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Diango Hernandez: Diamonds and Stones מאת Django Hernandez Cuban artist Diango Hernandez creates paintings in the shape of faceted diamonds, which for him are symbols of a land governed by a single party, a metaphor of an untouchable" regime whose politics seem to have no end. Source materials for the paintings are drawn from government propaganda beginning...

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Michael Doster: 80s-90s מאת Katinka Omir From the glory days of big hair, big shoulder pads and ostentatious wealth--or at least the illusion of it--comes Michael Doster: 80s & 90s. The internationally celebrated German photographer Michael Doster captured the fashion elite in the days before digital cameras hit the scene and before...

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Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist מאת Richard Klein She is one of the most celebrated portrait painters of recent times, but it is not as well known that Elizabeth Peyton has always practiced photography alongside painting. Her photographs, taken over the last two decades with 35-millimeter Polaroid and (more recently) digital cameras, reveal a more ...

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Mike Mills: Graphics Films מאת Mike Mills Graphics Films is the first retrospective monograph on one of the hardest-working men in contemporary creative culture. For more than 15 years, Mike Mills' works in the fields of design and film have determined the visual landscape of our times. Graphics Films is a painstakingly produc...

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Harri Peccinotti: H.P. מאת Derek Birdsall A huge Afro frames the deadpan features of a bikini-clad sunbathing woman, her luxuriant skin dotted in pinpoints of perspiration... a close-up of a female hand with perfectly varnished nails leads to a cigarette held between fleshy red lips.... a model mouths her way around a suggestively pink loll...

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Patti Smith: Simply a Concert מאת Claudio Marra Rock legend Patti Smith is famed for her powerful onstage presence, depicted by many of photography's own legends. Robert Mapplethorpe's portraits of the young poet/singer were instrumental in defining her groundbreaking persona in 1970s. Still tough and uncompromising, Smith has more recently been ...

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David Benjamin Sherry: It's Time מאת Neville Wakefield It's Time is 28-year-old, New York-based photographer David Benjamin Sherry's first monograph. While studying Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, Sherry spent a summer working with the photographer David LaChapelle. He began to develop his own penchant for hypersaturated, hot, b...

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Maurizio Montagna: Billboards מאת Denis Curti This cloth-covered paperback with foldout poster jacket presents Italian photographer Maurizio Montagna's black-and-white series Billboards. Each of Montagna's photographs captures a billboard devoid of advertisement and, surrounding it, a landscape--sometimes densely urban, othertimes sparse...

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David Tremlett מאת Luca Massimo Barbero Part of the generation of British artists that includes Gilbert & George and Richard Long, and often grouped together with American artists like Sol LeWitt, David Tremlett began making colorful, geometric wall drawings at the end of the 1960s, with an emphasis on works in pastel since the 1980s. Tre...

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Portraits Still Life מאת Michael Stipe In this third, photo-based chapter of the Damiani series, Michael Stipe explores strength, courage and vulnerability, pausing the project abruptly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What follows is a lockdown interpretation of a 21st-century portrait, with a resolute desire to show our resilience, our humor, our collective fortitude and our adaptability. The book is enriched by free audio content which deepens and enhances the discovery of the images. Scanning the QR code opens access to the “making-of” anecdotes and the intention behind the book, as told by Stipe. As an undergraduate ...