‎Photographie‎

‎With texts by Roger Szmulewicz and Stephan Vanfleteren‎

‎HARRY GRUYAERT: Caf Belgica.‎

‎Antwerp, FIFTY ONE , 2021 Softcover 101 pages, Illustrated. 21x15cm. ISBN 9789463883252.‎

‎We Belgians are used to seeing people have fun, get drunk, dance or do whatever else they please in this temple of emotions. To sober outsiders, caf s are an enigmatic territory, where a miracle potion is served. It's Harry instead of Asterix chez les Belges. In all likelihood, the photographer had to leave his comfort zone to better understand it. Taking a step back to see the bigger picture. Leaving to arrive. It's ironic that no other Belgian was able to preserve this culture as brilliantly as Gruyaert. I used the word preserve on purpose. Unlinke wine, beer is not stored. It is consumed as soon as possible. Perhaps that's why beer drinkers are so impatient when they're thirsty."‎

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‎Roger Szmulewicz‎

‎SAUL LEITER : Photographs and Works On Paper‎

‎, FIFTY ONE , 2011 softcover, 56 pages, Illustrated. 148 x 210 mm English text. ISBN 9789081772501.‎

‎This catalogue was first published in 2011, on the occasion of his third solo show at GALLERY FIFTY ONE. Two years before he passed away on November 26th 2013. The second edition is in loving memory of Saul.‎

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‎Gideon Boie, Sofie De Caigny, Fredie Flor , Vjera Sleutel, Thomas Vanderveken, Heleen Verheyden and Erik Wie rs. Photography by Kurt Deruyte‎

‎WONEN IN MONNIKENHEIDE Zorg, inclusie en architectuur‎

‎, VAI : VLAAMS ARCHITECTUUR INSTITUUT, 2023 HB, 305 x 220 mm, 160 pages, NL edition.* Nieuw. ISBN 9789492567307.‎

‎Monnikenheide in Zoersel is een woonzorg centrum voor personen met een verstandelijke beperking. Een bijzondere plek voor bijzondere mensen, die in dit boek voor het eerst wordt bekeken vanuit een architecturaal perspectief. In de vijftigjarige bouwgeschiedenis van Monnikenheide gingen telkens andere archi tecten op zoek naar de ruimtelijke mogelijk heden binnen het leidmotief van de inclusie. Zo ontstond een uniek landschap dat de gren zen van de zorgarchitectuur ruim overstijgt. Monnikenheide is een krachtig architecturaal statement over de plaats van zorgbehoevende mensen in onze samenleving. Met bijdragen van Gideon Boie, Sofie De Caigny, Fredie Flor , Vjera Sleutel, Thomas Vanderveken, Heleen Verheyden en Erik Wie rs Artistieke fotografie door Kurt Deruyter Met ontwerpen van Luc Van den Broeck, Bruno Boulanger, Mark Depreeuw, b0b Van Reeth (AWG), Maarten Van Severen, Architectuurgroep Jo Peeters, Huiswerk architecten, Vermeiren De Coster Architecten, Richard Venlet, 51N4E, UR architects, FELT architecture & design‎

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‎Franca Sozzani‎

‎Peter Lindbergh Photographs Catalogue Of Milan Triennale‎

‎, Munich : Schirmer/Mosel, 1998, Original publishers paper-covered boards, 95 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 39 cm. English / Very good, . ISBN 9783888141171.‎

‎Published to accompany exhibition Peter Lindbergh', organised by La Triennale di Milano, Milan, 6th March - 12th April 1998.‎

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‎Pi rard, Louis / Zola, Emile‎

‎Zola 1938: un discours en Sorbonne‎

‎, Paris / Anvers : a Ira , 1939, Plaquette in-8, agraf e, couverture rempli e, 19 pages. Edition originale. Un des 100 exemplaires num rot s sur papier Featherweight, seul tirage N 10.‎

‎Zola 1938: un discours en Sorbonne‎

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‎Playboy Playmate Calendar 1991+1992+1993+1995+1996+1997+1998‎

‎, Playboy Magazine, original playmate calendar x 7 in fine condition.‎

‎Vintage playmate calendar 1991+1992+1993+1995+1996+1997+1998‎

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‎Cy Twombly, Laszlo Glozer‎

‎Cy Twombly Photographs 1951-2007.‎

‎, Schirmer Mosel, 2008 Hardcover, 261 pages , ENG / GER, 330 x 255 x 35 mm, dustjacket, as New / wie Neu, illustrated in colours / illustrationen in Farbe. ISBN 9783829603683.‎

‎Ever since his student days, Cy Twombly has concerned himself with photography, but only in recent years has he turned it into a unique artistic concept- and an aesthetic sensation. Twombly's photographic pieces are documents of a fascinatingly enigmatic and personal poetry. His studios in Lexington and Gaeta, details of his own sculptures and collected sculptural items, landscape motifs, fruits and flowers appear in a mysteriously transformed manner on these delicate sheets. Printed in matte colors on matte paper using a dry-print process that imbues them with velvet and an almost grainy hue, the images are vaguely reminiscent of the pictorialist tradition in fin de siecle photography. In their minimalist way, however, generating aesthetic visions by the simplest of means, they are utterly contemporary. 'Photographs 1951-2007' presents Twombly's photographic works of over fifty years- full of surprises and breathtaking beauty.‎

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‎Jean-Yves Quierry‎

‎Robert Doisneau. Travailleurs‎

‎, Ch ne (Editions du), 2003 Hardcover, 144 pages, Texte en Francais / Tres belle exemplaire, jaquette, photo's en n/b.,260 x 260 x 20 mm, ISBN 9782842774776.‎

‎"... Qu'on se souvienne : de 1934 1939 ; Robert Doisneau est photographe industriel aux usines Renault de Boulogne-Billancourt... On sait aussi qu' l'occasion de certains reportages pour le magazine de la CGT, la Vie Ouvri re, Doisneau tait introduit secr tement par les militants dans les usines, les ateliers et les mines pour rendre compte des conditions de travail. Dans l'enfer de ces travailleurs, on est loin du Robert Doisneau populaire connu et reconnu pour son Baiser de l'H tel de ville... C'est toute la valeur de cet album, travers une centaine d'images, de d couvrir un Robert Doisneau du c t social, d s l'entre-deux-guerres, l'objectif tourn vers les milieux ouvriers, les solitaires la marge, les petits de ce monde, les oubli s sans scrupule, les fauch s d'une g n ration l'autre... "‎

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‎ROMY COCKX‎

‎MAN RAY and Fashion‎

‎Antwerp, Stockmans, 2023 softcover, 176 pages, 220.x 290 mm Illustrated. English. ISBN 9789464363364.‎

‎Man Ray was a widely versatile artist who worked with a range of different media and did not like to be pigeonholed. Fashion as such did not seem to be a particular interest of his, but dressmaking was part of his youth and photographing fashion played a crucial role throughout his career. The way he portrayed women and their clothing continues to influence fashion photographers today. Man Ray used new and unexpected angles, employed artistic staging, and applied such innovative processes as solarization and multiple exposure to his fashion photography. In recent decades, fashion designers continue to find inspiration in his Surrealist imagery. This is most notably true for Belgian designers, with their avant-garde mindset. Completely in line with the concept of Surrealism, these references are often subconscious. The first reference to Man Ray in Belgian fashion, however, was in fact explicit and can be placed squarely at the entrance of the Brussels-based Norine couture house. ... Fashion not only provided an income and international recognition for Man Ray but also influenced his visual language. That vocabulary had been nurtured from an early age by dressmaking attributes that must un-avoidably carry more meaning for a tailor?s son than for someone else. His images of mannequins and fragmented body parts were consistent with the visual language of the Surrealists, and were, under the influence of his fashion photography, not only uncanny but also aesthetically appealing. His visual art and his commercial photography were not separate from one another, and he was moreover one of the first Surrealist artists to recognize the artistic as well as the commercial potential of mass media. Expo Man Ray and Fashion in MoMu Antwerp. Man Ray and Mode, MoMu - ModeMuseum Antwerp, 22 April - 13 August 2023‎

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‎Walt Whitman And Paul Cava‎

‎Walt Whitman and Paul Cava / Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass (English and German Edition)‎

‎, edition Galerie Vevais , 2005 Hardcover, 176 pages / seiten, ENG / GER, 310 x 285 x 25 mm, NEW !!, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9783936165364.‎

‎Hard cover limited edition, signed and numbered 300 copies: 176 pages, 4 color with 2 additional decorative colors, double gatefold cover with flaps, printed on PhoeniXmotion paper, 11x12 inches. Edition Galerie Vevais is pleased to present an illustrated edition of the ?Children of Adam? cycle of poems from the American literary masterpiece "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman. ?Children of Adam? is the legendary group of poems that caused the book to be banned in Boston at its publication in 1882. Whitman?s theme was the male and female body, entirely naked in every sense ? and he steadfastly resisted any suggestion of censorship. This boldly illustrated new edition of the poems brings together two pioneers of American culture, both coincidentally natives of Brooklyn, New York: Walt Whitman, the beloved American poet who continues to inspire readers worldwide, and the contemporary artist Paul Cava, born more than a century later in 1949. John Wood, Arden Kass and Alexander Scholz contribute original and informative essays; technical and scholarly guidance are supplied by noted Whitman scholars Prof. Ed Folsom and Prof. Walter Gr nzweig.The ?Children of Adam? cycle from "Leaves of Grass" is a hymn of hope for a young and innocent America. It is an anthem for a democratic America and a free world -- as well as an unabashed polemic for a shame-free physical and procreative life. This book presents the controversial cluster of poems in a totally original and honest way ? each of the 16 poems stands alone on its beautifully designed page, leaving space for a complex relationship to develop between the sexual and spiritual nuances of the artwork and poetry.Today our world is in the midst of terrific and violent upheaval, accompanied by much >> darkness and negativity. We are all in need of love and kindness, simple ?native moments? that all of humanity can share and take nourishment from. With this in our minds and hearts, a team of German and American artists, writers, scholars and designers have come together and worked for more than a year to produce a book that goes beyond the traditional definition. It is an unconventional, visual and sensual expression of hope, manifested in words, image and design and presented in a finely-crafted work of published art. Superior quality printing, highest quality paper and binding further ensure a place in the hearts of book collectors worldwide for this unique collaboration.‎

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‎Mona Kuhn ; David Campany;‎

‎Mona Kuhn : Private‎

‎, Steidl, 2014 Hardcover, 110 pages, ENG, 315 x 305 x 18 mm, dustjacket, in NEW condition ! illustrated in soft colours. ISBN 9783869307091.‎

‎For a new monograph, Private, Kuhn's fifth publication for Steidl, the photographer focused her gaze on the bleached tones and broad expanses of light that bathe the Mojave Desert, a few hours drive from her Los Angeles home. In a series of thoughtful and intimate compositions, Kuhn catalogs flora and fauna, most of it coarse-grained and engineered for survival. Landscapes are windswept and invite introspection. Hard light falls on no-nonsense structures that are built to last. Punctuated throughout these pages are female nudes, bathed in the same supple light and shadow, their faces mostly serene. As in previous series by Kuhn, the artist employs glass as a secondary lens and means of filtration and dissolution of identity, shooting her subjects from outside of structures, allowing their features to soften and meld with the reflections of the surrounding terrain. The sequencing of the images in Private is expertly tuned to tease out the complex relationship between the vulnerability of the nude female form and the rugged natural context which Kuhn employs as a backdrop. Kuhn's models are mostly supine, the softness of their luminous skin a foil and a complement to the jagged, indomitable geology of the landscape in which they find themselves. Against this backdrop, the self is by turns magnified and diminished into a dreamy, sensual phenomenology.--Kevin Greenberg "The Last Magazine "‎

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‎Edited by Iconic Images‎

‎BEING BARDOT : Photographed by Douglas Kirkland and Terry O'Neill‎

‎, ACC Art Books, 2023 HB, 315 x 285 mm, 252 p, 150 illustrations, EN edition, dustjacket, NEW,. ISBN 9781788842013.‎

‎Brigitte Bardot is arguably the most familiar face in French cinema and one of the most loved stars of the 20th century. She is recognised the world over for her work in film, as a singer, and as an animal rights activist. The photographers Douglas Kirkland and Terry O'Neill both worked with Brigitte Bardot at the peak of her fame in the 1960s and early 1970s, photographing the star on set and behind the scenes on films including The Legend of Frenchie King aka Les Petroleuses, Shalako and Viva Maria. ACC Art Books and Iconic Images are proud to present the work of these two acclaimed photographers with many stunning images taken from their archives to reveal iconic and never-before-seen images of the star. From on-set to off, playful moments to candid captures, Being Bardot includes more than 150 photos in colour and black and white, contact sheets and revealing, first-hand memories. Being Bardot is a must for all fans of cinema, photography and Brigitte Bardot.‎

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‎Tome , Karel‎

‎Hoge ogen, een blik op de regio Eindhoven‎

‎, St. Co rdinatie Regio Eindhoven Promotie, 1994 Hardcover, 96 pag. NL / ENG, 340 x 290 mm, groot formaat, in goede staat, stofomslag, met prachtige luchtfoto's !.‎

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‎Taryn Simon ; Daniel Baumann ; Nico Baumbach‎

‎Birds of the West Indies & Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies : Signed by Taryn Simon and numbered (ed. of 300)‎

‎, Hatje Cantz, 2016 Hardcover in decorative slipcase , 2 volumes, 1076 pages, ENG, 310 x 210 x 100 mm, NEW !!, packed with fine illustrations in colour / b/w, truly a collector's item.. ISBN 9783775741408.‎

‎Simon's Birds of the West Indies is a two-part body of work, whose title is taken from the definitive taxonomy of the same name by the American ornithologist James Bond. Ian Fleming, an active bird watcher, appropriated the author's name for his novels' lead character. He found it "flat and colourless," a fitting choice for a character intended to be "anonymous? a blunt instrument in the hands of the government." The first element of Simon's work is a photographic inventory of the women, weapons and vehicles of James Bond films made over the past fifty years. This visual database of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy examines the economic and emotional value generated by their repetition. In the second element of the work, Simon casts herself as the ornithologist James Bond, identifying, photographing, and classifying all the birds that appear within the 24 films of the James Bond franchise. Simon's discoveries often occupy a liminal space between reality and fiction; they are confined within the fictional space of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it.‎

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‎Peter Borchert ; Alain Proust‎

‎Portrait of Cape Town‎

‎, Fernwood Press, 1994 Hardcover, 120 pages, ENG, 310 x 280 mm, dustjacket, in good condition, with coloured photographs. ISBN 9781874950097.‎

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‎Bruno Claessens, Michel Vandenkerckhove , Didier Claes, Hughes Dubois (photography)‎

‎SHARED PASSION : An African Art Collection built in the XXIst Century.‎

‎, Mercatorfonds, 2023 HB, 310 x 280 mm, 352 pages, 300 illustraties, ENG edition, ISBN 9789462303317.‎

‎Although considered the cradle of mankind, the most recent history of the African continent has long been shrouded in mystery. Without leaving any written records, many civilizations rose and disappeared again, only leaving majestic works of art as witnesses of their greatness. Most of these forgotten cultures were only rediscovered throughout the 20th century, often by accident, and scholarship has been struggling to put the puzzle pieces of the last millennia of the African continent back together. Bruno Claessens (1983) is a passionate art expert with 15 years of ample experience in the African art market. From 2010 until 2012, he was the archivist of the Yale University-van Rijn Archive of African Art, before starting as an independent expert in African art, advisor and curator. Claessens has published three books on African art (Ere Ibeji (2013), Baule Monkeys (2016), Un - Prestigious African Weapons (2021)) and runs a popular blog on the subject since 2013. Claessens was the European director of the African art department at Christie's for 5 years. In 2021 he founded Duende Art Projects, an innovative gallery concept, wishing to strengthen Africa's visibility and significance within the art world through curated exhibitions on unique locations.‎

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‎Filip Claus‎

‎OOGST Filip Claus‎

‎, MER / Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2023 Hardcover, 160 pag. NL, 300 x 300 mm, Nieuw, foto's in kleur / z/w.* Nieuw. ISBN 9789464759563.‎

‎Filip Claus is vooral bekend als baanbrekende fotograaf bij De Morgen. Zowel zijn spraakmakende portretten van Belgische politici als zijn indringende beelden van conflicten in Zuidoost-Europa, Afrika en vooral het Midden-Oosten, behoren intussen tot het collectief geheugen. Gestolde taferelen. Een guerrillastrijder met het fototoestel als enige wapen. Oogst kwam tot stand naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in de Sint-Pietersabdij in Gent, van 12 mei tot 20 augustus 2023.‎

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‎Leni Riefenstahl‎

‎Leni Riefenstahl Five Lives.‎

‎, Taschen, 2000 Hardcover with dusjacket 336 pages Illustrated. English. ISBN 9783822862162.‎

‎One remarkable woman, five remarkable careers: Leni Riefenstahl is the exception to the rule. From dancer to actress to film-maker to photographer to diver, she has excelled in each field and is one of the most important and controversial artists of the 20th century. Her contributions to the art and technique of film-making were vast, most notably in her epochal film ""Olympia"" (1938). Critically acclaimed during the 1930's for her work under the Hitler administration and harshly criticized after the war, Riefenstahl surged on, completing the famous ""Tiefland"" in 1954. In the 1960s and 70s she traveled to Africa and extensively photographed East Africa and the Nuba tribes in Sudan, publishing three books. Ready for yet another change, she took up deep-sea diving at the age of 71, beginning a new chapter as an underwater photographer. Though she has attracted much attention throughout her life and has been the subject of many books, articles, and films, Leni Riefenstahl Five Lives is the first book to showcase her entire career in pictures. Produced in collaboration with Riefenstahl herself, the book includes her most famous images as well as many previously unpublished pictures from her private archives. The main body of the book features photographs (without text) spanning Riefenstahl's entire set of careers, with pictures of her on stage as a dancer and on the set as an actress and film-maker, as well as film stills and her own photographs (precise commentaries about the pictures can be found in the comprehensive appendix). The illustrated biography, international bibliography, and detailed filmography complement the illustrative section with extensive information about her personaland professional lives. Fans and critics alike will be impressed with this sweeping visual tribute.‎

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‎Eddy Van Gestel ; Fabienne van Haelst ; translation : Sally Tipper‎

‎Just Passing By, Eddy Van Gestel Photography.‎

‎Antwerp, Het Bronzen Huis, 2023 Hardcover, 208 pages, 110 photographs in colour. NL / ENG / FR, 320 x 240 x 30 mm, NEW, ISBN 9789079669493.‎

‎Fotograaf Eddy Van Gestel ( 1964) leeft en werkt in Belgi en in Afrika. Fotografie is voor hem een zoektocht naar een magische en mysterieuze realiteit waarbij de grens tussen werkelijkheid en impressie vaak flinterdun is. Of het gaat om portretten, natuurfoto's, stillevens of foto's van landschappen, ze hebben alle gemeen dat ze hun grafische kracht putten uit de eenvoud waarmee ze in beeld worden gebracht. Van Gestel verwierf internationale bekendheid met A continent in the picture, Afrika XL en To the rythm of the sun. /// Photographer Eddy Van Gestel ( 1964) lives and works in Belgium and Africa. For him, photography is a search for a magical and mysterious reality where the boundary between reality and impression is often paper-thin. Whether they are portraits, nature photos, still lifes or photos of landscapes, they all have in common that they draw their graphic power from the simplicity with which they are depicted. Van Gestel achieved international fame with A continent in the picture, Afrika XL and To the rhythm of the sun.‎

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‎Tim Tronckoe / Colin H. Van Eeckhout (AMENRA)‎

‎In Der Minne Photography by Tim Tronckoe.‎

‎, Tim Tronckoe featuring, 2023 Hardcover, Collector's edition, limited to 600 copies. and SIGNED. Size: 31 x 30 cm Pages: 104 pages, including foldout. FINE!‎

‎In Der Minne, the highly anticipated photographic art project by Tim Tronckoe featuring Colin H. Van Eeckhout (Amenra), honouring the works by Belgian sculptor and draftsman George Minne. In Der Minne is a black and white photography project, focusing on human tragedy. Being an undeniably relevant theme, Tim starts from the sculptural work by 19th century Minne, to transpose his themes onto the photographic medium, using Colin as a medium to echo the feelings of pain, loss and grief. Tim's ambitious project has landed him into this book, a museum launch and a gallery show most creatives can only dream of.‎

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‎Sebastian Dobson ; Ruud van Empel‎

‎JAPAN ON A GLASS PLATE : The Adventure of Photography in Yokohama and Beyond, 1853-1912‎

‎, Ludion, 2023 HB, 255 x 270 mm, 208 p ; ENG edition, NEW, illustrated in coloured photos. ISBN 9789493039995.‎

‎Lush vegetation in a jungle, butterflies in a field with colorful blooming flowers: Ruud van Empel's work is wonderful and alienating at the same time. The artist uses countless photographed details of people, plants, animals or objects to digitally cut and paste. He assembles this material into a composition on the computer, a process that was done analogously until 1995. The images look real, but they are not. With painting, film and (staged) photography as sources of inspiration, Van Empel has developed a new genre, so to speak. He himself speaks of 'building a photographic image' or 'photo objects'. Through his precisely composed scenes, elaborated down to the smallest details, the artist plays with images. His fictional worlds seduce, mislead the viewer or cause a feeling of discomfort. Without seeking controversy, other meanings lurk beneath the surface of his aesthetic images. In this way, Van Empel shows us how much we are influenced by different visual cultures in everyday life. In May 2023, the Stedelijk Museum Breda will present an extensive retrospective exhibition of Ruud van Empel. This monograph offers an overview of Van Empel's oeuvre from the 1990s to the present.‎

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‎Leemans, Koen [edit.] Van De Voorde, Anne [edit.]‎

‎Yours never fades : Natalie Giulia Wynants testimonio gr fico‎

‎, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen , 2010 gebonden, met prachtige foto's. ISBN 9789077193297.‎

‎Tentoonstelling. Cultuurcentrum. De Garage 2010/06/26 - 2010/08/29. Titel: Yours never fades : Natalie Giulia Wynants testimonio gr fico.‎

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‎Fabrice Hergott, Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais, Eric Darragon, Freddy Langer, Heinrich Hell‎

‎Benjamin Katz‎

‎, Hirmer Verlag, 2016 Hardcover, 160 pages, ENG / FR / GER, 245 x 175 x 18 mm, NEW, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9783943616392.‎

‎Not one exhibition of these great German painters ? with whom Benjamin Katz has sometimes been associated for years ? can do without his subtly refined portraits. But his archive of more than 60 years of photography, with more than half a million negatives, still holds many surprises: in addition to series of conceptual photographs, there are also observations of everyday life ? landscapes, traces of industrial decline, architectural details, finds of ordinary poetry and moments of the absurd. The pictures are full of unspoken stories, use heterogeneous associations, and always allow the artist?s complex mind to shine through. Although the influences of older models such as Brassa , Rodtschenko and Cartier-Bresson are still evident, Benjamin Katz?s photographs are above all wordless narratives that combine humour as wisdom and suggestive expression in very simple narratives. One can only follow with admiration the results of this creation, in which concentrated observation illuminates rather minor moments of life with vivid clarity.‎

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‎Aude Gr zer Ohara, Athena Vander Perre, Marleen De Meyer & Wouter Claes‎

‎SURA : Egypt through a Belgian Lens‎

‎, Snoeck Publishers (Belgium), 2023 HB, 270 x 240 mm, 232 p, 220 illustraties , EN edition. ISBN 9789461617767.‎

‎First curator of the Egyptian department at the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH), Jean Capart (1877-1947) is often regarded as the founding father of Belgian Egyptology. Besides being the one who gave its impulse and rise to the development of the Egyptian collection at the RMAH, he was at the root of many other initiatives that contributed to turn, within a few years only, the RMAH into a prominent research centre in Egyptology. Under Capart's leadership, one of the world's finest and most complete Egyptological libraries arose in Brussels at the RMAH during the first decades of the 20th century. Keeping up with pioneering practices that Capart had observed in leading-edge institutions around Europe and the USA, the museum's library rapidly housed a very large collection of books and journals about Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology along with an important photographic archive which was constituted for research purposes and academic dissemination as well as education and public outreach. During his entire career, Capart constantly invested in the development of this collection by feeding it with photos he bought from colleagues and institutions abroad, and with photos he and his collaborators took during their scientific missions and trips throughout Egypt and in museums over the world. The initial core on which this important photographic archive built up, and which counts more than 53.000 individual non-digital items today, consists of almost 7.000 high resolution historical glass plate photographic negatives dated to the first half of the 20th century. Although this large sub-collection constitutes, by its diversity and historical significance, an extremely rich source of documentation and information, it has been much neglected during the past decades, and its existence and contents remain completely undisclosed to the larger Egyptological community. Following Capart's initial ambition, the SURA project (sura being the Arabic word for 'photo' ) aims to make this highly valuable photographic collection available again to the international scientific community as well as to the public, by ensuring its conservation and by creating a fully digitised database that will be freely available online in the near future.‎

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‎Ahmet Polat , Claartje van Dijk , Kim Knoppers‎

‎Ara G ler a play of light and shadow.‎

‎, Hannibal Books, 2023 Hardcover, 260 x 250 mm, 240 pages, ENG. edition FINE!. ISBN 9789464666298.‎

‎Turkey's best-known photographer, Ara G ler (1928-2018), depicted daily life in Turkey for three-quarters of a century. Documenting traders, fishermen, children and cats, G ler captured the rough edges of Istanbul as well as all its splendour, often in black and white but also in colour. Until recently, he could still regularly be seen on the terrace of his own caf Ara. Last summer a museum was opened there in memory of the photographer and his work. Now, some four years after his death, thousands of works from the Ara G ler archive have been digitised, revealing that he was so much more than 'the eye of Istanbul'. G ler created reportage photography over the world, including in Africa and Afghanistan. He photographed celebrities such as Alfred Hitchcock, Salvador Dal , Maria Callas and Sophia Loren. His versatility can also be seen in experimental collages from the early part of his career and in more recent work in which he plays with light and colour. This book offers a contemporary view of his work and is the first monograph to show G ler's oeuvre in all its versatility, including in colour. It is the result of years of research by Studio Polat and Foam in Amsterdam. De bekendste fotograaf van Turkije, Ara G ler (1928-2018), bracht driekwart eeuw lang het dagelijks leven van Turkije in beeld. Met het documenteren van de handelaars, de vissers, de kinderen en de katten legde G ler de rauwe randen van Istanbul maar ook al haar pracht vast, vaak in zwart-wit en ook in kleur. Tot voor kort was hij nog geregeld te zien op het terras van zijn eigen caf Ara. Afgelopen zomer opende er een museum ter nagedachtenis van de fotograaf en zijn werk. Nu, zo'n vier jaar na zijn overlijden, zijn duizenden werken uit het Ara G ler-archief gedigitaliseerd en wordt getoond dat hij zoveel meer was dan 'the eye of Istanbul'. G ler maakte fotoreportages over de hele wereld, onder meer in Afrika en Afghanistan. Hij fotografeerde beroemdheden als Alfred Hitchcock, Salvador Dal , Maria Callas en Sophia Loren. Zijn veelzijdigheid is ook te zien in experimentele collages uit het begin van zijn carri re en in recenter werk waarin hij speelt met licht en kleur. Dit boek biedt een hedendaagse kijk op zijn werk en is de eerste monografie die G lers oeuvre in zijn veelzijdigheid toont, ook in kleur. Het is het resultaat van jarenlang onderzoek door Studio Polat en Foam in Amsterdam. Met tekstbijdragen van onder anderen kunsthistorica Kim Knoppers, fotohistoricus zge Baykan Calafato, fotograaf en filmmaker Ahmet Polat en Claartje van Dijk, curator en hoofd tentoonstelling bij Foam in Amsterdam. With text contributions by art historian Kim Knoppers, historian of photography zge Baykan Calafato, photographer and filmmaker Ahmet Polat and Claartje van Dijk, curator and head of exhibitions at Foam in Amsterdam.‎

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