Martin Harrison

Annie Leibovitz

Paul McCartney

Alison Castle

Linda McCartney

Une rétrospective de la vie et de l'œuvre photographique de Linda McCartney. En 1966, alors qu'elle travaillait comme réceptionniste au siège du magazine Town and Country, Linda Eastman subtilisa un passe d'entrée pour journaliste et s'immisça à un concert promotionnel exclusif des Rolling Stones, à bord d'un yacht sur l'Hudson River. Les clichés spontanés et originaux qu'elle réalisa du groupe s'avérèrent bien meilleurs que les photographies formelles du photographe officiel du groupe, et elle se trouva très vite en position de devenir l'une des plus grandes photographes de l'âge du rock'n roll. Le 11 mai 1968, elle devint la première femme à avoir l'honneur de figurer en couverture du magazine Rolling Stone, avec la publication de son portrait d'Eric Clapton. Photographe privilégiée de la scène musicale de la fin des années 1960, elle fixa sur pellicule nombre de musiciens majeurs du rock, parmi lesquels Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, et les Grateful Dead. En 1967, Linda se rendit à Londres pour photographier l'enthousiasme des "Swinging Sixties", et y rencontra Paul McCartney au Bag 'o Nails club, avant de photographier les Beatles au cours du lancement de leur album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Paul et Linda tombèrent amoureux, et se marièrent le 12 mars 1969. Au cours des trente années suivantes et jusqu'à sa mort à l'âge de 56 ans, elle se consacra à sa famille, à la promotion du mode de vie végétarien, aux droits des animaux, et à la photographie. De ses premiers portraits des grands noms du rock n'roll, et des dernières années des Beatles, en passant par les tournées qu'elle fit avec les Wings, jusqu'à l'éducation de ses quatre enfants avec Paul, Linda a immortalisé tout son univers sur pellicule. Ses clichés vont des clichés de famille pris sur le vif à des séances photos en studio avec Stevie Wonder et Michael Jackson, ainsi qu'avec les artistes Willem de Kooning et Gilbert et George. Constamment pleine de fraîcheur et de spontanéité, son œuvre dénote une chaleur et une intuition pour choisir le moment précis saisissant l'essence de n'importe quel sujet. Qu'il s'agisse de ses enfants, de célébrités, d'animaux ou des moments fugaces de la vie quotidienne, elle les photographia tous sans prétention ni artifice. Ce volume rétrospectif - une sélection brillante au sein de ses archives de plus de 200 000 images - a été réalisé en collaboration étroite avec Paul McCartney et leurs enfants. En tant que tel, il constitue un témoignage émouvant et marquant du talent de Linda.

Life in Photographs

Saul Leiter

This is a reprint of the immensely successful Early Color (2008), which presented Leiter's remarkable body of colour work to the public for the first time in book form. Although Edward Steichen had exhibited some of Leiter's colour photography at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, it remained virtually unknown to the world thereafter. Leiter moved to New York in 1946 to become a painter, yet through his friendship with Richard Pousette-Dart he quickly recognized the creative potential of photography. Leiter continued to paint, exhibiting with Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning, but the camera remained his ever-present means of recording life in the metropolis. None of Leiter's contemporaries, with the partial exception of Helen Levitt, assembled a comparable body of work: subtle, often abstract compositions of lyrical, eloquent colour.

Early Color

Ernst van Alphen

Rebecca Daniels

Margarita Cappock

Twenty years after the artist's death, this new publication presents a timely and rich overview of the life and work of Francis Bacon. The book includes some 60 paintings as well as photographs, ephemera and archival material largely drawn from the artists studio. An introduction and four essays by international experts look at specific aspects of Bacon's work, from detailed analysis of archival material to a study of the influences of Marcel Duchamp. The paintings divide into a thematic chronology of five decades: the 1940s, which looks at the figure studies closely related to Bacon's famous Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion; the 1950s, where his work is informed by Velázquez and van Gogh, but is also dominated by ambiguous, shadowy figures in sombre tones; the 1960s and 70s, which focus on the portraits and subsequent memorials to Bacon's lover George Dyer, who died in 1971; the 1980s, while calmer and more naturalistic, reveal more haunted works which make reference to classical mythology and epic poetry. Each decade is defined by influences in his life and motifs which form part of an evolving pictorial language.

Five Decades

Francis Bacon

Barbara Dawson

In celebration of the centenary of Bacon's birth, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane organised the first exhibition to concentrate on the methods, materials and processes through which this major artist achieved his paintings. The exhibition draws on the vast archive of material archaeologically retrieved from Bacon's studio and housed in Dublin. The accompanying catalogue will present new scholarship and insights, with texts by Rebecca Daniels, Barbara Dawson, Marcel Fincke, Martin Harrison, Jessica O'Donnell, Joanna Shepard and Logan Sisley.

A Terrible Beauty

A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film stills, and images from the media. In this new, updated edition of In Camera, Martin Harrison reveals how these sources informed some of Bacon’s most important paintings and triggered decisive turning points in the artist’s stylistic development. Key influences—including the masters Diego Velázquez, Nicolas Poussin, and Auguste Rodin; the photographer Eadweard Muybridge; and the film director Sergei Eisenstein—are given close consideration. Bacon’s work is examined in relation to the precedents set by other artists who made use of mechanical reproductions, including Pablo Picasso and Walter Sickert, and in the context of his contemporaries Lucian Freud, Mark Rothko, Graham Sutherland, and Patrick Heron. With over 270 color illustrations, including valuable source images and documents, In Camera is a bravura accomplishment of original research, addressing important questions about Bacon’s painting practice and shedding fresh light on his life and work.

Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting

In Camera - Francis Bacon

David Bailey

If David Bailey was the quintessential London photographer during the Swinging Sixties, the photographs he produced in the 1970s reflect a radical reorientation. As can be seen in this comprehensive selection, his subject matter became truly international. across the world that fascinated him. Alongside these photographs, this volume presents images from his 1970s fashion sittings (featuring Marie Helvin, Penelope Tree and Anjelica Huston), as well as his portraits of subjects ranging from Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger to Margaret Thatcher and Mother Teresa. His acclaimed television documentaries on Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton and Luchino Visconti provided yet more opportunities for compelling stills.

The 1970s Archive

David Bailey - Locations

Theatre has provided many words and meanings which we use - ignorant of their origins - in everyday writing and speech. This is the first book to explore 2000 theatre terms in depth, in some cases tracing their history over two and a half millennia, in others exploring expressions less than a decade old. Terms are defined, shown in use and cross referenced in ways which will fascinate theatregoers, help serious theatre students and encourage those actively engaged in the theatre to examine the familiar from new angles.

Theatre

Israel's dramatic, never-before-published photographs portray a young Elvis Presley during a pivotal year in his career, capturing his magnetic sensuality, physical grace, and innate sense of style. 61 photos.

Elvis Presley 1956

Catherine Chermayeff

Lillian Bassman

This monograph of Bassman's legendary work - the first ever published - presents the romantic, experimental visions, seen mostly in Harper's Bazaar, that brought a sophisticated new aesthetic to print photography. Yet the story of Bassman's life and newfound celebrity at age eight and the extraordinary tale of how her work survived are as remarkable as the images themselves. From the 1940s to the 1960s Bassman was at fashion's cutting edge, working as both art director and photographer. At Junior Bazaar she worked with young photographers like Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Arnold Newman and Paul Himmel. Then, under Russian emigre and Modernist guru Alexey Brodovitch (and while using George Hoyningen-Huene's darkroom), Bassman started to shoot pictures herself - diffuse, moody images with an idiosyncratic vocabulary of gestures, and an unsettling edge. Bassman soon was in constant demand and, in addition to her editorial work, shot advertising campaigns for clients like Chanel and Balenciaga. By the 1970s, Bassman's interest in pure form began to clash with fashion's changing aesthetic. Her increasing disenchantment with fashion as an industry led her to abandon commercial photography for personal projects instead. In a bold attempt to free herself creatively from the past, she jettisoned forty years of negatives and prints - her life's work. Over twenty years later, luck resurrected a forgotten bag, brimful of hundreds of images. Now, Bassman is enjoying a resurgence at fashion's forefront, with exhibitions at museums and art galleries in New York, Paris, London, and Milan, several portfolios in the New York Times Magazine, the coveted Neiman Marcus campaign, and an upcoming 1997 retrospective exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, that plans to travel to Germany and Milan. This long-awaited monograph, presenting both past and recent work, is not only a tribute to a great talent in the annals of fashion and photography but also the story of an indomitable creative personality.

Christopher Bucklow

The latest book in the acclaimed Francis Bacon Studies series, this volume explores little-known aspects of Bacon’s life and work and includes never before published paintings by the artist. Francis Bacon: Shadows continues in the revelatory mode established by Inside Francis Bacon. It comprises six essays on diverse topics, interpretative as well as factual, which cumulatively present an abundance of fresh ideas and information about Bacon. The fundamental aim of the series—to rethink Bacon’s art from new perspectives—is impressively fulfilled by the eminent authors. Martin Harrison opens the book with some hitherto unseen Bacon-related photographs and includes a tribute to the great Bacon scholar, David Boxer (1946–2017). Christopher Bucklow turns his attention to the contrast between Bacon’s art and the art of our own times, setting Bacon in the context of Romantic Modernism’s confidence in the unconscious as a source. Amanda Harrison’s essay explores imagery in Bacon’s paintings that relates to esoteric, mythological, and alchemical themes, while Stefan Haus draws on the ideas of philosophers from Plato to Hegel to consider the impact of Bacon’s art. Hugh Davies’s unexpurgated 1973 Bacon Diaries are published here in their entirety for the first time, revealing a more complete view of Bacon as both man and artist. Sophie Pretorius examines Tate’s Barry Joule Archive, a collection of working materials and drawings attributed to Bacon. Finally, Martin Harrison explores Francis Bacon’s Lost Paintings—works Bacon dubbed “failures” but which were photographed before he destroyed them; they are published here for the very first time.

Francis Bacon: Shadows

Frank Robertson McKim

This edition has been updated to provide the information needed to learn and master the essentials of physics. It offers a self-contained course for individual study or classroom use which requires no prior knowledge. Questions and examples are also included.

Mastering Physics

Photographs and Words from the World of Fashion

Fashion Faces Up

Richard Calvocoressi

Henry Moore

Francis Warner

Illustrates stunning works by two giants of twentieth-century western art. Highlights the important influences and experiences shared by Henry Moore and Francis Bacon, and explores specific themes in their work.

Flesh and Bone

Francis Bacon, Henry Moore

More than two hundred duotone and color photographs from Britain's most famous photographer highlight a retrospective look at the London of the 1960s, when David Bailey ran with and documented the hippest and most trend-setting figures of the era.

Birth of the Cool, 1957-1969

Valentine M. Moghadam

Rodney Wilson

Emma Murphy

Jerry W. Wright

A Case Study of the Textiles and Garments Industry

Manufacturing and Women in the Middle East and North Africa

Draws on a broad range of source images and documents to discuss the role of photography, film stills, and mass-media imagery in some of Francis Bacon's most important paintings and stylistic development, in an account that places Bacon's work in context of the mechanical reproduction process and the influences of his time. Reprint.

Christoph Becker

Oliver Wick

Oskar Bätschmann

Diethard Leopold

Painter Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) produced his main body of work within the space of ten years. His famous nudes probed unwaveringly the existential core of human experience. This paintings of Jenny Saville are no less intensely physical and confrontational than Schiele's. This catalogue brings together the works of these two artists for the first time, revealing stylistic and thematic affinities in their body-landscapes and portraits - despite the decades separating their work and the difference in their brushwork. The paintings and drawings of both artists lend the body an insistent corporeality. In Schiele's usually small-format self-portraits, the pose, the accentuated view from below and gestural style give the images an impact equal to the forceful punch of Saville's giant forms.

Egon Schiele - Jenny Saville

Martin Harrison is a writer whose poetry is both a meditation and a meeting place between the immensity of Australian environment and the hi-tech urbane world of everyday Western life. In this new collection, Harrison has gathered together some of his best works and included some alluring and lyrical new works.

New and Selected Poems

Wild Bees

Swedish by birth, Parisian by inclination, and American following her marriage to Irving Penn in 1950. Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992) was the most sought-after model in the history of international fashion photography for three decades and the most famous face in such magazines as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. During her long career, she posed for all the prominent photographers of her day: George Hoyningen-Huene, Man Ray, Horst, Erwin Blumenfeld, George Platt Lynes, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Norman Parkinson and Richard Avedon, among others. Of special importance was her work with Fernand Fonssagrives, her first husband; with Horst, with whom she shared a common fate as a European immigrant; and of course with Irving Penn, her second husband. Lisa Fonssagrives was obviously more than just a model for photographers - she was both their muse and inspiration. Many of them made their most beautiful and noteworthy fashion photographs in cooperation with her. Among these is a surprisingly large number which rank among the absolute classics in the history of fashion photography of our century. This volume was compiled and arranged by David Seidner, a talented fashion photographer of the new generation who unearthed an undiscovered collection of photographs which once belonged to Lisa Fonssagrives. The British photo historian Martin Harrison wrote the accompanying biographical essay.

Paul Le Blanc

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