Antoine D'Agata

Author:
Publisher: RM Verlag
ISBN: 9788417047177
Category : Documentary photography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Over the past 30 years, French photographer Antoine d'Agata (born 1961) has undertaken various journeys in Mexico. As a photographer, d'Agata tends to focus on societal taboos like addiction and prostitution, and embroil himself directly in these darker parts of human nature. "It's not how photographers look at the world that is important," d'Agata has remarked. "It's their intimate relationship with it." This book is a record of the photographer's Mexican travels, a tense, immobile diary of his experiences in the devastated landscapes of an increasingly volatile criminal society. Still images, cinematographic narratives and texts make up a personal diary that, through intimate, sexual and narcotic encounters, constructs an increasingly sickening reality. Mirroring his journey as he wanders through a lonely and marginal world, d'Agata's photographic language seems to fracture and degenerate page by page. As a whole, Mexico presents a complex, difficult portrait of a period that has been constructed as a time of lawlessness and criminality in Mexican society. D'Agata structures the book around six photographic movements, relating directly to different times in the contemporary history of Mexico. These chapters suggest ruptures in the continuity of history, even as D'Agata creates a narrative of descent into pain and savagery.

Antibodies

Author: Antoine d' Agata
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791349572
Category : Degeneration
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Containing striking images of people living on the fringes of society, 'Antibodies' is a challenging and captivating collection from Antoine d'Agata, one of the most renowned photographers working today. It features images from a number of his series, interspersed with short texts as well as essays and commentaries.

Stigma

Author: Antoine d' Agata
Publisher: Images en Manoeuvres Editions
ISBN: 9782849950098
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : fr
Pages : 64

Book Description
Photographies érotiques de couples s'adonnant à l'acte sexuel, réalisées en novembre 2003 et mai 2004 dans des bâtiments abandonnés à Las Palmas, Naples, Vilnius, Brest et Paris.

I, Tokyo

Author: Jacob Aue Sobol
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN: 9781904587682
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol moved to Tokyo in Spring 2006. He began photographing in the streets and public areas, drawn to the tightly confined reality of the city. His search was for the individual human being in an environment simultaneously attractive and repellant. He hung out with the rent boys in Kabukicho, the red light district. He visited the homeless sleeping in the streets and the parks. Most of all, he sought to understand Japanese youth, the generation which lacks any connection to traditional Japanese culture and values.

Topophrenia

Author: Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253037697
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one's location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan's "topophilia" (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of "topophrenia" as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and "dis-ease." He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces that condition our understanding of that space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world.

Gloria Oyarzabal: Woman Go No'gree

Author: GLORIA. OYARZABAL
Publisher: Rm
ISBN: 9788417975289
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Colonialism, feminism, gender and the human body: photographs of Yoruba and other African cultures by Gloria Oyarzabal Here, Spanish photographer Gloria Oyarzabal (born 1971) explores the permeation of colonial gender norms in Yoruba and other African cultures. Oyarzabal's project aims to decolonize feminism, questioning the Eurocentric theoretical frameworks that construct universalistic gender categories.

The Diary of Frida Kahlo

Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810959545
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The intimate life of artist Frida Kahlo is wonderfully revealed in the illustrated journal she kept during her last 10 years. This passionate and at times surprising record contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and dreams; many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera, along with 70 mesmerising watercolour illustrations. The text entries in brightly coloured inks make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist's political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than thirty-five operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of eighteen.

The Latin American Photobook

Author: Horacio Fernández
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597111898
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Compiled with the input of a committee of researchers, scholars, and photographers, 'The Latin American Photobook' presents 150 volumes from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela. It begins with the 1920s and continues up to today.

Frida by Ishiuchi

Author: Miyako Ishiuchi
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9788415118695
Category : Personal belongings
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Frida by Ishiuchi is the first photographic documentation ever published of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's personal attire and belongings, as portrayed by Japanese artist Miyako Ishiuchi. The victim of a nearly fatal bus accident as a young woman, Kahlo used fashion to channel her resulting physical difficulties into courageous statements of heritage, strength and beauty. Also focusing on the ways in which Kahlo used her iconic style to project her feminist and socialist beliefs, Ishiuchi's color photographs transform Kahlo's dresses, corsets, shoes, gloves, jewelry and other accessories into objects freighted with personal struggle, cultural awareness and sartorial inventiveness. Following Ishiuchi's acclaimed series Mothers and Hiroshima, this collection provides a special look at a very intimate dimension of Frida Kahlo's universe.

Bacon d'Agata

Author: Antoine D'Agata
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description