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This bibliography of more than 2,000 monographs in twenty languages
covers the period 1839-1999. Entries range from those that explore
the relationship between photography and literature, to words where
the literary text is complemented by photographs. It includes
books, exhibition catalogues, dissertations, and special issues of
magazines, with brief annotations where appropriate. The book is
arranged alphabetically by author/photographer, with numerous
cross-references and cumulative name and subject indexes.
Engendering an avant-garde is the first book to comprehensively
examine the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism in its
regional context between 1968 and 1990. Employing discourse
analysis of texts written by and about artists, feminist critique
and settler-colonial theory, the book discusses the historical
transition from artists' creation of 'defeatured landscapes'
between 1968-71 to their cinematographic photographs of the late
1970s and the backlash against such work by other artists in the
late 1980s. It is the first study to provide a structural account
for why the group remains all-male. It accomplishes this by
demonstrating that the importation of a European discourse of
avant-garde activity, which assumed masculine social privilege and
public activity, effectively excluded women artists from
membership. -- .
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
A bright white temple as if carved from ice. Statues in candlelit
caves. Massive red monastery walls in the midst of majestic
mountains. In this beautiful book of travel photography, Christoph
Mohr presents the most sacred places of Buddhism. Across Myanmar,
Thailand, Vietnam, China, Tibet, Ladakh, Zanskar, and other Asian
regions, Mohr shows Buddhist temples, monasteries, sacred
mountains, and illuminates the life of the historical Buddha. The
images are accompanied by texts from Oliver Fulling, sharing the
basics of Buddhism and everyday Buddhist practice and rituals.
* Collates together comprehensive and accessible instructions for
toning using botanicals, illustrating the variety of colours that
can be achieved by using different plants. * Allows photographers
interested in alternative processes to build on their understanding
of cyanotype - a widely accessible way of producing way photographs
- whilst providing never before collated information on the use of
colour in cyanotype prints. * Opens up new applications of
cyanotype toning to even experts in the field to allow them to
expand their creative work.
This volume sets out to challenge and ultimately broaden the
category of the 'photobook'. It critiques the popular art-market
definition of the photobook as simply a photographer's book,
proposing instead to show how books and photos come together as
collective cultural productions. Focusing on North American,
British and French photobooks from 1920 to the present, the
chapters revisit canonical works - by Claudia Andujar and George
Love, Mohamed Bourouissa, Walker Evans, Susan Meiselas and Roland
Penrose - while also delving into institutional, digital and
unrealised projects, illegal practices, DIY communities and the
poetic impulse. They throw new light on the way that gendered,
racial or colonial assumptions are resisted. Taken as a whole, the
volume provides a better understanding of how the meaning of a
photobook is collectively produced both inside and outside the art
market. -- .
Andrew Feiler has been named Prix de la Photographie Paris 'Book
Photographer of the Year' 2022. Additionally, A Better Life for
Their Children has won the Gold medal for 'Documentary'. A Sarah
Mills Hodge Fund publication Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius
Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it
into the world's largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T.
Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In
1912 the two men launched an ambitious program to partner with
black communities across the segregated South to build public
schools for African American children. This watershed moment in the
history of philanthropy-one of the earliest collaborations between
Jews and African Americans-drove dramatic improvement in African
American educational attainment and fostered the generation who
became the leaders and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement.
Of the original 4,978 Rosenwald schools built between 1917 and 1937
across fifteen southern and border states, only about 500 survive.
While some have been repurposed and a handful remain active
schools, many remain unrestored and at risk of collapse. To tell
this story visually, Andrew Feiler drove more than twenty-five
thousand miles, photographed 105 schools, and interviewed dozens of
former students, teachers, preservationists, and community leaders
in all fifteen of the program states. A Better Life for their
Children includes eighty-five duotone images that capture interiors
and exteriors, schools restored and yet-to-be restored, and
portraits of people with unique, compelling connections to these
schools. Brief narratives written by Feiler accompany each
photograph, telling the stories of Rosenwald schools' connections
to the Trail of Tears, the Great Migration, the Tuskegee Airmen,
Brown v. Board of Education, embezzlement, murder, and more. Beyond
the photographic documentation, A Better Life for Their Children
includes essays from three prominent voices. Congressman John
Lewis, who attended a Rosenwald school in Alabama, provides an
introduction; preservationist Jeanne Cyriaque has penned a history
of the Rosenwald program; and Brent Leggs, director of African
American Cultural Heritage at the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, has written a plea for preservation that serves as an
afterword.
At turns humorous and absurd, heartfelt and searching, Photo No-Nos
is for photographers of all levels wishing to avoid easy metaphors
and to sharpen their visual communication skills. Photographers
often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to
shoot-things that are cliche, exploitative, derivative, sometimes
even arbitrary. Photo No-Nos features ideas, stories, and anecdotes
from many of the world's most talented photographers and
photography professionals on what not to photograph, along with an
encyclopedic list of taboo subjects compiled from and illustrated
by contributors. Not a strict guide, but a series of meditations on
"bad" pictures, Photo No-Nos covers a wide range of topics, from
mannequins and TVs in motel rooms to issues of colonialism,
stereotypes, and social responsibility. At a time when societies
are reckoning with what and how to communicate through media and
who has the right to do so, this book is a timely and thoughtful
resource on what photographers consider to be off-limits and how
they have contended with their own self-imposed rules without being
paralyzed by them.
There have been major advances in therapeutic photography since
Del's first book in 2013, and the recent lockdowns have accelerated
the field further.
...give(s) readers a stirring sense of place in which the history
of an era springs to life and captivates one's imagination.-- The
Quoddy Times
A compelling visual anthology of one of photography’s most
popular subjects, reframing our understanding of why we photograph
animals and why photographing them matters to us and the planet.
A visual overview of the history and future of animal photography, Why
We Photograph Animals encourages us to think and rethink the way we
have looked at - and used - animals and to consider our future
relationships with non-human species.
Multi-stranded, this book features the work of more than 100
photographers supported by thematic essays that provide historical
context; interviews with and contributions by leading contemporary
photographers that explore their influences, methods and motivations;
and dazzling visual collections that present the very best animal
photography from its inception to the present day. The result is a book
that will engage those with an interest in wildlife photography and the
natural world, but also those with a concern for the future of the
planet.
Huw Lewis-Jones’s expert authorship and curation celebrates
extraordinary images by brilliant photographers, but also allows us to
understand why people have photographed animals at different points in
history and what it means in the present. Why We Photograph Animals is
deliberately not a conventional history of wildlife photography. It’s
an exploration of the animal in photography. It speaks to our ongoing
desire to look at animals; to understand, misunderstand and appreciate
them; to use and abuse them; to neglect or come to value and protect
them.
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