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This major new monograph presents the most comprehensive survey of Koudelka’s work to date, bringing together more than 150 of his most eloquent images—from his earliest, many published here for the first time, to his most recent: mesmerizing studies of the European landscape made with a panoramic camera.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether photographing Prague’s avant-garde theater scene in the 1960s, the secretive world of the Eastern European gypsies, Czech resistance to the Soviet advance on Prague, or the environmental degradation of our postindustrial world, Koudelka has consistently produced transformative images that stand outside of time and place. In the words of the legendary French photography-world figure and Koudelka’s longtime champion and publisher, Robert Delpire, \u003cq\u003eKoudelka brings an intense eye and full heart to each place, object, and person. This work proves once again that he is a photographer with unique personality and power.\u003c\/q\u003e Beautifully produced with duotone printing and three gatefolds, this volume also contains eight original essays, each exploring a different aspect of Koudelka’s work and illustrating the artist’s constant evolution and intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514085412998,"sku":"10303","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/51667S-1.jpg?v=1773938749"},{"product_id":"new-york-rises","title":"New York Rises","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopublished by Aperture and the New York City Department of Records\/Municipal Archives\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514085478534,"sku":"10136","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/Aperture-10136-1_5c99b3ec-c630-43a8-a05a-132f10736732.jpg?v=1763691632"},{"product_id":"early-recordings","title":"Marco Breuer: Early Recordings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Early Recordings\" presents the first comprehensive look at the work of the respected, conceptually driven artist, Marco Breuer. Boldly experimental, Breuer uses an extensive and continually evolving range of processes to extract abstract and visually compelling images from photographic paper. Whether it involves placing burning coals on the photographic paper, repeatedly slicing into it or sanding away at the emulsion until holes appear, Breuer's work eviscerates the usual expectations of the camera-less image. The Minimalistic end results are surprisingly exquisite, and this oversized volume reproduces them with attention to every slice, abrasion and color shift. The images function as \"recordings\" of the artist's actions, so that only the trace of impact and Breuer's expended energy remain. The revered photography critic Vince Aletti describes Breuer's work as having \"the intelligence and wit of the midcentury Modernist avant-garde and the anything-goes audacity of photography's earliest innovators.\" A limited edition of 30 copies of this book is also available, slip-cased and hand-altered by the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514085511302,"sku":"10334","price":45.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/8734_1_87afdba2-e1a6-47b2-a603-9f6d11f6fa53.jpg?v=1761261340"},{"product_id":"istanbul","title":"Alex Webb: Istanbul","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \"Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names,\" Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past--a city of minarets and pigeons rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to Muslim prayers--yet also a city riddled with ATM machines and clothed in designer jeans. Webb began photographing Istanbul in 1998, and became instantly enthralled: by the people, the layers of culture and history, the richness of street life. But what particularly drew him in was a sense of Istanbul as a border city, lying between Europe and Asia. \"For 30-some years as a photographer, I have been intrigued by borders, places where cultures come together, sometimes easily, sometimes roughly.\" The resulting body of work, some of Webb's strongest to date, conveys the frisson of a culture in transition, yet firmly rooted in a complex history. With essay by the Nobel Prize winning novelist, Orhan Pamuk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514085576838,"sku":"10341","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/alex-webb-istanbul-aperture-covercopy.jpg?v=1773413024"},{"product_id":"domestic-landscapes","title":"Domestic Landscapes","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past decade, Dutch photographer Bert Teunissen has documented hundreds of old European homes and their inhabitants. For this limited edition, the artist has selected twenty images from his book \u003cem\u003eDomestic Landscapes: A Portrait of Europeans at Home \u003c\/em\u003e(Aperture, 2007). Taking a family-album-like approach, the artist has left five of the photographs loose, enabling the viewer to move them in and out of different pages. This special edition artist's book is limited to 400 copies, with only a small quantity available exclusively through Aperture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBert Teunissen\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Ruurlo, the Netherlands, in 1959. 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To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Model’s death in 1983, Aperture is reissuing this classic, highly collectible 1979 monograph—the first book ever published on Model—in the original oversized trim and with the original distinctive design by Marvin Israel, along with an updated chronology and bibliography. This timeless volume contains more than 50 of Model’s greatest images, from the rich idlers on the Promenade des Anglais in the South of France to the sad, funny and often eccentric inhabitants of New York’s most subterranean haunts. As Berenice Abbott said in her preface, “One of the first reactions when looking at Model’s pictures is that they make you feel good. 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From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques and diverse civic spaces including a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall and the United Nations, the images in \"Architecture of Authority\" build to ever harsher manifestations of power: an interrogation room at Guantánamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber.\u003cbr\u003eThough visually cool, this work deals with hot-button issues--from the surveillance that increasingly intrudes on post-9\/11 life to the abuse of power and the erosion of individual liberty. The connections among the various architectures are striking, as Ross points out: \"The Santa Barbara Mission confessional and the LAPD robbery homicide interrogation rooms are the same intimate proportions. Both are made to solicit a confession in exchange for some form of redemption.\" Essay by \"Harper's Magazine\" publisher, John R. 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At the start of the sitting, each subject writes a brief autobiographical statement. By turns poignant, funny or harrowing, these revealing words are an integral part of the project, and the subject’s statement accompanies each photograph in the book. 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Every blade of grass, pebble and nonchalant passerby has been painstakingly orchestrated by the artist, who draws on the work and traditions of Romantic-era painters like Constable and Turner, as well as photo legends like Lewis Baltz and Bernd and Hilla Becher. In this volume, the landscape series, \"LS,\" are constructed to convey the \"perfect\" pastoral scene. In stark contrast, the cityscape series, \"S,\" present an eerily familiar vision of a nonexistent, but clearly dystopian form of architecture. 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