The afronauts

Author: Kojo Ngué
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Photographer Cristina De Middel (1975, Spain) chose as the starting point for her project The Afronauts a little-known episode from Zambia's history. This was a space programme started by an educator which suddenly entered Zambia in the space race with the United States and Russia. Its aim was to put the first African on the moon. Due to a lack of financial resources, however, the ambitious initiative was doomed to failure. Fifty years later, De Middel reconstructs this story, using her own imagination. In The Afronauts, De Middel combines set-up photography with copies of typed letters and reproductions of vintage photos. Although The Afronauts is in fact based on a failed undertaking, the project includes nothing that refers to the failure - to the contrary. The photos have an upbeat look thanks to De Middels's fanciful space suits, playful astronaut training sessions and a Zambian flag with a smiley face. Other characters also appear against the background of the rugged landscape of Alicante, including an elephant presented as a space creature and a cat dressed in a starred costume, which according to the story also was planned to be launched into space.

The Epilogue

Author: Ramon Pez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907893544
Category : Bulimia
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The story of the Robinson family the aftermath suffered in losing their 26 year old daughter to bulimia."

Max Pam: Autobiographies

Author:
Publisher: La Fabrica
ISBN: 9788416248742
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this volume, the acclaimed Australian travel photographer Max Pam (born 1949) assembles a personal biography mixing photographs with all kinds of personal documents: facsimiles of notebooks, passports, postcards, letters, comic books and drawings. Pam left Australia at 20, after accepting a job as a photographer assisting an astrophysicist. Together, the pair drove a Volkswagen from Calcutta to London. This adventure proved inspirational, and travel has remained a crucial and continuous link to his creative and personal development. Pam's work in Asian countries has been documented extensively in numerous publications, as have his travels in Europe, Australia and the Indian Ocean Rim cultures including India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Yemen, the United Republic of Tanzania, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Cocos and Christmas Islands. A unique sort of artist's book-collage, Max Pam documents 50 years of work in full-bleed spreads, from portraits and street scenes taken all over the world to more personal and intimate works.

Laia Abril

Author:
Publisher: RM Verlag
ISBN: 9788416282647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Publ. on the occasion of the Festival des arts visuals, Vevey, Switzerland, Sept. 10-Oct. 2, 2016.

On Abortion

Author: Laia Abril
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911306245
Category : Abortion
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
'On Abortion' is the first part of Laia Abril's new long-term project, 'A History of Misogyny'. The work was first exhibited at Les Rencontres in Arles in 2016 and awarded the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro and the Fotopress Grant. Abril documents and conceptualises the dangers and damage caused by women's lack of legal, safe and free access to abortion. She draws on the past to highlight the long, continuing erosion of women's reproductive rights through to the present-day, weaving together questions of ethics and morality, to reveal a staggering series of social triggers, stigmas, and taboos around abortion that have been largely invisible until now.

Bala

Author: Luree Miller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780416488906
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Photographs and text describe the daily life of a little girl in India: her work, play, dress, food and special trip to a parade in Delhi.

Christina de Middel photobolsillo

Author:
Publisher: La fabrica
ISBN: 9788416248230
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This issue of La Fábrica's PHotoBolsillo series chronicles the work of award-winning Spanish documentary photographer Cristina de Middel (born 1975). De Middel is internationally known for The Afronauts, a self-published photobook that investigates the short-lived Zambian space program started in 1964.

Robert Capa, 1913-1954

Author: Robert Capa
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
"Robert Capa: Photographs is the first true retrospective book of one of the century's greatest photographers. Drawing upon hundreds of previously unseen images, this collection reveals Capa as one of the great poets of the camera. In these photographs, we see through the eyes of a driven humanist who was also a documentarian of the highest caliber. While previous volumes on Capa have focused on his role as a war photographer, "Robert Capa: Photographs shows us the remarkable range of his work, which encompasses the sufferings as well as the tenderness, humor and wonder of his subjects. Robert Capa demonstrated not only a passionate commitment to improving the human condition, but also an unfailing eye for graphic impact. Although his photographs remain the definitive visual records of such momentous events as the siege of Madrid, the bombing of Hankou, and the Allied landings on D-day, many of his images have a timeless and universal quality that transcends the specifics of history. A Spanish soldier recoils at the impact of a bullet, the final instant of his life. In a scene of perfect joy, a group of Chinese children laugh at the sky as snow begins to fall. Four farm workers, hauling all the belongings they can manage, trudge grimly away from an apocalyptic backdrop of smoke and ruins: their war-devastated homes. Capa's images reveal his profound compassion and perceptiveness about our tenuous human state. As Cornell Capa (Robert's younger brother and the Founding Director Emeritus of the International Center of Photography) writes in his eloquent remembrance: "He managed to travel all over the world, and to communicate his experience and feelings through a universallanguage: photography." "Robert Capa: Photographs also includes a foreword by Capa's close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson, as well as an informative historical essay by Capa biographer Richard Whelan. At last, here is the book that reveals Robert Capa in a new light. The extraordinary collection of images in "Robert Capa: Photographs brings us--through the events of history--to the very heart of humanity.

Christina de Middel: Cucurrucucú

Author:
Publisher: Rm
ISBN: 9788416282654
Category : Artists' books
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
In 2014 Cristina de Middel became involved with the photographic archive of the newsmagazine Alerta and began to work with the idea of exploring the different languages of violence and the role played by photography in this entire area. She made drawings of 200 different photographs and added dialogue to them, as if they were comic strips. The dialogues have been composed out of the lyrics of Mexican ranchera songs, which in the name of love and passion celebrate actions and reactions of a rather un-tender nature. The three elements have combined to create a book that invites us to reexamine the content we are exposed to and to identify the violence concealed beneath accepted codes. This is a sort of reflection that is needed, especially in Mexican society, so that the limits of the acceptable can be analyzed objectively and their real impact understood.

Other Americas

Author: Sebastião Salgado
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 9780394556680
Category : Documentary photography
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
Photographs show the people of Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala, including weddings, funerals, and scenes of everyday life