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Dignity
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Archibishop Desmond Tutu
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This anthology offers a fresh approach to the philosophical aspects
of photography. The essays, written by contemporary philosophers in
a thorough and engaging manner, explore the far-reaching ethical
dimensions of photography as it is used today.
A first-of-its-kind anthology exploring the link between the art of
photography and the theoretical questions it raises
Written in a thorough and engaging manner
Essayists are all contemporary philosophers who bring with them an
exceptional understanding of the broader metaphysical issues
pertaining to photography
Takes a fresh look at some familiar issues - photographic truth,
objectivity, and realism
Introduces newer issues such as the ethical use of photography or
the effect of digital-imaging technology on how we appreciate
images
In Make Great Photos: A Friendly Guide for Improving Your
Photographs, photographer and author Alan Hess teaches you the
basics of photography by breaking down the topic into
easy-to-understand sections. Learn a whole range of photography
basics, from photo setup to image editing. Learning the basics of
photography can seem like a daunting task. At first glance, there
is a whole new world of terminology to digest and tons of numbers
to master. It can be confusing, frustrating, and overwhelming. It's
no wonder many people set their cameras to Auto and hope for the
best in whatever situation they're shooting, whether that's a
child's soccer game, a birthday party, or a vacation. Unless luck
strikes, the resulting images are usually not very good. But it
doesn't have to be this way. Enter Make Great Photos: A Friendly
Guide for Improving Your Photographs. In this book, photographer
and author Alan Hess teaches you the basics of photography by
breaking down the topic into its fundamental parts. In the first
section of the book, Alan explains what makes a great photo in the
first place, examining a selection of images and working through
why each one is successful. He then dives into chapters that cover
the photographic choices every photographer needs to make. These
choices boil down to just three main topics: light, focus, and
composition. In the second part of Make Great Photos, Alan
addresses specific shooting situations--categorized into travel,
sports and action, events, and people--discussing the challenges
that each scenario poses and how to conquer them. Finally, you'll
learn the top five basic edits you need to know to make your images
pop when you share them online. At the end of chapters, there are
thoughtful exercises and assignments that push you to learn and
grow in your photography. These fun activities help you fully
absorb the lessons throughout the book so you can head out with
your camera and capture great images.
When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom
in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became
the face of American slavery. Due to generations of sexual
violence, Mary's skin was so light she "passed" as white-a fact
abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner knew would be the key to his
white audience's sympathy. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to
her rightful place in history, "probing issues of colorism and
racial politics" (New York Times Book Review) that still affect us
profoundly today.
Christmas Day 1977, a day to be spent with family and loved ones,
unless of course you'd decided to spend it with The Sex Pistols.
The punk band, at the centre of a tabloid frenzy and banned from
just about every venue in the country, had booked themselves into a
small club in Huddersfield to perform a benefit in support of
striking West Yorkshire fire fighters. That evening, the band took
to the stage to perform what would become their final UK gig. There
to capture the chaos was photographer Kevin Cummins. No stranger to
The Sex Pistols, he'd been there at that gig at Manchester's Lesser
Free Trade Hall just 18 months previously. Kevin incurred the fury
of his own family to forgo Christmas in order to travel across The
Pennines to document the event. Every frame Kevin shot is here, for
the first time, in this book of more than 150 colour and black and
white photographs, each beautifully capturing Johnny Rotten, Sid
Vicious, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook as they play together for the
last time in their home country. Just weeks later The Pistols would
break up and a year later, Sid would be dead. "You've had the
Queen's speech. Now you're going to get the Sex Pistols at
Christmas. Enjoy." - Johnny Rotten
'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review 'Mark Braude's writing
and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim
Jarmusch 'A delightful, marvelously readable,
meticulously-researched romp of a book, Kiki Man Ray brings to life
not just the kaleidoscopically talented Kiki herself, but the
endlessly fascinating Montparnasse milieu over which she reigned.'
Whitney Scharer, author of THE AGE OF LIGHT Though many have never
heard her name, Alice Prin - Kiki de Montparnasse - was the icon of
1920s Paris. She captivated as a ground-breaking nightclub
performer, wrote a bestselling memoir, sold out exhibitions of her
paintings, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Pablo
Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, and Marcel Duchamp. She also shepherded
along the career of a then-unknown American photographer: Man Ray.
Following Kiki in the years between 1921 and 1929, when she lived
and worked with Man Ray, Kiki Man Ray charts their complicated
entanglement and reveals how Man Ray - always the unabashed
careerist - went on to become one of the most famous photographers
of the twentieth century, enjoying wealth and prestige, while
Kiki's legacy was lost. But this isn't a story of an overbearing
male genius and his defeated muse. During the 1920s it was Kiki,
not Man Ray, who was the brighter of the two rising stars and a
powerful figure among the close-knit community of models, painters,
writers and cafe wastrels who made their homes in gritty
Montparnasse. Following the couple as they created art, struggled
for power and competed for fame, Kiki Man Ray illuminates for the
first time Kiki's seminal influence on the culture of 1920s Paris,
and challenges ideas about artists and muses, and the lines
separating the two. 'Kiki de Montparnasse was more than a muse -
she was a vivacious, independent woman whose talent and magnetism
helped make Paris the center of the art world in the 1920s. In Mark
Braude's riveting cultural history, the Queen of Montparnasse rises
again. This is a lively and compassionate tribute to the chanteuse,
model, and portraitist who held center stage in her life, and who
inspired some of the finest Surrealist art of the twentieth
century.' Heather Clark, author of Pulitzer Prize-finalist Red
Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of
visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual
material, and reflections on how such material can be studied
sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples
that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we
live in, exploring three domains of the 'relational image': the
urban, social media, and the aerial. Zuev and Bratchford tackle
issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of
visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of
the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by
researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their
visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of
visuality. This concise overview will be of use to students and
researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their
own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related
courses in photography, new-media and visual studies.
The world's most universally admired politician is celebrated in
words and images that span the globe. Internationally renowned
photographer Antoinette Haselhorst has captured Nelson Mandela on
camera on numerous occasions. This unique book is a reflection on
the man himself, and his significance on the global stage.
Haselhorst combines her outstanding portraiture of Mandela with a
series of tributes from celebrities, as well as lesser-known
persons, creating a moving and colourful record of the emotions
felt around the world for this very special individual.
Produced under licence from the "Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
"(who receive a royalty for every book sold), "Reflections on
Nelson Mandela" is the only officially sanctioned book of its kind
ever to be published.
In the early 1900s, as the Ottoman Empire collapsed, a fiercely
nationalistic movement took power. As with all ideologies, their
taking hold meant the termination of what didn't fit its new
identity--its Christian Armenian citizens.
"Memory of Trees" follows the remains and traces of an
ambiguous, dark history--the great crime recognized today as
genocide by more than a dozen countries. Kathryn Cook traveled
across Turkey and Armenia, to Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, sifting
through the remains of this legacy and tracking down survivors. Her
images emphasize the emotional tonality of the story rather than
documenting specific events.
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SKKS
(Paperback)
Gilles Pourtier
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R499
Discovery Miles 4 990
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Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and
museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in
a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical
museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the
politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical
attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and
lives of these photographs within museums. This book brings into
focus the ubiquitous yet entirely unconsidered work that
photographs are put to in museums. The authors' argument is that
there is an economy of photographs in museums which is integral to
the processes of the museum, and integral to the understanding of
museums. The international contributors, drawn from curators and
academics, reflect a range of visual and museological expertise.
After an introduction setting out the range of questions and
problems, the first part addresses broad curatorial strategies and
ways of thinking about photographs in museums. Shifting the
emphasis from curatorial practices and anxieties to the space of
the gallery, this is followed by a series of case studies of
exhibitionary practices and the museum strategies that support
them. The third section focuses on the role of photographs in the
museum articulation of 'difficult histories'. A final section
addresses photograph collections in a digital environment. New
technologies and new media have transformed the management, address
and purposing in photographs in museums, from cataloguing practices
to streaming on social media. These growing practices challenge
both traditional hierarchies of knowledge in museums and the
location of authority about photographs. The volume emerges from
PhotoCLEC, a HERA funded project on museums and the photographic
legacy of the colonial past in a postcolonial and multicultural
Europe.
This PHotoBolsillo volume celebrates the work of Spanish
photographer Rafael Sanz Lobato (born 1932), known for his iconic
black-and-white images of automobiles, still lifes and portraits.
Sanz Lobato won the National Photography Prize in 2011 for his work
showing the recent transformation of rural communities.
Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade
between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the
Pacific War in 1941, a number of photographers across Japan
produced a versatile body of Surrealist work. In a pioneering study
of their practice, Jelena Stojkovic draws on primary sources and
extensive archival research and maps out art historical and
critical contexts relevant to the apprehension of this rich
photographic output, most of which is previously unseen outside of
its country of origin. The volume is an essential resource in the
fields of Surrealism and Japanese history of art, for researchers
and students of historical avant-gardes and photography, as well as
forreaders interested in visual culture.
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Waska Tatay
(Hardcover)
Thierry H Usermann
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R1,006
R880
Discovery Miles 8 800
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Global travel can be a wearying business: mass tourism, overcrowded
planes, chaotic airports, heightened security, cookie-cutter hotel
chains, well-worn tourist trails. Finding even a sliver of
adventure can sometimes feel impossible. But take heart: for all of
us with an unfulfilled spirit of wanderlust, The Golden Age of
Travel evokes an era when traveling the world was a thrilling new
possibility for those with the resources, time, imagination, and
daring. This richly illustrated volume charts the travel heyday of
1869 to 1939. Bedecked with ephemera and precious
turn-of-the-century photochroms, it follows six classic tours
favored by Western adventurers in the prewar era, including such
famous traveler-writers as Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and Goethe. From the Grand Tour of Europe,
a traditional rite of passage for young English aristocrats, to the
Far East, barely touched by Western influence, to the famous
Trans-Siberian Railway, we follow each journey through its
itinerant stops and various modes of transport: trains, boats,
cars, planes, horses, donkeys, and camels. With pages brimming with
archival travel posters, guides, tickets, leaflets, brochures,
menus, and luggage stickers, the book evokes all the romance,
elegance, not to mention the sheer sense of novelty, that
enthralled these golden-age passengers. Through decadent new
cities, or wild, rugged terrains, this is your passport to a
long-lost epoch of adventure and wide-eyed wonder at the world.
In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed
communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both
during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of
conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam War
has been dominated by American documentaries and war photography,
Phu turns to photographs circulated by the Vietnamese themselves,
capturing a range of subjects, occasions, and perspectives. Phu's
concept of warring visions refers to contrasts in the use of war
photos in North Vietnam, which highlighted national liberation and
aligned themselves with an international audience, and those in
South Vietnam, which focused on family and everyday survival. Phu
also uses warring visions to enlarge the category of war
photography, a genre that usually consists of images illustrating
the immediacy of combat and the spectacle of violence, pain, and
wounded bodies. She pushes this genre beyond such definitions by
analyzing pictures of family life, weddings, and other quotidian
scenes of life during the war. Phu thus expands our understanding
of how war is waged, experienced, and resolved.
We live in an era of abundant photography. Is it then
counterintuitive to study photographs that disappear or are
difficult to discern? Kate Palmer Albers argues that it is
precisely this current cultural moment that allows us to recognize
what has always been a basic and foundational, yet unseen,
condition of photography: its ephemerality. Through a series of
case studies spanning the history of photography, The Night Albums
takes up the provocations of artists who collectively redefine how
we experience visibility. From the protracted hesitancies of
photography's origins, to conceptual and performative art that has
emerged since the 1960s, to the waves of technological
experimentation flourishing today, Albers foregrounds artists who
offer fleeting, hidden, conditional, and future modes of
visibility. By unveiling how ephemerality shapes the photographic
experience, she ultimately proposes an expanded framework for the
medium.
This guide for aspiring and exhibiting photographers alike combines
practice and concept to provide a roadmap to navigating, and
succeeding in, the fine art photography marketplace locally,
domestically, and internationally. Join former New York gallery
owner, international curator, and fine art photographer Thomas
Werner as he shares his experiences and insights from leading
curators, gallerists, collectors, auctioneers, exhibiting
photographic artists, and more. Learn how to identify realistic
goals, maximize results, work with galleries and museums, write
grants, develop strong nuanced imagery, and build a professional
practice in a continually evolving field. Featuring dozens of
photographs from international practitioners, and a robust set of
resources, this book will ensure you have the tools to give you the
opportunity for success in any marketplace. Whether you are a
student, aspiring photographic or video artist, or a photographer
changing careers, The Business of Fine Art Photography is your
guide to starting and growing your own practice.
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