If he is the God of photography, Szarkowski is his profit.
Somehow, I think you meant something a bit different here.
Although "profit" might have some relevance as well.
I'm too old to spell correctly.
Happen to discover a wonderful book at the local library today, "Sites & Structures:The Architectural Photographs Edward S. Curtis," Chronicle Books (2000. One the best books of native American architecture and ethnology that I have ever seen.
I have that four volume set all first editions. Haven’t looked at them for some time They are about forty years old but in new condition. Now I’m going to have to reread them. Thanks for the reminder.I would love to have that 4 volume set of Atget. The Van Gogh of photography.
I recieved the three books from Pier 24. About Face, Collected and Grain of the Present. All are worthy of the measly $20 price tag. About Face is the weakest of the three I think. Still worthy though.
Tir a'Mhurain: Outer Hebrides
Paul Strand is one of those photographers who have esta…www.goodreads.com
Inspired in part by the Conceptual art of his time, Luigi Ghirri used his camera to examine the relationship between the physical world and the world of images. His subject was the landscape around him, but his photographs are much more than visual documents of 1970s and 1980s Italy. With his uncanny eye for composition, Ghirri searched out chance arrangements in the human-built world, framing them in his camera’s viewfinder like found photomontages. He worked in color because, as he put it, “the real world is in color,” and he made modestly sized meticulous prints, rarely producing more than one or two from each image.
In 1978 he published Kodachrome, a book of his photographs that touches on many of the subjects that defined his career, including windows, billboards, murals, and other sites where, as he put it, “the world of signs merges with the physical world.” Ghirri wrote eloquently about the power of the image in contemporary life, especially in relation to photography: “Beyond all critical and intellectual explanations, beyond all negative aspects it might possess, photography is, I think, a formidable visual language for fostering this desire for the infinite that inhabits each of us.”
Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) spent his working life in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Although he exhibited extensively in Italy during his lifetime, it is only since his untimely death that his work has begun to be more widely appreciated. In 2010 Thomas Demand organized the acclaimed exhibition “La Carte d’Après Nature” around Ghirri’s photographs, and in 2011 and 2013 Ghirri’s work was featured in the Venice Biennale. His work has been the subject of several museum exhibitions in recent years, including at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin. In 2018 the first major retrospective of his work at a museum outside of Italy opened at the Museum Folkwang in Essen and later traveled to the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
MACK is currently exploring and rediscovering the work by legendary Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri.
A new volume, 'Viaggi' is out now:
Luigi Ghirri: Viaggi
Among the many recurring interests that connect the rich and open-ended oeuvre of Luigi Ghirri, a fascination with travel resonates through his photographs, publications, and writings. This book by curator James Lingwood charts a course through Ghirri’s photography between 1970 and 1991...mackbooks.eu
The same publisher has another, beautiful piece of work by Ghirri which came out last year, 'Puglia' - a love letter to the once obscure (now a tourist hotspot) southern Italian region which goes by that name:
Puglia. Tra albe e tramonti (Second Printing)
Puglia. Tra albe e tramonti offers a brilliant account of Luigi Ghirri’s relationship with Puglia — a distinctive region at the heel of Italy, which was pivotal in establishing Ghirri’s career and continued to inspire him throughout it. A first visit in 1982 introduced Ghirri to Puglia’s...mackbooks.co.uk
I have the Puglia one, which is extraordinary IMO, and own an older Italian book with some of the images in 'Viaggi', but I've just placed an order for the new MACK volume - the prints in the book in my possession leave a lot to be desired and based on the previews on the MACK site, much has improved.
A short bio:
Luigi Ghirri | Matthew Marks Gallery
Inspired in part by the Conceptual art of his time, Luigi Ghirri used his camera to examine the relationship between the physical world and the world of images. His subject was the landscape around him, but his photographs are much more than visual documents of 1970s and 1980s Italy. With his...matthewmarks.com
Robert Frank's Photobooks - Lecture Panel with Gerhard Steidl
I just got wind of this event scheduled for October 29th from 7:00-8:15pm EDT. It's an in-person event (already sold out) but will be streamed online for free by MoMA. Registration required.
From Steidl's Instagram story:
What was it really like to make books with Robert Frank? To visit him every few months at his homes in Bleecker Street, New York, and Mabou, Nova Scotia, to explore new ideas and finalize a book’s journey to printed object? To print and publish more than 30 titles with Robert Frank over the decades—from “The Americans” and “The Lines of My Hand”, to his later visual diaries?
Gerhard Steidl shares all this and more in a talk at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on 29 October, on the occasion of the museum’s exhibition “Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue”. We’re proud to say the talk’s already sold-out but you can register to experience it virtually.
Thank you for posting this.
The critics got it wrong on The Americans, too. Beside the fact the Frank couldn't find a US publisher for the book, once it was published in the States, it was pretty much panned universally.Saw the show last week. Spectacular! Focus is on the work after the "Americans," which I find pure poetry. Surprisingly, a review in the Financial Time got it completely wrong, claiming that Frank was lost and struggling after his famous book.
Just signed up, thank you! It'll be at midnight for me, so I hope I'm able stay upRobert Frank's Photobooks - Lecture Panel with Gerhard Steidl
I just got wind of this event scheduled for October 29th from 7:00-8:15pm EDT. It's an in-person event (already sold out) but will be streamed online for free by MoMA. Registration required.
From Steidl's Instagram story:
What was it really like to make books with Robert Frank? To visit him every few months at his homes in Bleecker Street, New York, and Mabou, Nova Scotia, to explore new ideas and finalize a book’s journey to printed object? To print and publish more than 30 titles with Robert Frank over the decades—from “The Americans” and “The Lines of My Hand”, to his later visual diaries?
Gerhard Steidl shares all this and more in a talk at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on 29 October, on the occasion of the museum’s exhibition “Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue”. We’re proud to say the talk’s already sold-out but you can register to experience it virtually.
The critics got it wrong on The Americans, too. Beside the fact the Frank couldn't find a US publisher for the book, once it was published in the States, it was pretty much panned universally.
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