Teju Cole ha demostrado sobradamente, a través de su obra literaria y fotográfica, que es capaz de desenvolverse con soltura en diversos lugares, tradiciones, disciplinas y géneros, y los ensayos reunidos en este volumen lo ilustran...
Teju Cole es un observador tan perspicaz como emotivo, dotado de una especial sensibilidad para captar la extrañeza latente en las realidades conocidas. El amplio abanico de temas quetrata en los ensayos escritos para diversos medios y reunidos...
Un joven médico regresa a su Lagos natal tras vivir quince años en Nueva York. La Nigeria de su infancia ya no existe; en su lugar encuentra una ciudad ganada por el consumismo, el desdén y la globalización. El espíritu...
Julius, un joven psiquiatra nigeriano residente. en un hospital neoyorquino, deambula por. las calles de Manhattan. Caminar sin rumbo. se convierte en una necesidad que le brinda la. oportunidad de dejar la mente libre en un devaneo. entre la literatura,...
Un jove psiquiatre nigerà resident en un hospitalde Nova York passeja pels carrers de Manhattan. Caminar sense rumb es converteix per a ell en una necessitat que l´allibera de les contriccions de la seva feina, i que li ofereix la possibilita...
âDarkness is not empty,â writes Teju Cole in Black Paper , a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanityâand witness the humanity of othersâin a time of darkness....
For more than 25 years Fazal Sheikh has highlighted the plight of displaced people and refugees around the world. He has photographed people driven from their homes by war as well as those upended by the redrawing of national borders and the reassertion...
Stephen Shore's images from his travels across America in 1972-73 are considered the benchmark for documenting the extraordinary in the ordinary and continue to influence photographers today. The original edition of American Surfaces , published by...
"Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format eight-by-ten-inch...
The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot , readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he continues to refine the voice and inte
First collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature - many of which have become viral sensations, shared and debated around the...
Kerry James Marshall is one of Americaâs greatest living painters. History of Painting presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself.
"Visiting Lagos after many years away, Teju Cole's unnamed narrator rediscovers his hometown as both a foreigner and a local. A young writer uncertain of what he wants to say, the man moves through tableaus of life in one of the most dynamic cities...
In this installment of The Photography Workshop Series, internationally acclaimed color photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, offer their expert insight into street photography and the poetic image. Through words and photographs--their own and...
âCerebral and capacious, Teju Coleâs novel asks what it means to roam freely.ââ The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years)
This is the bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W.G. Sebald. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the...