Lee Friedlander People Working the George Gund Foundation Annual Report 1995 Mirelle Thijsen's Choice of Company Photobooks Photography

1995 Annual Report

People Working Lee Friedlander

The images created for the 1995 annual report by Lee Friedlander presented a penetrating reflection on the diversity of Cleveland's people at work. For nearly four decades, Friedlander has been one of the world's most renowned and important artists. His work has been exhibited in major museums throughout the world and assembled into 13 critically-acclaimed books. He is the recipient of three John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships as well as the prestigious "genius" award from the MacArthur Foundation. His striking photo essay, "People Working," was commissioned by the George Gund Foundation to underscore its commitment to supporting the economic vitality of Northeast Ohio by addressing issues related to the quality and skills of its workforce. See also At Work & Play Lee Friedlander Hans van der Meer Documentary Photography ... 

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WassinkLundgren KPN Sustainability Report 2006 Mirelle Thijsen's Choice of Company Photobooks Photography

KPN Sustainability Report 2006 WassinkLundgren Photography ...

KPN is the leading telecommunications and ICT service provider in The Netherlands, offering wireline and wireless telephony, internet and TV to consumers, end-to-end telecommunications and ICT services to business customers. KPN’s subsidiary Getronics operates a global ICT services company with a market-leading position in the Benelux, offering end-to-end solutions in infrastructure and network-related IT. In Germany and Belgium, KPN pursues a multi-brand strategy in its mobile operations and holds number three market positions through E-Plus and BASE. KPN provides wholesale network services to third parties and operates an efficiënt IP-based infrastructure with global scale in international wholesale through iBasis.

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WassinkLundgren KPN Sustainability Report 2006 Mirelle Thijsen's Choice of Company Photobooks Photography

KPN Sustainability Report 2006 WassinkLundgren Photography ...

KPN is the leading telecommunications and ICT service provider in The Netherlands, offering wireline and wireless telephony, internet and TV to consumers, end-to-end telecommunications and ICT services to business customers. KPN’s subsidiary Getronics operates a global ICT services company with a market-leading position in the Benelux, offering end-to-end solutions in infrastructure and network-related IT. In Germany and Belgium, KPN pursues a multi-brand strategy in its mobile operations and holds number three market positions through E-Plus and BASE. KPN provides wholesale network services to third parties and operates an efficiënt IP-based infrastructure with global scale in international wholesale through iBasis.

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Mother she’d gone to Paris Days with my Father Phillip Toledano Photography

My Mum died suddenly on September 4th, 2006

After she died, I realized how much she’d been shielding me from my father’s mental state. He didn’t have alzheimers, but he had no short-term memory, and was often lost.

I took him to the funeral, but when we got home, he’d keep asking me every 15 minutes where my mother was. I had to explain over and over again, that she had died.

This was shocking news to him.

Why had no-one told him?
Why hadn’t I taken him to the funeral?
Why hadn’t he visited her in the hospital?

He had no memory of these events.

After a while, I realized I couldn’t keep telling him that his wife had died. He didn’t remember, and it was killing both of us, to constantly re-live her death.

I decided to tell him she’d gone to Paris, to take care of her brother, who was sick.

‘Days with my father’ is a journal.

A record of our relationship, and the time we spent over the last three years.

2006-2009

Published by Chronicle Books in 2010.


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Mother she’d gone to Paris Days with my Father Phillip Toledano Photography

My Mum died suddenly on September 4th, 2006

After she died, I realized how much she’d been shielding me from my father’s mental state. He didn’t have alzheimers, but he had no short-term memory, and was often lost.

I took him to the funeral, but when we got home, he’d keep asking me every 15 minutes where my mother was. I had to explain over and over again, that she had died.

This was shocking news to him.

Why had no-one told him?
Why hadn’t I taken him to the funeral?
Why hadn’t he visited her in the hospital?

He had no memory of these events.

After a while, I realized I couldn’t keep telling him that his wife had died. He didn’t remember, and it was killing both of us, to constantly re-live her death.

I decided to tell him she’d gone to Paris, to take care of her brother, who was sick.

‘Days with my father’ is a journal.

A record of our relationship, and the time we spent over the last three years.

2006-2009

Published by Chronicle Books in 2010.


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Tom Ford - Forever Love Vogue Paris December 2010 Photography

Tom Ford : “I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condems this, me, I celebrate it. For this session of fine jewellery, I imagined a man and a woman who had been together for a long time, faithful to each other and always incandescent with desire.”


TOM FORD is a leading fashion designer best known for his designs in luxury clothing, accessories, fragrance and cosmetics.

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Since the 1970s, we have become accustomed to seeing pictures of nudes in every conceivable context. Even soft porn tableaux in fashion magazines and erotic films on TV no longer have the power to shock – provided that the models are young and good-looking. But we are evidently still uncomfortable with the idea that elderly people can have active love lives and enjoy sex. We would rather not be confronted by such images. 

Marrie Bot has worked as an art photographer for over 30 years and often chooses to focus on universal human themes surrounded by some sort of taboo.