 FEATURED IMAGEFeatured image, "Untitled #74" (1980), is reproduced from Cindy Sherman, the catalog to the artist's landmark mid-career retrospective, opening this week at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. According to The New York Times' Carol Vogel, "As visitors get off the escalator at MoMA, they will be enveloped in 18-foot-tall images of Ms. Sherman standing amid a bucolic black-and-white setting that she shot in Central Park. 'It’s like walking into Cindyland,' [curator Eva] Respini said on a recent afternoon as she was overseeing workers applying the contact paper to the museum’s walls.
There Ms. Sherman emerges in yet another mind-boggling array of characters: a circus juggler; a woman clad in a body suit with pointy bosoms, nipples and pubic hair (discovered in a Tokyo department store); an aging woman in a long red dress.
'You think you may know them,' Ms. Respini said. 'But in fact the more you look at them, the more complex and darker they seem. The same could be said of Cindy. How can such a mild-mannered, nice woman have such a wicked imagination that keeps inventing these fantastical characters over and over again?'"
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| FROM THE SHELVES | Staff Selections | FROM THE SHELVES | BestsellersBestselling Books on Art, Photography, Architecture & Design | FEATURED LIBRARY Appropriating imagery from existing media, the artists Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, and Cindy Sherman became known as the Pictures Generation. continue
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| NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS Cindy Sherman By Eva Respini. Text by Johanna Burton. Interview by John Waters. Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman’s work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist’s 35-year career. Showcasing approximately >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708121
US $60.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 153 color / 102 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective Text by Jennifer Blessing, Sandra S. Phillips. Interview by Jan van Adrichem. This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on Rineke Dijkstra to be published in the United States. The catalogue accompanies the first U.S. mid-career survey of this important Dutch artist’s work in photography and video; >>more
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892074242
US $55.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Active/In stock Anna Bauer: Backstage Edited by Fabien Baron. Introduction by Tim Blanks. Anna Bauer's Backstage is a comprehensive portrait of the protagonists of fashion in the twenty-first century's first decade: not just the designers but the entire cast of PR agents, photographers, make-up artists, art directors, editors >>more
Angelika Books
ISBN 9783943287004
US $125.00 CAN $125.00 SDNR50
Hbk, 10.5 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 234 quadratone.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Active/In stock Aaron Stern: Everyone Must Be Announced Foreword by Aaron Stern. New York photographer Aaron Stern records the euphoria and communal joy of attending music gigs, in these images of bands such as Sonic Youth, Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Animal Collective, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Phoenix, >>more
S&H Publishers
ISBN 9780983071693
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Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 100 pgs / 24 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Active/In stock Photographs Not Taken Edited by Will Steacy. Introduction by Lyle Rexer. Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers’ essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph--camera, lens, film--and instead >>more
Daylight
ISBN 9780983231615
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 223 pgs.
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