2000, ISBN: 0944092829

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780944092828], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: twin palms publishers], BILDBAND - SIGNIERT / WIDMUNGSEXEMPLAR; PHOTOGRAPHIE SCHWARZ WEISS FOTOGRAFIE; "SCHNAPSCHUSS"; KULTURGESCHICHT… More...

[EAN: 9780944092828], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: twin palms publishers], BILDBAND - SIGNIERT / WIDMUNGSEXEMPLAR; PHOTOGRAPHIE SCHWARZ WEISS FOTOGRAFIE; "SCHNAPSCHUSS"; KULTURGESCHICHTE USA; GESCHICHTE; 'SNAPSHOT'; FOTOGRAFIE-SAMMLUNG THOMAS WALTHER; KULTURWISSENSCHAFT, Jacket, Ca. 160 Seiten; durchgehend illustriert (s/w-Fotografie); 26 cm. Sehr gutes Exemplar; nahezu neuwertig. - Englisch. - Titelblatt von Thomas Walther SIGNIERT und mit WIDMUNG versehen (für Irmelin und Reinald Nohal / Paris Bar) : ". mit herzlichem Dank für Dinner mit June und Helmut (NEWTON) . 2002 in der Paris Bar" // . The pictures selected here date from the 1910s through the 1960s-certainly the golden age of the black and white snapshot but also, and not coincidentally, the era when photography came into its own as an art form uniquely suited for capturing the texture and spirit of modern life. The exhilarating rumble and flash of modernity that bewitched the European New Vision photographers of the 1920s is evident here in the sheer number of trains and automobiles and television sets and dirigibles and airplanes, and in the fun-house distortions and negative prints and bird's-eye views and mirror images and abstractions. The canonical master photographers of the twentieth century seem to haunt these pictures like a pack of jealous ghosts. We sense the austere lyricism of Walker Evans in an unassuming view of a room's corner with several studio portraits pinned to the wall; a melancholy showgirl standing on the street in a feather headdress and upturned skirt might have been shot by Brassai; a picture of a boy in a field reaching down to catch a baseball has all the graceful resolution of a Cartier-Bresson. There are Eugene Atgets, Alexander Rodchenkos, Man Rays, Robert Franks, Eugene Meatyards, Diane Arbuses, and Gerhard Richters-all anonymous, all manques. The camera sees the world with a blithe lack of discrimination, an alien impartiality. And it is this tantalizing, unpredictable margin of difference that lies behind Garry Winogrand's famously cagey remark: "I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed." Amateur snapshots often bear the traces of a classic slapstick struggle between human and machine, which accounts for part of their charm. We try to persuade the camera to take the picture we want, and, more often than not, the camera refuses to cooperate. But the harder we try, to paraphrase Beckett, the better we fail. The pages of this book are filled with successful failures, pictures that sail past their intended targets and into the foggy ether of a different kind of truth. Among these fortuitous misfires is a blurry, underexposed photograph of a woman standing in front of a fireplace, her head swallowed up in darkness at the top of the frame. In one hand, she holds a drink; the other is raised in a gesture that seems to say "come hither" or "go away," depending on your point of view. She's wearing something short and dark, and her white legs taper off to a slender wisp, as if she's a genie drifting out of a bottle.The mood is smoky, seductive, conjuring up scratchy strains of Sinatra on vinyl filtered through the pleasant alcoholic haze of a very dry martini. As a literal likeness of a woman - a girlfriend perhaps-the picture fails miserably. But as an accidental emblem of feminine mystique, romantic blindness, and the irreducible unknowability of another person, it qualifies as a stunning success. (Mia Fineman) ISBN 0944092829 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1300 Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag., Books<

2000, ISBN: 9780944092828

[PU: twin palms publishers], Ca. 160 Seiten; durchgehend illustriert (s/w-Fotografie); 26 cm. Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag. Sehr gutes Exemplar; nahezu neuwertig. - Englisch… More...

[PU: twin palms publishers], Ca. 160 Seiten; durchgehend illustriert (s/w-Fotografie); 26 cm. Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag. Sehr gutes Exemplar; nahezu neuwertig. - Englisch. - Titelblatt von Thomas Walther SIGNIERT und mit WIDMUNG versehen (für Irmelin und Reinald Nohal / Paris Bar) : "... mit herzlichem Dank für Dinner mit June und Helmut (NEWTON) ... 2002 in der Paris Bar" // ... The pictures selected here date from the 1910s through the 1960s-certainly the golden age of the black and white snapshot but also, and not coincidentally, the era when photography came into its own as an art form uniquely suited for capturing the texture and spirit of modern life. The exhilarating rumble and flash of modernity that bewitched the European New Vision photographers of the 1920s is evident here in the sheer number of trains and automobiles and television sets and dirigibles and airplanes, and in the fun-house distortions and negative prints and bird's-eye views and mirror images and abstractions. The canonical master photographers of the twentieth century seem to haunt these pictures like a pack of jealous ghosts. We sense the austere lyricism of Walker Evans in an unassuming view of a room's corner with several studio portraits pinned to the wall; a melancholy showgirl standing on the street in a feather headdress and upturned skirt might have been shot by Brassai; a picture of a boy in a field reaching down to catch a baseball has all the graceful resolution of a Cartier-Bresson. There are Eugene Atgets, Alexander Rodchenkos, Man Rays, Robert Franks, Eugene Meatyards, Diane Arbuses, and Gerhard Richters-all anonymous, all manques. … The camera sees the world with a blithe lack of discrimination, an alien impartiality. And it is this tantalizing, unpredictable margin of difference that lies behind Garry Winogrand's famously cagey remark: "I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed." Amateur snapshots often bear the traces of a classic slapstick struggle between human and machine, which accounts for part of their charm. We try to persuade the camera to take the picture we want, and, more often than not, the camera refuses to cooperate. But the harder we try, to paraphrase Beckett, the better we fail. The pages of this book are filled with successful failures, pictures that sail past their intended targets and into the foggy ether of a different kind of truth. Among these fortuitous misfires is a blurry, underexposed photograph of a woman standing in front of a fireplace, her head swallowed up in darkness at the top of the frame. In one hand, she holds a drink; the other is raised in a gesture that seems to say "come hither" or "go away," depending on your point of view. She's wearing something short and dark, and her white legs taper off to a slender wisp, as if she's a genie drifting out of a bottle.The mood is smoky, seductive, conjuring up scratchy strains of Sinatra on vinyl filtered through the pleasant alcoholic haze of a very dry martini. As a literal likeness of a woman - a girlfriend perhaps-the picture fails miserably. But as an accidental emblem of feminine mystique, romantic blindness, and the irreducible unknowability of another person, it qualifies as a stunning success. … (Mia Fineman) ISBN 0944, DE, [SC: 5.00], gebraucht; sehr gut, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 1300g], Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, PayPal, Internationaler Versand<

2000, ISBN: 0944092829

[EAN: 9780944092828], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Twin Palms Publishers], Light wear to dust jacket, text is unmarked, Books