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
-
Streetlife Bradford 1970s-1980s
by Ian Beesley
sold out -
Rift/Fault
by Marion Belanger
Euro 75 60.00 -
Nothing's in Vain
by Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Euro 27.50 -
Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre
by Costa Martins & Victor Palla
sold out -
Jeffersonville, Indiana (signed)
by Dana Lixenberg
Euro 490 -
Lviv – God’s Will
by Viacheslav Poliakov
Euro 46
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Rura (signed)
by Krzysztof Racon
sold out -
Arthropoda (signed)
by Harold Strak
Euro 45 -
Life is Elsewhere (signed - last copy)
by Sohrab Hura
sold out -
Italia 90 Dublin
by Tony O'Shea
sold out -
When Spider Kisses Fly (signed)
by James Kriszyk
Euro 25 -
My Valentines (signed)
by Lucy Hilmer
Euro 59
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
Gasoline
by various photographers
sold out -
The House Project (signed - last copy)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 165 -
Gathered Leaves Postcards (signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 27.50 -
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (first edition - review copy)
by Mike Brodie
Euro 220 154.00 -
Night Walk
by Ken Schles
Euro 65 -
ZZYZX (first edition - signed - last copy)
by Gregory Halpern
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
-
Streetlife Bradford 1970s-1980s
by Ian Beesley
sold out -
Rift/Fault
by Marion Belanger
Euro 75 60.00 -
Nothing's in Vain
by Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Euro 27.50 -
Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre
by Costa Martins & Victor Palla
sold out -
Jeffersonville, Indiana (signed)
by Dana Lixenberg
Euro 490 -
Lviv – God’s Will
by Viacheslav Poliakov
Euro 46
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Rura (signed)
by Krzysztof Racon
sold out -
Arthropoda (signed)
by Harold Strak
Euro 45 -
Life is Elsewhere (signed - last copy)
by Sohrab Hura
sold out -
Italia 90 Dublin
by Tony O'Shea
sold out -
When Spider Kisses Fly (signed)
by James Kriszyk
Euro 25 -
My Valentines (signed)
by Lucy Hilmer
Euro 59
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
Gasoline
by various photographers
sold out -
The House Project (signed - last copy)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 165 -
Gathered Leaves Postcards (signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 27.50 -
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (first edition - review copy)
by Mike Brodie
Euro 220 154.00 -
Night Walk
by Ken Schles
Euro 65 -
ZZYZX (first edition - signed - last copy)
by Gregory Halpern
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
-
Streetlife Bradford 1970s-1980s
by Ian Beesley
sold out -
Rift/Fault
by Marion Belanger
Euro 75 60.00 -
Nothing's in Vain
by Emmanuelle Andrianjafy
Euro 27.50 -
Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre
by Costa Martins & Victor Palla
sold out -
Jeffersonville, Indiana (signed)
by Dana Lixenberg
Euro 490 -
Lviv – God’s Will
by Viacheslav Poliakov
Euro 46
more books tagged »black and white« | >> see all
-
Rura (signed)
by Krzysztof Racon
sold out -
Arthropoda (signed)
by Harold Strak
Euro 45 -
Life is Elsewhere (signed - last copy)
by Sohrab Hura
sold out -
Italia 90 Dublin
by Tony O'Shea
sold out -
When Spider Kisses Fly (signed)
by James Kriszyk
Euro 25 -
My Valentines (signed)
by Lucy Hilmer
Euro 59
more books tagged »American« | >> see all
-
Gasoline
by various photographers
sold out -
The House Project (signed - last copy)
by Roger Ballen
Euro 165 -
Gathered Leaves Postcards (signed)
by Alec Soth
Euro 27.50 -
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (first edition - review copy)
by Mike Brodie
Euro 220 154.00 -
Night Walk
by Ken Schles
Euro 65 -
ZZYZX (first edition - signed - last copy)
by Gregory Halpern
sold out
Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com