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In "No Caption Needed," Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites
provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic
form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual
icons explore the photographs themselves and their subsequent
circulation through an astonishing array of media, including
stamps, posters, billboards, editorial cartoons, TV shows, Web
pages, tattoos, and more. Iconic images are revealed as models of
visual eloquence, signposts for collective memory, means of
persuasion across the political spectrum, and a crucial resource
for critical reflection.
Arguing against the conventional belief that visual images
short-circuit rational deliberation and radical critique, Hariman
and Lucaites make a bold case for the value of visual imagery in a
liberal-democratic society. "No Caption Needed" is a compelling
demonstration of photojournalism's vital contribution to public
life.
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Wild About Chiswick
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Andrew Wilson, Andrea Cameron; Illustrated by Silvina De Vita; Read by Tom Sears
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With previously unpublished photographs by an incredibly diverse
group of the world's top news photographers, Photojournalists on
War presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of
America's nine-year conflict in the Middle East. Michael Kamber
interviewed photojournalists from many leading news organizations,
including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian,
the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris
Match, Reuters, Time, the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and
the Washington Post, to create the most comprehensive collection of
eyewitness accounts of the Iraq War yet published. These in-depth
interviews offer first-person, frontline reports of the war as it
unfolded, including key moments such as the battle for Fallujah,
the toppling of Saddam's statue, and the Haditha massacre. The
photographers also vividly describe the often shocking and
sometimes heroic actions that journalists undertook in trying to
cover the war, as they discuss the role of the media and issues of
censorship. These hard-hitting accounts and photographs, rare in
the annals of any war, reveal the inside and untold stories behind
the headlines in Iraq.
Of one-and-a-half million surviving photographs related to Nazi
concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass
killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in "Spite of All"
reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by
one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities
there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today
because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of
Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked
women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of
corpses that have just been pulled out. Georges Didi-Huberman's
relentless consideration of these harrowing scenes demonstrates how
Holocaust testimony can shift from texts and imaginations to
irrefutable images that attempt to speak the unspeakable. Including
a powerful response to those who have criticized his interest in
these images as voyeuristic, Didi-Huberman's eloquent reflections
constitute an invaluable contribution to debates over the
representability of the Holocaust and the status of archival
photographs in an image-saturated world.
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Manchester
(Paperback)
Chris Makepeace
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Manchester was originally a small market town bounded by rivers on
three sides, but when the borough was created in 1838 the town
broke free of these constraints, and began to spread to the north,
south and east of the original settlement. Throughout the first
half of the nineteenth century, as a population of Manchester rose,
those who could afford to move into the surrounding districts,
creating what were to become the suburbs of modern Manchester. It
is these districts, many of which were taken over or absorbed by
Manchester between 1885 and 1909, that predominate in this third
selection of photographs of the city, chosen by well-known local
historian and lecturer Chris Makepeace. "Manchester: A Third
Selection" does not only include the suburban areas: there are also
chapters dealing with the city centre and people at work and play.
The book contains over 200 nostalgic images, which are sure to
evoke memories in all who ever knew or still live in this city.
We hurtle together into the future at ever-increasing speed - or so
it seems to the collective psyche. Every day and every hour, human
civilization expands, evolves and mutates. While we frequently
lapse into celebrating the individual at the expense of the group,
in science and art, at work and at play, at home and in transit, we
increasingly live the collective life. Civilization shows how
contemporary photography, notably art photography, is fascinated
by, and attempts to decode and communicate, the way we live today.
This landmark publication is accompanied by an internationally
touring exhibition produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of
Photography - a global cultural event for a global subject.
Civilization is presented through eight thematic chapters, each led
by breathtaking imagery and accompanied by essays, quotes,
commentaries and captions to provide a deeper understanding of its
theme. Visually epic and ambitiously popular in approach, it will
reach out beyond the boundaries of the photography world to connect
with audiences worldwide.
Concorde - named for the English and French word for 'unity' - was
like no other aircraft. It is perhaps the most iconic airliner of
all time, its name a byword for speed, comfort and extravagance. It
captured the public's imagination and hearts, instilling them with
a fervent passion. Concorde: An Icon in the News is a look at both
the plane and its people. Using photos from Mirrorpix, one of the
world's largest picture libraries, it tracks the airliner from the
Anglo-French drawing board to the final flight, through the eyes of
the people who loved it most.
Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing
photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one
event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always
involves an actual or potential spectator in the relationship
between the photographer and the individual portrayed. The shift in
focus from product to practice, outlined in Civil Imagination,
brings to light the way images can both reinforce and resist the
oppressive reality foisted upon the people depicted. Through
photography, Civil Imagination seeks out relations of partnership,
solidarity, and sharing that come into being at the expense of
sovereign powers that threaten to destroy them. Azoulay argues that
the "civil" must be distinguished from the "political" as the
interest that citizens have in themselves, in others, in their
shared forms of coexistence, as well as in the world they create
and transform. Azoulay's book sketches out a new horizon of civil
living for citizens as well as subjects denied
citizenship-inevitable partners in a reality they are invited to
imagine anew and to reconstruct. Beautifully produced with many
illustrations, Civil Imagination is a provocative argument for
photography as a civic practice capable of reclaiming civil power.
Alexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic
history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which
he was involved in the international workers’ rights movement.
Tying Gardner’s photographic storytelling to his transatlantic
reform activities, this book expands our understanding of
Gardner’s career and the work of his studio in Washington, DC, by
situating his photographic production within the era’s discourse
on social and political reform. Drawing on previously unknown
primary sources and original close readings, Makeda Best reveals
how Gardner’s activism in Scotland and photography in the United
States shared an ideological foundation. She reads his Photographic
Sketch Book of the War as a politically motivated project, rooted
in Gardner’s Chartist and Owenite beliefs, and illuminates how
its treatment of slavery is primarily concerned with the harm that
the institution posed to the United States’ reputation as a model
democracy. Best shows how, in his portraiture, Gardner celebrated
Northern labor communities and elevated white immigrant workers,
despite the industrialization that degraded them. She concludes
with a discussion of Gardner’s promotion of an American national
infrastructure in which photographers and photography played an
integral role. Original and compelling, this reconsideration of
Gardner’s work expands the contribution of Civil War photography
beyond the immediate narrative of the war to comprehend its
relation to the vigorous international debates about democracy,
industrialization, and the rights of citizens. Scholars working at
the intersection of photography, cultural history, and social
reform in the nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic will
find Best’s work invaluable to their own research.
Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist
Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of
child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while
working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed
children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont
and Massachusetts to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri. Using his
camera as a tool of social activism, Hine had a major influence on
the development of documentary photography. But many of his
pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these
photographs, Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of
Hine's beautiful and disturbing work as never before. Richly
illustrated, the book also includes arresting contemporary
photographs by Jason Francisco of the places Hine documented.
Soulmaker is a striking new meditation on Hine's photographs. It
explores how Hine's children lived in time, even how they might
continue to live for all time. Thinking about what the mill would
be like after he was gone, after the children were gone, Hine
intuited what lives and dies in the second a photograph is made.
His photographs seek the beauty, fragility, and terror of moments
on earth.
The Chicago Cubs of the mid-1920s through 1940 were one of the most
talented and exciting ball clubs the city ever produced. The
Northsiders enjoyed 14 consecutive winning seasons and claimed the
National League pennant four times (1929, 1932, 1935, and 1938),
but fell to a dominant American League club in each World Series
appearance. Four legendary baseball names led these Cub teams
during this amazing stretch. Three eventually landed in Cooperstown
(McCarthy, Hornsby, Hartnett), and many believe the fourth (Grimm)
should have joined them. This was also the era when Cubs Park was
transformed into Wrigley Field, under the guidance of Bill Veeck
Jr., with its trademark bricks and ivy, hand-operated scoreboard,
and outfield bleachers.
The Night Climbers of Cambridge, published in 1937, documents the
nocturnal climbing exploits of a group of Cambridge students along
the university's roofs and walls. In this interpretation, Thomas
Mailaender presents archival photographs the climbers took of
themselves in action.
Volume 2 of this two-volume history of Operation "Market-Garden"
continues the story as XXX Corps links up with the 82nd Airborne at
Nijmegen which leads to the dramatic and spectacular capture of the
vital bridges there over the Waal river. But at Arnhem the tide of
battle has already turned. The main force of lst Airborne is thrown
back to the Oosterbeek perimeter, leaving John Frost's isolated
force at the road bridge to fight it out till the end. As the
Polish Brigade is dropped south of the Rhine, and the ground army
desperately tries to relieve the beleaguered British paras, down in
the south the Germans launch repeated attacks on the narrow
corridor in an attempt to cut the Allied supply artery. As savage
battles rage for possession of "Hell's Highway", the airborne
battle is lost and on September 26 the survivors of lst Airborne
are evacuated back across the Rhine.
From "Midwest Book Review"This photographic history of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki provides the first comprehensive photographic record
of the bombings and their aftermath, presenting a history of the
two cities before and after the bombs drop and also including
photos of American and Japanese politicians and military men
involved in the bombing. Anticipate a detailed, well-rounded title.
In Human Nature, 12 of today's most influential nature and
conservation photographers address the biggest environmental
concerns of our time. Joel Sartore Paul Nicklen Ami Vitale Brent
Stirton Frans Lanting Brian Skerry Tim Laman Cristina Mittermeier J
Henry Fair Richard John Seymour George Steinmetz Steve Winter
Alongside their reflections, they present curated selections from
their photographic careers. Stories and extraordinary images from
around the world come together in a powerful call to awareness and
action. The United Nations has declared that nature is in more
trouble now than at any other time in human history. Extinction
looms over one million species of plants and animals. Human Nature
wrestles with challenging questions: What do we have? What do we
stand to lose? This book offers inspiration to environmentalists,
activists, photography fans, and anyone concerned about the future
of our world. This illuminating book tackles our modern
environmental future through the lens of preeminent photographers
Great gift for photographers, nature enthusiasts, those who enjoy
backpacking and camping, and anyone who cares about Earth's climate
and future Add it to the shelf with books like National Geographic
The Photo Ark Vanishing: The World's Most Vulnerable Animals by
Joel Sartore, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by
Elizabeth Kolbert, and Dire Predictions: The Visual Guide to the
Findings of the IPCC by Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump
The term Panzergrenadier was introduced in 1942 and applied equally
to the infantry component of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and later
Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiere divisions. As this classic new Images of
War book describes, these elite divisions fought as mechanized
infantry and escort for and in close cooperation with panzers and
other armoured fighting vehicles. Trained to fight both mounted and
on foot, their priority was to maintain the fast momentum of
armoured troops on the battlefield. Using a wealth of rare, often
unpublished, photographs with detailed captions and text, the
author charts the fighting record of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe
Panzergrenadiertruppe units. This includes their initial successes
on the Eastern Front. But as defeat approached, they were forced on
the defensive on all fronts including the bitter fighting in Italy
and the Western Front. As well as describing their many actions,
the book details the vehicles and weapons used and main
personalities.
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