Weegee
Offering a new perspective on Weegee's oeuvre, Society of the Spectacle presents the photographer's iconic images alongside lesser-known works. Weegee's macabre tabloid photographs of murdered gangsters, bodies trapped in crashed cars, slums consumed by fire, and other poignant records of New York's nocturnal low life in the 1930s and 40s are the stuff of legend. Lesser-known, however, is the work...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLouis Stettner
A major new monograph on the American photographer Louis Stettner (1922-2016), published to accompany the largest retrospective on his work to date. Brooklyn-born Louis Stettner (1922-2016) created thousands of images over the course of a career that spanned almost eighty years. Acquiring his first camera as a young teenager, he quickly made a name for himself at New York's famous...Hardback$11000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWalker Evans
A major reassessment of Walker Evans that shows him as a photographer both of his time and very much ahead of it. Walker Evans (1903-1975) is one of the great enduring figures of modern photography. His vivid images are inseparable from the history of the medium and the history of the USA. The subject matter was quintessentially American—small-town life, typical...Hardback$12000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBaloise
The Swiss company Baloise has a reputation among art experts, but not just as an insurance and financial services company. With its programmes that support art, its collaborations with museums, and the renowned Baloise Art Prize for young artists, which is awarded at Art Basel, the company has had a lasting effect on the development of contemporary art. Less well-known...HardbackSold OutOn Photographs
Gain a new perspective on photography in this personally guided introduction to photographic images and what they mean by one of the leading writers and curators of our time. On Photographs is destined to become an instant classic of photography writing. Rejecting the conventions of chronology and the heightened status afforded to 'classics' in traditional accounts of the history of...HardbackSold Out