Published in 1990 by Éditions Parachute in Montréal, in collaboration with the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, this trilingual catalogue (French, English, Italian) accompanied Geneviève Cadieux's presentation of Canada at the 44th Venice Biennale. Its central essay, by curator Chantal Pontbriand, is titled "Le langage est une peau" ("Language is a Skin"), running from pages 11 to 27. Cadieux, born in Montreal in 1955, had by this point established an international practice centred on large-scale photographic installations and audiovisual works, often drawing on cinematic techniques to explore the representation of the body.

Die Publikation folgt einer sorgfältig gestalteten Dramaturgie mit zahlreichen Abbildungen seiner Werke und Werkserien, ergänzt durch ein ausführliches Detailverzeichnis, einen Index sowie einen zweisprachigen Textteil mit einem Interview und drei Essays. Visuelle und haptische Zäsuren, durch den Wechsel von Papier und Farbe, gliedern den Band sinnlich nachvollziehbar.

Englisch und Deutsch. Ausgewählt, aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen, mit einem Nachwort von Ralf-Rainer Rygulla.

Die Aussagekraft eines Fotos ist abhängig von der geistigen und menschlichen Substanz des Fotografierenden. Peter-Cornell Richter appelliert an alle Fotoapparatbesitzer, durch eine individuelle Schule des Sehens zu gehen. Fotos sind eben nicht, wie häufig angenommen wird, lediglich mechanische Aufzeichnungen. Das beweisen die Arbeiten vieler großer Fotografen am Schluss des Buches. Die Fotografen und ihre Bilder wählte der Autor nach dem Massstab seiner Sympathie aus.

(First published in 1969) The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (French: Entretiens Avec William Burroughs) is a book by Daniel Odier built around an extensive series of interviews with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs which concluded 15 November 1968. The topics range from Scientology to Burroughs' opinions of other writers, views on power, etc.

(First published in 1963) "The Last Tresilians" by J.I.M Stewart is a 1963 science fiction novel published by Victor Gollancz. This novel offers readers a captivating story set in a futuristic world where computers have taken over all functions once performed by humans. The novel explores themes of technological advancement, artificial intelligence, and the consequences of relying on machines for daily operations.

In Kathy Acker's Don Quixote, physical pain produces delirium through which the narrator gains access to the "truths" underlying her experiences in a series of deluded and delusional cultures. Moving through worlds where cultural horrors are visited on the body and learning from the "saints" who passionately embrace such experiences, she finds an identity in the momentary conjunction of passion and death. The intensity of her masochistic climaxes burns up the binarity of gender. Consequently, it is paradoxically through the body that Acker's narrator escapes the biological femaleness that always threatens to engulf her.

Describing Americus as “part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic—a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political,” Ferlinghetti combines “universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem, the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination.”

Intimate conversations between Burroughs and Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, David Bowie, and more icons of '70s New York and beyond. During the 1970s, William Burroughs lived in a loft on the Bowery in New York City's Lower East Side. Christened "The Bunker," his apartment became a modern-day literary salon with people like Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, and fellow beat poet Allen Ginsberg passing through for a drink or a joint and the promise of stimulating conversation with the ingenious and eccentric Burroughs. Among Burroughs's entourage was author Victor Bockris, whose tape recorder was always running to capture meandering dinner party conversations and electric late-night sessions in the Bunker. In these moments, Bockris captures Burroughs's desires, anxieties, and thoughts on writing, photography, punk rock, and more.

(First published in 1998) A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what was once only familiar. Crumb has illustrated the text with 12 full-page drawings and a portrait of Bukowski.

(First published in 1989) Hollywood is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences writing the screenplay for the film Barfly and taking part in its tumultuous journey to the silver screen. It is narrated in the first person.

This commemorative tenth anniversary issue of the pioneering series of Beat Generation anthologies, edited & published by Arthur (1937-2012) & Kit Knight, features letters, drawings, prose & poems spanning the beginnings of the Beats through the end of the 1970s, when most of the original figures were still quite in their prime: Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen & more are represented.

This volume contains extracts from the following books: Naked Lunch (1959), Soft Machine (1962), The Ticket That Exploded (1962), Nova Express (1965), Wild Boys (1969), Exterminator (1973), Third Mind (1979) and Cities Of The Red Night (1981). There is a lengthy introduction by John Calder and an introduction to each of the aforementioned chapters.

(First published in 1973) Originally released in 1973, Living at the Movies marked Jim Carroll’s first publication above ground. Written before the age of twenty-two, these poems carry a striking precision and intensity. Echoing Arthur Rimbaud and the New York School, Carroll turns the textures of city life into something volatile and lyrical. Love, friendship, drugs, and the city itself move through a language that is delicate, hallucinatory, and quietly menacing—where dream and reality hold the same weight. A sharp, restless debut from an artist finding his voice.

(First published in 1973) An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another.

Published to coincide with a joint Daido Moriyama + William Klein photo retrospective at the Tate Modern art gallery in London (although not directly related to that exhibition), this is the first time Tales of Tono has appeared in an English edition. It was originally released in Japan in the 1970s following a trip to the town of Tono by famed Japanese photographer Moriyama.

In 1989 Corso published Mindfield, which included along with several of his best-known poems 23 not previously published. His poetry, often lyrical and aphoristic, is notable for its directness and for its startling imagery. Corso also wrote plays and a novel. This publication includes forewords by two Beat writers, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

(First published in 1995) My Education: A Book of Dreams is the final novel by William S. Burroughs to be published before his death in 1997. It is a collection of dreams, taken from various decades, along with a few comments about the war on drugs and paragraphs created with the cut-up technique. The book is dedicated to Michael Emerton (January 18, 1966 - November 4, 1992).

(First published in 1959) Maggie Cassidy is a largely autobiographical work about Kerouac's early life in Lowell, Massachusetts, from 1938 to 1939, and chronicles his real-life relationship with his teenage sweetheart Mary Carney. It is unique for Kerouac for its high school setting and teenage characters. He wrote the novel in 1953 but it was not published until 1959, after the success of On the Road (1957).

(Erstmals erschienen 1982) Neben Aufnahmen des Photographen Roy Schatt - darunter seine weltberühmt gewordenen Porträtserien - enthält dieses Band auch Photographien, die James Dean selbst machte, als er sich kurz vor seinem Tod von Roy Schatt das Photographieren beibringen liess. Beide, der prominente Schüler und der professionelle Lehrer, beobachteten sich gegenseitig mit der Kamera bei ihren Streifzügen durch New York, bei Treffen mit Freunden und auf Theaterproben. So entstanden Photoserien von aussergewöhnlicher Unmittelbarkeit und Spontaneität, die viel über den privaten James Dean erzählen, über seinen Umgang mit Freunden, Fremden und sich selbst.

The Essential Ginsberg collects a mosaic of materials that displays the full range of Ginsberg’s mental landscape. His most important poems, songs, essays, letters, journals, and interviews are displayed in chronological order. His poetic masterpieces, “Howl” and “Kaddish,” are presented here along with lesser-known and difficult to find songs and prose. Personal correspondence with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is included as well as photographs—shot and captioned by Ginsberg himself—of his friends and fellow rogues William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and more.

(First published in 1976) William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-person show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with colour photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a body of photographs that could have been but definitely weren't some average person's Instamatic pictures from the family album.

(First published in 1960) Lonesome Traveler is a non-fiction collection of short essays and sketches by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, published in 1960. It is a compilation of Kerouac's journal entries about traveling the United States, Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and France, and covers similar issues to his novels, such as relationships, various jobs, and the nature of his life on the road. Some of the stories originally appeared as magazine articles.

Documenting presentations of a symposium held at Dia on the work of Andy Warhol, these essays focus on the engagement of his personality and life with the artworks themselves. Contributions by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Rainer Crone, Trevor Fairbrother, Nan Rosenthal, Charles F. Stuckey, and Simon Watney

Lists works in the collection through June 30, 1973. Introduction by Baur, followed by the plates, followed by a catalogue arranged alphabetically by artist and sculptor. Photography by the Museum's photographer, Geoffrey Clements, and Rudolph Burckhardt, Peter A. Juley, O. E. Nelson, Soichi Sunami and Hannah Wilke.

Published in 1977, this volume includes work by seventy-three young British photographers either studying at or recently graduated from British colleges. In many images, the influence of American photography is strongly felt, while in others the pictures seem more closely tied to British and European styles and genres.

Early in 1973 the Arts Council initiated a grants scheme which aimed to provide financial support for photographers who wished to devote their time more or less exclusively for a period to non-commercial projects or assignments of their own choosing. Photographs by eight British artists: Homer Sykes ("Calendar Customs"), Claire Schwob ("Women, who are we?"), John Myers ("Middle England"), Daniel Meadows ("The Free Photographic Omnibus"), Bryn Campbell ("A Village School"), Boslyn Banish ("Family Portraits from Pimlico"), Ian Dobbie ("Westway Project"), and Paul Carter ("Photography in Community Development").

This book presents a personal body of work from Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson, who has earned international acclaim for his documentary work from conflict zones all over the world. Following the birth of his son he stepped away from war photography and his photographs turned towards an intimate reflection: "These photographs are an organic response to an experience that is at the same time the most unique and the most universal of experiences: the birth of a child. (…)

This book provides an overview of the works Zielony produced between 2000 and 2008: pictures taken in Knowle West in Bristol, of public housing in Halle-Neustadt, of the Quartiers Nord in Marseille, and in South Los Angeles. In his most recent work—photos taken in Winnipeg, Canada—Zielony portrays street and prison gangs with Native American roots, such as the Indian Posse and the Native Syndicate.

(First published in 1998) The Nature of Photographs is a primer of how to look at and understand photographs, by Stephen Shore. In this book, Shore explores ways of understanding photographs from all periods and all types - from iconic images to found photographs, from negatives to digital files.

Katalog herausgegeben von Toni Stooss anlässlich der Ausstellung „Stiller Nachmittag“ – Aspekte Junger Schweizer Kunst im Kunsthaus Zürich vom 11. September bis 1. November 1987.

The year 2000 marked issue 200 and year 20 for i-D magazine. As founder and editor-in-chief Terry Jones writes, "A cross between a menu and a diary, Smile i-D maps the magazine's journey beyond the veneer of regular fashion." Now that most of us consider i-D a household name, it's interesting to be reminded that in 1980, street fashion was a nascent concept. Finding music and street culture more interesting than the traditional fashion world, Terry Jones abandoned his post as Art Director at British Vogue in 1977 to embark on a journey that has revolutionised not only the world of fashion magazines, but arguably fashion itself.

(First published in 2012) This book, designed and selected by Klein himself, is a visual history of his long and varied career. Including iconic images, painted contact sheets, magazine covers and previously unseen images, the book is arranged chronologically from the 1950s through to the present. The seminal photo-books of the 1950s and 1960s are represented by their graphical jackets and spreads. Fashion photographs in both black and white and colour, range from moody portraits to filmic, surreal tableaux, revealing Klein’s revolutionary impact on the genre.

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'. Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965–1971 is a collection of poetry by Allen Ginsberg, published by City Lights Bookstore in 1973, for which Ginsberg shared the annual U.S. National Book Award for Poetry. It is characterized by a prophetic tone inspired by William Blake and Walt Whitman, as well as an objective view characterized by William Carlos Williams. The content is more overtly political than most of his previous poetry with many of the poems about Ginsberg's condemnation of America's actions in Vietnam. Current events such as the Moon Landing and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the death of Che Guevara, and personal events such as the death of Ginsberg's friend and former lover Neal Cassady are also topics. Many of the poems were initially composed on an Uher Tape recorder, purchased by Ginsberg with the help of Bob Dylan.

Zwischen Mitternacht und Morgen ist ein Traumtagebuch von William S. Burroughs, das 1980 im Sphinx-Verlag in Basel (Sphinx pocket #5) erschien. Es enthält Burroughs’ "Retreat Diaries" (auf Deutsch: "Traumtagebuch mit dem Traum von Tibet"). Das Werk ist Teil der Literatur der Beat-Generation und wurde in der Schweiz publiziert.

Carefully edited from more than 1000 of his personal correspondences, Rub Out the Words is a collection of 300 of the best letters of Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, written between 1959 and 1974. A truly remarkable compendium, it offers an eye-opening and insightful look into the artistic process and complex personal life of the legendary literary outlaw in the post-Beat era, providing a new understanding and appreciation of an author who stood alongside Paul Bowles and Charles Bukowski as one of the most creative and rebellious American artists of the 20th century.

Francis Davis's The History of the Blues is a groundbreaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mississippi Delta to its amplification in Chicago right after World War II, Davis argues for an examination of the blues in its own right, not just as a precursor to jazz and rock 'n' roll. The lives of major figures such as Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, and Leadbelly, in addition to contemporary artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Cray, are examined and skillfully woven into a riveting, provocative narrative.

(First published in 1982) Martin Parr's Bad Weather is the debut book from Britain's most world-renown and prolific photographers. Armed with wry humor (and a water-proof camera), Parr captured the social landscape of the UK during downpours, snow storms and the most challenging elements. Published in 1982, Bad Weather has been long out of print and is one of Parr's most sought after books. Books on Books # 17 offers an in-depth study of this important photobook including a new essay by Thomas Weski called Even the Queen Gets Wet.

Bruce Davidson's groundbreaking Subway, first published by Aperture in 1986, has garnered critical acclaim both as a documentation of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City and for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin. In Davidson's own words, “the people in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks and closed off from each other.”

(First published in 1989) Interzone is a collection of short stories and other early works by William S. Burroughs from 1953 to 1958. The collection was first published by Viking Penguin in 1989, although several of the stories had already been printed elsewhere, including an earlier publication titled Early Routines.

(Erstmals 1945 auf Französisch erschienen) Der französische Publizist Maurice Nadeau zeichnet in diesem schon klassischen Buch die Geschichte der surrealistischen Bewegung zwischen den Weltkriegen auf und weist nach, woran und warum sie letztendlich scheiterte - auch wenn surrealistisches Denken, das Wirkliche tiefer zu ergründen, zeitlos ist.

Selections from writings of the younger generation that have aroused controversy; includes Jack Kerouac, John Osborne, Colin Wilson, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Solomon, & others. Contains poetry, drama, essays, short stories & excerpts from novels. Also includes biographical notes of the authors. Edited by Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg.

In this original discussion of Burroughs' work, Eric Mottram highlights his subject's intensely contemporary morality and his predominating concern for the erosion of individual choice. Burroughs' consistent social aim is to achieve freedom from mythology and to restore the individual's enjoyment of privacy and dignity. Eric Mottram demonstrates how Burroughs' inspired use of science fiction and dark humour illustrate society's multitudinous addictional dependencies - ranging from God to heroin, television to the Queen.

(First published in 2014) Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original.

(First published in 1959) The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.

(First published in 2008) And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. It was written in 1945, a full decade before the two authors became famous as leading figures of the Beat Generation, and remained unpublished in complete form until 2008.

Brecht hat sich nicht nur mit literarischen Traditionen beschäftigt, um sie für seine Arbeit zu nutzen, sondern sich auch für ›nicht-literarische‹ Bereiche interessiert. Der vorliegende Band versammelt seine Äusserungen (darunter auch bisher weitgehend unbekannte bzw. unveröffentlichte) über bildende Kunst, Plastik, Architektur usw. und verdeutlicht durch die Wiedergabe der entsprechenden Passagen, wie Brecht dies in seinen Werken umgesetzt hat.

(First published in 1953) Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, or Junky, is a 1953 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs. The book follows "William Lee" as he struggles with his addiction to morphine and heroin.

(First published in 1957) On the Road is a 1957 novel by American author Jack Kerouac, inspired by his travels across the United States. It is widely regarded as a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation, following a group of friends living for the moment against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and rebellion.

Die Fotografie und ihre fast zweihundertjährige Geschichte rücken zunehmend in den Blickpunkt der unterschiedlichsten Wissenschafts- und Theoriefelder. Verantwortlich dafür ist ihr vielschichtiger Charakter als bilderzeugendes, technisches Medium und ihr Eingreifen in die Kultur-, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften wie auch in die Kommunikationsstruktur. Zu sechs, für die Debatte relevanten Themenkomplexen – Realität, Indexikalität, Kunst, Wahrnehmung, Gesellschaft, digitales Zeitalter – versammelt der Band über 25 Textauszüge aus den letzten 160 Jahren von Stimmen aus Kulturwissenschaft, Geschichte, Soziologie, Philosophie, Literatur, Kunst, Fotografie und Journalismus, die die sich wandelnden Sichtweisen der unterschiedlichen Disziplinen verdeutlichen.

Von den Anfängen der Daguerreotypie bis hin zur zeitgenössischen Kunstfotografie: Dieser Band ermöglicht einen Ritt durch die bald 200-jährige Geschichte dieses Mediums. Auf jeweils einer Doppelseite werden über 150 Meisterwerke der Fotografie in Bild und Text präsentiert: ein kleines Kompendium der Fotografiegeschichte mit Einleitung und Bibliographie.

From Black and White to Color includes some exceptional as-yet-unpublished photographs, and displays the evolution, ruptures and above all the radicalness of Eggleston's work when he began photographing in color at the end of the 1960s. Here we discover similar obsessions and recurrent themes as present in his early black-and-white work including ceilings, food, and scenes of waiting, as well as Eggleston's unconventional croppings-all definitive traits of the photographer who famously proclaimed, "I am at war with the obvious."

(First published in 1977) On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by American writer Susan Sontag. The book originated from a series of essays Sontag published in The New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In On Photography, Sontag examines the history and contemporary role of photography in society. She contrasts the work of Diane Arbus with Depression-era documentary photography and explores the evolution of American photography from Walt Whitman's idealistic notions to the cynicism of the 1970s.

In 1981, Robert Adams published Beauty in Photography, arguing that art should not be confused with decoration or investment, but instead affirms meaning and sustains an affection for life. Why People Photograph collects essays written since then. While addressing varied subjects, Adams continues to challenge the idea that art is trivial or that artists are separate from the world. His clear, jargon-free writing reflects on everyday experience, from earning a living to photographing dogs, and expresses a firm belief that art matters.

Von der einfachen Schwarzweiß-Vergrößerung über die Möglichkeiten der Fotografik bis zur Herstellung individueller Farbvergrößerungen nach Dias soll die "Positivtechnik" ein Rezept- und Nachschlagebuch für den Amateur, den fotografisch Auszubildenden und den sich orientierenden Profi sein. Die Arbeitsanleitungen sind auch ohne große fotografische Vorkenntnisse direkt anwendbar.

Henri Cartier-Bresson's writings on photography and photographers have been published sporadically over the past 45 years. His essays—several of which have never before been translated into English—are collected here for the first time. The Mind's Eye features Cartier-Bresson's famous text on "the decisive moment" as well as his observations on Moscow, Cuba and China during turbulent times.

Ein farbphotographisches Essay von Erwin Fieger. Mit einem einführenden Text von Peter Grubbe

(First published in 2001) Combining Erwitt’s most famous images of instantly recognisable figures, and his extraordinary gift for recognising the eccentricities of the ordinary, Snaps comes complete with introductions from Erwitt’s close friends Charles Flowers and Murray Sayle, in a personal collection of work.

Allgemeiner Teil: Grundlagen und Eigenschaften der Filme. Die Filmwahl. Moderne Technologien. Die Schichtaufbauten. Aufnahmeformate und Filmkonfektionierungen. Der Filmmarkt. Datenteil: Aufnahmematerialien. Farbnegativfilme. Farbdiafilme. Schwarzweiß-Negativfilme. Spezialfilme. Dokumentenfilme. Schwarzweißumkehrfilme. Hochkontrastfilme. Infrarotfilme. Farbdia-Spezialfilme. Sofortbildfilme. Farbkopierfilme. Internegativfilme. Displayfilme. Duplikatfilme. Overheadfilme. Praxisteil: Licht und Filter. Belichtungstabellen. Reziprozitätsfehler. Lichtquellen und Korrekturfilter. Die Verarbeitung. Die Farbfilm-Prozesse. Push- und Pull.Prozesse. Filmtestung. Lagerung. Röntgenkontrolle. Filmarchivierung.

(First published in 1986) A complete photography course in one superbly illustrated volume, with techniques for beginners and professionals alike from the world's leading experts at Kodak. Over 1,000 full-color and black-and-white photographs.

(First published in 1950) The Print--the third volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques--has taught generations of photographers how to explore the artistic possibilities of printmaking.

(First published in 1948) The Negative--the second volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques--has taught generations of photographers how to use film and the film development process creatively. Examples of Adams' own work clarify the principles discussed. This classic handbook distills the knowledge gained through a lifetime in photography and remains as vital today as when it was first published.

(First published in 1980) The Camera, together with The Negative and The Print, comprise The Ansel Adams Photography Series of books about photographic technique that has become the most influential "how-to"series on photography ever written.

Dieses Band begleitet die erste grosse Ausstellung, die die 2002 in Paris gegründete Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson aus ihren eigenen reichen Beständen zusammenstellte. Es enthält 96 Portraits aus den Jahren 1931 bis 1999.

The Americans is a photographic book by Robert Frank which was highly influential in post-war American photography. It was first published in France in 1958, and the following year in the United States. The photographs were notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society.

Early in 1973 the Arts Council initiated a grants scheme which aimed to provide financial support for photographers who wished to devote their time more or less exclusively for a period to non-commercial projects or assignments of their own choosing. Many of the photographers who received Awards have completed these projects.

Funny and smart, Martin Parr's photos of sunbathers worldwide, juxtaposed with beach fabrics of his choice, make a book every beachgoer will identify with, with a chuckle. German edition.

In 1975, fresh out of art school, Martin Parr moved to the picturesque Yorkshire Pennine mill town of Hebden Bridge. Over a period of five years, he documented the town in photographs, showing in particular the aspects of traditional life that were beginning to decline. Susan Mitchell, whom he had met in Manchester and later married, joined Parr in documenting a year in the life of a small Methodist chapel, together with its farming community.

In the late 1950s Eggleston began photographing suburban Memphis using high-speed 35 mm black and white film, developing the style and motifs that would come to shape his pivotal colour work including diners, supermarkets, domestic interiors and people engaged in seemingly trivial and banal situations. Now, fifty years later, all the plates in Before Color have been scanned from vintage prints developed by Eggleston in his own darkroom.

Based on a series of conversations between Hockney and the art critic Martin Gayford, this book distills the essence of the artist’s lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. How does drawing make one “see things clearer and clearer and clearer still”? What significance do differing media, from a Lascaux cave wall to an iPad, have for the images we see? What is the relationship between the images we make and the reality around us? And how can we fully enjoy the pleasures of just looking―at trees, or faces, or sunrises?

(First published in 1985) Tammas is 20, a loner and a compulsive gambler. Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, home with his sister and brother-in-law, the dog track, betting shops, casinos and occasionally a day at the races. Sometimes Tammas wins, more often he loses, but betting gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he really seeks from life since society offers him no prospect of a better or more fulfilling alternative.

(First published in 1985) Andy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went and, taken from ten years of extraordinary shots, his America aspires to the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself. Exploring his greatest obsessions - including image and celebrity - he photographs wrestlers and politicians, the beautiful wealthy and the disenfranchised poor, Capote with the fresh scars of a facelift and Madonna hiding beneath a brunette bob. He writes about the country he loves, wishing he had died when he was shot, commercialism, fame and beauty.

(First published in 1961) Against Interpretation and Other Essays is a 1966 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "Notes on 'Camp'", "On Style" and the eponymous essay "Against Interpretation." In the latter, Sontag argues that the new approach to criticism and aesthetics neglects the sensuous impact and novelty of art, instead fitting works into predetermined intellectual interpretations and emphasis on the "content" or "meaning" of a work.

(Originally published in 2014) When people think of contemporary art they often think of the market: eye-popping prices for splashy works. But Sarah Thornton argues that, for artists, the key marker of success isn’t money but credibility. 33 Artists in 3 Acts explores the strategies deployed by artists from international superstars to unheralded teachers. Thornton challenges the romantic vision of the lone artist, showing how these driven, inventive personalities interact with professional and intellectual networks of supporters, collaborators, and assistants. Drawing from interviews with 130 artists on four continents, Thornton crafts a brilliantly structured narrative that reveals the dynamics of creative lives.

(Originally published in 2008) Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton's shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us behind the scenes of the art world, from art school to auction house, showing us how it works, and giving us a vivid sense of being there.

(Originally published in 1984) John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting and transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.

Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money he spent each day, down to the cent. With appearances from and references to everyone who was anyone, from Jim Morrison, Martina Navratilova and Calvin Klein to Shirley Bassey, Estee Lauder and Muhammad Ali, these diaries are the most glamorous, witty and revealing writings of the twentieth century. Edited with an Introduction by Pat Hackett

Cover by Alex Katz; 24-page illustrated insert, "Hotel Firbank Archive" by Max Blagg and Ken Tisa (outside of the pagination). Contributors include Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Lally, Alice Notely, Frank O'Hara, Bob Perelman, and Terence Winch, among others.

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) is an anthology of cyberpunk short stories, edited by American writer Bruce Sterling.

From the twenties through the forties, Kansas City was the jazz city. Lester Young, Jack Teagarden, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Charlie Christian, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Parker are just a few of the jazz luminaries discussed in Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest, the essential account of the evolution of the Kansas City style from its ragtime roots to the birth of bebop.

The Fire Next Time is a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin, containing two essays: "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind".

Blue Note Records: The Biography (originally published in 2001) chronicles the life of the most famous and influential jazz label of them all. Here is the detailed history of the label from the beginning days in 1939 when two German immigrants, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, began recording and releasing the hot jazz that they loved. It s all here, from the development, to the rise, fall and rebirth. From Sidney Bechet to Norah Jones, Richard Cook examines life behind the scenes and a parallel analysis of all the major records released throughout Blue Note s history.

Vers une architecture is a 1923 collection of essays written by French architect Le Corbusier advocating for the tenets of modern architecture. It dismissed eclecticism and Gothic architecture as mere stylistic experiments, instead advocating for fundamentally changing how humans interacted with buildings.

This book is a facsimile edition of the 1990 book Sound by Artists, which was produced as part of Art Metropole’s “…by Artists” series and was co-published by Walter Phillips Gallery. This book contains 35 essays and projects as well as a 21-page “listening list” of sound recordings by artists. Please note that this facsimile edition does not contain the Christian Marclay flexi-disk and does not have actual raised Braille on the cover.

The Story of Music is a work of nonfiction by English composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall, first published in 2013 by Chatto & Windus, which covers the history of largely Western classical music from pre-history to 2012. The book is associated with the 2013 BBC2 documentary series Howard Goodall's Story of Music.

Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops, benches, hands, roads, signs—award-winning writer Geoff Dyer seeks to identify their signature styles. In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers—many of whom never met—constantly encounter one another. The result is a kaleidoscopic work of extraordinary originality and insight.

Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital is a 2013 book by the British music journalist and author Lloyd Bradley. The book features contributions by Eddy Grant, Osibisa, Russell Henderson, Dizzee Rascal and Trevor Nelson, with an introduction by Soul2Soul's Jazzie B.

"Books v. Cigarettes" is an essay published in 1946 by the English author George Orwell. It compares the costs of reading to other forms of recreation including tobacco smoking.

GB84 is a 2004 novel by David Peace, set in the United Kingdom during the 1984-85 miners' strike.

The Beatles: The Authorised Biography is a book written by the British author Hunter Davies and published by Heinemann in the UK in September 1968. It was written with the full cooperation of the Beatles and chronicles the band's career up until early 1968, two years before their break-up.

Featuring the entirety of Oscar Wilde’s dramatic works, this collection demonstrates the author’s wide range, unerring wit, and unique perspective. Originally published in 1914, it offers a comprehensive overview of Wilde’s contribution to modern drama.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the second book and first novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916.

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, written from 1904 to 1907. First published in 1914, Dubliners presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early twentieth century.

Few novelists have written so intimately of a city as Charles Dickens wrote of London, England. In the first half of this book, Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens's London scenes as they feature in his novels. Outside London, Kent meant more to Dickens than any other part of Britain.

A Kestrel for a Knave is a novel by English author Barry Hines, published in 1968. Set in Barnsley England, the book follows Billy Casper, a young working-class boy troubled at home and at school, who finds and trains a kestrel whom he names "Kes".

Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by British author Nick Hornby. The book is the basis for two films: Fever Pitch and Fever Pitch. The first edition was subtitled "A Fan's Life", but later paperback editions were not.