Dark Knees
by Mark Cohen
Photographs: Mark Cohen
Text: Vince Aletti
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
188 pages
Pictures: 169 B&W and color photographs
Year: 2013
ISBN: 978-2-36511-042-6
Comments: 170 x 240 mm, Hardcover (cloth), French/English
I became a surrealist because I kept walking around the same blocks, and I started taking a picture of a guy’s shoe. I didn’t know what I was doing exactly. I was just being led by whatever I would see.
Mark Cohen, a major figure in street photography since the 1970’s. He has been relentlessly photographing his home town, Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania and its surroundings. He wasn’t interested in drawing a social portrait of this coal town, he kept for more than forty years the distant eye of a stranger, always alert. On an impulse of a split second, Cohen would go very to close to his subjects to take what has become his iconic “grab shots” often blinding them with the artificial light of the flash. In black & white and in color, his photographs taken at arm’s length, without focusing most of the time, chop off fragments of gestures, postures or body parts that run over the frame leaving only torsos without face, hands, feet, pairs of legs or simply knees. From this dazzling combination of lines, these images convey a feeling of restless energy and strangeness to daily life.
more books tagged »street« | >> see all
-
Paradise Street: The lost art of playing outside
by various photographers
sold out -
Notting Hill Soundsystems 2 (last copy)
by Brian David Stevens
sold out -
Le lisboète (signed)
by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
Heartland (signed - last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Le bucarestois (signed)
by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
OR GLORY: 21st Century Rockers (signed + print)
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 108.90 87.12
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Anderswo (signed)
by Erich Lessing
Euro 165 -
KARCZEBY (signed)
by Adam Panczuk
Euro 75 -
One Picture Book 84: Polaroids from Haiti (signed+print)
by Jim Goldberg
Euro 150 -
In the Meantime: Europe
by Hana Jakrlova
Euro 39 -
Infinito (signed)
by David Jiménez
sold out -
Unnamed Road
by Jungjin Lee
sold out
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
Got to Go
by Rosalind Fox Solomon
Euro 50 -
Song Book (third printing - signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 55 -
The Gender Frontier
by Mariette Pathy Allen
Euro 32 -
This is where I live
by Wendy Ewald
Euro 95 -
Excerpts From Silver Meadows (signed)
by Todd Hido
sold out -
The Looking Game
by M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
sold out
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Dark Knees
by Mark Cohen
Photographs: Mark Cohen
Text: Vince Aletti
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
188 pages
Pictures: 169 B&W and color photographs
Year: 2013
ISBN: 978-2-36511-042-6
Comments: 170 x 240 mm, Hardcover (cloth), French/English
I became a surrealist because I kept walking around the same blocks, and I started taking a picture of a guy’s shoe. I didn’t know what I was doing exactly. I was just being led by whatever I would see.
Mark Cohen, a major figure in street photography since the 1970’s. He has been relentlessly photographing his home town, Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania and its surroundings. He wasn’t interested in drawing a social portrait of this coal town, he kept for more than forty years the distant eye of a stranger, always alert. On an impulse of a split second, Cohen would go very to close to his subjects to take what has become his iconic “grab shots” often blinding them with the artificial light of the flash. In black & white and in color, his photographs taken at arm’s length, without focusing most of the time, chop off fragments of gestures, postures or body parts that run over the frame leaving only torsos without face, hands, feet, pairs of legs or simply knees. From this dazzling combination of lines, these images convey a feeling of restless energy and strangeness to daily life.
more books tagged »street« | >> see all
-
Paradise Street: The lost art of playing outside
by various photographers
sold out -
Notting Hill Soundsystems 2 (last copy)
by Brian David Stevens
sold out -
Le lisboète (signed)
by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
Heartland (signed - last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Le bucarestois (signed)
by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
OR GLORY: 21st Century Rockers (signed + print)
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 108.90 87.12
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Anderswo (signed)
by Erich Lessing
Euro 165 -
KARCZEBY (signed)
by Adam Panczuk
Euro 75 -
One Picture Book 84: Polaroids from Haiti (signed+print)
by Jim Goldberg
Euro 150 -
In the Meantime: Europe
by Hana Jakrlova
Euro 39 -
Infinito (signed)
by David Jiménez
sold out -
Unnamed Road
by Jungjin Lee
sold out
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
Got to Go
by Rosalind Fox Solomon
Euro 50 -
Song Book (third printing - signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 55 -
The Gender Frontier
by Mariette Pathy Allen
Euro 32 -
This is where I live
by Wendy Ewald
Euro 95 -
Excerpts From Silver Meadows (signed)
by Todd Hido
sold out -
The Looking Game
by M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
sold out
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com
Dark Knees
by Mark Cohen
Photographs: Mark Cohen
Text: Vince Aletti
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
188 pages
Pictures: 169 B&W and color photographs
Year: 2013
ISBN: 978-2-36511-042-6
Comments: 170 x 240 mm, Hardcover (cloth), French/English
I became a surrealist because I kept walking around the same blocks, and I started taking a picture of a guy’s shoe. I didn’t know what I was doing exactly. I was just being led by whatever I would see.
Mark Cohen, a major figure in street photography since the 1970’s. He has been relentlessly photographing his home town, Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania and its surroundings. He wasn’t interested in drawing a social portrait of this coal town, he kept for more than forty years the distant eye of a stranger, always alert. On an impulse of a split second, Cohen would go very to close to his subjects to take what has become his iconic “grab shots” often blinding them with the artificial light of the flash. In black & white and in color, his photographs taken at arm’s length, without focusing most of the time, chop off fragments of gestures, postures or body parts that run over the frame leaving only torsos without face, hands, feet, pairs of legs or simply knees. From this dazzling combination of lines, these images convey a feeling of restless energy and strangeness to daily life.
more books tagged »street« | >> see all
-
Paradise Street: The lost art of playing outside
by various photographers
sold out -
Notting Hill Soundsystems 2 (last copy)
by Brian David Stevens
sold out -
Le lisboète (signed)
by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
Heartland (signed - last copy)
by Thomas Hoepker
sold out -
Le bucarestois (signed)
by Emilie Gafner
Euro 25 -
OR GLORY: 21st Century Rockers (signed + print)
by Horst A. Friedrichs
Euro 108.90 87.12
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Anderswo (signed)
by Erich Lessing
Euro 165 -
KARCZEBY (signed)
by Adam Panczuk
Euro 75 -
One Picture Book 84: Polaroids from Haiti (signed+print)
by Jim Goldberg
Euro 150 -
In the Meantime: Europe
by Hana Jakrlova
Euro 39 -
Infinito (signed)
by David Jiménez
sold out -
Unnamed Road
by Jungjin Lee
sold out
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
Got to Go
by Rosalind Fox Solomon
Euro 50 -
Song Book (third printing - signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 55 -
The Gender Frontier
by Mariette Pathy Allen
Euro 32 -
This is where I live
by Wendy Ewald
Euro 95 -
Excerpts From Silver Meadows (signed)
by Todd Hido
sold out -
The Looking Game
by M.F.G. Paltrinieri & Mirko Smerdel
sold out
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com