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Arnold Odermatt: KarambolageWith thoroughness and a meticulous attention to detail, Arnold Odermatt photographed automobile accidents on the streets of the Swiss canton of Nidwalden between 1939 and 1993. For 40 years, the Swiss police office recorded the wrecked cars left in the wake of excessive speed, drunk driving, right-of-way errors, and plain foolishness, in poignant, sometimes funny, and always strange atmospheric photographs. Though Odermatt was not formally trained as a photographer, he made images that evidence ... |
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Arnold Odermatt: Meine Welt- Contains 140 of Odermatt's best photographs. - A clear sighted view of the artist and his life. - A unique documentation of the times. - Briliiant black and white pictures selected by Odermatt's sons.... |
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Arnold Odermatt: On DutyArnold Odermatt joined the police force in his native Swiss canton of Nidwalden in 1948, when he was just in his twenties. When he retired more than 40 years later as Vice Commander of the department and Lieutenant Director of Traffic Police, he found sudden, unexpected fame as an artist. His photographs of the vehicle accidents that had been part of his professional life, collected in the book Karambolage, led to international recognition: His work was shown at the 2001 Armory Fair and Venice B... |
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Around Bath in Old Photographs... |
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Around Sheffield Then and Now (Britain in Old Photographs)Sheffield and its collection of satellite towns and villages offers a diverse range of settlements, some with heavily industrialised areas, others surrounded by moorland and magnificent countryside. Author Geoffrey Howse has collected an interesting and varied selection of old photographs of both the city centre and the outlying towns and villages. He contrasts them with present-day images photographed by Paul T. Langley Welch to show the many changes which have taken place over the years. Some ... |
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Arresting Time: Erich Lessing, Reportage Photography, 1948-1973Erich Lessing is a legend in photography. Born in 1923 in Vienna, he became a photo-reporter for Associated Press in 1947, and in 1951 he became one of the earliest members of the legendary Magnum photo cooperative. His remarkable 1950s images documenting post-World War Europe, and particularly his pictures of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, garnered worldwide admiration. Lessing's works always revolve around the human condition at the moment when power and powerlessness come face to face, when t... |
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Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry WinograndIf Garry Winogrand photographed everything, all the time, as he is famous for having done, his pictures of airports convey, despite their dated hair styles and clothing, the many still very familiar sights and spaces and sensations attached to air travel. Arriving at an airport, checking baggage, watching other travelers amble, walk, and sometimes rush by, luggage trailing and flailing and neatly rolling along, passengers waiting forever on those long rows of attached seats, friends and relative... |
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The Art of Kim AndersonA first kiss. A first rose. Puppy love and "Let's pretend." Innocence, fantasy mischief, and the pleasures of the imagination. These are the quintessential themes of childhood, and the touchstone of Kim Anderson's extraordinary success.A comprehensive compilation that covers the past ten years of his work, The Art of Kim Anderson brings together for the first time in an oversize art book 250 of the photographer's images, both classics and new ones. Here, carefully reproduced, are the hand-colore... |
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The Art of Photography, 1839-1989... |
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