Ausgabe vom 25. Sept. 2008, Gebunden, Verkaufsrang 118324
Amazon.com In 1902, the year Edward Weston was given his first camera, few people regarded photography as more than a craft. But along with innovators like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, Weston revolutionized the ways photographers chose subject material and used photographic techniques to create what gradually came to be accepted as fine art. This is an elegant book, designed and printed in Germany, with an essay by Terence Pitts, of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. It presents 180 of Weston's finest images, including many-such as the pines of Point Lobos, the sand dunes of Oceano, and his stark, unadorned nudes-that have become icons. Whereas the photographs of Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy were, to Weston's eyes, hopelessly mannered, his images are elemental, organic, and in harmony with nature's rhythms. Weston spent most of his working life in Mexico and California, and much of his work, replete with shadows, is illuminated with the harsh light of those places. In 1932, he and Ansel Adams founded the influential photographic collective Group f/64, named after the lens-aperture size that exposed an image at its most detailed and clear. This was Weston's aesthetic: to show the real world in its unrelieved integrity rather than create an imaginary construct. He was concerned with visual truth, not with character or storytelling. Weston was a true pioneer whose rigorous vision permanently changed the ways we see the world around us. -John Stevenson
Buch:
Die wilde Seite der Fotografie: Mit unkonventionellen Techniken eigene fotografische Ideen verwirklichen
Ausgabe vom 1. Nov. 2009, Gebunden, Verkaufsrang 15068
Product Description Engl.-Französ.-Dtsch. Erscheinungsjahr: 2003 m. zahlr. Fotos. Gewicht: 347 gr / Abmessungen: 200 mm x 147 mm x 14 mm Text v. Gautrand, Jean-Claude Als Repräsentant einer zutiefst humanen Fotografie hat uns Doisneau unablässig seine Geschichten erzählt, Geschichten voller Poesie und Humor, besaß er doch diese unvergleichliche Begabung, seine einfühlsame Komplizenschaft zu vermitteln, diese tiefe und zugleich rasch vergängliche innere Beziehung, die ihn mit seinem jeweiligen Motiv verband. Sein ausgeprägtes Interesse am Milieu der einfachen Leute hat es ihm ermöglicht, Bilder zu schaffen, die von einer Art poetischem Realismus geprägt sind, einem Realismus, der das Kino und die Literatur jener Zeit stark beeinflusst hat.
Buch:
Schöne Akte: Fotografien aus der DDR
Autor:
Hans-Jürgen Horn (Hrsg.), Ausgabe vom 8. März 2011, Gebunden, Verkaufsrang 136109
