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New Scalo Catalogue - Fall 2006Download the latest catalogue We are proud to present our Fall catalogue 2006. Download the pdf now, find more information about our upcoming books and see images.
 FALL 2006 / Int. English / download
HERBST 2006 / DE+AT deutsch / download
HERBST 2006 / CH deutsch / download
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Jaroslav Andel, The New Vision for The New ArchitectureCzechoslovakia 1918-1938 In The New Vision for the New Architecture author and art historian Jaroslav Andel (*1949) presents the significant body of architectural photography produced in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s. In this period, both architects and photographers saw themselves as participants in the creation of a new world, pursuing beliefs in social and technological utopias.
Practitioners in the two fields shared and stimulated each other’s vision, fostering interplay that consisted of mutual influences, parallels, and affinities. This relationship was highly developed in Czechoslovakia where special conditions existed for the reception of the modern movement in both architecture and photography. The process of modernization as well as the creation of nation states and the rise of the middle class started later in Central Europe than in Western Europe. With its young middle class, the new Czechoslovak state eagerly embraced modern ideas and recognized in architecture a powerful tool for expressing its goals and ideals.
Featuring photographs made in collaboration between avant-garde architects and photographers, the images depict key modern buildings, as well as lesser-known ones and are organized according to building typology and referential design (aviation, cinema)—an organizational concept first used in the exhibition “In Praise of the New Architecture” (Prague, 1940)—communicating the original vision that continues to inspire today. They also demonstrate that interwar Czechoslovakia was a leading European influence in the modern movement of architecture and photography.
Jaroslav Andel, The New Vision for the New Architecture
US$ 58.00
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Hardcover with dust jacket
279 pages, 229 b/w, 32 color
23.5 x 29.5 cm (9 x 11.5 in.)
Scalo Books
ISBN 3-03939-042-2
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Jakob Tuggener, Ball Nights 1934-1950 To Jakob Tuggener (1904-88) the dazzling nights of the balls in the St. Moritz Palace Hotel were among the most beautiful and fascinating events that life could offer. He submerged himself with his Leica in this world of luxury with even more enthusiasm than he had in the factory world that inspired his famous book Fabrik (1943). Usually unnoticed by the illustrious guests, he captured fleeting moments and details, facial expressions and gestures, which he condensed into cinematographically perceived series of pictures and book layouts. The exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of one of the great Swiss photographers is an extravagant feast for the eyes and a worthy occasion for a première: this is the first publication of one of Tuggener‘s ball-book layouts.
In collaboration with Jakob Tuggener Foundation and Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Jakob Tuggener
Ball Nights 1934-1950 / Ballnächte 1934-1950
US$ 58.00
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Hardcover
Including a separate 32-page booklet with English text and illustrations
144 pages, 127 duotones
8.5 x 12 in. (21.5 x 30.5 cm)
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ISBN 3-03939-002-3 |
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Elizabeth Heyert, The Travelers In 2003/2004 Elizabeth Heyert photographed the bodies of more than thirty people at the Harlem funeral parlor of Isaiah Owens who prepared the corpses for their last journey. She would take pictures early in the morning, after the families had said goodbye to their loved ones the previous evening and before the service later in the morning. This book is a unique contribution to contemporary portrait photography. It is movingly intimate but never sensationalist. As Heyert explains, there is a historical dimension to these images: “I was aware that I was also photographing a community from the past, a vanishing piece of cultural history. Some of the people I photographed left a brutal life in the Depression-era South to move to Harlem, where many of the southern religious traditions were re-established. Younger peo-ple were born and died in Harlem, but were still buried according to the old style, dressed for going to the party (Isaiah Owens) but in snazzy track suits instead of burial gowns. With Harlem rapidly changing, these traditions are fading. I hope my photographs will tell some small part of the story of a passing generation and their way of death.“
Elizabeth Heyert is the author/photographer of Metropolitan Places, The Artful Table, The Glass-house Years, and The Sleepers.
With a conversation between the photographer and Stacey D‘Erasmo
Elizabeth Heyert, The Travelers
US$ 65.00
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Hardcover with dust jacket
72 pages, 32 color
10.25 x 13 in. (26 x 33.5 cm)
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ISBN 3-908247-93-4 |
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Esther Haase, SexyBook Dance means motion. The body is the most immediate and intimate means of expression; its beauty and elegance are capable of defying age and commonplace notions of beauty. Esther Haase (born in 1966 in Germany and living in Hamburg) celebrates physicality and the sheer joy of life in her photographs. Haase, who regularly works for international magazines, belongs to a generation that has “seen it all” and knows how to play with everything. They grew up to be self-confident women in charge of their sex appeal with ease and self-determination. As a former ballet dancer and a true child of the stage, Haase uses costumes, backdrops, and poses to create baroque and glamorous images celebrating the pleasures of the body. Her photographs are proof that even in times of anxiety you can say yes to joy and sensuality. Whether her models are young or old, whether they conform to commercial standards of beauty or not, Haase makes them look alive, joyous, and irresistibly sexy.
Esther Haase, SexyBook
US$ 45.00
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Hardcover with dust jacket
144 pages, 50 color and 55 duotone
8.1 x 11.75 in. (20.5 x 29.8 cm)
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ISBN 3-03939-035-X |
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Karen Smith, Nine LivesThe Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China In the early 1990s, the idea of contemporary art in China simply did not compute to a foreign audience. But in 1993, ten contemporary Chinese artists debuted at the 48th Venice Biennale. They were immediately hailed as progenitors of a Chinese “avant-garde.” Their brightly colored, Pop Art-inspired paintings played with socialist motifs, parodied Mao, and gave a visual expression to the feelings of disaffected Chinese youth. They were everything western audiences expected of contemporary art from the People‘s Republic of China. But a number of critics were rather guarded in their opinions. Was this another flash-in-the-pan phenomenon just as Soviet art had been in the 1980s? Could a Chinese avant-garde maintain a distinct identity of its own and shake off its penchant for imitation? The answer is clearly “yes.”The emergence of a market for their art transformed the lives of these avant-garde pioneers from rags to riches, from outcast to hero, from social pariah to cutting-edge cool in a Chinese society adapting to a new era. They did not change but China has changed. The ideology they once had to fight now propagates a cultural climate of laissez-faire that is tantamount to encouragement. Set against China’s official program of modernization, Nine Lives paints a compelling picture of artists working beyond the pale of official culture, who started a new cultural revolution that is sweeping China today.
Karen Smith, Nine Lives - The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in China
US$ 45.00
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Limp bound with round spine
464 pages, color images throughout
7.5 x 9.5 in. (19 x 24.5 cm)
Scalo Books
ISBN 3-03939-036-8
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Slawomir Zulawinski, Intersection Polish-born photographer Slawomir Zulawinski photographs the stream of life as we encounter it daily on the street, the ebb-and-flow of triviality and significance. He observes the hustle and bustle of New York City with the curious eye of an expatriate, keen on diminishing his feeling of alienation, capturing moments of exhaustion, the side effects of a controlling and over-stimulated society, the intricacies of inner life that suddenly reveal themselves in a stranger‘s face, glimpses of the melancholy truths of quotidian life. Zulawinski‘s black-and-white photographs provide a much-needed antidote to the contrived faux-grittiness abundant in current photography.
Slawomir Zulawinski, Intersection
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Hardcover with dust jacket
96 pages, 72 duotones
10 x 12 in. (25.5 x 30.5 cm)
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ISBN 3-908247-86-1 |
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