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In his latest book, David Levinthal explores the visual lexicon of the war in Vietnam through photographs that have thunderous, visceral impact. The images showcase the artist's sophisticated handling of photographic tools and techniques to dramatize figures and dioramas based on the war. His reflection on the consequential effects of the conflict on American popular culture and the artist's own memories of the era, Vietnam is haunted by the legacy of movies like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket and recontextualizes Hitler Moves East, Levinthal's breakthrough body of work made with Garry Trudeau just as America was withdrawing from Vietnam. With written contributions from French novelist Bernard-Henri Lévy; and art historian and curator Lisa Hostetler, the volume takes visual inventory of a war that shattered conventional ideas about America's geopolitical power, the national psyche, contemporary social relations, and mass media.

"In the Kitchen explores family life, youth culture, and coming of age. . . . The kitchen is the place in the house where our daily dramas are enacted. It's where, together, we make a mess of things and do our best to clean it all up."--Dona Schwartz"Brilliantly observed and captured vignettes of contemporary adolescence, organized around a single room."--Alison Nordström, curator of photography, George Eastman HouseDona Schwartz, based in Minneapolis, has shown her photographs at many international venues, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, England; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada; the New Orleans Art Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana; and FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Houston, Texas.

Throughout her career, fine art photographer Sandi Haber Fifield has worked with multiple images to create narrative pieces that transcend the formal elements of photography confined to a single moment. The associations she makes result in composites of four, sometimes three images, often rendered in soft focus, which are like visual poems reconstructed from memory or dreams. Sandi Haber Fifield's photographs float on the colors of memory, mood, feeling, and suggestion. They combine the indistinctness of memory with the imperfections of photography to produce elusive, incomplete reconstructions of times, events, and sentiments at the far reaches of perception. -- Vicki Goldberg

In general, we presume that artists make art, but what happens when machines produce art? Beginning with Jean Tinguely's drawing machines, this publication presents art machines from various contexts. Includes works by Olafur Eliasson, Damian Hirst, Rebecca Horn, Jon Kessler, Tim Lewis, Steven Pippin, Richard Jackson, and Roxy Paine.

For her series No Sleep, Hee Jin Kang photographs mattresses abandoned on the streets of New York City, mostly in Brooklyn. Kang's work reveals the unexpected beauty and strangeness of these found urban still lifes. The discarded beds are pathetic, monolithic, and architectural. They lay naked against walls and on curbs, sometimes seedy and sometimes luminous.Hee Jin Kang, based in Brooklyn, New York, has exhibited her work internationally, including at the Hayward Gallery, London; the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne; and Culturgest, Lisbon. No Sleep, with an introduction by Jonathan Ames, is her first monograph.

This book presents a new and spectacular work by the most innovative of America's contemporary artists: Bruce Nauman's installation "One Hundred Fish Fountain." Ninety-seven bronze fish are attached to a steel frame and connected by numerous hoses to pumps, so that the fish suck in and spew out water.

The photo series Little Adults explores what it feels like to grow up as a privileged child in Russia, a country where its radical history still rules the daily life. It explores the recently growing society of the "Nouveau Riche" in which children are raised to become the "Elite." Photographing children of Russia's oligarchs reflects the extreme contrast between social hierarchies and touches on the control of family aspirations, ideas of normality, the loss of childhood, and the constant desire for fame.Anna Skladmann works between New York and Moscow and has exhibited in Europe and the United States. She has been published in The New York Times and BusinessWeek, among others.

This catalog of the largest curated Fotofestival in Germany aims to be a photographic survey of the human condition as we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century. Among the participating artists are Olaf Otto Becker Edward Burtynsky, Jacob Holdt, Pieter Hugo, Taryn Simon, Fiona Tan, and Paolo Woods.

An examination of the powerful and complex aesthetic in the work of photographer Thomas Ruff

All across the world a uniform, homogeneous model of development, inspired by Los Angeles style urban sprawl--consisting of massive freeways, parking lots, shopping malls, and large-scale masterplanned communities with golf courses--is being stamped onto the earth's topography. This globalized model of architecture does not respect or adapt itself to the natural or cultural environment onto which it is implanted.German American photographer Robert Harding Pittman began working on this project in Los Angeles ten years ago. Since then he has been photographing the spread of "L.A. style development" in Las Vegas, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Dubai, and South Korea.

"There's a lot of very good photography on Maziar Moradi's website (I especially like 1979) and I wish it had more information about the work."--Joerg Colberg, ConscientiousThe title of the award-winning photo series by young photographer Maziar Moradi refers to a fateful year for his homeland of Iran--1979. Moradi documents therein his family's impressions, fears, and experiences in the days of the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.Moradi was just four years old in 1979. Over the last several years he has gone back to this period and to Iran, reconstructing the fateful events that befell his family. He then started to make sketches for scripts and finally boiled down the scenes to the decisive moment that had changed the lives of those involved. With Moradi's relatives re-enacting their own experiences, the stories are condensed into individual, telling images. Every photograph follows its own dramaturgy and structure. The detailed scenery as well as the use of light and color come together to create a one-of-a-kind pictorial language.Maziar Moradi, winner of gute aussichten 2008/2009 (good prospects - young German photography), studied communication design with Vincent Kohlbecher at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. His works have received several distinctions, among them the Otto Steinert Prize of the German Photography Society and the Wuestenrot Foundation's documentary photography award. 1979 was exhibited at PhotoEspana 2008, at the Festival Voies Off des Rencontres d'Arles, and at the Goethe Institute in Washington, DC.

The images from Myra Greene's series initially read as benign portraits of a cross section of white American life, yet the impetus for their creation lies in an undercurrent of racial description. By photographing friends, peers, and mentors, Greene visually ponders if photography can capture and describe the nuances of whiteness.

Photographer Rachael Jablo suffers from chronic migraine. Without medication, the pain makes her lose the ability to speak; with medication, she suffers from side effects that cause her to forget words. In My Days of Losing Words, she creates color photographs that act as synthetic memories of the lost words. The series consists of three types of images: domestic still life images, documentary images of medical spaces, and self-portraits at home and in medical spaces.Rachael Jablo has exhibited across the country, including the Wall Space Gallery in Seattle, Washington; Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado; and Brandeis University.

Das Buch zeigt Mansudae Master Class, ein Dokumentarprojekt von CHE Onejoon, in dessen Rahmen er die Statuen, Denkmäler und Bauwerke erfasste, die das nordkoreanische Mansudae Art Studio seit den 1970er-Jahren in 18 afrikanischen Ländern errichtet hatte. Etwa die Hälfte dieser Länder bekam diese Bauten von Kim Il-sung geschenkt.Der Fotokünstler und Filmemacher CHE One-joon (*1979 in Seoul) war anfangs als Beweismittel-Fotograf tätig. Seine Werke wurden weltweit ausgestellt, u.a. auf der Taipei Biennale, im Palais de Tokyo, im Musée du quai Branly, auf der SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul, auf der Architekturbiennale Venedig, im New Museum Triennial, im Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, auf der Busan Biennale.

The first retrospective by Ragnar Axelsson includes among others the well-known series Faces of the North, Glacier, Last Days of the Arctic, and Arctic Heroes. The eminent Icelandic photographer's themes are the changes in the physical and traditional realities of the North.