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Guest edited by the acclaimed photographer Alec Soth, Aperture's
summer issue explores the dimensions and possibilities of dreams,
journeys, and chance in photography. "Sleepwalking" covers a
surprising array of images and stories from the Soviet-era Czech
artist Emila Medova to Sophie Calle's discovery of an abandoned
Parisian hotel to Soth's own photographs from his travels in the
United States. In this issue, Jesse Dorris interviews Duane Michals
about luck and fate, Marina Warner explores the enduring resonance
of the figure of the sleepwalker, and artists including Etienne
Courtois, Maja Daniels, and Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. present
surreal and imaginative new series. The Summer 2022 issue also
introduces The PhotoBook Review, a new section for lively
engagement with photobooks, featuring reviews of recent titles by
Nona Faustine, Samuel Fosso, Oscar Monzon, and others.
To fully understand photography, it is essential to study both
the theoretical and the technical.
In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes
explore photographic theory, history and technique to bring
photographic education up-to-date with contemporary photographic
practice. Reframing Photography is a broad and inclusive rethinking
of photography that will inspire students to think about the medium
across time periods, across traditional themes, and through varied
materials. Intended for both beginners and advanced students, and
for art and non-art majors, and practicing artists, Reframing
Photography compellingly represents four concerns common to all
photographic practice:
- vision
- light/shadow
- reproductive processes
- editing/ presentation/ evaluation.
Each part includes an extensive and thoughtful essay, providing
a broad cultural context for each topic, alongside discussion of
photographic examples. Essays introduce the work of artists who use
a diverse range of subject matter and a variety of processes
(straight photography, social documentary, digital, mixed media,
conceptual work, etc.), examine artists' conceptual and technical
choices, describe cultural implications and artistic influences,
and analyze how these concerns interrelate. Following each essay,
each part continues with a "how-to" section that describes a
fascinating range of related photographic equipment, materials and
methods through concise explanations and clear diagrams.
Key Features:
- case studies featuring profiles of contemporary and historical
artists
- glossary definitions of critical and technical vocabulary to
aid learning
- how to sections provide students with illustrated, step by step
guides to different photographic methods, alongside related
theory
- fully up-to-date, with both high and low tech suggestions for
activities
- online resources at:
www.routledge.com/textbooks/reframingphotography will update
information on equipment and provide further activities,
information and links to related sites
- lavishly illustrated, with over 750 images, including artists
work and examples of photographic processes.
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Throughout Germany's tumultuous twentieth century, photography was
an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists,
witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur
photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods
of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an
international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship
between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing
the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which
ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case
studies illustrate photography's multilayered role as a new form of
representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode
of narrating the past.
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Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in
the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly
used their reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public
issues as vital as war, national identity, and citizenship. Cara A.
Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles,
letters to the editor, trial testimony, books, and speeches
produced by viewers in response to specific photos they encountered
in public. From the portrait of a young Lincoln to images of child
laborers and Depression-era hardship, Finnegan treats the
photograph as a locus for viewer engagement and constructs a
history of photography's viewers that shows how Americans used
words about images to participate in the politics of their day. As
she shows, encounters with photography helped viewers negotiate the
emergent anxieties and crises of U.S. public life through not only
persuasion but action, as well.
Soul and Glory takes you on a journey through football history,
spanning four unforgettable and unique decades from 1950 to 1989.
Using beautiful images, it's a celebration of the game, from the
life and soul of the packed-out terraces to the glory and despair
on the pitch. The book showcases the diversity and individuality of
football going back to an era when things looked very different
than now, for better or worse. Whether it's muddy pitches, players
celebrating with fans, larger-than-life characters or stadiums
packed out an hour before kick-off, Soul and Glory will take you on
a nostalgia-filled trip down memory lane. Legends such as George
Best, Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore, Paul Gascoigne
and Stanley Matthews all feature, as well as a wide selection of
teams and stadia. This stunning pictorial celebration of English
football is sure to leave you reminiscing about the uniqueness and
flamboyance of the nation's football heritage.
With conscription introduced, Zeppelins carrying out bombing raids
on key towns and cities across England, the Battle of Jutland
seeing fourteen British ships sunk and the Battle of the Somme
claiming 20,000 British dead on the first day alone, the resolve of
the British and allied troops in 1916 was being sorely tested. The
Great War Illustrated 1916 is the third picture volume in this
series that deals exclusively with actions fought throughout the
year on the Western Front. Split into five chapters, the authors
begin with the British defeat at Kut, showing photographs from
British and Turkish perspectives throughout the four-month
campaign. The second chapter explores the new technological
advances made by both sides throughout the year including new
tanks, aircraft and guns. Photographs show the new equipment in
action on the battlefield as well as being manufactured on
production lines in the factories back home. We then turn to the
Battle of Verdun, one of the largest battles of the First World
War, before exploring the Battle of Jutland. Being the only
full-scale naval clash of the entire First World War, the two-day
battle saw twenty-five ships sunk and over 8,000 men killed on both
sides and the authors analyse the battle in full detail,
illustrating the ships that were involved and the men who sailed
upon them. The concluding chapter explores the infamous Battle of
the Somme, from the horrendous losses suffered on 1 July to the
arduous battle of attrition that followed thereafter. Split into
sub-sections, detailed analysis of the Australians, Canadians and
British troops are featured along with a final section showing
winter conditions in the area at the end of the year. With over
1,300 painstakingly enhanced and restored photographs and a
thirty-two page full colour section, the work within these pages
represents a real labour of love and offers the reader an
exceptional picture library of rare and unseen pictures that is
easily accessible for the general reader and military enthusiast
alike.
Why did Henri Cartier-Bresson nearly have a posthumous exhibition
while still alive? What led Stephen Shore to work with color? Why
was Sophie Calle accused of stealing Vermeer's The Concert ? And
what is Susan Meiselas's take on Instagram and the future of online
storytelling? Aperture Conversations presents a selection of
interviews pulled from Aperture's publishing history, highlighting
critical dialogue between photographers, esteemed critics,
curators, editors, and artists from 1985 to the present day.
Emerging talent along with well-established photographers discuss
their work openly and examine the future of the medium. Through the
history of Aperture's booklist, online platform, and Aperture
magazine, Aperture Conversations celebrates the artist's voice,
collaborations, and the photography community at large.
With the new edition of this proven bestseller, Photoshop users can
master the power of Photoshop CS5 with internationally renowned
photographer and Photoshop hall-of-famer Martin Evening by their
side. In this acclaimed reference work, Martin covers everything
from the core aspects of working in Photoshop to advanced
techniques for professional results. Subjects covered include
organizing a digital workflow, improving creativity, output,
automating Photoshop, and using Camera RAW. The style of the book
is extremely clear, with real examples, diagrams, illustrations,
and step-by-step explanations supporting the text throughout. This
is, quite simply, the essential reference for photographers of all
levels using Photoshop. Downloadable resources are available online
at www.focalpress.com/cw/evening-9780240522005/
This volume explores the selfie not only as a specific photographic
practice that is deeply rooted in digital culture, but also how it
is understood in relation to other media of self-portrayal. Unlike
the public debate about the dangers of 'selfie-narcissism', this
anthology discusses what the practice of taking and sharing selfies
can tell us about media culture today: can the selfie be critiqued
as an image or rather as a social practice? What are the
technological conditions of this form of vernacular photography? By
gathering articles from the fields of media studies; art history;
cultural studies; visual studies; philosophy; sociology and
ethnography, this book provides a media archaeological perspective
that highlights the relevance of the selfie as a stereotypical as
well as creative practice of dealing with ourselves in relation to
technology.
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War Games
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David Levinthal
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David Levinthal, a central figure in the history of American
postmodern photography, has staged uncanny tableaux using toys and
miniature dioramas for nearly forty years. This publication for the
first time assembles the artist's photography on the subject of
war.
Levinthal's combat-related tableaux constitute a remarkable
critique of the ways society experiences conflict through its
portrayal. His groundbreaking project "Hitler Moves East"
(1975-77), a series of imagined scenes from World War II's Russian
front, first established his reputation, becoming a touchstone for
the iconoclastic generation of American photographers that includes
artists like Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince.
The book has a beautifully designed canvas hardcover with
silkscreen print and a dust jacket
Move over, Man Ray, there are new collage artists in town! Match
the contemporary works of 30 different artists and be inspired by
the colourful and comprehensive card deck. The Collage Memory Game
provides you with an insight into the broad art movement. Collage
is a technique of art production, primarily used in the visual
arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different
forms, thus creating a new whole. It allowed artists to engage with
existing materials, to which they could assign new contexts in
order to create a brand new artwork. Ranging from newspapers and
magazines to maps, tickets, propaganda, photographs, ribbons,
postage stamps, paint, text and found objects, the elements of
collage participate in a handy creative process of putting artworks
together and even breaking them apart, in an artistic exploration
into the unknown. The origins of collage can be traced back
hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance
in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty.
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Lodestars Anthology: Pathways contains 14 of the best and most
carefully selected paths and trails that we have traversed. This
book explores and details those pathways, the people, the
landscapes and the fascinating things we discovered along the way.
The journeys we take have a start and an end point, but we, in this
book, want to relish the bit in between. So whether this is a
mountain pass in the Italian Alps where we meet highland shepherds,
or sprawling, urban grids with a bevy of restaurants and
contemporary design, we want to inspire the reader to follow these
paths and take precious moments to engage in everything possible
through their senses. The book is a guide to these pathways, but
goes beyond this to capture and document the lives of the people we
meet, the challenges of the trip and the culture and landscapes we
find that inspire us to keep on adventuring. 1 A collection of
pathways from around the world captured through compelling
narrative, high quality photography and key guide points. 2
Documenting how to travel and how to experience everything from the
start the end of a journey. 3 The people we meet, the places we
discover, the sights we see and the paths we took to discover them.
Photography represents a medium in which the moment of death can be
captured and preserved, the image becoming a mechanism through
which audiences are beguiled by the certainty of their own
mortality. Examining a spectrum of post-mortem images, Photography
and Death considers various ways in which the death image has been
framed and what these styles communicate about changing social
attitudes related to dying, mourning and the afterlife. Presenting
a fresh perspective on how we might view death photography in the
context of our contemporary cultural milieu, this book brings
together a range of historical examples to create a richer
narrative of how we see, understand and discuss death in both the
private and public forum. Building upon existing publications which
relate explicitly to the study of death, dying and cultures of
mourning, the book discusses topics such as post-mortem
portraiture, the Civil War, Spiritualism and lynching. These are
positioned alongside contemporary representations of death, as seen
in celebrity death images and forensic photography. Uncovering an
important historical contrast, in which modern notions of death are
a comment on ownership or an emotionless, clinical state, Harris
highlights the various ways that the deceased body is a site of
contestation and fascination. An engaging read for students and
researchers with an interest in death studies, this book represents
a unique account of the various ways that attitudes about death
have been shaped through the photographic image.
In her beautifully illustrated study, Patrizia Di Bello recaptures
the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in
nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting,
exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the
context of feminine sociability, Di Bello shows that albums express
Victorian women's experience of modernity. While attentive to the
albums of individual women, Di Bello also examines the broader
feminine culture of collecting and displaying images; uncovers the
cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and
illustrated periodicals; and demonstrates the way albums and
photography itself were represented in women's magazines, fashion
plates, and popular novels. Bringing a sophisticated eye to
overlooked images such as the family photograph, Di Bello not only
illustrates their significance as historical documents but
elucidates the visual rhetorics at play. In doing so, she
identifies the connections between Victorian album-making and the
work of modern-day amateurs and artists who use digital techniques
to compile and decorate albums with Victorian-style borders and
patterns.At a time when photographic album-making is being
re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the
history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its
centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused
on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic
considerations. Di Bello's book is remarkable in elegantly
connecting the history of photography with the fields of material
culture and women's studies.
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