Art and Photography

  • Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967. The cover Shows a street from the perspective of a driver. In the centre of the image is a rear-view mirror. The image is blue on the bottom third, white in the middle and red at the top. Set on a dark red background

    Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967

    During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with…

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  • Francesca Woodman. Pale blue book cover set on a dark red backgrond

    Francesca Woodman

    Francesca Woodman has become one of the most talked about, studied and influential of late twentieth-century photographers. She started taking photographs when she was barely thirteen, and in less than a decade created a body of work that has now secured her reputation as one of the most original American artists of the 1970’s. Woodman…

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  • joel meyerowitz how i make photographs

    Joel Meyerowitz: How I Make Photographs

    The ‘Masters of Photography’ series is a new approach to photography how-to. Each volume is dedicated to the work of one key photographer who, through a series of bite-sized lessons and ideas, tells you everything you always wanted to know about their approach to taking photographs. From their influences, ideas and experiences, to tech tips…

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  • gustav klimt landscapes

    Gustav Klimt: Landscapes

    This visually stunning collection of Gustav Klimt’s landscape paintings brings to light a lesser-known aspect of the Viennese painter’s oeuvre. While Gustav Klimt is largely revered for his opulent, symbolladen portraits of the Viennese bourgeoisie, these works were just one aspect of his artistic expression. His landscapes represent an important facet of his career and…

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  • gordon parks book

    Gordon Parks

    Gordon Parks (1912–2006) was a pioneering figure in 20th-century photography. As well as being the first African-American photographer to join the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and to become a staff photographer for Life magazine, he was also a writer, film director and composer. Although best known for documenting issues such as poverty, race relations and…

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  • Egon Schiele Landscapes

    Egon Schiele Landscapes

    Best known for his depictions of the human form, Schiele was also interested in portraying the beauty and structure of the world he inhabited. In fact, Schiele’s paintings of the countryside and his native Vienna comprise a large proportion of his body of work. Nearly one hundred of the artist’s landscapes are exquisitely reproduced in…

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  • Man Ray. Cover of book shows black and white image of a man adjusting a camera from side perspective. Set on a dark red background

    Man Ray

    A close look at Man Ray’s interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris Shortly after his arrival in Paris in July 1921, Man Ray (1890–1976)—the pseudonym of Emmanuel Radnitzky—embarked on a sustained campaign to document the city’s international avant-garde in a series of…

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  • L'Art de Manger. The book cover is bright blue, with a wooden carved statue of a human and another carving in the centre. The book is set on a dark red background

    L’Art de Manger

    A French- language publication of L’Art De Manger: Rites et Traditions. This book explores the traditions associated with food preparation and consumption, in a time where fast food is becoming more accessible. Furthermore, the book delves into the daily and specialist practices involving food.

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  • Tapies: In Perspective. A white cover with a black cross on the upper left. Set on a dark red background

    Tapies: In Perspective

    A tapestry of essays, notes and voices (including that of Antoni Tàpies himself), this volume attempts to capture the complexity of an artist and his work, as well as some of his major concerns: the need to reintroduce the sacred into the social and to defend a new role for the artist.

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