Richard Avedon. Evidence 1944-1994

Kerry William Purcell
Phaidon Press Limited

Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971) is a legend among graphic designers. A Russian who fled the Bolshevik Revolution to settle eventually in Paris and then New York, Brodovitch was one of the pioneers of graphic design in the twentieth century. Brodovitch was Art Director of Harper's Bazaarfor over two decades (1934-58); he designed and produced several exquisite and highly collectable books with collaborators such as Richard Avedon and André Kertész; he was a talented photographer himself; and, through an informal class called the Design Lab in New York, he trained a younger generation of photographers and designers who went on to become famous artists and art directors in their own right. This book is a comprehensive monograph on Brodovitch's life and work, drawing from interviews with a wide spectrum of colleagues and collaborators - and assimilating previously unpublished material from archives and private collections around the world - to offer an in-depth analysis and appreciation of Brodovitch's unique and lasting contribution to the visual arts.

Giorgio Lotti, Giorgio Bassani, Giafranco Fagiuoli
Il Diaframma

Luca Panaro
APM Edizioni

Castro Prieto
Comunidad de Madrid

William Guerrieri, Tiziana Serena
Linea di Confine

Enrico Gusella, Serena Baccaglini
s.e.

Fabrizio Orsi, Marcello Grassi
Skira

Un omaggio fotografico dedicato al piccolo paese emiliano di Luzzara, ai suoi abitanti e alla sua storia, ritratti nelle belle immagini di Fabrizio Orsi, Marcello Grassi. Un progetto contemporaneo a poco più di cinquant'anni dalla campagna fotografica di Paul Strand e a quasi trent'anni da quella di Gianni Berengo Gardin, che ha visto la luce nel volume Un paese vent'anni dopo pubblicato nel 1976. Luzzara, un paese... Con ostinazione, dal tempo in cui Paul Strand e Cesare Zavattini condivisero il soggetto del loro agire creativo, con precisa e severa ostinazione Luzzara mostra il suo volto, che da allora è insieme unico e assoluto.

Mauro Tamburini, Franco Bucci, Franco Martelli
Offset stampa

Umberto Nicola Nicoletti
Mondadori Libri

Nicholas Felton
Die Gestalten Verlag

The stories told with graphics and infographics are now being visualized through photography. Fotoviz shows how these powerful images are depicting correlations, making the invisible visible, and revealing more detail than classic photojournalism. Images are omnipresent in our digital age, but they're worth a closer look. Many of them can tell us stories in new and surprising ways. Fotoviz reveals how infographics and data visualization are currently impacting photography and points to innovative possibilities for the future. Today, data is being visualized through photographic techniques such as long and multiple exposures. Insightful information is being communicated by making a single image out of several different shots or using a 3D perspective. The work featured in Fotoviz, to cite only a few compelling examples, makes invisible Wi-Fi fields visible, allows airport flight activity from a full day to appear as if it were happening at once, and illustrates the average selfietaking behavior of an entire city.

Alfred S. McEwen, Francis Rocard, Xavier Barral
Hatje Cantz Verlag

Ganz gleich ob Cirrus, Cumulus oder Stratus: Sich endlos wandelnd und kaum fassbar, haben die Wolken am Himmel den Menschen von jeher fasziniert. Seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert rücken viele Künstler Wolkenbilder in den Mittelpunkt ihres Interesses, was der reich illustrierte Band anhand von Meisterwerken so unterschiedlicher Künstler wie Caspar David Friedrich, John Constable, William Turner, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Ferdinand Hodler, Gustav Klimt, Emil Nolde, René Magritte, Edward Steichen, Gerhard Richter oder Andy Warhol vor Augen führt. Die Publikation belegt die schier unbegrenzten Assoziationen, die Künstler von der Romantik bis heute mit dem Phänomen der Wolke verbinden, und spannt dabei einen Bogen von der Wolke als Ornament bis zu bedrohlichen Gewitterwolken, von der "Erfindung der Wolken" hin zu künstlich erzeugten Wolkengebilden. Erzählt wird von Metamorphosen und von der "unheimlichen Schönheit" , und es wird sogar die Klangwolke entdeckt.

Steve McCurry
Rizzoli