Francesca Woodman
7 best books like Francesca Woodman (Francesca Woodman): The Garden of Evening Mists, Rocannon's World, Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Francesca Woodman, Diane Arbus: Untitled, Discoveries: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cindy Sherman: Retrospective
The Garden of Evening Mists
| Author | Tan Twan Eng |
| ISBN | 1905802498 |
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew up as a child. There...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0441732968 |
A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars. Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he sees his friends murdered and his spaceship destroyed. Marooned...
| Author | Nan Goldin |
| ISBN | 0893813397 |
A photobook classic, and perhaps the work for which New York photographer Nan Goldin remains best known, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends and lovers collectively described by Goldin as her "tribe." Her work...
| Author | Chris Townsend |
| ISBN | 0714844306 |
This is the only book available on the legendary American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), an artist who has attracted a devoted worldwide following, despite a career of less than a decade, cut short by her tragically early death at the age of 23. With over 250 photographs, some of which...
"Untitled" may well be Arbus's most transcendent, most romantic vision. It is a celebration of the singularity and connectedness of each and every one of us. It demands of us what it demanded of her: the courage to see things as they are and the grace to permit them to simply be. For Diane Arbus, this is what...
| Author | Clément Chéroux |
| ISBN | 0810998262 |
Born in 1908 in France, Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. Early on he adopted the versatile 35mm format and helped develop the popular “street photography” style, influencing generations of photographers that followed. In his own words, he expressed...
"Mary Anne Doane reworked Joan Riviere's 1929 theory of feminine masquerade in an important 1982 essay, 'Film and the Masquerade', writing '[t]he masquerade, in flaunting femininity, holds it at a distance. Womanliness is a mask which can be worn or removed. The masquerade's resistance to patriarchal...
