Author: Mauro D'Agati
Publisher: Steidl
ISBN: 9783958295575
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Palermo Panorama is Mauro D'Agati's love letter to his beloved hometown, a raw portrait that shows Palermo's charm and grit in equal measure. The book comprises 13 chapters, each dedicated to a distinct series, which all grew organically over time to form a complex picture of the city. Here among others are D'Agati's very first photos, black-and-white street portraits taken while still a student; the waste-littered Termini Beach, a summer destination for the people of Palermo's suburbs; the abandoned and neglected Vucciria neighborhood; portraits of wedding photographers and singers at local music festivals; the Capuchin Catacombs; and transvestites on Via Roma near Palermo's central station. Regardless of his subject, D'Agati portrays Palermo's resilient characters and crumbling beauty with compassion and without judgment. For many years I've been taking photographs of Palermo and its inhabitants, living side by side with them and using my sense of belonging as an occasional tool. This book is both a declaration of love and an attempt to access the city without fear or favor--a very personal take which I hope unveils the true colors of Palermo. Mauro D'Agat
Author: Mauro D'Agati
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ISBN: 9783869304885
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Between 2008 and 2010 Mauro D'Agati visited Masonic lodges in Havana to take photos of this secret and largely unseen world. Through D'Agati's images of Masonic meetings, temples, symbols, documents, as well as portraits of the Masons themselves, we gain access to the intricate rituals of Masonic life, which are a blend of the earnest, mysterious traditions of an elite fraternity and everyday Cuban existence. The Grand Lodge of Cuba holds a special position in Freemasonry circles as Cuba is one of the few Communist nations where Masonry still thrives: today there are 316 lodges and more than 29,000 members on the island. The precise details of the workings within a temple may not be revealed to the public, yet D'Agati's photos take us as far as permissible into this fascinating subculture. Mauro D'Agati, born 1968 in Palermo, began working as a professional photographer in 1996, initially covering many Sicilian jazz festivals, as well as art and theatrical events. He has contributed to international publications including Le Monde, Stern, and Italian Vanity Fair. Steidl has published D'Agati's Palermo Unsung (2009), and Alamar and Napule Shot, both in 2010.
Author: Arturo Russo
Publisher:
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Boris Mikhaĭlov
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN: 9783865601131
Category : Nude in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In the early 1980s, before Glasnost and Perestroika, Boris Mikhailov made this series of photographs in his home town of Charkow, in the Ukraine. Mikhailov is best known for his ruthlessly honest documentation of the problems of Soviet and Russian daily life; this work, which has never been published before, is sometimes gentler.
Author: Philip Blenkinsop
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Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Languages : en
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Author: Alec Soth
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ISBN: 9783865212337
Category : Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, "Sleeping by the Mississippi elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie." In the book's 46 ruthlessly edited pictures, "writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime learning art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex." Like Robert Frank's classic "The Americans, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust.
Author: Mauro D'Agati
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ISBN: 9783865219558
Category : Naples (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Divided between two parts, 'Outskirts' and 'Downtown', Napule Shot represents a cross section of life in Naples. Chapter by chapter Mauro D'Agati tells the story of the city through a variety of characters and locations - a music manager, local singers, weddings, police operations, the heart of the city centre and the degraded eastern zone of Naples and its inhabitants. His photographs show the youngsters living there, the drugs and the beauty.
Author: Deborah Puccio-Den
Publisher: HAU Books
ISBN: 1912808250
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I've never seen it." Mafiosi have often reacted this way to questions from journalists and law enforcement. Social scientists who study the Mafia usually try to pin down what it "really is," thus fusing their work with their object. In Mafiacraft, Deborah Puccio-Den undertakes a new form of ethnographic inquiry that focuses not on answering "What is the Mafia?" but on the ontological, moral, and political effects of posing the question itself. Her starting point is that Mafia is not a readily nameable social fact but a problem of thought produced by the absence of words. Puccio-Den approaches covert activities using a model of "Mafiacraft," which inverts the logic of witchcraft. If witchcraft revolves on the lethal power of speech, Mafiacraft depends on the deadly strength of silence. How do we write an ethnography of phenomena that cannot be named? Puccio-Den approaches this task with a fascinating anthropology of silence, breaking new ground for the study of the world’s most famous criminal organization.
Author: Gregory Halpern
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ISBN: 9781912339440
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Languages : en
Pages :
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For the last fifteen years, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in Omaha, Nebraska, steadily compiling a lyrical, if equivocal, response to the American Heartland. In loosely-collaged spreads that reproduce his construction-paper sketchbooks, Halpern takes pleasure in cognitive dissonance and unexpected harmonies, playing on a sense of simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the place. Omaha Sketchbook is ultimately a meditation on America, on the men and boys who inhabit it, and on the mechanics of aggression, inadequacy, and power.
