One Photo A Day Keeps the Doctor Away is not a book to help you improve your photography technique or skills. Through 160 photo challenges it encourages you to slow down, look around and be more aware of your surroundings. Some examples: - Take a photo of yourself before and after a workout. See what happens to your face - Photograph your house as if you were going to sell it - Meet up with a friend and don't say where you are, show them in pictures - Search the streets for something that is broken and photograph the beauty of imperfection You don't need a fancy camera, the one on your phone will do just fine. Anyone can practise being more present through photography. To inspire you, each challenge is accompanied by a carefully selected quote, sourced from a diverse collection of thinkers, writers, artists and philosophers. Taking out a moment in your busy day to create a thoughtful image will sharpen your focus and creativity. And you can share your discoveries, using the hashtag that goes with each challenge.

Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition I highlights the work of over 100 of today's most active photographers working with alternative processes. Discover how the different processes create a unique look in a print, and get an insight into how the processes function. Here you will find both information and inspiration. Artists introduce themselves, their work and why they chose the qualities of that particular process.

The first monograph on a groundbreaking Surrealist masterpiece, Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of Cahun's most important published work, Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), 1930. Jennifer L. Shaw provides an encompassing interpretation of this groundbreaking work, paying careful attention to the complex interrelationship between the photomontages and writings of Aveux non avenus. This study argues that the texts and images of Aveux non avenus not only explore Cahun's own subjectivity, they formulate a trenchant social and cultural critique. Shaw explores how Cahun's work both calls into question the dominant culture of interwar France - with its traditional gender roles, religious conservatism, and pronatalism - and takes to task the era's artistic avant-garde and in particular its models of desire. This volume cuts across the disciplinary boundaries of interwar art studies, demonstrating how one artist's personal exploration intervened in wider contemporary debates about the purpose of art, the role of women in French culture, and the status of homosexuality, in the aftermath of World War I.

In a world in which many photographers seek to avoid definition, Roger Ballen's photographs define themselves in their defiance of classification and genre: his world stands out as one of a kind. The black-and-white images featured in Asylum of the Birds were created exclusively within the confines of a house in a Johannesburg suburb, the location of which remains a guarded secret. The inhabitants of the house, both human and animal - including, most notably, the ever-present birds - are the cast of Ballen's world, performers amidst the theatrical interiors that they create and he orchestrates. The resulting images exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation and photography. They are timeless, psychologically powerful and masterfully composed.

Edinger's portraits of the inmates of the massive 3,500 patient asylum of Juquieri in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are the result of his intense response to living and working in the asylum itself, and his own experience of dealing with the devastating effect of Alzheimer's disease within his family.