Photography

Edited by Hans-Michael Koetzle Aenne Biermann (1898–1933) is regarded as one of the most important avant-garde photographers of the twentieth century. Together with Bauhaus artists such as Lucia Moholy and Florence Henri, she was represented in the pioneering exhibitions of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Then, in 1930, art critic and Biermann’s early patron Franz Roh dedicated to her a legendary monograph designed by Jan Tschichold, Aenne Biermann. 60 Photos. This classic work is now finally being made available once more, accompanied by commentary from photo historian and Biermann expert Hans-Michael Koetzle. As early as 1928, Roh was referring to Biermann as a “remarkable” photo artist who was attracting the attention of experts with her close-up pictures of plants. In the following years, Biermann, an autodidact of photography, became an important artist in photographic modernism. Her works created a haunting and aesthetically fascinating pictorial world filled with close-up views, extreme detail shots, and lighting contrasts. She mostly found her motifs in her immediate vicinity—in addition to the numerous still lifes with everyday objects and nature, she repeatedly photographed her children, their object world, and their activities. Many of these originals were lost during the Second World War, including the sixty photos in this book. Published to mark the Bauhaus jubilee in 2019, this book is an incredible tribute to a great woman artist of the modern age. Paperback104 pages | 61 halftones Hirmer Verlag, 2019 7 x 0.4 x 10 inches ISBN 9783777432427Artist Monograph, Photography, Bauhaus

Aenne Biermann: 60 photos

Original Price: $25.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Pavel Scheufler Apart from being a co-owner of the tannery in the town of Krucemburk in the Bohemian-Moravian Uplands, Josef Binko (1879–1960) is an extraordinary figure in the history of photography in the Bohemian Lands. He is the only Czech photographer to be continuously represented (by his darkroom) in the permanent exhibition on the history of photographic technology at the National Technical Museum, Prague. He is the only amateur photographer with several thousand negatives in the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, which owns the most important collection of Czech photographs. Apart from František Drtikol he is the only Czech photographer with several hundred brome oil and gum bichromate prints preserved from the period before the First World War. The life of Binko, who was until now a largely forgotten figure in the history of Czech photography, is in many ways a reflection of the fate of his country. This volume is by Pavel Scheufler, a historian of photography with a particular interest in the years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867–1918).Paperback148 pages74 color photographsTorst Publishing, 20076.5 x 7 inchesISBN 9788072152810 Artist Monograph, Photography

Josef Binko

Introduction by Karl NierendorfReprint of Art Forms in Nature, E. Weyhe, New York, 1929Originally intended as reference for his work as architect, sculptor, and teacher, Blossfeldt's exquisite sharp-focus photo studies of plant form—leaves, buds, stems, seed pods, tendrils and twigs—won acclaim with publication of the 1928 edition of this book.Paperback128 pages120 full-page black-and-white platesDover Publications, 19868.3 x 0.3 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9780486249902Artist Monograph, Botanical Photography

Karl Blossfeldt: Art Forms in the Plant World

Edited by Monika Faber With preface by Ronald S. Lauder, foreword by Renée Price, and contributions by Katrin Bomhoff, Christian Brandstätter, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Monika Faber, Esther Ruelfs, Lisa Silverman, and Magdalena Vuković Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer took the pseudonym Madame d'Ora. She was the most acclaimed portraitist of the fin-de-siècle Vienna, and went on to create one of the most stylish Art Deco studios in Paris in the 1920s. Her models included Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Colette, and Pablo Picasso, among many others. The catalogue covers the primary periods of her life and career, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier celebrity and society photographer first in Vienna and later in Paris. It also discusses her survival during the Holocaust and her work photographing refugees in the aftermath of World War II, including a remarkable and searing group of photographs documenting Parisian abattoirs. This publication accompanies the largest exhibition devoted to Madame d'Ora ever presented in the United States, on view at the Neue Galerie New York from February 20 to June 8, 2020. Hardcover 220 pages80 color illustrations, 100 b/w illustrationsPrestel, 20209.2 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791359700Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Photography, Portraiture, Women Artists

Madame d'Ora Exhibition Catalogue

By Josef Moucha Though he is best known for his Art Nouveau and Art Deco nudes, when Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) passed way, he left more portrait photography than anything else--thousands of images made between 1910 and the 1930s. This ambitious book is the first ever devoted to those portraits alone. The selection, culled from some 2,000 in Prague's National Archive, presents a gallery of eminent Czechs and Slovaks during the first Czechoslovak Republic, as well as prominent visitors to the country from many walks of life. Apart from their pure documentary value, these images reflect Drtikol's efforts to capture his sitters' inner selves, bridging idealism and materialism. Paperback 178 pages 90 black and white photographsFotoTorst, 20079.8 x 0.8 x 12.5 inches ISBN 9788072153015 Artist Monography, Photography, Portraits

Frantisek Drtikol: Portraits

By Alfred Ehrhardt "...an island of tranquil beauty in a cultural sea that was becoming increasingly barbaric." —Martin Parr, The PhotobookThe reprint of the book Das Watt (The Tidelands) from 1937, as an exclusive facsimile edition by Éditions Xavier Barral...is an ode to nature and a masterpiece of book art." —BINT, Photobooks Alfred Ehrhardt (1901–1984) taught at the Bauhaus between 1928 and 1933 alongside scenographer Oskar Schlemmer and painters Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky. Accused of Bolshevism in 1933 by the Nazis, Erhardt was forced to leave the Bauhaus. At that time he was working in painting, drawing and printmaking, but his exile precipitated a turn toward photography and film, of which the fundamentals he taught himself. In 1934, after leaving Germany, Ehrhardt produced his first photographic reportage—a series of spare, enigmatic images taken on the windswept sand dunes of the Curonian Spit along the Lithuanian-Russian border. This gorgeously produced book presents his works from that time. Strongly influenced by his years of modernist training at the Bauhaus, Ehrhardt’s photographs focus on the clear geometric patterns abundant in this seaside wilderness. Maritime landscapes, shells, corals and crystals offered a plethora of subjects from which Ehrhardt could produce stark, stylized compositions. Hardcover96 pagesText in German, French, and EnglishEditions Xavier Barral, 20140.8 x 10 x 12 inchesISBN 9782365110266Landscape Photography, Experimental Photography, Bauhaus

Alfred Ehrhardt: Das Watt

by Antonin Dufek The first large-scale monograph on this internationally renowned photographer. Jaromír Funke (1896-1945) was a innovator of modern photography, just like Jaroslav Rössler, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Aleksander Rodchenko, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston, to name but a few. Like them, Funke set out (in 1922) on the road towards abstraction, which would eventually lead him to his own particular “ism” – photogenism. Funke also responded to Cubism and created exemplary works of the New Objectivity and Constructivism, but he stood closest to Bauhaus. During the 1920s, he was one of the first to adopt irrational approaches such as Poetism and Surrealism. In the second half of the 1930s, Funke established his “emotional photography” on the basis of Breton’s notion of the magic encounter. He was a typical universally educated intellectual of his era. This book focuses primarily on the ideas that shaped and transformed Funke’s work, while placing it within the context of European avant-garde photography and culture, of which he was a pioneer. The book was prepared in cooperation with Jaromír Funke’s daughter Miloslava Rupešová. Hardcover240 pagesKant, 20149.6 x 1 x 11.4 inchesISBN 9788074371073Photography

Jaromír Funke: Between Construction and Emotion

Edited by Monika Faber This unique volume focuses on the luminous work of an important Austrian photographer. Heinrich Kühn’s early Pictorialist works were highly influential, and were exhibited at the Vienna Secession. Gradually, Kühn incorporated the influence of his peers, and moved in the direction of Modernist photography. He was also among the first important photographers to create color images. The publication aims to situate Kühn with regard to both the Viennese avant-garde and the international development of photography as an art form. It explores the close friendship among Kühn and major photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen and showcases photographic prints and autochromes by Kühn and other important photographers. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover132 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 201211.4 x 9.6 x 0.7 inchesISBN 9783791351964Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Photography, Viennese Secession

Heinrich Kühn and his American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen

By Pavel Scheufler Jan Langhans lived from 1851 to 1928, and is now, once again, among the best known figures in Czech photography. This book presents a selection of the studio photographs that made his name, culled from the "Celebrities Gallery" he began in 1890, a valuable record not only of famous Czechs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but also of important visitors to the country who had their portraits made in one of his studios in Prague or elsewhere in Bohemia. Jan Langhans opens with a brief introduction by Zuzana Meisnerova-Wismerov, the photographer's great-granddaughter and the manager of the Langhans Gallery in Prague, and illustrates not only Langhans's work but the height of portrait photography in the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Paperback140 pagesTorst, 20067.2 x 6.3 x 0.4 inchesISBN 9788072152513Out-of-Print, Artist Monograph, Photography, Portraits

Jan Langhans

By Alfred Döblin August Sander’s "Face of Our Time" is a legendary classic among photography books. Published in 1929, hailed by the press, writers, and artists such as Walter Benjamin and Walker Evans, it soon fell victim to Nazi censorship. Presenting the book, its history, and its resonance, this new publication features the original selection of portraits, Alfred Döblin’s introduction, and some 80 reviews published between 1929 and 1933. Hardcover245 pagesText in GermanSchirmer/Mosel Verlag Gm, 20198.4 x 1.1 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9783829608657Artist Monographs, Photography, Portraiture

Antlitz der Zeit: 60 Fotos Deutscher Menschen

By Pam Roberts Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a visionary far ahead of his time. Around the turn of the 20th century, he founded the Photo-Secession, a progressive movement concerned with advancing the creative possibilities of photography, and by 1903 began publishing Camera Work, an avant-garde magazine devoted to voicing the ideas, both in images and words, of the Photo-Secession. Camera Work was the first photo journal whose focus was visual, rather than technical, and its illustrations were of the highest quality hand-pulled photogravure printed on Japanese tissue. This book brings together all photographs from the journal’s 50 issues. Hardcover552 pagesTaschen, 20138.47 x 5.16 x 1.57 inchesISBN 9783836544078Photography

Alfred Stieglitz: Camera Work

By Anna Fárová Dubbed the “poet of Prague,” Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was one of the most important and celebrated of Czech photographers. Sudek produced his best work during his middle-aged years, having grown up and out of the rules of modernism and into a style of his own. Whereas his photographs from the 1930s are mainly a reflection of the external world, by the 1940s he was returning to himself, finding his own unique creative path. It was during this period that he made his most famous photograph, a view of the world seen through his studio window, the window ledge doubling as a stage for still-life objects―a setup which he repeated to great effect. Not even the pressures of World War II and the difficult postwar years―including the demands of socialist realism in the arts―interrupted the continuity of his oeuvre, documented in this back-in-print volume. Paperback154 pagesText in German and EnglishTorst; Bilungual edition, 20166.3 x 0.4 x 7 inchesISBN 9788072155064Artist Monographs, Photography

Josef Sudek (Fototorst)

By Jan Rezác Although the Czech photographer Josef Sudek was mildly reclusive by temperament, and although his photography is commonly characterized as unpeopled (in favor of what he termed "the inanimate life of objects"), a sizable portion of his oeuvre is given over to portraits. In fact, the beginnings of Sudek's work are in portraiture, in his images of fellow patients at the veteran's hospital where he spent three years after the First World War. (It was here that Sudek's right arm was amputated after a battlefield injury, a misfortune which did not prevent him from using heavy, large-format cameras in the future.) Decades later, after he had cofounded the Czech Photographic Society in 1924 and established his signature neo-Romantic preoccupation with architectural Prague, he returned to the genre. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, Sudek photographed close friends, among them the poet and Nobel Laureate Jaroslav Seifert, many painters and writers, but also scientists, doctors, politicians, architects, actors and other important public figures in Czechoslovakia. Portraits, the second volume of Sudek's collected photographs, gathers this body of work. In addition to a chronology of Sudek's life, it includes a complete bibliography and list of his exhibitions, as well as an interview with Jan Rezác, Sudek's colleague and an expert on his work. Hardcover96 pages Torst, 20089 x 0.6 x 11.3 inches ISBN 9788072153190Artist Monograph, Photography, Portraits

Josef Sudek: Portraits

Contributions by Timm RautertPhotographs by Josef Sudek Timm Rautert (born 1941) met Josef Sudek for the first time on a study trip to Prague in the spring of 1967. The photography student and the 71-year-old Sudek―who was arguably the most important Czech landscape and still-life photographer of the 20th century and a cult figure in his native country―instantly took to each other, and Rautert began photographing the artist in his studio and at his home. He accompanied him on his strolls in parks in Little Prague on the left bank of the Vltava river as he searched for adequate perspectives, and documented his work process inside and outside the darkroom. First published in 2008, the Sudek series, here compiled in this new volume, is an extraordinary chronicle of a fascinating personality and place in the run-up to the Prague Spring, and marks the beginning of Rautert’s career, during which the portrait and people at work were of particular importance to him.Hardcover96 pagesSteidl, 20169.7 x 0.6 x 11.1 inchesISBN 9783958291188Photography

Josef Sudek, Prague 1967

By Anna Fárová Josef Sudek (1896–1976) was Prague’s Atget. From the mid-1920s until his death in 1976, Sudek photographed everything―the Gothic and Baroque architecture, the streets and objects―usually leaving the frame free of people. Because he was reclusive, a large portion of Sudek’s work was captured through his studio window: he was particularly fond of how the glass refracted light. The Window of My Studio series, spanning from the beginning of the Second World War to the first half of the 1950s, presents the series, which was of fundamental importance to Sudek, for it caused his work to move further into a surreal or Magic Realist style, with blurred images and strong shadows. Photography historian Anna Fárová contributes an introduction and an extensive biographical chronology to this volume―now back in print―which also includes a complete bibliography of portfolios, books and catalogues of Sudek’s work. Hardcover88 pagesTorst, 20168.8 x 0.5 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9788072155071Artist Monograph, Photography

Josef Sudek: The Window of My Studio

By Riichi Miyake Photography by Keiichi Tahara At the turn of the 20th century, architecture took an imaginative leap. As new construction materials and technologies met such far-flung stimuli as the Far East, Nirvana, and the unleashed unconscious of Freudian psychoanalysis, buildings by the likes of Gaudí, Horta, Hoffmann, Loos, and Mackintosh instilled structure with the sinuous lines of nature, surfaces with a fairy tale shimmer, and spaces with an ethereal wash of light or shadowy, mysterious hush.In this dramatic portfolio, architectural photographer Keiichi Tahara travels across Europe to present the finest examples of this Art Nouveau architecture. From the glamorous facade of the Grand Hotel Europa to the elaborate sweep of a staircase or the perfect poise of a single chandelier, Tahara captures the intricate details as much as the holistic spatial effects of these ambitious, marvelous structures. With an eye attuned to the style’s organic detailing, he surveys its floral patterns, vine-like balustrades, and the soft, hollow interiors that seem to summon us into some primordial place.Drenched in sunshine or draped in dramatic shadows, Tahara’s pictures excel in evoking not only the unrivalled aura of these buildings but also the particular, fin-de-siècle spirit of their age, caught on the axel of a century, and characterized by reflection and yearning, as much as technological, philosophical, and political advance. Texts by Riichi Miyake accompany Tahara’s pictures to describe the buildings’ floor plans, designs, and the broader context of their dreamlike environments. Hardcover966 pages (spanning 3 volumes)Text in English, French, and GermanTaschen, 201712 x 5.5 x 17.5 inchesISBN 9783836530576Fin-de-Siècle, Art Nouveau, Architecture

Keiichi Tahara: Architecture Fin-de-Siècle

Original Price: $15.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Anna FarovaPublished together for the first time are the photographs taken by the Czech photographer Zden Tmej during the years 1942-1944 in Breslau, Prussia, where he and others were taken to perform forced labor for the Nazis. Easily the most important and extensive visual documentation of the forced labor camps, these photos have both artistic and historical value.Paperback160 pages | 87 duotonesTorst Publishing, 20016.3 x 7 inchesISBN 9788072151370Artist Monograph, Photography

Zdenek Tmej: Totaleisatz

By Michael White "With Generation Dada, White has presented readers with a powerful new portrait of an avant-garde that flourished in one of the most fraught cities of the early twentieth century." —Catherine Craft, Burlington Magazine“In a well researched, detailed examination of the Berlin avant-garde in the context of WWI, White . . . offers a fresh analysis of the key events and personal relationships that helped form the artistic practices of some of the central figures of the German Dada movement. In an informative but refreshingly accessible style, the author manages to pay close attention to the intricacies of cultural and historical context as well as the formal elements of the works themselves . . . demonstrating a keen eye for the relationship between content and form.” —ChoiceFor the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective—Club Dada, to members—was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumstances that brought together the likes of George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann, and Johannes Baader—renamed Propaganda Marshall, Monteurdada, Dadasoph, and Oberdada within the organization—have remained largely unexamined until now. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book documents the group'ss beginnings in wartime Berlin and reveals how these relationships influenced its provocative acts, which were inextricably tied to the era's chaos and brutality. Studying how the Dadaists saw themselves as a new generation—in contrast to their pacifist forebears, the Expressionists—the book sheds light on key developments and events, such as the First International Dada Fair, held in Berlin in 1920. It also offers the first serious consideration of the group's role in constructing its own legacy, even as the works were deliberately rooted in the ephemeral.Michael White is reader in the history of art at the University of York and is best known internationally for his research on the early-20th-century De Stijl group in the Netherlands. Hardcover382 pages | 20 color and 130 black-and-white illustrationsYale University Press, 20137.8 x 1.2 x 10 inchesISBN 9780300169034Art History, Dada, German History

Generation Dada: The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War

Edited by Vladmír Birgus and Jan MlcochIt was not so long ago that one would have been hard pressed to find a single Czech name in most western European or American books on the history of photography. Today, things are very different: photographers like Josef Sudek, Frantisek Drtikol, Jaromír Funke, Josef Koudelka, Jan Saudek and Antonín Kratochvíl enjoy international acclaim, and as Czechoslovakia emerged from over half-century of totalitarian rule, the rest of the world was astounded to discover that such a small nation could boast so many talented and original photographers. Nonetheless, entire chapters of the history of Czech photography remain largely neglected. Czech Photography of the 20th Century is the first volume to survey the main trends, figures and masterpieces of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century. Its 517 plates include not only the most historically important photographs and photo-montages, but also works that have lain buried in archives and rare books, or photographs published for the first time. Hardcover396 pages | 251 color, 36 b/w, 266 tritone imagesKant, 201110 x 1.5 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9788074370274Photography, History, Czech Artists

Czech Photography of the 20th Century

By Andreas Huyssen “This book will serve as an invaluable guide to the wide variety of miniature writings that emerged in the modern age. Huyssen’s close readings of these literary gems highlight the ways in which they responded to new modes of sensory experience. A brilliant study of literature in the era of visual media.”—Anthony Kaes, University of California, Berkeley“Miniature Metropolis provides a methodology for others who wish to consider the seemingly incidental writings of Modernists that have so often been eclipsed by less modest parts of their oeuvres. With original arguments and meticulous analyses, this fine study deepens our knowledge of familiar authors, and through the light it casts on its subject, it also brings into focus the current challenges to the literary mode posed by digital media and new related social practices.”—Elaine Morley, The Times Literary Supplement“This is a unique, deeply thought, and important work that brings new insights into the literary forms of modernism, and their relations to other media.”—Anthony Vidler, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper UnionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature Metropolis explores the history and theory of this significant but misrecognized achievement of literary modernism.Andreas Huyssen shows how writers from Baudelaire and Kafka to Benjamin, Musil, and Adorno created the miniature to record their reflections of Paris, Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Contesting photography and film as competing media, the metropolitan miniature sought to capture the visceral feeling of acceleration and compression that defined urban existence. But the form did not merely imitate visual media—it absorbed them, condensing objective and subjective perceptions into the very structure of language and text and asserting the aesthetic specificity of literary language without resort to visual illustration. Huyssen argues that the miniature subverted the expectations of transparency, easy understanding, and entertainment that mass circulation newspapers depended upon. His fine-grained readings open broad vistas into German critical theory and the history of visual arts, revealing the metropolitan miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism. Hardcover368 pagesHarvard University Press, 20156.2 x 1.5 x 9.8 inchesISBN 9780674416727Photography, History, Urban Studies

Miniature Metropolis; Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

Editied by Phillip Prodger Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppé traveled the length and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the most tumultuous times in the country’s history. He photographed movie stars and captains of industry, workers and peasants, and captured the birth of the Autobahn and UFA film studios in its heyday. He saw the rise of fascism, the creation of vast new suburbs, and the displacement of people from their traditional ways of life. With unprecedented access to the country’s world-famous factories and industrial installations, he witnessed Germany as few others could—barreling headlong into the unknown. Moving, insightful, and deeply revealing, the full significance of Hoppé’s German work has been unknown until now. This volume combines photographs published in Hoppé’s legendary book of 1930, Deutsche Arbeit, with many new pictures never previously seen. From factory floor to the commuters of Berlin and Munich, Hoppé’s photographs reveal the profound social and economic tensions that preceded the Second World War. This publication uncovers Hoppé as a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, who introduced for the first time elements of typology, seriality and sequence, which have become key elements of contemporary photographic practice. Hoppé used his experience in Germany to develop a modern new style of photography—showing not just how things looked, but how it felt to be there. Hardcover240 pagesSteidl, 201511 x 1.2 x 12 inchesISBN 9783869309378Photography, German History, Documentary

The German Work

Text by Ulrike Meyer Stump. How Karl Blossfeldt’s plant photographs were disseminated in the popular media of the time, from pattern books to magazine spreads In the 1890s, the Berlin artist, sculptor and teacher Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) started to photograph plants, seeds and other illustrative material from nature for the purpose of teaching his students about the patterns and designs found in natural forms. His close-ups of the smallest plant parts, magnified up to 30 times their natural size, startle us as they dramatically highlight the geometrical and sculptural properties of plants. Published in 1928, his first collection of photographs, Urformen der Kunst (later translated into English as Art Forms in Nature) became an international bestseller and remains one of the most significant photobooks of the 20th century.Karl Blossfeldt: Variations is the first monograph to examine the reception of Blossfeldt’s work. Drawing on unpublished materials, it analyzes the photographs’ replication in teaching materials, pattern books, art books and in the pages of the illustrated press. The six sections of the book trace the paths that Blossfeldt’s legendary plant motifs took in their incarnations as specimens, illustrations, patterns, analogues, models and abstractions from 1890 to 1945. Thematic contemporary appraisals illustrating the rediscovery of Blossfeldt's motifs in design and architecture over the past 20 years complement this new perspective on the beloved German photographer. Hardcover512 pages | 100 color, 100 black-and-white illustrations6.5 x 9.5 inchesLars Müller Publishers, 2021ISBN 9783037786369Monograph, Photography

Karl Blossfeldt: Variations

Edited with text by Kristina LemkeText by Jens Bove, Wolfgang Brückle, Anne Vitten, Patrick Rössler, Rolf Sachsse, Birgit Schillak-Hammers, and Steffen Siegel Dazzling photographs from one of the most radical periods in modern photography This volume offers insight into one of photographic history’s most fruitful moments—the interwar period in Central Europe. Thematic chapters present works by Gertrud Arnd, Ilse Bing, Karl Blossfeldt, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Lucia Moholy, August Sander, Umbo and many others. Paperback300 pages | 148 color illustrationsText in German and English9.5 x 11.25 inchesKerber, 2021ISBN 9783735607454Photography, Central Europe

New Ways of Seeing: Photography of the '20s and '30s

Edited by Monika Faber and Janos FrecotWith its nearly 130 portraits by over 45 photographers, this catalogue offers a splendid survey of portrait photography in Germany and Austria in the first three decades of the 20th century. Please note that this book is Out of Stock. 176 pagesHardcoverISBN 9783775715645Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Photography, Portraits

Portraits of an Age: Photography in Germany and Austria 1900-1938

Edited by Alana Shapira and Anne-Katrin Rossberg Gestalterinnen played a decisive role in the development of modernism in Vienna. This publication presents new research on women designers, ceramicists, fashion designers, graphic artists, garden architects, photographers, art historians and patrons. The contributions illuminate the eminent importance of these women for Viennese modernism and show how traditional role models were challenged during the interwar period. The Gestalterinnen confronted existing prejudices and created new visual languages in order to forge successful careers. At the same time, they contributed to critical discourse on the emancipation of women.Paperback272 pages De Gruyter, 2023 6.6 x 0.7 x 9.4 inchesISBN 9783110771886Women Artists, Design

Gestalterinnen: Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit

By Hans-Michael KoetzleLászló Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was a painter, photographer, Bauhaus teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and the School of Design in Chicago—one of the most important artistic figures of the twentieth century. As one of the first artists to work across such a wide range of media—including painting, sculpture, photography, film, and design—Moholy-Nagy set standards that remain potent today, particularly in photography, which had hitherto not been regarded as art. And his influence extended far beyond his actual work: as a teacher, first at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, then, after fleeing the Nazis, in Chicago, Moholy-Nagy shared his revolutionary vision of uniting art and life in order to permit artistic activities to overflow into everyday life.This volume in the Great Masters of Art series offers an accessible, insightful account of Moholy-Nagy’s life and work, one that puts him in context of his times and assesses his ongoing influence and legacy.Hardcover80 pages | 58 illustrations Hirmer Publishers, 20205.5 x 8 x 0.5 inchesISBN 9783777434032Artist Monographs, Bauhaus

László Moholy-Nagy (Great Masters in Art)

By Noam M. Elcott“Cinema consists of focused projected light, but Elcott shows that it craves the darkness. His investigation of the darkened theater, the role of darkness in creating optical magical illusion, and the modernist discovery of the anti-representational power of darkness show how cinema’s passion for darkness became a major figure of twentieth-century culture.” —Tom Gunning, University of Chicago“Theoretically astute, historically rigorous, and visually precise, Artificial Darkness sets a standard for film and media scholarship while also making extremely significant and original contributions to fields such as art history, the history of science, and theater studies. Elcott’s research is subtle and meticulous, and his ability to embed and web his vast and complex archival discoveries into a swiftly moving and lucid narrative is truly impressive. This is a model of interdisciplinary work.”—Karen Beckman, University of PennsylvaniaDarkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, “artificial darkness” has been overlooked—until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science and spectacle, and a century of advanced art and film. Artificial Darkness is the first book to historicize and theorize this phenomenon and map its applications across a range of media and art forms.In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules Marey, Richard Wagner, Georges Méliès, and Oskar Schlemmer revolutionized not only images but also everything surrounding them: the screen, the darkness, and the experience of bodies and space. At the heart of the book is “the black screen,” a technology of darkness that spawned today’s blue and green screens and has undergirded numerous advanced art and film practices to this day.Turning familiar art and film narratives on their heads, Artificial Darkness is a revolutionary treatment of an elusive, yet fundamental, aspect of art and media history.Paperback312 pages | 145 halftonesUniversity of Chicago Press, 2018 10 x 6.9 x 0.8 inchesISBN 9780226597751 Photography

Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media

Text by Antonín Dufek This previously unpublished album contains 72 photographs by Czech photographer Jaromír Funke (1896–1945) that were likely taken in 1923, only four years into Funke’s career. These photographs feature important buildings and monuments, as well as journeys undertaken with fellow Czech photographer Josef Sudek. Hardcover92 pages | 72 color plates Kant, 20189 x 8.5 inches ISBN 9788074372377 Photography

Jaromír Funke: Kolín 1923

Edited with text by Jordan Troeller Text by Oliver A.I. Botar, Annie Bourneuf, Hana Buddeus, Özge Baykan Calafato, Meghan Forbes, Christelle Havranek, Michelle Henning, Rolf Sachsse, Robin Schuldenfrei, Steffen Siegel, Jan Tichy, Jordan Troeller A prolific writer, photographer, portraitist and documentarian, Lucia Moholy (1894–1989) defies categorization. She was as active in avant-garde circles as she was in the field of information science, advancing an expansive understanding of visual reproduction. While previous publications on Moholy have limited her accomplishments to the five years she spent at the Bauhaus, Exposures presents the full breadth of her writings and photographs for the first time. Extensive essays drawing on new archival discoveries offer insights into her early life in turn-of-the-century Prague, her involvement in the radical social movements of the 1920s in Weimar Germany, her wartime documentations via microfilm and her work in the Middle East on behalf of UNESCO. Acknowledging her reception by contemporary artists such as Jan Tichy, the publication demonstrates how Moholy’s interdisciplinary approach to photography anticipated the medium’s post-analog present. Hardcover300 pages | 160 colorHatje Cantz, 20248.25 x 11 inchesISBN 9783775756327 Photography, Modernism

Lucia Moholy: Exposures

Original Price: $26.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Phyllis Rose A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O’Keeffe’s husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stieglitz as a revolutionary force in the history of American art. Born in New Jersey, Stieglitz at age eighteen went to study in Germany, where his father, a wool merchant and painter, insisted he would get a proper education. After returning to America, he became one of the first American photographers to achieve international fame. By the time he was sixty, he gave up photography and devoted himself to selling and promoting art. His first gallery, 291, was the first American gallery to show works by Picasso, Rodin, Matisse, and other great European modernists. His galleries were not dealerships so much as open universities, where he introduced European modern art to Americans and nurtured an appreciation of American art among American artists. Hardcover272 pagesYale University Press, 20195.75 x 1 x 8.25 inchesISBN 9780300226485Photography

Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters

von Wilfried Rosendahl und Claude W. SuiFotografien von August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch & Robert Häusser Der aufwendig gestaltete Band präsentiert nicht nur eine Reihe großartiger Bilder von bleibendem Wert und im hochwertigen Druck, er ist ein wertvolles Dokument zur Geschichte der Fotografie in der Vor- und Nachkriegszeit. Ein Muss für Fotografie- und fotohistorisch Interessierte und für jede Sammlung mit Büchern zur Fotografie! Die Brüchigkeit unseres Seins: Legendäre Aufnahmen der 1920er und 30er Jahre von August Sander (1876–1964) und Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966), den Hauptvertretern der »Neuen Sachlichkeit« in der Fotografie, treffen auf Ikonen von Robert Häusser (1924–2013), einem Klassiker der Nachkriegszeit. In faszinierender Beobachtung zeigen sie Menschen, Arbeitswelten und Natur in Zeiten von Umbruch und Neuanfang. Die »Neue Sachlichkeit« wurde 1925 geboren, als Hartlaub seine legendäre Mannheimer Ausstellung so benannte und damit einen bleibenden Begriff der Kunstgeschichte prägte. Unser Band feiert das 100. Jubiläum mit herausragenden Porträts und Menschendarstellungen, Fotografien von Industrie und Arbeiter:innen sowie von Landschaften und Pflanzen. Sanders Werk »Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts« oder Renger-Patzschs »Die Welt ist schön« haben Fotogeschichte geschrieben. Im Dialog mit Häusser, der in diesem Jahr seinen 100. Geburtstag hat, offenbaren sich Korrespondenzen wie Besonderheit der jeweiligen Handschrift. Gebunden168 Seiten, 140 Abbildungen in FarbeHirmer Verlag GmbH, 20248.78 x 9.96 inchesISBN 9783777444369Monographs, Photography

Sachlich Neu

by Hans Christian Adam “It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that photographers in the know have been waiting for this book.” ―The New York Times German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealing a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the 19th- and 20th-century worlds of image-making and bring a distinctly sculptural aspect to a firmly two-dimensional art form. Beautifully but starkly composed against plain cardboard backgrounds, Blossfeldt’s images, relying on a northern light for their sense of volume, reveal nothing of the man but everything of themselves. They are still life's, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their aesthetics and the ongoing fascination of students and photographers. Like their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effective. Hardcover512 pagesTaschen America Llc, 20246.1 x 8.5 inches ISBN 9783836598514Monographs, Photography

Karl Blossfeldt: The Complete Published Work. 40th Ed.

Von Susanne BisovskyMode für eine große Stadt Wien ist eine alte Dame, die früh zu Bett geht und lange schläft! Eine Stadt wie Wien in einem globalisierten Umfeld ist der Hintergrund für die ersten dreißig Jahre „Bekleidungsentwicklungshilfe“ einer Wiener Modeschöpferin seit 1990. Wider eine glattgebügelte internationalisierte Ästhetik formuliert Susanne Bisovsky tiefgreifende, aber auch spielerische und letztlich selbstbestimmte Wege zu Bekleidung, Mode, Gewandung. Die Modeschöpferin nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise in die Höhen und Tiefen einer textilen Realität, die kaum Vergangenheit und nur Momentchen der Gegenwart kennt. Dabei durchdringt sie für und mit uns die Scheinwelt hysterischer Überproduktion und öffnet ihren realen und imaginären Fundus der Bekleidung einer Stadt, deren Schätze man nur zu heben bräuchte. Unbeirrt von Trends führt sie uns ein scheinbar aus der Zeit gefallenes Bild der „Schönen Wienerin“ vor Augen. Und zwischen den Zeilen des von namhaften Fotograf*innen bebilderten Bandes findet man schließlich eine Stadt, die sich um den Preis der Austauschbarkeit mehr und mehr selbst verliert. Damit das nicht passiert, beschenkt uns die Couturière mit erfrischendem „Wiener Chic“. Couture-Kollektionen von Trachtenpunk bis Teatro alla Scala Mit Textbeiträgen von Helmut Lang, Suzy Menkes, Barbara Vinken, Angela Stief, Elisabeth Längle, Andrea Bonicelli, Hubert Achleitner u. a. m. Fotografiert von Wolfgang Zac, Atelier Olschinsky, Bernd Preiml, Wolfgang Pohn, Jenni Koller, Bianca Hochenauer und Günter Derleth.Vienna, a city in a globalised environment, is the backdrop for the first thirty years of "development aid for clothing" by a Viennese fashion designer, starting in 1990. In contrast to a sleek internationalized aesthetic, Susanne Bisovsky formulates radical yet playful and ultimately self-determined approaches to clothing, fashion and attire.Hardcover304 pagesVerlag Anton Pustet, 2022Text in German and English9.88 x 1.46 x 13.31 inchesISBN 9783702510398 Viennese Fashion, Fashion Photography

Wiener Chic: Mode für eine große Stadt

By Enno Kaufhold The second volume in a series detailing the work of Christian Schad—one of the most important artists associated with the New Objectivity—this examination goes beyond his most famous medium to explore his lesser-known talent for photography. The collection reveals numerous rare images from the early to mid-1930s for the first time, from landscapes and abstract motifs to the striking metropolis of Berlin. Featuring accompanying discussions on the relationship between the New Objectivity and photography, the book also delves into Schad's artistic approach, focusing on his use of photographs in the painting of his famous portraits as well as his later unique method of artistic cameraless photography in his "Schadographs." Hardcover272 pagesWienand Verlag, 20139.5 x 1.1 x 12.25 inchesISBN 9783879099337Monograph, Photography, New Objectivity

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