Matthias Harder Text (7 results)

Condition: New. Original boards with mounted plate, illustrated in colour and partly in b/w, 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 118 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Text in English and German. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A large-format coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. *** "Just Loomis' first photographs were made in the mid-1970s, recording the railway lines and the casinos of his birthplace in Reno, Nevada; they tell of the highs and lows of everyday life in the American West. A former assistant and friend of Helmut Newton's, Loomis (born 1957) worked in the 1980s as a fashion photographer for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and The New York Times Magazine. Turning to portraiture and documentary photography in 1990, Loomis began to make portrait photographs, in both black and white and in color, that show a raw and affectionate view of everyday life in America: a waitress behind a counter in a Hollywood diner, a young couple exuding the bliss of early romance, or children caught in moments of play. From his earliest work through to this latest collection, the photographer's first monograph, Loomis' method has been to insist on the value and beauty of what lies immediately to hand, and to locate the moments that illuminate that fact for the viewer. As June Newton states, 'He understands these people, as he comes from the same place. These pictures are without artifice of any kind . . . I call them a perfect example of Americana today." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good to fine condition. Small Folio. 255 (1)pp. Original photo-illustrated boards with gray and black lettering on cover, black on spine. Gray endpapers. Inscribed "For Marla Frank Horvat 17 11 15" on title page. "Frank Horvat is undoubtedly among the most important photographers of the twentieth century. And behind his exceptionally multifaceted work stands an exceptionally multifaceted person. At the age of sixteeen, as he began his own biography, he still wanted to be a writer. He somehow alsoindirectlybecame one, only that he does not use a pen, but rather a camera and light. Many of the pictures resemble ballads, short stories, or social commentaries, and, as a whole, over a period of six decades, Horvat has created an extraordinary life's work, comparable to a momentous novel." (Harder). Profusely illustrated with Horvat's color and b/w photographic stories throughout. Contains bibliography at rear. Contains numerous spreads and covers of Horvat photographs published in magazines. mostly in color. Text in English, German and French. Binding with minor wear along edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Drab buckram, black titles, & large color photographic image to cover; Unpaginated. Just Loomis (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 120 Seiten/pp., 85 Abb./ills., half cloth - Just Loomis (*1957 in Reno, Nevada) produced his first photographs in the seventies between the railroad tracks and casinos of his birthplace, Reno, images that tell of life in this town in the American West. A former assistant and friend of Helmut Newton s, Loomis worked in the eighties as a fashion photographer for magazines such as Harper s Bazaar and The New York Times Magazine. Turning in 1990 to portraiture and documentary photography, his pictures present a raw and honest view of everyday life in America: a waitress behind the counter of a Hollywood fast-food restaurant, a young couple full of hope, or children caught in moments of transition. As June Newton states, He understands them, as he comes from the same place. These pictures are without artifice of any kind . . . . I call them a perfect example of Americana. …

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 96 Seiten/pp., 27 Abbildungen/ills., clothbound - This is the first book to present Raïssa Venables s intoxicating color photographs, in which she pursues tales of places in an intimate and intelligent way.

4°, schwarzer OLnbd. mit montiertem s/w-Abbildung und graugepr. Deckel- und Rückentitel; 59 (1) Seiten mit zahlr. s/w- und einigen Farbabbildungen auf Tafeln; Einband gering angestaubt; montiertes Foto mit leichten Läsuren; sehr sauberes Exemplar. Text deutsch/englisch. ISBN 9783000284571.