Working at the nexus of painting and photography, William Klein conceived this original series when he was in the process of reviewing other photographers’ contact sheets for a film he was making.
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Katherine Longly: Hernie & Plume (The Eriskay Connection, 2020)
Katherine Longly (1980, BE) lives and works in Brussels and graduated in photography, communications and anthropology. She pays special attention to actively involve people she works with in the construction of her projects.
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Joseph Rodriguez: LAPD 1994 (The Artist Edition, 2020)
In the mid-nineties, the LAPD was in search of a public image make-over after the Rodney King uprisings. As part of these efforts, the LAPD gave photographer Joseph Rodriguez unprecedented access to document the officers in the field for The New York Times, hoping to give the public an image of a “kinder, gentler cop”, as the headline put it.
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Ragnar Axelsson: Arctic Heroes (Kehrer, 2020)
In his recent book Hetjur norðurslóða (Arctic Heroes) Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog.
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Volker Hinz: Hello. Again. (Hartmann Books, 2021)
This project, coinitiated by Hinz himself, offers a comprehensive overview of his work beyond his well-known pictures, series, and themes, thus proving what a precise judge of character and an astute observer he was.
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Jindrich Štreit: Village People 1965–1990 (Buchkunst Berlin, 2020)
Jindrich Štreit is an exceptional chronicler and narrator. In the 1970s and 1980s, the time of the communist hardliner regime, he describes in his authentic black and white photographs the country life in the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
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William Eggleston: Election Eve – New Edition (Steidl, 2020)
In 1977 William Eggleston released Election Eve, his first and most elaborate artist’s book, containing 100 original prints in two leather-bound volumes. This new Steidl edition recreates the full original sequence of photos in a single volume.
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Wendy Ewald: Portraits and Dreams (Mack Books, 2020)
This revised and expanded edition of Ewald’s now-rare book, first published in 1985, offers access to a different and broadened view of the rural south over the span of 35 years.
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