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La mayor y más cara producción de un libro en el siglo XX: SUMO está impreso en edición limitada de 10.000 copias en todo el mundo, cada uno firmado y numerado por Helmut Newton!
SUMO es un libro titánico en todos los sentidos: es un homenaje al más influyente, intrigante y controvertido fotógrafo del siglo XX. De dimensiones 50 x 70 cm (20 x 27,5 pulgadas) y un peso de aprox. 30 kg (66 lb), el libro contiene 464 páginas, rompiendo cualquier récord anterior. SUMO es una publicación única, y su precio tambien: 10.000 €.
SUMO, editado por June Newton, ofrece una amplia selección de más de 400 fotografías, la mayoría de las cuales se publican por primera vez, que abarca todos los aspectos de la destacada trayectoria de Helmut Newton en la fotografía: desde sus impresionantes fotografías de moda, que señaló el camino para las generaciones de fotógrafos, a sus desnudos y retratos de famosos.
A despecho de la muy querida disciplina japonesa que inspiró el título de esta obra colosal, no hay necesidad de que su orgulloso dueño luche con SUMO. Philippe Starck ha diseñado un soporte único para exhibir el libro en casa.
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Ai Weiwei
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The Visual Rhizomes of a Social Conscience
If the cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words has any meaning, that meaning is grounded in the rhizome of history, the spreading roots which come together and form a network of associations at the site of the image like a nerve cell. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's gift—illuminated by the impressive array of 230 of photographs taken during his sojourn in the New York East Village, and selected from over 10,000 images archived by Three Shadows Photography Arts Centre in Beijing—is the keen sense of social and cultural acuity that enabled him, even as an outsider, to capture seminal moments that root his images in the dense, chaotic network of meanings, ideas, conflicts, struggles, aspirations, and contradictory values that embody the life world of a particular place in time.
Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 in Beijing, but spent much of his childhood in the remote northwestern province of Xinjiang where his father, Ai Qing—a prominent poet—was among the many intellectuals sent to engage in labour reform as a result of purges following the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957.
Ai Weiwei's staunch independence, resilience and unrepentant critical stance towards the state of society and the structure of power, were forg