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Andreas Gursky»rank: 219572by: Beate Sontgen, Nina Zimmer, Andreas Gursky
: :Famed worldwide for his epically-proportioned photographs, Andreas Gursky is one of very few contemporary artists able to represent cultures of excessive information--which he does through images of supermarket wares, crowds, trash, architecture and nature. The extreme detail of Gursky's final image--achieved by digital restructuring--produces a vertiginous effect on the viewer, as it oscillates between total representation and total abstraction. It could be said that Gursky updates the eighteenth-century sublime for our times.This publication surveys the artist's most recent creations, on display at the renowned Kunstmuseum Basel throughout the winter of 2007/2008. Two new groups of works in particular, one on Formula One races and the other on the famous Arirang Festival (a ... |
Visionaire No. 55: Surprise»rank: 25883by: Sophie Calle, Cai Guo-Qiang, Andreas Gursky
: :How does photography come to life? How do you transform 2-D into 3-D? Can a photograph move on the printed page? This newest issue of the high-concept fashion quarterly Visionaire pushes the limits of paper with an issue devoted to pop-ups. Visionaire 55: Surprise presents 12 hardcover pop-up books, boxed together, with projects by Steven Meisel, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, Sophie Calle, Andreas Gursky, Cai Guo-Qiang, Guido Mocafico, S0lve Sundsb0, Yayoi Kusama, Gareth Pugh and Alasdair McLellan. Together, the pop-up folios are housed in a cloth-covered case with a magnetized closure and an engraved metal plaque. Surprise is a collaboration with the internationally renowned Champagne house, Krug. |
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Andreas Gursky: Architecture»rank: 143348by: Ralf Beil, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Elisabeth Bronfen, Andreas Gursky
: :A Japanese power plant, dilapidated slums, the patterned facades of an apartment complex in Paris--in the work of German art photographer Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, both private dwellings and the domains of industrial and political power are made into sometimes awe-inspiring and always overpowering forces of urban life. Gursky's signature mix of epic sweep and extreme detail is ideally suited to the portrayal of large-scale architecture, eliciting its most salient features: The capacity to dwarf, to impress, to alienate and to daunt. Where many of us will habitually blank out architectural environments which cannot be accommodated by the naked eye, Gursky's approach is to photograph them in order to ... |
Helmut Newton: Selections from His Photographic Work (Schirmer Art Books on Art, Photography & Erotics)»rank: 143348by: Helmut Newton, Andreas Gursky
: :Helmut Newton’s best photographic work from the 1960’s to the 1990’s traveled around Europe in a major retrospective in 1993. The catalogue of that show has now run to a 4th edition. It contains all the icons of Newton’s special fields of interest including fashion, nudes, portraits as well as works for which he became world famous – the sensational fashion photos for the British magazine Vogue, Liz Taylor with a parrot in a swimming pool, Helmut Berger naked at his fireplace, Helmut Kohl with a German oak, Salvador Dali on an IV drip, the 'Big Nudes' and some of his later macabre wax figures… Newton was a genius for not being ... |
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Total Living: Art, Fashion, Design, Architecture, Communication»rank: 681969by: Dietmar Steiner, Michele Ciavarella, Emanuela De Cecco, Ricardo Dirindin, Roberto Monelli, Herbert Muschamp, Chee Pearlman, Michelle Serenini, Dejan Sudjic, Lina Bo Bardi, Alberto Mollino, Gio Ponti, Vanessa Beecroft, Andreas Gursky, Dan Flavin, Issey Miyake
: :Styles and lifestyles are fast becoming uniform under labels and definitions of fashion, and as an industry and a cultural form. Total Living is the point of no return in a project which, step-by-step, develops strategies whose goal it is to offer an even more sophisticated and targeted lifestyle. It is a place where there are definitions for clothes, behavior modes, and even the atmoshpheres and spaces in which one moves. Assuming the contours of a landscape of the future, this scenario raises topical themes and problems connected with the overwhelming power of consumerism. Accompanying scholarly essays consider the thematic universes of fashion designers and brands; models of total living in 20th ... |
XL-Photography: Art Collection Neue Borse»rank: 806948by: Jean-Christophe Ammann, Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, Jorg Sasse, Gunther Forg, Andreas Gursky, Axel Hutte, Bernhard, Jone Elissa Scherf, Gunter Lorenz, Dirk Snauwaert
: :Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Gnter Farg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hafer, Axel Htte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jarg Sasse, XL-Photography presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. XL-Photography presents close to 200 large-format works by the 14 aforementioned photographers, with pieces that range from the ironic pictorial narratives of Anna and Bernhard Blume to Htte's landscape images; from Candida Hafer's interior shots to Araki's provocative erotic stagings; from Ruff's deconstructions of subjectivity to Streuli's urban views. ... |
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Monument To Now»rank: 148352by: Takashi Murakami, Wolfgang Tillmans, Alison Gingeras, Chris Ofili, Gillian Wearing, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Olafur Eliasson, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Shirin Neshat, Kiki Smith, Chen Zhen, Ashley Bickerton
: :'Greek collector Dakis Joannou is one of the preeminent collectors of contemporary art in the world, with a collection that stands as a virtual who's who of artists from the 1980s through today. Eighty-five of those artists are represented in Monument to Now--the most utterly relevant to today, of course. Leading curators from New York, Milan, and Paris have contributed essays and selected the included artists. Designed by acclaimed graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister, the hardcover edition features a three-dimensional monument affixed to the front cover; the paperback retains some trace of the monument, perhaps a footprint of the monument on the front cover, a pop-up monument inside, or some other invention. The ... |
Made In Mexico»rank: 875296by: Francis Alys, Claudia Fernandez, Andrea Fraser, Thomas Glassford, Erik Gongrich, Terence Gower, Andreas Gursky
: :Everything is made in Mexico, from decorative mirrors to silver jewelry to plastic dolls and ceramic dishware--and contemporary art. Made in Mexico examines recent art produced within and about Mexico. Historically, Mexico has always welcomed artists and writers from abroad as a way of enriching and diversifying the national character. This publication examines the phenomenon from a contemporary perspective for the first time. Made in Mexico highlights the current generation of cultural production within the context of prevailing global and conceptual art vocabularies. Speaking within a larger dialogue, Made in Mexico includes international artists whose work does not necessarily come out of a local experience, yet draws upon a distinctly Mexican vernacular--whether ... |
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Architecture without Shadow»rank: 955188by: Abalos & Enguita, Joerg Bader, Catherine Hurzeler, Hans Irrek, Martin Tschanz, Gloria Moure, Barry Schwabsky, Gunther Forg, Andreas Gursky
: :Architecture has always been a central subject matter for photographers. For most of the 20th century, however, the practice of architectural photography has been a professional endeavor; anonymous photographs taken for clients for specific, commercial reasons. This book concerns itself with another, rarer, topic: the photography of architecture as an art practice. It considers the work of seven contemporary photographers who use buildings in their work in a new way. In these photographs, they respond to the work of prominent architects by creating their own interpretations. Here are Andreas Gursky's photos of the Stockhom Library by Gunnar Asplund, Tomas Ruff's photos of several works by Herzog & de Meuron, Hiroshi Sugimoto's photos ... |
Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Collection»rank: 810507by: Maria-Christina Villasenor, Joan Young, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Andreas Gursky, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Robert Smithson, Kara Walker, John G. Hanhardt, Maria-Christina Villaseñor
: :During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of ... |