Alfred Seiland: Imperium Romanum Opus Extractum


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For many years now, Alfred Seiland (*1952 in St. Michael, Austria) has been visiting antique sites around the Mediterranean, capturing them with his analogue, large-format camera. His destinations are the ruins of the Roman Empire from Egypt, Libya, and Israel to Italy, and the museums of Spain to Turkey. His motifs are often difficult to access-some are not public places and otherwise hidden from tourists. Seiland's photographs confront the viewer with themes that shed light on the conflict between antiquity and modernity. They mirror famous showplaces of history with their architecture, sculpture, and works of art. Alfred Seiland condenses moments into perfect compositions, employing color like a painter. Nevertheless, some of the photographs are unsettling, because they time and again tell of the destruction by humans of antique legacies.0Exhibition: Rmisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, Germany (7.11.2013-30.3.2014) / Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxemburg (October 2013 - February 2014).







Ducati


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Nothing gets the heart of a two wheel enthusiast pounding faster than the sight of Casey Stoner pushing his fire breathing red rocket around the fastest race tracks throughout the world. The bike that has successfully supported his campaign is Ducati. This marque has risen over the last 20 years from virtual obscurity to enthusiast worship such as that of its four wheel cousin, Ferrari. In Ducati: A Photographic Tribute, photographer Phil Aynsley, a passionate devote of the Italian marque has captured the romance and excitement of these machines which includes rarely seen images of the Ducati factory plus intimate views from inside the pits of many MotoGP and World Superbike rounds. This is the ultimate must-have for all keen motorcycle enthusiasts.




Universal Tongue


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Universal Tongue' celebrates the great diversity of the global dance kaleidoscope in the era of the Internet. It was born from visual artist Anouk Kruithof?s fascination with dance videos distributed online as a representation of self-expression, cultural identity, empowerment and fun.00In collaboration with a team of 50 researchers from across the globe, she sourced over 8800 dance videos online, which were edited down to a 1000 unique dance styles that she blended into a dynamic 8 channel video installation with a four hour duration, accompanied by a unifying soundtrack. The researchers provided a short text for each dance style presented in their found videos. These 1000 edited texts combined with screenshots taken from the videos introduce the origin, background and meaning of the dance styles. Et voilà! this ?dancyclopedia? through the jungle of the Internet was born!00This book shows how dance can be a way of knowing about the world. It is by no means exclusive, final, or academic. It is a statement. Organized in alphabetical order by the first letter of each dance style, it confirms the horizontality of 'Universal Tongue', by erasing typical categories of the world order, such as country, continent, or culture. Instead, it points us towards a more inclusive world with a limitless exchange ? a world where simply everyone is a dancer.




Stages of Decay


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Julia Solis's photographs of abandoned theaters from across the United States and Europe conjure the remaining magic of the decaying buildings and rooms, though the screenings and performances ceased long ago -- Back cover.




Rainbow Transit


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Per-Anders Pettersson explores the complex daily realities of twenty years of democracy in South Africa.




Ducati


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Due to requests from thousands of worldwide Ducati enthusiasts, club members, motorcycle devotees and those who were not quick enough to buy Phil Aynsley's rare and sold out first book 'Ducati-A Photographic Tribute', GTI Media and Primer Books are releasing a new, 2nd volume, for all those who are passionate not only for Ducati but for anyone interested in motorcycles, photography and design.Recognised as the world's leading photographer of all things Ducati, Phil Aynsley is sought out and invited by private owners to document their collections, allowing Phil to share with us many rare and legendary bikes that would otherwise never be seen by Ducati aficionados.Phil Aynsley explores the amazing story of Ducati's road, race and lesser known non-motorcycle products. With a foreword by Livio Lodi, Museum Curator at Ducati Motor Spa and commentary by noted Ducati expert Ian Gowanloch, this collectable and stunningly designed book builds on the success of the first edition, featuring:- All new images of models ranging from the 1946 Cucciolo T1 motor right up to the latest 2014 Diavel- 100 motorcycles, including many rare Ducatis from private collections around the world, including bikes that have not been widely seen or raced since the 1950's and 60's. These include a 1959 125GP Desmo, 1960 250GP Twin and 1964 125GP Four- Never before seen in print photographs of Casey Stoner's championship winning 2007 Desmocedici GP7- Unusual treasures from Ducati's non-motorcycling past including naval binoculars, intercoms, adding machines, cameras, projectors, lenses, electrical components, industrial motors, electric razors and more.




Federalism in Greek Antiquity


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A comprehensive reassessment of federalism and political integration in antiquity, including detailed descriptions of all the Greek federal states.




Andreas Feininger


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"The camera is superior to the eye, and the photograph can, and ideally should, portray the world more graphic than reality itself." --Andreas Feininger The basic principles underlying the photographic art of Andreas Feininger are clarity, simplicity and organization. The eldest son of painter Lyonel Feininger, he was born in Paris in 1906. Upon completion of training as a cabinet-maker at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the early 1920s, he went on to study architecture in the state schools of Weimar and Zerbst. It was while working as an architectural photographer in Stockholm that he developed the sweeping vistas and fine balance for which his pictures were famous. Emigrating to New York following the outbreak of World War II, Feininger was hired as a photo-editor by Life magazine. In his own work, he captured images of urban canyons, skyscrapers, bridges and elevated railways in concentrated, atmospheric photographs that are regarded as classical works today. He applied the same enthusiasm to nature studies: his detail images of insects, flowers, shells, wood and stones imbue these forms with a sculptural character. That's Photography presents the work of this classic photographer, who died in 1999.




Paris, Autumn 1963


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"In October 1963, photographer André Kertész returned to Paris, almost thirty years after his emigration to the United States, for a retrospective of his work held at the Biblioth̀eque Nationale. Over a period of two and a half months, he devoted his days to photographing the ephemeral autumnal beauty of Paris--from Montmartre, Notre-Dame, and the Jardins du Luxembourg, to the Canal Saint-Martin and the banks of the Seine. Through the lens of his Leica camera, he produced more than 1,500 negatives and 313 color slides. From this wealth of images, he selected fifty-nine of his best photographs and crafted them into a ferroprussiate process blueprint for a book. This exceptional body of work remained unpublished during his lifetime but is reproduced here in its complete form for the first time, as the photographer intended."--Jacket.