Verlag: J and L Books, Atlanta and New York, 2005
Anbieter: Pages Past--Used & Rare Books, Greensboro, NC, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 12mo. 91 pages. Hardcover bound in pink cloth. Illustrated with photos. Article about the book and exhibit is taped into the front cover.
Verlag: J & L Books, United States, Atlanta, 2007
ISBN 10: 0974690856 ISBN 13: 9780974690858
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In June, 2005, while traveling in Vietnam, artist Harrell Fletcher visited The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. Deeply affected by the exhibit, Fletcher returned to photograph all of the images and text descriptions from the main museum with the intention of re-presenting the exhibition in the United States. Fletcher's exhibition The American War toured for two years, stopping at various U. S. venues including the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M. I. T. and White Columns in New York City. With this collection of images, Fletcher encourages his audience to reconsider opinions of the War in Vietnam and other American wars that have occurred since. Harrell Fletcher is a visual artist working in mixed media: video, installation, photography and web based works. His work was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher has an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and has taught and lectured in the US and Europe. In Spring 2004, he taught at New York's Cooper Union. A hallmark of his work is to devise strategies for transforming the everyday experiences and objects of community residents into curated exhibitions. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: J&L Books, Atlanta, 2010
Anbieter: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
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Paperback. 144, [14]pp., illustrations, wraps. An art project by a student at Rhode Island School of Design to photograph people incarcerated at Lansing Prison in Kansas. Major sections include a series of portraits around a program that pairs the incarcerated with dogs scheduled for euthanasia and the escape attempt of one of the subjects of that series. Barnett-Winsby provides photocopies of correspondence and art of the escapee, and photographs his recreation of the escape: "I was a tourist visiting some off-beat attraction on an unmarked path" (p.111).
Verlag: J&L Books, Atlanta, 2003
ISBN 10: 0974690805 ISBN 13: 9780974690803
Anbieter: Exquisite Corpse Booksellers, Houston, TX, USA
Wrappers. Zustand: Near Fine. 50 pages. Small oblong format paperback, bound in printed vinyl covered stiff paper covers. Slight vertical bend near the spine, with some mild lifting of the vinyl on the front cover. Else, the binding is tight and solid, and the interior is clean and free of markings.
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Verlag: J&L Books, Atlanta, 2002
ISBN 10: 0970165633 ISBN 13: 9780970165633
Anbieter: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback bound in publisher's photo illustrated orange cloth and issued without a jacket. Signed by Schmelling on the copyright page.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2015
ISBN 10: 0989531139 ISBN 13: 9780989531139
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist--Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles, while his landmark three-volume compilation, the Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), laid the foundation for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to his ecstatic artwork, Smith is renowned for his vast collections of curious objects. The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonne series spotlights and indexes his eclectic research obsessions.Volume one features richly detailed photographic documentation of 251 paper airplanes gathered by Smith from the streets of New York City over an approximately 20-year period. Whimsical and weird, the paper airplanes rank among Smith's most mysterious collecting pursuits. This extensive compendium presents the fruits of his extraordinary aeronautic pursuit and highlights the tangled history and myths that accompany them. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Atlanta (USA): J&L Books (Jason Fulford & Leanne Shapton.), DVD in a bookcase.
Anbieter: BuchKunst-Usedom / Kunsthalle, Seebad Ahlbeck, Deutschland
DVD in a bookcase. Contents / Films by : Shana Moulton, Catherine Ross, Amy von Harrington, Matt McCormick, Serge Onnen, and others (Gutes sauberes Exemplar / good clean) Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 400.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta & New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0989531104 ISBN 13: 9780989531108
Anbieter: DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY, ANDES, NY, USA
Zustand: Fine. New hardcover. Elisabeth Tonnard's In This Dark Wood is a study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by Tonnard, of the famous first lines of Dante's Inferno: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita." ("In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost"). The images were selected from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is a reprint of a work originally self-published in 2008.
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Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2023
ISBN 10: 099936555X ISBN 13: 9780999365557
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Corita Kents photographs of vernacular inspirationfrom street signs and folk art to kites, parades and fairsCorita Kent, formerly Sister Mary Corita, is known for her exuberant, colorful serigraphs and her teaching, as evidenced in her lively art classes. As a Catholic nun from 1936 until 1968, Corita lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community in Los Angeles. She taught lettering and layout, image finding, and art structure for 20 years in Immaculate Heart Colleges art department. There, she screened multiple films simultaneously, hosted guest thinkers including Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and John Cage, and guided the making of large-scale collaborative projects with students.Corita regularly took her students out for looking sessions at a used car lot or an art exhibition. While constantly looking and discovering visually, Corita shot thousands of 35 mm slides documenting references, the IHC milieu and the art department processes. For Corita, the vernacular environs of advertising, supermarkets and the citys media landscape were a source of inspiration and raw material. Her slide collection encompasses a wide range of subjects: cookies, coke bottles, toys, presents, experiments, projects, Marys Day celebrations stemming from Coritas classroom, flowers, magazines, seeds, puppets, visits with Charles and Ray Eames, street signs, trade fairs, folk art, boxes, billboards and kites. Drawing from the Corita Art Centers vast slide collection, Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us embodies Coritas philosophy of looking.Corita Kent (191886) was known for her iconic art, innovative teaching methods and messages of social justice. Born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa, she entered the order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Hollywood at age 18. As a professor and later chair of the art department, she helped establish its reputation as a hub of creativity and liberal thinking. By 1968, her art was enormously popular, showing in more than 230 exhibitions and held in public and private collections around the world. She remained active in social causes until her death in 1986. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Atlanta, GA: J & L Books, 2002, 2007
ISBN 10: 0970165633 ISBN 13: 9780970165633
Anbieter: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 48 pages. Published in 2002. Retrospective collection of color photographs, presented as an Artist Book. One of the cult art photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Michael Schmelling: Oversize-volume format. Orange cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine and dazzling photographic cutout of the subject, as issued. Photographs by Michael Schmelling. Brief Epigraph by James Holloway, who gets to have the last word. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Korea to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Michael Schmelling's "Shut Up Truth". Being photographs of a regular guy, James Holloway, a middle-aged bachelor and projectionist living in El Paso, Texas, befriended by the photojournalist. "A document of Michael Schmelling's friendship with James Holloway, a Texas native and union projectionist. The project began in 1996, when Schmelling met Holloway at a film screening while on assignment in Texas for Associated Press. An unflinching and intimate portrait of a single, white middle-aged man. The photographs, taken in El Paso, constitute a documentary of contemporary American life. Michael Schmelling lives in New York City and is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The Fader, and Details" (Publisher's blurb). Deliberately mundane and matter-of-fact, the collection enjoys a cult following as a photography book in the same vein as Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, and in the way it evokes American life, the un-celebrated kind, in this case, that of a "lowly" - in our view, which says a lot about us - worker. Who is typically viewed and presented by mass media as lonely (being single) and unworthy of a photographer's, or anyone else's attention. The book asks, "Who deserves to be photographed and to be looked at by us?". An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Schmelling collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Schmelling. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a cult art photography title. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0970165633. Signed by Author.
Verlag: J&L Books, Atlanta, 2003
ISBN 10: 0970165684 ISBN 13: 9780970165688
Anbieter: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, USA
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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Near Fine copy of this large-format paperback art book. Book.
Verlag: J&L Books, Atlanta, 2002
ISBN 10: 0970165641 ISBN 13: 9780970165640
Anbieter: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Hardcover. Very good hardback bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in yellow and issued without a jacket.
Verlag: J&L Books Inc., Atlanta, GA, 2009
ISBN 10: 0979918847 ISBN 13: 9780979918841
Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Oblong format book, unpaginated with 75 color photos taken by Corin Hewitt during his installation Weavings: Performance #2 at Small A Projects in September, 2007. Front cover has a belly band with a dye extracted from red cherries and cabbage and applied by Mr. Hewitt at the printer's facilities in Seoul. Back cover contains a pocket with two booklets: one an essay by Marisa Sanchez and the other an interview with Mr. Hewitt by Michael Brenson. All in Fine condition. During a three-week residency at Portland, Oregon s Small A Projects in 2007, New York-based artist Corin Hewitt, born in 1971, constructed an elaborate workspace within the gallery, complete with a kitchen, photo studio and theater in which the apron-wearing artist performed a series of tasks--cooking, sculpting, eating and weaving--as gallery visitors viewed him through a peephole. Merging elements representing both the contemporary and the historic Northwest, Hewitt transformed such materials as baskets, fabric, canned food, fresh vegetables and grass--as well as elements from the first performance in this ongoing series--into hybridized objects. The 75 color photographs in this book, all taken on-site by Hewitt, document the performance. Combining the sculptural with the theatrical, the photographic with the performative, Hewitt s innovative work has also been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum and Taxter Spengemann gallery in New York.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, United States, 2015
ISBN 10: 0989531139 ISBN 13: 9780989531139
Anbieter: 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA, Cambridge, CAMBS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
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Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine 1st ed J & L paperback, illustrated throughout. A little wrinkling wear to top of spine only, bright and unmarked. Size: 150\nx 230\nx 15.24mm. 240 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Art & Design; Art History: From c 1960; ISBN: 0989531139. ISBN/EAN: 9780989531139. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 086974.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2012
ISBN 10: 0979918898 ISBN 13: 9780979918896
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Paperback. Zustand: NEW. Paperback. J & L Books acclaimed J & L Illustrated series presents handsomely designed paperback volumes of fiction and art at an affordable price. Shout magazine wrote of the first volume, published in 2002: This impressive collection of illustrations and fiction makes sense of the world like good liquor should. Edited by writer Paul Maliszewski (author of Prayer and Parable and Fakers), this third volume of J & L Illustrated is comprised of 13 short stories by authors Amie Barrodale, Scott Bradfield, Stephen Dixon, Steve Featherstone, William H. Gass, Michael Martone, Joseph McElroy, Elizabeth Miller, Robert Nedelkoff, Hasanthikia Sirisena, Steve Stern, Mike Topp and Xiaoda Xiao. The Paris-based artist Shoboshobo provides accompanying drawings. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2007
ISBN 10: 0974690880 ISBN 13: 9780974690889
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
DVD-Video. Zustand: new. DVD-Video. J&L Video is the first in a new series of anthology DVDs featuring 12 original shorts, each under seven minutes, by contemporary artists and filmmakers. In the spirit of the book series J&L Illustrated, J&L Video compiles films and video works from around the world with a sensibility that combines the real and the ridiculous. Featured works include Catherine Ross's split-screen, cropped outtakes from the TV show The Price is Right; Matt McCormick's Destiny, a bizarre world of clicking and applause; dreamy documentary sketches about family by Brock Enright; stock figurative illustrations representing all of human history in a continuous loop by Oliver Laric; Will Rogan's incredibly mundane experiments with chance; Julie Lequin's Sounds Like Julie, in which the artist is imitated by her friends; an exchange between a photographer and his subject in the American Southwest by Amy Harrington; Ed Panar's ebullient music video, Here I Go Again; Shana Moulton's exercise-video fantasy world, Feeling Free; and Andrew Lampert's fashion-shoot nightmare. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2020
ISBN 10: 0999365533 ISBN 13: 9780999365533
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A tender, lighthearted homage to a fathers beautiful legsCroatian-born photographer and architect Sara Perovic's mother once told her, "I fell in love with your father because of his beautiful legs." With this small paperback photobook, Perovic (born 1984) has created a tender, humorous study of her boyfriend's legs, as a stand-in for her father's, depicting them in color against various backdropsaboard a boat, indoors, standing on a bed, or on the tennis courtisolated from the rest of his body. She laments that her father's love of tennis kept his attentions away from her when she was a child, and a short series of full-figure portraits of him delivering a backhand shot in flipbook style concludes the volume, along with a coda from the photographer: "And now my daughter's father has beautiful legs. With this small paperback photobook, Perovic (born 1984) has created a tender, humorous study of her boyfriend's legs, as a stand-in for her father's Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2012
ISBN 10: 0982964277 ISBN 13: 9780982964279
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. French photographer Bertrand Fleuret (born 1969) has made some of the most poetical and beautifully produced photobooks of the past ten years--among them The Risk of an Early Spring and Landmasses and Railways, published by J&L Books, who brings us Fleurets latest volume--a continuation of Landmasses and Railways exploration of the moods and imagery of imaginary worlds. Several years ago, Fleuret had an unusually intense dream that began with him standing by a wall of dark cliffs. When he awoke, he found that the details of the dream remained oddly vivid, and he decided to reconstruct it in photographs. This volume reproduces the sequence of color photographs along with Fleurets account of the dream. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2014
ISBN 10: 0989531112 ISBN 13: 9780989531115
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. While photographer Lisa Kereszi (born 1973) was researching for her previous book, Joe's Junk Yard, her father, Joe Jr., gave her a worn and tattered old photo album that he had compiled in the 1970s and 80s. Inside were 4 x 6-inch color photographs taken by Joe Jr. of biker babes in bars, at bike rallies and drag races, in various states of undress. As Kereszi says, "It's really a very odd group of images for a daughter to find--pics of biker babes showing off their tattoos, their boyfriends' bikes and hot rods, and, well, breasts." Kereszi appropriated the photographs, and re-cropped them for this volume. "The edit goes through various different types of pictures," she notes, "from the expected, posed shots, to the money shots,' then on to some very interesting and beautiful images of women unawares." Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2018
ISBN 10: 0989531198 ISBN 13: 9780989531191
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Economically downtrodden New York City in the mid-to-late 1970s was like the end of the world, but only if you chose to see it that way. For young artists running amok in the collapsing capital, the possibilities seemed endless. For Manuel DeLanda (born 1952), a Mexican transplant enrolled at the School of Visual Arts, overcrowded sidewalks and decrepit subway stations were blank canvases for inspired mayhem.Widely recognized today as a philosopher, professor and author (of A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, Assemblage Theory and The Rise of Realism, among other titles), DeLanda initially came to prominence as one of the premiere experimental filmmakers of his generation. Fueled by the gonzo humor and graphic audacity of Frank Zappa and Zap Comix, DeLandas fevered productions were among the most deliriously innovative movies of the punk era. While films like Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller and Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches are certified underground classics, DeLandas visually striking, virtually unknown graffiti work (signed with the tag Ism Ism) has long remained more urban legend than legendary.ISM ISM presents a comprehensive overview of DeLandas ephemeral street collages through a colorful frame-by-frame breakdown of a Super-8 short film made in 1979 to document his sweetly subversive activities. Extensive still images, an expansive interview and copious contextual materials combine to illustrate the story of DeLandas aesthetic attack on 23rd St, including his friendly competition with fellow taggers Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2014
ISBN 10: 0989531120 ISBN 13: 9780989531122
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. There are eight million stories in the naked city, says the narrator in Jules Dassins 1948 noir classic Naked City. This sense of the bustling American metropolis as a vast reservoir of untapped stories has moved numerous photographers to surf the urban sprawl with an open-ended attention to chance encounters and unexpected visual serendipities. After watching the documentary film A Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank in the early 1990s, Los Angelesbased photographer Chrissy Piper wrote a fan letter to Frank, and traveled to New York to meet him. Franks work and their eventual friendship inspired Piper to continue shooting on the street. The pictures gathered in this book were taken mostly on the streets of New York City, but also in other locales across America, during various road trips with friends. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2016
ISBN 10: 0989531171 ISBN 13: 9780989531177
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. In 2014, New Yorkbased photographer Darin Mickey (born 1974) began documenting a handful of record shops in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania--independently run stores that opened primarily in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, many of which are now on their last legs, or have recently been shuttered. These stores are the alphabetized havens for the musical successes of a few and the forgotten failures of many. Shot from the perspective of a middle-aged man restlessly clinging to his youth and the hope of finding that elusive artifact to make anxiety subside and keep the reaper at bay, Death Takes a Holiday shows us a community of beautiful recluses brought together by obsession, compulsion and a pure, undying love of music. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2019
ISBN 10: 0999365525 ISBN 13: 9780999365526
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. Found art in the form of record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music loversMarred for Life! presents over 250 record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music lovers. The LP covers were selected from the collection of Greg Wooten, a Los Angelesbased collector, musician and design purveyor. Wooten and his community of record-collector friends have discovered these in used record bins over the course of several years. Sometimes over-the-top and other times subtleand often, really funnythe objects become a kind of found folk art.Bloodshot eyes, blackened teeth, moustaches, tattoos, reviews, love letters, collage and psychedelic and pornographic embellishings of record covers by Elvis, the Beatles, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Yoko Ono, Nina Simone, Led Zeppelin, Sparks, LL Cool J, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Mose Allison, Prince, Tim Buckley, Neil Young and more can be found here. The book is edited by Jason Fulford, in a way that highlights connections and humor between the covers. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2013
ISBN 10: 0982964285 ISBN 13: 9780982964286
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (19531997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much a player in the international art world of the 1970s right up until his death in 1997, commissioning work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Mike Kelley, and acting as unofficial ringleader to a generation of German artists. Written by the artists sister, Susanne Kippenberger, and now available in paperback, this first English-language biography draws both from personal memories of their shared childhood and exhaustive interviews with Kippenbergers extended family of friends and colleagues in the art world. Kippenberger gives insight into the psychology and drive behind this playful and provocative artist. Reviewing the hardcover edition in The New York Times, Roberta Smith wrote: Ms. Kippenberger provides wonderful thumbnail portraits of the many key figures in her brothers life, while using their reminiscences to create a finely diced composite oral history that makes palpable both his charming and his repellent sides. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2012
ISBN 10: 0982964269 ISBN 13: 9780982964262
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: NEW. Hardcover. Baltimore photographer Michael Northrup (born 1948) has been making gently humorous but decidedly jubilant color photographs of his daily life since the early 1970s. His 2004 J&L publication Beautiful Ecstasy depicted young families (Northrups own and those of friends) partying and performing for the camera, often in each others homes, bringing a beautifully understated formal elegance to moments of tender and chaotic everyday living. This sequel to Beautiful Ecstasy presents a further selection of previously unpublished photographs from the 1970s and 80s, all permeated with Northrups characteristic joie de vivre. Period details in furniture and clothing vividly resurrect the textures of these bygone moments; here, we also see young couples bringing children into their chaotic worlds, freighting these scenes of small town America with a powerful atmosphere of fragility and wonder. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2020
ISBN 10: 0999365541 ISBN 13: 9780999365540
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. A cultural history of the sublime first image of a black hole, in photographs and documentsPeering into Lights Graveyard: The First Image of the Black Hole, read the New York Times' April 11 cover story. The headline, like many others that day, was accompanied by an image of a glowing celestial ring framed by infinite blackness: the first image of a black hole. In his first book, New York photographer Matthew Beck (born 1986) focuses on the unveiling of this previously unseeable image by following it into the depths of the New York City subway.The book suggests the notion that the cosmos is not something to simply be observed from our vantage point as humans, but more a system that we are intrinsically a part of; and the true nature of the black hole seems to be as elusive as the answer to humanitys most pressing question of why. A cultural history of the sublime first image of a black hole, in photographs and documents Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2004
ISBN 10: 0974690813 ISBN 13: 9780974690810
Anbieter: David Bunnett Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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SOFTCOVER. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Large landscape Quarto size (4to) in stiff glossy card covers with plain thick card support at rear, unpaginated, approx. 80pp (complete), colour plates, etc. Art and fiction in the form of a book of paper place mats CONDITION: VERY GOOD+ (covers very slightly marked, contents fine) ] ._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 7 x 9 in. 566 pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Very good in pictorial wrappers with minor crease to front page with light general wear. From a limited edition of 500 copies of which this is number 242. With laid-in posters and includes an essay by Richard Maxwell.
Verlag: J & L Books, Atlanta, 2013
ISBN 10: 0982964293 ISBN 13: 9780982964293
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: NEW. Hardcover. In the winter of 2007, photographer Michael Schmelling--known for his previous books Shut Up Truth and The Plan--photographed the USA National Memory Championships in New York City. Roughly 100 competitors gathered in a modest conference hall in the Con Edison building to compete in a series of mnemonic tests. Schmelling's photographs from that day are primarily of the competitors, all intensely engaged in recalling and reciting lists of information. Schmelling returned to the championships in 2008, photographing many of the same competitors as the year before. Building a book of short, interrelated stories, Schmelling has combined these images of mnemonists with a series of similar, overlapping narratives. Traveling through a North American landscape of neutral interiors, the viewer of Land Line encounters an array of subjects in the midst of thinking, forgetting, questioning and interpreting. Photographs of professional mnemonists, teenagers in an algorithmic code competition, entrepreneurs, a Hollywood actor, prisoners and English language students dressed up as historical figures coalesce into a larger narrative about cognition, memory and information. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: J&L Books, Atlanta, Geotgia, 2002
ISBN 10: 0970165668 ISBN 13: 9780970165664
Anbieter: Riverside Books and Prints, Cold Spring, NY, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. J&L Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, 2002. Boards with Paste down. Condition: Fine. First Edition. np (80pp), 40 color illustrations + color cover. One of the first offerings from Jason Fulford's wonderful J&L Books, "OK OK OK" is a survey of charmingly mundane yet beautiful Polaroids from Los Angeles' own Mike Slack. In canary yellow buckram boards with inset photographs to both covers[No Dust wrapper as issued]. 8vo[octavo or approx. 5 x 8 inches], unpaginated[80pp]. additionally SIGNED "Mike Slack" in black ink on the title page. Signed by the Photographer. Photography Monograph. Signed by Author(s).