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New York through the eyes of a designer
Arnell's take on the world has had a significant impact on the history of design. As a branding expert, as a creative…
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"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Ruth Orkin: Women, f p3 s - freiraum feur fotografie, Berln, December 8, 2023-February 18, 2024"--Colophon.
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Zoe Lescaze
Otherworldly Portraits in an Age of Rising Sea Levels
SINK / RISE is the third chapter of The Day May Break, Nick Brandt's ongoing global series portraying people and animals…
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The beauty and tenderness of withering and decay
In this gorgeous book, Brigitte Lustenberger explores the passing of time, memory and the fragility of life. She transforms flowers dried on…
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British photographer Franklin received the World Press Photo Award in 1989 for his iconic photo of a man squaring off with a tank during the Tiananmen Square protests. In black-and-white…
Nadine Barth
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Marketing, Unternehmenskommunikation, CRM, Marktforschung, Social Media, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den letzten Jahren…
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What might seem on the surface like pleasing eye candy actually negotiates some of the most relevant and distressing topics of our times. Societal control through generated desires, alienation from…
Sie alle wollen unsere Aufmerksamkeit: Marken. Taglich mussen sich Konsumenten mit einer Flut an Werbung und damit einer standig wachsenden Markenvielfalt auseinandersetzen. Die Mehrzahl an Unternehmen ist dabei innovativ, mutig…
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According to calculations by the UNO, by 2050 around seventy percent of the global population will be living in cities. For his spectacular series Metropolis, Martin Roemers sets his sights…
Pictures by the fashion and portrait photographer Ralph Mecke are dark, mysterious, and charged with an idiosyncratic energy. Mecke, born in Berlin and living today in New York City, often…
The Rhine in painterly photographs
Flaming flowers and lollipop hipsters, glittery facades and wallpaper Alps-in recent years a new canon of images has been developing in fine arts photography in which the art of exaggeration…
Glamor, happiness, and delicate shades of color: German fashion photographer Esther Haase says that her life is a dance through the world with the camera. Her oeuvre is permeated by…
The best way to experience Berlin is to see it from the ring railway-and get out at every station. Ama Split and Riky Kiwy, spent a good six weeks riding…
How Berlin parties: a trip through the party city with a camera. This volume plunges headlong into life: specifically, Ed Broner’s nightlife, which is presented here in a kind of…
Stories in black and white: The great photographer from the agency Ostkreuz shows West Berlin in the raw
Photographer Michael Schulz is interested in the forms, colors, textures, weird niches, bright light, and the humor of the moment. He published his first smartphone photo in fall 2010…
Known for his eclectic style, the British photographer Jason McGlade has been supplying hip magazines such as Hekmak, Tank, Intersection, and the Sunday Times Style Magazine for years, as well…
Summer in Siberia? What does that feel like? Is Siberia perhaps a new travel destination we didn’t know about? How is climate change making itself felt there? In several books…
Female View puts the focus on women fashion photography. Although this medium has been shaped by female photographers for decades, a large number of publications or exhibitions have focused primarily…
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The Bauhaus legacy, which photographer Jean Molitor has been tracking around the world since 2009, is presented here in this catalogue. In his art project bau1haus Molitor focuses on the…
A Photographic Journey through Sacred Buildings
Deceptive images of fun and laughter, projections of happiness: Chinese amusement parks
Max Siedentopf
The coronavirus pandemic initially called for self-isolation. Without further ado, Max Siedentopf turned his apartment upside down and recorded the results on camera: piles of cans become sculptures, haute couture…
Transit dreams
For the clubs, they are an important economic factor; for the fans, they are the most emotionally charged textile in their closet. Like almost no other fashion accessory, the soccer…
In China, the country where cities are springing up, transplanting nature is big business. In the photo series Forest Yan Wang Preston - winner of the 1st Prize of Syngenta…
The Yangtze River photographed with a large format camera: A work of a genius and an eye-opening experience. - Zelda Chaetle
The desire to depict other places and cultures is the driving force behind Sandra Ratkovic’s photographs. To do so does not require any exoticism on her part, but a close…
What happens when street photography, conceptual art, and documentation are combined? The result is a unique panorama of images, whose versatility allows it to capture the sometimes abysmal, sometimes dazzling…
Becker’s latest portrayal of the transformations wrought by climate change upon landscape comes with a limited-edition print
German photographer Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) has long been acclaimed for his…
Views of an artist and inhabitant of the megacity
Pumps are his favorite motif, women his passion, the night his hunting grounds. French photographer Maxime Ballesteros (*1984) nonchalantly shoots his photographs from the hip, follows his protagonists to wild…
Striking photographs by the winner of a 2011 World Press Photo Award| With a foreword by Cees Nooteboom
Vitali Gelwich
Vitali Gelwich has spent over a decade developing his practice, now reaching a point of inflection, allowing him to further unravel his identity as an artist. This comes at a…
A close look transforms even the most ordinary things into fascinating objects full of idiosyncracies and magic. With charming tongue-in-cheek, the photographer Pascale Weber shows this through a very special…
The photo book Like Birds by photographer Sven Jacobsen takes us back to a carefree time of youthful self-awareness, to a summer full of adventure. In their immediacy, a timeless…
Ratatouille was yesterday Under the sign of the rat
Surreal, refined, disturbing: Roger Ballen has made a name for himself with his special eye for what is usually considered minor…
Porodina’s early years were impacted by the brutalist buildings in Moscow and her mother who introduced art to Porodina’s mind. Stored in her subconscious, art is what became the extension…
Daniel Freeman
Promenade through the American night
Highways are more than mere traffic routes - they are symbols of speed and mobility; in 1930s Germany, they served propaganda purposes. Today they are central infrastructures. In this volume…
Visual worlds of change
There is no question that the Bauhaus was the most influential institution on architecture in the twentieth century. But does this aesthetic legacy live on in buildings? In what shape…
Not only do we live in a period of rapid, exciting change, but we are also in the midst of the Anthropocene age. The environment and climate are changing in…
We often say that photography captures a moment in time. It is static and doesn’t change, like an immovable mountain. Bastiaan van Aarle shows us a different way of thinking…
Above the clouds, freedom must be boundless …
Off the beaten tourist paths below Table Mountain
When the talk is about photographing celebrities, most inevitably think about the person in front of the camera. Actually, though, the one behind it is of much greater importance. Because…
