Individual photographers Books
Hirmer Verlag BUKOWSKI (Bilingual edition): THE SHOOTING. By
Book SynopsisCharles Bukowski, the dirty old man of American literature whose poems and prose are closely interwoven with his life – how does one go about portraying a person like that? In 1985, the young photographer Abe Frajndlich took on this challenge. We can say this much: it was not a job that could be accomplished in one shot. The Shooting presents a photographer’s attempt to zero in on a legend. "That face!” Glenn Esterly exclaims in his essay “The Pock-marked Poetry of Charles Bukowski” included in this volume. Everything fascinating about this monumental author is concentrated in his “look”, as impressively demonstrated by the photographs of Abe Frajndlich, many of them previously unpublished. Portraying Bukowski in color and black and white, he gained the writer’s confidence to the point that he was eventually invited to the wedding of Bukowski and Linda Lee Beighle. Telling the story of this meeting, the publication reproduces the various portrait series, culminating in the photographs of the wedding.
£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag Walk of Fame - Fotografien Von Katharina John
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£26.60
Prestel Bruce Davidson: Magnum Legacy
Book SynopsisBruce Davidson began his love affair with photography at age ten. The son of a hardworking divorced mother, he was a loner who disliked school and had difficulty conforming to the world round him. His camera released him from the boundaries of his youth and opened the doors to a lifetime's work. Vicki Goldberg's authoritative text explores the wide range of his vision and technique, and reveals how his work has played a critical role in twentieth-century photography. The text includes beautifully reproduced images from his most iconic series such as Brooklyn Gang, East 100th Street, Subway, and Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, along with never-before-seen archival material from Davidson's private archive. Davidson's photographs reveal his curiosity about, and empathy for, his subjects; whether he is documenting circuses, gangs, East Harlem tenements, Jewish cafeterias, Welsh miners, or Central Park, Davidson imbues his work with an eye for narrative. His pictures tell stories-and he lets them speak for themselves. The result is a comprehensive and elegantly presented portrait of an artist's life and work.Trade Review"His signature series, brought together in a new biography titled Bruce Davidson: An Illustrated Biography: Magnum Legacy authored by Vicki Goldberg, published by (c)Prestel and available now, chronicled the struggle of alienated Americans and underground culture - from wayward youths in Brooklyn Gang (1959), to the turbulent protests against segregation in Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs (1961-65), and inner-city ghetto life in East 100th Street (1970)." -Dazed "The Magnum Legacy Series is shaping up to be one of the most desirable titles in the plethora of artists monographs." -Amateur Photographer "What comes through this richly textured bio is Bruce Davidson's reliable empathy, whether photographing tenement dwellers in Harlem or scenes of the underside of glamour . . . As Goldberg makes clear in her text, Davidson mastered the art of blending in and slyly capturing moments: 'There is a way to get into any community if you don't knock too loudly, ' he said." -American Photo "[The] monographs are some of my favorites ever published, in particular Brooklyn Gang, East 100th Street, and Subway. One of the things I admire most about [the] work is the deep sense of humanity that exists, a compassion and consideration for the details of people's lives and the dignity of the individual." -Crave "In Bruce Davidson: An Illustrated Biography, writer Vicki Goldberg presents an affectionate, sometimes reverent look at the documentary photographer and the major events and turning points in his career . . . Goldberg is persuasive in positioning Davidson's work between the worlds of art, social documentary, and activism." -PDN Photo District News "Until now Bruce Davidson has been very private about his life, and this biography is the first time he has let anyone in. Through the many conversations he had with Vicki Goldberg during the course of two years, the reader learns about his photographs, but most memorably about his motivations, his emotions, the life behind the pictures, his life with his wife Emily Haas-Davidson and their daughters, and the trajectory that led him to become one of the most respected documentarians of the twentieth century, a man still eager to photograph until now, at 82 years of age." -L'oeil de la Photographie Davidson's work spans many varied topics and pivotal times, but his curiosity and empathy are evident in everything he does.This is a brilliant book that gives the privileged reader an opportunity to ride with Davidson on his journey and see the world through his eyes." -New York Journal of Books "[T]he resulting images offer a complex and timeless portrait of teenage life. What makes Davidson's photographs so compelling is that they stem from patience and an ability to empathize with his subjects." -CNN "Whether it's Southern civil rights activists, a Brooklyn gang, or one of the toughest blocks in East Harlem, he doesn't just photograph a subject, he lives with it.The results are vivid and soulful;... Goldberg is comfortable plotting the trajectory of an utterly idiosyncratic career, and she makes plenty of room for Davidson's unpretentious voice." -Photograph Magazine
£33.25
Prestel Libraries: Candida Höfer
Book SynopsisThis striking book shows the world's most beautiful libraries through Candida Höfer's mesmerizing photographs.No one photographs spaces quite like Candida Höfer and no one has captured better the majesty, stillness, and eloquence of libraries. Traveling around the world, Höfer shows the exquisite beauty to be found in order, repetition, and form--rows of books, lines of desks, soaring shelves, and even stacks of paper create patterns that are both hypnotic and soothing. Photographed with a large-format camera and a small aperture, these razor-sharp images of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the Escorial in Spain, Villa Medici in Rome, the Hamburg University library, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Museo Archeologico in Madrid, to name a few, communicate more than just the superb architecture. Glowing with subtle color and natural light, Höfer's photographs, while devoid of people, shimmer with life and remind us again and again that libraries are more than just repositories for books. Umberto Eco's essay about his own attachment to libraries is the perfect introduction to an otherwise wordless, but sublimely reverent journey.Trade Review“…each large, full-page image compels its viewer to pause and simply stare. Each library is so different, and yet we cannot help but be drawn to them.”—Fine Books & Collections Magazine
£52.00
Prestel In the Limelight: The Visual Ecstasy of NYC
Book SynopsisEichner was a fixture of 1990s New York City nightlife and served as both its official and unofficial photographer in an era before cellphones and selfies. In this book, readers go beyond the velvet ropes and into the spaces that witnessed some of the decade’s most incredible and sought-after parties. Previously unpublished, these intoxicating full-color photographs capture the over-the- top costumes, non-stop dancing, glitter, confetti, sex, drugs, and music that made 90s New York unlike any other place. Celebrities abound, from Leonardo DiCaprio, Dennis Hopper, and Tupac to Joan Rivers, Michael Musto, and Donald Trump. Eichner takes you to many of the city’s hot spots, including the Limelight, the Tunnel, Webster Hall, Club Expo, and Club USA. Texts by famous club owner Peter Gatien and BuzzFeed photo essay editor Gabriel H. Sanchez offer a historic and cultural perspective on an era when New York City was more affordable and every night saw artists, bankers, drag queens, musicians, and poets reveling together.
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Bianca Brunner: Gap in the Real
Book SynopsisBianca Brunner is a young Swiss photographic artist whose work has gained considerable international recognition and acclaim. Following a degree in visual communication at the School of Art and Design Zurich in 1997 she continued her artistic education at the London College of Communication and the Royal College of Art London. In 2005 she was selected to participate in the travelling exhibition 'ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow', concieved by the Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne (Switzerland) and shown also in Milan (2005), New York (2006) and Pingyao (China, 2006). She has been featured also in several group exhibitions in London, Madrid, Germany, Belgium and Italy. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Aperture Foundation (New York City), the University Art Collection (London) and the Musee de l'Elysee (Lausanne, Switzerland), and has been published in several books. Brunner has also been awarded several prizes in the UK and Switzerland. 'Bianca Brunner: Gap in the Real' is the first monograph on Brunner's work, presenting around 50 of her recent images. The majority have not been published before and will be shown for the first time in a solo exhibition at the Bundner Kunstmuseum Chur (Chur, Switzerland) in autumn 2010.
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Tom Haller - Nuggets: American Landscapes
Book SynopsisSwiss photographer Tom Haller has gained wide recognition for his work in portraiture and reportage. Less well known, but equally arresting, are the landscapes Haller has produced during his travels throughout the United States over the course of nearly three decades. His photographs of America - of prairies, mountains, roads and the buildings lining them, motels, stadiums, shops, and abandoned cars - display a traveller's detached, inquisitive, perspective, with Haller directing his gaze at subjects while simultaneously depicting both the promise of these landscapes and the limits to the dreams they inspire. Tom Haller - Nuggets compiles a selection of his American landscapes that reflect the state of the country and the feelings and experiences of its people. Taking Haller's images as his starting point, Christian Seiler draws on his own extensive travels throughout the United States to explore the artist's intentions and the mood of the country as a whole. Text in English and German.
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Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Werner Feiersinger. Overturn
Book SynopsisThe most recent work of renowned Austrian sculptor and photographer Werner Feiersinger is an artistic intervention at the Belvedere 21, Austria's national museum for contemporary art, located in the former Austrian Pavilion for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair that had been transferred to Vienna in 1962. For this extensive sculptural work, Feiersinger took cues from the building's history and architectural details. As is characteristic of his work, the Belvedere 21 intervention combined the artist's deep and broad knowledge of design and architectural history with a laconic, minimalist formal vocabulary. Werner Feiersinger. Overturn documents this ambitious project with drawings and photographs, essays, and an insightful interview with the artist. Together, they shed light on the ways in which the Belvedere 21 intervention reimagines the Pavilion as an autonomous object that nonetheless speaks to fundamental questions about sculpture. In doing so, it undermines conventional ways of seeing. Text in English and German.
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Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Heidi Specker: In Front of: Photographs 2015
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£32.67
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Katharina Sieverding: Photographs Projections
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£26.60
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Natalie Czech: Cigarette Ends: Cat. Kunstverein
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£10.87
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Dora Maurer: See like this and see differently
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£27.08
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Albrecht Fuchs Portraits
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£29.25
Dietrich Reimer Micro Archives
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£30.40
Spector Books Gundula Schulze Eldowy Berlin on a Dogs Night
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£39.90
Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Vera Mercer - New Works
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£999.99
Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsges Erich Hörtnagl To Be a Man
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Kinokuniya Bookstores of America Otsuji Kiyoji Photography
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Rm La Verdadera Historia de Los Superhéroes (the
Book SynopsisLa Verdadera Historia de los Superheroes es una serie de retratos ambientales de las personas que desde los Estados Unidos - en particular en la ciduad de Nueva York - ayudan económicamente a sus comunidades en México y significan una importante fuerza económica en el desarrollo de ambos países. Esta serie consiste de 20 fotografías a color de inmigrantes mexicanos vestidos con los trajes de los superhéroes de la cultura pop norteamericana y los superhéroes de la cultura popular mexicana. Cada superheroe ha sido retratado en su ambiente laborla y la fotografía incluye un pequeño texto con su nombre, el de su comunidad en México, cuánto tiempo tiene trabajando en Nueva York y la cantidad de dinero que manda a México semanalmente. El principal objetivo de esta serie es homenajear al hombre ordinario que sin ningún poder super natural, logra que su comunidad sobreviva y progrese.In our thirst for Hollywood action heroes and caped crusaders, we sometimes overlook the everyday heroes in our midst. U.S.based Mexican photographer Dulce Pinzón (born 1974) pays homage to Mexican immigrant workers in New York, heroes who sacrifice extraordinary hours in extreme conditions for very low wages, all for the sake of families and communities in Mexico who rely on them to survive. The Mexican economy has quietly become dependent on the money sent from workers in the United States, while the U.S. economy has quietly become dependent on the labor of Mexican immigrants. These color photographs present these immigrants in their work environment, but dressed in the costumes of popular American and Mexican superheroes. Short texts present the worker's secret identity, their hometown and the amount of money they send to their families each week.
£34.06
Kaph Books Cinema Cairo Palace
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£51.00
Sebastian Bruno Tara
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£44.46
LIMBO
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£42.35
Ediciones Anomalas Castro Prieto Sucedio entre dos parpados
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£33.50
UN REINO MARAVILLOSO 20222024
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La Fabrica Alberto GarciaAlix Autorretrato
Book SynopsisAlberto Garcia-Alix is considered one of the finest Spanish photographers of the 21st century. Best known for his striking black and white portraits, Garcia-Alix has also captured self-portraits in nearly all his projects. This title presents a collection of his intimate and revealing self-portraits.
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La Fabrica Ragel
Book SynopsisIn his time, Diego Gonzalez Ragel turned his lens on the world of sport, politics, war, and commerce. He was Editor of a military magazine during the years of the Spain's Civil War (1936-1939) and a photographer for the Bank of Spain from 1941 until his death in 1951. This book is dedicated to the photographer Diego Gonzalez Ragel (1893-1951).
£19.42
RM Verlag SL Les Nuits de Place Blanche
£29.41
Rm Verlag, S.L. Cucurrucuc
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£47.49
Rm Carlos Cazalis: Sangre de Reyes
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£48.18
Editorial PM Jungle Check
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Fabrica Editorial, La Traces
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£44.99
La Fabrica Lalibela Near Heaven
Book SynopsisIn this volume, the award-winning photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero presents the images she took in Lalibela, an Ethiopian World-Heritage city of the eleventh century, which is a holy city and an important pilgrimage site for the Coptic Christians of Ethiopia.
£58.74
Promopress Vasco Szinetar: PHotoBolsillo
Book SynopsisThe new volume of the PHotoBolsillo collection focuses its gaze on the Venezuelan photographer Vasco Szinetar, whose career is strongly linked to the history of his country. His passion for culture has led him to portray writers and artists for 40 years, while continuing to develop into the most experimental profile of his work, where he conjures the past and death from an intimate and close experience. With family roots closely linked to Europe, Vasco Szinetar soon discovered his passion for culture in his native Venezuela, which led him in 1979 to become a photographer in the literary supplement of the newspaper El Nacional de Venezuela. Later he studied cinema in London, which allowed him to learn to organize images in order to build a certain syntax. Vasco Szinetar (Caracas, 1958), in addition to his career as a photographer, works as curator, and researcher at the Archivo de Fotografía Urbana de Caracas and publishes poetry and photography books, both his own and those of others.
£21.07
Promopress Utopian Authoresses
Book SynopsisThe book Utopian Authoresses covers the work of the Canarian artist Carmela García from the 1990s to her most recent production, made at the end of 2020. In this volume, co-published with the regional government of Madrid, her videos and photographs focus on the female world, appealing to the need to reconstruct the imaginary collective and review the story of the story from a gender perspective. The images of her works are accompanied by texts by Margarita de Aizpuru, Heide Brown, Sandra Gamarra and a conversation between the artist and Tolo Cañellas.
£32.82
RM Verlag SL A Little Louder
Book SynopsisThe photobook titled A little louder by Abdo Shanan on the protests in Algeria is the result of the I Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Incipiens, organized by the Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus of Menorca. This project whose strength of vision is combined with the universality of the revolts against injustice shows the absence of crowds, flags and banners, despite the ever-present determination of the protesters. From an estranged proximity, Abdo Shanan questions and documents in his own way the “hirak”, the peaceful protest movement that has shaken Algeria since February 22, 2019 and that continues with vigor despite the pandemic. The Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus Incipiens wants to highlight emerging trajectories in journalism that resonate with the ethics of the journalist that Albert Camus was.Among the 16 finalist proposals from nine different countries, which included text, photography and illustration, the proposal by the Algerian photographer Abdo Shanan, A Little Louder, struck the jury, made up of Mustapha Benfodil, Sophe Dufau and Juan Valbuena and who deliberated in September of 2020.
£20.39
Turner, Madrid and Mexico Jonathan Moller In Transit
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£23.75
Editorial Gg Cómo Hago Fotografías: 20 Consejos
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£17.00
LUMEN El libro de los días
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£28.70
Blume Memoria del Cuerpo
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£41.49
Mousse Publishing Louise Enhörning Lost Time Aphrodite Beach
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Leuven University Press Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on Belgian Surrealism and the photographic practices of Marcel Mariën. Marcel Mariën (1920–1993) was a key figure of Belgian post-war Surrealism. He is widely acknowledged for his landmark work on Belgian Surrealism and his collaboration with future Situationists like Guy-Ernest Debord in his journal ‘Les Lèvres nues’. Nevertheless, Mariën’s texts, collages, photographs, film, and (art?) objects have to date remained understudied. This is the first volume devoted to Mariën's photographic work. Through a series of close readings, Mieke Bleyen connects the collage and photographic practices of Mariën with his wider oeuvre, particularly with his archival and editorial activities. By applying Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the ‘minor’, this book proposes an alternative reading of Mariën’s anti-aesthetics and focuses on the affective range of his work. The figure of Mariën also serves as a case study that offers new perspectives on Belgian Surrealism's relation to mainstream Surrealism and the role of photography within Surrealism. This volume, moreover, raises a critique on ‘major’ art history's conception of time as linear progression and argues instead for twisted and extended temporalities in the case of Marcel Mariën. With previously unpublished images from Mariën's private archive. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade ReviewKU Leuven-;based scholar Mieke Bleyen succeeds in integrating several important achievements in 'Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel Mariën'. Within the first study dedicated to the photographic practice of a prolific Belgian Surrealist (1920-;1993), she raises a number of pertinent questions, such as the importance of queer studies and feminist criticism for a better understanding of Surrealist visual arts.Additionally, as the title suggests, Bleyen develops a strong theoretical argument through the notion of minor literature, grounded in the writings of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, to unpack different pressing issues in the scholarship concerned with art history, including its problematic insistence on interpretation and linear progression. Bleyen combines rigorous archival research with a solid critical enquiry to put forward a rich and referential volume that can be engaged with as a valuable source of information and otherwise inaccessible visual material, as well as a welcome instance of a more inclusive approach to the work that is not easily fitted in the existing art historical categories. Jelena Stojkovic (2015): Minor aesthetics: the photographic work of Marcel Mariën, Visual Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2015.1024519'There’s a tiny handful of things on Mariën in English. Mieke Bleyen’s 'Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel Mariën' is particularly helpful. She reads him in a Deleuzian vein as a ‘minor’ artist, spilling out and past the coherent subjectivities of the poet or the artist.'McKenzie Wark, Public Seminar, January 27, 2016Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue Part 1 Towards a Minor Photography Minor Literature Deterritorialization Politicization Collectivization The people to come A canon of minor masters and other reflections on the minor Deleuze and Guattari’s Cartography of Art A Minor History of Art? Minor Photography. First Reflections Part 2 Les Lèvres nues. A Minor History of Surrealism A Post War View of Constantin Meunier’s The Docker Invisible monuments A surrealist displacement of monuments Surrealism and its political turn: deconstructing the representation of labor Les Lèvres nues. Continuing the Interwar Project of Paul Nougé Writing as act Poetry as experiment Let us create disturbing objects Between affect and effect: looking for accomplices Re-writing: the fragmentary work of authorial effacement Angèle Laval: a model of minor writing? Les Lèvres nues. A Post War Enterprise Le pas du commandeur: second stanza Lettrist/Situationist texts in Les Lèvres nues Collaboration under the sign of Potlatch Leisure As Battlefield Mariën’s scenario for a global revolution Le Club des Loisirs From production to consumption: leisure as battlefield Surrealist versus situationist ‘tactics’ On (un)mediated activityPart 3 Rhizomatic Readings. Minor Ways Of BeginningDefense and Illustration of the French Language. A Rhizomatic Reading A destabilization of text and image relationships Subverting narrative Traveling the Mariën rhizome Collective assemblage of enunciation Surrealism in Crisis. Or How To Deal With the Apparatus of Capture Toutes ces dames au salon Les corrections naturelles: a critical dissection of a Surrealism in crisis Magritte and Mariën: a mutual betrayal Caught Between the Historical and the Neo-Avant-Gardes A ‘failed’ historical avant-garde versus an ‘empty’ neo-avant-garde Hal Foster’s new genealogies New genealogies, new geographies Mariën and Broodthaers: two ways of dealing with the art institution Mariën’s ambiguous relation with the art market and the art institution Queer Temporalities. The ‘Minor’ Position of Marcel Mariën Minor ways of beginning again Queer temporalities: queer belonging Queering the archive Part 4 Minor Photography. Minor AestheticsWoman Ajar. 100 Photographs of Naked Women Affecting photographies Situating Woman Ajar within feminist theory Surrealist photography 1: molar grids and molecular flows Surrealist photography 2: courtly love and sadism Always in the Middle. Photographic Stuttering and Stammering Art and porn Amateur and professional Private and public L’évidence énigmatique Traps Against Capture. Minor Aesthetics The rugged terrain of humor: humor as surface effect Minor Contexts of Display Private spaces of display Mediating between private house and gallery: photography and the printed page Epilogue Color Section Notes Part 1. Towards a Minor Photography Part 2. Les Lèvres nues. A Minor History of Surrealism Part 3. Rhizomatic Readings. Minor Ways of Beginning Part 4. Minor Photography. Minor Aesthetics Bibliography List of abbreviations References
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The University of Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery Interruptions – With Photographs by David Clarke
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Hong Kong University Press The City of Flowers: Dezső Bozóky’s Canton
Book SynopsisIn 1908, Hungarian doctor Dezso Bozóky left Hong Kong as an officer with the Austro-Hungarian Navy and became a witness to the end of China's imperial era. As he traveled through Canton, Fujian, Shanghai, and Beijing, he documented the countryside, numerous cities along China's coast, and his impressions of regions that were experiencing dramatic socioeconomic change. The City of Flowers shares the diary excerpts and photographs that Bozóky created during his time in Canton and Guangdong provinces to offer a glimpse of life during one of China's most transformative periods. Each image is digitized from Bozóky's hand-colored glass slides, which are held in the permanent collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts in Budapest. Although the Qing Dynasty ended long ago, Bozóky's interest in nature, architecture, the Qing Dynasty, and the people he met resonates with audiences today.
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Getty Publications Daido Moriyama
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