Luc Sante Livres

Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also conceived another less well-known but equally important book project entitled Many Are Called. This three-year photographic study of subway passengers made with a hidden camera was first published in 1966, with an introduction written by Agee in 1940. Long out of print, Many Are Called is now being reissued with a new foreword and afterword and with exquisitely reproduced images from newly prepared digital scans.Many Are Called came to fruition at a slow pace. In 1938, Walker Evans began surreptitiously photographing people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his coat—the lens peeking through a buttonhole—he captured the faces of riders hurtling through the dark tunnels, wrapped in their own private thoughts. By 1940-41, Evans had made over six hundred photographs and had begun to edit the series. The book remained unpublished until 1966 when The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition of Evans’s subway portraits.This beautiful new edition—published in the centenary year of the NYC subway—is an essential book for all admirers of Evans’s unparalleled photographs, Agee’s elegant prose, and the great City of New York.

Der Berühmtheitsgrad der Rolling Stones, die fast 60 Jahre aktiv sind, ist beispiellos; ihre bekanntesten Riffs und eingängigen Texte sind fest im kollektiven Gedächtnis verankert. Mit ihrer hypnotisierenden Bühnenpräsenz setzten sie Maßstäbe für Rockbands und erkannten früh, dass das Image einer Band, ihr Aussehen und Stil ebenso wichtig sind wie die Musik. Der Autor Luc Sante bemerkt, dass sie stets tadellos gekleidet waren und ihre Präsenz vor der Kamera meisterhaft inszenierten. Dies machte sie zu einem begehrten Motiv für viele der größten Fotografen der Geschichte. Diese aktualisierte Ausgabe dokumentiert auf über 450 Seiten die erstaunliche Geschichte der Band und ihren lässigen Lifestyle, unterstützt durch zahlreiche Fotos und Zeitdokumente. Viele Bilder aus globalen Archiven werden hier erstmals veröffentlicht. Zudem gewährt das Buch Zugang zu den privaten Archiven der Rolling Stones in New York und London, was einige Überraschungen bereithält. Es präsentiert über 450 Seiten mit fantastischen Bildern von renommierten Fotografen wie David Bailey, Annie Leibovitz und Andy Warhol sowie Essays von preisgekrönten Autoren. Ein ausführlicher Anhang mit Chronologie, Diskografie und Kurzbiografien der Fotografen rundet das Werk ab.

Walker Evans (1903–75) is now considered perhaps the finest documentary photographer ever and his images have had considerable influence on other artists, and not only in the field of photography. He is well known for his 1930s work for the Farm Security Administration, documenting the effect of the Great Depression o

In her books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown herself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. She is “one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher of American experience,” says the New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl. Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of Sante’s articles—many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Village Voice—and offers ample justification for such high praise. Sante is best known for her groundbreaking work in urban history (Low Life), and for a particularly penetrating form of autobiography (The Factory of Facts). These subjects are also reflected in several essays here, but it is the author’s intense and scrupulous writing about music, painting, photography, and poetry that takes center stage. Alongside meditations on cigarettes, factory work, and hipness, and her critical tour de force, “The Invention of the Blues,” Sante offers her incomparable take on icons from Arthur Rimbaud to Bob Dylan, René Magritte to Tintin, Buddy Bolden to Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg to Robert Mapplethorpe.

Luc Sante was born in Belgium and as a child taken by his parents to the USA. However he never considered himself a proper American. At the age of 35 he returned to Belgium to research his own history and his homeland. This volume presents Sante's memoirs of this time of self-discovery.

"A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris"--

The narrative explores the profound emotional journey of its characters as they navigate the complexities of change and transition. Set against a backdrop of personal and societal upheaval, the book delves into themes of resilience, identity, and the search for belonging. Through rich character development and evocative storytelling, it captures the struggles and triumphs that come with moving forward in life, making it a poignant reflection on the human experience.

New York is not only a world capital of finance, fashion, and media, but also of every imaginable variety of criminal activity from the most brutal to the most creative. From rampaging draft rioters to Prohibition-era beer barons, from brilliant art thieves to Wall Street insiders, from the Boss Tweed to Dapper Don, New York's criminals personify the dark side of the most vibrant and diverse city on earth. Crimes of New York takes us from the tortured, violent life of David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam, who terrorized the city in the process of killing six young women to the story of the Manhattan yuppie millionaire whose marriage dissolved in drug abuse and ended in murder; from the life of a woman struggling to stay straight in the South Bronx to the violent childhood of teen killer Cape Man Salvatore Agron. Their crimes reflect our common failings—greed, anger, lust for power—intensified by the brutality and sophistication of the unique pressure cooker that is New York.

This book is a collection of portrait photographs taken by Felver of some of the worlds most influential modern artists, singeers, actors, spiritual gurus, activists.

This edition is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, offering quality texts at affordable prices for students and general readers. It features new introductions from contemporary writers and scholars, author biographies, and chronologies of relevant historical and cultural events. Readers will find footnotes, endnotes, and discussions of various adaptations inspired by the work, along with comments from notable authors, study questions, bibliographies for further reading, and indices or glossaries where appropriate. Each edition is beautifully designed and printed to high standards, with some including historical illustrations. The story follows Edmond Dantès, a young man with a promising future—engaged to a beautiful woman and set to become a ship captain. However, his life is upended when he is wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years due to a jealous rival. This tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge captivates readers with unforgettable moments, such as Dantès’s daring escape, his discovery of a hidden treasure, and his transformation into the enigmatic Count of Monte Cristo. Driven by a relentless desire for vengeance, his journey is as compelling as it is just. Luc Sante, the author of several works, teaches writing and photography history at Bard College.

Walker Evans, more than any other photographer in the thirties and forties, defined the documentary aesthetic. He is generally acknowledged as America's finest documentary photographer of the century.

Bevor Stanley Kubrick mit Kultfilmen wie Lolita, 2001 – Odyssee im Weltraum und Shining berühmt wurde, begann er seine Karriere als Fotograf bei der Zeitschrift Look. Mit 17 Jahren dokumentierte er von 1945 bis 1950 das Leben in New York, indem er Geschichten mit einem menschlichen Blickwinkel festhielt. Kubrick fotografierte eine Vielzahl von Szenen: Menschen in Waschsalons, das Treiben an der Columbia University, Sportler, Showgirls, Artisten, Schauspielerinnen, Taxifahrer, Pärchen auf Bahnsteigen, Schuhputzjungen, Boxer, Patienten im Wartezimmer, prominente Geschäftsleute, Politiker, Kinder im Vergnügungspark und Pendler in der U-Bahn. Diese frühen Fotografien zeigen sein bemerkenswertes Gespür für Komposition, Spannung und Atmosphäre und wirken wie Filmstills aus nie gedrehten Noir-Dramen. Die Sammlung umfasst rund 300 Bilder und zahlreiche reproduzierte Seiten aus dem Look-Magazin und präsentiert eine wenig bekannte Seite des Regisseurs. Die Einleitung stammt von der renommierten Fotokritikerin Lucy Sante.

Kannst du dir Groucho Marx ohne Zigarre vorstellen? Erinnerst du dich, dass vor einigen Jahren das Rauchen in Flugzeugen erlaubt war? Weißt du, wann New York mit dem Rauchen aufgehört hat? In der nicht allzu fernen Vergangenheit war es für Hollywood-Stars üblich, verführerisch mit einer Zigarette posieren. Wie viele Prominente wagen es heute, überhaupt eine zu halten? No Smoking ist eine Hommage an das 20. Jahrhundert, ein Jahrhundert, das die Zigarette schuf, förderte und verherrlichte und dann plötzlich den Krieg gegen sie erklärte.