Textfield, Inc. » Fotohof Editions http://www.textfield.org Textfield, Inc. — Publishing & Distribution Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:23:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 La Photographie N’Est Pas L’Art, 12 Photographs http://www.textfield.org/archive/la-photographie-nest-pas-lart-12-photographs/ http://www.textfield.org/archive/la-photographie-nest-pas-lart-12-photographs/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:54:03 +0000 Textfield http://www.textfield.org/?p=3135 Man Ray, La Photographie N’Est Pas L’Art

Man Ray, La Photographie N’Est Pas L’Art
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/1, 160 x 245 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-902675-30-9
Published by Fotohof Editions

$39.00 ·

Photography is not art, proclaims Man Ray in the essay re-published here as an impeccable facsimile edition of the 1937 original. A pamphlet of loose sheets and 12 images, this publication re-visits an issue that was hotly controversial during the first half of the 20th century — Is Photography Art? — as examined in the influential Paris magazine L’Art. Despite the fact that Man Ray’s provocative works were among the photographs generally agreed by critics to be, in fact, art, Man Ray himself seems barely interested in considering the question. “There’s no point trying to find out if it’s an art,” he said. “Art is a thing of the past. We need something else. You’ve got to watch light at work. It’s light that creates. I sit down in front of my sheet of photographic paper and I think.”
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Portrait Photographs http://www.textfield.org/archive/portrait-photographs/ http://www.textfield.org/archive/portrait-photographs/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:31:42 +0000 Textfield http://www.textfield.org/?p=1878 Bernhard Fuchs, Portrait Photographs

Bernhard Fuchs, Portrait Photographs
Hardcover, 114 pp., offset 4/4, 24 x 30 cm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 3-901756-32-9
Published by Fotohof Editions

out of print

condition: very good, moderate shelf wear.

When Austrian-born photographer Bernhard Fuchs shoots a portrait, the landscape is as important as the face. His portrayals of people from his native village, Mühlviertel, show them in places where they have deep roots. When the subjects live in cities, the photos express the rootless quality of urban life, with open doors and blank walls providing backdrops. Accompanying text by renowned photojournalist Timm Starl.

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