The Odyssey of a Marine Corps Photographer in Vietnam
One Marine, one camera, and a front-row seat to history--Then All Hell Broke Loose is a gripping visual journey through the Vietnam War. The USNS Hugh J. Gaffey dropped anchor at 1430 hours on December 27, 1966, under an overcast sky at Da Nang, Vietnam. Standing on deck and taking his first look at Vietnam was PFC Dennis Irwin Fisher, a newly ......
He created the images using two analogue processes, one with a paper negative, the other produced using a complex colour-reversal process. 'These are representations of flowers, of course, but they are also signs of a complex improvisation with chemicals, paper, light, and time. I do not know what the image is going to be like at the start of the ......
Features of these training environments included costumed role-players, elaborate Hollywood-inspired sets and staged tableaus hinting at the imagined lives of far-away people. Those portrayed in the photographs include military personnel-often combat veterans playing the role of enemy combatants-immigrants from Iraq or Afghanistan intended to make ......
Featuring images alongside an insightful essay by renowned art historian Julian Stallabrass, it offers a perspective on a conflict that touches us all. The project's title comes from a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann; for a long time, it carried the working title 'Kowitsch'. What I saw then - and what I witness now - is a country caught between a ......
Shadow Boxers is a celebration of arguably the last great era of club boxing in New York. The world of real-life Rockys, a hard masculine world where any man had a chance to fight his way to fame, fortune and glory. In the late 1970s and early '80s John Cole spent over five years in New York's and New Jersey's seedy gyms and boxing venues, ......
McCullin's has been creating still life arrangements in his garden shed at home in Somerset since the early 1980s.Each still life has been lyrically constructed with the natural-cut flowers (lilies, fox-gloves, gladioli), fruit or fungi-often presented alongside beloved mementos of his travels; a bronze dragon from the orient, a junk shop vase, a ......
Filled with 150 gorgeous and intimate on-site bull arena event photographs, featuring 61 of the most notable and most important riders in the sport, and shot at all the major US nationwide events, the book features not only the prominent bull-riders themselves in action but the ambience and locations as well as the very active bulls and the crowds ......
The Pioneering Photography of George Bradford Brainerd
The American entrepreneur George Eastman has been called "the father of the snapshot," bringing photography to the masses with his compact Kodak camera in 1888. But more than a decade earlier, a Connecticut-born inventor devised ingenious hand-held cameras, which he used to record daily life on the streets of New York. As early as 1870, before dry ......
In 1997, on a commission to photograph a public building being made, Magnum photographer Mark Power was given access to the construction site of the Millennium Dome, in east London. From there he went on to take pictures during other various commissions around the world, creating images at various construction sites, factories, quarries, ......
