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El Alto
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Peter Granser
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This book analyzes recent artistic and activist projects in order
to conceptualize the new roles and goals of a critical theory and
practice of art and photography. Vered Maimon argues that current
artistic and activist practices are no longer concerned with the
"politics of representation" and the critique of the spectacle, but
with a "politics of rights" and the performative formation of
shared yet highly contested public domains. The book thus offers a
critical framework in which to rethink the artistic, the activist,
and the political under globalization. The primary focus is on the
ways contemporary artists and activists examine political
citizenship as a paradox where subjects are struggling to acquire
rights whose formulation rests on attributes they allegedly don't
have; while the universal political validity of these rights
presupposes precisely the abstraction of every form of difference,
rights for all. The book will be of interest to scholars working in
art history, contemporary art, photography theory, visual culture,
cultural studies, critical theory, political theory, human rights,
and activism.
The Language of Vision celebrates and interprets the complementary
expressions of photography and literature in the South. Southern
imagery and text affect one another, explains Joseph R. Millichap,
as intertextual languages and influential visions. Focusing on the
1930s, and including significant works both before and after this
preeminent decade, Millichap uncovers fascinating convergences
between mediums, particularly in the interplay of documentary
realism and subjective modernism. Millichap's subjects range from
William Faulkner's fiction, perhaps the best representation of
literary and graphic tensions of the period, and the work of other
major figures like Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty to specific
novels, including Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and James Agee's
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Fleshing out historical and cultural
background as well as critical and theoretical context, Millichap
shows how these texts echo and inform the visual medium to reveal
personal insights and cultural meanings. Warren's fictions and
poems, Millichap argues, redefine literary and graphic tensions
throughout the late twentieth century; Welty's narratives and
photographs reinterpret gender, race, and class; and Ellison's
analysis of race in segregated America draws from contemporary
photography. Millichap also traces these themes and visions in
Natasha Trethewey's contemporary poetry and prose, revealing how
the resonances of these artistic and historical developments extend
into the new century. This groundbreaking study reads southern
literature across time through the prism of photography, offering a
brilliant formulation of the dialectic art forms.
Learn how to take professional-quality photographs using the same
tricks today's top photographers use (surprisingly, it's easier
than you'd think)! This is a completely, totally updated version of
the #1 best-selling digital photography book of all time! It's the
award winning, worldwide smash hit, written by Scott Kelby, that's
been translated into dozens of different languages. Here's how
Scott describes this book's brilliant premise: "If you and I were
out on a shoot, and you asked me, 'Hey, how do I get this flower to
be in focus, with the background out of focus?, ' I wouldn't stand
there and give you a photography lecture. In real life, I'd just
say, 'Put on your zoom lens, set your f-stop to f/2.8, focus on the
flower, and fire away.' That's what this book is all about: you and
I out shooting where I answer questions, give you advice, and share
the secrets I've learned just like I would with a friend--without
all the technical explanations and techie photo speak." This isn't
a book of theory--full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts.
This is a book on which button to push, which setting to use, and
when to use it. With over 200 of the most closely guarded
photographic "tricks of the trade," this book gets you shooting
dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more
professional-looking photos every time. Each page covers a single
concept that makes your photography better. Every time you turn the
page, you'll learn another pro setting, tool, or trick to transform
your work from snapshots into gallery prints. If you're tired of
taking shots that look "okay," and if you're tired of looking in
photography magazines and thinking, "Why don't my shots look like
that?" then this is the book for you. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1:
Pro Tips for Getting Sharp Photos Chapter 2: The Scoop on Lenses
Chapter 3: Shooting Landscapes Like a Pro Chapter 4: Shooting
Travel Like a Pro Chapter 5: Making Portraits Like a Pro Chapter 6:
Making Portraits with Flash Like a Pro Chapter 7: Shooting Weddings
Like a Pro Chapter 8: Shooting Sports Like a Pro Chapter 9:
Shooting Other Stuff Like a Pro Chapter 10: Pro Tips for Getting
Better Photos Chapter 11: How to Print Like a Pro Chapter 12: Photo
Recipes to Help You Get the Shot
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House Of Norway
(Hardcover)
Matthias Wagner K., Sabine Schirdewahn
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Contemporary Photography and Theory offers an essential overview of
some of the key critical debates in fine art photography today.
Building on a foundational understanding of photography, it offers
an in-depth discussion of five topic areas: identity, landscape and
place, the politics of representation, psychoanalysis and the
event. Written in an accessible style, it introduces the critical
literature relevant to photography that has emerged over recent
decades. Moving beyond seminal works by writers such as Walter
Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag, it enables readers to
explore an extended canon of theorists including Jacques Lacan,
Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben. The book is illustrated
throughout and analyses a range of works by established and
emergent artists in order to show how these theoretical concepts
are central to understanding contemporary photography. These 15
short essays encourage readers to apply critical thinking to both
their own work and that of others. They are the perfect starting
point for essays as well being of suitable length for assigned
readings, making this the ideal resource for learning about
contemporary photography and theory.
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original
of the twentieth century. This selection contains many
groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for
exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of
photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith -
and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement,
intensity and tenderness. The selection is made and introduced by
Geoff Dyer, author of the award-winning The Ongoing Moment. How do
we see the world around us? This is one of a number of pivotal
works by creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the
media have changed our vision for ever. John Berger was born in
London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction
include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the
Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he
now lives in a small village in the French Alps. Geoff Dyer is the
author of four novels and several non-fiction books. Winner of the
Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's
2006 Infinity Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters's
E. M. Forster Award, Dyer is also a regular contributor to many
publications in the UK and the US. He lives in London.
Birds' eggs are true wonders of the natural world: they are strong
enough to protect the embryo as it grows and to withstand
incubation by the parent, yet sufficiently fragile to allow the
chick to hatch. Little wonder that the enormous diversity of avian
eggs - the amazing range of shapes, sizes, colours, textures and
patterns - has long fascinated us. Since boyhood, the renowned
landscape photographer Colin Prior has had a passion for wild
birds. For him, birds are the embodiment of nature, and
fundamentally enrich the experience of being outdoors. This
stunning new book presents Prior's remarkable images of birds' eggs
side by side with his dramatic photographs of the birds' natural
habitats. At a time when many human influences are having an
adverse impact on the environment, these habitats are equally
fragile and vulnerable to change. Loss of habitat is, in turn, a
major factor in the decline of wild bird populations. It has been
illegal to take any birds' eggs from the wild in Great Britain
since 1954, and since 1982 it has been against the law to possess
the egg of any wild bird. The eggs featured in this book belong to
the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, which holds one of
the world's largest collections of birds' eggs. The eggs were
collected legally during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and
bequeathed to the museum by private collectors. Prior set up a
studio at the museum and spent five weeks photographing more than
300 eggs using the latest digital technology. Each photograph is a
compilation of between 40 and 80 separate exposures that were then
blended into a single image using specialist software. The final
image is an exquisite, almost three-dimensional rendition of the
egg, pin-sharp from the front to the back. The eggs vary in size
from that of the tiny goldcrest, the UK's smallest bird, to that of
the mute swan. In his introduction, Prior describes how his love of
the natural world was nurtured by the endless hours he spent in the
countryside around the Glasgow suburb where he grew up; how he
overcame the technical challenges of photographing the eggs; how
the featured eggs were selected from the museum's collection; and
how the photography of each bird's habitat was completed. In his
essay, the Scottish environmentalist Professor Des Thompson
reflects on the state of nature and the relationship between
nesting and habitats. In the main part of the book, the birds' eggs
are arranged into chapters according to the species found in a
particular habitat, such as 'Mountain and Moorland' and 'Seashore
and Estuary'. The caption beneath each egg details the common and
scientific name of the bird, the date the egg was collected, the
size of the clutch, and the egg's dimensions. Each egg is presented
in a diptych with a photograph of the bird's habitat, painstakingly
captured at a time of year when the dominant colours of the
landscape most closely resemble those of the egg. Fragile - the
culmination of ten years' work - not only showcases the inherent
beauty of birds' eggs, but also serves as a powerful reminder to
protect the birds' natural habitats and thereby the birds
themselves.
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.
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After The Off
(Hardcover)
Bruce Gilden, Dermot Healy
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Set in rural Ireland, against the background of the on-course
gambling operating at the many local race meetings held throughout
the country, this book combines the photographs of Bruce Gilden
with the story-telling of Dermot Healy. It seeks to create a
portrait of this aspect of rural Irish life.
Amidst Africa's myriad wildlife highlights, Savute must rank as one
of the most spectacularly enigmatic: a river that rarely flows, a
marsh that metamorphoses from wasteland to watery paradise and,
towering over them both, a silent parade of prehistoric hills.
Within these habitats lies a complex web of wildlife whose
fascinating tales are vividly brought to life in this book - a
stunning visual journey that will delight, astonish and inform.
With newly commissioned essays by some of the leading writers on
photography today, this companion tackles some of the most pressing
questions about photography theory's direction, relevance, and
purpose. This book shows how digital technologies and global
dissemination have radically advanced the pluralism of photographic
meaning and fundamentally transformed photography theory. Having
assimilated the histories of semiotic analysis and post-structural
theory, critiques of representation continue to move away from the
notion of original and copy and towards materiality, process, and
the interdisciplinary. The implications of what it means to 'see'
an image is now understood to encompass, not only the optical, but
the conceptual, ethical, and haptic experience of encountering an
image. The 'fractal' is now used to theorize the new condition of
photography as an algorithmic medium and leads us to reposition our
relationship to photographs and lend nuances to what essentially
underlies any photography theory - that is, the relationship of the
image to the real world and how we conceive what that means.
Diverse in its scope and themes, The Routledge Companion to
Photography Theory is an indispensable collection of essays and
interviews for students, researchers, and teachers. The volume also
features extensive images, including beautiful colour plates of key
photographs.
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Return of the Maya
(Hardcover)
Thomas Hoepker; Photographs by Thomas Hoepker
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After five hundred years of colonial suppression and a brutal civil
war, the Maya in Guatemala finally have a chance to live in peace.
Latin America's longest civil war ended on December 29, 1996, with
a peace accord between the conservative government of President
Arzu and the Marxist guerrilla group URNG. Now the Maya are
searching the killing fields for their dead, rediscovering their
own magnificent culture and history, and are finally free to
practice their ancient religion at remote altars on mountaintops,
in caves and ravines, or near waterfalls, and to begin to heal
their souls. Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker has visited
Guatemala six times since 1991. He has captured many aspects of
this remarkable period of transition in an array of astonishing,
full-color shots that will disturb, enchant, and ultimately
instruct.
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Unmade Beds
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Nicholas Barker
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Set in the sexual jungle of the New York singles scene, this book
follows four real life characters. Equipped with ample provisions
of self-delusion, misogyny, anti-semitism and homophobia, Brenda,
Michael, Aimee and Mikey frantically pursue their impossible
dreams.
Cuba is one of the most enticing, exotic, and romantic places that
photographers can hope to find. The lucky ones get to spend a week
or two just in Havana, while others go on day-trips to the tobacco
farms in the Valle de Vinales, or take a tour to the eastern tip of
the island to visit Santiago de Cuba. But photographer Volker
Figueredo-Veliz wanted to dive into the authentic, local routine of
everyday Cuban life. He lived in Havana s old town and explored the
city on foot with his camera every day for months. He had already
photographed Cuba s cliches years ago, so this time he was on the
lookout for fresh images of a different, more enigmatic Cuba. In
short, he was searching for Cuba s soul. He took every day as it
came, and had no plan or specific goals. Every day felt like a
series of stories that unfolded before his eyes. These were tiny,
trivial events, everyday scenes, and quiet, poetic moments
alongside unexpected, quirky, and sometimes crazy episodes.
Featuring an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony DePalma,
Los Cubanos is a beautiful collection of black and white images,
along with the stories behind the photographs, that Figueredo-Veliz
s camera froze in time in a fraction of a second, and that come
back to life in this book.
It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any
survey of photography's history in the Western world. Yet for many
years the gendered language of American, British and French
photographic literature made it appear that women's interactions
with early photography did not count as significant contributions.
Using French and English photo journals, cartoons, art criticism,
novels, and early career guides aimed at women, this volume will
show why and how early photographic clubs, journals, exhibitions,
and studios insisted on masculine values and authority, and how
Victorian women engaged with photography despite that dominant
trend. Focusing on the period before 1890, when women were yet to
develop the self-assurance that would lead to broader recognition
of the value of their work, this study probes the mechanisms by
which exclusion took place and explores how women practiced
photography anyway, both as amateurs and professionals. Challenging
the marginalization of women's work in the early history of
photography, this is essential reading for students and scholars of
photography, history and gender studies.
Photography is a ubiquitous part of the public sphere. Yet we
rarely stop to think about the important role that photography
plays in helping to define what and who constitute the public.
Photography and Its Publics brings together leading experts and
emerging thinkers to consider the special role of photography in
shaping how the public is addressed, seen and represented.This book
responds to a growing body of recent scholarship and flourishing
interest in photography's connections to the law, society, culture,
politics, social change, the media and visual ethics.Photography
and Its Publics presents the public sphere as a vibrant setting
where these realms are produced, contested and entwined. Public
spheres involve yet exceed the limits of families, interest groups,
identities and communities. They are dynamic realms of visibility,
discussion, reflection and possible conflict among strangers of
different race, age, gender, social and economic status. Through
studies of photography in South America, North America, Europe and
Australasia, the contributors consider how photography has changed
the way we understand and locate the public sphere. As they address
key themes including the referential and imaginative qualities of
photography, the transnational circulation of photographs, online
publics, social change, violence, conflict and the ethics of
spectatorship, the authors provide new insight into photography's
vital role in defining public life.
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