Bøger af Filippo Maggia

Filippo Maggia is photography curator at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and since 2015 has collaborated with Sky Arte HD, acting as consultant for the Master of Photography in 2016 and 2017.

Francesco Bosso presents his last photographic work documenting with stunning black-and-white images the dramatic melting of the icebergs in the Artic.

A splendid monograph on an unconventional photographer who developed a unique and deeply personal vision of the world surrounding him.

Edward Weston

The prestigious new volume by Skira devoted to international contemporary photography is focused on some of the greatest American masters of the twentieth-century. This will be the first of two books (with the second coming in 2014) that seek to illustrate the outstanding quality and variety of the works which have marked American photography from the mid-twentieth-century to the present day. This first volume presents a detailed and annotated selection of works executed between the 1940s and 1970s by twenty photographers of undisputed importance--from Edward Weston and Robert Adams to Minor White and Garry Winogrand, from Lee Friedlander down to Stephen Shore--whose pursuits represent benchmarks in the history of contemporary photography. As in the case of other titles in the series, the reproductions of all the works are accompanied by a critical apparatus with texts discussing the area, artists, and research explored.

A collection of previously unreleased photographs by the German artist shot over the past three years between Venice and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.

Offers an interpretation of contemporary reality of India and South America through the language of images.

A wide-ranging and detailed survey dedicated to the protagonists of the contemporary art scene in Africa and Middle East. This heterogeneous selection offers a clear interpretation of contemporary reality through the languages of images. African photographers are looking at the unfolding drama of contemporary life and experience in Africa with a fine-tuned alertness. They are examining and analyzing the dizzying processes of spatial transformation, massive transition, and social adaptation that make up the varied realities of diverse groups: urban and rural, formal and informal communities.

A broad monograph devoted to Daido Moriyama, one of the pre-eminent names in contemporary Japanese photography along with Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, and Shomei Tomatsu. Moriyamäs photography is provocative, both for the form it takes (dirty, blurry, overexposed, or scratched) and for its content. The viewer¿s experience of the photo¿whether it captures a place, a person, a situation, or an atmosphere¿is the central thrust in his work, which vividly and directly conveys the artist¿s emotions. His perspective and cultural background reveals aspects of Japan heretofore unknown. Seeing how he transforms the small, easily overlooked moments of everyday life into scenes of deep significance, the readers will be drawn into an investigation of reality in contemporary life.

Offers a wide-ranging and detailed survey dedicated to the protagonists of the contemporary art scene in Eastern Europe.

¿Making art is quite therapeutic¿, Tracey Moffatt once said of herself. This brief statement reveals much of the artist's personality and above all about her manner of interpreting the artistic experience, a practice that frequently refers to her personal episodes and events. An Aborigine by birth, Tracey Moffatt grew up as a foster child in a white family in line with the policy of the time, and she quickly became fascinated by the pop culture of those years. Images drawn from magazines, cinema and television began to form the symbolic universe that would become a point of reference in most of her work, alongside the ever-present and in part autobiographical theme of ostracism and segregation experienced in all its aspects: racial, social, sexual.