RAMSON, SIDSEL EN FOTOGRAFISK ODYSSÉ / A PHOTOGRAPHIC ODYSSEY.
Author: Ramson, Sidsel
Country: Italy
Code: 6714
Language: English/ Danish
Year Published: 2010
No. of pages: 360
Illustrations: 51 Color Illustrations. 225 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 12”x 11”
Weight: 7.00
Price: 80.00
Sidsel Ramson was born in Norway in 1937. She received her education in Copenhagen, at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Paris. Her special gift for quickly bonding with people has allowed her to take photos in situations where others would have been refused; she has an ability to glide in and out of people's daily lives, without disturbing them. She works in the tradition of "concerned photography" established by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and David Seymour. She currently lives and works in France and Denmark. This amazing book includes documentary photography from China, Peru, Burma,
Rixon, Annica Karlsson: TODAY TOMORROW FOREVER. Selected Works 1991-2006
Author: Hultman, Marianne, Curator
Country: Sweden
Code: 5981
Language: English/ Swedish
Year Published: 2006
No. of pages: 79
Illustrations: 35 Color Illustrations. 32 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”x 8”
Weight: 1.00
Price: 39.50
Rixon has made a name for herself in 1991 with the exhibition Equals: Contemporary Swedish Photography at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Her early photographic works touch upon symbolism and surrealism. But her intentions are more pronounced and at the same time characteristic of her time. In the middle of the 1990s, Annica Karlsson Rixon lived in California. In a series of portraits of friends and peers from this period she raises questions of identity and the constructions of history. From this point on, portraits become an important element in her production. She has gradually made her works part of increasingly large installations. This exhibition includes works from 1991 until the present.
RØDLAND, TORBJØRN: GRAV MED UTSIKT / TOMBE AVEC VUE / GRAVE WITH A VIEW.
Author: Woltmann, Marit, ed
Country: Norway
Code: 5778
Language: English/French/Norwegian
Year Published: 2003
No. of pages: 95
Illustrations: 39 Color Illustrations. 21 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
Price: 49.50
The early nineties witnessed the emergence of a new generation of young artists in Norway who saw photography as a valid means of expression. Rødland is a key figure in the developments in Norway and has made his mark internationally. Fascinated by American appropriation art, he engages in a reflection over nature - with particular references to Norwegian National Romanticism - firmly from the perspective of the present day. In his photographic works he creates images of his reflections on cliches and meta-images in relation to religion and sentimentality, often with a particularly sharp ironic undercurrent. The retrospective exhibition shows a decade-long process of development in his work, with its condensed and consistent mode of expression and common thematic structure.
Rødland, Torbjørn: VANILLA PARTNER.
Author: Rødland, Torbjørn
Country: United Kingdom
Code: 6761
Language: English
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 158
Illustrations: 67 Color Illustrations. 18 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
Price: 175.00
Torbjørn Rødland's photography is direct but idiosyncratic, pushing at the boundaries of aesthetic and social norms. His fifth book, Vanilla Partner, continues in this vein, combining images of fetishized isolation in a layout that rejects the linear structure of thematic photography books. Rødland’s practice navigates through the problematic and seemingly unchanging heart of popular photography. Accepting neither the humanist realism of most photographic portraiture nor the postmodern role-play, Vanilla Partner explores the cultural complexities and archaic foundation of contemporary image-making. Reconstructed scenes of ultrasoft BDSM read like twisted metaphors for photography’s ability to freeze or capture. The book title, dripping in innuendo, also poses a question about the ambiguity of the relationship between the artist and his medium. Is Rødland acknowledging the medium’s straight foundation or does he see himself dominated by it? Many of the images also have explicit political references, often linked to the 1980 US Presidential election. Vanilla Partner brings together works made in Oslo, Tokyo, Beijing and Rødland’s current home, Los Angeles. Torbjørn Rødland was born in 1970 in Hafrsfjord, Norway. Since the mid-90s his photographs have been exhibited widely.
Sarje, Kimmo: ASUNTO VALTAKADULLA AN APARTMENT ON THE PROSPEKT.
Author: Sarje, Kimmo
Country: Finland
Code: 6985
Language: English/Russian/Finnish
Year Published: 2014
No. of pages: 104
Illustrations: 63 Color Illustrations. 7 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
Price: 29.50
Kimmo Sarje is a doctor of philosophy and a visual artist. He participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York in 1986–1987. He is Adjunct Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Helsinki and lecturer at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki. He has worked as a researcher, critic, curator and artist. In all these roles, he has steeped himself in issues of modernity, postmodernity and socialism. Sarje has written and edited numerous books about art, architecture and philosophy, and he has works in the collections of major art museums in Finland. His montage exhibition Apartment on the Prospect, which examined Finland, Karelia and Russia, was presented in Helsinki in 2011. Sarje received Yrjö Hirn prize in 2012.