Photography

By Josef AlbersEdited by Sarah Hermanson MeisterWith contributions by Elizabeth Otto and Lee Daffner Original Price: $50.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS "One and One Is Four reveals an Albers at once familiar and unexpected—playful yet disciplined, personal yet enigmatic—through a body of work whose genius becomes fully apparent when considered as a whole."―Fine Books and Collections". . .focuses on [Albers’s] early experiments with the ways in which photography did and did not render reality, the interplay between its flat shapes and its instantaneous representation of the three-dimensional world before the lens."―Randy Kennedy, The New York Times"This small, vital display of medleys of photographs. . .reveals the man, and the joy, behind the pedagogy...these works are infectiously buoyant."―The New Yorker German-born abstract painter Josef Albers laid the foundations for some of the most important art education programs of the 20th century. In 1936, during his time working at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he had his first solo exhibition in New York at J. B. Neumann’s New Art Circle. In 1949, Albers left the college and began his famous Homage to the Square series. He taught at various institutions throughout America, including Yale University, New Haven, where he lectured for eight years. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized Albers' traveling exhibition in 1965 and a retrospective of his work was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1971. The artist died in 1976. Sarah Meister is a Curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Hardcover128 pagesThe Museum of Modern Art, 20169.7 x 0.9 x 12.2 inchesISBN 9781633450172Artist Monographs, Exhibition Catalogue, Bauhaus, Photography

One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers

By Robin MuirPhotographs by Cecil Beaton "Otherworldly, untouchable in his beauty, and eerily, eternally modern."—Emma Garman, Paris Review"Returning to Beaton’s enchanted world is a tonic in a fear-ridden age, the catalogue, written by the exhibition’s curator, Robin Muir, a delight."—David Platzer, New Criterion"Decades after Cecil Beaton captured their heyday on camera, his most colourful characters are taking us for a spin again."—Hugo Vickers, TelegraphThe stylish and extravagant world of the "Bright Young Things" of 1920s and ’30s London, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton.In 1920s and ‘30s Britain, Cecil Beaton used his camera and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with that flamboyant and rebellious group of artists, writers, socialites and partygoers who became known as the “Bright Young Things.” Famously fictionalized by the likes of Evelyn Waugh (in Vile Bodies), Anthony Powell and Henry Green, these men and women cut a dramatic swathe through the epoch and embodied its roaring spirit.In a series of themed chapters, covering Beaton’s first self-portraits and earliest sitters to his time at Cambridge and as principle society photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, over 50 leading figures who sat for Beaton are profiled and the dazzling parties, pageants and balls of the period are brought to life. Among this glittering cast are Beaton’s socialite sisters Baba and Nancy Beaton, Stephen Tennant, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh and Daphne du Maurier. Beaton’s photographs are complemented by a wide range of letters, drawings, book jackets and ephemera, and contextualised by artworks created by those in his circle, including Christopher Wood, Rex Whistler and Henry Lamb.Hardcover280 pagesNational Portrait Gallery, London, 202010 x 1 x 11 inchesISBN 9781855147720Exhibition Catalogue, Photography

Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things

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

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 pages 74 color photographsTorst Publishing, 2007 6.5 x 7 inches ISBN 9788072152810 Artist Monograph, Photography

Josef Binko

Edited by Ann Wilde and Jürgen Wilde Foreword and text by Hansjörg Küster "Masterworks. . . explores how his images provoke us to draw connections with the natural world, and reveals his traditional darkroom techniques. Sure to inspire fans of botany and photography alike."—BBC Earth"More than 100 years after many of the images were made, they’re still compelling."—PDN Photo of the Day"Blossfeldt’s photographs seem to give biological forms an architectural, or sculptural quality. They showcase the artistic and architectural qualities of plants that came out of biological necessity."—Meg Miller, Fast Co DesignKarl Blossfeldt was a pioneer of botanical photography, though his interest in the plant world was initially educational. Fascinated by the structure of plants, whose seemingly artistic forms resulted from biological necessity, he realized that photography could be a useful teaching tool, allowing his students to see and compare natural forms. Working with a homemade camera, Blossfeldt gathered and photographed his own plant samples, magnifying them by up to 45 times. From around 1898 onward, he shot some 6,000 images, which he used primarily as visual aids in his classes.Eventually published as Art Forms in Nature (1928) and Art Forms in Nature, Second Series (1932), Blossfeldt’s photographs had a lasting impact on the art of his day and were enthusiastically embraced by both the Surrealist and New Objectivity movements. His books brought him overnight fame and are still considered landmarks in the history of art and photography. Karl Blossfeldt: Masterworks presents a remarkable collection of Blossfeldt’s strikingly austere yet poetic portraits of plants, which capture their timeless beauty in intimate detail. Hardcover160 pagesD.A.P., 20179.5 x 0.8 x 14.5 inchesISBN 9781942884132Artist Monographs, Botanical Photography

Karl Blossfeldt Masterworks

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 Angela Lammert, Rosa Von Schulenburg, and Anna Schultz With designs for book jackets, magazines, and political pamphlets, John Heartfield (1891–1968) established himself as Berlin’s most innovative graphic designer of the Weimar period. While he was initially associated with the Dada movement, his affiliations with the communist party and the rise of Nazism eventually led him to change his approach, shifting his artistic output to spreading messages and fighting political opponents. Dissecting and reassembling press images with great verve and humor, Heartfield created photomontages that aimed to reveal the bitter truths of contemporary politics to a mass audience. Oscillating between innovative graphic design, agitation, and political propaganda, Heartfield was trully cutting-edge.This lavishly illustrated volume draws on the rich collection of Heartfield’s work found in of the Akademie der Künste’s archives, given to the museum by Heartfield himself. In this book we see the full scope of Heartfield’s artistic output, and we get insight into some lesser-known aspects of his oeuvre, such as his theater designs. In addition, a plethora of archival material illuminates Heartfield’s ideas, biography, and creative network, while statements on his work by contemporary artists and thinkers raise crucial questions about the function of political art and “fake news.” The resulting volume reveals the artist firmly embedded in his own time even as his work has particular resonance in our own. Hardcover 312 pages Hirmer Publishers, 2020 8.5 x 1.2 x 10.75 inchesISBN 9783777434438Artist Monograph, Photomontage, Graphic Design

John Heartfield: Photography Plus Dynamite

By Maria Zinfert Siegfried Kracauer was a leading figure on the Weimar arts scene and one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work of many of the period’s preeminent thinkers, including the critic Theodor W. Adorno, who once claimed he owed more to Kracauer than any other intellectual.Kracauer: Photographic Archive, a companion volume to The Past’s Threshold: Essays on Photography, collects previously unpublished photographs by Siegfried and Elisabeth, “Lili,” Kracauer. With its remarkably rich material, the book tells the story of the Kracauer’s close working relationship, from their marriage in Germany to their escape to Paris and the war and postwar years in the United States. While neither Kracauer nor his wife trained in photography, their portraits, city views, and landscapes evince impressive aesthetic and technical skill, while simultaneously shedding light on their lives marked by exile and flight. Hardcover272 pagesDiaphanes, 20159 x 1 x 12 inchesISBN ﻿9783037346716Photography, Criticism, Essays

Kracauer: Photographic Archive

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 Chris Blencowe and Judith Levine Photographs by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy The Greek island sequence montaged by László Moholy-Nagy into his legendary documentary Architects' Congress can be interpreted, like his provocative Photoplastiks, as a "message in a bottle" thrown into the sea that "might take decades for someone to find and read." Capturing the incomparable Greek light, it presents a compelling glimpse of the four days and nights in August 1933 when the elite of the European architectural and artistic avant-garde―in Greece for the 4th International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM)―took to the Aegean in a barely seaworthy "nut shell" that would bring them close to the brink of disaster. The "motley crew" included Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant, Sigfried Giedion, Cor van Eesteren and Otto Neurath. Crucial to the success of the surreal odyssey were various members of the Greek avant-garde.Drawing on previously unpublished material―Moholy's poetically ironic letter to his wife, Sibyl, Ghika's candid memoirs of Le Corbusier and forensic examination of the architect's sketchbooks―the authors reconstruct the epiphanies, debates and, inevitably, estrangements at this critical moment in European history.Paperback200 pagesLars Müller Publishers, 20186.2 x 0.7 x 9.6 inchesISBN 9783037785669Artist Monograph, Architecture, Photography

Moholy's Edit: CIAM 1933: the Avant-Garde at Sea

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

Text by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl August Sander is one of the greatest photographers in international photographic history. With his seminal book People of the 20th Century, he set new standards in portrait photography. Sander's aspiration was to create a typological "composite image" of his time. The ambitious project began in the 1910s and was to occupy him through the 1950s. A novel feature of this book is that all the reproductions are based on vintage prints produced and authorized by August Sander himself. The croppings and the desired tonal values are authentically rendered here for the first time in the long publication history of Sander's brilliant portrait work. The originals are from the rich holdings of the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne and from additional major collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Hardcover304 Pages9.8 x 1.1 x 12.5 inchesPrestel, 2019ISBN 9783791385433Photography, Portrait

August Sander: Masterpieces

By Claudia Bohn-Spector The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left an indelible imprint on both the man and his work. Sander, a conventional studio portraitist who transformed himself into an avant-gardist, exemplified the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of his time. He was at once innovative and deeply wedded to the past, blending a progressive vision with a traditional view of society and his craft. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Paperback144 pages J. Paul Getty Museum, 20006 x 0.4 x 7.6 inchesISBN 9780892365678Artist Monograph, Photography, Portraits

In Focus: August Sander Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Original Price: $32.50 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Alexander Horwath and Michael Omasta "These images show that Sternberg was already at the absolute zenith of his shimmery mise-en-scène powers...and that should be enough to embolden readers to plummet into these dreamy pages with the conviction they're going to a better place."—Guy Maddin, Film Comment"A must for any serious film library."—H-Net"The treasure trove goes on and on, attractively and cleanly displayed."—Sight & Sound In his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg vividly brought to life his youthful memories of Vienna at the turn of the last century. Critic Dwight Macdonald called it “the most completely satisfying American film I have seen”. But only a short fragment survives—Lena Smith is one of the legendary lost masterpieces of the American cinema. Assembling 150 original stills and set designs, numerous script and production documents and essays by eminent film historians, the book reconstructs Sternberg’s drama about a young woman fighting the oppressive class system of Imperial Vienna. It also includes essays by Janet Bergstrom, Gero Gandert, Franz Grafl, Alexander Horwath, Hiroshi Komatsu and Michael Omasta, a preface by Meri von Sternberg, as well as contemporary reviews and excerpts from Viennese literature of the era. Paperback304 pagesOsterreichisches Filmmuseum, 2008Text in English and German7 x 1.3 x 8 inchesISBN 9783901644221Film, Photography, Biography, Criticism

Josef von Sternberg: The Case of Lena Smith

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 Daniela Hodrová and Antonín DufekLike the previous volumes The Window of My Studio and Still Lifes, this new Josef Sudek monograph collects a series of photographs made within the confines of the Czech photographer’s workspace. Sudek’s studio famously verged on installation art, as the poet Jaroslav Seifert recalled: “Breton’s surrealism would have come into its own there. A drawing by Jan Zrzavy lay rolled up by a bottle of nitric acid, which stood on a plate where there was a crust of bread and a piece of smoked meat with a bite taken out of it. And above this hung the wing of a Baroque angel with Sudek’s beret hanging from it.... This disorder was so picturesque, so immensely rich, that it almost came close to being a strange but highly subtle work of art.” Gathered here in all their surreal beauty, the Labyrinths series depicts multilayered assemblages of objects in endlessly permutated combinations. Hardcover96 pagesTorst, 20140.8 x 9 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9788072154371Artist Monograph, Photography, Still Lifes

Josef Sudek: Labyrinths

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

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

By Manfred HeitingThis enormous and authoritative survey of Czech and Slovak photo publications commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Czechoslovakia on October 28, 2018. It demonstrates the persistent tradition of superior artistic imagination and technical ingenuity that is uniquely and wonderfully Czech and Slovak.In the course of more than 1,000 years of existence, the Czech and Slovak people only experienced free nationhood between 1918 and 1938―and again after 1989. Finally living under their own rule, photographers and writers, typographers and book designers, graphic artists and printers were free to express a love of country and documented its landscapes, cities, national treasures, monuments and the life of its people with unflinching attention―thus forming their unique cultural identity, even during Nazi annexation and 40 years of communist occupation. In nine chapters this comprehensive book explores over 800 publications from 1918 to 1989, highlighting the work of more than 250 photographers and graphic artists, including Frantisek Drtikol, Libor Fára, Jaromír Funke, Karel Hájek, Vladimír Hipman, Bohdan Holomícek, Tibor Honty, Karol Kállay, Josef Koudelka, Jan Lukas, Martin Martincek, Alphonse Mucha, Karel Plicka, Josef Prosek, Jaroslav Rössler, Pavel Stecha, Jindrich Streit, Jindrich Styrsky, Josef Sudek, Ladislav Sutnar, Karel Teige and Zdenek Tmej. Hardcover516 pagesEssays in Czech and EnglishSteidl, 201911 x 2.2 x 11 inchesISBN 9783958294974Photography, Graphic Design, Czech Artists

Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918–1989

By Victor Birgus "Now translated into English, this important book...expands our knowledge of the history of photography of this critical period."—B&W Magazine"..one cannot but be startled by the depth and importance of the Czech tradition."—Mark Pohlad, History of Photography"...this book reveals the body of work that paved the way for later Czech photographers."—Mark Wojahn, Rain Taxi Review of Books"This remarkable collection will repay hours of study and belongs in the library of anyone who seriously studies modern photography."—Choice Magazine Not until the fall of the communist regime in 1989 and the end of Czechoslovakia's cultural isolation did the world begin to appreciate the Czech avant-garde photographers of the first half of the twentieth century. This first survey of Czech avant-garde photography introduces the important work of František Drtikol, Jaromir Funke, Jaroslav Rössler, Jindøich Štyrský, Josef Sudek, and numerous others whose work made Czech photography synonymous with visions of modernity. The essays introduce the period and explore the background and connections among the photographers. Biographical profiles are also included. But the book's main attraction is its outstanding collection of duo-tone and color images, many published here for the first time. Hardcover311 pagesMIT Press, 20029 x 1.2 x 11 inchesISBN 9780262025164Photography, Czech Artists

Czech Photographic Avant-Garde: 1918-1948

Edited by Vladmír Birgus and Jan Mlcoch It 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 images; 36 b/w images; 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

Edited by Lothar SchirmerText by Elisabeth BronfenAn anthology of woman photographers portraying women from the 19th century to the present day. A red-hot reference book in times of #MeToo and gender discussions.Hardcover280 pages | 159 color and duotone platesSchirmer Mosel Verlag, 2020Text in German and English‎8.07 x 11.42 inchesISBN 9783829609005Photography, Women in Art

Frauen Sehen Frauen ― Women Seeing Women

By Jindřich Toman Photomontage was pioneered as a technique in central Europe in the 1910s, where it flourished as an art form through the end of World War II. While German artists such as John Heartfield, Max Ernst and Hannah Höch used the medium to respond to the atrocities of war, other areas of Europe were simultaneously experiencing a newfound political autonomy as the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed. For these artists, namely Polish and Czech, photomontage manifested itself in a Surrealist approach to cut-and-paste imagery that emphasized its potential for visual poetry. Photo/Montage in Print traces the explosion of photomontage art in book cover design and illustrated magazines in the interwar period. Documenting the remarkable contributions of Czech artists in the creation of the visual language of modern print media, the publication includes some of the leading artists of the Czech avant garde such as Karel Teige, Jindrich Styrsky, Toyen, Ladislav Sutnar and Frantisek Muzika. Hardcover376 pages9.2 x 1.4 x 11 inchesKant; Bilingual edition, 2011Text in German and EnglishISBN 9788086970929Photography, Graphic Design

Photo-Montage in Print: The Moderne Czech Book 2

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

With 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. Edited by Monika Faber and Janos Frecot 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

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)

Edited by Stéphan Crasneanscki The book contains a foreword by poet, essayist and anthologist Pierre Joris (b. 1946, French, Luxembourg-American), a preface by Stéphan Crasneanscki (b. 1969, French), a text by musician, author and poet Patti Smith (b. 1946, American) and an excerpt and an essay by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (b. 1940, d. 2021, French).There are no photographs, no testimonies, no recordings of poet Paul Celan’s encounter with philosopher Martin Heidegger in the German village of Todtnauberg in Schwarzwald (Black Forest) in 1967. Only Celan’s poem remains, along with the possibility of an endless narrative. Endless because everything was to prevent from such a meeting between the German philosopher who tied himself to the Nazi party in 1933 and the Jewish poet who was imprisoned in a work camp and made orphan by the war. And yet on July 24th, 1967, they were brought together to give a poetry lecture in Freiburg which was followed by a private invitation of Heidegger to his hut in Todtnauberg.This meeting was the subject of the radio play, The Encounter, created by sound artist and photographer Stéphan Crasneanscki and the late philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy for the public radio channel France Culture. Crasneanscki and Nancy's anthropophonic collaboration extends beyond Strasbourg and the Black Forest, the locations which Stéphan Crasneanscki travels to regularly since childhood. He walked along the paths to nowhere that Celan and Heidegger had first traversed and retraced a topography of their encounter; of distance and wandering, by fixing the immobile silhouettes of the trees. To the absence of voice, Nancy tirelessly responded with his own. A visual and sonic correspondence emerged, which is mirrored and transcribed for the first time in this volume, with commentaries by Pierre Joris and Patti Smith.Hardcover 128 pages | 57 color Text in English and FrenchLibraryman, 20229.8 x 12.2 InchesISBN 9789188113580 Photography, Sound Arts

The Encounter

By Victoria Hely-Hutchinson For I Left My Grandmother’s House, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson (b. 1984, British) turns not only her eye, but her ear as well to her extended family in Austria, merging fragments of family lore with keenly observed photographs. The work neither provides a tidy critique of the extant aristocracy, nor does it blithely venerate the decor, saying “ooooh,” while rolling the brocade curtains between its fingers. Instead, it simply shows and tells, through the disembodied perspective of familial subjectivity. It interrogates history but receives only demure shrugs in response. The heart of the project lies in the darkly comedic stories told over dinner by Hely-Hutchinson’s domineeringly charismatic (or is it charismatically domineering?) grandmother, an Austro-Hungarian countess, who ran away with her family’s English foreign exchange student (later known as Grandpa Hugh) at age 16, and now lives a life of ease in the French Riviera, captured with great sensitivity in Hely-Hutchinson’s documentary Vacances. Hely-Hutchinson set out to Austria, with her Grandmother’s name to unlock some portcullises, and get a seat at the dinner table. Like the stories themselves, Hely-Hutchinson’s photographs are often unresolved, sometimes riddles, sometimes poems. Is a bat loose in the house a symbol? A nod to the old expression of eccentricity, “bats in the belfry?” A visual representation of the outside world intruding upon a fortified space? In these photos, specificity and metaphor collide, and never say excuse me. The book contains a preface by the author. Hardcover68 pages | 31 color platesLibraryman, 202323 x 29 cmISBN 9789188113610Photography, Memoir

I Left My Grandmother's House

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

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