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KAREN KNORR
Text by Quentin Bajac, Kathy Kubicki, Alfonso de la Torre.
LA FáBRICA/UNIVERSIDAD DE CóRDOBA
ISBN: 9788415303664 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2012
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PHILIPPE CHANCEL: DESERT SPIRIT
Text by Quentin Bajac.
EDITIONS XAVIER BARRAL
ISBN: 9782915173529 | US $105.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2010
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PRAHA, PARIS, BARCELONA
LA FáBRICA/MNAC MUSEU NACIONAL D'ART DE CATALUNYA
ISBN: 9788492841028 | US $70.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2010
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FASHION MAGAZINE BY LISE SARFATI
Contributions by Azzedine Alaïa, Rick Owens, Carla Sozzani, Quentin Bajac.
MAGNUM PHOTOS
ISBN: 9782952410229 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 1/1/2009
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Quentin Bajac

Karen Knorr

Text by Quentin Bajac, Kathy Kubicki, Alfonso de la Torre.
Published by La Fábrica/Universidad de Córdoba

This catalogue accompanies the first retrospective of Karen Knorr (born 1954), winner of the Fifth Pilar Citoler International Contemporary Photography Award. The full range of her 35 years of work is presented here, from Punks (1976–1977), Gentlemen (1981–1983) and Connoisseurs (1986–1990), to Academies (1994–2005), Fables (2003–2008) and India Song (2008–2011).

Philippe Chancel: Desert Spirit

Text by Quentin Bajac.
Published by Editions Xavier Barral

Photographer Philippe Chancel (born 1959) has mined the terrain between art, documentary and journalism for over 20 years. Between 2007 and 2009, Chancel made several visits to the United Arab Emirates, and found a country overwhelming in its architectural giganticism and astounding in its determination to domesticate a hostile environment. The resultant feeling of artifice is ubiquitous: the desert grows green, seawater is desalinated and new islands rise out of the sea. Moving from one air-conditioned space to another, from apartment to limousine, from limousine to shopping mall, from shopping mall to theme park, Chancel found irresistible pictures to take at every turn. Under his gaze, the United Arab Emirates is laid bare as the realization of the consumer society ideal, in which humans exist in a wholly manmade domain. With his characteristic frontal, distanced framing, devoid of judgment and emotion, Chancel portrays a country that is at once baffling and fascinating.

Praha, Paris, Barcelona

Photographic Modernity 1918-1948

Edited by David Balsells. Text by Maite Ocaña, Oliva María Rubio, David Balsells, Jan Mlcoch, Quentin Bajac, Juan Naranjo, Salvador Dalí.
Published by La Fábrica/MNAC Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Examining the revolution in photography that took place across Europe between 1918 and 1945, this enormous and bold survey orients its examination of the era around three cities, each of which served as a nexus for major developments in the medium: París, Prague and Barcelona. Until the First World War, photography had largely followed the aesthetics of painting; during and after the war, such movements as Constructivism, Moholy-Nagy's New Vision and Surrealism led photography to new frontiers, developing techniques and styles that took the medium strictly on its own terms. Demonstrating the interconnectedness of these tendencies, this volume assesses the contributions of each of these cities. Photographers based in Paris during these years include Man Ray, Brassai, Emmanuel Sougez, Hans Bellmer, Jacques-André Boiffard, Germaine Krull, André Kertész, François Collar, Claude Cahun, Florence Henri, Andreas Feininger, Eli Lotar, Dora Maar, Roger Parry and Raul Ubac; in Prague, Josef Sudek, Frantisek Drtikol, Jaroslav Rössler, Eugen Wiskovsk, Jaromír Funke, Karel Teige, Ladislav Berka, Jan Lauschmann, Josef Bartuska, Jindrich Styrsky and Karel Kasparik; and in Barcelona, Pere Català Pic, Josep Masana, Josep Sala, Josep Lladó, Emili Godes, Antoni Arissa, Gabriel Casas, Salvador Dalí and Joaquim Gomis.

Fashion Magazine by Lise Sarfati

Austin, Texas

Contributions by Azzedine Alaïa, Rick Owens, Carla Sozzani, Quentin Bajac.
Published by Magnum Photos

This edition of Fashion Magazine is devoted solely to the work of French photographer Lise Sarfati. In her portraiture, Sarfati dramatizes the intensities of fashionably clad adolescence in the insolently sensual creatures she encounters on the roads of America. Couching their lightly worn street elegance in moody sobriety, Sarfati presses pause on the activities in which her subjects are engaged and extracts their quintessential sensuality, to produce a type of photography that partakes of both fashion and portraiture idioms without quite belonging to either. Redolent in this respect of Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, in which the camera deliberately and continually "overgrooms" the emotional drama, Sarfati's work is likewise utterly seductive and compelling.
Lise Sarfati obtained a master's degree in Russian studies from the Sorbonne in Paris, where she was the official photographer of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. She moved to Russia in 1989 and photographed there for 10 years. She has received the Prix Niépce in Paris and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York for her work and is a member of Magnum Photos. In recent years she has been living and working in the United States. Sarfati is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, Rose Gallery in Los Angeles and Magnum Gallery in Paris.