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Daniel Blaufuks @ Steidl

© Daniel Blaufuks
"Terezin" de Daniel Blaufucks será publicado pela Steidl em Dezembro de 2008. O trabalho de video “Theresienstadt” será incluído na edição. Blaufuks junta-se a Nozolino no grupo de portugueses editados pela melhor editora de livros de fotografia do mundo.


"Theresienstadt or Terezín in the Czech Republic is a fortified town sixty kilometres to the north of Prague. At the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, the Germans chose Theresienstadt as a “Model Ghetto” for Jews over 65 years old, Jewish veterans from the First World War, and known personalities. The Nazis declared the camp a “ghetto under Jewish authority”, appointing a council of elders with a chairman, but under the authority of the SS. In reality the camp was just another staging post on the way to Auschwitz or Birkenau. Due to the presence of numerous interned professors, artists and writers, there were school and cultural activities, such as lectures and concerts. During the life of the ghetto, over two thousand four hundred lectures took place on such varied topics as the Jews of Babylon, the theory of relativity, Alexander the Great and German humour. There was a functioning library with 49,000 books that had been brought from various collections and homes in Germany and different groups performed theatre. There was even a police force, a fire brigade and several other civic services. One prisoner wrote, “Life could seem almost normal here”. Terezín is Daniel Blaufuks’ personal travel and research book on the history of the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt." in http://www.steidlville.com/books/793-Terez-n.html

Darkside @ Steidl

© Christer Strömholm

DarkSide, Vol. 1: Photographic Desire and Photographed Sexuality

Photography is present in all the pubic and private areas of our lives. It is also found in seclusion, where it is “dark”, where we shut ourselves off from society or where an act excludes society. Sexuality – as eroticism, desire, fantasy and fetish – is one of the central drives of man’s thoughts, actions and feelings. Frequently though, sexuality is minimized, considered to be nothing more than lustful entertainment or dismal deviation. Darkside shows photography as an important medium in the presentation of sexuality. Photography stylizes lust and passion, power, violence and voyeurism. Wish and desire enter into a pact with sexuality: sexual fantasies push to be presented, seek exposure – and photography, with its own voyeuristic pull, uses the power of (photo) eroticism for its own purposes. Darkside

presents this photography and discusses it in numerous essays.

Volume 2 will be published in 2009. It is devoted to the photography of violence and disesase, those other central powers that can influence body and soul.

Hannah Starkey @ Steidl

Hannah Starkey Book signing at Steidlville London
6.30 – 8.30pm Tuesday 8th of July, 2008
Since 1997, Hannah Starkey has produced a series of photographic meditations on contemporary life. Her early works were staged scenarios based on the experiences of young women living in the city. They were meticulously constructed and often cinematic, suggesting a narrative that had been artificially suspended in time. Her later works, both technically and compositionally more advanced, set up a tension between the real and the imaginary and draw attention to the banality and dehumanizing effects of the constructed environments in which we lead so much of our lives. In recent years her close observation of the urban landscape has produced a series of images in which surfaces–a wall, an air-conditioning duct, a runway–become relevant subjects in themselves. Starkey’s understanding of the passage contemporary photography has made in the past decade continues to fuel and to challenge the development of her own imagery, making her one of the most influential and exceptional photographic artists working today. This book, her first, covers ten years’ work. in http://www.steidlville.com/books/502-Photographs-1997-2007.html

Está no www.bookdepository.co.uk por cerca de 20£ com transporte incluído. O meu vem a caminho.