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This is a critical cultural primer, which can be used for
undergraduate level study and above to introduce and orientate
students to contemporary image cultures. A knowledge and
understandings of recent developments in image technologies is
central to all students engaged in art, cultural and media studies,
whether academically or practically. A 'standout' book defining a
new approach to thinking about how images function in networked
cultures. Based on work by scholars from The Centre for the Study
of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, this is a
coherent and consistent volume.
WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 - SPORT 'This book is a work of art
about football's works of art... Loved it.' - Kevin Day,
broadcaster 'A beautiful showcase of such a distinctive part of the
game's culture... impossible not to get lost in the book' - Miguel
Delaney, The Independent 'Gorgeous to behold... Unmissable' - Danny
Kelly, TalkSPORT radio presenter 'I absolutely love this book' -
Jules Breach, football presenter On high-rise buildings, street
corners and stadium walls in countries around the world,
eye-catching murals pay tribute to footballing greats. From Messi
and Ronaldo to Rapinoe and Cruyff, these striking displays are
remarkable testaments to the awe and affection fans feel for these
football legends and cult heroes. Join renowned football writer and
broadcaster Andy Brassell as he explores this fascinating
phenomenon. Offering a fresh, highly visual perspective on the
global game, Football Murals is the first book to celebrate these
towering works of art. Beckenbauer and Cruyff, Rooney and
Ronaldinho, Totti and Salah, Zlatan and Zidane - being honoured
with a mural cements a player's place in a club's heritage and
links them to the heart of the community. This richly illustrated
book showcases the most impressive examples, explores their
inspirational qualities and examines what they say about these
icons and their sport. Written and curated by respected football
writer Andy Brassell, this ground-breaking book features more than
100 murals from around the world, capturing the scale, grandeur and
wit of this powerful and popular art form. Through a series of
short essays and extended captions, Andy shares the players'
stories, discusses the cultural politics and explains just why
these men and women have been immortalised in mural form. Covering
such diverse topics as Home Town Glory, Football Fame and The Cult
of the Coach, Football Murals addresses the issues important to
fans worldwide. It spans Marcus Rashford's inspirational mural in a
Manchester suburb, the George Best tribute on the East Belfast
estate where he was born, the 15-foot depiction of Megan Rapinoe in
St Paul, Minnesota, and the Naples 'shrine' to Diego Maradona.
Suits that pop with loud colors and dazzling patterns, complete
with a nearly ubiquitous bowtie, define the style of the new
"dandy." Described as "high-styled rebels" by author Shantrelle P.
Lewis, black men with a penchant for color and refined fashion,
both new and vintage, have gained popular attention in recent
years, influencing mainstream fashion. But black dandyism itself is
not new; originating in Enlightenment England's slave culture, it
has continued for generations in black cultures around the world.
Now, set against the backdrop of hip-hop culture, this iteration of
dandies is redefining what it means to be black, masculine, and
fashionable. Dandy Lion presents and celebrates individual dandy
personalities, designers and tailors, movements and events that
define contemporary dandyism. Throughout the book, self-expression
is communicated through personal style, clothing, shoes, hats, and
swagger. Lewis's carefully curated selection of contemporary
photographs surveys the movement across the globe in spectacular
form, with all of the vibrant patterns, electrifying colors, and
fanciful poses of this brilliant style subculture.
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.
- Presents the first career retrospective of Peter Goin's work,
with contextualized close readings of images and rare insight into
the artist's intent, decisions, and evolution - Written by a
renowned literary ecocritic to provide broad, interdisciplinary
appeal across subjects such as photography, ecocriticism and
environmental humanities - Beautifully illustrated with 200 colour
and black and white photographs
Bestselling author and photographer Gray Malin’s new collection
of aerial beach photography, highlighting coastal locations from
around the worldA return to Gray Malin’s famed aerial beach
photography, Coastal celebrates the beaches of the United States,
from the East Coast to the West and Hawaii, as well as some
international beaches. This book includes stunning,
never-before-published photographs from the luminous waters of Maui
to the pebbled beaches of Northern Michigan to the idyllic shores
of Nantucket. Fans of Malin’s previous book, Beaches, will love
this new installment as he takes you on a journey to the secluded,
the celebrated, and the enchanting beaches of the United
States.Featured Locations:Midwest: Lake Michigan; ChicagoNortheast:
Maine; Cape Cod; New Jersey; Rhode Island; Block Island; The
Hamptons; Martha’s Vineyard; Nantucket; BostonSoutheast: Miami;
Palm Beach; Sea Island; JupiterSouthern California: Venice; Santa
Monica; San Diego; Laguna Beach; Newport Beach; Malibu; Manhattan
BeachNorthern California: San Francisco; Big Sur; Monterey; Carmel;
Pebble Beach; Lake TahoeHawaii: Oahu; Big Island; Kauai; Maui
International: Australia; New Zealand; St. Barths; Bora Bora;
Thailand
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For mainstream economics, cultural production raises no special
questions: creative expression is to be harvested for wealth
creation like any other form of labour. As Karl Marx saw it,
however, capital is hostile to the arts because it cannot fully
control the process of creativity. But while he saw the arts as
marginal to capital accumulation, that was before the birth of the
mass media. Engaging with the major issues in Marxist theory around
art and capitalism, From Printing to Streaming traces how the logic
of cultural capitalism evolved from the print age to digital times,
tracking the development of printing, photography, sound recording,
newsprint, advertising, film and broadcasting, exploring the
peculiarities of each as commodities, and their recent
transformation by digital technology, where everything melts into
computer code. Showing how these developments have had profound
implications for both cultural creation and consumption, Chanan
offers a radical and comprehensive analysis of the commodification
of artistic creation and the struggle to realise its potential in
the digital age.
THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH
TIMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE,
UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR From award-winning musician and composer
Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of
chewing gum. FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK CAVE I hadn't opened
the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to
touch it was Nina Simone, her saliva and fingerprints unsullied.
The idea that it was still in her towel was something I had drawn
strength from. I thought each time I opened it some of Nina
Simone's spirit would vanish. In many ways that thought was more
important than the gum itself. On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina
Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown
Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept
onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the
piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records
bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years; a sacred totem,
his creative muse, a conduit that would eventually take Ellis back
to his childhood and his relationship with found objects, growing
in significance with every passing year. Nina Simone's Gum is about
how something so small can form beautiful connections between
people. It is a story about the meaning we place on things, on
experiences, and how they become imbued with spirituality. It is a
celebration of artistic process, friendship, understanding and
love. 'The year's most eccentric and joyful musical memoir.' DAILY
TELEGRAPH (Books of the Year) 'A meditation on art and value,
connection and collaboration [...] Fantastic.' THE TIMES (Books of
the Year) 'One of the most strange, illuminating and wonderful
'music' books ever.' MOJO (Books of the Year)
A unique insight into the work of photo-journalist during the
pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. Written in an accessible
style for students of photojournalism and media studies, as well as
a general readership interested in these events and how they played
out in the media. Includes interviews with award-winning
photographers and journalists from the USA, Argentina and China.
The very first book in the world to be illustrated with photographs
was produced in Reading between 1844 and 1846. In 1843, William
Henry Fox Talbot set up the first commercial studios to
mass-produce photographs from negatives and he chose the Berkshire
town of Reading as its location. The Reading Establishment, as it
became known, marks a pivotal moment in the development of
photography. Martin Andrews tells the story of these momentous
events and places them in the context of the discovery and early
history of photography. Told in a lively and engaging way, the
story starts with a mystery. Who is the strange, foreign gentleman
buying unusual substances in the chemist shops of Reading - is he a
forger or a spy?
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Loops
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Anders Edstrom
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Photographic stills of women, appearing in both press coverage and
relief campaigns, have long been central to the documentation of
war and civil conflict. Images of non-Western women, in particular,
regularly function as symbols of the misery and hopelessness of the
oppressed. Featured on the front pages of newspapers and in NGO
reports, they inform public understandings of war and peace,
victims and perpetrators, but within a discourse that often
obscures social and political subjectivities. Uniquely, this book
deconstructs - in a systematic, gender-sensitive way - the
repetitive circulation of certain images of war, conflict and state
violence, in order to scrutinize the role of photographic tropes in
the globalized visual sphere. Zarzycka builds on feminist theories
of representations of war to explore how the concepts of femininity
and war secure each other's intelligibility in photographic
practices. This book examines the complex connections between
photographic tropes and the individuals and communities they
represent, in order to rethink the medium of photography as a
discursive and political practice. This book interrogates both the
structure and transmission of contemporary encounters with war,
violence, and conflict. It will appeal to advanced students and
scholars of gender studies, visual studies, media studies,
photography theory, cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and
trauma and memory studies.
As the 1970s drew to a close and changes in music, fashion and
attitudes collided to form Punk, Sheila Rock was right at the heart
of the electrifying youth movement.
Combining immersive photography with expertly researched travel
writing, this is the ultimate guidebook for LGBTQ+
travelers-whether you're planning your next getaway, daydreaming
from the comfort of your armchair, or seeking to learn about queer
culture in other parts of the world. This swoon-worthy guide to the
best places and events the queer world has to offer spans the
globe, taking you from metropolitan must-sees, like the Castro in
San Francisco or the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York, to
lesser-known gems like the McIver Ladies' Baths in Sydney or the
first gay bar in Nepal. Maartje Hensen and a diverse team of
international travel writers have put together information on the
best drag shows, Pride parades, and film festivals all around the
world, as well as resources regarding laws, restrictions, and
cultural attitudes-ensuring that travelers can safely enjoy their
sojourns and find community wherever they go. Whether you're
looking for relaxation, romance, or adventure, The Pride Atlas will
help you plan your next gaycation. SERIOUS EYE CANDY: Bursting at
the seams with full-color photographs, The Pride Atlas is a
colorful addition to any bookshelf or coffee table. It offers an
immersive, take-me-there reading experience, as well as the
nuts-and-bolts practical information that will transform armchair
travel into actual trip planning. INCLUSIVE AND INFORMATIVE:
Whether you are a drag show fanatic, a gay couple in search of
international community, an ally planning an ethical and informed
vacation, or a cohort of queers looking for a good time-this is the
travel book for you. With information on both festivities for and
frustrations facing queer travelers, written by a diverse team of
LGBTQ+ travel bloggers, The Pride Atlas is a unique and valuable
resource. Perfect for: * LGBTQ+ vacation planners and armchair
travelers * Informed, ethical travelers who want to know about
LGBTQ+ rights and culture in the places they visit * A practical
and inspiring birthday, graduation, wedding, bon voyage, or special
occasion gift for all who love to explore
Travel isn't always about the destination - sometimes, it's about the amazing things you see along the way.
In Photos from the Road you can experience the wide-open spaces of North America, the precarious mountain passes of South and Central America, the green fields and jagged peaks of Asia, the rugged beauty of Australia and New Zealand, the country lanes and city streets of the UK and Europe, and the dusty safari tracks of Africa all for £8.99.
With over 100 images, all taken from the road, this book is sure to inspire you to throw a bag in the boot of your car and hit the road.
Through a variety of case studies by global scholars from diverse
academic fields, this book explores photographic-album practices of
historically marginalized figures from a range of time periods,
geographic locations, and socio-cultural contexts. Their albums'
stories span various racial, ethnic, gender and sexual identities;
nationalities; religions; and dis/abilities. The vernacular albums
featured in this volume present narratives that move beyond those
reflected in our existing histories. Essays examine the visual,
material, and aural strategies that album-makers have used to
assert control over the presentation of their histories and
identities, and to direct what those narratives have to say, a
point of special relevance as these albums move out of private
domestic space and into public archives, institutions, and digital
formats. This book does not consider photographic albums and
scrapbooks as separate genres, but as a continuum of modern
creative practices of photographic and mass-print collage aimed at
self-expression and narrative-building that co-evolved and were
readily accessible. The book will be of interest to scholars
working in art history, history of photography, visual culture,
material culture, media studies, and cultural studies.
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Barbican Centre
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The Barbican Centre in the City of London is the largest
multi-disciplinary arts centre in Europe. Designed by Chamberlin,
Powell & Bon as part of the Barbican Estate and to provide
homes for both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal
Shakespeare Company, the building is internationally renowned not
only as an example of radical, visionary architecture in the
Modernist tradition, but also for its outstanding programme of more
than 2,000 cultural events each year: plays, concerts, films,
exhibitions and more. A new title in the Pocket Photo Books series
of immersive visual guides to the experience of place, this compact
album of more than one hundred photographs by Harry Cory Wright
presents the dramatic spaces, rich textures and carefully selected
materials of the Barbican Centre in all their detail. From the
flowing, multi-level space of the foyer and the calm
wooden-panelled concert hall to the surprising intimacy of the
theatre and the soaring jungle of the conservatory, the Barbican
Centre offers the visitor an extraordinary variety of experiences
within a single building. This book captures their full range,
providing exceptional insights into one of the most significant and
exciting modern buildings in Britain and a thriving cultural hub in
the heart of London.
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