Sebastião Salgado n'a cessé de montrer sa foi en l'homme, une solidarité sans faille ni mièvrerie devant la douleur, une compétence dans l'analyse des situations extrêmes, une farouche énergie, enfin, pour affirmer ce qu'il est, un photographe humaniste.
Vingt-cinq photographes et quatre journalistes, jeunes pour la plupart, ont participé à La France vue d'ici, projet documentaire porté depuis 2014 par le rendez-vous photographique de Sète ImageSingulières et le journal d'information en ligne Mediapart. Ces vingt-cinq photographes avaient une même mission : s'attarder auprès de ceux qui vivent en France en ce début de XXIe siècle, prendre le temps de la rencontre, appréhender les moments qui diront le réel. A rebours des projets visant à documenter des territoires ou des paysages, La France vue d'ici s'est ainsi attachée à saisir les visages des pêcheurs du Guilvinec, des touristes de la côte atlantique, des amateurs du Tour de France, des jeunes des Ardennes ou de la Somme, des ouvriers de Peugeot-Sochaux, des agriculteurs du Pays basque ou du Gard, des foules de la gare parisienne Saint-Lazare... Chaque photographe, avec son regard, son approche, son esthétique, offre ici un morceau saisissant du pays, avec ses violences, ses ardeurs, ses ennuis, ses enthousiasmes, son humanité. En trois ans, plus de mille images ont été produites et diffusées sur le site de La France vue d'ici. A partir d'une sélection de quelque cinq cents photographies, ce livre fait le récit de ce qu'est le vivre en France aujourd'hui.
Gomes (1921-92), a philosopher and art critic, began his photographic work in his 50s, focusing on athletic young men at Rio's beaches. His extensive collection transformed diary pages into a striking erotic tableau of black and white images, creating visually rhythmic sequences. His work, now at the National Library of Rio, is highly original.
A new volume in Photofile, an accessible and affordable photography series Photographer William Klein was born in New York City in 1928. After enlisting in the army he was stationed in Germany and then France, where he would later settle permanently. His interest in art began with abstract painting and shifted to photography in the early 1950s as he began his career in fashion photography with Vogue magazine. He gained notoriety for his ambivalent and ironic approach to fashion photography and can be credited as one of the founding fathers of street photography. He directed such satirical films as Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, as well as documentary shorts and features. This latest volume in the Photofile series assembles the experimental, unforgettable moments captured by William Klein in one accessible volume. The Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an affordable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced at the highest quality. Each volume contains some sixty full-page reproductions, a critical introduction, and a full bibliography. The series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography.
The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Fascinated by Africa and the writings of Karen Blixen, Peter Beard (b. 1938) was twenty-four years old when he moved to Kenya, where he built up an exceptional body of work. His images of wild animals such as crocodiles and elephants, and of the land in all its purity and its wildness, are a huge collage of his experiences. This book features mainly photos from Africa, together with pages from his photographic journals.
Youth culture in rural Sweden where teenage boys race 'car-tractors'.
Golovchenko depicts the lives of those who run roadside stalls in Ukraine – where they sell fruit according to season. The merchants, many of them coming from Azerbaijan and Georgia, mix with locals and live close to their makeshift emporiums in tents and trailers. Golovchenko’s images talk about his compassion for these uprooted people, about the bitterness in their lives.
