Peter Bialobrzeski
Author: Peter Bialobrzeski
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Published: 2007
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ISBN-13: 9783775720496
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Informal arrangements
Author: Peter Bialobrzeski
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783775726603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotography of domestic interiors in Kliptown, the poorest quarter of the old township of Soweto.
Case Study Homes
Author: Peter Bialobrzeski
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783775724692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ironic take on the Case Study House Program--initiated in 1945 by Arts and Architecture magazine in an effort to develop low-priced single-family homes by architects such as Richard Neutra and Charles and Ray Eames--German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski's Case Study Homes was shot at the Baseco compound, a squatter camp near the Port of Manila, which is home to an estimated 70,000 people. As Bialobrzeski was considering the series--startling images of provisional structures fashioned from slats, cardboard, corrugated metal and other cast-off materials and refuse--Lehman Brothers Bank collapsed and the media declared a global economic crisis. These recent events lend resonance to Bialobrzeski's images, which recall the photographs of impoverished rural Americans commissioned by the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s. Conceived as a sketchbook for a larger project, the images evidence the human will to survive and a profound resourcefulness.
Nail Houses, Or, The Destruction of Lower Shanghai
Author: Peter Bialobrzeski
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783775738293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring his travels through China, Peter Bialobrzeski was fascinated by the so-called nail houses. Surrounded by tall, newly constructed buildings, these houses have been earmarked for demolition, but their owners resolutely refuse to vacate. In his thought-provoking series the artist photographs these isolated structures, often in the evening hours, when the brightly lit interiors convey the domestic comfort that these homes provide for their owners, despite all the cracks in the walls. Peter Bialobrzeski (* 1961 in Wolfsburg) uses his camera to offer these renitent structures moral support. Following the publication of Case Study Homes and Informal Arrangements, this striking series completing the Habitat trilogy poses uncomfortable questions to the viewer. It also emphatically underscores the fundamental right of every human being to a home and sense of security.
Neontigers
Author: Peter Bialobrzeski
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783775713948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotographer Peter Bialobrzeski here merges the seven Asian cities of Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Jakarta, Singapor, and Shenzhen into a virtual megatropolis. The result is a view of a world that no longer seems real but appears instead as a series of dream-images from an eccentric director or computer game designer. References to reality evoke a sense of conflict in the viewer, as appreciation for the beauty of the absurd competes with recognition of an irreversible process of change in urban living space. Two different growth models are exposed: unscrupulous, uncontrolled expansion, as in Bangkok, and controlled, yet equally unscrupulous growth in a city like Shanghai. The pictures burst with conflicting signs and symbols, mostly indecipherable to the western viewer, a semiotic overkill held in check only by the picture frame.
This is Not a House
Author: Edgar Martins
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781907893025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe US mortgage crisis exposed weaknesses in the regulation of the financial industry and the global financial system. At the end of 2008, as the fall-out from the crisis became increasingly widely felt, Edgar Martins was commissioned by New York Times Magazine to photograph its impact across the US in eight separate states and across 16 different locations. These carefully researched sites exposed the extent and impact of the credit crunch on the construction industry.
The World Atlas of Street Photography
Author: Jackie Higgins
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0300207166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects street photographs from noted photographers of cities around the world, from New York and Sao Paolo to Paris and Sydney.
Civilization
Author: Holly Roussell
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2023-10-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500297513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur fast-changing world seen through the lenses of 140 leading contemporary photographers around the globe. With close to 500 images, many previously unpublished, this landmark publication takes stock of the material and spiritual cultures that make up 'civilization'. Ranging from the ordinary to the extraordinary, from our great collective achievements to our ruinous collective failings, Civilization: The Way We Live Now explores the complexity of contemporary civilization through the rich, nuanced language of photography. Featuring images by some 140 photographers - from Reiner Riedler's families at leisure parks, Raimond Wouda's high schools, Wang Qingsong's Work, Work, Work and Cindy Sherman's Society Portraits, to Lauren Greenfield's displays of ostentatious wealth, Edward Burtynsky's oil fields, Pablo Lopez Luz's views on a sprawling contemporary megalopolis, Thomas Struth's images of high technology, Xing Danwen's electronic wastelands and Taryn Simon's Contraband, Civilization draws together the threads of humankind's ever-changing, frenetic, collective life across the globe. Visually epic, Civilization is presented through eight thematic chapters, each featuring powerful imagery and accompanied by provocative essays, quotes and concise statements by the artists themselves.
1% Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783775740944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extravagant pleasures of the wealthiest one percent of the earth's population represent an extreme contrast to those of the remaining ninety-nine. This volume lends visual evidence to the blatant discrepancy between people's living conditions
Sapeurs
Author: Tariq Zaidi
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Published: 2020-05
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9783868289732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish photographer Tariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes. Its followers are known as 'Sapeurs' ('Sapeuses' for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they transform themselves into debonair dandies. Sashaying through the streets they are treated like rock stars - turning heads, bringing 'joie de vivre' to their communities and defying their circumstances.
