From one of America's most acclaimed photographers: stunning images of an extraordinary and endangered landscape. The countryside south and east of Rome around the ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct is an artist's paradise. Its rare light, its evocations of ancient Roman civilization enchant the camera just as they attracted such painters as Claude, Turner, and Corot. Writers, too, have fallen under its spell - from Horace and Pliny the Elder to Goethe and Henry James. "Few other scenes on earth combine in one glance such a myriad of mighty associations," wrote one nineteenth-century chronicler. As for the great aqueduct, its "broken and disjointed arches" suggest "the vertebrae of some mighty monster." The rolling plain of the Campagna was only marginally occupied during the height of the Roman Empire: one lived either within the protective walls of Rome or in the cooler and more defendable hill towns a few miles away. After the fall of Rome, the countryside grew even more desolate. Except for a few castles and towers built in the Middle Ages and an occasional farmhouse built in the nineteenth century, the area remained barely populated for 1,400 years, haunted by its past. Then, in the late 1800s, after Italy became a nation and Rome its capital, the Campagna changed dramatically. Railroads began to weave in and out of the arches of aqueducts; suburbs began to intrude on the plain. Now the Campagna is increasingly threatened by rapid and uncontrolled urban sprawl. Sternfeld's magnificent color photographs capture poignant juxtapositions of past and present: ancient tombs, villas, arches, temples coexisting with apartment houses, malls, and the blight of the modern city. Much of the area that Sternfeld documents has been proposed as a large archaeological park, but unless legislation is enacted immediately, what little remains of the historic Campagna will be lost forever. Campagna Romana, the only modern photographic study of this legendary place, captures its wonders for all time and pleads for its preservation.

Campagna Romana: The Countryside of Ancient Rome

Richard Brilliant

Joel Sternfeld

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.

KNOPF

Stephen Shore (b. 1947) is a true artistic innovator whose work has opened up new frontiers for contemporary photography. His photographs of American scenes unveil the exceptional beauty to be found in the everyday. As one of the first art photographers to work in color, Shore pioneered such contemporary genres as the diaristic snapshot (later taken up by Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans) and the monumentalized landscape (as later practiced by Becher-school photographers Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky). This monograph offers the first complete examination of Shore's long and storied career, from his residency at Warhol's Factory to his experiments in conceptual photography; from his landmark series AMERICAN SURFACES to his continued exploration of emerging techniques. Shore's high-key portraits of America's chromatic landscape can be found in the permanent collections of major museums all over the world.

Stephen Shore (Contemporary Artists)

Arts & Photography

STEPHEN SHORE

Michael Fried

Christy Lange

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Laminated wrappers., contained in a photographically illustrated cardstock slipcase. Photographs by Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt and Joel Sternfeld. Forewords by Paul Wombell and Michael Kirkwood. Essays by Thomas Weski, Johanna Burton, Okwui Enwezor and Brian Wallis. Design by Spin. 100 pp., with 19 four-color and 13 black and white plates (and additional illustrations) finely printed on heavy coated paper by Graphicom Italia. 9-1/8 x 6-5/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 2004 Citigroup Photography Prize exhibition at The Photographer's Gallery, London, and the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. Presents work by the four finalists for the 2004 competition, won by Joel Sternfeld.

Citigroup Photography Prize 2004: Robert Adams, Peter Fraser, David Goldblatt, Joel Sternfeld

David Goldblatt

Johanna Burton

Okwui Enwezor

PETER FRASER

Robert, Adams

Brian Wallis

Paul Wombell

Michael, Kirkwood

Thomas, Weski

Photography & Video

The Photographer's Gallery, London

4,000 journalists and photographers gathered in Genoa during the third week of July 2001 to cover the 26th meeting of the official discussion club of the leaders of the industrialized nations of the world: the G8. Among them was American photographer Joel Sternfeld, who came to Genoa as an artist with a commitment to planetary sustainability. What did those banner-waving, song-singing, globally-wired, "anti-global protesters" actually want? Sternfeld set out to find out. Walking and running the streets with the demonstrators, photographing and recording the comments of individuals as circumstances allowed, he made the series of quick portraits and accompanying statements that forms the heart of this book. In their own words, they give an understanding of the world of concerns that brought them to Genoa in the first place. At the final unfolding of events--the death of protester Carlo Giuliani and the terrifying Saturday night raid on the Genoa Social Forum, in which sleeping protesters were beaten, leaving pools of blood on the floor of the Armando Diaz School--Sternfeld understood the urgency of reporting what had occurred.

Joel Sternfeld: Treading On Kings: Protesting the G8 in Genoa

Steidl

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