Carol Squiers Libri

Helmut Newton's "Portraits" showcases a stunning collection of portraits featuring the beautiful people from the international realms of film, art, and fashion, created from 1974 onwards for prestigious magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar, as well as elite art publications. This volume gathers his photographs of renowned film stars, fashion designers, actors, artists, writers, pop musicians, and photographers, capturing the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie with the audacity of a Roman paparazzo. With technical perfection, boldness, and a strong stylistic vision, Newton masterfully portrays the psychological drama between the glamour of show business and the desire for recognition among his subjects. The collection includes portraits of notable figures such as Paloma Picasso, Catherine Deneuve, Hanna Schygulla, Romy Schneider, Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Andy Warhol, Sophia Loren, Liz Taylor, Mick Jagger, Kim Basinger, Jack Nicholson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nastassja Kinski, and many others.

The ecstatic face of a disco dancer in Berlin; a rural panorama in Derry, where a country road has been made into a Pollock-like canvas of red, white and blue; an ashtray, framed by a lacy spray of blood in a Barcelona toilet. Paul Graham uses and abuses classic genres of photography -- the portrait, the landscape, the still life -- to map a cultural topography. His jewel-like colours and unsettling compositions reveal how social relations and political trauma are inscribed in the everyday. This book brings together for the first time all of Graham's successive series, from his journey along the A1 in Britain to intimate studies of Japan. Graham's work has been celebrated in shows around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Gallery, London.

This book combines a first person account of the events of September 11 with a uniquely artistic view of the DNA recovery effort. Gripping texts and award winning photography combine to create a unique documentary of Mikey Flowers' experience. On the morning of September 11, 2001, a florist and volunteer Emergency Medical Technician named Mikey Flowers grabbed his digital camera and ran the few blocks from his store to the World Trade Center after the first plane hit the north tower. That day he helped people who escaped the towers, tended to the injured, and miraculously survived when the south tower collapsed. When he was able he took pictures of the stupefying chaotic scene. The images that Flowers took became the basis of a collaboration with the artist Kevin Clarke, whose studio was also near the WTC. Since 1988, Clarke has been making unique portraits combining photographic images and his subject's DNA sequences. For this collaboration, Clarke used Flowers' images of 9/11 and its aftermath for portraits of people who survived the attacks or who were involved in the rescue effort. The contents of this book are the subject of an exhibition tour which opened at the International Center of Photography in New York, June 28-September 1, 2002.