[PDF] Peter Kayafas Coney Island Waterdance eBook

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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780979776847

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An elegant collection of portraits of swimmers at Coney Island across two decades This collection of 30 photographs by American photographer Peter Kayafas (born 1971) depicts people swimming in the ocean at Coney Island, a location that has long served as a source of inspiration and fascination for artists. Made over the course of many summers and one particular winter during which Kayafas was a member of Coney Island's legendary Polar Bear Club (the oldest winter bathing club in the United States) in the 1990s and 2000s, the photographs are filled with energy, movement, grace and a surprising intimacy. Using a waterproof camera, hidden just below the ocean's surface, Kayafas captures candid snapshots of unsuspecting beachgoers. His focus on the swimmers over a period of two decades provides an extended insight into the elemental relationship humans have with water.

Author : Frederick W. Glasier
Publisher :
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780871300683

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Selected photographs from among those made by F.W. Glasier between 1899 and 1934, during which he photographed, among others, the Barnum and Bailey, Sparks, and Ringling circuses, and wild West shows.

Author : Sasha Wolf
Publisher : Aperture
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781597114592

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PhotoWork is a collection of interviews by forty photographers about their approach to making photographs and, more importantly, a sustained body of work. Curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf was inspired to seek out and assemble responses to these questions after hearing from countless young photographers about how they often feel adrift in their own practice, wondering if they are doing it the "right" way. The responses, from both established and newly emerging photographers, reveal there is no single path.

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Publisher : Marsilio
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788829702176

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An insider's photographic history of postwar Italian and American art Beginning his career in 1940, Italian photographer Ugo Mulas (1928-73) became a central figure in documenting postwar contemporary art. This volume presents Mulas' black-and-white photographs--two decades of the Venice Biennale, New York in the 1960s, and close friends and artists Fontana, Consagra, Melotti and Pisoletto.

Author : Cyrus Highsmith
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Design
ISBN : 1616899786

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What goes on inside a paragraph of printed text? Cyrus Highsmith's Inside Paragraphs is an essential primer on the basics of typography that focuses specifically on the role of printed text within a paragraph. Engaging full-page illustrations and Highsmith's accessible explanations show the role of white space between letters, words, and lines. Perfect for students and professionals alike, this updated edition includes a new preface.

Author : R. J. Kern
Publisher : MW Editions
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release :
Category : Photography
ISBN :

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In 2016, award-winning Minnesota-based photographer R. J. Kern made portraits of youth contestants at Minnesota county fairs. Each participant—some as young as four years old—had spent a year raising an animal, which they had then entered into a 4-H livestock competition. None of the youths who sat for him had succeeded in winning an award, despite the obvious care they had given to their animals. The Unchosen Ones depicts the bloom of youth and the mettle of the kids who grow up on farms, reminding us how resilient children can be when confronted with life's inevitable disappointments. The formal qualities of the lighting and setting endow these young people with a gravitas beyond their years, revealing self-directed dedication in some, and in others, perhaps, the pressures of traditions imposed upon them. Kern's beautiful portraits capture a particular America, a rural world, and a time in life when the layered emotions of youth are laid bare. Four years later, in 2020, Kern returned to photograph his young subjects. The most recent photographs show how the children have grown into adolescence or young adulthood: some of them have continued to pursue animal husbandry, while others have developed other interests. It is likely that some of these kids will not choose to continue running their family farms—an unpredictable and demanding way to make a living. These diptychs are punctuated by lush landscapes of the farms that are their homes. As Kern made the second group of photographs, he asked his young subjects what they had carried forward from their previous experience. What were their thoughts, their dreams, and their goals for the future? How would they fit into the future of agricultural America?

Author : Frida Kahlo
Publisher : Rm
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN :

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When Frida Kahlo, died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicer to turn the Blue House into a museum that the people of Mexico Could visit to admire the work of the artista. Pellicer selected those of Frida’s paintings which were in the house, along with drawings, photographs, books, and ceramics, maintaining the spaces just as Frida and Diego had arranged them t olive and work in. The resto f the objects, clothing, documents, drawings, and letters, as well as over 6.000 photographs collected by Frida in the course of her life, were put away in bathrooms converted into storerooms.

Author : Susan Meiselas
Publisher : Steidl Dap
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783882439540

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From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for smalltown carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. She also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers and paying customers. Meiselas' frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention. Produced during the early years of the women's movement, "Carnival Strippers" reflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that characterized a complex era of change. This revised edition contains a new selection of Meiselas' black-and-white photographs together with the original interview excerpts. Additionally, an audio CD featuring a collage of participants' voices and a 1977 interview with the photographer are included. Essays by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English reflect on the importance of this body of work within the history of photography and the history of feminism.

Author : Valerie A. Balint
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781616897734

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From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness creativity in the making. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this is the first guidebook to the forty-four site museums in the network, located across all regions of the United States and all open to the public. The guide conveys each artist's visual legacy and sets each site in the context of its architecture and landscape, which often were designed by the artists themselves. Through portraits, artwork, and site photos, discover the powerful influence of place on American greats such as Andrew Wyeth, Grant Wood, Winslow Homer, and Donald Judd as well as lesser-known but equally creative figures who made important contributions to cultural history-photographer Alice Austen and muralist Clementine Hunter among them.