(First published in 1974) The open American West is nearly gone. The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it—freeways, tract homes, low-rise business buildings and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole suburban Southwest.

The founding theme of Blue is human contact with water. Most of the photos show the spot where water touches land, where elements meet, the beginning and end, the line of the waves on the beach, the shoreline, the rocks. Niewiadomski began shooting Blue in 2003 and has continued to enrich it with new pieces, shooting slowly and in various places without a desire to spotlight any given location.

(First published in 1978) Part amateur photo-album, Ghirri presents his surroundings in tightly cropped images, making photographs of photographs and recording the Italian landscape through its adverts, postcards, potted plants, walls, windows, and people. His work is deadpan, reflecting a dry wit, and is a continuous engagement with the subject of reality and of landscape as a snapshot of our interaction with the world. This new edition of Kodachrome is published as a facsimile of the original, adopting the original design, text layout and image sequence, but using new image files scanned from Ghirri’s original film to take advantage of modern technology and printing methods.

Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of color in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. The Canadian photographer worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film for over 50 years, and only in the past decade has technology allowed him to make archival pigment prints that match the exceptional color and intensity of the Kodachrome slide. In this respect, his photographs can be seen as a pre-figuration of the New Color photographers of the seventies.

In 2012 Wessel assembled Incidents, a book of 27 previously unpublished photographs. Decisive and succinct, each incident is laid down with the aesthetic immediacy of a snapshot, recalling Garry Winogrand’s quote that “there is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.”

In August 1992 Robert Frank's good friend Reginald Rankin invited Frank on a trip to Pangnirtung, a village of around 1,300 Inuit inhabitants in the Arctic Circle. This book is Frank's documentation of the five-day sojourn. Curiously Frank depicts Pangnirtung void of its people: the still harbour, public housing, a convenience store, a telephone post. Sincere without being sentimental, the photos are shaped by a short text from Frank himself, "Prefabricated homes along the main road in Pangnirtung. At times a decorated window - reflections inside or outside. Stones - maybe the balance of a big sky above…"

This new book features some 80 of Simon Phipps's photographs of buildings in all parts of England completed between the 1950s until the 1980s. They create a confrontation of buildings and architectural fragments, evoking a distinct atmosphere of brutalism. An essay contextualises brutalism in architecture from a British perspective and considers Phipps' contribution to its reception. An illustrated catalogue of featured buildings provides full details of each item, making the book also a handy travel guide for architecture lovers and professionals. This book accompanies the exhibition Finding Brutalism, at the Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland, 26 August to 5 November 2017.

BERLIN - CITY IN SPACE is the second photo-guidebook of a series. It portrays exceptional interior design and visionary architecture from 1950 to 1984 in Berlin - the period when the German metropolis was divided. The photo-book captures 82 postwar buildings on over 200 photographs. The content is arranged thematically: cinemas, cultural buildings,housing development, shops, restaurants and bars, public pools, public buildings, metro stations and one chapter is exclusively dedicated to the "Raumerweiterungshalle" constructed by VEB Metallbau from Boizernburg and the "Futuro", developed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. The photographer is Tobias Madörin.

(Erstmals 1985 erschienen) Auf 256 Seiten erklärt der Autor die Geschichte der Leica M. Er beschreibt die Funktion des Entfernungsmessers, des Leuchtrahmensuchers, der Leica M-Objektive …und des M-Zubehörs.

(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.

(Erstmals 1970/1978 erschienen) „Ein amerikanisches Gebet“ (engl. An American Prayer) ist ein episches Langgedicht von Jim Morrison, das postum als Album vertont wurde. Es behandelt Themen wie Spiritualität der amerikanischen Ureinwohner, psychedelische Erfahrungen, Gesellschaftskritik und den Verlust der amerikanischen Unschuld.

Photographer Stephen Shores extensive travels across the United States, document the banal scenes and objects he encounters along the way. This series was made on a single day in 2013, when Shore revisited a small Arizona town he had first seen in 1972. As part of Doug Aitkens Station to Station project, in which invited artists, writers, performers and filmmakers rode a train from New York to California, stopping at various points to stage happenings, Shore decided to photograph Winslow and make a slideshow at the next stop; a visual improvisation. His portrait of the sun-baked town is bleak, with boarded-up buildings, abandoned objects and lifeless streets.

Der erste deutsche Fotoroman und Schweizer Fotograf Walter Pfeiffer spielt die Rolle von Walter Wiskas.

M Train is Smith's second memoir, following the 2010 National Book Award-winning Just Kids. While Just Kids recounts Smith's early life, the beginning of her career and particularly her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, M Train focuses on a later portion of her life, the period since the release of her debut album Horses in 1975. The memoir particularly recounts the personal losses that marked the forty-year span between Horses and M Train, including the deaths of Mapplethorpe in 1989, of AIDS; Smith's husband, guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, in 1994 at 45, of heart failure; and Smith's brother Todd a month later, of a stroke.

(First published in 2010) Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. "I didn't write it to be cathartic," she noted. "I wrote it because Robert asked me to… Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved. So that was my agenda for writing that book. I wrote it to fulfill my vow to him, which was on his deathbed. In finishing, I did feel that I'd fulfilled my promise."

Yet another volume in his series of visual diaries, "Was haben wir gesehen / What we have seen" is all about people and places in the long and very convivial life of Robert Frank. Auspiciously opening and closing with the zoom on the dial of a clock tower, serving as a reminder of the silent but constant passage of time, the book is heavy with memories and pictures of old photographs. Like a leitmotif carrying us through the images, the word “souvenir” pops up under a magnifying glass positioned on a French text as a reading device. Frank’s house in Mabou is once again portrayed as a popular hideaway for people like Jack Kerouac, Gerhard Steidl, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and his family members.

Leaves of Life collects poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s intimate figure drawings—gestural meditations on form and freedom. Published by City Lights in 1977, it merges Beat sensibility with classical study. It embodies Aesthetics, through its spare lines and lyric restraint, and Alchemy, transforming observation into revelation. Within the Black Imagination, it echoes the artist’s longing to see and be seen beyond boundary—a communion between body and spirit.

In Paris, in May of 1968, revolution, and love are very much in the air. The barricades are going up, the students of the Sorbonne are taking to streets alive with the graffiti of revolt, and the Odeon is ablaze with speechmaking. For Annie, a young American painter, and Julian, her Portuguese lover, a banker and anarchist, the events of that Paris spring form the backdrop against which their love affair is played.

In Art Can Help, the American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that “encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence.”

A collection Robert Adams’s correspondence and conversations—some of which have never been published before—with writers and curators including William McEwan, Constance Sullivan, and Thomas Weski.

(Erstmals 2011 erschienen) Dieser Band vereint erstmals die beiden einflussreichsten Texte François Laruelles zur Fotografie. In 'Non-Fotografie' gelingt es Laruelle, die Fotografie - und ihr Verhältnis zur Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Kunst - auf rigorose Weise neu zu denken. En passant führt er den Leser*innen dabei in alle wesentlichen Begriffe seiner 'Non-Philosophie' ein. Fotografien stellen die tausend abgeflachten Facetten einer unfassbaren Identität dar, die ihren Glanz - manchmal nur sehr matt - etwas anderem verdankt.

Spanning nearly 35 years, Sex & Violence, Death & Silence is a collection of the best of Gordon Burn's writing on art. Focusing on two principle generations - the Royal College pop art of Hockney and his contemporaries, and the YBA sensations of the 1990s - it explores how these artists rose to prominence with their friends and contemporaries, and what happened next.

The book is about the intellectual procedure to achieve Carlos Amorales’ film The Man Who Did All Things Forbidden. It is structured in eight chapters. They include drawn sketches, emails, conversations during the rehearsals, the Ideological Cubism manifesto and documents on interventions in mass media.

Storytelling and the use of color and black and white, staged and candid approaches, and personal and political issues are just a few of the many arguments that the American photographer Alec Soth discusses with critic Francesco Zanot, resulting in a combination of words and images that constitutes both a complex examination of Alec Soth's work and a manual on that reading of photography itself.

(First published in 1959) The Duke Ellington book, part of the Kings of Jazz series (Volume 1), was written by British jazz critic and author G.E. Lambert and first published in 1959 by Cassell & Co. This 88-page overview explores Ellington's life, music, and compositions. The slim volume is organised into key sections focusing on a biographical sketch of Ellington, an analysis of his musical style and major works, and a selected discography.

Inspired by the legacy left behind by Charlie Parker, These Jazzmen of Our Time, published in 1959 explores essays on sixteen influential jazz musicians of the 1950s and how their specific style of music has influenced the jazz genre as a whole. Through interviews with the musicians themselves, in-depth research into the contemporary history of jazz music, and a journalistic approach to discovering the driving forces behind the music of the era, this book is a fascinating look at the people who made jazz so popular in the mid-20th century. Each chapter represents a different musician and is written by a series of different industry critics, experts, and/or authors.

(Erstmals 1974 erschienen) Mit diesem Band begann der sensationelle Erfolg Bukowskis in Deutschland. 1973 konnten die grossen Verlage mit dieser Art Lyrik nichts anfangen. "Lieber ein Buch in einem kleinen Verlag als gar kein Buch", schrieb Bukowskis Freund und Übersetzer. Mit geliehenem Geld und auf geschnorrtem Papier wurde die erste Auflage gedruckt.

(First published in 1960) "To all those who have for several years sought to discredit the new American literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has just dealt a most powerful blow," wrote French critic Pierre Lepape in 1961 when Her was published in France as La Quatrième Personne du Singulier. Calling it "a masterpiece of the young American novel," Lepape declared it was "the confirmation of a great American writer who, in the hall of American literary glories, takes the place left vacant by the death of Hemingway." Lepape went on to speak of the "incredible verbal virtuosity" by which the reader is led through this "laby-reve," and it is this image of the "labyrinth-dream" which relates Her to the anti-novels of the young French school of Robbe-Grillet and Butor.

For over thirty years, celebrated Swedish artist Dawid has been making series of photographically based artworks examining the nature of the medium and exploring issues of perception. He began taking photographs in the late sixties, documenting incongruous moments with a wry sense of humor, until he established his signature style of stark graphic illustration, initiated with the seminal Rost series. His recent work has utilised the possibilities of digitalisation, and this book elaborates the vision of an image-maker whose life's work reflects, criticizes, and parallels the checkered history and changing status of photography.

Lotus Park is a 1987 photobook by the French photographer Claude Nori. It tells the story of three men in a red Alfa-Romeo convertible who embark on a nostalgic journey to rediscover the "Lotus Park" of their youth, ultimately exploring themes of childhood, adolescence, and the passage of time. The 77-page "cahier d'images" (notebook of images) captures a poetic blend of nostalgia and imagination through black and white photography.

The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter’s early black and white photographs stems from his profound response to the dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s. While this technique borrowed aspects of the photodocumentary, Leiter’s imagery was more shaped by his highly individual reactions to the people and places he encountered. Like a Magic Realist with a camera, Leiter absorbed the mystery of the city and poignant human experiences.

Ed Ruscha’s self-published artist book presents stills from an amusing film based on Mason Williams’ essay How To Derive The Maximum Enjoyment from Eating Crackers in Bed, which reads as a set of instructions for a man and his dinner date. In Ruscha’s iteration, actors follow Mason’s script. A man makes a giant salad on a hotel room bed, complete with vinegar and oil, and invites a woman over for a dinner date, encouraging her to climb into the prepared salad. In a final act twist, the man leaves her to fetch a bag of Saltines so that he may eat alone in a nicer hotel suite elsewhere.

Exterminator! is a short story collection written by William S. Burroughs and first published in 1973. Early editions label the book a novel. It is not to be confused with The Exterminator, another collection of stories Burroughs published in 1960 in collaboration with Brion Gysin.

(First published in 1963) The Yage Letters, first published in 1963, is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. It was issued by City Lights Books.

In Paris, in May of 1968, revolution, and love are very much in the air. The barricades are going up, the students of the Sorbonne are taking to streets alive with the graffiti of revolt, and the Odeon is ablaze with speechmaking. For Annie, a young American painter, and Julian, her Portuguese lover, a banker and anarchist, the events of that Paris spring form the backdrop against which their love affair is played.

(First published in 1960) It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature. One of these is the revival of pure poetry whenever an "original"--be it Rimbaud or Whitman--has broken with current verse conventions to give free rein to the magic of language. Another is that ancient pre-occupation of poets--the sense of the immediacy of death. Like Villon or Dylan Thomas, Corso lives close to the mystery of death.

(First published in 1967) The Secret Meaning of Things has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above all a classical claritas. But it goes much further: there is a deepening of vision and a darker understanding of "our clay condition." The six long poems in The Secret Meaning of Things show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends both the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena.

It is poems such as these, among those of other poets roughly associated with the San Francisco school, which Pablo Neruda had in mind when he spoke with Ferlinghetti in Cuba of “your wide-open American poetry.” There is a wide-angle vision and a very great range in the different kinds and genres of poems––personal and lyric, satiric and meditative, public and political, spoken and sung––written over the past decade during the poet’s travels in the world and inside himself––a world seen in a semi-dark glass through which light nevertheless keeps breaking.

(First published in 1971) "The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead" is a novel by William S. Burroughs. It was first published in 1971 by Grove Press. It depicts a youth movement whose objective is the downfall of western civilisation, set in an apocalyptic late twentieth century.

Arthur and Kit knight compiled this collection from their Beat journal "the unspeakable visions of the individual". The book includes photographs by Fred W. McDarrah and interviews with Philip Whalen and John Clellon Holmes, memoirs by Carolyn Cassady, Edie Parker (Kerouac's first wife) and Herbert Huncke, letters from Kerouac and more.

(First published in 1978) Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz’s series of serene and contemplative color photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, quickly became one of the most influential and popular photography books in the latter part of the twentieth century at its publication in 1978, breaking new ground both for color photography and for the medium’s acceptance into the art world.

(First published in 1999) Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, photographer William Eggleston began taking pictures in the early 1960s after reading Henri Cartier-Bresson’s The Decisive Moment. After switching from black-and-white film to color film in 1966, he occasionally used a two and one quarter inch format for photographs. This collection of square snapshots from 1966 to 1971 invokes the intimate quality of Eggleston’s work, while maintaining the vibrance and skill that led Museum of Modern Art curator John Szarkowski to call him “the first color photographer.”

(First published in 2013) This is the catalogue for Ed Ruscha´s exhibition "Los Angeles Apartments" which was held at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2013. In 1965, Ed Ruscha published Some Los Angeles Apartments, the third of his ongoing series of photographic books, and completed a group of ten related drawings that depict examples of the ubiquitous Southern California apartment building. The exhibition showed the preparatory studies for these drawings which were recently acquired by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Kunstmuseum Basel. They are based directly on the photographs Ruscha made of the apartment buildings.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition with the same title at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. One of Moriyama Daidō’s most famous black-and-white photographs is of a stray dog, a bit wolfish, with matted hair, looking back into the camera watchfully, with a hint of aggression. He took the picture in 1971 in Misawa, home to a large US Air Force base, in the northeast of Japan. Moriyama has described this dog picture as a kind of self-portrait: "I wander around, glare at things, and bark from time to time…. Something there is close to how I look at things and to how I probably appear when I’m wandering. Having become a photographer, I always sensed that I have strayed."

A broad monograph devoted to one of the preeminent names in contemporary Japanese photography. Moriyama's photography is provocative, both for the form it takes (Moriyama's photographs may be dirty, blurry, overexposed or scratched) and for its content. The viewer's experience of the photo--whether it captures a place, a person, a situation or an atmosphere--is the central thrust in his work, which vividly and directly conveys the artist's emotions. The approximately 200 black-and-white images sketch out an original perspective on Japanese society, especially during the period from the 1950s to the '70s.

Originally shot on “one day in 1977,” Moriyama took photographs of the people waiting on the opposing platform at Shinjuku station and Yokohama station. In Moriyama’s skillful black-and-white photographs, the platforms become stages and the waiting passengers actors in an improvised play of choreographed poses and facial expressions.

Published by Akio Nagasawa, Daido Moriyama’s endless works n/s was published in conjunction with the exhibition (entitled with the same name) which was held at the Okinawa Prefectoral Museum and Art Gallery on the 23rd of March 2014. Consisting of two separate photo books, one showcasing images Moriyama took during the 1970s in Hokkaido and the latter in 2013 in Okinawa shot in color, the publication contains an in-depth and informative booklet which includes text by Susumo Asato curator of Okinawa Prefectoral Museum and Art Museum, Yoshikazu Shinzato, Simon Baker curator of Photography and International Art Tate, Akiko Otake, Atsuhiro Tamaki and photographer Naoki Ishikawa. All texts within the booklet are available in both Japanese and English.

Taiji Arita, Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Moriyama, Masatoshi Naito, Hajime Sawatari, Issei Suda, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Shuji Terayama, Katsumi Watanabe. "In the world of fine art photography, post-war Japanese photography is continuing to gather attention. Many Japanese photographers were active specifically during the large cultural and political development of the 70s as the country experienced rapid economic growth. At the time, new styles of expression with a strong focus on the individual viewpoint were beginning to develop, which were distinct to the social documentary photography prior to that. This also coincided with the development of photography within the fashion and advertising field, reflecting a period where the works of many unique photographers and styles began to grow. We have carefully selected 160 bodies of works by 9 prominent photographers of the time, each individually portraying the excitement and rapid growth which symbolised the era."

(First published in 1960) "To all those who have for several years sought to discredit the new American literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has just dealt a most powerful blow," wrote French critic Pierre Lepape in 1961 when Her was published in France as La Quatrième Personne du Singulier. Calling it "a masterpiece of the young American novel," Lepape declared it was "the confirmation of a great American writer who, in the hall of American literary glories, takes the place left vacant by the death of Hemingway." Lepape went on to speak of the "incredible verbal virtuosity" by which the reader is led through this "laby-reve," and it is this image of the "labyrinth-dream" which relates Her to the anti-novels of the young French school of Robbe-Grillet and Butor.

(First published in 1993) This volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll’s Living at the Movies, which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and The Book of Nods, released in 1986. Fear of Dreaming also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including “Curtis’s Charm,” a vignette set in New York City’s Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic tributes to Robert Mapplethorpe and Ted Berrigan.

(First published in 1962) Gregory Corso’s an aphoristic poet, and a poet of ideas. What modern poets write with such terse clarity that their verses stick in the mind without effort? — Allen Ginsberg. Gregory Corso (1930-2001) was abandoned by his mother a month after his birth at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York. Growing up in foster care and on the streets of Little Italy, Corso was a juvenile delinquent who spent time in Clinton Correctional Facility, in the cell recently vacated by gangster "Lucky" Luciano. An aspiring poet, Corso was taken under the wing of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and became the youngest member of the Beat Generation's inner circle, with whom he lived and work in the Beat Hotel, a lodging house in Paris, during the late fifties.

(First published in 1961) Starting from San Francisco is a collection of poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, his third collection and fourth book, published in 1961. The hardcover edition included a short vinyl recording of Ferlinghetti reading some of his poems. The title is a reference to Walt Whitman's "Starting from Paumanok": Ferlinghetti numbered himself among Whitman's "wild children", and Whitman's influence is shown throughout the work.

(First published in 1997) A sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind (written forty years after the original in what the author has called a poetry seizure that lasted more than a year), A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a sequence of one hundred and one related poems with recurrent themes. The author also thinks of it as a kind of caustic critique of modern poetry, including confrontations with or parodies of major figures in the literary avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation, notably Pound and Eliot, Beckett and Joyce.

(First published in 1960) "To all those who have for several years sought to discredit the new American literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has just dealt a most powerful blow," wrote French critic Pierre Lepape in 1961 when Her was published in France as La Quatrième Personne du Singulier. Calling it "a masterpiece of the young American novel," Lepape declared it was "the confirmation of a great American writer who, in the hall of American literary glories, takes the place left vacant by the death of Hemingway." Lepape went on to speak of the "incredible verbal virtuosity" by which the reader is led through this "laby-reve," and it is this image of the "labyrinth-dream" which relates Her to the anti-novels of the young French school of Robbe-Grillet and Butor.

ENDLESS LIFE: Selected Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti showcases the poet's commitment to political and social activism through his work. Ferlinghetti, who embodies the spirit of the Beat generation, emphasizes the importance of artistic integrity and the avoidance of complicity with government influences. The collection highlights his vision of a collective consciousness aimed at challenging societal norms and advocating for change through accessible, public poetry. Choosing his own best work from his eight previous books of poetry, beginning with "Pictures of the Gone World", Ferlinghetti also includes a long poem, "Endless Life", from a work in progress.

(First published in 1964) Nova Express is a 1964 novel by American author William S. Burroughs. It was written using the 'fold-in' method, a version of the cut-up method, developed by Burroughs with Brion Gysin, of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel. It is part of The Nova Trilogy, or "Cut-Up Trilogy', together with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded. Burroughs considered the trilogy a "sequel" or "mathematical" continuation of Naked Lunch.

(First published in 1958) "A Coney Island of the Mind" is a collection of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti originally published in 1958. It contains some of Ferlinghetti's most famous poems, such as “I Am Waiting” and “Junkman's Obbligato”, which were created for jazz accompaniment. There are approximately a million copies in print of A Coney Island, and the book has been translated into over a dozen languages. It remains one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published. Because some of the material had been previously published, the first edition of Coney Island bears both a 1955 and a 1958 copyright.

(First published in 1963) Penguin Modern Poets 5 is an influential 1963 paperback anthology published by Penguin Books. It showcases the work of three leading figures of the Beat Generation: Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg. This specific volume became an essential touchstone for introducing Beat poetry to a broader international audience, particularly in the UK. The collection includes a generous selection of verse from each of the three poets, capturing the raw, anti-establishment, and visionary voice of the movement.

(First published in 1962) The Ticket That Exploded is a 1962 novel by American author William S. Burroughs, published by Olympia Press and later by Grove Press in 1967. Together with The Soft Machine and Nova Express it is part of a trilogy, referred to as The Nova Trilogy, created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in' method.

(First published in 1973) Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city, and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. Breakfast of Champions deals with themes of free will, suicide, and race relations, among others. The novel is full of playful drawings made by the author.

(First published in 2012) John Bulmer's photographs were taken at a time when the North was undergoing a vast transformation. The collapse of traditional industries, that had been the wealth creators of the Industrial Revolution, was deeply affecting communities throughout the region; from the Black Country and potteries through the cotton belt of Greater Manchester up to the coalfields and shipbuilding yards of the North East and Glasgow.

To go along with the exhibition, LE BAL and Xavier Barral Éditions co-publish the book Gerard Petrus Fieret. Dutch artist, poet and photographer Gerard P. Fieret (1924-2009)’s work output included some of the strangest and most subversive works produced in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. Transgressive, unconventional and yet timeless, Fieret would disfigure the image and distort reality in search of “something supernatural, a sense of the eternal”. Echoing the fluidity and distortion of reality found in Fieret's work, this important monograph (592 pages) in a softcover format proposes a poetic dialogue between the photographs thanks to the transparency of its very thin pages. Four critical texts by Wim van Sinderen, Hripsimé Visser, Francesco Zanot and Violette Gillet shed light on Fieret's personality and on the multiple facets of his work in relation to the history of photography and the arts.

This monograph and the retrospective exhibition it accompanies explore Hockney’s entire career, allowing an overview of his constantly evolving style and exploring his return to favored themes. From abstract expressionism to naturalism to his play with illusion and imagination, parody, and self-reflexivity, Hockney’s preoccupation with looking, perception, and representation can be traced throughout. Showcasing more than 200 works in all media from across the six decades of Hockney’s remarkable career, this book will delight existing fans of the artist while giving new audiences the fullest possible introduction to his life and work. The book is the catalogue for the exhibition originating at Tate Britain in February 2017 and traveling to the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In 1972, while living in London, Gruyaert created the striking series "TV Shots" by turning the dial on a television set at random and photographing the distorted images he saw there. A later series, Made in Belgium, portrays his ambivalent relationship with his homeland in a palette of saturated tones. In his most recent work, he embraces the possibilities of digital photography, taking further creative risks to capture light in new ways.

Seit über 20 Jahren arbeitete der Fotokünstler Tobias Madörin (*1965) an der Fotoserie "Topos". Ob Barcelona, São Paulo oder Grindelwald, ob in Uganda, Japan oder Indonesien: Mit seinen grossformatigen Farbfotografien – eigentlichen Tableaus, wie es die grossen Landschaftsgemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts waren – erforscht Madörin vom Menschen geprägte Orte. "Topos" ist die erste Monografie, die das Werk dieses bedeutenden Schweizer Fotokünstlers präsentiert. Das Buch zeigt die wichtigsten Bilder der Serie, kommentiert von einem Essay, der sie in die zeitgenössische Fotografie und in die Geschichte der Darstellung von Landschaft und Stadt einordnet.

Published by White Cube in conjunction with the exhibition GILBERT & GEORGE: THE BANNERS. The signed book features 30 stark, hand-written works that use hard-hitting, uncompromising slogans to address themes of conformism, belief, and urban mayhem.

[...] The book contains five of the seventeen essays that make up "Life on the Wrong Side of Town: Sports Edition", which originally appeared as a series in the magazine Mondai Shosetsu ("Problem Novels", published by Tokuma Shoten) in 1975 and was then published as a single volume by Shinyosha in 1982, the year before Terayama passed away. By adding Moriyama's photographs to the text we have constructed a new edition. Excerpt from Satoshi Machiguchi's afterword "The Spell Moves On", published in "Daido Moriyama: Terayama" (2015).

New York–born and bred Joel Meyerowitz is one of the most important representatives of the New Color Photography movement of the 1960s and 70s. This retrospective traces his entire oeuvre, from his street photography to his light experimentations made during "the blue hour" in Cape Cod, and includes famous series such as Cape Light, After September 11: Images from Ground Zero, Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks, in addition to the artist's much-loved early work―his first trip to Europe in 1967, and his concurrent transition from black and white to color―which has been much less widely published.

The Beat Scene is a definitive 1960 anthology that chronicled the vibrant bohemian culture of New York's Greenwich Village. Edited by Elias Wilentz with intimate, definitive photographs by Fred W. McDarrah, the book captured the essence of the Beat Generation through the prose, poetry, and faces of its central figures. It features original works from 90 prominent Beat writers, providing a visual and literary snapshot of the cafes, jazz clubs, and lofts they frequented.

(First published in 1987) During the early 1970s, Jim Carroll was a young and rising star in the crazy and creative downtown scene in New York City. He worked at the Factory for Andy Warhol and discussed art, literature, and the cosmos with Robert Smithson, Allen Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan. He spent nights at Max’s Kansas City, listening to the Velvet Underground. And he did far too many drugs -- until his survival instinct impelled him to leave New York for a Northern California retreat. Intimate and revealing, the episodes in Forced Entries, Carroll’s diaries from that period, provide a sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening glimpse of people who tested the limits of life and sanity. The sequel to the bestselling memoir "The Basketball Diaries".

(First published in 1963) Excerpt from The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America: "The purpose of this anthology, and its design, was not merely to get together stories and pieces I happen to like, cookbook style, but to present those writers who have impressed me, over the range of say 10 years or so, as having something to say in a prose medium that was an adjunct to the artful writing of the marketplace. It was not merely in terms of a generation of writers, there being as much as twenty years separation between some of these writers' ages, but more towards, I think, a quality of writing that has come to clarify itself more and more at each publication as the most interesting and exciting writing that has taken place in this country since the war."

(Erstmals 2002 erschienen) 200 Jahre liegen zwischen den ersten Experimenten mit lichtempfindlichen Chemikalien und der digitalen Aufnahme - 200 Jahre, in denen die Fotografie nahezu alle Bereiche des Lebens durchdrungen und verändert hat. Boris von Brauchitsch rückt die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung der Fotografie in den Mittelpunkt seiner Darstellung und vermittelt anhand Bildbeispiele eine vielgestaltige Entwicklung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technik und Kunst, Individualität und Nivellierung, Wahrheit, Wunsch und Lüge.

(First published in 1971) The Futurological Congress (Polish: Kongres futurologiczny) is a 1971 humour science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. It details the exploits of the hero of a number of his stories, Ijon Tichy, as he visits the Eighth World Futurological Congress at a Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica. The book is Lem's take on the science fictional trope of an apparently Utopian future that turns out to be an illusion.

(First published in 1961) Return from the Stars (Polish: Powrót z gwiazd) is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem. Written in 1961, it is the story of a cosmonaut returning to his home world, Earth, after more than a century in Earth time, but just 10 years for him, finding it a completely different place, with many developments he dislikes. The novel touches the ideas of social alienation, culture shock and dystopia. It was first translated into English in 1980 by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson.

"En réalité Burroughs n'écrit qu'un seul livre parce qu'il n' existe qu'un seul thème-Burroughs: Pour voyager dans l'espace il faut apprendre à abandonner toutes les vieilles ordures verbales : Discours de Dieu, de prêtre, de famille, de mère, d'amour, discours de parti et de cama-rade. Vous devez apprendre à exister et à vivre sans religion, sans pays et sans alliés. Vous devez apprendre à voir ce qui est devant vous sans parti pris." Miles

(Erstmals 1972 erschienen) Bukowski schreibt eigentlich immer nur über sich und die Szene in Hollywood. Aber was er macht, wie die Szene von Hollywood ist und wie Bukowski das beschreibt, ist einmalig. Wüst, ordinär. Unflätig, lässig, ausgeflippt. Buk schildert Schweinereien wie andere Leute den Sonnenaufgang.

(Erstmals 1976 erschienen) »Kaputt in Hollywood«, das sind apokalyptische Visionen, amerikanische Albträume, Protokolle der alltäglichen Hölle. Zehn Stories von einem Bukowski in Hochform: realistisch, brutal, komisch

Previously uncollected pulp fiction by the 20th century American master. From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. An informative introduction by editor David Stephen Calonne provides historical context for these seemingly scandalous and chaotic tales.

Basel photographer Nicole Zachmann has made an intensive study of portrait photography over the last twenty years. In the mid 1980s she took photographs of activists from the music and art subculture in Basel, drawing on her extended circle of acquaintances and friends, some of whom have since achieved national and international fame. The post-Punk scenarios of that cultural transit period included rehearsal cellars, back yards, music studios and squats, mainly in Basel, but in Zurich and Munich as well. Sometimes the photographs are carefully staged and posed, sometimes they are spontaneous snapshots, but the subjects’ view of themselves, their clothing, hairstyles, accessories, and also their bearing and body language, are crucial too. Nicole Zachmann succeeds, without a hint of nostalgia, in using an exciting mixture of intimacy, aesthetic sensibility and carefree lightness to re-create the lifestyle of those stylistically confusing years between Punk and Pop culture.

(First published in 1985) Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyse the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitutes a systematic enterprise, in both its style and its business operations. The authors show how these classical conventions were formulated and standardised, and how they responded to the arrival of sound, colour, widescreen ratios and stereophonic sound. They argue that each new technological development has served a function within an existing narrational system. The authors also examine how the Hollywood cinema standardised the film-making process itself. They describe how, over the course of its history, Hollywood developed distinct modes of production in a constant search for maximum efficiency, predictability and novelty.

Saul Leiter (*1923 in Pittsburgh) erfährt erst seit wenigen Jahren die verdiente Würdigung als einer der führenden Pioniere der Farbfotografie. Das mag daran liegen, dass Leiter sich selbst lange in erster Linie als Maler verstand. 1946 nach New York gekommen, stellte er gemeinsam mit Abstrakten Expressionisten wie Willem de Kooning aus. In den späten 1940er-Jahren begann er, neben der Malerei schwarzweiss zu fotografieren. Wie Robert Frank oder Helen Levitt fand er seine Motive auf den Strassen New Yorks, war dabei aber sichtbar an Abstraktion interessiert. Edward Steichen war einer der ersten, der Leiters Fotografien entdeckte und sie in den 1950er-Jahren in zwei wichtigen Fotoausstellungen und in seinem Diavortrag Experimental Photography in Color im New Yorker MoMA zeigte. Farbfotografie galt damals noch als Gebrauchskunst, deren Platz in der Werbung war.

(Erstmals 1981 erschienen) André Gelpkes Serie »Sex-Theater« entstand in den 1970er Jahren und zeigt Darsteller verschiedener Sextheater in Hamburg St. Pauli. »Die Faszination, die mich als Fotograf erfasste, ging von der Persönlichkeit des Einzelnen aus, dem Darsteller, der bereit war, die geheimen sexuellen Fantasien einer verklemmten Gesellschaft in aller Öffentlichkeit und nur gegen ein Honorar in die Realität umzusetzen.« 1981 wurde Sex-Theater erstmals als Buch veröffentlicht und war schnell vergriffen. Die Ausgabe, die Spector Books gemeinsam mit cpress veröffentlicht, ist eine Neuinszenierung der Serie: mit einer erweiterten Bildauswahl, neuen Texten und in einer Form, die diesem Bildconvolut eine zeitgenössische Bühne im Buch verschafft. Denn die Epoche, die hier sichtbar wird, ist zu Ende. In »Sex-Theater« ist der Niedergang dieser Clubs festgehalten.

Das 1970 im Mondo-Verlag erschienene Werk des Schweizer Raumfahrtpioniers Josef Stemmer ist ein faszinierendes Dokument der Weltraumbegeisterung seiner Epoche. Das populärwissenschaftliche Sachbuch bietet eine anschauliche Einführung in unser Sonnensystem, die physikalischen Grundlagen der Raketentechnik sowie die Geschichte und Zukunftsaussichten der bemannten Raumfahrt.Besonders zeichnet sich das Buch im quadratischen Grossformat durch seine aufwendige visuelle Gestaltung aus. Die gelungene Kombination aus damals hochaktuellen Fotografien, präzisen didaktischen Grafiken von Flugbahnen und Planetenoberflächen sowie der markante, farbig illustrierte Schutzumschlag im charmanten Design der 1970er-Jahre machen das Werk zu einem anschaulichen Leseerlebnis.

In 1980, Miron Zownir emigrated to the USA, where he lived for the next fifteen years; first in New York, then in Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh. In New York, back then arguably the world's most fascinating and permissive metropolis, Zownir's peculiar approach to cover the city's multiple layered day-to-day lunacy was quickly recognised by the local scene as the TEUTONIC PHENOMENOGRAPHER (Village Voice). Shot in moody, expressionistic b/w, Zownir's pictures from that period give a penetrating insight to inner-city sub-cultural spheres, which, in their original local context, have since perished in the boom of the 90s. His lens captured the untamed lust at the gay-parties, just shortly before Aids massively claimed its victims; the futile protest of artists and offbeat performers; the hopelessness on the Bowery; the shadowy world of hookers or junkies. Zownir's photographs of the "Sex Piers" have become legendary documents by now.

Der Ausstellungskatalog präsentiert über 80 Werke William Copleys (1919-1996), der als Galerist, Künstler, Schriftsteller und Verleger seit Mitte der 1940er Jahre ein wichtiger Vermittler zwischen den Surrealisten und der Pop Art-Bewegung ist und zu den eigenwilligsten Persönlichkeiten der Kunstszene gehört.

Psychobuch (or Psycho Book) bietet einen umfassenden wie ungewöhnlichen Überblick über das Werk Beni Bischofs, ein wild wucherndes multimediales Konglomerat, zusammengehalten von einem dichten Netz von immer wieder auftauchenden Themen und Motiven. Das umfangreiche Buch ist zugleich Gesamtschau von Bischofs Schaffen und eigenständiges Künstlerbuch.

(First published in 2002) The acute observation, wit and colour of Martin Parr's work since the mid-1980s has established his as one of the most successful and popular contemporary photographers and a leading member of the prestigious Magnum agency. The only comprehensive monograph of Martin Parr's entire career to date, this 2nd edition has been updated with new photographs and a chapter assessing his most recent photographic work, as well as his film-making, curating, collecting and editing.

Representative selection of works by the British artist with subjects executed in various media, ranging from still lifes, showers, pools, curtains, and portraits.

1979 hat Michael Wolf als Student die Serie "Bottrop-Ebel" 1976 in einer kleinen Bergarbeitersiedlung im Ruhrgebiet fotografiert und diese dann zum Examen bei Otto Steinert an der Folkwangschule in Essen eingereicht, damals als klassische Sozialdokumentation streng sortiert nach Kategorien wie ›Bausubstanz‹, ›Jugendliche‹, ›Arbeitende Bevölkerung‹, oder ›Feste und Vereine‹. Mit dem Abstand von mehr als 35 Jahren wurde die Arbeit jetzt neu gesichtet und für das Buch freier zusammengestellt als die systematisch angelegte Examensarbeit.

(Erstmals 1989 erschienen) Der Goldene Schnitt tritt seit der Antike in vielen Bereichen der Geometrie, Architektur, Musik, Kunst sowie der Philosophie auf, aber er erscheint auch in neueren Gebieten der Technik und der Fraktale. Dabei ist der Goldene Schnitt kein isoliertes Phänomen, sondern in vielen Fällen das erste und somit einfachste nichttriviale Beispiel im Rahmen weiterführender Verallgemeinerungen. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, einerseits Beispiele des Goldenen Schnitts zu besprechen, andererseits weiterführende Wege aufzuzeigen.

A book of photographs of William S. Burroughs and his companions by Michael Heitmann, mostly taken in New York City and at The Bunker (Burroughs' former YMCA residence) in 1981. This book leads off with a series of quotes from various interviews with William S. Burroughs and contains roughly 94 images of Burroughs by Heitmann, as well as a few images of Burroughs with Heitmann by Carl Laszlo and Michael Barfuss. This book concludes with a small biography of Burroughs by Carl Weissner.

„ACID. Neue amerikanische Szene“ ist eine einflussreiche Anthologie, die 1969 von Rolf Dieter Brinkmann und Ralf-Rainer Rygulla im März Verlag herausgegeben wurde. Sie gilt als Meilenstein der deutschen Rezeption der US-amerikanischen Underground- und Pop-Literatur der 1960er Jahre. Das Werk enthält übersetzte Prosa, Lyrik und Essays von Autoren wie William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Harold Norse und Donald Barthelme. Ziel der Herausgeber war es, mit traditionellen Schreibweisen zu brechen und eine neue Sensibilität sowie das Bewusstsein für die amerikanische Gegenkultur (Beatniks und Hippies) in der westdeutschen Literaturszene zu etablieren.

(First published in 1963) "Dead Fingers Talk", first published in 1963, was the fifth novel published by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. The book was originally published by John Calder in association with Olympia Press. The book combined sections from three of Burroughs' earlier novels, "Naked Lunch", "The Soft Machine" and "The Ticket That Exploded", and rearranged them in an attempt to create a new narrative. It is sometimes referred to as a compilation, but this is technically incorrect. Its plot cannot be easily described, although it can be said to focus upon conspiracy and the hero getting away from the police.

(First published in 1971) "The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead" is a novel by William S. Burroughs. It was first published in 1971 by Grove Press. It depicts a youth movement whose objective is the downfall of western civilisation, set in an apocalyptic late twentieth century.

(Erstmals 2014 erschienen) 88 Alltagsstrategien von Schriftstellern, Komponisten, Malern, Filmemachern und anderen kreativen Berühmtheiten, in unterhaltsamen Miniaturen beschrieben von Mason Currey. Originaltitel: "Daily Rituals. How Artists Work".

La collection Photo Poche des éditions Actes Sud compte deux ouvrages majeurs consacrés au photographe suisse : le numéro 79 (René Burri) sorti en 1999, et le volume monographique Che Guevara (précédemment publié chez Nathan/Actes Sud). Ces éditions de poche réunissent ses clichés les plus emblématiques.

(First published in 1980) In "About Looking" John Berger explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti?

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness. The selection is made and introduced by Geoff Dyer, author of the award-winning "The Ongoing Moment".

(First published in 1972) John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a stimulating and influential book on art. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

Herausgegeben von Neuer Kunst und Medienverlag Zürich. "Eure ganze Technik und all euer Wissen um das menschliche Erbgut nutzen euch nichts. Denn ihr habt keine Ahnung, wie das Original auf den Clon reagieren wird. Woher solltet ihr das auch wissen? Menschen sind keine Schafe."

(First published in 1922) "A Hunger Artist" (German: "Ein Hungerkünstler") is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, which was printed by Verlag Die Schmiede shortly after his death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is typically Kafkaesque: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large. "A Hunger Artist" explores themes such as death, art, isolation, asceticism, spiritual poverty, futility, personal failure and the corruption of human relationships.

Die „New Yorker Gespräche“ sind ein 1983 im Merve Verlag erschienenes Buch des französischen Literaturwissenschaftlers und Philosophen Sylvère Lotringer. Es versammelt Interviews mit führenden Künstlern und Denkern der New Yorker Avantgarde. Lotringer sprach darin mit Robert Wilson, Vito Acconci, Philip Glass und Douglas Dunn, Jack Smith, William Burroughs, Mary Overlie, Steve Reich, Viola Farber, Charlemage Palestine, Lee Breuer, Police Band, Stuart Sherman, Christo und Walter Abish um den theoretischen Diskurs der europäischen Postmoderne mit der lebendigen amerikanischen Kunstszene jener Zeit zu verbinden.Das Buch bietet tiefe Einblicke in die transdisziplinäre New Yorker Kulturszene der späten 1970er und frühen 1980er Jahre.

Anonymous snapshots are the ideal projection screen: they inspire the imagination to invent stories. The photographer and artist Luciano Rigolini demonstrates, however, that these images, freed from their context, can also convey a visual experience. Rigolini pieces together his findings from flea markets, archives, or the Internet to create a new, independent work - a grammar of seeing and perception. Consciously or unconsciously, we become primarily aware of form and structure in the compiled snapshots, and the specific content of the images becomes inessential. This results in a fascinating aesthetic play that radically questions our habits of seeing.

(First published in 1974) Revised and enlarged edition including "Playback from Eden to Watergate" and "Electronic Revolution 1970–71". The Job is William S. Burroughs at work, attacking our traditional values, condemning what he calls "the American nightmare," and expressing his often barbed views on Scientology, the police, organ therapy, history, writing, politics, sex, drugs, and death. His conversation splices images of death-by-hanging with elevators and airports, the story of his drug addiction and cure with ideas on the use of hieroglyphs.

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs-their emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post-World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study examines their attempt to redefine a complacent society's notion of sanity and normalcy and to reinvent their own lives through jazz, drugs, and law-breaking, acts that ultimately led to new forms of expression.

Endless Life: Selected Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti showcases the poet's commitment to political and social activism through his work. Ferlinghetti, who embodies the spirit of the Beat generation, emphasizes the importance of artistic integrity and the avoidance of complicity with government influences. The collection highlights his vision of a collective consciousness aimed at challenging societal norms and advocating for change through accessible, public poetry. Choosing his own best work from his eight previous books of poetry, beginning with "Pictures of the Gone World", Ferlinghetti also includes a long poem, "Endless Life", from a work in progress.

(First published in 1981) Cities of the Red Night is a 1981 novel by American author William S. Burroughs. His first full-length novel since The Wild Boys (1971), it is part of his final trilogy of novels, known as The Red Night Trilogy, followed by The Place of Dead Roads (1983) and The Western Lands (1987). The plot involves a group of radical pirates who seek the freedom to live under the articles set out by Captain James Misson.

(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 1955) Features over 280 pages of photos, illustrations, and detailed histories about jazz musicians and the evolution of jazz from New Orleans to modern jazz. Includes original black and white photographs and historical information on notable artists, bands, and jazz culture. Chapters cover early jazz, Dixieland, swing, Harlem, Kansas City, and more. Contents list topics such as New Orleans Joys, Original Dixieland, Mr. Jelly Lord, The Blues, Friars Point Shuffle, Harlem Strut, Cotton Club, Kansas City Shuffle, and more.

Carefully edited by Adams from a remarkable body of work that spans over four decades, "What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West, 1965-2005" presents a narrative sequence of more than 100 tritone images that reveals a steadfast concern for human's increasingly tragic relationship with the natural world. Adams's pictures of the vast Colorado plains, the rapid suburbanisation of the Denver and Colorado Springs areas, and the ecological devastation of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States register with subtle precision the complex and often fragile beauty of the scenes they depict.

Sixty years after Life is Good and Good for You in New York, his first book and one of the most important in the history of photography, William Klein takes on a new challenge: shoot Brooklyn in digital. This technique becomes a way for the master of the aesthetic of chaos to refresh his approach to the New York borough. "No rules, no limits, no holding back." Such is his motto. What is important is to capture the exuberance and impertinence of life. Released on the occasion of the exhibitions "Brooklyn + Klein" at Polka Galerie and Somerset House.

(First published in 1980) A re-issue of Pfeiffer’s cult book, a photographic project, composed by the artist in 1980 with full page sequences, full-bleed black and white photos. An underground classic that both anticipated and paralleled that of the ’80s photographers and, in so doing, looked ahead to much of what followed.

In “Labyrinth”, Daido Moriyama re-examines his life’s work through contact sheets from the 1960s until the 2000s. Contact sheets usually don’t leave the hands of the photographer; it’s rare to get a look at them, much less find them printed in a book. “Labyrinth” sheds that convention and offers pages upon pages of Moriyama’s contact sheets, redrawing in rapid pace the story of his photographic career from his earliest works until the book’s publication in 2012. Each sheet, the more mundane ones as well as those that feature his most famous works, are given equal attention; frame after frame after frame. Through this look back at his negatives, Moriyama offers an invaluable chance to dive into the past 50 years of his groundbreaking photography: a visual labyrinth without clearly defined destination.

Dieses Buch mit Arbeiten von Thomas Ruff erschien zur Biennale Venedig 1995. Kurator des Deutschen Pavillons: Jean-Christophe Ammann, Direktor des Museums für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.

This first appearance of Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz was heralded by critics, musicians, and record collectors as a major contribution to the literature of jazz. Never before had America's native music been treated so meticulously, objectively, and comprehensively. The appearance of two later volumes, The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties and The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies (with Ira Gitler) only confirmed the initial enthusiasm and the judgement that here were basic books for any music library.

The photographic work of Michael Cooper, primarily known for his work with the Rolling Stones many of which are included in this volume of both black & white and colour photographs with accompanying text by Robin Muir.

Mit Beitraegen/ interviews/ texten/ Abb. von u.a. Jo Baer, Beuys, Bonato, Christo, Gaul, gerz, Hamilton, Haus.Rucker-Co, Kagel, Kriwet, Paik, Piene, Roehr, Schnitzler, Serra, Spoeerii, Staeck, Tsai, Vautier, F.E. Walther,.sowie Bazon Brock, Rene Block, Honnef, Maenz, Schum und Szemann, uvm. Karin Thomas (* 1941) studierte von 1960 bis 1965 Kunstgeschichte, Germanistik, Philosophie und Geschichte mit Staatsexamen. Danach war sie kurzzeitig im Lehramt tätig. Sie war von 1971 bis 2003 Lektorin und seit 1986 Cheflektorin für Kunst im Kölner Verlag DuMont, wo sie Ausstellungskataloge zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, darunter Westkunst (1981), und von hier aus (1984) sowie zahlreiche Monografien und Lexika als Redakteurin betreute. Als freie Publizistin verfasste sie neben zwanzig Sach- und Schulbüchern zur Kunstgeschichte zahlreiche Essays sowie Katalogbeiträge und Ausstellungskritiken. 1971 publizierte sie ihr erstes Buch Bis heute, das die internationale Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts stilgeschichtlich strukturiert.

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions: Andy Warhol Stitched Photographs at Galleria Lawrence Rubin and Paul Kasmin Gallery in 1999.

Although known for his paintings and drawings, California artist Ed Ruscha, Photographer, departs from earlier analyses to explore how the artist’s different disciplines—painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography—are guided and shaped by a single vision. Ruscha’s relationship to photography is complex and ambivalent and his work is difficult to define. He has referred to his photography as a “hobby” but from the outset it has drawn considerable critical interest. The small books of photographs that Ruscha produced in the sixties and seventies earned him a reputation as an underground artist among his peers, and have influenced subsequent generations of artists in Europe and North America. The photographs were snapshot size, with an amateurish quality that intrigued his contemporaries. Neither purely documentary nor solely artistic, their subject matter was stereotypical and banal, with motifs drawn from sites in Southern California or the western United States. This, combined with their serial presentation, created a mythical road-movie or photo-novel effect with Beat Generation innuendos and inspired interest among artists at a time when serial logic was prominent in Pop art and Minimalism, and later in Conceptual art.

(Erstmals 1986 erschienen) Martin Parrs Fotobuchklassiker "The Last Resort" wurde 1986 erstmals veröffentlicht und liegt nun mit einem Essay von Gerry Badger vor. Die Fotoserie über den heruntergekommenen Badeort New Brighton wird noch heute kontrovers beurteilt: Für die einen ist sie grausam und voyeuristisch, für die anderen stellt sie eine beeindruckende satirische Bestandsaufnahme des britischen Alltags dar.

The first Parisian store TATI was founded in 1948. TATI stores specialize in fashion, wedding dresses, accessories, cosmetics, jewelry, and home decorations. For this anniversary album, fifty renowned photographers (William Klein, Martin Parr, Sarah Moon, Paolo Roversi, Seydou Keita, Nan Goldin, and many more) have joined to celebrate the colours and spirit of a French national landmark. 50 x 50 is a high-quality photography and art book at a sensational price in the spirit of TATI products -- a collector's item for photo, design, and fashion addicts.

(Erstmals 1979 erschienen) "Die alten Filme" sind 13 Stories wie kleine Bomben, abgeworfen im Hirn des Lesers. Jede Story verweigert Gewissheit, verhindert einfaches "Ist-schon-recht"-Sagen. Die untergründige Beunruhigung, die so beim Leser wächst, ist der Zweck der Geschichten.

(First published in 1976) These verses and conversations, which go straight to some of our deepest worries, aggressions and puzzles, are written in the tradition of music-hall and cabaret. Reading them is like going to an intimate revue. Each scene, each number is complete in itself but compels us to read the next. Everyone will do so in his or her own accent and yet will find that the echoes are quite specific because the forms of this allusive writing derive from jazz, from nursery rhymes, from popular songs and from writers like Johnny Mercer, Thomas Wyatt, Dorothy Parker, and Robert Burns.

Diese Sammlung umfasst eine Auswahl der bedeutendsten lyrischen Werke von Lawrence Ferlinghetti, einem der führenden Köpfe der Beat-Generation. Die Gedichte zeichnen sich durch ihre gesellschaftskritischen Töne, ihre Musikalität und ihre unmittelbare emotionale Kraft aus. Ergänzt wird die Ausgabe durch eine Übersetzung und ein Nachwort von Alexander Schmitz.

(Erstmals 1988 erschienen) Gedichte vom jungen und vom alten Charles Bukowski aus den Jahren 1960 bis 1990. Die Gedichte im ersten Teil dieser Sammlung stammen aus einer Zeit, als er sich nicht nur mit seinem ständigen Durst herumquälte, sondern auch mit ewigen Geldnöten. Die Gedichte der späteren Jahre zeigen, dass Bukowski bis zum Schluss seinen Leidenschaften treu ergeben, irgendwann gelassener geworden ist, heiter und aufmüpfig.

Babbellogik ist maschinell, ihr Medium heisst Sound, der in keiner Notenschrift aufgeht, sondern die Ordnung der Buchstaben in Wellen und Frequenzen auflöst. Er schleudert die Körper in Dimensionen, wo sie die Namen vergessen, die sie zu sein haben. Er setzt jene Dialektik von Sprache und Territorium außer Funktion, derzufolge die Menschen zu Haustieren der Sprache werden.

Inhalt: Vorwort • Digitale Kunst (Der Computer im Atelier • Der elektronische Schirm • Vom Computerfilm zum digitalen Video • Die Bildplatte als Medium für Künstler) • Licht-Laser-Holographie (Die junge Geschichte der alten Lichtkunst • Vom Bin-nenraum zum kosmischen Raum • Laser-kunst • Holographie) • Kybernetische Skulpturen (Kybernetische Systeme • Architektur ist Kunst • Die elektronische Skulptur • Skulptur und Vibration • Musikalische Interaktion • Ton-Räume • Kunst im Solarzeitalter) • Die elektronische Veränderung (Künstler und sozialer Wandel • Kunst im elektronischen Dorf - Künstler-Technolo-gie-Ausbildung • Das Mediummuseum) • Literatur • Biographien und Bibliographien • Personenregister • Sachregister

(First published in 1986) Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyse its repercussions.

(Erstmals 1950 erschienen) Ein umfassendes Handbuch zur Fotografie mit einem speziellen Fokus auf die Techniken und Feinheiten der Vergrößerung von Bildern.

(First published in 1998) Patti Smith's Complete Lyrics was a testimony to her uncompromising poetic power. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the release of Smith's groundbreaking album, Collected Lyrics has been revised and expanded with more than thirty-five additional songs, including her first, 'Work Song', written for Janis Joplin in 1970, and her most current, 'Writer's Song', to be recorded in 2015. The collection is liberally illustrated with original manuscripts of lyrics from Smith's extensive archive. Patti Smith's work continues to retain its relevance, whether controversial, political, romantic or spiritual. Collected Lyrics offers forty-five years of song, an enduring commemoration of Smith's unique contribution to the canon of rock and roll.

(First published in 1986) Recently paroled from prison, Iry Paret, a young Louisiana blues musician, settles in with fellow ex-convict Buddy Riordan and Riordan's family on a sprawling Montana ranch and becomes drawn into a tragic conflict involving the family and their neighbours.

Dedicated to the line. Zeichnungen. Published by Neuer Kunst und Medienverlag Zürich. Design: Girardin, Alain Kupper in Zurich.

(First published in 1985) The Road to Los Angeles is a novel by the American writer John Fante. It was written in 1936, but was published posthumously in 1985 by Black Sparrow Press. The novel is one of four featuring Fante's alter ego Arturo Bandini. In the Bandini chronology, it is set after Wait Until Spring, Bandini and before Ask the Dust.

Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and then often depart in new directions. Published for the first time in English, The Complete Essays 1973–1991 comprises sixty-eight texts in which Ghirri explores the same subjects at the core of his photographs – the themes of identity, time, memory, vision, representation, and sense of place. As a voracious reader with a particular taste for the eclectic, Ghirri also reaches outwards from his own practice to explore the history of photography as he considers the work of Walker Evans, William Eggleston, Robert Adams and John Gossage, weaving in references to musicians, writers and painters alike.

(First published in 1984) Media philosopher Vilém Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the two-dimensionality of magic) and of industrial into post-industrial society (from work into leisure) went hand in hand, and how photography allows us to read and interpret these changes with particular clarity.

(First published in 1987) On January 9th, 1974, Joseph Beuys travelled to America for the very first time in his life. His trip was meticulously planned, with an art/performance scheduled in between each airplane, taxi and hotel, at prominent universities and galleries. Each venture in the New World was documented in these photographs. Single shots, sequences and photo-novels were produced, in addition to film stills and the movies Dillinger and The Dead Eyes of London. Beuys himself put together the layout for this book just before he died in October 1985.

Victor Skrebneski (born in 1929 in Chicago, U.S.) is a photographer born to parents of Polish and Russian heritage. He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1949. He set up his own studio in Chicago in 1952. Skrebneski is most known for his fashion photography and his work for the ad campaigns of the cosmetics company Estee Lauder, Inc. He has photographed various celebrities, including Cindy Crawford (whose first notable photos he took), Oprah Winfrey, Audrey Hepburn, Diana Ross, Hubert de Givenchy, Diahann Carroll and François Truffaut.

(First published in 1956) A facsimile edition of one of the "classic" photography books. Elsken focuses on the Left Bank of Paris in the 1950s, a time when it was recognised as a centre of creative ferment which would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. With its unconventional, gritty, snapshot-like technique the work has been acclaimed as expanding the boundaries of documentary photography. English title: Love on the Left Bank

(First published in 1998) In Any Objections? fashion and the gutter, nature and artifice, high life and low, jostle for attention. Faces of the very famous in the least expected places, bodies of the very beautiful, landscapes and cities, close friends and extraordinary passers-by all find their place in a mode that is held together by Testino’s unique vision and seductive sense of the absurd.

Vier Künstler: Rainer Mang, Thomas Viernich, Wolfgang Laib, Willi Kopf, Texte von Friedrich Meschede, Hans-Joachim Müller und anderen, Cantz, Stuttgart 1990

(First published in 2007) Revealing the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career, this book brings together almost three hundred images, many never published, from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist. Included is a selection of his colour Polaroids and objects incorporating his early instant photographs. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, while others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. The author traces the development of Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography during a period of five years, from 1970 to 1975, when the artist worked mainly in this medium. The images include self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, portraits of lovers and friends such as Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff and Marianne Faithful and observations of everyday objects

This book is the first in fifteen years to present the largely overlooked work of Louis Faurer, who depicted the melancholy streets of New York in the 1940s and ’50s, and whom Walter Hopps has described as a “master of his medium.” Faurer initially worked for fashion magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar in New York, but soon focused his eye on the enchanting city itself: “Everywhere a new discovery awaited me.” Here Faurer made poetic, darkly romantic images of the characters of the street, often the poor and lonely amidst the bustle of Times Square during what he called its “hypnotic dusk light.” Inspired by Walker Evans, Faurer developed a personal, highly empathetic vision, comparable to that of Robert Frank, with whom he shared a loft and darkroom in his early New York days.

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.