Photographs: collections Books
Hannibal Books Photography in Belgium 18391900
£42.50
Editions Didier Millet Pte Ltd 7 Days in Myanmar: A Portrait of Burma by 30
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£22.50
Mal Og Menning,Iceland Lost in Iceland
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£51.96
The University of Chicago Press Reading National Geographic
Book SynopsisFor its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine, in purporting to teach us about distant cultures, actually tells us much more about our own. Lutz and Collins take us inside the National Geographic Society to investigate how its photographers, editors, and designers select images and text to produce representations of Third World cultures. Through interviews with the editors, they describe the process as one of negotiating standards of balance and objectivity, informational content and visual beauty. Then, in a close reading of some six hundred photographs, they examine issues of race, gender, privilege, progress, and modernity through an analysis of the way such things as color, pose, framing, and vantage point are used in representations of non-Western peoples. Finally, through
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Taken by Design Photographs from the Institute of
Book SynopsisTaken by design examines how the Institute of Design (Chicago) changed the nature of photography during the mid 20th century. Documenting photography's new and enhanced role in developing the complete designer, the work also includes essays from experts in the field
£47.50
The University of Chicago Press Harlem
Book SynopsisFor more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture - but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, violence, disinvestment, and decay. This title offers an unprecedented record of urban change.
£45.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Atiqput Inuit Oral History and Project Naming
Book SynopsisAtiqput is the first book-length study of Project Naming, the photo-based history research initiative established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut in collaboration with Library and Archives Canada. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites settler societies’ historical record and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization.Trade Review“Atiqput brings together statements by Inuit artists, elders, and activists with work by project facilitators and scholars to produce a vibrant tapestry that at once mourns the losses of the past, treasures the traces that can be regained, and celebrates the continued power of Inuit cultural forms.” Peter Kulchyski, University of Manitoba and author of Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice: Begade Shutagot’ine and the Sahtu Treaty
£32.40
University of Illinois Press Light Through the Trees
Book SynopsisI don't compose pictures, I find them in the colors, patterns, and shadows of the trees in front of me. While I walk, I let my feelings well up in my consciousness. My feelings guide me to find what I'm seeing and feeling and distill it into a picture.A beloved and popular Illinois institution, The Morton Arboretum welcomes one million annual visitors to walk its trails and view the 4,200 tree species on the grounds. Peter Vagt has photographed the Arboretum for over twenty years. This collection showcases eighty-five of his favorite works, each one in full color. Vagt's close attention to place and time reflects both his profound connection to the Arboretum and its preeminence as a sanctuary for anyone in search of transcendence in nature. A celebration of The Morton Arboretum in its centenary year, Light Through the Trees is the perfect keepsake or gift for anyone who admires trees and believes in their restorative power.Trade Review"Within its more than 100 pages, Vagt takes readers through the seasons within the 1,700 acre public garden with pictures of vivid color, and tranquil scenes of nature that look as if you're peering at something fairytale-like. " --Chicago Tribune “Wonderful and interesting. This book challenges the stereotype of the Midwest as flyover country. The photographs are strong but what makes them unique is their association with the specific place.”--Justin Hamm, author of Midwestern“The photographs are both technically and compositionally great and give a beautiful overview of what you’ll find at the Arboretum. A coffee table book for anyone visiting The Morton Arboretum or anyone who loves nature.”--Tytia Habing, national photographer
£22.79
University of Illinois Press Captive Beauty
Book SynopsisWith a short epigraph by the photographer, this title includes photographs of zoo animals.Trade Review"Frank Noelker's work makes a powerful statement. It is both beautiful and profoundly disturbing. He has captured, in this series of portraits, the very essence of the problem of zoos... This book is not intended as an indictment against all zoos, but rather as a plea for greater understanding of the animal beings within them." -- Jane Goodall, from the Foreword "I wonder what the animals behind the bars saw when they watched Frank and his camera? Did they know he was unusual for his species? A rarity, almost extinct amongst humans. Not a white tiger, or the last carrier pigeon, but a human being who still had empathy, and believed that we humans have choices, even at five minutes to midnight... The animals must have perceived from their isolated cells, death row for most of them, that this was a man who was free, but chained to their fate in some way." -- Sue Coe, artist, activist, and author of Dead Meat and Pit's Letter
£18.99
University of Illinois Press Barns of Illinois
Book SynopsisAn endearing tribute to the well-grounded majesty of Illinois barnsTrade Review"Barn lovers, this one's for you. . . . An enduring tribute to the land, people and traditions of the Midwest."--American Profile"Kanfer has provided deeper insight into the state's rural scenery."--Peoria Journal Star"This handsome work will be treasured by those with a real-life connection to barns and the country side, delight all readers with its beautiful photography, and perhaps inspire a new appreciation of these iconic structures that are so central to our consciousness of the past."--Journal of Folklore Research "Kanfer’s beautiful book will appeal to all kinds of folks and will make a great gift. It is also a tribute to the stewards of our farmland."--Illinois Times
£15.19
Indiana University Press Illinois State Parks
Book SynopsisIllinois State Parks brings together more than 100 gorgeous full-color photographs highlighting the breathtaking beauty and unforgettable adventures that await in Illinois state parks. Table of ContentsNORTHWEST REGIONStarved Rock State ParkMatthiessen State ParkMississippi Palisades State ParkBuffalo Rock State ParkDelabar State ParkNORTHEAST REGIONChain O' Lakes State ParkKankakee River State ParkChannahon State ParkAdekine Jay Geo – Karis Illinois BeachMoraine Hills State ParkEAST CENTRAL REGIONKickapoo State ParkLincoln Trail State ParkLincoln Trail HomesteadWeldon Springs State ParkFox Ridge State ParkWEST CENTRAL REGIONHorseshoe Lake State ParkSangchris Lake State ParkEldon HazletSouth Shore State ParkPere Marquette State ParkSOUTHERN REGIONFort Massac State ParkCave In Rock State ParkStephen A ForbesGiant City State ParkFern Clyff State Park
£28.80
Indiana University Press Missouri Where the Rivers Run
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£28.80
University of Notre Dame Press Football Weekends at Notre Dame
Book SynopsisWhen people ask the question, What makes a football weekend at Notre Dame so special?members of the Notre Dame family know that it could take an entire book to give the whole answer. This is that book. It tells the gameday story with over one hundred color photographs that bring the experience alive from the perspectives of many different groups, and its words add a context that is rich in the traditions, community connections, values, and spirit that make Notre Dame unique. Writer Bill Schmitt and photographer Lou Sabo approached the question with the kind of wide-ranging curiosity that goes beyond sports books, guidebooks, and history books. Their work reveals that the answer comes from many sources and primarily from the people who share the experience. The book focuses on students, many of whom have no involvement on the field; Catholics and believers of all faiths; alumni; visitors from around the country and the world; South Bend neighbors and business owners; athletes;Trade Review“This book demonstrates what makes Notre Dame football so special—the unique community of friends, families, students, and the football team that takes place on Saturdays in the fall at this great university.” —Charlie Weis, Head Football Coach, University of Notre Dame, 2005-present“This book should stand for decades as the authoritative account of a Notre Dame football weekend in all its aspects, from behind the scenes preparations to the hallowed traditions loved by millions. What a great keepsake for anyone who experiences this important piece of Americana.” —Matthew V. Storin, editor of The Boston Globe (1993-2001)“As head football coach at Notre Dame for 11 seasons, I was fortunate to witness firsthand the spectacle of young athletes achieving greatness on the field. But football weekends at Notre Dame are about so much more than the game. William Schmitt’s book perfectly captures all the traditions that reflect the unique spirit that is the University of Notre Dame.” —Ara Parseghian, Head Football Coach, University of Notre Dame, 1964–74“Whether you’re visiting campus from a few miles away or from around the globe, you have to agree that football weekends at Notre Dame are unlike anything else in the world. With all the reunions and traditions and excitement, these weekends are really about the wonderful people and places of Notre Dame; Bill Schmitt captures that in this book.” —Charles F. Lennon, Jr., Executive Director, Notre Dame Alumni Association, and Associate Vice President, University Relations“Multiple views, including more than 100 photographs, help bring the experience of football on campus alive with perspectives from students, athletes, business owners, and alumni.” —Notre Dame Magazine"The author gives insight into the powerful combinations of education and faith, responsibility and generosity, team and family. Not your average college football narrative, he implores us to look beneath and beyond the institution to one person, one team, one college, one community, one country, one world." —In Michiana“Accordingly, transcending the conventions of sports programs and guidebooks, “Football Weekends at Notre Dame” does not restrict its focus to the athletic drama, the traditional pageantry, the singing of the fight song, and the marching of the band. It also invites the reader to consider the rich historical, cultural, and religious environment which is the gameday’s context and cause alike.” —University of Notre Dame: News & Information
£14.24
Pennsylvania State University Press Shale Play Poems and Photographs from the
Book SynopsisExplores, in poetry and photographs, the effects of the natural gas boom and fracking in the small towns, fields, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania.Trade Review“A collage of voices, drawing in the testimonies of activists, residents, industry lawyers, and workers. Kasdorf explores the nuances and tensions of her home state without allowing any one perspective to dominate.”—Rosa Furneaux Mother Jones“The long sleep of the Appalachians has been dramatically interrupted by the sudden discovery of the Marcellus Shale. This book helps us see and understand what that has meant for the region. It's a classic tale, with echoes of the region's past—and deep implications for the planet's future.”—Bill McKibben,author of The End of Nature“Rarely have I read a work that so strongly, profoundly, and empathically characterizes the history of a region through those who have labored hardest to make a decent life in a beautiful yet ravaged land. These polyvocal poems are rooted in a documentary sensibility but lift into higher registers of aesthetic experience, and along with the arresting photographs, they juxtapose the beautiful and the ugly, the natural and the industrial, the tracks of labor on the land and in the faces of the residents.”—Alison Hawthorne Deming,author of Stairway to Heaven: Poems“For nearly fifty years, my wife and I have lived in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, a beautiful place but one with few well-paying jobs. Combine that scarcity of jobs with fracking and a gerrymandered state legislature in the pocket of extractive industries (Pennsylvania, for example, has been the only state without an extraction tax for gas). That’s the situation described by Kasdorf and Rubin in Shale Play, a powerful book about not just central Pennsylvania but much of Appalachia.”—Ed Ochester,editor of the Pitt Poetry Series“Coming on the heels of Eliza Griswold’s well-received nonfiction book Amity and Prosperity that focused on the Haney family of Washington County, and with the news that State Attorney General Josh Shapiro is conducting a criminal investigation into similar complaints of fracking related health-issues, Shale Play adds a thoughtfully complex dimension to an issue that’s far from being resolved to anyone’s liking.”—Fred Shaw Pittsburgh Current“Shale Play draws attention to what is routinely overlooked. Elegant and impassioned, it is a superb work of political and environmental art.”—Nicholas Bradley Journal of Mennonite Studies“To read the poems and look at the photos of Shale Play is to realize the complexity of American dependence on fossil fuels, the multiple sharp edges to ‘no dependence on foreign oil,’ and the complicity—and responsibility—of us all.”—Melanie Zuercher Mennonite Life“An exceptional amalgam of imagery, poetry, politics, history, and humanity.”—Jessica Cory Appalachian Heritage
£19.90
University of Texas Press La Vida Brinca
Book SynopsisIconic images of Hispanic life that tell an allegorical and deeply personal story of Mexican history and spirituality.Trade ReviewWittliff has succeeded in bringing a new, but very old-fashioned, viewpoint to his exciting work. * The Bloomsbury Review *Table of Contents Bill Wittliff's Hidden World (Stephen Harrigan) Light, Accumulated: Bill Wittliff's Tragaluz Photographs (Elizabeth Ferrer) Photographs
£35.10
University of Texas Press Big Bend National Park
Book SynopsisThe first and only comprehensive photographic and word portrait of Big Bend National Park, created by one of Texas's foremost landscape photographers and a noted national travel writer.Trade Review"Laurence Parent's work is superb. He is without a doubt one of the signature photographers of Texas. He has shot many of the iconic images of Big Bend National Park-images that have appeared in the New York Times, Texas Highways, Texas Monthly, and Texas Parks & Wildlife, as well as in books about the park and West Texas." Jack Lowry, Editor, Texas Highways "Joe Nick Patoski's writing in Big Bend National Park is compelling and knowledgeable, done with great confidence and passion for the subject." Jan Reid, author of The Bullet Meant for Me and editor of Rio GrandeTable of ContentsMap Dedication Big Bend National Park Acknowledgments
£25.19
University of Texas Press So That All Shall KnowPara que todos lo sepan
Book SynopsisA comprehensive overview of the work of Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández-Salazar, whose work confronts the horrors of war and the need to remember and redress injustice.Trade Review"Daniel Hernandez-Salazar has geared his talents to capturing the links between memory and the dignity of victims and survivors of genocide... As a visual and aesthetic synthesis of [the report] Guatemala: Never Again, Daniel has willed us an angel with wings of bone that is simultaneously four and one, a faithful witness and prophet that soars from the mass graves to tell the world that memory is also a seed of the future." Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Laureate for Peace "Years pass. They pile up like pages in a book. Everything goes unpunished. I have to scream." Daniel Hernandez-SalazarTable of Contents Foreword: The Vantage Point of Memory / Prólogo: El mirador de la memoria (Rigoberta Menchú Tum) Introduction / Presentación (Oscar Iván Maldonado) Angels, Conquests, and Memory / Ángeles, conquistas y memoria (W. George Lovell) Portfolio: Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Photojournalist / Daniel Hernández-Salazar, fotoperiodista Icon of Memory / Icono para la memoria (Miguel Flores Castellanos) Portfolio: Eros + Thanatos Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Postmodern Humanist / Daniel Hernández-Salazar, un humanista posmoderno (Michael A. Weinstein) Portfolio: Memory of an Angel / Memoria de un ángel Photography, Urban Space, and the Historical Memory of Atrocity: The Angel Series / Fotografía, espacio urbano y la memoria histórica de la atrocidad: La serie del ángel (Steven Hoelscher) Biographies / Biografías
£29.45
University of Texas Press The Color of Loss
Book SynopsisUsing an innovative digital technology that creates photographs that look almost like paintings, Dan Burkholder offers a powerful new way of seeing New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.Trade Review"The wonder of these photographs is that they look like paintings, yet the objects depicted within them are not idealized. The dying domestic objects of the people to whom these interiors belong are no longer of this world. They have been captured on their journey to becoming indistinct trash. At the moment of their capture, they still looked like what they used to be, but moments after they were photographed, they no longer were anything. Their last breath of life is in these photographs; their only other existence is in the memories of their owners." Andrei CodrescuTable of Contents Foreword by Andrei Codrescu Acknowledgments Shadows of Lives and Loss The Photographs
£35.10
University of Texas Press Bronx Boys
Book SynopsisBronx Boys captures the violence, resilience, and hope of young men growing up in what was one of the toughest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States.
£35.10
University of Washington Press Concrete Mama
Book SynopsisJournalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment. It was a brutal transition. McCoy and Hoffman roamed the maximum-security compound almost at will, observing and befriending prisoners and guards. The result is a striking depiction of a community in which there was little to do, much to fear, and a culture that both mimicked and scorned the outside world. McCoy's unadorned prose and Hoffman's stunning black-and-white photographs offer as authentic a portrayal of life in the Big House as outsiders are ever likely to experience. Originally published in 1981, Concrete Mama revealed a previously unseen stark and complex world of life on the inside, for which it won the Washington State Book Award. Long unavailable yet still relevant, it is revitalized in a sec
£38.30
University of Washington Press On the Road Again
Book SynopsisExplores Montana's changing physical and cultural landscape. This book features photographs that offer an intimate view into Montana, into how Montana has changed and how it may continue to change in the twenty-first century. It is suitable for regional and agricultural historians, geographers and geologists, and rural and urban planners.Trade Review"Wyckoff presents a fascinating portrait of change in Montana's rural and urban landscape." * The Public Historian *"No one has used repeat photography more richly—as a basis for discussing change broadly in the natural and human landscape—than cultural/historical geographers. And arguably no geographer has succeeded as well as William Wyckoff." * Journal of Cultural Geography *"Rarely can a little book say a lot, but such is the case with geographer William Wyckoff's study of the Montana landscape through historical and contemporary photographs. The result of Wyckoff's careful work is an insightful, enjoyable book. It is of great value to historical geographers, students of landscape, and historic preservationists." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword: Revisited Roads to the Past by William Cronon Preface and Acknowledgments Journey Into Montana --On the Road Again --Montana Settlement --Regional Landscape Elements --Four Stories on the Landscape Along Montana Highways Boundaries 1. Forty-ninth Parallel 2. Into the Mountains 3. Continental Divide 4. Leaving Red Lodge Rivers 5. Missouri River 6. Marias River Crossing 7. The Sound of Mountain Water 8. Stevensville Bridge Railroads 9. Depot 10. Pacific Junction 11. T-Town 12. Landscape in Motion Passageways 13. Approaching the Hellgate 14. Yankee Jim Canyon 15. Names on the Land 16. U.S. Highway 17. Billboard Forested Lands 18. Pinus ponderosa 19. Tree Invasion 20. Islands of Moisture 21. Quartz Ranger Station Open Spaces 22. Road to Ekalaka 23. The Jesse Place 24. Along the Yellowstone 25. Hilltop View Sacred Places 26. Descent to Mission Valley 27. This House of Sky 28. A Prairie House 29. Deerfield Colony 30. Blue House at Trestle Ranch Landmarks 31. Krug Mansion 32. Graves Hotel 33. Pompeys Pillar 34. Water Tower Rural Legacy 35. Settlement at Sun River 36. Rural School 37. West of Dixon 38. Farmstead South of Choteau Main Streets 39. Main Street in Roundup 40. Life on Merrill Avenue 41. Small-Town Landscape 42. Bypassed Town 43. Wibaux Flood 44. Coal Town Urban Life 45. Butte 46. Landscapes of Labor 47. Zone in Transition 48. Polytechnic Drive Suburbs 49. Judith Place Addition 50. Suburbarn Manhattan 51. Gallatin Valley 52. South of Missoula Old West, New West 53. Sun Ranch 54. New Deal Bridge 55. Flathead Reservation 56. Polson Bridge 57. Bitterroot Valley 58. Road to Paradise Destinations Landscape in Place Landscape in Time Montana Journey On the Road Again Bibliographic Essay Illustration Credits Index
£29.66
Yale University Press More Than One Photographs in Sequence
Book SynopsisIncludes essays that examine sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium's earliest years. This title explores nuances of syntax and sense raised by works like photographic albums, books, thematic portfolios, journalistic photo features, and documentations of performance art.
£16.00
Yale University Press The Itinerant Languages of Photography
Book SynopsisFeaturing images that converse across temporal, political and cultural boundaries by artists such as Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcelo Brodsky, Joan Colom, Marc Ferrez and Joan Fontcuberta, this book argues that the photographic image comes into being only as a consequence of reproduction, displacement and itinerancy.Trade Review“A comprehensive, multidimensional look at photography’s peripatetic nature, through seven concise essays in the first half, followed by four sections of stunning, full-page images illustrating photography’s itinerancy in relation to archives. . . . Emphasizing both individual and collective emotions, with precise and stirring essays about the social, political, and historical implications of photography, this essential book will change the way we interact with images, and with each another.”—Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly *
£27.00
Yale University Press Photography and the American Civil War
Book SynopsisThis eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its influence on history and our responses to warTrade Review"The American Civil War, for the purposes of this riveting study, begins just before the 1860 presidential election, which swept Abraham Lincoln to power, and ends with the aftermath of his assassination in 1865.Warfare itself . . . makes up only a part of this book. There is striking and unexpected imagery . . . The final pictures are as momentous as any. Gardner’s sequence showing the execution of the Lincoln assassins . . . still have in our desensitised times the power to shock. For a book of this scope and depth, academic, meticulously researched and a corrective to much that has gone before, the text reads throughout like a thriller."—Robin Muir, World of Interiors
£38.00
Yale University Press Danny Lyon
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive overview of an influential American photographer and filmmaker whose work is known for its intimacy and social engagementTrade Review"Danny Lyon’s career would make a great bio-pic. The New York City photographer, who, at seventy-four, is the subject of the terrific survey 'Message to the Future,' has led an improbably adventurous life . . . [and] he has remained a maverick throughout his long career—an irritant to the system and an ally to the outcast."—Vince Aletti, New Yorker"[This] retrospective, accompanied by an extensive catalogue . . . is the most comprehensive showing of Lyon’s career. . . . His photographs depict the outsiders from within their own worlds; his camera is lodged in the center, aiming straight for the heart."—Rebecca Bengal, Vogue.com"A picture of a creative life informed by a probing intellect and a passionate eye."—Christopher Lyon, Bookforum
£52.25
Yale University Press Kentucky Renaissance
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of the extraordinary photographers, writers, printmakers, and publishers who formed a flourishing modernist community in KentuckyTrade Review“The title is recommended. . . for the insights it offers in placing figures like Meatyard within the context in which they worked, for its recognition of an arts community that has been underexplored, and for its exploration of collaborations between writers and artists.”—ARLIS/NA Reviews * Arlis/NA Reviews *
£999.99
Yale University Press The Writers
Book SynopsisIntimate photo essays of thirty-eight important writers, including Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Zadie Smith, and Colm TóibínTrade Review"In The Writers: Portraits, you'll find front-facing images of poignant intensity...But subjects are also seen informally, in their home milieu, often with friends or spouses."—Damian Thompson, World of Interiors 'Holiday roundup'
£28.50
Yale University Press Signs
Book SynopsisVivid, clear-sighted images of American vernacular signage and architecture encountered along old US highways showcase the early black-and-white work of the acclaimed photographer Jim Dow
£38.00
WW Norton & Co New York
Book SynopsisThis collection of photographs shows New York City from a fresh perspective. The essence of the city is captured in a oblique and surprising way. Tamas Revesz is a prominent Hungarian photographer who has recently moved to the United States.
£10.99
WW Norton & Co A Passion for Trains
Book SynopsisA tribute to the most revered railroad photographer of our time.
£60.29
WW Norton & Co Steam An Enduring Legacy The Railroad Photographs
Book SynopsisA stunning collection that brings an earlier era to life.
£35.99
WW Norton & Co Landscapes of the Passing Strange
Book SynopsisA photographic journey into the imaginative world of Shakespeare's plays.
£20.89
Harvard University Press Hispaniola
Book SynopsisConservationist and photographer Fernández documents the efforts of a team of international scientists as they unravel the workings of evolution on the island of Hispaniola. He captures both the amazing variety of creatures that have erupted in isolation, and the urgency of scientists racing to give that variety a name before it vanishes.Trade ReviewHaiti and the Dominican Republic share the second largest island in the Caribbean. Hispaniola includes the region's lowest and highest points: the hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, 40 m below sea level, and Pico Duarte, 3087 m. This wide altitudinal range and the island's 40 million-year history have fostered the Caribbean's greatest variety of habitat types and a diverse insular flora and fauna. Despite the impacts of an accelerated degradation of natural resources, pollution, and the rapidly expanding human population, Hispaniola retains a number of wild places. Fernández, a Dominican-based conservationist and photographer, takes the reader on a circuit of protected areas and biodiversity hotspots. His images include dramatic landscapes (such as Parque Nacional Lago Enriquillo), closer views of habitats (from mountain forests to estuaries and coastal mangroves), and field portraits of animals, plants, and fungi. Researchers provide introductory essays (in Spanish and English) on the island's birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, insects, vegetation, and the "woefully understudied" macrofungi. In his foreword, Edward O. Wilson notes both the beauty and vulnerability of this island biota and hopes that more will be done to save it. * Science *With its numerous large color photographs, this oversized book would make a great coffee-table piece. However, it is hoped that it will bring attention to the overpopulated island of Hispaniola and aid in protecting the few remaining areas of natural habitat. -- K. L. Williams * Choice *
£43.31
Johns Hopkins University Press Disappearing Witness
Book SynopsisIn documenting this transformation in American photography, Disappearing Witness forcefully rethinks the history of photography itself.Trade ReviewVery few histories of photography read like novels... Disappearing Witness is... a pleasurable experience in form and content... Garner not only knows her subject but understands it: she moves with extreme ease in it and takes us for an interesting guided tour, one that does not pretend to be blandly objective but clearly defines her learned vision. -- Bruno Chalifour Afterimage This handsome and well-illustrated book surveys the history of American photography since the 1920s, arguing that the 1960s marked the beginning of a profound shift in photographic practice... Garner writes in a clear, straightforward manner, laying out her two-part argument in a series of topical chapters. For the pre-1960s period, the age of 'spontaneous witness,' she focuses on fine art photography, documentary photography, and the use of photography in the great picture magazines. For the later period, she organizes her chapters around the issues of artistic style in order to emphasize her argument about photographers' increasing disengagement with the world and their growing interest in self-expression... It is the bold historian who even attempts such an argument, and Disappearing Witness provides believers and doubters alike with a clear structure against which to test their own ideas about the shape of photography over the past ninety years. -- Martha A. Sandweiss History: Reviews of New Books This well-written, readable book would be best used as a course resource in 20th-century photography. Choice 2004Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction PART I Photography of Witness ONE Being There: Spontaneous Witness TWO Speed and the Machine THREE Fine-Art Photography, Redefined FOUR Documentary FIVE The Magazines SIX Spirit in PhotographyPART II Disappearing Witness SEVEN New Paradigms: Uelsmann, Michals, and Samaras EIGHT Documentary-Style and Street Photography NINE Photography about Photography: The Academy and the Art World TEN New Landscapes, New Portraits: The Seventies and Eighties ELEVEN The Subject Self TWELVE Arrangement, Invention, and Appropriation THIRTEEN Digitized PhotographyConclusionNotes Works Cited Index
£36.00
University of Nebraska Press Encounters
Book SynopsisIn this volume, the Sheldon Museum of Art presents more than one hundred examples from its distinguished photography collection, which contains nearly twenty-five hundred objects. Encompassing the full range of photographic history, Encounters showcases recognized masterpieces, recent acquisitions, and rarely seen treasures by a diverse range of artists.Trade Review"This excellent assemblage of over one hundred photos of primarily black and white and sepia pieces strives to show a multinational world in transition, a goal it meets and exceeds. This volume will delight photography buffs, design students and anyone with an eye for art."—Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics"Ruud has compiled a stunning, temporally- and spatially-diverse set in this first major monograph of photography from the University of Nebraska's Sheldon Museum. . . . [he] has demonstrated his curatorial prowess while offering a solid reason to visit Lincoln, Nebr."—Publishers Weekly"An attractively formatted publication, Encounters establishes the strength and diversity of the Sheldon Museum of Art's photography collection, certainly one worth seeing."Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth, Great Plains QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Photography in Transnational Light by Jorge Daniel VenecianoBetween and across CulturesNature and the Built EnvironmentRites of PassageReligion and SpiritualityTradition and ModernityGender, Identity, and SexualityContributorsIndex of Artists and Works
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Solomon D. Butcher
Book SynopsisFor millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher’s photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. This first book devoted to Butcher and his photos presents a unique visual chronicle of that epoch, firmly establishing Butcher’s place in frontier photography.Trade Review"Readers and viewers seeking a rich and detailed visual record of the individual and collective process of settlement in central Nebraska will want to study, remember, and return to Butcher's photographs, so effectively displayed in this book."—Audrey Goodman, Western American Literature“A wonderfully revealing history.”—New Yorker“A compelling and singular view of American pioneers and pioneering spirit.”—American Photographer “Splendid. . . . Butcher’s work reveals the stark and self-contained life of these people, and his sense of order and clarity transforms these pictures from mere records into icons of the American spirit.”—Choice“The prairie was Butcher’s stage, and his results ranged from the moving to the hilarious.”—Village Voice“There’s an often evocative, poignant sense of life in these photographs of Nebraskans. . . . The quality of the pictures and the earnestness of the people in them creates an almost hypnotic state.”—People magazine"This latest edition of Photographing the American Dream honors the late author's beliefs by bringing back Butcher's photographs to life for a new generation."—Erika Schwartz, Nebraska Life MagazineTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Photographs Afterword
£23.99
University Press of Florida Picturing Apollo 11
Book SynopsisProvides an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events involved in the pioneering first moon landing of July 20, 1969.Trade ReviewThe perfect launch vehicle for younger generations to vicariously experience the nation’s nervous anticipation prior to Apollo 11’s blastoff, through to the final euphoric roar at seeing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin kick up moon dust.”—Foreword Reviews
£34.16
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Picturing Black New Orleans A Creole
Book SynopsisBalancing art, social theory, and history and drawing from family records, oral histories, and photographs rescued from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Arthe Anthony gives us a rich look at the cultural landscape of New Orleans nearly a century ago.Trade Review“Fascinating.”—LA Weekly“[An] alluring book.”—New Orleans Magazine“Anthony delivers a warm and detailed portrait of Collins and some facets of New Orleans’ rich and richly complicated culture in the early 20th century.”—Gambit“Readers will appreciate amusing and emotional anecdotes while also gaining a strong sense of what New Orleans was like in those 20th-century decades for Creoles and others of African heritage.”—Library Journal
£27.50
Rutgers University Press Imagery of Lynching Black Men White Women and the
Book SynopsisOutside of the classroom and scholarly publications, lynching has long been a taboo subject. Nice people, it is felt, do not talk about it, and they certainly do not look at images representing the atrocity. InImagery of Lynching, Dora Apel contests this adopted stance of ignorance.Trade Review"In concise and compelling language, Dora Apel traces the origins and histories of images of lynching in order to foreground their role in both normalizing and challenging particular concepts o racial and national identity. She forces us to look at scenes most would prefer to ignore, and exposes the horror and logic of torture. At a time when grotesque deaths are increasingly framed as 'entertainment' by today's news media, Apel's book is a sober reminder of the political expediency and personal pain behind such graphic displays.” -- Frances K. Pohl * author of Framing America: A Social History of American Art *"Apel has written an important book. It synthesizes the history of spectacle lynching and dissects the photographs and artworks used to sustain and challenge racial violence. It contributes to understanding the symbolic and ideological power of these images for past--and present. Imagery of Lynching is a must read for anyone interested in racial violence in the United States." * The Journal of American History *"Apel has written a very engaging study on a difficult part of American visual history. She has succeeded in using a case study format to thoroughly address the breadth of social, political, and economic issues that have affected lynching and its representation in the last century....Apel offers astute analyses of an array of documentary and fine art images, revealing how they have reflected and influenced American attitudes about race, racism, sexuality, mob violence, and their pathology....Highly recommended." * Choice *"The visuals in Imagery of Lynching are disturbing and graphic, but deserve the reader's attention. Apel painstakingly and effectively discusses the strength of these images and details the controversies that often followed their public displays." * The Historian *"This book makes a major contribution to the scholarship on both lynching and the artistic representation of racism in the United States. It will undoubtedly be a foundational work for subsequent research by historians and art historians alike.” -- Fitz Brundage * author of Under Sentence of Death and Lynching in the New South *"[Apel's] book provides an important complement to social and political studies of lynching that generally ignore the role of the artist in attempting--however futilely--to awaken the public conscience." * Southern Historical Association *"Dora Apel mounts a careful and convincing analysis of a set of extremely difficult, often literally terrifying, images and provides the necessary contexts for readers to understand the practice of lynching and the terms of its representation by photographers and artists.” -- Richard Meyer * author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art *Table of ContentsOn looking Scottsboro, the Communist party, and the NAACP: conflicts and desires The antilynching exhibitions of 1935: strategies and constraints Race, sex, and politics in prewar America: picturing Black oppression Mass media, World War II, and the Cold War: the lynching of George Dorsey and Emmitt Till The evolution of lynching narratives in contemporary art
£999.99
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Picturing Disability Beggar Freak Citizen and
Book SynopsisMidget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. In Picturing Disability, Bogdan and his collaborators gather over 200 historical photographs showing how people with disabilities have been presented and exploring the contexts in which they were photographed.
£41.36
University of Arizona Press Picturing Sabino
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£21.56
University of Minnesota Press The Face of Minnesota
Book SynopsisDucks in a stream, the bridge at St. Anthony Falls, streets of cities and towns, a fish in a net, the glittering lakes seen under low skies. The Face of Minnesota is a fresh, simple, unpretentious statement of a place and time by people who know what Minnesota is because they live there. Minor White, Aperture, 1958John Szarkowski is the single most important curator that photography has ever had. Looking at his photographs created over the last fifty years makes me want to weep. They are truly American pictures; one feels his desire to show not just what America was but what it still can be. Ingrid Sischy, Vanity Fair, 2005Originally commissioned to commemorate Minnesota's centennial in 1958 and out of print for nearly forty years, The Face of Minnesota is a lost masterpiece of photography and an eloquent tribute to the people and places of the North Star state. Republished in celebration of the state's sesquicentennial, this beautifully produced edition includes contemporary essays ab
£35.10
The University of Alabama Press Heart of a Small Town Photographs of Alabama
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£23.36
Watson-Guptill Publications Your Baby in Pictures
Book SynopsisShows new parents how to capture the story of their baby's first year with 40 'photo recipes' anyone can do, with any camera. This book inspires new parents and grandparents with easy, step-by-step photo ideas for capturing developmental milestones and special moments, from tiny yawns to first smiles, learning to sit up and much more.
£14.39
Duke University Press Borrowed Time
Book SynopsisCaroline Vaughan's photographs offer inspired and surprising visions of landscapes, still lifes, and the human form. This is a collection of her photographs where the images of nature and people, sometimes surreal and often arresting, follow each other to create a visual poem of opposition and likeness, physical beauty and balance.Trade Review“Borrowed Time—life and death, fire and ice, male and female, outer and inner meet timelessness, the narrow temperature zone of life, androgyny, and wholeness in a slow dance that is more complex than it seems at first glance.”—Olivia Parker“Devastating and quietly revealing. There is something both equalizing and transforming that takes place when a subject is placed in Vaughan’s lens. She has a way of evoking and capturing a moment of intense self-recognition in her subjects.”—Alex Harris“The sight of any one of a number of photographs by Caroline Vaughan can clean my sight like a fierce but soon forbearing solvent. In her work, the Earth is its full best self—a self from all its billion selves, all things to all creatures: terror and joy, our hope of rescue, our eventual rest.”—Reynolds Price, from the foreword
£85.50
Duke University Press Womens Camera Work
Book SynopsisExplores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. This book exhibits the work of American women; tells their absorbing stories; and discusses representations of North American Indians, African Americans,and the migrant poor.Trade Review“Davidov is an eloquent and passionate reader of texts and images. . . . She gives us a chance to think about a set of relationships among major American women photographers that few people know about.”—Iris Tillman Hill, Duke University“What a splendid achievement this book is. It is rich in texture, nuanced, fascinating—an outstanding work.”—Miles Orvell, Temple University
£27.90
Duke University Press Aunties
Book SynopsisNadia Sablin's lyrical and evocative photographs in Aunties capture the small details and daily rituals of her septuagenarian aunts in a small Russian village.Trade Review"What shines through most strongly in the book is [Sablin's] admiration for these indomitable women. The book moves effortlessly from close observation of objects–two bowls of borscht on a faded tabletop, sheets drying in a shed– to intimate documentary–an aunt bent in concentration over a crossword–and from dark interiors to almost other-worldly daylight. ... Aunties is an elegy for a way of life as much as a loving homage to the women who embody it." -- Sean O'Hagan * The Guardian *"Sablin's lyrical photos, taken over several summers, capture the small details and rituals of her aunts' dreamlike days. She quilts together a thoughtful meditation on memory, ageing, and belonging." -- Karen Kelner * The Independent *
£31.50
Duke University Press Shadow Modernism
Book SynopsisWilliam Schaefer traces how early twentieth century photographic practices in Shanghai provided artists, writers, and intellectuals a forum within which to debate culture, ethnicity, history, and the very nature of images, thereby showing how artists and writers used such practices to make visible the shadows of modernity in Shanghai.Trade Review"The book is smart and rigorously researched, and the prose is immaculate. By sticking close to his objects of study, no matter how ambiguous, difficult, and distant, Schaefer shows us how Shanghai’s shadows strangely illuminate the cultural history of the city—and the practices of art history." -- Lisa Claypool * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Modernism and Photography's Places 1. Picturing Photography, Abstracting Pictures 25 2. False Portals 61 Part II. Landscapes of Images 3. Projected Pasts 113 4. Montage Landscapes 145 5. Shanghai Savage 180 Notes 221 Bibliography 263 Index 279
£112.20
