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    Mikey Flowers 9/11 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to DNA
    Paul Graham
    Portraits
    • Helmut Newton: Portraits Helmut Newton realisierte seine prachtvolle Portraitkollektion der beautiful people aus der internationalen Welt des Films, der Künste und der Moden ab 1974 als Auftragsarbeiten für große Magazine wie Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, aber auch für elitäre Kunstzeitschriften wie Egoiste und Wolkenkratzer. Sie alle sind in diesem Band versammelt. In seinen Photographien der bekanntesten Filmstars, Modeschöpfer, Schauspieler, Künstler, Schriftsteller, Popmusiker und Photographen hat Newton den diskreten Charme der Bourgeoisie mit der Unverfrorenheit eines römischen Paparazzo abgerichtet. Mit höchster technischer Perfektion, Frechheit und starkem Stilwillen hielt er das psychologische Drama zwischen dem Glamour des Showbusiness und dem Geltungsbedürfnis seiner Modelle in meisterhaften Photographien fest. Der Band enthält Portraits von 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 und vielen anderen.

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    • Paul Graham

      • 160 Seiten
      • 6 Lesestunden

      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.

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    • 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.

      Mikey Flowers 9/11 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to DNA