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Cleveland Museum of Art announces DIY. Photographers & Books
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents DIY. Photographers & Books an exhibition on view August 11–December 30, 2012 in the museum’sPhotography Gallery. Gomorrah Girl (2nd edition), 2011. Valerio Spada (Italian, b. 1972). 40 pages + 40 pages, 8.9 x 13.1 in + 9.4 x 8.3 in. Cross Editions, November 2011 A new golden age of the photobook has dawned, thanks to digital printing technology and web-based distribution services that allow rapid, inexpensive production of books in quantities ... Read More
Carleton Watkins. The Complete Mammoth Photographs Wins 2012 Kraszna-Karusz Best Photography Book Award
The 2012 Kraszna-Karusz Best Photography Book Award was given to Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Getty Publications, $195.00, hardcover) at the Sony Photo Awards in London on April 26. The extraordinary body of work produced by photographer Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) between 1858 and 1891 constitutes one of the longest and most productive careers in nineteenth-century American photography. This groundbreaking volume reproduces the images from the nearly thirteen ... Read More
Eli Broad, One of America’s Leading Entrepreneurs and Most Generous Philanthropists, Shares How to Master the Art of Being Unreasonable and Create Extraordinary Success
Reasonable people come up with all the reasons something new and different can’t be done, because, after all, no one else has done it that way. Eli Broad, the founder of two Fortune 500 companies in completely different industries and one of the country’s most generous philanthropists, has turned reason and convention on its head as he accomplishes the impossible in business and philanthropy. In his new book, “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional ... Read More
Hans Ulrich Obrist. The future will be… China Edition book launch
Internationally celebrated curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is often asked about the future of art. His answer is always that we have to listen to artists. Since 2005, Obrist has expanded this narrative to ask not only artists but also writers, architects, mathematicians, scientists, poets, photographers, designers, novelists, professors, lawyers, actors, and philosophers to complete the sentence, “The future will be…,” resulting in a range of different readings on what lies ahead. The first ... Read More
Major New Pasifika Title Launched
Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the People of the Pacific is published by Te Papa Press this month. The lavishly illustrated book features fifteen essays on the history of Pacific people’s interactions with New Zealand and the impact New Zealand has had on its Pacific neighbours. Edited by Sean Mallon, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai and Damon Salesa, Tangata o le Moana draws on 50 years of individual and institutional-based research by leading New Zealand scholars. Most importantly, the book is ... Read More
Gagosian Gallery announces Picasso and Francoise Gilot. Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953 catalogue
Françoise Gilot in conversation with John Richardson; Essays by Charles Stuckey, Michael Cary, and Françoise Gilot; Excerpts from Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake The catalogue is published with the exhibition “Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953,” on view May 2–Saturday, June 30, 2012, at Gagosian Gallery New York, the fourth major exhibition in an ongoing series on the life and work of Pablo Picasso, following the critical and popular ... Read More
Prefix ICA presents Prefix Photo 25 and Pascal Grandmaison
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the release of the twenty-fifth issue of Prefix Photo magazine. Editor Scott McLeod has assembled an array of writers and artists, all of whom engage with the subjects of land and sea in their critical explorations of labour, industry, transportation, communication and trade, as follows: Architectural historian and critic Kenneth Hayes examines photographers Louie Palu, Edward Burtynsky and Allan Sekula and their photographic ... Read More
