Henri Matisse's adventures in color and light constitute a landmark in the history of modern art. From his apprenticeship in the studio of Gustave Moreau to the paper cutouts of the 1950's, the stages of his journey represent a triumph of artistic research and resolution. More than 300 reproductions grace this volume. The text provides a fascination survey of a complex life that crossed the paths of many legendary figures of the age.

Matisse

Guadagnini, Walter

Arts & Photography

Chartwell Books

Individual Artists

Thunder Bay Pr

Mel Ramos

Art Books Intl Ltd

Italian photographer Luca Campigotto (born 1962) portrays intensely dramatic landscapes--from the Straits of Magellan to the plains of Patagonia, from Morocco to the Strada degli Eroi Pass on Monte Pasubio, from the Easter Islands to the glaciers in Sarek National Park in Lapland--and reconceives for our times nature's capacity to overwhelm the human scale.

Luca Campigotto: My Wild Places

Photography & Video

Hatje Cantz

Peter Blake (born 1932) is one of the founding fathers of Pop art; he designed the classic collaged cover for the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This volume contains album covers, portrait tracings and recent collages.

Peter Blake: Collages & Works on Paper 1956-2008

Grace-Gardner, Belinda

Kerber

In 1963, the Pirelli tire company began publishing an annual trade calendar, given as a corporate gift to important customers and chosen celebrities. In its decades of publication, "the Cal" has brought some of the world's best photographers and some of the world's most beautiful and notable women together to produce a deluxe, often risqué, play on the pinup calendar. Photographers have included Terence Donovan, Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Inez van Lamsweerde &amp; Vinoodh Matadin and Helmut Newton; models have included Kate Moss, Heidi Klum, Tavi Gevinson, Serena Williams, Yoko Ono and Lupita Nyong'o.
Eternal Beauty: Over 50 Years of the Pirelli Calendar surveys the history of this unique cross section of society, fashion and art with particular attention to the evolution of the calendar and its representation of women from the 1960s to today.

Eternal Beauty: Over 50 Years of the Pirelli Calendar

Turello, Amedeo M.

Silvana Editoriale

A complete overview of Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf's highly stylized portraits Amsterdam-based Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (born 1959) has long been considered one of today's foremost practitioners of portrait photography, and the enigmatic and elusively contemplative atmospheres of his theatrical compositions are widely imitated. Saturated in somber yet luminous hues, and exactingly composed, Olaf's color photographs, usually featuring only one or two people and set indoors, suggest dramatic narratives fraught with intangible restlessness. The attention to emotional character is scrupulous--as Olaf recently told Lyle Rxer in an interview, "you examine the state of the face, the person's eyes, the small gestures, the way the muscles move slightly, and of course the influence of light and cropping to add to the intuitions you receive. These restrictions are the main reason why I feel more comfortable in my personal projects, where I can fantasize, or let's say, I can create a world of my imagination." This concise catalog offers a journey through Olaf's entire career to date, from the Chessmen series of the late 1980s that brought him international renown, and for which he was awarded the Young European Photographer Award in 1988, up to the recent Palm Springs project (2018). The volume includes a critical text by Walter Guadagnini and a conversation with the artist.

Erwin Olaf

Olaf, Erwin

Peripatetic, prolific and perceptive, Mario De Biasi has trekked the world, looking for and capturing human stories of such diversity that this collection could also be called People. With Boubat, Cartier-Bresson, Gardin and Riboud, De Biasi was part of a generation of travelers and explorers whose oeuvre amounts to a visual ode to the second half of the twentieth century. Through his long collaboration with Epoca, the Italian magazine, he is considered by many to be the father of photojournalism in his country, inspiring generations of young photographers, with travel bags ready and cameras always in hand. De Biasi finds intimate moments that nevertheless have the sweep of history: a crowded, colorful street scene in the Far East, or a worker napping in the crevice of an ancient monument. This book is part of the Unpublished Photographs series.

Mario De Biasi: People

Damiani

Mimmo Jodice: Light (Spanish and English Edition)

Dehò, Valerio

History & Criticism

"These photographs are taken from my sketchbooks of visual notes in which are collected my daily 'exercises.' From these images I have chosen those that convey the freshness present in things in their new born state, and that could represent directions for further investigations to take which remain full of potential." Presented here in color are 230 of Franco Fontana's previously unpublished photographic studies, which are to his photography what preparatory sketches are to a painter.

Franco Fontana: Unpublished Notes

Sgarbi, Vittorio

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