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The business run by the Teller family produces bridges and other small parts for stringed instruments. Juergen Teller has taken photographs of company employees, his uncle and his uncle's collection of hunting trophies. He has shot pictures in dripstone caves, of Kate Moss during her pregnancy, of himself. How does all of this fit together? His newest book provides extensive treatment of the terms "studio" or "workshop" as a place of creation and development. Juergen Teller collects people and places - scenes from his origins and the world of beautiful images - that have made him what he is today. In Zwei Schauferle mit Kloss und eine Kinderportion mit Pommes Frites, the fashion photographer shares his private reflections on his roots and his profession. Candid, subjective and completely without superficial effects, Mr. Teller gives us a peek into his world. How that all fits together is left up to the viewer of his photos.

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North Warning System is Donovan Wylie’s third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture, and draws a close to his Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions. The development of long-range bombers and missiles after the Second World War made Canada’s arctic frontier vulnerable to attack from the air. This forced Canada and the United States to jointly construct a matrix of short and longrange radar stations in the 1950s. Known as the Distant Early Warning Line, these stations provided electronic observation and surveillance capability across Canada’s northern frontier throughout the Cold War. In the 1990s, these stations were upgraded to form the North Warning System (NWS) which is increasingly active—as international maritime traffic develops throughout the north, so does military presence. In North Warning System, whiteness takes on the quality of a blank canvas, a metaphor for the sweep of history.

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Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape photography. In more than 100 photos that span Maisel’s career, Black Maps presents a hallucinatory worldview encompassing both stark documentary and tragic metaphor, and exploring the relationship between nature and humanity today. Maisel’s images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics of open pit mines, clear-cut forests, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation. These surreal and disquieting photos take us towards the margins of the unknown and as the Los Angeles Times has stated, “argue for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed.” David Maisel was born in New York in 1961. His photographs have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many permanent collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Maisel was a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in 2007, an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2008, and a recipient of an individual artist’s grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a trustee of the Headlands Center for the Arts.

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