Beach Portraits stand alone, the ocean rolling behind them. Clad in little more than bathing suits, these young people are striking to behold. Remarkably clear and formally classical, each subject is frontally posed and shot straight on; the resulting photographs participate in a cold, quasi-scientific categorization reminiscent of the work of August Sander and Thomas Ruff. Yet Dijkstra's pictures are not just that - there is also something of the eccentric in them, something that comes closer to Diane Arbus's images. Seen together, the complete series of 20 Beach Portraits creates a kind of collective portrait of the existential insecurity and awkward beauty of youth." Beautifully printed (one plate per sheet), by Meridian Printing. Very scarce. (Antiq. Borrelli, Albuquerque, NM, 04.2005),

Other editions: First edition, first printing, 4000 copies, 2000. 3rd ed., 10.000 copies. 4th ed. 10.000 copies, 6th printing; -From the publisher: "The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small [numhber] of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone-many times a professional photographer-carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. The almost one hundred images reproduced here are a testament to the camera's ability to make us remember what we often choose to forge."

Illustrated with 31 reproductions of Evans's photographs of tenant farmers and their families. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 06.2006.

Text engl. - Los Angeles war in den Jahrzehnten nach der »Great Depression« das Paradebeispiel für eine Stadt voll von Lasterhaftigkeit, Korruption, Gewalt und einige der sensationellsten Verbrechen in der amerikanischen Kriminalgeschichte. Der mysteriöse Tod des Filmstars Thelma Todd und der Mord an den Gangstern »The Two Tonys« aus Kansas City, der von Jimmy »The Weasel« Fratiano begangen wurde, sind charakteristisch für Kriminalfälle, welche die Aufmerksamkeit der ganzen Nation erregten und die mithilfe von Aufsehen erregenden Fotografien der Polizei von Los Angeles festgehalten wurden. Die in einem Warenlager lang vergessenen und neuerdings wiederentdeckten Fotografien aus dem Archiv der Polizei Los Angeles bilden die visuelle Geschichte der Schattenseiten aus der Zeit zwischen den 30er und 60er Jahren nach. Sie werden neben einem Essay des Kurators Tim B. Wride, der die Bedeutung des Archivs für die Sozialgeschichte und die Geschichte der Fotografie diskutiert, von Bildunterschriften aus Polizeiberichten und echten Zeitungsausschnitten begleitet.

Incl. interviews on models’ lifestyles, e.g. drug abuse, addiction etc.

Sealed in plastic wrapper.

Text engl. - New Yorker Alltagsleben in den 70er Jahren.

Text fr., engl. - Fabienne Barre (née 1950 à Grasse, France) est une photographe française. La majeure partie de son travail est axée sur le paysage et ses mutations, réelles ou imaginaires, et sur le corps de la femme à travers ses transformations, choisies ou subies. (S.a. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabienne_Barre). - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 04.2008.