@Earth
R60@earth is as revolutionary in form as it is in content. It contains no words: instead it tells its story in the universal language of photomontage, long the favoured medium of radical artists.
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Out of stockA World in Common
R1170A celebration of the visual and cultural landscape of contemporary African photography, this stunning exhibition book offers critical insight from the perspectives of Africa’s leading artists and thinkers.
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Alexander Mcqueen – Fashion Visionary by Judith Watt
R460A retrospective of McQueen’s groundbreaking designs and a salute to his artistry the book showcases his work from his graduate collection at Central Saint Martins to his latest designs created just days before his untimely death. Celebrating his work and vision Alexander McQueen: The Life and the Legacy traces the designer’s ascent to becoming one…
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Andy Warhol exhibition book (paperback)
R630Offering up new insight into Andy Warhol’s expanded art practice, presenting his life and work within the context of his time, this outstanding paperback exhibition catalogue emphasises how Warhol continues to be a relevant figure in a digital age. With illustrations of familiar and lesser-known aspects of Warhol’s career, an interview with former Factory insider,…
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Atmos
R900Published in association with Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York. Hatakeyama’s color work is marked by two overarching qualities. The first is a studious quality where the careful compositions and richness of detail associated with large format photography lend the work an impressive formal rigour. Complementing this formality is an attraction to the visual dynamics of industry and production.
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Cuttings – Candice Breitz
R100The O.K Center for Contemporary Art presents the first comprehensive exhibition of the penetrating multimedia work of Candice Breitz (SA/USA).
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Disavowals
R200First published in 1930 in a limited edition of only 500, Disavowals is recognised as Claude Cahun’s key work and a lost masterpiece of Surrealist literature. It is now made available to an English-speaking readership for the first time.
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Don’t Kiss Me: Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
R500Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were an extraordinary couple who worked and lived together for more than 40 years. Cahun and Moore were the pseudonyms for Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who met in their teens and embarked on their unique relationship. They travelled from provincial Nantes to the hot-house atmosphere of Paris and finally to Jersey, where they found the space and freedom to develop their ideas but where they were to suffer imprisonment during the Nazi occupation for their Resistance activities.
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Expanding the Universe: The Hubble Space Telescope
R750With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy but also our very sense of being in the universe. On the 30th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, this updated edition of Expanding Universe presents 30 brand new images, unveiling more hidden gems from the Hubble’s archives.
Ultra-high resolution and taken with almost no background light, these pictures have answered some of the most compelling questions of time and space while also revealing new mysteries, like the strange “dark energy” that sees the universe expanding at an ever-accelerating rate.
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Gordon Parks: Born Black
R1485Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks’ Born Black was the first book to unite his writing and his photography and also the first to provide a focused survey of Parks’ documentation of a crucial time for the civil rights and Black Power movements.
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Helmut Newton: Photofile
R160Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was born in Berlin. He lived and worked all over the world and was one of the most internationally famous and controversial photographers of his time. His shots of haute couture and the beau monde are instantly recognizable, having appeared in virtually every major magazine in Europe and the United States.
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Imprint
R780Born in Nagoya in 1964, Hibi has lived in New York since 1988. Trained as an actor and filmmaker, he began making still photographs shortly after his arrival in the United States. He found himself as much at home, and as much a stranger, in his new surroundings as he had in his old. Imprint opens with a facsimile of a handwritten note dated 1988, written to a friend in Japan, which serves as an introduction to the pictures that follow.
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In the Beginning: Anselm Kiefer & Photography
R875This book presents over 130 works charting the artist’s relationship with photography, and his investigations into what images reveal.
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Josef Koudelka: Ruins
Original price was: R1815.R910Current price is: R910.Ruins is a monument of architectural and cultural history, as well as civilizations long past. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, this volume includes enlightening texts by a Greek studies expert, curator, and agricultural engineer that cast another look at antiquity and its ruins.
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L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
R625Like most of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is temporary and runs for 16 days from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. Carried out in close collaboration with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the historic structure is wrapped in recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and recyclable red rope. The project is the posthumous realisation of a long-held dream for Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who first drew up plans to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in 1961 while renting a small room near the monument.
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Lorna Simpson: Revised & Expanded Edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)
Original price was: R1485.R740Current price is: R740.This landmark book documents Simpson’s career in its entirety, up to her most recent work – Simpson’s portrait of Rihanna for the January 2021 cover of Essence has been deemed as one of the most iconic fashion images ever made by a panel of experts in The New York Magazine.
