Frank Horvat (*1928 in Abbazia, today Opatija, Croatia), a pioneering fashion photographer and one of the first professional photographers to use Photoshop, can meanwhile look back at around seventy years of activity and a dazzling career. The grand seigneur now allows us very personal insight into his private life: the autobiography in pictures reveals personal moments from all phases of his life. We encounter the great themes of humankind, such as birth and death, are witness to his ability to play, and to handle animals, we see his family, his friends. They are everyday images like anyone could have assembled in an album. However, there is one slight difference: a master was clearly at work here early on, the quality of the photographs speaks for itself. In the appendix, Horvat comments, in most cases at length, on each of the chronologically ordered pictures.
A photograph by Frank Horvat always shows a very individual view. Shining in numerous genres, Horvat (*1928 in Abbazia, today's Opatija, Croatia) likes to transgress boundaries, and he also does not care about the comme il faut in his fashion photographs either: as early as the fifties, he goes out onto the street, brazenly positions a model in the middle of a vegetable market (1959) for Jours de France, or shortly afterwards experiments with boldly cropped motifs or amusing film quotes. In doing so, Horvat mostly dispenses with artificial light and shoots many of his fantastic pictures with a 35mm Leica from the hip, so to speak. He works for Elle, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and other major magazines, with famous models and celebrities, and he is the first photographer ever to use Photoshop for his work. Respect for the portrayed women and palpable endearment distinguish Horvat's sensual, elegant pictures from those by all other photographers on the fashion scene.
Avec sa première grande rétrospective, Frank Horvat s'interroge sur son parcours : sans doute une volonté, pas tant de représenter ce qui se trouve devant l'objectif, que de le cadrer, dans la grille de référence de ses propres origines, de sa culture, de ses expériences, de sa perception du présent et de son anticipation de l'avenir.
Analyse visuelle et symbolique des sculptures des XIe et XIIe siècles des églises françaises. En plus de leurs qualités artistiques, celles-ci constituent un document historique sur la foi, la vie et l'imaginaire au Moyen Age.
Frank Horvat débute comme reporter-photographe. Il devient rapidement photographe de mode il est le premier à mélanger les genres en réalisant des photographies de mannequins dans la rue à l'aide d'un appareil 24 x 36 - ce qui lui vaut un succès immédiat. Entre 1952 et 1962, il vit alternativement à Londres et à Paris, et photographie les deux villes avec passion et originalité. Ses images, sensibles, élégantes, souvent pleines d'ironie et de séduction, conservent tout leur charme et toute leur verve. A travers les deux capitales, on suit le parcours d'un Jeune homme fasciné par la vie urbaine, son décor et ses acteurs. Frank Horvat began his career as a photojournalist. Soon, however, he started working in fashion photography. Taken in the street using a 24 x 36 camera, his images of models were the first to combine realism and artifice and won him immediate success. From 1952-1962, Horvat lived between London and Paris, building up a passionate and Original photographic record of the two cities. His images from this period are sensitive and elegant, often richly ironic or seductive. Forty years later, they have lost none of their charm and verve. Through these two capitals, we follow in the footsteps of a young man fascinated by urban life and its multiple facets and actors.
A collection of essays on market socialism, originally published in Dissent between 1985 and 1993. Among other topics, they take issue with the traditional view that socialism means rejecting the use of markets to organise economic activities, and question the reliance upon markets.
This up-to-date textbook of global vegetation ecology, which comprises the current state of knowledge, is long overdue and much-needed. It is a translation of the textbook “Vegetation der Erde” (Springer-Spektrum, Heidelberg). A short introductory chapter deals with the fundamentals of vegetation ecology that are of importance for the delimitation and characterization of the global vegetation presented in this book (chorology, evolution of plants, physiognomic and structural characteristics, phytodiversity and the human impact on it as well as general terminology concerning both plant growth forms and on vegetation structure types). In the following chapters the zonal and azonal vegetation from the tropics to the polar regions including high mountains is described and discussed. The main focus is on the characterization of interactions between the spatial location of plants and plant communities on the one hand and site conditions, historic and genetic processes, spatial and temporal patterns, ecophysiology and anthropogenic influences on the other hand. Additional information on specific topics is provided in 51 boxes.
Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy, empowerment - are they distinct and innovative arrangements or is it a case of new wine in old bottles? In the post war period we have seen numerous forms of organizational participation sometimes as experiments, sometimes as negotiated expediency, and sometimes as hype. Different ideas have emerged from different parts of the world, in different industries, at different times with different objectives. In this book four experienced international analysts take the longer view and look at the changing forms of - and changing debates around - orgnaizational participation. The review an extensive literature of experiments and practical experiences through a critical evaluation of the available data to reach balanced conclusions about the importance and utility of this concept for organizations now and in the future.
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