Bøger udgivet af Steidl Publishers

Reflects thirty years of author's passion for the art form, realized in thirty days of photography.

With the eye of a painter, Guy Bourdin created images that contained fascinating stories, compositions and colors. He radically broke conventions of commercial photography with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humor. This book explores his work so far.

Features clothing, bottles, appliances and relatable objects that serve as the basic accessories of daily life. This title offers photographs that document the mourning process following the passing of the author's grandparents, rearranging their possessions into pictorial compositions to chronicle their lives through a plethora of simple objects.

Explores the anguish caused by the loss of memory - by forgetting, amnesia or suppression - and the resulting human desire to preserve memory, all seen through the prism of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.

A history that came about because the author's friends, Sarah Dudley and Ulie Kuhle, litho printers in Berlin, were given about 100 litho stones from a former Socialist art academy in what was the D D R. The stones all had images on them drawn by forty years of students under the oppressive regime.

Following a series of portraits of his compatriots made in the early 1970s, the author, for a very short and intense period of time, naturally turned to focusing on peoples particulars and individual body languages as affirmations or embodiments of their selves. This title features photographs that were taken in 1975.

Part of the Tower Series, this is the third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, it examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions.

From 1954 to 1964 the author photographed in the black churches of East New York, on the streets of New Haven, in the home of blind Reverend Gary Davis, as well as in the darkness of a boxing gym and the blackness of coal shovelers at an industrial site. This is the author's photographic journey towards and through gospel music.

Shows a series of portraits found in the trash bin of the Gulu Real Art Studio, the oldest photographic studio in Gulu, Northern Uganda. The author interviewed clients of Gulu, and their stories, many deeply moving, and describes the political, economic, and social conditions common to contemporary East Africa.

Twenty-five years after his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, the author revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable Downtown New York as he saw and experienced it.

Documents author's life in New York City's East Village during its heyday in the tumultuous 1980s.