Ruth Kaplan BATHERS ENG GR “Bathers” by Canadian photographer Ruth Kaplan explores the social theatre of communal bathing. Kaplan began this ten-year project in 1991, photographing bathers in hot springs, bathhouses and hamams from California to Eastern Europe, and from Western Europe high-tech spas to Icelandic hot springs and Moroccan traditional bathhouses, where social bonding is …
eng ‘Bathers’ explores the social theater of communal bathing, a ritual that is both private and public. Ruth Kaplan’s journey began in the nudist hot springs of California in 1991. By participating in the baths, Kaplan gradually became accepted, and was able to make photographs of her fellow bathers, occupying the dual role of voyeur …
eng “East of nowhere” offers us a poetic vision of human perseverance and shows the reality of daily life in central and eastern Europe before and after the fall of the wall from Berlin. In 1987, Fabio Ponzio embarked on a photographic odyssey across central, eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Departing from Istanbul, he heads …
eng The Mississippi Delta has been called «The Most Southern Place on Earth», a region of layered histories that collide with each other on a daily basis. It is a place that defines America like no other part of the country – a culture entwined with slavery, poverty, and political and economic oppression. It is …
eng Now firmly established as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color, when he was already in his eighties. Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm, Leiter portrayed midcentury New York’s street life with a …
eng Publisher’s Description The result of more than eight years of intense work in Italy and elsewhere, Theatrum Equorum is acclaimed photographer Andrea Modica’s latest monograph with TIS books. As the title indicates, Modica’s interest lies in the drama of the horse – but her approach is one that completely upends expectations for such an exploration. Using her …
Francesco Merlini THE FLOOD eng “Tragedy in classical theory is supposed to inspire both pity and terror, but the daily horror and violence of world news often leave us struggling to produce those responses. No one can really feel on cue the emotions apparently required of us by a daily news stream of anniversaries of …
eng Since 2014, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been returning to the small town of Black River Falls in Wisconsin, creating the photographs that would come to form the stark and elliptical series Some Say Ice. The same town is the subject of Wisconsin Death Trip, a book of photographs taken by Charles Van Schaick in the late 1800s …
eng In Snow, Vanessa Winship’s latest monograph, we see that what’s not entirely comprehended is far more compelling than what is well understood. Perhaps that’s a truism, but it’s one that is rejuvenated and refreshed by each new and peculiar telling. This book is just such a revelation. The origins of Snow lie in a …
eng Veles is a provincial town of 40,000 inhabitants which has lost much of its economic base in recent decades—an enormous steel smelter, a porcelain factory and other industry lie abandoned. During the 2016 US presidential election, the town became a hub for ‘Fake News’ production. Tech-savvy local youth created hundreds of clickbait websites posing …
