Matera: immagini e documenti

Carlo Mollino
AdArte

Gesualdo Bufalino, Giuseppe Leone
Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri - Bompiani, Sonzogno, Etas

Paul Starosta, Michel Butor
5 Continents Editions

La quatrième de couverture indique : "Graines est un voyage dans l'intimité d'une nature étonnante de beauté. Paul Starosta, photographe naturaliste français, est célèbre pour avoir débusqué et mis en lumière le caractère artistique de la nature. Au fil des 200 superbes photographies de ce livre, il nous ouvre à la beauté et à la complexité recelées même par les plus petites des graines. Pour réaliser ses photographies, il a pu s'appuyer sur les collections de Jean Laty et sur celles de l'association La Voie des fleurs à Draveil, en France. Les formes et les couleurs qu'il nous donne à voir sont infinies et les détails stupéfiants. Certaines graines évoquent des fleurs, d'autres des pierres ou des sculptures, d'autres encore des bijoux créés par un orfèvre imaginaire. Par les jeux d'ombre et de lumière, ces images font ressortir l'aspect artistique, presque magique, de ces petits chefs-d'oeuvre qui contiennent le mystère de la vie, concentré à la fois dans le minuscule et l'infiniment grand. Chacune de ces merveilles en évoquant d'autres, on pense en les voyant à des oeuvres d'art ou à des détails architecturaux. L'homme lui-même est nature, et il a toujours été inspiré par elle - quoique parfois indirectement, voire en s'en défendant - pour produire des créations curieuses ou audacieuses. Grâce à ce livre, vous ne regarderez plus la nature de la même façon."

David Cannon
Rizzoli International

A limited-edition, oversize book containing spectacular photographs-including five-foot-wide foldout panoramas-of the best golf courses from the far reaches of Great Britain and Ireland. This volume showcases stunning panoramic views of nearly one hundred of the most extraordinary historic golf courses: from the incomparable and venerated St. Andrews to the spectacular heaths of Carnoustie Golf Links, Scotland, and from glimpses of grazing sheep at Royal North Devon Golf Club to the rocky coastal vistas of Turnberry Resort. It features over three hundred sumptuous color photographs in full spreads and gatefolds-some measuring over five feet. The images capture the exceptional union of nature and course design, and the singular and unparalleled beauty of the legendary links of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Golf Courses: Great Britain and Ireland is the ultimate luxury gift book of 2011.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
IBM World Trade Corporation

Ed van der Elsken
Fragment Uitgeverij

Mario Cattaneo
s.e.

Ben Watts
Princeton Architectural Press

Ben Watts has rapidly emerged as one of today's top photographers. His collection of photographic moments captured both on assignment and while working on personal projects covers a broad range of subjects, from street photography to fashion shoots, from hip-hop culture to high school wrestlers. Watts's images not only show the personal visual diary of an artist, but provide a new look at what it means to be young and urban. Often with short notes from himself or his subjects scribbled on the photos, or with bits and pieces from the "site" (an airplane boarding pass, an entry ticket), Watts's images are put together in fantastic collages and combinations that are humorous and insightful at the same time.
Big Up is Ben Watts's personal scrapbook reproduced in a large-format book that preserves all the qualities of a photo album. His images--vibrant, energetic, and sensuous--take readers on a photographic journey that stays in mind long after the book has been put down.

Vittorio Storaro
Arti Grafiche Marchesi

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.

Maurizio Galimberti
Elettra Fotolito

Leroy Lucas
New York State Council on the Arts