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Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2019 'I
get fed up with the number of cookbooks that promise quick and easy
meals, those that promise a three-course dinner that can be knocked
up in thirty minutes. Most cooking, and certainly most enjoyable
cooking, takes a little longer. I can knock something up in a hurry
if I have to - there are plenty of quick and easy recipes in this
book - but that ability was a long time in the acquisition, and I
still prefer to take my time, in order to do it better than I did
it last time.' These recipes and essays, first published in the
Financial Times, are a distillation of Rowley Leigh's forty years
as both a professional chef and a home cook. They detail with
precision and wit how to cook and enjoy both unusual and familiar
ingredients through the seasons. With Leigh's succinct wine
recommendations and over 120 recipes, this is a book to get messy
with overuse in the kitchen and to pore over in an armchair with a
glass of the author's beloved Riesling close to hand.
This project is a carefully crafted collection of lunch memories,
universal in its appeal and nostalgia. Some of the stand-out
stories are about the kids who desperately wanted the cafeteria
offerings instead of their own home-packed sacks, and celebrity
names like Jacques Pepin offer humanizing and poignant stories of
being constantly hungry and eating rotten bread during the war.
Even the greatest food writers were not always dining on duck
confit. To be clear, this is not a cookbook with recipes for your
kids' home-packed lunch. Instead, School Lunch -- much like books
such as Hungry City or My Last Supper -- is a look at our shared
humanity through the lens of food. These portraits and first-person
stories are poignant, surprising, funny, and universal; they remind
us of our own experiences, of sitting down and eating school lunch
next to friends, of being proud or ashamed of our stinky tofu, of
trading Oreos for our friend's mango lassi, of making our first
friend, of bringing extra to share, of hoping someone else would
bring extra to share. We see ourselves in some of these faces and
stories and immediately remember what we ate, who had the "good"
lunches, where we sat, how we felt, and what we did about it. We
can trace a part of who we are today back to those lunch tables.
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role
in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a
diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks
the complex relationship between landscape architecture and
photography. It explores the influence of photographic seeing on
the design process by presenting theoretical concepts from
photography and cultural theory through the lens of landscape
architecture practice to create a rigorous, open discussion.
Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, with over 200
images, subjects covered include the diversity of everyday
photographic practices for design decision making, the perception
of landscape architecture through photography, transcending the
objective and subjective with photography, and deploying
multiplicity in photographic representation as a means to better
represent the complexity of the discipline. Rather than solving
problems and providing tidy solutions to the ubiquitous
relationship between photography and landscape architecture, this
book aims to invigorate a wider dialogue about photography's
influence on how landscapes are understood, valued and designed.
Active photographic practices are presented throughout for
professionals, academics, students and researchers.
This is a new flexibound edition of the photography book that looks
at the other side of Egypt. This book of extraordinary photographs
of the 'other side' of Egypt is the result of the more than three
years that Italian photojournalist Silvia Dogliani spent in the
country, traveling, meeting people, and looking out for the
unexpected. Through her pictures she presents a remarkable - and
different - portrait of Egypt, avoiding the well-known history and
the popular views, focusing instead on life as it is lived by its
people. Three main oppositions are the focus of this book: Noise -
the infinite variety of sounds that are life's constant background
- and Silence - secretly hidden and always desired; Spirit - a
fascinating labyrinth of beliefs - and Movement - the action of
lively faces and places; Past - the magnificent memories touched by
nostalgia - and Future - the fervent wish for improvement.
Complementing the 150 color pictures are informal interviews with
Egyptians and non-Egyptians from all walks of life - both the
famous and the not so famous - whose words give a further feeling
of the real Egypt, an insight beyond the pyramids, temples, and
tombs.
ACCOMPANIES THE LANDMARK SERIES NARRATED BY DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Find
a world of wonder beyond the ice. 'Looking down at our planet from
space it may come as a surprise how much of it is blanketed in snow
and ice. These vast frozen wildernesses cover more than a fifth of
the earth ... From the highest peaks to snow-bound deserts to alien
worlds deep beneath the ice, they are home to an astonishing array
of animals found nowhere else on earth.' David Attenborough, from
the series. Frozen Planet II celebrates the surprisingly diverse
worlds of ice - a world that is disappearing before our very eyes.
Previously undiscovered stories, from chameleons giving birth on
the frosty slopes of Mount Kenya to endangered Amur leopards in the
Russian forest and killer whales hunting Weddell seals on ice floes
in the Antarctic, shed new light on the beauty and the peril of the
world's most fragile ecosystems. Behind-the-scenes insights explore
the unique challenges of filming in these frozen worlds, where
camera crew and wildlife alike brave the extreme conditions. With
over 250 stunning full-colour photographs, Frozen Planet II reveals
the wonders of the fastest-changing part of our planet, as we may
never see them again.
AS FEATURED ON BBC LONDON NEWS. Take four seasons, one
photographer, eighty species, hundreds of miles on foot in a city
of ten million people and through intimate and captivating
portraits meet London's wild neighbours. London is not just a city
of ten million people, it is also home to an extraordinary
diversity of beautiful wildlife. With world population exploding
and more and more countryside being lost to urban sprawl or
commercial agriculture, the sharing of urban space with nature is
more important than ever. To achieve this, we have to preserve and
increase the green and blue spaces in our cities and see and love
the wildlife that we already have. Since London is my city, I set
out to observe and create photographic portraits of all the
creatures I could find. Whilst this has taken many hundreds of
hours, it has been the happiest time imaginable as I immersed
myself in the sweetness and delight of my wild neighbours.
A Dance with Fred Astaire is an extraordinary collection of
anecdotes and rare ephemera featuring a dizzying cast of cultural
icons both underground and mainstream, both obscure and celebrated.
Memories and diary entries, conversations and insights into his
work sit alongside collages of beautifully reproduced postcards,
newspaper cuttings, film negatives, lists, posters and photographs,
envelopes and letters, book covers, telegrams, cartoons and
doodles. Mekas has kept and archived the artifacts of his life as a
cultural touchstone down to the minutiae, all of which is brought
together here in the form of a unique and fascinating scrapbook of
a life lived with the highest artistic commitment. Guided by
Mekas's distinctive prose and suffused with warmth, A Dance with
Fred Astaire is rhapsodic, poetic and funny as all get out. A
revealing visual autobiography of a genuine culture hero.
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Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age
challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond
understanding the image as a static representation of reality, it
shows photography as a linchpin of dynamic developments in
augmented intelligence, neuroscience, critical theory, and
cybernetic cultures. Through essays by leading philosophers,
political theorists, software artists, media researchers, curators,
and experimental programmers, photography emerges not as a mimetic
or a recording device but simultaneously as a new type of critical
discipline and a new art form that stands at the crossroads of
visual art, contemporary philosophy, and digital technologies.
Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially
successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had
already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves.
Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass also came
to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity
and dignity amidst northern racism. In the first decade of the
medium, enslaved people had begun entering southern daguerreotype
saloons of their own volition, posing for cameras, and leaving with
visual treasures they could keep in their pockets. And, as the
Civil War raged, Union soldiers would orchestrate pictures with
fugitive slaves that envisioned racial hierarchy as slavery fell.
In these ways and others, from the earliest days of the medium to
the first moments of emancipation, photography powerfully
influenced how bondage and freedom were documented, imagined, and
contested. By 1865, it would be difficult for many Americans to
look back upon slavery and its fall without thinking of a
photograph. This book explores how photography altered, and was in
turn shaped by, conflicts over bondage. Drawing upon an original
source base that includes hundreds of unpublished and
little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, and abolitionists
as well as written archival materials, it puts visual culture at
the center of understanding the experience of late slavery. It
assesses how photography helped southerners to defend slavery,
slaves to shape their social ties, abolitionists to strengthen
their movement, and soldiers to imagine and pictorially enact an
interracial society during the Civil War. With diverse goals, these
peoples transformed photography from a scientific curiosity (in the
early 1840s) into a political tool (by the 1860s). While this
project sheds new light on conflicts over late American slavery, it
also reveals a key moment in the much broader historical
relationship between modern visual culture and racialized forms of
power and resistance.
First published in 1978. In this title, Alan Thomas examines the
invention of photography in the early nineteenth century. How the
members of this first "visual" generation used photography and how
it changed their perceptions of the world are the subjects of this
lavishly illustrated book. As the author convincingly shows, the
camera's presence was felt nearly everywhere during the course of
the nineteenth century. Approaching the subject topically, Thomas
surveys the work of the early photographers in terms of its
motivation, insights, and impact on society. The book is rounded
out with sections on other genres of photography - theatrical,
landscape, and social realism - that amply document the
far-reaching impact of this phenomenon on nineteenth-century
sensibilities.
Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines
the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography
across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the
domestic arena of the family album. Through original ethnographic
and archival research, the book sheds new light on the role
photography has played in the emergence, expansion, and
articulation of heritage in diverse sociocultural contexts. Drawing
on wide-ranging experience across the heritage sector and two
international case studies - Angkor in Cambodia and the town of
Famagusta, Cyprus - the book makes a major contribution to our
understanding of the role photography has played and continues to
play in shaping experiences and conceptualisations of heritage. One
of the core aims of the book is to problematise and potentially
redirect the varied usages of photography within current practice,
usages which remain woefully undertheorised, despite their
often-central role in shaping heritage. Ultimately, by focusing
attention on a hitherto underexamined aspect of the heritage
phenomenon, namely its manifold interconnections with photography,
this book provides fresh insight to the making and remaking of the
past in the present, and the alternative heritages that might come
into being around emergent photographic forms and approaches.
Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past uses photography as a
method of enquiry as well as a tool of documentation. It will be of
interest to scholars and students of heritage, photography,
anthropology, museology, public archaeology, and tourism. The book
will also be a valuable resource for heritage practitioners working
around the globe.
Designed for photographers who haven't memorized every button,
dial, setting, and feature on their Nikon Z6, Rocky Nook's handy
and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the
shot when you're out and about. - Confirm that your camera is set
up properly with the pre-shoot checklist - Identify every button
and dial on your camera - Learn the essential modes and settings
you need to know - Dive deeper with additional features of your
camera - Execute step-by-step instructions for shooting multiple
exposures, in-camera HDR, time-lapse movies, and more - Follow tips
and techniques for getting great shots in typical scenarios
(portrait, landscape, freezing action, low light, etc.)
Have you ever seen a tree smile? Or witnessed a cloud take a
certain shape on purpose? We don't think of the elements of nature;
trees, rocks, clouds, etc. as being able to express and
communicate. Photographer Shannon Guest asserts that nature
attempts to communicate with us every day - she even has the
photographs to prove it in "Messages from the Lorax." From figures
emerging from trees, rock formations that show a face, to fairies
in the webs of spiders, her images demonstrate nature's remarkable
ability to mimic images familiar to us all. 159 photographs in full
color.
This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa,
bringing research on South African photography into conversation
with work from several other places on the continent, including
Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and
Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and
its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary
photography and practices of self-representation; and with the
place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as
contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through
detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic
archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been
used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique
such forms of power. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Social Dynamics.
Journey Into Africa through the lens of National Geographic
photographer Frans Lanting, whose images have created an enduring
vision of Africa's diverse landscapes and wildlife. Into Africa:
The Poster Portfolio showcases a range of iconic photography from
Frans Lanting, one of the world's most renowned nature
photographers. During three decades of fieldwork and assignments
for National Geographic, Lanting captured moments of intimacy with
some of the world's most endangered animals. Showcased in these
posters, Lanting's stunning, close-up images create an enduring
vision of Africa's wildlife. Each of the twelve oversized,
full-color posters are printed on high-quality card stock paper and
can be easily pulled from the book, allowing lovers of photography,
nature, and wildlife to bring the wilds of Africa into their home
or office.
In an era of social confusion and visual pandemonium, David Levi
Strauss tackles issues of photography and politics in a way that
few critics today are courageous enough to attempt. The essays
collected in Between the Eyes address topics ranging from
propaganda and the imagery of dreams, to Sebastiao Salgado's epic
social documents and the deeply personal photographic revelations
of Francesca Woodman. Other issues broached here include the
legitimacy of photographic imagery and the media frenzy surrounding
the events of September 11, as well as essays on the work of Ania
Bien, Miguel Rio Branco, Alfredo Jaar, Joel-Peter Witkin and
others, plus an interview with painter Leon Golub (who worked from
photographs). Reviewing the first edition of Between the Eyes,
Publisher's Weekly wrote: 'Photography and Propaganda, ' a study of
the work and deaths in '80s Central America of photojournalists
Richard Cross and John Hoagland, should be required reading in the
age of embeddedness, and 'Photography and Belief' is a terrific
meditation on truth in the age of digital manipulation."
No photographer is more closely associated with a city than Brassai
(1899 1984) is with Paris. From the moment he moved there in 1924,
he devoted his life and art to immortalizing his adopted city
capturing the street life by day, the cafes and the Seine by night.
A friend of Picasso and Henry Miller, Brassai knew and photographed
the leading figures of his day Giacometti, Sartre, Dali, Matisse,
and Mann among them. His most famous portraits and cityscapes,
collected in this volume, form a unique vision of life in pre- and
post-war Europe. The Photofile series brings together the best work
of the world s greatest photographers in an attractive format and
at an affordable price. Handsome and collectable, the books are
produced to the highest standards. Each volume contains some sixty
full page reproductions, a critical introduction and a full
bibliography. The series was awarded the first annual prize for
distinguished photographic books by the International Center of
Photography."
The Short Story of Photography is a new and innovative introduction
to the subject of photography. Simply constructed, the book
explores 50 key photographs from the first experiments in the early
ninteenth century to digital photography. Accessible and concise,
the book explains how, why and when certain photographs really have
changed the world. It demystifies technical jargon, giving readers
a thorough understanding and broad enjoyment of photography since
its creation.
The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and
Identity engages with contemporary debates surrounding photographic
cultures and practices from a variety of perspectives, providing
insight and analysis for students and practitioners. With over 100
images included, the diverse essays in this collection explore key
topics, such as: conflict and reportage; politics of race and
gender; the family album; fashion, tourism and surveillance; art
and archives; social media and the networked image. The collection
brings together essays by leading experts, scholars and
photographers, including Geoffrey Batchen, Elizabeth Edwards,
Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Martha Langford, Lucy R. Lippard, Fred
Ritchin, Allan Sekula and Val Williams. The depth and scope of this
collection is testament to the cultural significance of photography
and photographic study, with each themed section featuring an
editor's introduction that sets the ideas and debates in context.
Along with its companion volume - The Photography Reader: History
and Theory - this is the most comprehensive introduction to
photography and photographic criticism. Includes essays by: Jan
Avgikos, Ariella Azoulay, David A. Bailey, Roland Barthes, Geoffrey
Batchen, David Bate, Gail Baylis, Karin E. Becker, John Berger,
Lily Cho, Jane Collins, Douglas Crimp, Thierry de Duve, Karen de
Perthuis, George Dimock, Sarah Edge, Elizabeth Edwards, Francis
Frascina, Andre Gunthert, Stuart Hall, Elizabeth Hoak-Doering,
Patricia Holland, bell hooks, Yasmin Ibrahim, Liam Kennedy, Annette
Kuhn, Martha Langford, Ulrich Lehmann, Lucy R. Lippard, Catherine
Lutz, Roberta McGrath, Lev Manovich, Rosy Martin, Mette Mortensen,
Fred Ritchin, Daniel Rubinstein, Allan Sekula, Sharon Sliwinski,
Katrina Sluis, Jo Spence, Carol Squiers, Theopisti
Stylianou-Lambert, Ariadne van de Ven, Liz Wells, Val Williams,
Judith Williamson, Louise Wolthers and Ethan Zuckerman.
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