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	Auto Portraits "If Spano looks a bit conventional this time around, it’s only because he’s already made some of the most inventive photographs of the urban scene since Ray K. Metzker and Lee Friedlander staked their claims to the territory. Still, there’s plenty of his trademark layering, disjunction, and sly wit in these big black-and-white pictures of people in their cars, and their straightforward framing can barely contain the chaos. In the best shots, drivers are seen in profile, focused and o...
	Autograf: New York City's Graffiti Writers A controversial art form and provocative cultural phenomenon, graffiti has inestimably influenced our entire environment - from music and fashion to advertising, architecture, and graphic arts. Yet it is an illegal activity, which makes its practitioners wanted criminals. Motivated by a desire for self-expression and recognition, the act of marking one¹s territory is done at the risk of severe consequences including fines and jail time. Graffiti writers are outlaws, unknown artists whose faces ...
	AutoWerke II: Contemporary Photography on and off the road For "AutoWork", two teams of curators in the United States and Germany invited internationally renowned artists to work with the BMW group's corporate identity--in the widest sense of the term: its employees, products, customers, work processes and image, using both photography and film. The artists were granted absolute artistic freedom and complete autonomy. Included among the project's participants in Germany are Heike Baranowsky, Thomas Struth, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Demand, Nina Fischer & ...
	Avedon at Work in the American West "Laura Wilson shadowed the Shadower, and showed us as much as can be shown of how his work was done." --Larry McMurtry, from the Foreword Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers--but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, daringly commissi...
	Avi Mograbi: Films and Video Works The well known Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi presents five video projections plus a series of longer films in this concise exhibition catalogue. Mograbi's work often examines the military and political situation in Israel and surrounding countries. His documentaries retell familiar stories with humor--often provoking shock or disbelief....
	Axel Hütte: Secret Garden, Misty Mountain Forests full of mystery, gardens that remain aloof from outside gazes, mountains whose fog-shrouded summits are hidden in a thick veil--the views of nature that Axel Hütte captures in these photographs are vividly animate and seductive, but ultimately allow nature to remain sovereign and at a distance. Panoramas of awesome beauty absorb the gaze and simultaneously put it in its place--nature remains intact and impenetrable. Hardcover with special Japanese binding, 9.5 x 11.75 in. 24 pages, 11 ...
	Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses is a rare glimpse into the life of the great modern Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima, who ended his life in 1970 by ritual suicide. Many in Japan regarded the suicide as a sensational act. However, the publication of Mishima's final cycle of novels, which had been conceived eight years prior to his death, revealed that his death was carefully considered--a gesture of historical import in perfect accord with the morbid and esoteric aesthetic that pervades his writing. In...
	Babel: A Film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Photo Books) (Spanish Edition) On the set with Iñárritu: The making of the final film in the Mexican director’s acclaimed trilogy Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu, along with top photographers Mary Ellen Mark, Patrick Bard, Graciela Iturbide, and Miguel Rio Branco, bring together their highly perceptive visions on cultural diversity in a book that combines seductive images and firsthand remarks on the unique experience of shooting Babel. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Fest...
	Baby Dykes You know them; you know their work. You've laughed with them, cheered with them, admired them, and been in awe of them. Now renowned humorist Shelly Roberts (Roberts Rules for Lesbian Living) reintroduces you to a who's who of lesbian glitterati as you've never seen them before--as children! This collection of photographs from the earliest days of our lesbian leaders is enchanting, humanizing, and hilarious, and it reminds us that whoever we are, once we were all children. Before she was ...