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On April 26, 1986, at 1:24 a.m, the world's worst ever man-made
disaster took place. Reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station,
three kilometres from Pripyat in the then Soviet Republic of
Ukraine, was beset by a series of explosions that rose deep from
its radioactive depths and blasted itself high into the atmosphere,
eventually seeping its way into the far corners of the globe. Today
the impact of Chernobyl, 21 years later, has become a half-global
legend and half-forgotten horror story. The reality is still with
many of the 50,000 people who on that fateful night in Pripyat were
given less than an hour to gather together their possessions and
escape to relative safety 70km away. They were considered the lucky
ones, fortunate not to have been vaporised on the spot or to die an
excruciating death soon after in the hospitals in Kiev and Moscow
that some of the workers and firemen sent to fight the blaze did.
Most of the inhabitants had no choice but to gradually return to
the contaminated areas that they still call home, and for the past
20 years have continued to live under the shadow of the reactor.
Pripyat, in the centre of the 30km wide Red Zone, is still largely
a ghost town, where the paint peels in houses and schools, and the
dirt settles on childrens' toys that will never be reclaimed.
Meanwhile emergency orders still apply to 355 farms in Wales, 11 in
Scotland and nine in England. "Chernobyl - The Hidden Legacy" shows
the region over a period of three years by Pierpaolo Mittica, who
returned several times to document the people and the contaminated
landscape they still inhabit. Our world today demands nuclear
energy as the answer to its energy crisis, and the legacy of
Chernobyl remains shrouded. Time is running out, as the sarcophagus
built to contain the reactor and its radioactive contents begins to
crumble away. No one has the answers and no one is asking the
questions - but can the world afford another Chernobyl?
Naomi Rosenblum's classic history of photography traces the
evolution of this young art form chronologically and thematically.
Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the
communication of ideas, Rosenblum devotes special attention to
topics such as portraiture, documentation, advertising, and
photojournalism, and to the camera as a means of personal artistic
expression. Her text is illustrated with nearly 900 images by
photographers both celebrated and little known, arranged in
stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power. This
fifth edition of A World History of Photography is substantively
revised and updated. The photography of the past several decades is
reevaluated from a contemporary perspective, and international
developments are covered in greater detail. The main strands of
today's complex universe of digital image-making are masterfully
summarised and placed in their historical context, and the careers
of representative contemporary photographers are studied in depth.
Thoughtfully written, carefully and abundantly illustrated, and
provided with a full apparatus - including a chronology, glossary,
and annotated bibliography - Rosenblum's volume remains the
indispensable work on its subject.
Naomi Rosenblum's classic history of photography traces the
evolution of this young art form chronologically and thematically.
Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the
communication of ideas, Rosenblum devotes special attention to
topics such as portraiture, documentation, advertising, and
photojournalism, and to the camera as a means of personal artistic
expression. Her text is illustrated with nearly 900 images by
photographers both celebrated and little known, arranged in
stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power. This
fifth edition of A World History of Photography is substantively
revised and updated. The photography of the past several decades is
reevaluated from a contemporary perspective, and international
developments are covered in greater detail. The main strands of
today's complex universe of digital image-making are masterfully
summarised and placed in their historical context, and the careers
of representative contemporary photographers are studied in depth.
Thoughtfully written, carefully and abundantly illustrated, and
provided with a full apparatus - including a chronology, glossary,
and annotated bibliography - Rosenblum's volume remains the
indispensable work on its subject.
There is no more beautiful or alluring coast in the world than the
West Coast of North America: a 5,000-mile-long region that extends
from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska to Canada's British Columbia,
south to Washington, Oregon, and California, and then to Baja
California in Mexico. No photographer until David Freese has
explored the various and wondrous landscapes along the Pacific
Ocean in such depth, making this the first book to look
comprehensively at what makes the natural beauty of this particular
coast so memorable.Behind the scenery, of course, lie the geologic
forces that have created the West Coast landscapes that we now
admire, explore, and praise. The engaging and informative text by
renowned author Simon Winchester grounds us in understanding the
deep relationship between geology and scenery. And Naomi Rosenblum,
the esteemed photographic historian, writer, curator, and art
critic, firmly establishes David Freese's place among the great
landscape photographers of the past and present. In every
photograph, his unique vision of nature and of place comes shining
through."West Coast: Bering to Baja" is a major publishing
enterprise that will appeal to book-lovers of photography, nature,
and those who dream about visiting and touring North America's West
Coast. For here we see the vital connection between art and science
merge in ways previously unseen for this special region of the
world.To see a beautiful video discussion between the photographer
David Freese and text author Simon Winchester, and some of the
magnificent photography, go to:
This book is the fruit of twelve years' study of the rituals
performed by ethnic-Igbo Nigerians living in Italy. It is first and
foremost a journey through the customs, rites, and ceremonies
carried out in makeshift places of worship created by men and women
who gather together on abandoned football pitches or in hangars.
Since human vicissitudes have led to many of these rites no longer
being performed in Africa, this research also tells us much about
the role of memory and the importance of what once was; these
rituals have now become part of our postmodern culture. The desire
to reproduce an event as it was experienced in its place of origin
is an unavoidable instinct that tends to build an elementary form
of transnationality. These Nigerians thus turn into "healthy
bearers" of a particular culture in their relations with the host
population or with their compatriots, who today often seem cut off
from their roots. It is ritual that makes a place sacred: the
Nigerian community performs its rituals in a particularly run-down
environment, but man s action turns it into a place of purity. This
sense of sacredness pervades the photographs of Aniello Barone,
where the darkness of the night is lit up by a "brightness" that
seems to emanate from the soul of succour. The observer, the
witness to the rite, man, the camera, and the actors end up as part
of the same symbolic world.
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