He is currently studying photojournalism at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover. His pictures have been published in numerous international magazines. Between 20, he covered the conflict in Aleppo as a freelance photographer for Reuters as well. Hosam Katan (born in Aleppo 1994) started working as a photojournalist for Aleppo Media Center from October 2012. The book is dedicated to to the German photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who died in 2014. »Yalla Habibi (Come on my dear)!« as people would say in Arabic. The book shows people balancing the horrors of war with a sense of normalcy and trying to retain their dignity.Īlthough the news coverage of the conflict in Syria, and especially from Aleppo, has waned, it is important to keep up the dialog because the conflict is far from being over. Anger, joy, grieve, fear, adventurousness, desperation, determination, solidarity, defiance, fatigue, excitement – having to live with war all of these emotions can change in an instant. The pictures from Hosam Katan’s hometown, taken between 20, capture moments of the conflicting and contrasting experiences and emotions of these people. Yalla Habibi – Living with War in Aleppo gives recognition to people in Eastern Aleppo who have continued their everyday lives with resilience and inventiveness amidst perilous circumstances. The book also reproduces many personal Polaroid photographs that confirm the extraordinary poetic vision of a great artist who died aged only 54, but who remains a potent influence on artists and filmmakers today. It includes reflections on Tarkovsky’s work from fellow artists and writers including Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman, for whom Tarkovsky was ‘the greatest, the one who invented a new language.’ Extracts from Tarkovsky’s own writings and diaries offer a wealth of insights into his poetic and philosophical views on cinematography, which he described as ‘sculpting in time’. This book presents extended sequences of stills from each of the films alongside synopses and cast and crew listings. They achieve a spiritual intensity and transcendent beauty that many consider to be without parallel. Tarkovsky’s films are characterized by metaphysical themes, extended takes, an absence of conventional dramatical structure and plot, and a dream-like, visionary style of cinematography. His final film, The Sacrifice, was produced in Sweden in 1985. He directed the first five of his seven films – Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker – in the Soviet Union, but in 1982 defected to Italy, where he made Nostalgia. His photos of lonesome roads, train tracks, cars, gas stations and houses are mostly empty of people and form an intuitive, unsettling portrait of Plains, starkly different to the idealized image of itĪndrey Tarkovsky was the most important Russian filmmaker of the post-war era, and one of the world’s most renowned cinematic geniuses. Eggleston began photographing even before he left Memphis and depicted the surrounding countryside and villages of Sumter Country, before he reached Plains. This new Steidl edition recreates the full original sequence of photos in a single volume, making it available to the wider public for the first time.Įlection Eve contains images made in October 1976 during Eggleston’s pilgrimage from Memphis to the small town of Plains, Georgia, the home of Jimmy Carter who in November 1976 was elected 39th President of the United States. It was published by Caldecot Chubb in New York in an edition of only five, and has since become Eggleston’s rarest collectible book. In 1977 William Eggleston released Election Eve, his first and most elaborate artist’s book, containing 100 original prints in two leather-bound volumes housed in a linen box.
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