Photography and photographs Books
Yale University Press The Power of Pictures
Book SynopsisA fascinating account of the avant-garde photo-based arts from the early Soviet Union, featuring many previously unpublished imagesTrade ReviewFinalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Visual Arts. -- National Jewish Book Award * The Jewish Museum *
£33.25
Yale University Press Lola 193lvarez Bravo Picturing Mexico
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£21.38
Yale University Press Making a Photographer
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, sponsored by The Center for Cultural Landscapes at the UVA School of Architecture“In her brilliant book, Dr. Rebecca Senf allows us to go beyond the pure beauty of Adams’s images. We are brought into a much-needed passion and complexity of his practice.”—Catherine Opie“This is an important work that augments existing literature in both content and methodology. It will be a standard reference for anyone interested in Ansel Adams.”—Britt Salvesen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art“Rebecca Senf brilliantly demonstrates how the first two decades of Ansel Adams’s long career—years that are often dismissed as ‘formative’ or ‘immature’—in fact, sow the seeds of the astonishing work that we now identify as ‘classic’ Adams.”—Steven Hoelscher, The University of Texas at Austin“In this great, approachable read, Senf helps us appreciate the skills and genius of Adams, who inspired millions of Americans to visit, and to ultimately love and support, their National Parks.”—James E. Cook, CEO, Western National Parks Association“Lavishly illustrated and painstakingly researched, Senf’s book reveals how a 14-year-old visitor to Yosemite became America’s most famous photographer and a passionate advocate for the National Parks.”—Malcolm Daniel, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
£38.00
Yale University Press Golden Prospects
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£33.25
Yale University Press Modern Look
Book SynopsisTrade Review“As a study in how the clash of cultures, art and commerce, and words and pictures can result in innovation and beauty, Modern Look is a timely book on a golden age.”—Theo Inglis, Communication Arts
£35.62
Yale University Press Dawoud Bey
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£26.12
Yale University Press Patrick Kelly
Book Synopsis“I want my clothes to make you smile!”—Patrick Kelly
£35.62
Yale University Press Navigating the Waves
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£38.00
WW Norton & Co After Photography
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the perils and possibilities of photography in a digital age.Trade Review"Starred Review. Ritchen (In Our Own Image) offers a supple, politically astute and fascinating account of the dizzying impact of the digital revolution on the trajectory of the photographic image that, like all new media, changes the world in the very act of observing it...." -- Publishers Weekly
£22.79
WW Norton & Co Looking Backward A Photographic Portrait of the
Book SynopsisHaunting views of the early twentieth century’s most significant events flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern world.Trade Review"The author is one of America's leading photographic historians and so a collection of images selected by him is going to appeal to the professional eye as well as the more casual enquiring reader... A fascinating collection, annotated in great detail, and certainly food for thought and meditation." -- State Media
£35.99
WW Norton & Co A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the
Book SynopsisAn abundantly illustrated overview of modern design across continents and cultures, highlighting key movements and design traditions.Trade Review"Laudably, they include areas often omitted: photography, graphic, and interior design…. Recommended." -- CHOICE
£37.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Nikon D5000 For Dummies
Book SynopsisFull-color guide to everything you need to get the most out of your Nikon D5000! The Nikon D5000 packs a lot of punch into a camera that beginners will love, and now you can pack an equal amount of punch into the digital photographs you take with your new Nikon.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Fast Track to Super Snaps 7 Chapter 1: Getting the Lay of the Land 9 Chapter 2: Taking Great Pictures, Automatically 37 Chapter 3: Controlling Picture Quality and Size 63 Chapter 4: Monitor Matters: Picture Playback and Live View Shooting 81 Part II: Taking Creative Control 117 Chapter 5: Getting Creative with Exposure and Lighting 119 Chapter 6: Manipulating Focus and Color 161 Chapter 7: Putting It All Together 201 Part III: Working with Picture Files 221 Chapter 8: Downloading, Organizing, and Archiving Your Picture Files 223 Chapter 9: Printing and Sharing Your Pictures 251 Part IV: The Part of Tens 277 Chapter 10: Ten (Or So) Fun and Practical Retouch Menu Features 279 Chapter 11: Ten Special-Purpose Features to Explore on a Rainy Day 301 Index 321
£19.54
University of California Press The Exultant Ark
Book SynopsisNature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival. This book opens our eyes to a different way of looking at the animal kingdom. Including more than one hundred thirty images, it celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits of animal pleasure.Trade Review"An exuberant look at animal pleasure." -- Katherine Bouton New York Times "An irresistible new photo book." -- Maureen Callahan New York Post "Intersperses glorious images of animals preening, grooming and gallivanting with snippets of studies suggesting such behaviours belie an overly utilitarian interpretation." -- Tiffany O'Callaghan New Scientist "Here is a book to put a spring into anyone's step. The Exultant Ark is a celebration of animal behaviour at its most uplifting." -- Stuart Blackman Bbc Wildlife Magazine "All readers of this column must immediately purchase Jonathan Balcombe's fabulous book." -- Leigh Dayton The Australian "One of those rare volumes that will look good on your coffee table but might also change the way you think." -- Harold Herzog American Journal Of Play "This visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom... Old attitudes fall away as we gain a heightened sense of animal individuality and of the pleasures that make life worth living for all sentient beings." -- Ian Paulsen The Guardian / Birdbooker Report Blog "This is one of those rare volumes that will look good on your coffee table but might also change the way you think." -- Hal Herzog Psychology Today "The studies he [Balcombe] invokes are hard to explain away... Likewise, the photographs that make up the bulk of The Exultant Ark remind us that we are not as different from other animals on our planet as we like to think; the photos are anecdotal in nature, but they are utterly compelling." -- Scott F. Parker Rain Taxi Review Of Books "Both the stunning photography and Balcombe's masterful prose are welcome additions to the growing literary and scientific evidence that debunk long-assumed myths while continuing to eliminate the gap between 'us' and 'them.'" Veg News MagTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Play 2 Food 3 Touch 4 Courtship and Sex 5 Love 6 Comfort 7 Companionship 8 Other Pleasures Conclusion: Implications of Animal Pleasure Notes References Index
£29.70
University of California Press Reconstructing the View
Book SynopsisProvides a conceptual framework for understanding the history of the canyon, offering an overview of its discovery by Europeans and its subsequent treatment in writing, photography, and graphic arts.Trade Review"Brilliant." American Photo "An incredible work of art... A wonderful book to return to time and again to see what you might have missed the previous times or simply to appreciate the genius that went into it." National Parks Traveler "[Creates] an entirely new landscape, one in which a window into the past has been opened and time passing can be seen as only part of the story." Slate "[This] project is a large and time consuming undertaking, one that reveals something entirely new about the various vantage point of the canyon." Blend Image "A stunning volume." -- Marilyn Dahl Shelf Awareness "Like ace jigsaw puzzlers, Klett and Wolfe take on the challenge of the Grand Canyon's vastness and relatively homogeneous topography in this latest reconstruction." Photo-Eye "One of the best Grand Canyon photography books to come along in recent years." Arizona Daily Sun "Senf's obvious fondness for the artists and their work only adds to the readability and clarity of her essay... Recommended." -- L. M. Bliss, San Diego State University Choice "Vexing, dreamy, beautiful, and provocative." -- Jake Abrahamson Sierra Club "An arresting visual interpretation of a visual icon." Southwestern Historical Quarterly
£37.80
University of California Press Vision Anew
Book SynopsisThe ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Presenting essays on photography and the moving image alongside engaging interviews with artists and filmmakers, the author offers an inspired assessment of the medium's ongoing importance in the digital era.Trade Review"Through its variety of voices, Vision Anew doesn't promote a new language to define "lens art," but dissects the languages that the medium itself has created." -- Taylor Dafoe The Brooklyn RailTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword - Adam Bell Introduction - Charles Traub Part 1. From the Lens 1. Photography Is (1961) - Arthur Siegel 2. Keep It Simple Stupid, Just Make a Good Picture: The Basics of Photography (2012) - Gerry Badger 3. Excerpt from A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads (2008) - Ken Schles 4. Photographs about Photographs (2010) - Adam Bell 5. On Books and Photography (2012) - Ofer Wolberger, Jason Fulford, and Adam Bell 6. Stillness, Depth, and Movement Reconnected (2012) - Robert Bowen 7. A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography? (2010) - Susie Linfield 8. If You See Something, Say Something: Why We Need to Talk about and Teach Visual Literacy, Now (2014) - Marvin Heiferman Part 2. Vision and Motion 9. Excerpt from Vision in Motion (1947) - Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 10. Stillness (2008) - David Campany 11. The Annihilation of Time and Space (2004) - Rebecca Solnit 12. On Editing and Structure (2002) - Wolf Koenig 13. Flickering Screens (2008) - Ai Weiwei 14. A Lecture (1968) - Hollis Frampton 15. Flatness/Depth. Still/Moving. Photography/Cinema. (2012) - Grahame Weinbren 16. HD Vision (2012) - Bob Giraldi, Ethan David Kent, Christopher Walters, Charles Traub, and Adam Bell 17. Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality (2007) - Tom Gunning 18. Seeing around the Edge of the Frame (2001) - Walter Murch 19. Sensorial Cinema: Conjectures/Conversations (2014) - Scott MacDonald 20. Reconquering Space and the Screen (2005) - Pipilotti Rist and Doug Aitken 21. Looking and Being Looked At (2014) - Shelly Silver and Claire Barliant 22. It's about Time (2013) - Christian Marclay and Amy Taubin Part 3. Old Medium/New Forms 23. Photography and the Future (2010) - Tom Huhn 24. Machine-Seeing (2012) - Trevor Paglen and Aaron Schuman 25. There Is Only Software (2011) - Lev Manovich 26. Google Street View: The World Is Our Studio (2011) - Lisa Kereszi 27. Exploring Options (2011) - Alec Soth and Charles Traub 28. On (2014) - Charlie White 29. Sharing Makes the Picture (2012) - Barry Salzman 30. Posits and Questions (2014) - Fred Ritchin and Brian Palmer 31. Capture/Curate Touch/Play: Reality Is the New Fiction (2014) - Claudine Boeglin and Paul Pangaro 32. A Post-photographic Manifesto (2011) - Joan Fontcuberta (trans. Graham Thomson) 33. Feedback Manifesto (2010) - David Joselit 34. Ant!foto and the Antifoto Manifesto (2013) - Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber 35. Creative Interlocutors: A Manifesto (1997) - Charles Traub Notes List of Contributors Credits
£27.00
Princeton University Press Words of Light Theses on the Photography of
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings.Trade Review"Cadava presents a series of sensitive meditations on Benjamin's work, in which, like Benjamin himself, he explores the mass image and its role in the making of popular memory."--The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface: PhotagogosHistory3Heliotropism5Origins5Mortification7Ghosts11Mimesis13Translations15Inscriptions18Lightning21Stars26Eternal Return31Reproducibility42Politics44Danger47Caesura59Traces64Nightdreams66Twilight71Awakening81Language84Matter87Reflections92Psyches97Shocks102Similarity106Petrification115Death128Epitaphs128Notes133Bibliography157Index169
£31.50
Princeton University Press A Shoemakers Story Being Chiefly about French
Book SynopsisOn a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in New England. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then their new employer lined them up and had them photographed. This work seeks to understand the social forces that brought this photograph into being, and the events it subsequently spawned.Trade Review"Generously illustrated with many extraordinary photographs, A Shoemaker's Story brings 1870s America to vivid life. Combining painstaking research with world-class storytelling, Lee illuminates an important episode in the social history of the United States, and reveals the extent to which photographs can be sites of intense historical struggle."--Spartacus Educational "Although some historians might be put off by Lee's narrative style, it is a useful and informative method to access the complexity of American industrialization and especially to bring the voices of those who are often silent in the past to the forefront. Furthermore, for historians who are looking for model scholarship that uses photographs as more than illustrations, this book is a welcome and much-needed resource."--Krystyn R. Moon, American Historical Review "The rewards are everywhere present in Lee's research--and the pleasure of his writing. As a historian, Lee combines the local detail with the large issues, all the while turning elegant phrases and marshalling his account into a page-turning story that asserts, after all, 'what the author saw.'"--Ellen Wiley Tod, College Art Association "Innovative and ambitious, A Shoemaker's Story is a lucid and detailed account that is sophisticated in its methodology. Given the wide-ranging subject matter, Lee has produced a remarkably disciplined text, presenting the reader with a distinctive narrative tone that is mature, confident, and occasionally playful."--James Opp, Labour-Le Travail "Lee's lively and accessible account of their story is a must read for students and scholars of immigration and labor history."--Evelyn Sterne, Journal of American Ethnic History "A Shoemaker's Story will justifiably find a place in the historiography of photography, immigration, the visual culture of diaspora, and nineteenth-century industrialization. It is a model of research design, engaging narrative prose, and close attention to the specificity of form... Telling a new story in old-fashioned ways, [Lee] has crafted an exquisite piece of scholarship whose very title suggests the traditional detective work essential to both good history and compelling prose."--Elspeth H. Brown, CAA Reviews "A Shoemaker's Story gives us a history of these events, offering an instructive and vividly written case study into the development of industry and unions, the deskilling of labor, the growth of immigration, and the transformation of identities that characterized post Civil War America."--Mike Rabourn, Historical Journal of MassachusettsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter One: What the Shoe Manufacturer Saw 12 Chapter Two: What the Photographers Saw 74 Chapter Three: What the Crispins Saw 144 Chapter Four: What the Chinese Saw 197 Postscript 264 Acknowledgments 273 Notes 277 Index 299
£49.30
Princeton University Press Wartime Kiss Visions of the Moment in the 1940s
Book SynopsisExamines an array of forgotten images and movie episodes - from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in Santa Barbara hills to scenes from films as "Twelve O'Clock High" and "Hold Back the Dawn". This book reveals background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between war and Hollywood.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Beginning with Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square at the end of the Second World War, the art historian Alexander Nemerov's Wartime Kiss examines photos and film stills from the war period and later in the nineteen-forties. Many of the images collected here are lesser-known or obscure, and the more recognizable ones he interprets in surprising ways... By providing the stories behind these images, he examines the ties between war and Hollywood, romance and violence, and provides a glimpse into a particular moment in American history."--New Yorker, Page-Turner blog "As art historian Nemerov reminds us in this exceptional set of reflections on photography and history, photographs bring a lost moment and person directly into our view, so that what was and what is coalesce in eerie combination... Nemerov's radiant meditations cast a penetrating glance into the moments captured in the photos and the larger stories they reflect."--Publishers Weekly "Alexander Nemerov is preoccupied with photographic or cinematic images that trigger 'a piercing, wounding sensation without explanation,' or as Roland Barthes' put it, a punctum... In Wartime Kiss, his speculative study of American movie scenes and photojournalism of World War II, Nemerov 'tries to imagine a different way of writing history' that addresses and tries to illuminate the renegade aspects of the moment that seem to lurk within or just beyond the images... The many pleasures of Wartime Kiss hinge on Nemerov's assemblage of anecdote and related fact."--Ron Slate, On the Seawall "This stunning book defies easy categorization... [A] personal meditation on why we love art and the movies and the enduring power of popular culture to transcend its own moment in time... Nemerov does the world, or at least avid film fans, a great service... Indeed, the book flows in time like a beautifully made movie... Reading Wartime Kiss is something akin to flying."--Farisa Khalid, PopMatters "In this engagingly written, even poetic book, Nemerov views selected images from films and photographs of the 1940s... Through the experience of reading this extraordinary historical meditation, students will learn how they can engage, and engage others, in pursuing a personal and social understanding of history."--Choice "Wartime Kiss is a fascinating introduction to the underlying symbolism, planned and unplanned, of the war. It encourages the reader to look with fresh eyes at old movies and photo stills hidden in private albums or stuffed away in drawers."--Stephen Williams, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 One Kissing in August 1945 - Belita Jepson-Turner 5 Two Sleeping Beauty - Olivia de Havilland 23 Three When the World Smiled - Margaret Bourke-White 61 Four Sentimental Mysticism - Stovall at Archbury 97 Five Hold Back the Dawn - Olivia de Havilland 127 Acknowledgments 147 Bibliographic Notes 149 Index 169
£25.20
Princeton University Press The Arab Imago
Book SynopsisThe birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem--photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of itTrade Review"Sheehi's text is a deep scholarly investigation of portrait photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that lays out a new methodology for examining historical photographs from indigenous photographers of the Ottoman World and potentially other regions of the global South, thereby adding an important, missing element to the field of photo-history."--Tina Barouti, H-Net ReviewTable of ContentsContents ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Translations and Transliterations xv INTRODUCTION Proem to Indigenista Photography xvii PART ONE HISTORIES AND PRACTICE 1 An Empire of Photographs: Abdullah Freres and the Osmanlilik Ideology 1 2 The Arab Imago: Jurji Saboungi and the Nahdah Image-Screen 27 3 The Carte de Visite: The Sociability of New Men and Women 53 4 Writing Photography: Technomateriality and the Verum Factum 75 PART TWO CASE STUDIES AND THEORY 5 Portrait Paths: The Sociability of the Photographic Portrait 103 6 Stabilizing Portraits, Stabilizing Modernity 121 7 The Latent and the Afterimage 141 8 The Mirror of Two Sanctuaries and Three Photographers 163 EPILOGUE On the Cusp of Arab Ottoman Photography 193 Notes 204 Index 218 Illustration Credits 221
£37.80
Princeton University Press Photography Reinvented
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£37.80
Princeton University Press The Nevada Test Site
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gowin’s richly saturated prints intensify the contrast of light and shadow, accentuating the land’s man-made and natural features. The artificial geometry of roads and waste-storage pads stands out from the organic undulations and gradient washes of the desert, although the two blend together in sites of intensive activity, where human drivers left behind their unruly tracks. . . . His pictures are proof that even humanity’s vilest weapons can’t entirely void a place of its dignity. As the world warms, the sea rises, the forests burn, and our fellow-creatures suffer, there will still be beauty. Beauty to take comfort in. Beauty to mourn."---Max Norman, New Yorker"The only photographer to have been granted official and sustained access to [The Nevada Test Site], Gowin revisits his original negatives from 1996 and 1997 in his new book. The Nevada Test Site evinces the chilling impact of nuclear weapons on the natural world, reminding us too of the deadly threat they continue to pose to humanity at large."---Madeleine Pollard, Financial Times
£40.50
University Press of Kansas The Iconography of Malcolm X
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£44.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ubiquitous Photography
Book Synopsis* The first book to focus on the changes digital technologies have made on the production, circulation and consumption of photography. * Considers a range of digital cameras and their contexts, from prosumer SLRs to cameras embedded in mobiles.Trade Review"Hand proves to be a reliable guide in taking us throughwhat remains a rather bewildering landscape."European Journal of Communication"Photography is no longer a hobby or a discrete activity, and Martin Hand sets out in his lucid and engaging study just how it has become 'ubiquitous', modifying and making more visual a whole range of existing social practices."Tim Dant, Lancaster University"Hand's book sets contemporary photographic practices in the context of information technologies, changing cultural and economic forms, and a media-saturated society, and provides a lucid analysis of how these constitute "ubiquitous photography". Its combination of cultural theory, analytic insight, and ethnographic sensibility makes it indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary visual culture."Anne Beaulieu, University of GroningenTable of ContentsDetailed Contents vi List of Figures viii Acknowledgements ix 1 Ubiquitous Photography: A Short Introduction 1 2 Visual Culture, Consumption and Technology 25 3 Images and Information: Variation, Manipulation and Ephemerality 59 4 Technologies and Techniques: Reconfiguring Camera, Photographer and Image 96 5 Memory and Classification: Between the Album and the Tag Cloud 143 6 Conclusion: Ubiquitous Photography and Public Culture 185 References and Bibliography 198 Index 215
£45.00
University of British Columbia Press Northern Exposures
Book SynopsisIllustrated throughout with archival photographs, this book examines the photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson's Bay Company, the three major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic.Trade ReviewIn many ways, Geller’s Northern Exposures is ground-breaking. It is the first book to describe and document, with many superb illustrations, some of the extensive camera work done in the Canadian North; it is also the first book ... to provide a critique of certain key institutions and individuals whose images have constructed and conditioned southern Canadians’ perceptions of the North. But I want to begin with one aspect of this book that deserves special praise – the illustrations ... readers owe Geller and UBC Press much thanks ... each image is nicely subtitled and perfectly placed ... Geller concludes this study with an excellent bibliography. Bravo! -- Sherrill Grace, University of British Columbia * Canadian Historical Review, vol. 87, no.1 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Taking Pictures and Making History: Photographic Representation and the Canadian North2 More Than “A Mass of Ice and Snow”: Visualizing the State in “Canada’s Arctic”3 Pictures of the “Arctic Night”: Archibald Lang Fleming and Missionary Messages of the North4 The Business of Representing the North: Filmmakers, Photographers, and the Fur Traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company5 From Back to Baffin to Canada Moves North: Richard Finnie’s Northern Visions6 “Re-Making It Into Here”: Representation and Power in Northern ImageryNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Northern Exposures Photographing and Filming the
Book SynopsisIllustrated throughout with archival photographs, this book examines the photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, the three major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic.Trade ReviewIn many ways, Geller’s Northern Exposures is ground-breaking. It is the first book to describe and document, with many superb illustrations, some of the extensive camera work done in the Canadian North; it is also the first book ... to provide a critique of certain key institutions and individuals whose images have constructed and conditioned southern Canadians’ perceptions of the North. But I want to begin with one aspect of this book that deserves special praise – the illustrations ... readers owe Geller and UBC Press much thanks ... each image is nicely subtitled and perfectly placed ... Geller concludes this study with an excellent bibliography. Bravo! -- Sherrill Grace, University of British Columbia * Canadian Historical Review, vol. 87, no.1 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Taking Pictures and Making History: Photographic Representation and the Canadian North2 More Than “A Mass of Ice and Snow”: Visualizing the State in “Canada’s Arctic”3 Pictures of the “Arctic Night”: Archibald Lang Fleming and Missionary Messages of the North4 The Business of Representing the North: Filmmakers, Photographers, and the Fur Traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company5 From Back to Baffin to Canada Moves North: Richard Finnie’s Northern Visions6 “Re-Making It Into Here”: Representation and Power in Northern ImageryNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Manufacturing National Park Nature
Book SynopsisJasper National Park is an international travel destination, world heritage site, and icon of Canadian identity. Although national parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, we are only beginning to understand how their visual imagery has shaped and continues to inform our perception of the natural world, ecological issues, and ourselves.In Manufacturing National Park Nature, J. Keri Cronin draws on visual images such as postcards and tourist snapshots to show that popular forms of picturing nature can have ecological implications that extend far beyond the frame of the image. Adopting an ecocritical approach to visual culture, she reveals that packaging Jasper as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals masks the real threats to the park's ecosystems. In telling the story of how various groups have used photography to shape our ideas about nature, this book sets the stage for a re-examination of protection policies and acknowledgTrade ReviewManufacturing National Park Nature is highly recommended to scholars and students of environmental studies and history, recreation and tourism, as well as those of media and marketing. It is an accessible way of challenging taken-for-granted conceptions of both wilderness landscapes and photography. -- Philip M. Mullins, University of Northern British Columbia * International Journal of Wilderness, Vol 18, No 1 *This book is specifically about Jasper National Park, yet its theoretical discussions, analyses, and conclusions can be applied broadly to visual representations in any managed, “wild” area...this text is a valuable contribution to the growing field of visual-culture-based ecological criticism. -- Gaby Zezulka-Maillqux, Abu Dhabi University * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *The book is brief, and lavishly illustrated…it makes a real contribution to the literature by analyzing the cultural and physical impacts of tourism in an iconic environment…the author has deftly woven together a convoluted web of images and ideologies, uniquely focused on one location. This work will appeal to readers interested in parks, tourism and leisure, in cultural concepts of landscape, and in the management of wilderness areas… while it engages deeply with theoretical issues, Manufacturing National Park Nature is highly comprehensible, and appropriate for any intelligent, interested reader. -- Fred Mason, University of New Brunswick * Electronic Green Journal, Issue 34, Winter 2012 *Table of ContentsForeword: “that fatal breath of ‘improvement’” / Graeme Wynn1 Grounding National Park Nature2 “Jasper Wonderful by Nature”: The Wilderness Industry of Jasper National Park3 An Invitation to Leisure: Picturing Canada’s Wilderness Playground4 “The Bears Are Plentiful and Frequently Good Camera Subjects”: Photographing Wildlife in Jasper National Park5 Fake NatureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Adjusting the Lens
Book SynopsisAdjusting the Lens explores and celebrates decolonizing strategies and practices that confront the ways the photographic record of Indigenous peoples has been shaped by the colonial imagination.Trade ReviewPerfectly timed and enormously significant, Adjusting the Lens illuminates the ways Indigenous art activists use photographs to challenge, realign, and renegotiate past histories...This book moves Indigenous art activism off the pages of Facebook and into the contemporary global art and cultural studies arena. -- J. Natal, Columbia College Chicago * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Coloniality, Indigeneity, and Photography / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem NielssenPart 1: Revisiting the Modern Colonial Order1 Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880–1974 / Carol Williams2 Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women’s Adventures in Sámi Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen3 Negotiating Meaning: John Møller’s Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg HøvikPart 2: Identifying Decolonial Strategies4 Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigneous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers5 Disruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greenhorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson6 "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sámi Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola7 The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People / Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham8 On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Christine SyPart 3: Decolonizing Art9 Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sámi Political Community / Laura Junka-Aikio10 Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye11 Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery in Sápmi – Becoming a Nation at The Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer StienPart 4: Negotiating Theory12 Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
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Cornell University Press AfterImages of the City
Book SynopsisCriticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the urban" has received little attention. Believing traditional accounts are limited by their reflection of a...Trade ReviewIn testing the concept of an 'after-image' as an analytical tool, the editors of this volume, Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay—both professors of literature—contribute fruitfully to the project of developing interdisciplinary methodological approaches to urban studies.... On the whole... the writing is direct and inventive. -- Ocean Howell * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *This collection of intriguing conference papers explores the culturally constructed imageries that crystallize, complement, and redefine urban experiences and futures—a multifaceted concept Resina (romance studies and comparative literature, Cornell Univ.) elaborates in his theoretical overview. Apart from an insightful exploration of multiple after-images in Steiglitz, photography, and New York (by Mary Woods), essays generally address this central concept through literary texts and related theories, leavened with references to anthropology and planning.... Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press Mirrors of Memory
Book SynopsisPhotographs shaped the view of the world in turn-of-the-century Central Europe, bringing images of everything from natural and cultural history to masterpieces of Greek sculpture into homes and offices. Sigmund Freud''s libraryno exception to this trendwas filled with individual photographs and images in books. According to Mary Bergstein, these photographs also profoundly shaped Freud''s thinking in ways that were no less important because they may have been involuntary and unconscious.In Mirrors of Memory, lavishly illustrated with reproductions of the photos from Freud''s voluminous collection, she argues that studying the man and his photographs uncovers a key to the origins of psychoanalysis. In Freud''s era, photographs were viewed as transparent windows revealing objective truth but at the same time were highly subjective, resembling a kind of dream-memory. Thus, a photo of a ruined temple both depicted the particular place and conveyed a sense of loss, oblivion, of tiTrade ReviewAn erudite and original book... [on] the far-reaching effects of European fin de siècle visual culture on Freud's mind. Mirrors of Memory illuminates the heretofore unexamined ways in which the medium of photography, widely taken to be a transparent, objective way of documenting and gaining access to a previously existing reality, was relied on by many disciplines during Freud's lifetime.... This extraordinary book... is a paragon in the annals of interdisciplinary scholarship.... In teaching us to look back and to realize that we had missed an entire field of force in which the interpretations we thought we understood took place, it opens onto new vistas and suggests new paradigms for exciting twenty-first-century interdisciplinary work. -- Ellen Handler Spitz * Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association *Bergstein's book significantly furthers our understanding of Freud’s Vienna and her rich data and analysis open many avenues for further research, particularly on the question of how the modern innovation of photography affected the development of art history and psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth century.... Bergstein provides a rich archive of information and analyses that future scholars will no doubt find indispensable. -- Maya Balakirsky Katz * Visual Resources *Bringing analytic understanding to bear on cultural production, Bergstein explores the impact of photography on the human dynamics of perception, memory, and desire. At the same time, Mirrors of Memory historicizes psychoanalysis, shedding light on the circumstances that positioned Freud to formulate a new understanding of mental life.... Bergstein highlights the rigor with which Freud approached his investigations of mental life. She also enriches our understanding with her careful demonstration of the ways in which 'photographic presence and surrogacy were deeply embedded in Freud's visual imagination.’. -- Anne Golomb Hoffmann * DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry Annual *
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Cornell University Press Insects and Other Arthropods of Tropical America
Book SynopsisWith their beautifully illustrated guide to insects and other arthropods, Paul E. Hanson and Kenji Nishida put the focus on readily observable insects that one encounters while strolling through a tropical forest in the Americas.Table of Contents1. Introduction to Arthropods 2. Small Orders 3. True Bugs and Their Kin 4. Beetles 5. Wasps, Bees, Ants 6. Moths and Butterflies 7. Flies and Their Kin 8. Other Arthropods
£26.99
Cornell University Press Corporate Wasteland
Book SynopsisDeindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past—the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures—has for...Trade Review"Corporate Wasteland is more than simply the best book on deindustrialization; it's a transnational road trip through the rust belt with everyone from Woody Guthrie to Walker Evans, Joseph Schumpeter to John Steinbeck along for the ride, pointing out the details, arguing about what happened, and digging into the rich complexity of truth itself. The transcendent photographs of rotting industrial hulks and the elegiac words of the workers sear with the intensity of the once red-hot blast furnaces, now long grown cold. This book is not a lament—it is an interrogation of the entire landscape." -- Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University, author of Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor"For the visitor, abandoned structures articulate in hushed eloquence how a town actually can have a broken heart? Corporate Wasteland is an exceptionally thoughtful treatment that reaffirms the malignant beauty and dignified legacy of these structures and communities." -- Mayor John K. Fetterman, Braddock, Pennsylvania
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Johns Hopkins University Press Images and Enterprise Technology and the American
Book SynopsisImages and Enterprise vividly portrays the emergence of cinematography in its relationship to traditional photography and reveals the growing importance of institutionalized research, as Eastman Kodak and the other American and European photographic materials manufacturers strove to develop commercially practical color photography.Trade ReviewA superb case study of the institutional response of American business to the coming of modern markets and modern technology. This book should be required reading for all historians concerned with the institutional development of the American economy and all economists interested in industrial organization and the theory of modern business enterprise. -- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Technology and Culture Reese V. Jenkins has ably and probably definitively captured the technical and business history of [the photographic] industry... Images and Enterprise is lavishly and cleverly illustrated with the pictures needed to understand the technology and enjoy the flavor of the enterprise. -- Carroll Pursell American Historical Review
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University of Nebraska Press Jon Lewis
Book SynopsisA masterpiece of social documentary, this work is at once the biography of a photographer, an expose of poverty and injustice, and a celebration of the human spirit.Trade Review“With characteristic erudition, historian Richard Steven Street brings to life the incredible work of Jon Lewis, one of the foremost labor and civil rights photographers of the twentieth century. This book simultaneously captures agricultural California’s most pressing political struggles and the vision of a major, if unrecognized, artist.”—Stephen Pitti, professor of history at Yale University and author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans“Jon Lewis’s magnificent photographs of the farmworker revolution in California evoke comparisons with the work of Dorothea Lange. They bend time past all forgetting to an era of struggle that stands on a par with Selma and Freedom Summer—the bitter fight to dignify Mexican and Filipino labor in the fields. Richard Street, who brought Lewis and his archive back into the light, provides a piercing account that honors both the brilliance of this photographer and the memory of a singular time and place.”—Richard A. Walker, professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of California AgribusinessTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Epicenter2. Memory3. Predecessors4. Obscurity5. Marine6. Ganz7. Cornucopia8. Steinbeck 9. Power10. Fanatics11. Flies12. Dispossessed13. Braceros14. Pancho15. Mordida16. Unions17. AWOC18. AFL-CIO19. Chávez20. Organizing21. Huelga!22. Delano23. Growers24. Poverty25. Welcome26. Slaves27. Friendships28. Photographers29. Witness30. Advocates31. Boycott32. Zoo33. Darkroom34. Routine35. Lessons36. Doubts37. Exhaustion38. Kennedy39. March40. Participating41. La Causa42. Blisters43. Sacrifice44. St. Mary’s45. Sacramento46. Alone47. Participant48. DiGiorgio49. Sweetheart50. Harvest51. Altar52. Fraud53. Prints54. Violence55 Chavarria56. Rallies57. Voting58. August59. People’s60. Departure61. Hock62. Giumarra63. School64. Fast65. Stranded66. Book67. Voice68. Film69. Contract70. Broke71. Redemption72. Ubiquitous73. Impact74. Decide75. PartingAcknowledgementsNotes
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University of Nebraska Press Horace Poolaw Photographer of American Indian
Book SynopsisA tour de force of art and cultural history based on the life and work of celebrated Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw. Trade Review“Smith has crafted a solid social history that helps us think beyond Edward S. Curtis’s nostalgic salvaging process. . . . This book usefully follows [Smith’s] methodology, continually engaging and explaining Poolaw’s doubled life, providing a sense of contemporary social pressure as well as long-standing tribal values.”—Katherine Hauser, Great Plains Quarterly "Horace Poolaw's photography provides an important historical look at Kiowa life in the early twentieth century because he captured daily life as it happened. Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity benefits from the ample inclusion of Poolaw photographs throughout."—Jared Eberle, Chronicles of Oklahoma“Horace Poolaw was a . . . talented photographer whose work has gone largely unnoticed by mainstream art and photographic historians. Laura Smith does an excellent job of placing Poolaw’s work within a historical and cultural context and makes a convincing argument that these photographs reflect a conscious effort by Poolaw to understand and communicate a shifting Native American identity.”—Todd Stewart, associate professor of art, technology, and culture at the University of Oklahoma “Poolaw’s photographs, and Smith’s narration of where they fit in the Kiowa story, impart a welcome perspective on Kiowa history and culture. Smith powerfully illustrates how, when viewed through the eyes of Poolaw, Kiowa people—like other Americans—are actively negotiating present and future identities in a rapidly globalizing world.”—Luke Eric Lassiter, author of The Power of Kiowa Song "Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Identity is a fascinating profile of the life and times of a photographer whose work has been largely overlooked by mainstream art and photographic historians."—Marilyn Gates, New York Journal of BooksTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Linda Poolaw Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Homeland 2. Family 3. History and Pageantry 4. Warbonnets 5. Postcards 6. Art Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press The Photograph A Strange Confined Space
Book SynopsisThis richly evocative study of photography emphasizes that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that the use of a photograph determines its meaning.Trade Review"This dense, subtle, provocative book considers the question of how photographs mean in relation to the uses made of them. Unlike most critics of photography, Price makes language a subject vital to her deliberations. . . . The book builds a complicated argument about the nature of meaning and about relations between word and image, image and viewer." -- Patricia Meyer Spacks * University of Virginia *"In this serious, densely textured meditation on photography (which is a study of meanings, value, and discourse as well), Price writes jargon-free prose full of wit, insight, and grace. Besides discussing photographs in their various settings, she studies the use of photographs in literary works by such writers as Proust, Lowell, Barthes, and Musil. . . . Price maintains that 'photographs without our appropriate descriptive words are deprived and weakened,' and she illuminates her idea of the photograph by enlarging on metaphors such as mask, language, and aura, the last a concept introduced by Walter Benjamin, one of the book's guiding figures. We learn much about the early practitioners of photography. (Price's analysis of Julia Margaret Cameron, whose work she studies alongside a painting by Rembrandt, is worth the price of the book.) And as an aesthetician, Price is interested in such questions as moral values (she disagrees with Sontag's condemnation of photography), authenticity, and how the mechanical aspects of the art condition the way we approach it." -- ChoiceTable of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Along Route 66
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University of Oklahoma Press Portrait of Route 66
Book SynopsisFor its mining of an invaluable and little-known photographic archive and depiction of high-quality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.
£26.96
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Views of Rome A Greek Reader
Book SynopsisWho were the ancient Romans? Views of Rome addresses this question by offering a collection of thirty-five annotated excerpts from Greek prose authors. As Adam Serfass explains in his introduction, these authors' characterizations of the Romans run the gamut from fellow Hellenes, civilizers, and peacemakers to barbarians, boors, and warmongers.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Oklahoma Winter Bird Atlas
Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated with colour photographs, maps, graphs, and tables, the Oklahoma Winter Bird Atlas offers ornithologists and amateur birders alike a wealth of easy-to-read information about the status of bird species in Oklahoma.
£34.16
University of Oklahoma Press Hardship Greed and Sorrow An Officers Photo
Book SynopsisOffering an important glimpse of the American Southwest in the mid-1860s, this book opens with a thoughtful foreword by Jennifer Nez Denetdale, who considers the varied and lingering effects that settlement, conquest, and nineteenth-century photography had on the Apaches and Navajos.Trade ReviewThis compelling compilation of photographs is being published 150 years after they were put together as a souvenir album by an unknown military officer stationed in New Mexico Territory in the aftermath of the Civil War. Reproducing the souvenir album in its entirety, the book contains what may be the earliest existing photographs of Navajo Indians, along with both studio and field images of U.S. Army officers, Mexican politicians, and various sites throughout New Mexico."" - Cowboys and Indians, Art and Hearth Books
£19.76
Northwestern University Press Traces of the Unseen Volume 43
Book SynopsisProvides a richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding the processes of modernization in turn-of-the-century Brazil and the Amazon.Trade Review“Traces of the Unseen is an innovative study on the role of photography in revealing the violent underside of modernization in Brazil. Through a careful analysis of visual records about key events in the country’s history—the Canudos massacre, the Amazonian rubber boom and its aftermath—the author shows how photographers including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roger Casement, and Mário de Andrade drew attention to forgotten communities, victims of Brazil’s stride toward progress. A must-read for those interested in the iconography of Brazilian modernity.” —Patricia Vieira, author of States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian CultureTable of Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter 1 - Corpse: The Nation in a Decomposing Portrait Chapter 2 - Scars: Humanitarianism and the Colonial Point of View Chapter 3 - Debris: The Indigenous Past in an Ethnographer’s Dream Chapter 4 - Shadows: The Amazonian Worker and the Modernist Traveler Epilogue: Fire Bibliography Notes Index
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Unshuttered
Book SynopsisAn award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century. Unshuttered: Poems is the vessel for poetic personae and a selection of antique photographs of Black Americans, which Patricia Smith has collected over the course of twenty years.Trade Review“Her work is always timely, powerful, necessary, and at turns heartbreaking.” —Natasha Trethewey, author of Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir “Patricia Smith is a masterful poet, performer, and pundit. And while her chosen field is the form and grace of language, her gift to the world that orbits the Black experience is truth.” —Walter Mosley, author of The Awkward Black Man: Stories“Over the course of her career, Patricia Smith has a reputation for tackling complicated ideas, combining humor and tragedy, and bridging the gap between spoken word and lyrical prose.” —Alex Dueben, The Millions “A great stage performer and a former national slam poetry champion, Smith is also a performer on the page.” —John S. O’Connor, Harvard Review “Smith has a way of shining light into the darkness with a necessary and timely tongue of fire, challenging readers to open their eyes and face the truth.” —Kathryn de Lancellotti, The Bind “This is an affecting, lyrical work of empathy and imagination complemented by stunning images.” —starred review, Publishers Weekly
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Roland Barthes on Photography
Book SynopsisNancy Shawcross places Barthes' thought on photography in the context of his developing ideas about semiology, tracking origins, rejections and departures. She shows Barthes' affinities with and distinction from, other theorists of photography.
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Rutgers University Press On Racial Icons Blackness and the Public
Book SynopsisIn On Racial Icons, Nicole R. Fleetwood focuses a sustained look on photography in documenting black public life, exploring the ways in which iconic images function as celebrations of national and racial progress at times or as a gauge of collective racial wounds in moments of crisis. Trade Review"Nicole Fleetwood’s astute study makes transparent the power of images and strengthens our understanding as to how significant black figures transformed our imaginary as a fixed construction based on media perceptions. An impressive read!" -- Deborah Willis * New York University *Nicole R. Fleetwood calls her latest book "an act of love." But readers may end up referring to it as tough love as Fleetwoodoffers a searing investigation into America's fixation on black images from President Obama to a living legend of tennis, Serena Williams. With the author's definition of 'racial icons' as "an idolized image or figure, that is simultaneously shrouded in the legacies of U.S. racism and its devaluing of black life," the book aims to unpack the multiple implications of black images both seen and unseen. < Read the nterview at: http://huff.to/1hvYVwM > -- Peter 'Souleo' Wright * Huffington Post *"With On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination, Nicole Fleetwood examines the emotional work and cultural meanings of black icons especially the place of veneration, condescension, celebrity, and commodification in the production of photographic images of Barack Obama, Diana Ross, Trayvon Martin, Serena Williams, and LeBron James. Accessible and concise, yet sensitive and insightful, Fleetwood invites us to dwell in the spaces where black iconic images circulate, to feel the hopes they gather, to understand the conflicts they engender, and above all to appreciate the implications they suggest for how we see ourselves." -- Herman Gray * University of California, Santa Cruz *“An innovative and dynamic study of blackness, iconicity, and visual culture. It is the conceptual arc of the book –an accruing examination of the meanings of the racial icon—that makes this study so effective. Fleetwood’s focus of visual culture as public culture makes On Racial Icons an extraordinary resource for the interdisciplinary teaching and study of African American studies, American studies, visual culture studies, and media studies.” * ALH Review *Nicole R. Fleetwood calls her latest book "an act of love." But readers may end up referring to it as tough love as Fleetwoodoffers a searing investigation into America's fixation on black images from President Obama to a living legend of tennis, Serena Williams. With the author's definition of 'racial icons' as "an idolized image or figure, that is simultaneously shrouded in the legacies of U.S. racism and its devaluing of black life," the book aims to unpack the multiple implications of black images both seen and unseen. < Read the nterview at: http://huff.to/1hvYVwM > -- Peter 'Souleo' Wright * Huffington Post *"Nicole Fleetwood’s astute study makes transparent the power of images and strengthens our understanding as to how significant black figures transformed our imaginary as a fixed construction based on media perceptions. An impressive read!" -- Deborah Willis * New York University *"With On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination, Nicole Fleetwood examines the emotional work and cultural meanings of black icons especially the place of veneration, condescension, celebrity, and commodification in the production of photographic images of Barack Obama, Diana Ross, Trayvon Martin, Serena Williams, and LeBron James. Accessible and concise, yet sensitive and insightful, Fleetwood invites us to dwell in the spaces where black iconic images circulate, to feel the hopes they gather, to understand the conflicts they engender, and above all to appreciate the implications they suggest for how we see ourselves." -- Herman Gray * University of California, Santa Cruz *An innovative and dynamic study of blackness, iconicity, and visual culture. It is the conceptual arc of the book –an accruing examination of the meanings of the racial icon—that makes this study so effective. Fleetwood’s focus of visual culture as public culture makes On Racial Icons an extraordinary resource for the interdisciplinary teaching and study of African American studies, American studies, visual culture studies, and media studies. * ALH Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: “I Am Trayvon Martin”: The Boy who Became an Icon Chapter Two: Democracy’s Promise: The Black Political Leader as Icon Chapter Three: Giving Face: Diana Ross and the Black Celebrity as Icon Chapter Four: The Black Athlete: Racial Precarity and the American Sports Icon Coda Index About the Author
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Rutgers University Press The Raritan River Our Landscape Our Legacy
Book SynopsisOn the banks of the old Raritan, environmental expert Judy Shaw gives readers a tour of the remarkable river, a major waterway 90 miles long, with 2,000 miles of tributary streams and brooks that twists and turns from its source in Morris County, down to the Raritan Bay. It is the longest river that is completely within New Jersey, includes the state’s largest contiguous stretch of wildlife habitat, and runs through one of the most populated areas of the United States.The Raritan River shows New Jersey for what it is—home to some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of an amazing region where protected environments coexist with land left in ruins by rampant industrialization and where the reckless pursuit of commerce scarred the lands along its banks. Shaw argues that as we work to protect this historically wooded and agricultural land from further development, we need to replace our outmodTrade Review"Judy Shaw focuses on the incredible array of dedicated individuals and organizations who work to restore the Queen of Rivers to its former grandeur. As someone who canoed the Raritan in my youth, and who has lived along its banks, I salute the unsung heroes featured here, as well as the vibrant partnerships that serve as a model for citizens everywhere who would save and enjoy their own rivers.” -- Michael Catania * Executive Director, Duke Farms *Table of ContentsForeword by Michael R. Greenberg Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms Artist Gallery I Introduction: The Tapestry of Our Connections Part One: Defining Our Place and Our Role Chapter 1 The Headwaters: The North Branch and the South Branch Chapter 2 The Central Region: The Millstone Watershed Chapter 3 The Main Stem and Raritan Bay Connecting Our Environment to Our World (Web Section) Part Two: Connecting Our Communities Chapter 4 Restoring and Protecting Our Landscape Chapter 5 Reconnecting with the River Chapter 6 Where Do We Go from Here? Artist Gallery II Appendix A: Photographers and Artists Appendix B: Municipalities in the Watershed by County Appendix C: Internet Resources Notes Sources Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Beautiful Terrible Ruins Detroit and the Anxiety
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City; not only that, she rebuffs the blame and shame that have traditionally been directed at the Detroit citizenry, and redirects our attention to the corporations and bureaucrats who have abandoned it. The result is a work that seems to invigorate a depressed debate and ask timely questions about social values in America and the world it influences." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"'The borders between art, media, advertising, and popular culture have become increasingly permeable,' Apel writes, 'as visual imagery easily ranges across these formats and as people produce their own imagery on websites and social media.' And the aestheticized ruination of Detroit feeds into a more widespread (even global) 'anxiety of decline' expressed in post-apocalyptic videogame scenarios, survivalist television programs, zombie movies, and so on ... Much of the imagery analyzed in Beautiful Terrible Ruins seems to play right along with that social vision. The nicely composed photographs of crumbling buildings are usually empty of any human presence, while horror movies fill their urban landscapes with the hungry undead - the shape of dreaded things to come." -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *"Wayne State prof looks behind the fascination of Detroit's ruins: the new pornographers" by Lee DeVitoRead the full interview (http://bit.ly/1FNfkIi) * Detroit Metro Times *"Bringing her usual due diligence to bear, Apel digs deep, tracing the roots historically, culturally, and politically of the West's fascination with ruination and its import for today ... Essential reading." * Infinite Mile *"What is refreshing about Apel's approach is that her analysis reaches far beyond the spectacle of abandonment and decay to address the forces behind urban decline. In the process, she delivers a powerful critique of the role of corporate disinvestment and neoliberal globalization in ruining cities." * Journal of American Studies *"Apel again captivates with her incisive reading of cultural production." * The Journal of American History *"Dora Apel's multi-layered, thought-provoking account of the decline of Detroit and our visual perception of that decline uses Detroit as a case study to explore the anxiety brought by the repeated and continual emphasis on ruin imagery. An eloquent examination of the aesthetics of decay, the charismatic appeal of both the beautiful and the repulsive, drives the book." * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"A provocative and challenging book … Recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty." * CHOICE *"Writing against the genre of ruin porn, Dora Apel's wonderful Beautiful Terrible Ruins reveals the way decay is inbuilt into capitalism at its creation. An excellent and penetrating study." -- Greg Grandin * author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City *"In her thoughtful and riveting take on the decline of Detroit, Dora Apel makes the case that 'ruin porn' images of urban decay say less about a specific city than about the grinding forces of globalism and political abandonment." -- Scott Martelle * author of Detroit: A Biography *"In the early twentieth century, Detroit was defined by Charles Sheeler's photos of the River Rouge plant and Diego Rivera's murals of work. Today, the hulking ruins of old industrial buildings and empty skyscrapers symbolize the city. In this provocative analysis, informed by urban geography, political economy, and art history, Dora Apel reflects on what images of ruined Detroit teach us about the city, popular culture, and American capitalism." -- Thomas J. Sugrue * The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit *"Apel mounts a scathing critique of the dominant narrative [of Detroit in Beautiful Terrible Ruins]." * International Sociology Reviews *"Beautiful Terrible Ruins is a fascinating book. Apel makes a powerful statement about how we need to look more closely at our own ma- terial culture, especially as it is expressed in visual imagery and in the built environment itself in order to better interpret our history. As Apel aptly com- ments, 'to look at Detroit’s beautiful terrible ruins and talk about its decline is talk about everything that is wrong with global capitalism today.'” * Middle West Review *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modernity in Ruins1 Ruin Terrors and Pleasures2 Fear and Longing in Detroit3 Urban Exploration: Beauty in Decay4 Detroit Ruin Images: Where Are the People?5 Looking for Signs of Resurrection6 Surviving in the Post-Apocalyptic LandscapeConclusion: Your Town TomorrowNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Virginia Press Irish Ecomedia
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University of Virginia Press Irish Ecomedia
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