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This body of work is a visual investigation of a series of objects, photographs, and memorabilia found in the house of an unknown Milanese chemist. The collection and the biographical notes of Giulia C., the enigmatic figure at the origin of this work, allow Italian photographer Andrea Ferrari to ponder the topic of a visual alphabet.Combining documentaries and rearrangements, the photographic quest turns the assumed physical space of Giulia C.'s house into a mental one. Through collecting, objects gain a sort of camouflage and acquire an aura of enigma. Hidden meanings gain the upper hand over the actual objects.

With his graphic, color-sensitive, and vernacular photographic voice, Douglas Ljungkvist produced a body of work depicting a unique place in the American landscape with strong yet quiet subtexts of time, memory, and identity. He felt the project was ready to publish when Hurricane Sandy hit the Jersey Shore in October 2012 and destroyed cottages that he had recently photographed.So Ljungkvist began taking pictures again, this time of homes without roofs or walls, with floors full of sand and doors open to the ocean breeze.Fine art photographer Douglas Ljungkvist has exhibited at festivals and in galleries both in the United States and Europe as well as winning several awards for his personal projects.

This photo series begun when the artist observed a controlled prairie burn. Jane Fulton Alt shows the diverse elements of the burn--the mysterious luminosity, the smoke that both obscures and reveals. She says, "I was immediately struck by the burn's visual and expressive potential, as well as the way it evoked themes that are at the core of my photographic work--the moment when life and death are not contradictory but are perceived as as a single process."Jane Fulton Alt is a fine art photographer whose work is in numerous American museums and collections.

The most comprehensive book yet about the Egyptian German artist Susan Hefuna, Pars Pro Toto was developed in the course of a dialogue with the editor, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Hefuna has been working in the media of drawing, photography, installation, and video since the early 1990s. She uses these various techniques to intertwine levels of meaning and reflect many-layered codes, which she interprets in both concrete and abstract manners.Susan Hefuna, born in 1962, has been widely exhibited at such venues as the Louvre, Paris; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo; the Third Line Gallery, Dubai; Sharjah Biennale; the New Museum, New York; Albion Gallery, New York; and many more.

German photographer Frank Rothe has created an unusual and unique portrait of modern China. He breaks through the cliché that we think of "the Chinese" only collectively and shows nude portraits of young and old individuals of Beijing and Shanghai. Rothe then juxtaposes each portrait with a long-exposed cityscape photograph reflecting China's mass society.

Following her award-winning monograph 5683 miles away, Yael Ben-Zion fixes her camera on another personal but politically charged theme: intermarriage. Ben-Zion initiated the project in 2009, inviting couples who define themselves as "mixed" to participate. Her own marriage "mixed," she was interested in the many challenges faced by couples who choose to share their lives regardless of their different origins, ethnicities, races, or religions.Through layered images and revealing texts--including excerpts from a questionnaire she asked her subjects to fill out--Intermarried weaves together fragments of reality to compose a subtle narrative that deals with the multifaceted issues posed by intermarriage.

When François Halard visits the house and studio of Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992), the images, like an artist's portrait, photograph the corporeality and atmospheres of a poetic work. It's a demonstration of what photography is capable of, producing a radiography of a universe in which the relationships between objects are a perfect synthesis between sophisticated beauty and everyday life.François Halard studied in Paris, France, before he moved to New York to work for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and House & Garden. His photographs for these magazines made him one of the most sought-after and renowned architecture photographers of our age.

"After looking at this remarkable book, I feel like going outside to chat with my neighbour."--Alec SothHigley, Arizona, along with its history, has lost the battle against a homogenous America. This township, once at the center of a farming expanse, is steadily loosing ground to the exploding metropolis known as the "greater Phoenix area." These photographs of Higley are an in-depth documentation of this microcosm of globalization.Andrew Phelps, born in 1967 in Mesa, Arizona, now lives in Salzburg, Austria. He is a member of the Fotohof Gallery. Higley will be shown at several venues in Europe and in the United States.

Adrian Schiess' "flat paintings" are oriented to the floor instead of the wall. Their color fields of bright and super-shining lacquer on thin panels are nothing but pure surface. The trademarked "flat works" have been shown internationally since 1987. This publication accompanies a major exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

This richly illustrated book features current works of internationally reputed street artists, including Banksy (United Kingdom), Boxi (United Kingdom), Brad Downey (United States), Mark Jenkins (United States), Daniel Man (United Kingdom/China/Germany), Mirko Reisser (Germany), Tilt (France), Os Gemeos (Brazil), Vitché (Brazil), ZEVS (France), and many more.

Presence is a conceptual and ironic take on the perverse search for celebrity. The book features fifty sittings with Robert De Niro, Jay Leno, Chevy Chase, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cindy Sherman, Russell Brand, Snoop Dogg, Nick Cave, David Lynch, and more. Only in this new series, portrait photographer Chris Buck makes his famous subjects hide from the camera--and the viewer.Chris Buck has been a professional photographer for more than twenty years and shoots for such clients as GQ, Esquire, Microsoft, and IBM. He was the first recipient of the prestigious Arnold Newman Portrait Prize.

Ever since beginning his artistic activity, the Chinese sculptor Wang Du has focused on the massive power of images in our society and in everyday life. In oversized sculptures, the artist analyzes the relationship of the public to media images, in particular to their formulas and impact.

The sciences have always provided a fount of inspiration for artists. Say it isn't so traces this phenomenon and shows that contemporary art is by no means increasingly converging with science, but is rather standing beside it with a coolly appraising eye. Special guests include Marcel Duchamp, Nikolaus Lang, and Bruce Nauman.

American photographer Wendy Paton allows herself to disappear in order to let her subjects emerge from the night. In Visages de Nuit (Faces Of Night), Paton's eye is that of the celebrant as well as a voyeur, and in graphic compositions of black and white that mesmerize us, she offers personal and intimate glimpses of our human, ineffable presence. Her nocturnal portraits are both intimate and familiar, compelling and mysterious. Paton's work has been exhibited in gallery and museum venues internationally, and is in private and public collections in the United States and Europe.

Fascinating, deep, unfathomable--Peter Schlör's photographs are somehow unsettling. These are images full of mythology and symbolism. In 1993 at the age of twenty-nine, he launched his first tour through Germany's museums, thereafter quickly establishing himself on the international art market. Hallmarked by profound compositional severity and a strong contrast between light and dark, Schlör's pictures exude a tension-charged atmosphere between stillness and drama. The Canary Islands with their trade winds have been a favorite destination for several years. This is also where his latest series Black & Wide was created.

Photographer Karin Jobst gives us thought-provoking glimpses of the urban landscape of Detroit that soon make us forget the ruined facades of so many of its buildings. In iridescent tonalities, she zeroes in on signs of the vicissitudes of the city's past and present.

"Snowbound delivers what one hopes to see (but is harder to find these days) in an emerging photographer--knowledge of her medium, a rich and varied inner life, fearlessness in vision, and an in-depth study of her chosen subject."--Carol McCuskerPhotographs with the tranquility one might feel after a fresh snowfall.Five winters long, the young American photographer Lisa M. Robinson took pictures in the snow. Snowbound shows landscapes in which everyday objects--alienated and sunken in snow--"civilize" the natural surroundings. Traces of human existence set accents in the white landscape, delimiting it and often popping up in an amusing or incongruous way. A lonely hammock, a trampoline, and a swimming pool are echoes of the summer past and of personal memories. But Robinson is not interested in showing the obvious; instead, she makes use of the many aggregate states of water--ice, snow, fog, and water--as metaphors for life and transience.Lisa M. Robinson lives and works in New York. She was artist in residence at Light Work in Syracuse, New York; Curator's Choice at the Houston Center of Photography Membership Exhibition; and among the top fifty photographers chosen by Critical Mass (Photolucida). Recently she received the L.C. Tiffany Grant for emerging artists. Snowbound will be exhibited at several institutions in the United States and Europe, and the book has been named Book of the Year 2008 by Light Work.Mark Strand, born in 1934, is a poet, essayist, and translator. He received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.

The exhibition activities of the singuhr - berlin during the past ten years give us the chance to study the development of an art form from its very inception. This catalog presents for the first time a workbook of all of the gallery's exhibitions - with 56 artists an international "Who is Who" in the field of sound art.

The series explores what it means to be part of and sometimes estranged from the places we hold in our memories. The ambiguity of belonging, longing, and estrangement led to the artist's choice of framing each image through a train window. We are on the inside looking out, reaffirming that we are always between destinations, from birth to the end.Candace Plummer Gaudiani's work is in public collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; George Eastman House; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, Austin, Texas.

Before and After Night Porter focuses on the work of British photographer Chris Shaw and its compelling relationship to the Vivo and Provoke (Japanese photographic collectives of the 1960s) aesthetics, following the great interest in post-war Japanese photography in Europe and the United States in recent years.Working predominantly with black and white photography, Shaw produced a singular body of work, translating and adapting the language of Japanese photography into a distinctive British context. The world reflected in Shaw's work is one of blurring, close-ups, unexpected angles, high contrast, and overwhelming sensory experience.

Maxine Henryson's work is highly coherent and conceptual. The vocabulary of these very precisely composed images is reduced and focused on the essential--nothing is added. These color photographs from different cultures impress us with their enormous variety of nuance as well as their calm, contemplative expressiveness.

These photographs are testimonies to the legendary Route 66 and our collective memories of the 1960s way of life commonly associated with it. Over forty years ago, Rosemarie Zens followed the siren call of freedom "on the road." In 2010 she retraced her journey, witnessing how the highway had been transformed.

With Haboob photographer Andrew Phelps picks up again where his photo series Higley (Kehrer Verlag, 2007) left off: the explosive growth of the metropolis of Phoenix gradually engulfing surrounding small towns. Rural structures dissolved, replaced by shopping malls and faceless developments of new detached houses; village roads became broad and showy boulevards.The financial and real estate crisis put an abrupt end to the building boom. The destructive sandstorms typical of Arizona's desert landscape, known as haboobs, now sweep through the deserted streets, a symbol of the fear and anxiety gripping today's American middle class.

Lava is the title of renowned Italian media artist Fabrizio Plessi's new monumental installation. Lava is a powerful and tremendously fresh work, perhaps one of Plessi's most poetic works. This volume presents the installation and show drawings for Lava. Plessi achieved international acclaim with the documenta 8 and participation in several Venice Biennials.

Alex Katz is one of the foremost representatives of American painting in the international art world. In New York in the 1950s, his large-format, stencil-like portraits and landscapes set a striking counterpoint to abstract expressionism. Katz developed a signature pictorial language early on, characterized by outlined forms, clear colors, and flatness influenced by the imagery of the cinema, advertising, and fashion. The catalog presents for the first time an overview of Katz' nude paintings from three decades and recent work and is released to coincide with the eighty-fifth birthday of the artist.Viet Görner is the director and Kathrin Meyer is the curator at museum kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Germany.

Playback investigates the impact reenactments and simulations have on society. It raises questions about the function of the digital substitute worlds developed in computer games in satisfying viewers' needs. Participating artists include Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco, Omer Fast, Lynn Hershman, Felix Stephan Huber, Eddo Stern, and Milica Tomic.

The catalog features more than eighty works by the American William Copley (1919-1996), who as gallery owner, artist, author, and publisher, operated as an important mediator between the surrealists and the pop art movement since the mid-1940s and was one of the most unconventional personalities in the art scene. Tying in with the tradition of Dada, Surrealism, and American pop art, his paintings are an ironic examination of the erotic game played by men and women. The catalog includes numerous unpublished essays by Copley, and several of his works are presented for the first time.

Venetia Dearden's new photo series takes us on a journey to America's Burning Man Festival. It offers a glimpse of the diversity of the people converging on this festival juxtaposed against the breathtaking backdrop of the wild American landscape, from awe-inspiring mountain ranges to the raw beauty of the Nevada desert.

Paul DeMarinis works embody an aesthetic culture of invention permeated by a critical, yet humorous and poetic spirit. Buried in Noise is being published on the occasion of his artist fellowshipat the DAAD artists' program in Berlin, Germany. The publication compiles ocumentation on DeMarinis's complete oeuvre since 1973 and the first published compendium of texts by the artist.

These images, reminiscent of the vision of Andrei Tarkovsky, are distilling six years of travel across the former Soviet Union. The book is divided into a quiet series of black and white photographs, which won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2003, and color images that crystallize the intensity of Moscow in winter.