Evans American Photographs

Papageorge, Tod: Passing Through Eden: Photographs of Central Park. ; 1. Ed.
Steidl, 2007. First edition, first printing. New, mint, unread condition. Hardcover in linen with dustjacket. 176 pages, 125 tritone plates. 305 x 292 mm. Tod Papageorge began to photograph extensively in New York's Central Park in the late 1970s, a few years after he turned from the Leica to medium-format cameras. These pictures, gathered in Passing Through Eden, luminously trace, as Rosalind Krauss has written about Papageorge's work, "photography's capacity to embrace the sensuous richness of physical reality [in order to] come to that fullness which Baudelaire used to call intimacy, when he meant eroticism." From picture to picture, Papageorge constructs a realm that resembles our common world, but that, in its intense marrying of the sensual and poetic, irresistibly calls up the Eden invoked in the book's title. Even more than this, he has edited and sequenced Passing Through Eden to parallel in its first half the opening chapters of Genesis - from the Creation through the (metaphorical) generations that follow on from Cain - before giving over the rest of the book to a virtuosic run of pictures that, from one to the next, might invoke Man before the Flood, Shakespeare's The Tempest, or energetically confirm that the human comedy is alive and well in Central Park.This ambitious book - incorporating work made over the course of 25 years - describes not only Papageorge's remarkable success at making photographs that often read like condensed narratives, but also his bold attempt to weave them into extended sequences that echo shared cultural narratives. It challenges the reader to succumb (or not) to the pleasures of the "fullness" of each individual photograph, while ignoring (or not) the tug of a tale asking to be told. Like Eden itself, this book sets our hunger for beauty against that of knowledge, while reminding us of some of the ways that we read, and come to know, books. Tod Papageorge began to photograph in 1962 at the University of New Hampshire, shortly before he received a degree in English Literature. Since 1979 he has been the Walker Evans Professor of Photography at the Yale University School of Art, where, as the Director of Graduate Studies, he has taught and supervised the course of study of many of the strongest American photographers of the last 25 years. His work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in the collections of more than 30 major museums. In addition, he has written seminal essays on several significant American photographers, including Evans, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and Robert Adams.***************Steidl, Göttingen, 2007. Erstausgabe. Hardcover in Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch. 176 Seiten, 125 Fotos. 305 x 292 mm.

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Ballen, Roger/Pohlmann, Ulrich: Roger Ballen, Retrospektive Katalog zur Ausstellung im Münchner Stadtmuseum, 2010/2011, KERBER, 110 ISBN: 3866784627
For more than 30 years now, American photographer Roger Ballen (born 1950) has been shooting portraits of the impoverished white population of rural South Africa. Likened to the work of master documentarians Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, Ballen's controversial photographs can be brutal, funny, tender and appalling. His day laborers and transients eek out a seemingly wretched existence in the country's so-called Platteland--a hermetically sealed world rarely captured on film. Ballen shoots exclusively in black and white, and portrays his subjects against the backdrop of their own living spaces, whose spartan interiors he transforms into claustrophobic, almost surrealistic stage sets, creating sculptural tableaux with wire, dilapidated furniture, animals and drawings. Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the M xFC;nchner Stadtmuseum, this monograph explores Ballen's extraordinarily expressive brand of photographic mythmaking.

NEUBUCH! 2010. 144 p. w. num. col. ill. 30 cm 300 mm x 300 mm zahlreiche farbige Abbildungen

[KW: Südafrika (Republik),Stadtmuseum München, München; Museen, Fotografen/-innen (Einz.),Ballen, Roger, Ausstellungskataloge; Kunst]

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Evans, Walker: Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary by Walker Evans, John T. Hill, ; 1. Ed.
Steidl, Göttingen. 2006. First edition, first printing. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. Hardcover with dustjacket. 237 x 244 mm. 260 pages. 200 tritone plates. Edited by John T. Hill. Walker Evans' work was spread over forty-six fitful and prolific years, yet in a scant two years, 1935-1936, he produced a singular body of work that defined his career. In the process he refined a hybrid style which combined documentation with sly personal comment. During that brief time he worked for the Farm Security Administration (previously the U.S. Resettlement Administration) photographing the consequences of the Great Depression. He delighted in being the artist traveling incognito as an artless photojournalist, but with the independence to satisfy his own designs. This volume presents those seminal images for the first time as a comprehensive body and in chronological order. These are prime examples of Evans' alchemy - his seemingly effortless transformation of mundane fact into sweeping lyricism. This series not only defines his mature style but also offers a path for artists of future generations. Evans has been called the most important American artist of his century. The impact of his vision reaches well beyond the province of photography." (from the publisher) Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and was raised in Kenilworth, Illinois. He attended the Loomis School, Phillips Academy, and Williams College. After a short time working at the New York Public Library, he traveled to Paris, where he audited courses at the Sorbonne and immersed himself in the writings of Flaubert and Baudelaire. He returned to New York in 1927 and began to photograph seriously the following year. His photographs were used to illustrate an edition of his friend Hart Crane's The Bridge in 1930. The same year, at the suggestion of Lincoln Kirstein, he began to document early Victorian houses in New England and New York. These photographs were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1933. Kirstein and Evans collaborated on three books in the following years, and many early Evans images were published in Kirstein's journal Hound & Horn. Evans's first exhibition was held at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932. That same year he provided illustrations for Carleton Beals's book The Crime of Cuba. In 1935 Evans made photographs of African art exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art for distribution to colleges and libraries by the General Education Board. During the Great Depression, Evans began to photograph for the Resettlement Administration, later known as the Farm Security Administration (FSA), documenting workers and architecture in the Southeastern states. In 1936 he traveled with the writer James Agee to illustrate an article on tenant farm families for Fortune magazine; the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men came out of this collaboration. Throughout his career Evans contributed photographs to numerous publications, including three devoted solely to his work. In 1965 he left Fortune, where he had been a staff photographer for twenty years, to become a professor of photography and graphic design at Yale University. He remained in the position until 1974, a year before his death. During his lifetime Evans was the recipient of many awards. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1940 and received an honorary degree from Williams College in 1968. His photographs were exhibited all over the world, including several major shows at the Museum of Modern Art.***************Steidl, Göttingen. 2006. Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; noch original-verschweißt in der Plastikfolie des Verlags. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. 237 x 244 mm. 260 Seiten. 200 Tritone Abbildungen. Editiert von John T. Hill.

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Papageorge, Tod: American Sports, 1970 or How We Spent the War in Vietnam. ; 1. Ed.
Aperture, New York. 2007. First edition, first printing. New, mint, unread condition; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. Hardcover with jacket. 310 x 275 mm (11.75 x 10 inch). 128 pages. 75 tritone images. "Coolly observational yet intensely engaging, American Sports, 1970 draws a subtle but sharp parallel between the war in Vietnam and the American attitude toward spectator sports during a time of conflict. In 1970, a watershed year for popular opinion against the war, Tod Papageorge was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant. His ostensible subject-sports and its role in American life-quickly became charged with the political, racial, and sexual conflicts ignited by the war. Picture after picture is electric with disquiet: military men in uniform parading on the field or relaxing in the stands; cheerleaders rehearsing under the eyes of police; a couple sprawled and embracing in the debris of the Indianapolis 500; and hundreds of fans, drawn in unsettling group portraits, at various stadiums and in the stands of many classic American sporting events.Papageorge eloquently captured the palpable civic and psychic distress of the time on the faces of his subjects and in their gestures and interactions. This is a remarkable, unexpected body of work-published here for the first time-by a photographer and teacher who has shaped the creative efforts of many of the most influential American photographers of the past three decades. This project was made possible, in part, with generous support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation." (from the publisher) Tod Papageorge (born 1940, Portsmouth, New Hampshire) earned his BA in English literature from the University of New Hampshire, in 1962, where he began taking photographs during his last semester. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. In 1979 Papageorge was named Yale University's Walker Evans Professor of Photography and director of graduate studies in photography, positions he continues to hold today.***************Aperture, New York. 2007. Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Neu, ungelesen, verlagsfrisch; noch original-verschweißt in der Plastikfolie des Verlags. Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag. 310 x 275 mm. 128 Seiten. 75 Triotone Fotos.

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