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June 2022
Berenice Abbott: Aperture Masters of Photography
In this redesigned and expanded version of a classic Aperture book, the work of Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is introduced by historian Julia Van Haaften, and includes new, image-by-image commentary and a chronology of this artist's life.
An innovative documentary photographer, Abbott pioneered the depiction of scientific subject matter and photographed the fast-changing landscape of her times. Abbott studied journalism for a year in Ohio before moving to New York in 1918 to study sculptu
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June 2024
Works for a Cosmic Feeling
The images in this book, collected under the title Works for a Cosmic Feeling, create a map, and an ode at the same time. They map out the universe of the author, the constellations that guide him and inspire his wonderings, the pathways and crossroads where he gets lost and finds himself back again. Just like god and the devil being hidden in details, Barile’s images oscillate in a constant flux of conscience, a r
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December 2023
New Works for a Post-Worker’s World
In New Works for a Post-Worker’s World, Valenzuela continues to deeply address the realities of working-class lives in the United States and the power structures to which they are subjected, already explored in his oeuvre.
The publication collects a new body of works of black-and-white images, scenes of machine-like contrivances meant to evoke labour and its afterlife, in dialogue with a visual essay made of archival images highlighting the power struggle between
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