Mw editions sep 2026 (3 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This poignant photobook offers parallels between the aging body and the cycles of growth and decay found in natureAs a young girl growing up in the American South, photographer Lauren Shaw (born 1946) watched her mother wield her armor of attractiveness--her vanity--against the passage of time. Later in life, Shaw's mother was struck by Alzheimer's disease, and her impeccable self-presentation began to crumble.In Traces of Impermanence, Shaw examines her own relationship to aging, documenting her body yielding to the natural progression of time--its scars, bruises and marks reflecting resilience, vulnerability and a record of a life lived. These are juxtaposed with poetic images from the natural world, showing the interplay between beauty and imperfection, growth and decay, each shaping and deepening the presence of the other. Along with Shaw's own written reflections on aging, the photobook contains essays by esteemed art critic Lucy Lippard and writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Spidery networks of veins, splotches and other marks of inflammation captures the invisible scars--physical and emotional--we carry from the Covid-19 pandemicIn early 2021, more than a year after the Covid-19 pandemic began, vaccines for the disease had finally become available. Photographer Linda Alterwitz was curious about the vaccine's effects after a neighbor complained of continued pain in her arm nine days after she received it. Using a camera that registers heat, rather than light, Alterwitz was astonished to see dark, contrasting patterns on her friend's arm that spread out toward her breast and shoulder. This photograph--intimate, ephemeral, scientific, and moving--led to Injection Site, in which she photographed the arms of more than 130 participants from 2021 to 2023. Alterwitz explained to each person that she was using a heat camera to make thermographic images, rendering visible their bodies' reactions to the Covid vaccine. She emphasized to the participants that it was not a scientific experiment, but a unique way of documenting the pandemic.Injection Site illustrates a moment when the entire world faced a common threat and extends the ongoing examination of how Covid-19 has shaped our collective consciousness. The photographs--showing spidery networks of veins, splotches and other visible marks of inflammation in the human body--provoke curiosity about how our experiences could be simultaneously intensely individual but also universal. Although the memory of the pandemic may no longer sit at the forefront of our minds, it continues to create anxiety about our future. We continue to live amid a perfect storm of global warming, overpopulation, habitat loss and global migration that brings us ever closer to the next planetary threat.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An arresting photo collection that addresses oceanic commerce and environmental fragility in our uncertain eraThe massive transoceanic barges that travel along the Inside Passage carrying goods to and from Alaskan waters often port in Duwamish, Washington, a deeply polluted river ecosystem that flows into the Salish Sea. The images in Leviathan Rising, taken by American photographer Eirik Johnson (born 1974), capture the patinated exteriors of these beastly structures and transform scale, perspective and light. The volume also contains a series of unique daguerreotype photograms, created in collaboration with photographer Daniel Carrillo, depicting glass floats used by early 20th-century Japanese fishermen to suspend their nets in the Pacific Ocean. Sylvia Wolf, director emerita of the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, contributes an essay on a site-specific installation of this body of work, and Los Angeles-based musician and writer Sam Hockley-Smith addresses the sound component of the exhibited work, composed of aquatic field recordings that Johnson made beneath the surface of the Duwamish River.…