PHOTO BOOKS - Page 5

Franco Vimercati
Edizioni Stella

Carlo Borlenghi; Andrea Vitali
Cinquesensi

Vittorio Storaro
Arti Grafiche Marchesi

Luigi Veronesi
Fotografia Italiana

Naomi Campbell
Rizzoli

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Nathan

Madeleine Félix
Editoriale Jaca Book

Guido Argentini
teNeues Publishing Company

The sculpture of Michelangelo, Rodin, and Brancusi, serve as the inspiration for Guido Argentini's masterly photographs of the female nude. Published together for the first time in this breathtaking collection taken over a period of seventeen years, Argentini's astute focus on the female form achieves the transformation of bodies into objects of art. We are presented with two distinct series of spectacular photos. The first is shot in locations around the world in a way that fuses the body with the landscape while in the second, dancers and gymnasts are photographed in contorted positions in the studio. Covered with a veil of oil or a coat of metallic paint and exquisitely lit, the bodies leap off the page with an astounding three dimensionality.

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Gordon Fraser

Francesca Galliani
Il Torchio

Raul Corrales
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Patrizia Nuvolari
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Salvatore Cortese
Eurograf

Fulvio Roiter
Thames and Hudson

Elliot Erwitt
Phaidon

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AA.VV.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of the original. While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate their representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. They process their subject matter through conceptual systems or use digital processes to alter their images. Some directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their quiet presence in it; others fabricate entire architectural environments for the camera lens. This current state of the arts and its recent history are represented via more than 150 works by 55 artists, including Nam June Paik, Kara Walker, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Fischli & Weiss, Ann Hamilton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida H fer, Thomas Ruff, J rge Sasse, Thomas Struth, Olafur Eliasson, Roni Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Matthew Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Sam Taylor-Wood, Oliver Boberg, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Vanessa Beecroft, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patty Chang, Trisha Donnelly, Stan Douglas, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, John Pilson and Gillian Wearing.

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Bosz

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Cierre Grafica

Paesaggi insoliti di grande fascino, riprese aeree e subacquee, vegetazioni particolari, una grande ricchezza faunistica, un mondo a noi vicino eppur sconosciuto. Gli ambienti trattati sono: scanni e litorali, valli salse, saline e lagune. Una visione poetica del Delta e non solo: le immagini di grande qualità tecnica sono corredate di didascalie esplicative a pié pagina. I testi sono curati da docenti universitari e grandi esperti. Con presentazione di G. A. Cibotto e prefazione di Oliviero Toscani.

Alberto Stabile, Laura Barreca
Museo civico Castelbuono

Giulia Pirelli, Carlo Orsi
Bruno Alfieri Editore

Giordano Morganti
Silvana Editoriale

Ferdinando Scianna
Franco Sciardelli

Gabriella Nessi Parlato, Gianni Berengo Gardin
Edition Raetia