Individual photographers Books
Hirmer Verlag Maurice Weiss: Facing Time
Book SynopsisBorn in Perpignan in southern France in 1964, the photographer and photojournalist Maurice Weiss now lives in Berlin. His work is published regularly in important journals and magazines across Europe. From still portraits to significant and often iconic moments in world history, this publication draws together some of Weiss's most striking images.
£28.88
Hirmer Verlag Jean Pagliuso: Poultry Suite
Book SynopsisThe American artist Jean Pagliuso, who was born in 1941, explores an unusual subject in her most recent experimental photographs: chickens. Over twenty breeds modelled for her in her studio, resulting in insightful black-and-white photographs that present the birds in their unmistakable glory. Jean Pagliuso has created portraits of the world of fashion and of fi lm since the 1970s. She has worked for Robert Altman, Universal Studios, Disney and other production companies. Magazines such as Vogue, the New York Times and Rolling Stone published her photographs before she dedicated herself entirely to fi ne art photography. The process of making prints and experimenting with darkroom techniques is an essential component of her work as a photographer. The insistence on the purity of technique has led Pagliuso to discover Thai Mulberry paper onto which she hand-applies a silver gelatin emulsion. Here, her unique portraits of chickens reveal to us their beauty, distinctiveness and expression, and ultimately achieve icon status.
£25.50
Hirmer Verlag Christine Ljubanovic: Conversation Portraits:
Book SynopsisChristine Ljubanovic’s portrait photographs of famous artists, curators, critics and writers lie between classic portraits and experience reports. Developed as a complete contact sheet, they are living reports of the artists’ encounters and also include the environment of the subject of the portrait. The publication shows for the first time an overview of conversation portraits by Christine Ljubanovic which have been created over the past forty years. During this time she met, amongst others, Thomas Hirschhorn, Gisèle Freund, Yoko Ono, Peter Weibel, Arnulf Rainer, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Alfred Pacquement and Raoul Schrott, who has also contributed a poem to the volume. With the selection of 60 portraits she has thus produced a comprehensive picture of today’s artistic and cultural scene. In each case the artist and the subject of the portrait chose the meeting place together, so that it provides the framework for the photographic conversation.
£22.50
Hirmer Verlag Grey Matter(s)
Book SynopsisColours are only reflected light, assembled in our brains, which is also known as “grey matter”. Tom Jacobi spent two years photographing archaic landscapes throughout the world. He discovered mystic places that had been created by nature over the millennia and that are nonetheless timeless. When photographed in the twilight world they unfold their immortal power. In 2014 the English newspaper The Guardian declared grey as the “colour of the decade”. In his latest publication Tom Jacobi, photographer of our best-seller “Wo Gott wohnt” (2000), reduces “our world to the essential; our blue planet is in reality a grey one. No colour pyrotechnics, no distraction, pure introspection and meditation. In is a miracle,” observes Bryan Adams. From Europe to Africa, from Australia to the Antarctis and from the USA to Patagonia we follow the long-standing Art Director of Stern on his journey to the timeless beauty of nature. Monumental, moving and penetrating into the very heart of things, we encounter landscapes which teach us to gaze in wonder and awe.
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag Últimos Testigos: The Last Rebellion of the Maya
Book SynopsisBetween 1847 and 1935 the Maya on the Yucatán peninsula rebelled against their oppression and were eventually defeated by Mexican troops. The Canadian photographer Serge Barbeau has visited the descendants of those Maya rebels. This volume reproduces in oversize format his expressive portraits documenting their desire for independence. Serge Barbeau, who has lived in Mexico for many years, visited the descendants of those militant Maya. They continue to experience the consequences of the dispute to this day and lead a life full of economic, social and cultural disadvantages. The full-page portrait photos are full of detail and show in a moving way the traces of life which have become engraved in the faces of the portrait subjects, the oldest of whom was 107 years old. Their tales remind us of the exploitation, forced labour and the confiscation of land at the time and document the desire for independence which remains unbroken to this day. They also tell of their deep roots in their faith, which unites the Maya heritage and the Christian religion. An impressive act of homage to the Maya of Yucatán.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Katharina Sieverding: Art and Capital
Book SynopsisThe German photographer Katharina Sieverding is one of the celebrated international artists who made use of unusual pictorial invention and innovative media - based artistic praxis from an early stage in order to revive the artistic potential of photography. This volume, designed to a large extent by the artist herself, presents 42 groups of works from the years 1967 – 2017 . Sieverding became famous for the unparalleled consistency with which she h as applied her greatlyenlarged portraits in film and photographs since the 1960 s by manipulating them in a variety of ways. Since the 1970 s she has developed large - format montages on the state of the world whichwere presented to the public for the first ti me at documenta 6 in 1977 . In doing so she challenges the accelerated picture processes of the present day in a critical manner and in the light of responsibility, also towards herself. Her oeuvre is spotlighted from all angles in illustrations of herworks , details and installation photos as well as texts on the use of media, the self - portrait and analogue and digital photography
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag Ted Partin: Eyes Look Through You
Book SynopsisIn his photographic work, Ted Partin devotes himself to the image of the human being, one of the great emotional core themes of photographic history. Partin's view of a youthful American society is presented for the first time in a museum context.
£23.80
Hirmer Verlag Elia Alba: The Supper Club
Book SynopsisElia Alba’s The Supper Club photographic portrait series depicts U.S. - based artists of colour. Alongside the portraits are excerpts from dinner conversations addressing issues that relate to race and visual culture on themes including sanctuary, policin g, post - black identity and intersectional identities connecting gender, race and privilege. Elia Alba’s The Supper Club focuses on racial politics and visual culture. Curated by Sara Reisman for The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, The Supper Club is c omprised of socially - engaged dinners and portraits of artist participants. She began photographing artists of color like LaToya Ruby Frazier and Mickalene Thomas in 2012. To give voice to her community Alba hosted dinners, 25 so far, with themes like Balt imore, Race and Identity (in honor of Freddy Gray) and Racial Subjugation in Latin America. Inspired by Vanity Fair’s “Hollywood Issue,” Alba’s portraits capture each artist’s unique voice, transforming them into iconic images.
£21.21
Hirmer Verlag Form and Light: From Bauhaus to Tel Aviv
Book Synopsis"Yigal Gawze’s photographs capture the abstraction, the simplicity and the optimism of early modernism in Tel Aviv. He distils the essence of the Bauhaus to bring it alive in a modern city and concentrates on the subtle effects of natural light upon architecture, a technique that the masters of the modern movement themselves applauded." - Nonie Niesewand, design editor & author The fragment - an essential part of the structure which carries within it the genetic code of the whole, is in the core of this visual inquiry depicting Tel Aviv’s White City. The encounter between a building style originating in Europe and the Mediterranean glare, is highlighted by the colour photography. While paying homage to the Bauhaus spirit and the avant-garde photographers of the 1920s, it is also a tribute to past ideals and present renewal, enhancing the current relevance of the Modern Movement in an exceptional urban setting. The images add up to create a portrait of a place by revealing the poetic essence of its architecture and the role light takes in shaping it.
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag True to the Eyes: The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum
Book SynopsisThis catalogue presents more than 200 photographs from the eclectic and exceptional collection of Howard and Carole Tanenbaum. Spanning the history of the medium, this richly illustrated book reveals a deeply personal and socially aware approach to collecting, ranging from anonymous 19th century daguerreotypes to iconic works from the 20th century. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an accompanying exhibition at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, Canada, presents a selection of more than 200 photographs from the eclectic collection of Howard and Carole Tanenbaum. This richly illustrated book includes an interview with the collectors and essays exploring their deeply personal and socially aware approach to collecting. True to the Eye highlights a range of photographic practice, from anonymous 19th century daguerreotypes, tintypes and albums to iconic works by Brassaï, Diane Arbus as well as more recent photography by Edward Burtynsky and Jim Goldberg.
£32.00
Hirmer Verlag Aenne Biermann
Book SynopsisAenne Biermann is regarded as one of the important avant-garde photographers of the twentieth century. Together with Bauhaus artists like Lucia Moholy and Florence Henri she was represented in the pioneering exhibitions of the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1930 Franz Roh, the art critic and early patron of Biermann, dedicated to her the legendary monograph designed by Jan Tschichold “Aenne Biermannˑ60 Fotos ”which is now being published again as a reprint with commentary. As early as 1928, Franz Roh referred to the “remarkable” photo artist Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), who attracted the attention of experts with her close-up pictures of plants. In the following years the photographer, an autodidact, became an important artist of photographic modernism. Her works created a haunting and aesthetically fascinating pictorial world with close-up views, extreme detail shots and lighting contrasts. She mostly found her motifs in her immediate vicinity: in addition to numerous still lifes with everyday objects and nature photos, she also repeatedly photographed her children, their object world and their activities. Many originals were lost during the Second World War, including the 60 photos in this publication. The authorised reprint of this volume is a tribute to a great artist of the modern age.
£17.95
Hirmer Verlag Abe Frajndlich: New York City
Book SynopsisThe American photographer Abe Frajndlich has close connections with New York. He describes the cityas his muse and repeatedly records it and its people in haunting photographs.This volume shows selected, highly personal images which are very different from the ubiquitous postcardsand poster views, which is lavishly illustrated in this book. Abe Frajndlich (*1946, Frankfurt am Main) is known internationally for his portraits of famous people such as Jack Lemmon and Stephen Hawking. Since moving to New York in 1984 the city itself has been one of his principal subjects. He is fascinated by its radiance and watches spellbound how it changes and reinvents itself on a daily basis. The result is a multi-faceted picture: the black-and-white photographs aresometimes perceptive, sometimes thoughtful, and sometimes witty or quirky –but they are always a declaration of love to New York.
£29.75
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Die Fotografinnen Nini Und Carry Hess
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£35.91
Hirmer Verlag Louis Alphonse Poitevin: 1819-1882
Book SynopsisLouis Alphonse Poitevin was an outstanding inventor, chemist, engineer, scientist, artist and photographer. This publication provides a unique opportunity to cast a wide-ranging gaze at the life and work of the famous pioneer of photography on the basis of a large number of photographs and the results of the latest research. For over 35 years Poitevin (1819–1882) experimented with chemical and mechanical processes in order to make photographs printable and more durable. Poitevin recognised how important photography would become as a means of illustrating printed books. He developed the first practicable processes which could be applied in order to make the printing of books illustrated with photos possible for the very first time. This volume assembles photographs and the results of experiments which permit a comprehensive insight into Poitevin’s work and which set his achievements in a technical and art-historical context.
£23.96
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Meret Oppenheim: Mon Exposition
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£35.91
Hirmer Verlag Clifford Ross: Sightlines
Book SynopsisClifford Ross’s photographic and video practices over the past thirty years reveals one of the most incisive and technically sophisticated investigations of the nature of vision in the medium’s history. Sightlines showcases the range and depth of Clifford Ross’s art by presenting the inexhaustible variety of visual experience he has created with two primary subjects: mountain and sea. In our era of unprecedented environmental peril, his inventive exploration of the iconic subjects of the mountain and the sea convey powerful creative engagement with the landscapes that are both majestic and fragile.
£28.00
Hirmer Verlag Olmsted Trees (Bilingual edition): Stanley
Book SynopsisFrederick Law Olmsted (1822 – 1903) is considered as the father of landscape architecture in the United States and created several renowned urban parks and park systems around the country. With a stunning black and white series of trees by Stanley Greenberg dating to the beginnings of these parks this volume offers an intimate encounter with Olmsted, his motifs and heritage. Central Park in New York, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, park systems in Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Rochester and Louisville – trees have been essential elements of all of Olmsted’s park designs. New York-based photographer Stanley Greenberg pays tribute to them with his portrait series of these beautiful and dignified giants. Three essays by renowned experts on history, sociology and landscape architecture complement the narrative and present an interdisciplinary vision on Olmsted’s achievement.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Pavel Odvody (Bilingual edition): Photography
Book SynopsisThe black and white photographs by Pavel Odvody (*1953) fuse sensibility, memory and fantasy in an original manner. His exploration of the psyche, beyond the body, is what gets under the observer’s skin. Moments of nakedness, staged in magical double exposures, wraithlike patterns or silhouettes of light, reveal the human being in their multifaceted manifestation. The leitmotif in Odvody’s photography is the human being, their physicality, their movement. Odvody experiments with different – even “incorrect” – exposures times, associating rhythm and dance in his pictures: The figure frozen in the photograph turns into a dynamic gestural expression. This volume offers for the first time an overview of the fascinating work of the photographer, who utilizes the phenomenon of light in a balance between figuration and abstraction in an unmistakably personal way.
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag Abe Frajndlich: Seventyfive at Seventyfive: Lives
Book SynopsisSeventy Five at Seventy Five is about the visual working life of US photographer Abe Frajndlich, starting from the 1970s to the present. The book covers his myriad themes and obsessions from portraiture of the famous, the anonymous, to the erotic, and the fantastic. A triumphant compilation of black and white and color photographs, many of which have become icons.
£27.20
Hirmer Verlag Stanley Greenberg: Time Machines
Book SynopsisGuggenheim Award winning photographer Stanley Greenberg has long entranced viewers with his stunning blackandwhite photographs that provide unparalleled access to objects and places that most might otherwise never see.
£31.96
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Lee Miller: Fotografin Zwischen Krieg Und Glamour
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£40.50
Hirmer Verlag Michael Flomen: Photograms and Photographs. 2020
Book SynopsisContemporary cameraless photography from master printer Michael Flomen. Master printer Michael Flomen expands his darkroom out into the wild to create large-scale, avant-garde, cameraless photograms in confluence with nature. From the streets of the world to the wilds of North America, this monograph traces in 182 images and 8 critical essays the evolution of Flomen’s originality of vision. As a way to take on abstraction with photography, Michael Flomen leaves behind the camera and embraces his light-sensitive materials. Elements such as water, the light emitted from fireflies, wind, rain, and other natural phenomena are emblematic of his work. Collaborating with nature, Flomen creates monumental photograms, revealing things we cannot see with the naked eye. The art in this book comes to us at a critical time when humanity is learning to mend its relationship with the environment.
£36.00
Hirmer Verlag Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek: Fade Away
Book SynopsisConcealed, faded and rusting, the signs lie by the roadside. Their text and associative images have lost their connection with reality, as if they had been forgotten in the landscape. The photographer Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek has tracked down these anachronistic remains in Ibiza and presents them in a poetic photo publication as a reminiscence of the past. A man in a hat hurries across the zebra crossing; a girl with plaits on her way to school; signs of restaurants that have long closed down; pictograms of vehicles that have long since ceased to be driven on the road: With her camera Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek releases the obsolete signs on Ibiza from their state of being unheeded. The photographs reveal not only their humorous but also their artistic sides, left behind by time and weather. A photographic gem about impermanence.
£25.46
Hirmer Verlag Moving Pictures Karl Struss and the Rise of
Book SynopsisMoving Pictures examines the Hollywood career of Karl Struss (18861981), a pioneering artist of both still and moving images who reached the highest levels of success in both fields. It tells a multimedia story through photographs, films, and archival objects of how he transitioned from an acclaimed fine art photographer to a leading Hollywood cinematographer. The publication focuses on the thirty years between 1919, when Struss first started working in Hollywood, and the late 1940s, when the breakup of the studio system remade Hollywood. Finally, Moving Pictures will explore Struss's cinematography in the two decades after Sunrise, an era of seismic changes in the film industry that witnessed the introduction of sound and colour film, the solidification and then breakup of the studio system, and the postwar rise of television. In these years, he earned an additional three Oscar nominations and established collaborative relationships with some of Hollywood's biggest directors and star
£33.60
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951-2007
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£63.75
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH Bernd and Hilla Becher: Zeche Hannover
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£59.46
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH Anton Corbijn: Inside the American
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£29.96
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH Saigoku - Pilgrimage of the 33 Temples,
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£999.99
Schirmer Mosel Oktoberfest
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£14.94
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH Barbara Klem - Zeiten Bilder
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£40.80
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm MontSaintMichel
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£62.40
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm Lothar Baumgarten Land of the Spotted Eagle
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£37.35
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm Karl Blossfeldt Photography in the Light of Art
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£86.25
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm Gestaltete Welt. Eine Retrospektive
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£999.99
Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm Living Working Surviving
£42.33
Taschen GmbH Lewis W. Hine. America at Work
Book SynopsisPhotographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874–1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the early 20th century like no other. Combining his training as an educator with his humanist concerns, Hine was one of the earliest photographers to use the camera as a documentary tool, capturing in particular labor conditions, housing, and immigrants arriving on Ellis Island. His images, including those of children in cotton mills, factories, coal mines, and fields, became icons of photographic history that helped to transform labor laws in the United States. This book brings together a representative collection of Lewis W. Hine’s photography from all periods of his work. It spans his earliest forays into social-documentary work through to his more artistic and interpretative late photographs, including his phenomenal images of the construction of the Empire State Building and his symbiotic staging of human and machine as a comment on increasing industrialization. Alongside the near 350 photographs, the book includes an essay by the editor, introducing Hine’s life and pioneering work.Trade Review“Photography can light up darkness and expose ignorance.” * Lewis W. Hine *
£17.00
Taschen GmbH Sebastião Salgado. Arbeiter. Zur Archäologie des
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£60.00
Taschen GmbH Harry Benson. The Beatles
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£14.25
Christoph Merian Verlag Cabaret Bizarre
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£42.00
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia
Book SynopsisNew York to Nova Scotia was originally published in 1986 to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the same name organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has long been out of print. The chronology and personal spirit of Frank's complex career as a photographer and filmmaker are evoked with previously unpublished letters, pictures, reviews and essays as well as 18 photographs by Frank. Some of the letters are by Frank; others were written by photographers and contemporaries, such as W. Eugene Smith, Louis Faurer, Keith Smith, and Gotthard Schuh, and by legendary curators Hugh Edwards and Robert Delpire. Authors of the essays include Walker Evans, Jack Kerouac, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Coles, as well as the exhibition curators, Philip Brookman and Anne W. Tucker. Other entries include Frank's proposal to the Guggenheim Foundation in 1954 that started his legendary journey across America, a letter from an Arkansas State policeman who arrested Frank during his trip to produce the photographs in The Americans, still images from Frank's films, and pictures of Frank throughout his career.
£24.00
Steidl Publishers Roni Horn: Index Cixous, Cix Pax
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£13.50
Steidl Publishers Joel Sternfeld: When It Changed
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£13.50
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Me and My Brother
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£27.20
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: One Hour
Book SynopsisRobert Frank’s film One Hour is a single-take of Frank and actor Kevin O’Connor either walking or riding in the back of a mini-van through a few blocks of Manhattan’s Lower East side. Shot between 3:45 and 4:45 pm on 26 July, 1990 the film presents the curious experience of eavesdropping involuntarily on strangers. It appears to be a document of a journey but is also a kind of stream of consciousness retracing the same patterns and spaces. This book is a reprint of a little-known Frank publication first issued by Hanuman Books in 1992, a tiny book, comprising mainly a transcription of the dialogue heard but also two pages of credits: half a dozen production or crew workers and 27 actors. Unravelling the apparent documentary nature of the film, there is also an acknowledgement that the film has a script (by Frank and his assistant, Michal Rovner), that a conversation heard in a diner is written by Mika Moses, and that Peter Orlovsky’s lines (intercepted by Frank roughly halfway through the hour, in front of the Angelika Cinema on Houston Street) are “total improvisation”.
£9.50
Steidl Publishers David Bailey: Pictures that Mark Can Do
Book Synopsis“Mark is good natured. He finds the best in most things. To explain more would too much. These are just pictures that Mark can do.” David Bailey David Bailey may be a master of the medium but he also readily accepts that photography is technologically driven. The snapshot is a part of our visual culture many photographs have been taken millions of times, with just slight variations, as the identity of the people in a family portrait. Bailey also takes such snaps, images imbued with a sense of ease and freedom yet which in his hands carry much greater weight and significance. He believes these photographs appear so easy that even Mark, his assistant, could have made them – and so this quip became the title of this, his latest book. David Bailey, born in London in 1938, is one of the most successful photographers his generation. His numerous books include Trouble and Strife, Nudes, If We Shadows, The Lady Is a Tramp and David Bailey’s Rock ’n’ Roll Heroes. Steidl published Birth of the Cool, Chasing Rainbows, Locations, Bailey’s Democracy Havana.
£25.50
Steidl Publishers Roni Horn: Herdubreid at Home
Book SynopsisA new book by Roni Horn, Her∂ubrei∂ at Home is a collection of photographs of the landscape of home in Iceland. Her∂ubrei∂, Iceland’s much-loved mountain, and Stéfan V. Jónsson, who painted the mountain throughout his life, are at the center of this work. His paintings of Her∂ubrei∂ have found their way into the homes of Icelanders around the country making it the cultural and geologic leitmotiv and mascot of the island. Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Fundacao Serralves, Porto; Fotomuseum Winterthur and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her recent publications, Dictionary of Water, This is Me, This is You, Cabinet of, If on a Winter’s Night…, Her, Her, Her, & Her, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore), Index Cixous (Cix Pax), Doubt Box (Book IX of To Place) have all been published by Steidl.
£11.70
Steidl Publishers Robert Frank: Paris
Book SynopsisParis – A Short Return is the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. His visit to Paris in 1951 was his second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947 and some of the images he made during that visit have become iconic in the history of the medium. The 80 photographs selected by Robert Frank and Ute Eskildsen suggest that Frank’s experience of the “new world” had sharpened his eye for European urbanism. He saw the city’s streets as a stage for human activity and focused particularly on the flower sellers. His work clearly references Atget and invokes the tradition of the flaneur.
£999.99
Steidl Publishers Is that so Kid: Anjelica Huston David Bailey
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£29.75
