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"Photography Changes Everything" offers a provocative rethinking of
photography's impact on our culture and our daily lives. Compiling
hundreds of images and responses from leading authorities on
photography, it offers a brilliant, reader-friendly exploration of
the many ways in which photographs package information and values,
demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and
experience in the world. The volume draws on the extraordinary
visual assets of the Smithsonian Institution's museums, science
centers and archives to launch an unprecedented interdisciplinary
dialogue on photography's capacity to shape and change our
experience of the world. "Photography Changes Everything" features
over 300 images and nearly 100 engaging short texts commissioned
from experts, writers, inventors, public figures and others--from
Hugh Hefner to John Baldessari, John Waters, Robert Adams, Sandra
Phillips and many others. Each story responds to images selected by
project contributors. Together they engage readers in a timely
exploration of the extent to which our lives have been transformed
through our interactions with photographic imagery. Edited by
leading photography curator and author Marvin Heiferman,
"Photography Changes Everything" provides a unique opportunity to
better understand the history, practice and power of photography at
this transitional moment in visual culture.
Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection
of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing
science and building human knowledge-from micro to macro levels and
everything in between. Photography and science have long been
intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world.
Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore,
and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to
promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface
between the sciences and the public. Our understanding of outer
space depends on images sent to Earth from the Hubble Space
Telescope, just as our understanding of our own bodies depends on
X-rays. Images make visible what lies beyond human perception.
Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and
inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have
engaged with some of the same scientific principles, using
photography to imagine the world differently and present us with
new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both
perspectives exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring
over three hundred images and sixty short texts. Together they
engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our
knowledge is formed and transformed through our interactions with
photographic imagery.
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the
struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends, family,
and lovers-collectively described by Goldin as her "tribe." Her
work describes a world that is visceral, charged, and seething with
life. First published in 1986, this reissue recognizes the
persistent relevance and freshness of Nan Goldin's cutting-edge
photography. Her lush color photography and candid style demand
that the viewer go beyond the surface to encounter a profound
intensity. As Goldin writes: "Real memory, which these pictures
trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound, and physical
presence, the density and flavor of life." Through an accurate and
detailed record of her life, Ballad reveals Goldin's personal
odyssey as well as a more universal understanding of the different
languages men and women speak, and the struggle between autonomy
and dependency. Over the past twenty-five years, the influence of
Ballad on photography and other aesthetic realms has continually
grown, making the work a contemporary classic. Nan Goldin's story
of urban life on the fringe was the swan song of an era that
reached its peak in the early eighties. Yet it has captured an
important element of humanity that is transcendent: a need to
connect. This new edition of Ballad has been printed using new
scans and separations created by master-separator Robert Hennessey
from Goldin's original transparencies, rendering them with
unparalleled sumptuousness and impact.
A fascinating exploration of how photography, graphic design, and
popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture at
mid-century This dynamic study examines the intersection of
modernist photography and American commercial graphic design
between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and
design reached the United States via European emigres, including
Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable
aesthetic made popular by such magazines as Harper's Bazaar and
Vogue-whose art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander
Liberman, were both immigrants and accomplished
photographers-emerged from a distinctly American combination of
innovation, inclusiveness, and pragmatism. Beautifully illustrated
with more than 150 revolutionary photographs, layouts, and cover
designs, Modern Look considers the connections and mutual
influences of such designers and photographers as Richard Avedon,
Lillian Bassman, Herbert Bayer, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Gordon
Parks, Irving Penn, Cipe Pineles, and Paul Rand. Essays draw a
lineage from European experimental design to innovative work in
American magazine design at mid-century and offer insights into the
role of gender in fashion photography and political activism in the
mass media. Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New
York Exhibition Schedule: Jewish Museum, New York (April 2-July 11,
2021)
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