Bøger udgivet af Damiani

Based on an exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art presents the artist¿s relationships to the rich contexts of cities he¿s visited and the experiences that shaped his practice. Grounded in Parlá¿s personal first generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever-evolving practice that concerns elsewhere communities and their contribution to America, Roots offers a new visual relationship with its pictorially contemplative environment to consider connections between local history, one¿s past, present, and the future; to imagine or ever create one¿s own universal truth and personal harmony now more than ever. Parlá produces a gestural landscape with juxtaposed characters, hieroglyphs and words within both paintings and sculptures that are deliberately created to serve as a carrier of meaning. The titles of his works often create playful connotations as signifiers to specific places or times, thus becoming a key element to decode the work. Parlá¿s grandfather was an aviation pioneer who flew between Key West and Mariel, Cuba on a bi-plane made of sugarcane and bamboo, which he named Caña Brava . The Cuban aviator¿s legacy continues to serve as an inspiration to the artist and his family. Parlá spent his formative years immersed in the thriving underground art scenes of Miami, while traveling often to other cities like: Beijing, Havana, Istanbul, New York, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, London, and San Juan, amongst many other countries where the multicultural environment and social processes deeply impacted his perception of urban space. In his practice, like his grandfather¿s flight between the U.S and Cuba in 1912, José Parlá highlights the cultural bonds between communities and the expression thereof.

Andy Denzler combines a variety of mediums in his art practice, including painting, sculpture, and drawing. Denzler's works respond to traditional portrait painting through an expressive and multi-layered application of paint and the subsequent removal thereof, resulting in the blurring of the image. He explains: "I'm using distortion and interference to depict surreal imagery, transience and the influence of the media on today's society. In this age of digital overstimulation, I am interested in people's sensitivities and their search for their own identity. In both the form and content of my paintings, I take a conscious stand against today's artificial, fleeting imagery, away from perfectionism and high-gloss aesthetics...". Just like in one of Luis Buñuel's surrealistic films, Denzler transfers his scenes to deserted places, rooms, caught between dream and reality. As if watching a film, the observer's attention is directed to the architecture of the room, the figures, the interior, the incidence of light and the depth of field. Yet the scenes have no outcome, like puzzles deliberately left unsolved. Fragmented Identity, examines Denzler's works from the past 7 years: Interiors, Zone Paintings, Photo Frame Paintings and Portraits.

Cloud Chamber is the first monograph by American actor and photographer Dan Ziskie, gathering photographs taken in New York between 2013 and 2016.Ziskie grew up in Detroit, eventually moving to Chicago to work as an assistant for a commercial photographer. During this time, he also began to work in improvisational theater and in film and TV (his first film was Robert Altman's OC and Stiggs, and he has starred in House of Cards and Treme). He later moved to New York, where, inspired by the work ethic of Gary Winogrand, Ziskie hit the streets daily for several years, photographing with a digital 35mm camera. This volume gathers the results.

Reviving 19th-century photographic processes, Spanish photographer Jacqueline Roberts (born 1969) traces the moment of limbo that marks the transition from childhood to adolescence. Nebula is a collection of portraits that capture the mist of psychological and emotional change in youth; a glimpse into their nascent sense of self.

This book celebrates the portraiture of Helsinki-based American photographer Curt Richter (born 1956), presenting his portraits of contemporary writers taken at Key West Literary Festival--among them Kay Ryan, William Gibson, Geoff Dyer, Calvin Trillin, Margaret Atwood, Michael Cunningham, Ann Beattie and Gore Vidal.

All of the photographs in Snow White are from his Theaters series and include many of his well known photographs of classic movie palaces and drive-ins, along with new photographs of Italian opera houses and abandoned theaters. Sugimoto began the Theaters series four decades ago. To make these images, he exposes the film inside the dark theater (or in the case of the drive-ins, outside at night) for the duration of the movie.

Hello Stranger is the new book by the theater group Motus, whose hybrid work has unleashed dramaturgy and artistic languages as well as produced new scenic forms since its founding in the early 1990s.

A reportage collecting limbs scattered in places and years, connecting them to physical or mental spaces, among which there is no pertinence. Each image comes into being by itself, independently, but with a mutilated value which, through its lines of force, even years later, merges into another image.

The Gauchito Gil is a legendary character of Argentina's popular culture. This book includes evocative pictures of the quacks, the pilgrims, the prayer centres, the gauchos arriving on horses to Mercedes the 8 January to celebrate the death of Gauchito Gil, those saved /cured by miracles, and the most radical bandits with Gauchito tatooed.

Valerie Belin constantly explores matter, the body and the living, absence and their representations; she brilliantly develops her research on light, detail and texture. This book presents her work, a series produced between 2007 and 2016: Fruit Baskets, Lido, Ballroom Dancers, Vintage Cars, Crowned heads, Black-eyed Susan, Settings, and, Brides.

Brasil is a photographic exploration of culture, landscape and light by American photographer Kristin Capp (born 1964). Shooting in black-and-white film with a Rolleiflex camera, Capp turns her lens on urban Brazilian landscapes with an encompassing curiosity that resists classification. The eight years of work presented here reveals a highly personal, fluid, syncopated and complex Brazil. Avoiding heroic or ideological tropes, Capp captures the complexity of the sprawling and diverse country with images that range from portraits to candid urban scenes to pure abstraction. In Rio de Janeiro, Capp is drawn to the relationship between the natural shapes of the landscape and the city's constructed forms; in Bahia, we are immersed in the culture that represents the largest African diaspora in the world; and in São Paulo, she simultaneously captures the dreams, contradictions and values of its people as well as its public spaces and physical structures.

The 'Warzone Collective' began in 1984 in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland when a few local punks decided to consolidate their efforts and get their own venue, practice & social space. In 1991 the Collective moved to a larger and more ambitious venue. This title includes photographs that were taken at the Warzone Centre.

A monograph that focuses on the work of Antoine Le Grand and spans the 20-year career of this acclaimed celebrity photographer. Taken from the pages of leading fashion and lifestyle magazines such as Vogue, W, GQ, and Vanity Fair, it also includes a collection of portraits of the actors, musicians, and personalities who enliven our culture.

Features a series of photographs of eight different women who Pamela Hanson photographed between 2012 and 2014 at Lafayette House, a small hotel in New York City.

SARAI MARI has always been interested in the gender roles men and women play within society. This book captures the essence of who her subjects are. By celebrating all definitions of gender and sexuality, the previously defined terms fall away. They lose their meaning; and there is nothing left but the raw expression of the subject in the image.

While developing the concept for his latest book, From the Heart, photographer Chris Craymer was inspired by the idea of not only photographing his subjects, but also interviewing them, to create holistic portraits. Known internationally for his fashion and lifestyle photography, Craymer had never before played the role of interviewer. The ritual and vulnerability of having one's portrait taken forges a trust between photographer and subject, and Craymer found that it was as if a door had been opened during the photography sessions, as the words in the interviews flowed "from the heart." The resulting portraits are unique and intimate: the reader senses Craymer's connection with each of his subjects.