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The ninth edition of C International Photo Magazine explores the role of women in photography. There is no 'photography made by women' that can be stylistically distinguished from 'photography made by men'. But even as photography cannot be defined by gender, women are a timeless and recurring motif and their role and representation are the subject of much debate.

Monográfico a Vixikio Vietitez. Virxilio sólo trabajó por encargo y fotografió solamente aquello que le iban a pagar; no sabía si su próximo sujeto sería un campesino con su carro de bueyes o una pareja de recien casados, o una madre con su criatura muerta.

No pain, no gain The most memorable moments since the birth of pro football in America The best of sports photographer Neil Leifer''s 10,000 rolls of football pictures, including hundreds of previously unpublished images. Presented in a custom slipcase and limited to a total of 1,500 copies signed by the photographer, this XL edition is a companion to Neil Leifers instant sell-out success, Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball, published by TASCHEN in 2007. In 1958, sports photographer Neil Leifer took the picture that remains one of his most famous to this day. The day he got the shot - Alan Ameches game-winning "Sudden Death" touchdown - was Leifers 16th birthday. This game, called "The Greatest Ever Played," signaled footballs emergence as Americas new national pastime; formerly half-empty stadiums welcomed sold-out crowds seemingly overnight, while football surpassed pro baseball and college football in national television ratings. Starting then, on any given Sunday Leifer was most likely shooting a football game somewhere in America. His 1961 photo of legendary Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle dropping back to pass landed Leifer his first cover for Sports Illustrated and cemented his close connection to the sport. While best known for his iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali towering over a fallen Sonny Liston, and for the enormous diversity of subjects he covered in and out of the sports world, it is his football pictures Leifer considers his best. This collection represents the best of his best, culled from over 10,000 rolls of film on the sport, including hundreds of previously unpublished pictures. Its impossible to conceive of Peyton Manning hovering over an impromptu wood fire on the sidelines during a blizzard, but Leifer captured Tittles Giants doing exactly that during the coldest game in his living memory (the 1962 Championship in New York, a game "far colder than the famous Ice Bowl"). From Vince Lombardis Green Bay Packers dynasty to the Miami Dolphins perfect season in 1972 to the Minnesota Vikings terrifying Front Four - the "Purple People Eaters" - theyre all here. Following an introduction assembled from the best football columns of the era by famed sports columnist Jim Murray

This collection from Cellina von Mannstein finds the beauty in flawed and funky situations. Her freewheeling images celebrate decadent excess as well as the aesthetics of disorder and confusion. Before taking up fine art and fashion photography, von Mannstein worked in film. Her compositions hold your attention and are compellingly real. For her, telling a story a not just creating an image a is what it''s all about. These original works have the atmosphere of dark fairytales with dream-like juxtapositions and hints of seediness.

Circa XX, la colección particular de Pilar Citoler, es una de las más importantes colecciones privadas de arte contemporáneo internacional existentes en España. Destaca entre sus fondos la obra original sobre papel, nunca expuesta en su totalidad y que ahora se presenta parcialmente en este catalogo. Asi, en este catalogo se dan cita toda clase de bocetos, dibujos, acuarelas, pasteles, collages y obra grafica, conforme al deseo de subrayar la importancia que tiene el papel en el origen de la obra de un artista: es en el, muchas veces, donde se plasma la idea primera del creador, el germen de lo que luego seran mundos mas complejos y elaborados. El papel, en fin, lejos de ser el soporte de un arte menor, ha generado una produccion artistica de vigor y pertinencia extraordinarios. En conjunto, se reunen en este volumen mas de trescientas cincuenta obras que incluyen trabajos de artistas centrales como Emil Nolde, Picasso, Julio Gonzalez, Benjamin Palencia, Le Corbusier , Joan Miro, Jose Caballero, Man Ray, Grete Stern, Henri Michaux, Miquel Barcelo, Jasper Johns, Antoni Tapies, Antonio Saura, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Pablo Palazuelo, Elena Asins, Eduardo Chillida y Robert Rauschenberg, entre un largo etcetera, sin olvidar varios libros de artista que dan cuenta de la fascinacion de sus autores por el libro-objeto y su voluntad de dialogo con poetas y escritores.

"La dedicació d'aquest fotograf vilanoví per plasmar la vida dels ciutadans, tant al seu estudi del carrer dels Caputxins com als carrers i les places de la vila, es ben notoria i mereix que avuí es presenti en aquest volum una part del seu treball, nomes una part perque els treballs de Jordi Mas son extensos i diversos i no caben en un sol volum." Joan Ignasi Elena i Garcia (Alcalde de Vilanova i la Geltru)

Werner Bischof, Martín Chambi, David Goldblatt, Chris Killip, Eugene Richards New collection of pocket-sized photography books. Paperback Each slipcase contains 5 titles 156 x 136 mm 6 1/8 x 5 3/8 in

Swinging sex lives of everyday Americans Naomi Harris's subjects are not the usual perfected androids who populate contemporary erotica, but ordinary people with extraordinary sex lives; this book explores a rarely-seen side of sex in America. The Art Edition is limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by both Naomi Harris and Richard Prince. The books #51-100 will be accompanied by the chromogenic print Broken Leg and Barbecue (Swingstock 2004, Duxbury, MN). The cover features a four-color, silk screened, 3-dimensional stamped metal reproduction of a classic American motel sign, specially conceived and created for this edition.

Celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz began her career in 1970 at ROLLING STONE, continuing on to work for VANITY FAIR and VOGUE. Since then her documentary work--including capturing Nixon?s resignation and Barack Obama?s campaign--and portraits--of everyone from Patti Smith to Queen Elizabeth to Olympic athletes--have established her influence. In this book the artist discusses her process, touching on technical and aesthetic issues, illustrated, of course, by her stunning pictures.

La posición de Agustín Jiménez frente a las cosas, su deslizamiento en el espacio, como la foto en sí que los muestra a él y a sus alumnos, es un acto revelador: se suprimen en tornos para redimensionar los objetos, muy al contrario de meter todo el caos de ese mundo inmediato. En actos asi, los objetos adquiriran una inusitada dimension, tan grandiosa como terrible, tan sencilla pero tan poderosa. Y eso se convertira en una nueva forma de abstraccion. Una innovadora manera de mirar.

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 nineteenth and twentieth 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-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their technical brilliance and the ongoing fascination of students and photographers. Like their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effective.

The 2008 Pritzker Prize winner explores his career to date The work of France''s most unique and internationally celebrated contemporary architect in a book designed by the master himself. Limited to 1,000 signed and numbered copies packaged in a translucent plexiglass slipcase especially designed by Jean Nouvel for this edition. Recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, Jean Nouvel is without any doubt Frances most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he was an assistant of the influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, then creating his own office in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (198187, with Architecture Studio). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House (198693), the Euralille Shopping Center, Lille (199194), and the Fondation Cartier, Paris (199194). His major completed projects since 2000 include the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, Switzerland (19982000), the spectacular Agbar Tower on Barcelonas Diagonal Avenue (200103), the extension of the Reina Sofia Museum, (Madrid, 19992005), the Quai Branly Museum on the Seine in Paris (200106), and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Apart from receiving this years Pritzker Prize, Jean Nouvel won the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Gold Medal in 2001. Jean Nouvel worked for five years with author Philip Jodidio on this prodigiously illustrated TASCHEN monograph, a book that will finally give the full measure of the architects talent. Two 400-page hardcover volumes give the most complete overview to date of Jean Nouvels career, including works in progress, such as the new Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the extension of the MoMA in New York. The books graphic design and images were conceived and selected by the architect; in addition, the transparent printed dust jackets mimic the architects own tendency to play with contrasts and overlaid patterns. One can truly say that this publication is Nouvel by Nouvel, inside and out.

La obra de Rosa Muñoz presenta una cualidad notable: hacer del acto creativo fotográfico un ejercicio de proyección de fantasías en lugar de hacer uno de grabación instantánea, no ilusoria y fidedigna de la realidad, lo que suele ser mas habitual en el medio fotografico.

Selección de fotografías a color del fotógrafo internacional José Maria Navia.

LaChapelle Heaven to Hell es el tercer volumen de una trilogía vigorosa que comenzó con LaChapelle Land (1996), y continuó con el tristemente célebre Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Llenos de imágenes asombrosas, saturadas de color y provocativas, estos dos títulos se convirtieron en objeto de colección, y desde su primera publicación se han editado en varias ocasiones. Con casi el doble de imágenes que sus predecesores, LaChapelle Heaven to Hell es una recopilación explosiva de un nuevo trabajo de este fotógrafo visionario. Desde la publicación de Hotel LaChapelle, la fuerza del trabajo de LaChapelle reside en su habilidad para enfocar la lente de las celebridades y la moda hacia temas de más preocupación social. Las imágenes de LaChapelle — de las caras más famosas del planeta, y de los personajes marginados como el transexual Amanda Lepore o el reparto de su documental Rize, aclamado por la crítica— pone en entredicho nuestra relación con el género, el glamour y el estatus. Empleando el exceso barroco que es su sello, LaChapelle invierte el consumo que parece celebrar para señalar, en cambio, sus consecuencias apocalípticas para la propia humanidad. Mientras hace referencia y admite su reconocimiento a fuentes tan diversas como el Renacimiento, la historia del arte, el cine, la Biblia, la pornografía y la nueva cultura pop global, LaChapelle crea un lenguaje visual profundamente personal y definitorio de la época que pone un espejo enfrente a nuestros tiempos.

A través de más de 80 obras de diez fotógrafos españoles nacidos entre los años cincuenta y setenta y que cuentan con una trayectoria consolidada, esta exposición ofrece una variada muestra de la mejor creación fotográfica española, desde la más documental hasta la más poética o pictórica. La Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior de España organizó este recorrido a través de imágenes de nuestra realidad con motivo del Año de España en China y, posteriormente, ha brindado al Instituto Cervantes la posibilidad de presentarlo en sus centros de Estambul, Dublín, Varsovia y Nápoles a lo largo del año 2009. El catálogo, en español e inglés, ofrece un estudio introductorio de Oliva María Rubio, comisaria de la exposición, y una breve presentación de los autores seleccionados: Bleda y Rosa, Ferran Freixa, Cristina García Rodero, Alberto García-Alix, Cristobal Hara, Ouka Lele, Chema Madoz, Ángel Marcos, Xavier Ribas y Javier Vallhonrat.

La exposición Los Ángeles, de Julius Shulman, uno de los mejores fotógrafos internacionales de arquitectura, ha sido inaugurada por el vicepresidente y consejero de Cultura y Deporte, Ignacio González, en la Sala Canal de Isabel II, que se inscribe en el marco de la Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, ARCOmadrid_2010, que en esta edición tiene Los Ángeles como ciudad invitada

One of the first celebrity photographers, David Bailey socialized with many of the cultural icons of the 60s - he lived with Mick Jagger, married the legendary French film actress Catherine Deneuve and had relationships with the models Jean Shrimpton and Penelope Tree. Along with Brian Duffy and Terence Donovan, he was one of the 'Terrible Trio' - self-taught East End boys who rebelled against the precious style of fashion portraiture as practiced by society photographers like Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson. His own fame was confirmed when director Michelangelo Antonioni used him as inspiration for the character of fast-living photographer Thomas Hemmings in cult film "Blow-Up" (1966). Outside the world of fashion photography, Bailey has pursued numerous personal and commercial projects; documenting the streetscapes of London, photographing the people and places of Havana, Cuba, and producing an intimate series of portraits of model Catherine Bailey, his current wife. He has also created record-sleeve art, feature films, documentaries and around 500 commercials. The vigour and variety of his work has made him the subject of numerous exhibitions, including a major traveling show that opened at the Barbican, London, in 1999 entitled "The Birth of Cool". This handsome monograph provides an overview of Bailey's career, including works from key monographs such as his debut Box of Pin-Ups (1964) and the controversial series The Lady is a Tramp (1995). The book, on a photographer whose reputation only continues to grow, will appeal to all photography enthusiasts and students, and to anyone with an interest in popular culture of the 1960s onwards.