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The Uncertain Image (Paperback): Ulrik Ekman, Daniela Agostinho, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Kristin Veel The Uncertain Image (Paperback)
Ulrik Ekman, Daniela Agostinho, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Kristin Veel
R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Citizens of networked societies are almost incessantly accompanied by ecologies of images. These ecologies of still and moving images present a paradox of uncertainties emerging along with certainties. Images appear more certain as the technical capacities that render them visible increase. At the same time, images are touched by more uncertainty as their numbers, manipulabilities, and contingencies multiply. With the emergence of big data, the image is becoming a dominant vehicle for the construction and presentation of the truth of data. Images present themselves as so many promises of the certainty, predictability, and intelligibility offered by data. The focus of this book is twofold. It analyses the kinds of images appearing today, showing how they are marked by a return to modern photographic emphases on high resolution, clarity, and realistic representation. Secondly, it discusses the ways in which the uncertainty of images is increasingly underscored within such reiterated emphases on allegedly certain visual truths. This often involves renewed encounters with noise, grain, glitch, blur, vagueness, and indistinctness. This book provides the reader with an intriguing transdisciplinary investigation of the uncertainly certain relation between the cultural imagination and the techno-aesthetic regime of big data and ubiquitous computing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Digital Creativity.

Future North - The Changing Arctic Landscapes (Paperback): Janike Kampevold Larsen, Peter Hemmersam Future North - The Changing Arctic Landscapes (Paperback)
Janike Kampevold Larsen, Peter Hemmersam
R1,384 Discovery Miles 13 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements and territories of the Barents Sea Coast, Northern Norway, the Russian Kola Peninsula, Svalbard and Greenland from an interdisciplinary, design-based and future-oriented perspective. The Future North project has travelled Arctic regions since 2012, mapped landscapes and settlements, documented stories and practices, and discussed possible futures with local actors. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the project, the authors in this book look at political and economic strategies, urban development, land use strategies and local initiatives in specific locations that are subject to different forces of change. This book explores current material conditions in the Arctic as effects of industrial and political agency and social initiatives. It provides a combined view on the built environment and urbanism, as well as the cultural and material landscapes of the Arctic. The chapters move beyond single-disciplinary perspectives on the Arctic, and engage with futures, cultural landscapes and communities in ways that build on both architectural and ethnographic participatory methods.

Picturing Ecology - Photography and the birth of a new science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Damian Hughes Picturing Ecology - Photography and the birth of a new science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Damian Hughes
R3,394 Discovery Miles 33 940 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939.

70th Anniversary Issue - Aperture 248 (Paperback): 70th Anniversary Issue - Aperture 248 (Paperback)
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Anniversary issue features seven original commissions by leading photographers and artists, and seven essays about Aperture's legacy by award-winning writers and critics This fall, Aperture celebrates seventy years in print with an issue that explores the magazine's past while charting its future. Reflecting on the founding editors' original mission and drawing on Aperture's global community of photographers, writers, and thinkers, this issue features seven original artist commissions as well as seven essays by some of the most incisive writers working today--each engaging with the magazine's archive in distinct ways. Among the original artist commissions, Inaki Bonillas selects iconic images and texts from the Aperture's archive from the 1950s to produce open-ended narrative collages. Dayanita Singh reflects on the 1960s and the family album as a serious photographic form. Yto Barrada enacts sculptural interventions to issues and spreads from the 1970s, using remnants of the late artist Bettina Grossman's color paper cutouts. Mark Steinmetz draws inspiration from the magazine's Summer 1987 issue, "Mothers & Daughters," to compose a photo essay of his wife, the photographer Irina Rozovsky, and their daughter Amelia. Considering the matrix of censorship, art, and religion in the 1990s, John Edmonds creates a tableau about family, faith, and grief. Hannah Whitaker explores the turn of the century, and the ways in which our anxieties about technology create speculative worlds. And Hank Willis Thomas draws on Aperture's issues from the 2010s to create a series of collages that reference traditional quilt patterning, revivifying history and remixing the present. Looking back upon Aperture's legacy, Darryl Pinckney reconsiders the photographer and editor Minor White, whose vision shaped the magazine for nearly two decades, beginning in the 1950s. Olivia Laing writes about the 1960s and the tensions between reportage and artistry in the work of Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, and others. Geoff Dyer revisits to the 1970s, which he considers a decade of new ideas and deeper reflection on the medium, looking into the works of William Eggleston and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Brian Wallis looks back at the politics, art, identity, and the "culture wars" of the 1980s, while Susan Stryker reflects on Aperture's archive from the 1990s and its foregrounding of identity beyond the gender binary, evoking Catherine Opie, Elaine Reichek, and Aperture's pathbreaking "Male/Female" issue. Lynne Tillman illustrates how photographers searched for the tangible in an increasingly digital world in the 2000s, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Salamishah Tillet shows how the photo album became a source of connection and narrative amid the information overabundance of the 2010s.

Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan - Pearl Harbor to Japan (Hardcover): Bob Duncan Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan - Pearl Harbor to Japan (Hardcover)
Bob Duncan
R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On December 7, 1941, America's hopes of remaining neutral in World War II disappeared in the oily smoke that roiled from her battleships burning at Pearl Harbor. The nation faced Herculean tasks to strike back against the Imperial Japanese military that had attacked her. Victory demanded crossing thousands of miles of ocean, creating new weapons, and arming hundreds of thousands of young men to fight their way across a series of desolate islands that a fanatical enemy had fortified to exact the highest possible price from the American troops. Historic Photos of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan portrays this epic story, using black-and-white photographs selected from the finest archives and private collections. From the sinking of the Arizona to the raising of the Stars and Stripes over Japan, Historic Photo of World War II: Pearl Harbor to Japan depicts in a way mere words cannot the determination, struggle, and sacrifices of America's fighting men as they rose to the challenge of liberating free peoples of the Pacific from a conquering invader.

E-Bike Diaries (Hardcover): Luca Zanetti E-Bike Diaries (Hardcover)
Luca Zanetti
R783 R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Save R56 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Career Management for Artists - A Practical Guide to Representation and Sustainability for Your Studio Practice (Hardcover):... Career Management for Artists - A Practical Guide to Representation and Sustainability for Your Studio Practice (Hardcover)
Stacy Miller
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Both pragmatic and motivational, this book addresses what it means to have a successful long-term career in the arts, taking stock of the current landscape of the art world, introducing new venues in the field, reflecting on issues of social media and exhibition, and ultimately encouraging artists to take control of their professional lives. Weaving conversations from a range of internationally based artists who have negotiated alternative paths to success, lauded artist and teacher Stacy Miller provides a practical, lively reflection on what it takes to be an artist in our new global landscape. This book covers practical needs, different approaches, and philosophical ways of creating a life and career in the arts. It lays out conventional and nonconventional means to representation, describes being an entrepreneur versus funding independent creative projects, and examines social media for the potential powerhouse it is. Most importantly, it gives artists a way to think about being a professional and the different paths to a successful career in the arts. Perfect for emerging, mid-career, and experienced artists, this book encourages readers to redefine personal success and to act locally, nationally, and internationally in an expanding art world.

Dallas - A Texas Star (Hardcover): Carolyn Brown Dallas - A Texas Star (Hardcover)
Carolyn Brown
R1,135 R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Save R186 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From an ancient Indian gathering place to an 1840s trading post to today’s dynamic, world-class metropolis, Dallas has always been a destination for men and women with big dreams and the determination to make them real. It’s a place known for its outsized fortunes and over-the-top fun. Dallas: A Texas Star celebrates that heritage, and reveals the many fascinating faces of the city. Rich with gorgeous full-color images by world-renowned photographer Carolyn Brown, a longtime Dallas resident, and supplemented by lively essays on many aspects of the city by some of its greatest leaders, Dallas is a lavish feast of words and pictures—and a vivid illustration of what makes Dallas great. It’s also a personal tour of the city, with photographs of every “must-see†attraction and familiar landmark in and around town, as well as off-the-beaten-path sites that may surprise even the savviest Dallasite. Whether you’re a visitor to “Big D,†a lifelong resident, or a recent Texas transplant, Dallas: A Texas Star provides a warm welcome to the city—and a soaring testament to its elegance, diversity, and beauty. Simply put, it’s the ultimate book on Dallas.

Jazorina (Hardcover, UK ed.): Freya Najade Jazorina (Hardcover, UK ed.)
Freya Najade; Text written by Lucy Davies
R924 R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Save R240 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Celebrations - Aperture 246 (Paperback): Aperture Celebrations - Aperture 246 (Paperback)
Aperture
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Aperture magazine presents "Celebrations," an issue that considers how photographs envision ceremonies, festivities' and allow us to discover euphoria in the everyday. Throughout the issue, photographers portray exuberance against a backdrop of political strife in Beirut, pursue the thrill of wanderlust, excavate family histories, and respond to the powerful, constant urge to gather. Whether in Kinshasa's vibrant nightlife of the 1950s and '60s or London's sweaty dance floors of our era, jubilation carries on, despite an ongoing, and unpredictable, pandemic. In "Celebrations," Lynne Tillman contributes a survey of landmark images of celebration through the years, by artists from Malick Sidibe and Peter Hujar to LaToya Ruby Frazier. Several profiles and essays-including Alistair O'Neill on Jamie Hawkesworth, Moeko Fuiji on Rinko Kawauchi, Tiana Reid on Shikeith, Mona El Tahawy on Miriam Boulos, and Anakwa Dwamena on Marilyn Nance's views of Lagos, Nigeria during FESTAC '77-reveal the celebratory gestures embedded in vibrant portraiture, serene slants of light, unbound queer desire, and joyous cross-cultural exchange.

La Photographie Appliquee Aux Recherches Micrographiques (French, Paperback): Albert Moitessier La Photographie Appliquee Aux Recherches Micrographiques (French, Paperback)
Albert Moitessier
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Traite Complet De La Peinture, Par M. P*** De Montabert. With Figures Explicatives (French, Paperback): Jacques Nicolas Paillot... Traite Complet De La Peinture, Par M. P*** De Montabert. With Figures Explicatives (French, Paperback)
Jacques Nicolas Paillot De Montabert
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The River in My Backyard (Hardcover, Deluxe Hardback ed.): Mikkel Aaland The River in My Backyard (Hardcover, Deluxe Hardback ed.)
Mikkel Aaland
R1,313 Discovery Miles 13 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Manipulations Electrotypiques Ou Traite De Galvanoplastie (French, Paperback): Charles Vincent Walker Manipulations Electrotypiques Ou Traite De Galvanoplastie (French, Paperback)
Charles Vincent Walker
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La Photographie Appliquee Aux Recherches Micrographiques (French, Paperback): Albert Moitessier La Photographie Appliquee Aux Recherches Micrographiques (French, Paperback)
Albert Moitessier
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia - On the Needles of Days (Hardcover, New Ed): Krzysztof Fijalkowski Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia - On the Needles of Days (Hardcover, New Ed)
Krzysztof Fijalkowski
R4,637 Discovery Miles 46 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days sheds much-needed light on the location of the greatest concentration of Surrealist photography and examines the culture and tradition within which it has taken root and flourished. The volume explores a rich and important artistic output, very little of which has been seen outside of its land of origin. Based on extensive research at museums in Prague and Brno and many conversations with participants in and historians of the movement, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson and Ian Walker analyse how this photographic work has developed cohesively and rigorously, from the beginnings of Czech Surrealism in 1934, to the intriguing researches of the present-day Czech and Slovak Surrealist group by way of mysterious veiled responses to the repressive contexts with which they were faced from the 1950s to the 1980s. The main chapters, ordered chronologically, are intersected with shorter texts examining specific works. The reader will find in this volume images that present challenges to our understanding of how photographic work has been used within surrealism, pinpointing individual pictures whose dynamic charge may induce instants of compelling interrogation and disruption.

The Love Language of Flowers (Hardcover): Jess Buttermore The Love Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
Jess Buttermore; Contributions by Lisa McGuinness
R777 R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Save R108 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A Fresh Twist on Vintage Flower Meanings & Arrangements"This book is enchanting to the eyes, inspiring for the mind, and refreshing for the soul.†—Maggie Hyde, Petal Back Farm #1 New Release in Plant & Animal Photography, Photograpy Equipment & Techniques, and Nature Literary Criticism This floriography guide is a gorgeous and inspired combination of vintage Victorian flower meanings, quotes, and lore perfectly entwined with a contemporary toolbox for creating stunning flower arrangements and bouquets. For those who want to create beautiful bouquets and flower arrangements with history. Blooming with inspirational lifestyle photography by Jess Buttermore of Cedar House Living, The Love Language of Flowers will blow you away with an intriguing history of flowers alongside step-by-step instructions for creating 25 tasteful, meaningful arrangements. Express yourself and show others you care. With stunning photographs of different types of flowers, a detailed list of  floral arranging tools and supplies, and fascinating Victorian flower meanings, The Love Language of Flowers provides you with an elegant way to express your feelings or bring your self-care to the next level. Inside The Love Language of Flowers, find: A visual glossary of flowers and their Victorian meanings Simple step-by-step instructions for creating twenty-five gorgeous floral arrangements Suggestions for introducing contemporary plants and other interesting elements to bring a fresh look to classic bouquets If you like botanical books illustrated with stunning photography and floral design, such as Floriography, The Complete Language of Flowers, or Growing Flowers, you’ll love The Love Language of Flowers.

Active Landscape Photography - Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture (Paperback): Anne C Godfrey Active Landscape Photography - Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
Anne C Godfrey
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

London Shopfronts (Hardcover): Emma J Page, Rachael Smith London Shopfronts (Hardcover)
Emma J Page, Rachael Smith
R672 R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Save R80 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City - Real and Imagined Havana (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): James Clifford Kent Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City - Real and Imagined Havana (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
James Clifford Kent
R1,990 Discovery Miles 19 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts. It explores key narratives relating to the projection of different Havana imaginaries and focuses on a range of themes including: pre-revolutionary Cuba; the dream of revolution; and the metaphor of the city "frozen-in-time." The book also synthesizes contemporary debates regarding the notion of Havana as a real and imagined city space and fleshes out its theoretical insights with a series of stand-alone, important case studies linked to the representation of the Cuban capital in the Western imaginary. The interpretations in the book bring into focus a range of critical historical moments in Cuban history (including the Cuban Revolution and the "Special Period") and consider the ways in which they have been projected in advertising, documentary film and photography outside the island.

Portraits and Philosophy (Hardcover): Hans Maes Portraits and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Hans Maes
R4,498 Discovery Miles 44 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity, however, portraiture hasn't received much philosophical attention. While there are countless art historical studies of portraiture, contemporary philosophy has largely remained silent on the subject. This book aims to address that lacuna. It brings together philosophers (and philosophically minded historians) with different areas of expertise to discuss this enduring and continuously fascinating genre. The chapters in this collection are ranged under five broad themes. Part I examines the general nature of portraiture and what makes it distinctive as a genre. Part II looks at some of the subgenres of portraiture, such as double portraiture, and at some special cases, such as sport card portraits and portraits of people not present. How emotions are expressed and evoked by portraits is the central focus of Part III, while Part IV explores the relation between portraiture, fiction, and depiction more generally. Finally, in Part V, some of the ethical issues surrounding portraiture are addressed. The book closes with an epilogue about portraits of philosophers. Portraits and Philosophy tangles with deep questions about the nature and effects of portraiture in ways that will substantially advance the scholarly discussion of the genre. It will be of interest to scholars and students working in philosophy of art, history of art, and the visual arts.

We Are The Market! (Paperback): We Are The Market! (Paperback)
R639 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R38 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Iain Sinclair, London and the Photographic - The Significance of the Visual Medium for the Writer's Prose (Hardcover, New... Iain Sinclair, London and the Photographic - The Significance of the Visual Medium for the Writer's Prose (Hardcover, New edition)
Dominika Lewandowska-Rodak
R1,406 Discovery Miles 14 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the significance of photography for Iain Sinclair's London prose. The visual medium is one of the writer's most prominent motifs, featuring extensively in his fiction and non-fiction. This study, however, proposes that its role in Sinclair's work extends beyond that of a literary theme, to an actual literary principle. In its interdisciplinary rereading of his writing, this book uses key notions of photography theory to examine the correlation between the principal ideological aspects of the visual medium and the main characteristics of Sinclair's unique brand of literature. The analysis reveals that photography may actually serve as a key to understanding the peculiar dynamics and inherent pluralities that define the writer's literary practice.

London Underground 1970-1980 (Hardcover): Mike Goldwater London Underground 1970-1980 (Hardcover)
Mike Goldwater 1
R489 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R44 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Cats in the Navy (Hardcover): Scot Christenson Cats in the Navy (Hardcover)
Scot Christenson
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Cats were seen as omens in ancient times but eventually became trusted animal companions to those who sailed the seas. From catching rats at docks and on ships at sea, cats often became mascots to the navies around the globe. Filled with informative text and more than eighty photos, Cats in the Navy provides a fun history of our feline friends who rode the waves with us.

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