Photography and photographs Books
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The People of the Book and the Camera
Book SynopsisOffers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors. Exploring the use of photography - both as a textual element and through the inclusion of actual images - Amihay shows how the presence of visual elements in a textual work of fiction has a powerful subversive function.
£56.95
University of Minnesota Press Photography Cinema Memory
Book SynopsisCinema and photography are both intimately associated with time-cinema with timein passing, the photograph with the lost moment. In Photography, Cinema, Memory , Damian Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming into being.
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves The Misfits and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments, Introduction: A Measure of Time, 1. Absorption and the Method: The Iconography of Method Acting, 2. The Star Brought Down to Earth: The Actor and Postwar Photography, 3. Being Private in Public: Marilyn Monroe’s Performance of Intimacy, 4. Acting as Labor: Picturing The Misfits, 5. “Those Who Wait”: The Misfits and Late Hollywood Style, 6. Playing with Time: The Magnum Photographs as Historical Record, Notes, Index
£17.99
University of Minnesota Press Everyone Had Cameras
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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
University of Minnesota Press Developing Animals Wildlife and Early American
Book SynopsisHow the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals.Trade Review"In seeking to further our understanding of animal representations, Matthew Brower poses exactly the right question by asking not why we look at animals but how we look at them. Reframing the abundant and varied imagery of "animals in nature" in early American photography, he ably reveals how selective the rhetoric and vision of wildlife photography has now become. Developing Animals will have a real impact on contemporary debates about the representation of animals." —Steve Baker, author of Picturing the Beast"Matthew Brower’s historical survey is a subtle and complex analysis of how wildlife photography, as a particular kind of contact between human and animal, has been central to our seeing and thinking about animals. This is an indispensable contribution to contemporary work on animals, vision, and the philosophy of animal representation." —Jonathan Burt, author of Animals in FilmTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: Capturing Animals 1. A Red Herring: The Animal Body, Representation, and Historicity 2. Camera Hunting in America 3. The Photographic Blind 4. The Appearance of Animals: Abbott Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt, and Concealing-Coloration Conclusion: Developing Animals Notes Index
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Diane Arbuss 1960s
Book SynopsisTrade Review"We may think we know everything about Diane Arbus just from looking at her photographs, but Frederick Gross has challenged the usual easy readings of Arbus as a gimlet eyed ironist by exploring the artist's philosophical, journalistic and political contexts in depth, and offering many surprising insights into her multifaceted motives and carefully arrived at methods. One comes away with a much enhanced appreciation of the complexity of Arbus's vision and the heroic dimensions of her empathetic activism. Such a study is especially important now because the artist's enormous cultural influence tends to obscure accurate hindsight into her development and process." —Glenn O’Brien"Gross skillfully discusses a range of subjects (e.g., documentary photography, portraiture, the body, the social climate) and how they relate to Arbus and her work. Highly recommended for all photography and art collections as well as for photography enthusiasts." —Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface: “Sylvia Plath with a Camera”Introduction: Between Intention and Effect1. Documentary Photography and the Positivist Social Gallery2. Portraits, Pastiche, and Magazine Work3. The Body in the 1960s4. Madness, Disability, and the “Untitled” Series5. The Social Panorama in ContextRevelations: Darkness and Illumination
£17.99
University of Minnesota Press Agitating Images
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The archival turn has had a sobering effect on recent attempts to grapple with the histories of photography but for the best studies––like Craig Campbell’s––the archive itself is part of the historical problem: its internal mechanisms, its effects of power, its production of truth and its techniques of forgetting and erasure––all effects that, as Campbell shows in this highly original work of excavation and disruption, can never be entirely secured against the arbitrariness and disfunction of the archival machine and the troubling liability of archival photographs to slip and slide out of place." —John Tagg, Binghamton University"Pathbreaking, provocative, and illuminating."—CHOICE"[An] interesting and well-written study."—American Historical Review"Campbell’s project is an unabashedly original contribution to the intersecting fields of anthropology, media theory, and Russian/Soviet history, providing us with a stimulating and deep reevaluation of each field as well as the very status of the image itself."—Slavic and East European JournalTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: In the Archives of the Cultural BaseThe Years Are Like CenturiesDangerous CommunicationsConclusion: Ethics of Presence and the (De)generative ImageNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
University of Minnesota Press Singular Images Failed Copies
Book SynopsisVered Maimon shows that the perception of the photographic image in early nineteenth-century England was symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological framework that had informed philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic thought for two centuries.Trade Review"Singular Images, Failed Copies offers a significant contribution to the scholarship on William Henry Fox Talbot and the scientific and philosophical climate in which he produced his photographs."—Frederick Gross, Savannah College of Art and Design "A striking new analysis of William Henry Fox Talbot’s famous ‘pencil of nature’ botanical photos as diagram rather than index, Singular Images, Failed Copies argues against familiar ideas of the photograph in relation to objectivity or impersonality. Vered Maimon revisits from a fresh angle questions about photography and its role in art, science, and society."—John Rajchman, Columbia University"Singualar Images, Failed Copies will take its rightful place as an important addition to the literature on both the history of early photography. . . and the espistemological changes of the early years of the nineteenth century."—Leonardo ReviewsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Photographic ImaginationPart I 1. Method: The Engine of Knowledge2. Imagination: The Art of DiscoveryPart II3. Time: Singular Images, Failed Copies4. History: Displaced Origins and The Pencil of NatureAcknowledgmentsAppendixesNotesIndex
£21.59
Watson-Guptill Publications Fast Track Photographer Revised and Expanded
Book SynopsisBecome the professional photographer you were meant to be. Competition in the photography industry has never been fiercer. But in this empowering guide, acclaimed photographer and speaker Dane Sanders reveals that the key to success is to stop worrying about what everyone else is doing and start focusing on your most powerful resource: you. Discover how to: · Use your unique skills and talents to carve out a niche all your own. · Avoid the mistakes most photographers make.· Choose a business style that fits the way you want to spend your time—and live your life. Fast Track Photographer is not just another how-to book—it’s an entirely fresh way of thinking about your business, whether you’re just starting out, or an industry veteran wondering why all y
£13.59
LUP - University of Georgia Press Folk Visions and Voices
Book SynopsisSampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales and reminiscences.Trade Review“The Rosenbaums have made a splendid contribution to our understanding of both southern culture and history.” - Georgia Historical Quarterly“This book shows its editor in the roles of interviewer, interpreter of social-scientific data, annotator, discographer, and artist; he plays them all with great success. From the beginning of his artistic career, Rosenbaum has specialized in American folklife scenes. These paintings, depicting the lives and aspirations of the informants, give the collection an expressiveness we hardly meet in folksong books.” - Ethnomusicology
£33.98
Ohio University Press Ambivalent
Book SynopsisGoing beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photographyand with visibility more generallyin ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa.As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financingTrade Review“Ambivalent develops a powerful and coherent set of arguments about the inherent ambiguities of photographs and photographic interpretations, in both colonial and post-colonial settings. These arguments are especially impressive in the ways in which they both draw on ‘classic’ photographic theory and engage with contemporary debates in the field of African visual studies, unsettling received wisdoms about African histories, governance, and ‘modern’ personhood.”“Scholars interested in further understanding the ways in which photography can be used as a historical source will be inspired and motivated by the diversity of approaches within this book. While this volume is not necessarily a handbook for beginning scholars, its significance, nonetheless, lies in its critical approach and in the new questions it raises regarding the theorization of visibility, photography, and African History.” * H/Soz/Kult *
£62.90
Ohio University Press Ambivalent
Book SynopsisAmbivalent makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.Trade Review“Ambivalent develops a powerful and coherent set of arguments about the inherent ambiguities of photographs and photographic interpretations, in both colonial and post-colonial settings. These arguments are especially impressive in the ways in which they both draw on ‘classic’ photographic theory and engage with contemporary debates in the field of African visual studies, unsettling received wisdoms about African histories, governance, and ‘modern’ personhood.”“Scholars interested in further understanding the ways in which photography can be used as a historical source will be inspired and motivated by the diversity of approaches within this book. While this volume is not necessarily a handbook for beginning scholars, its significance, nonetheless, lies in its critical approach and in the new questions it raises regarding the theorization of visibility, photography, and African History.” * H/Soz/Kult *
£26.09
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 Still Moving
Book SynopsisExplores the boundary between cinema and photography. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments, this book addresses issues of indexicality, medium specificity, and hybridity as they examine how cinema and photography have developed and defined themselves.Trade Review“Still Moving engages new debate in a field central and crucial to cinema, media, and cultural studies. The collection explores the nature of photography and cinema both before and after the advent of digital media. As a result, some stunning work—on acceleration and simulation, on filming and editing in photographic and electronic media, on the fortunes of memory and oblivion, and on the dialogue and conflict of technologies—emerges from the tension of still and moving images.”—Tom Conley, author of Cartographic Cinema“Still Moving maps out various interesting directions, trends, and tendencies inspired by the fact that moving-image media are losing their coherence, spinning out and recombining in interesting ways. In doing so, it opens up a number of fresh paths for examining what film and photography, as well as cinema studies and art history, will become. It will be widely read and discussed in the worlds of art and film, the classroom, the museum, and the gallery.”—D. N. Rodowick, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Visual Studies, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Karen Beckman and Jean Ma 1 One. Beyond Referentiality 1. What's the Point of an Index? or, Faking Photographs / Tom Gunning 23 2. "The Forgotten Image between Two Shots": Photos, Photograms, and the Essayistic / Timothy Corrigan 41 3. Structural Film: Noise / Juan A. Suárez 62 Two. Nation, Memory, History 4. An Essay on Calendar / Atom Egoyan 93 5. Photography's Absent Times / Jean Ma 98 6. The Idea of Still / Rececca Baron, interviewed by Janet Sarbanes 119 7. Crash Aesthetics: Amores Perros and the Dream of Cinematic Mobility / Karen Beckman 134 8. Surplus Memories: From the Slide Show to the Digital Bulletin Board to Jim Mendiola's Speeder Kills / Rita Gonzalez 158 Three. Working Between Media 9. Photography's Expanded Field / George Baker 175 10. Weekend Campus / Nancy Davenport 189 11. Aleph Beat: Wallace Berman between Photography and Film / Louis Kaplan 196 12. Mental Images: The Dramatization of Psychological Disturbance / Zoe Beloff 226 13. Concerning "the Photographic" / Raymond Bellour 253 References 277 Contributors 293 Index 297
£25.19
Duke University Press Refracted Visions
Book SynopsisA generously illustrated ethnography arguing that popular photographic practices have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java.Trade Review“This is a heavy book to hold in one’s hands, printed on glossy paper, with hundreds of photographs, for a really good price, an album of modern Indonesian history, from the 1900s to 2000s; and, as one turns the pages, first quickly and then increasingly slowly, the book is full of wonderful writing. . . . Strassler’s book is extraordinary.” - Rudolf Mrázek, Journal of Asian Studies“Refracted Visions is an innovative and inspiring book because it demonstrates eloquently how people in urban Java started to participatein national modernity through photography. . . . [T]his highly original and well written book, with no fewer than 127 telling illustrations, is a landmark in the anthropology of visuality. . . . Refracted Visions is, in my view, a strong candidate to win prestigious academic prizes.” - Henk Schulte Nordholt, Asian Studies Review“In conclusion, the main contribution of Refracted Visions lies in its conceptualization of popular photographs as exceeding the private domain and engaging with collective aspirations and affiliations in ways that both support and subvert them. This point should be taken as a caution against the common display of photographs of late colonial and early postcolonial Asia to evoke nostalgia for a depoliticized, aestheticized past that never was.” - Maurizio Peleggi, Pacific Affairs“. . . [N]ot only an in-depth study of ethnic Chinese in Indonesian photographic history, but a beautifully written historical study of visuality, representation and the cultural significance of popular photography in the context of colonial and post-colonial Java.” - Charlotte Setijadi-Dunn, Inside Indonesia“Refracted Visions is a tour de force. Karen Strassler has a sophisticated grasp of contemporary theories of representation in both anthropology and photography studies, a deep and carefully attentive ethnographic eye, and a refined aesthetic sensibility. She limns the boundary between new historicist cultural studies and old fashioned anthropology with uncommon grace.”—Rosalind C. Morris, editor of Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia“Refracted Visions is a genuinely marvelous work which merits reading and rereading.”—John Pemberton, author of On the Subject of “Java”“Refracted Visions is a truly brilliant piece of work, beautifully written and characterized by a profound learning and engagement with Indonesian ethnography and a range of debates around visuality and representation. It will be hailed as a classic.”—Christopher Pinney, author of The Coming of Photography in India“. . . [N]ot only an in-depth study of ethnic Chinese in Indonesian photographic history, but a beautifully written historical study of visuality, representation and the cultural significance of popular photography in the context of colonial and post-colonial Java.” -- Charlotte Setijadi-Dunn * Inside Indonesia *“Refracted Visions is an innovative and inspiring book because it demonstrates eloquently how people in urban Java started to participatein national modernity through photography. . . . [T]his highly original and well written book, with no fewer than 127 telling illustrations, is a landmark in the anthropology of visuality. . . . Refracted Visions is, in my view, a strong candidate to win prestigious academic prizes.” -- Henk Schulte Nordholt * Asian Studies Review *“In conclusion, the main contribution of Refracted Visions lies in its conceptualization of popular photographs as exceeding the private domain and engaging with collective aspirations and affiliations in ways that both support and subvert them. This point should be taken as a caution against the common display of photographs of late colonial and early postcolonial Asia to evoke nostalgia for a depoliticized, aestheticized past that never was.” -- Maurizio Peleggi * Pacific Affairs *“This is a heavy book to hold in one’s hands, printed on glossy paper, with hundreds of photographs, for a really good price, an album of modern Indonesian history, from the 1900s to 2000s; and, as one turns the pages, first quickly and then increasingly slowly, the book is full of wonderful writing. . . . Strassler’s book is extraordinary.” -- Rudolf Mrázek * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Note on Orthography and Psedudonyms xxi Introduction: Popular Photography and Indonesian National Modernity 1 1. Amateur Visions 29 2. Landscapes of the Imagination 73 3. Identifying Citizens 123 4. Family Documentation 165 5. Witnessing History 207 6. Revelatory Signs 251 Epilogue: Beyond the Paper Trace 295 Notes 301 Bibliography 345 Index 363
£31.50
Duke University Press The Camera as Historian
Book SynopsisPhotographic historian Edwards looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages, and other local features. Edwards sees this movement as a form of popular history.Trade Review"The Camera as Historian offers groundbreaking insights into the entangled relations of photography and history, the recording impulse in modern British history, the complex links between visual practices and the historical imagination, and the intellectual and cultural traditions that frame representations of the past. It is significant as the first in-depth look at the fascinating and important work of the British survey movement: its participants, driving impulses, economies, audiences, values, and successes and failures. The book is made all the more important by Elizabeth Edwards's insistence on attention to the ways that photographs were produced and translated, and her demonstration of a mode of historical interpretation that not only links critical theory and archival practice, but illustrates their inseparability."—Jennifer Tucker, author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science"In this magnificent study, Elizabeth Edwards approaches the photographic survey movement in England above all as a practice: a relation between photographers, photographic technologies, photographs, and the material traces of the past in landscapes. This practice, as Edwards shows in rich detail, was extensive, amateur, public, local, and reflexive. With its empirical depth and conceptual reach, this book enhances immensely our understanding of the mediation of both history and geography by photography."—Gillian Rose, author of Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, the Public and the Politics of Sentiment“The The Camera as Historian provides a dense amount of information about the photographic survey movement, as well as aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Britain that shaped the survey movement. . . . But the content and ideas are interesting and provide an original perspective, making any extra effort in the read a tremendously worthwhile venture.” -- Mary Desjarlais * Photogram *“The Camera as Historian is unquestionably a major work of the new photographic history. As I have indicated it is now the benchmark study of mass photographic practice; it is inventively conceived, meticulously researched, and full of new ways of thinking about photography, history, and many other things.” -- Steve Edwards * Oxford Art Journal *“[A] fascinating and remarkable new book. . . . It is also a pleasure to use, being beautifully produced, with (as would be expected) a wonderful collection of photographs, magnificently reproduced—and. . . it is outstandingly good value.” -- Alan Crosby * Local Historian *“Probably because of the scope, British survey photography has lacked extensive studies, so this thoughtful analysis by Edwards of a complex set of practices and narratives is welcome. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above.” -- S. Spencer * Choice *“This is a great book on a great subject by a great author (and, yes, by a great publisher as well, for the amount and quality of the often never published images in this well designed and impressive volume is exemplary). . . . If good history is a dialogue between past, present and future, then The Camera as History is best history.” -- Jan Baetens * Leonardo Reviews *”This is the only comprehensive monograph on the survey movement, for which Edwards has identified 73 surveys, or regional bodies of work that were focused on particular towns, counties, and cities. Her analysis of the pictures is commendable as she describes the ‘historical imagination’ that these amateur photographers articulated through the surveys. . . . Serious researchers on this topic will appreciate the thorough work offered here, which is well documented in notes and appendixes.” -- Eric Linderman * Library Journal *“Essential and exciting reading for anyone interested in the visual culture of this period. Edwards’s achievement is to make the activities of one group—or linked groups—of people speak to the nation’s sense of itself and of how its physical character should be preserved and remembered. No less important is the way in which she makes us think about how photography may best be understood as history and what its responsibilities may be.” -- Kate Flint * Journal of British Studies *“Building on her groundbreaking work on anthropological photography, The Camera as Historian establishes Edwards as a role model in the field of photographic history. Addressing both the concerns of theory and the riches of the archive, Edwards exposes the foibles of these Edwardian amateurs without any bad-faith assumption of chauvinism. Adorned with over a hundred illustrations and a useful bibliography, scholars and graduate students in the fields of photography, visual culture, social, and cultural history will receive multiple dividends from reading and discussing this book.” -- Nicole Hudgins * Journal of Social History *“Edwards demonstrates a true mastery over her material and an adept use of critical theory, such that the book remains wholly engaging. The Camera as Historian positions Edwards as anexemplar in the writing of history and ethnography within the fields of photography and visualculture. With over one hundred illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography of primary andsecondary sources, this book will surely remain a useful reference on British survey photography and a model historiography of both British history and photography.” -- Taylor J. Acosta * Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide *"I am Australian, and thus very distant in space and experience from these landscapes — but just holding and looking through Edwards’s beautiful book fills me with nostalgia and longing for a landscape I have never known.... Erudite and nuanced, this rich and suggestive book raises many issues and points to further work." -- Jane Lydon * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. "Sacred Monuments of the Nation's Growth and Hope": Amateur Photography and Imagining the Past 1 2. "A Credit to Yourself and Your Country": Amateur Photographers and the Survey and Record Movement 31 3. Unblushing Realism: Practices of Evidence, Style, and Arachive 79 4. "To Be a Source of Pride": Local Histories and National Identities 123 5. "Doomed and Threatened": Photography, Disappearance, and Survival 163 6. "To Quicken the Instincts": Photographs 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogureas Public History 209 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogue 243 Appendix 259 Illustrations 269 Notes 273 Bibliography 305 Index 321
£85.50
Duke University Press The Echo of Things
Book SynopsisThe Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands and a provocative inquiry into our own understandings of photography.Trade Review"The Echo of Things is a very fine book based on Christopher Wright's deep understanding of photographic technologies and artifacts and the lives of those artifacts in a specific milieu. Evoking the diverse uses and valuations of images among Solomon Islanders during the 1990s and 2000s, it is classical ethnography in the best sense; it is a dedicated study in which the locals do a lot of the talking."—Nicholas Thomas, author of In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories"Christopher Wright argues persuasively that photography is thought of in Roviana (Solomon Islands) as a kind of echo, a trace that physically conflates image and sound in reproducing its object. He attends carefully to Roviana perspectives and practices yet deftly locates them in the context of the global theorization of photography and its many vernacular uses. Drawing on richly detailed ethnography, he uses analysis of one society's response to the medium to elucidate important debates across anthropology and photography more broadly."—Jane Lydon, author of Eye Contact: Photographing Indigeneous Australians"Echoes of history figured in light and shade across the colonial divide, this precise yet loving account of a non-Western visual culture teaches me once again how little I see but how much Christopher Wright can show about the startling possibilities within those limitations."—Michael Taussig, Columbia University"A highly valuable contribution to the study of vernacular photography." -- Gilles de Rapper * Anthropological Notebooks *“[S]cholars have not undertaken the book-length analysis of a single island or a specific historical period that Wright attempts. This makes The Echo of Things an important contribution to the field of the history of photography in the Pacific. It is a carefully argued and compelling read, and hopefully a benchmark study to be replicated by future researchers as well as curators and archivists in the islands.” -- Max Quanchi * CAA Reviews *“Anyone who has lived or worked in island societies like those in this book – the Western Solomon Islands – will delight in the wide variety of stories that lay bare the social life of photographs in these communities.” -- Geoffrey M. White * Oceania *“This is a careful, sensitive ethnography that contains compelling portraits of people of Roviana for whom I hope the book is an important contribution…. This is… a book that very successfully argues for photographs as a means of allowing for and understanding that a single uncontested history is impossible and, like Faletau’s battered briefcase, can contain the possibility of multiple histories.” -- Andrea Low * Pacific Affairs *“[T]his book is evidence—if evidence was needed—of the sheer diversity and vibrancy of the ethnographic mode of research and writing and its ability to adapt, change and incorporate elements from its and others’ histories, while at the same time acknowledging and incorporating—rather than defensively shielding against— the insights of cultural theory and anthropology’s post–Writing Culture experiments with writing. As it succeeds in doing just that, this is a wholly welcome contribution to an ongoing debate, and it remains a productive provocation for future work in the field.” -- Peter Kilroy * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue 1 1. Tie Vaka—The Men of the Boat 19 2. "A Devil's Engine" 59 3. Photographic Resurrection 111 4. Histories 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 195 References 205 Index 217
£95.20
Duke University Press The Echo of Things
Book SynopsisThe Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands and a provocative inquiry into our own understandings of photography.Trade Review"The Echo of Things is a very fine book based on Christopher Wright's deep understanding of photographic technologies and artifacts and the lives of those artifacts in a specific milieu. Evoking the diverse uses and valuations of images among Solomon Islanders during the 1990s and 2000s, it is classical ethnography in the best sense; it is a dedicated study in which the locals do a lot of the talking."—Nicholas Thomas, author of In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories"Christopher Wright argues persuasively that photography is thought of in Roviana (Solomon Islands) as a kind of echo, a trace that physically conflates image and sound in reproducing its object. He attends carefully to Roviana perspectives and practices yet deftly locates them in the context of the global theorization of photography and its many vernacular uses. Drawing on richly detailed ethnography, he uses analysis of one society's response to the medium to elucidate important debates across anthropology and photography more broadly."—Jane Lydon, author of Eye Contact: Photographing Indigeneous Australians"Echoes of history figured in light and shade across the colonial divide, this precise yet loving account of a non-Western visual culture teaches me once again how little I see but how much Christopher Wright can show about the startling possibilities within those limitations."—Michael Taussig, Columbia University"A highly valuable contribution to the study of vernacular photography." -- Gilles de Rapper * Anthropological Notebooks *“[S]cholars have not undertaken the book-length analysis of a single island or a specific historical period that Wright attempts. This makes The Echo of Things an important contribution to the field of the history of photography in the Pacific. It is a carefully argued and compelling read, and hopefully a benchmark study to be replicated by future researchers as well as curators and archivists in the islands.” -- Max Quanchi * CAA Reviews *“Anyone who has lived or worked in island societies like those in this book – the Western Solomon Islands – will delight in the wide variety of stories that lay bare the social life of photographs in these communities.” -- Geoffrey M. White * Oceania *“This is a careful, sensitive ethnography that contains compelling portraits of people of Roviana for whom I hope the book is an important contribution…. This is… a book that very successfully argues for photographs as a means of allowing for and understanding that a single uncontested history is impossible and, like Faletau’s battered briefcase, can contain the possibility of multiple histories.” -- Andrea Low * Pacific Affairs *“[T]his book is evidence—if evidence was needed—of the sheer diversity and vibrancy of the ethnographic mode of research and writing and its ability to adapt, change and incorporate elements from its and others’ histories, while at the same time acknowledging and incorporating—rather than defensively shielding against— the insights of cultural theory and anthropology’s post–Writing Culture experiments with writing. As it succeeds in doing just that, this is a wholly welcome contribution to an ongoing debate, and it remains a productive provocation for future work in the field.” -- Peter Kilroy * Cultural Critique *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue 1 1. Tie Vaka—The Men of the Boat 19 2. "A Devil's Engine" 59 3. Photographic Resurrection 111 4. Histories 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 195 References 205 Index 217
£24.29
Duke University Press Shine
Book SynopsisArt historian Krista Thompson analyzes photographic practices in the Caribbean and the United States to show how African diasporic youth use the process of creating images to represent themselves in the public sphere and to communicate with other Afro-diasporic communities.Trade Review"Thompson’s study of light is nuanced and generative. . . . the structure of each section encourages the reader to embrace a protean reading practice, one that resists firmly embracing a single understanding of light, and of its affects and effects. The result is a powerful project that stands to impact multiple fields, while at the same time challenging how we see and understand black visual practices. In the end, Shine succeeds in reconstituting the very terms of photography and visual technology and their role in the diaspora." -- Autumn Marie Womack * SX Salon *"Shine provides important illumination; it shows that nonelite culture holds up to serious academic scrutiny. Particularly given their reach and popularity, the practices Thompson brings to light cannot go overlooked and unanalyzed." -- John A. Tyson * CAA Reviews *"Ultimately, Shine is a useful application of tools from the field of art history to popular culture and presentation of self in the technological age.... Cultural anthropologists, sociologists specializing in cultural aspects of race and ethnicity, and scholars of media would find this text a valuable read." -- Deinya Phenix * Visual Studies *"Shine, by Krista Thompson, presents a compelling investigation into the transnational aesthetics of hip-hop, bridging distinct visual practices, artistic forms, and modes of visibility in the African diaspora. Situating her work within art history, Thompson provides rich, multisited ethnographic research that spans the United States, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, allowing her to interrogate the intersecting cultures, histories, and media flows of the geopolitical region known as the circum-Caribbean. From street photography in New York to Jamaican dancehall videos, Thompson brings into dialogue disparate visual and embodied practices to provide a thought-provoking study on the mediation of the African diaspora in the circum-Caribbean." -- Eryn Snyder Berger * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction. Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels 11. "Keep It Real": Street Photography, Public Visibility, and Afro-Modernity 472. Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility in Jamaica 1123. Shine, Shimmer, and Splendor: African Diasporic Aesthetics and the Art of Being Seen in the Bahamas 1694. The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop 215Notes 271Bibliography 317Index 335
£140.25
Duke University Press Shine
Book SynopsisArt historian Krista Thompson analyzes photographic practices in the Caribbean and the United States to show how African diasporic youth use the process of creating images to represent themselves in the public sphere and to communicate with other Afro-diasporic communities. Trade Review"Thompson’s study of light is nuanced and generative. . . . the structure of each section encourages the reader to embrace a protean reading practice, one that resists firmly embracing a single understanding of light, and of its affects and effects. The result is a powerful project that stands to impact multiple fields, while at the same time challenging how we see and understand black visual practices. In the end, Shine succeeds in reconstituting the very terms of photography and visual technology and their role in the diaspora." -- Autumn Marie Womack * SX Salon *"Shine provides important illumination; it shows that nonelite culture holds up to serious academic scrutiny. Particularly given their reach and popularity, the practices Thompson brings to light cannot go overlooked and unanalyzed." -- John A. Tyson * CAA Reviews *"Ultimately, Shine is a useful application of tools from the field of art history to popular culture and presentation of self in the technological age.... Cultural anthropologists, sociologists specializing in cultural aspects of race and ethnicity, and scholars of media would find this text a valuable read." -- Deinya Phenix * Visual Studies *"Shine, by Krista Thompson, presents a compelling investigation into the transnational aesthetics of hip-hop, bridging distinct visual practices, artistic forms, and modes of visibility in the African diaspora. Situating her work within art history, Thompson provides rich, multisited ethnographic research that spans the United States, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, allowing her to interrogate the intersecting cultures, histories, and media flows of the geopolitical region known as the circum-Caribbean. From street photography in New York to Jamaican dancehall videos, Thompson brings into dialogue disparate visual and embodied practices to provide a thought-provoking study on the mediation of the African diaspora in the circum-Caribbean." -- Eryn Snyder Berger * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction. Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels 11. "Keep It Real": Street Photography, Public Visibility, and Afro-Modernity 472. Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility in Jamaica 1123. Shine, Shimmer, and Splendor: African Diasporic Aesthetics and the Art of Being Seen in the Bahamas 1694. The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop 215Notes 271Bibliography 317Index 335
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Duke University Press Architecture at the End of the Earth
Book SynopsisFeaturing nearly two hundred full color photographs by William Craft Brumfield, this book documents the architecture of centuries-old wooden and brick churches, cathedrals and homes in the region surrounding the White Sea, which is known as the Russian North.Trade Review"Architecture at the End of the Earth is at once an art book, a travel guide, and a personal document about the discovery of this bleak but beautiful region of Russia that most readers will see here for the first time." -- Anna Sorokina * Russia Beyond the Headlines *“The extraordinary William Brumfield has done it again with another great book about Russian architecture. Brumfield is a legend and, despite living in New Orleans where he is a professor at Tulane, a Russian national treasure.” * Pravoslavie *“Brumfield's absorbing text and 200 color photographs are excellent. This book will appeal to readers interested in historic church architecture or traditional Russian village culture.” -- David R. Conn * Library Journal *"Brumfield captures the sometimes crumbling, sometimes resplendent cathedrals, chapels and other structures of the Russian North. Nearly 200 full color images of brick and wood buildings in varying degrees of neglect and upkeep, as well as a travelogue and careful, compelling documentation of the edifices are combined to offer a beautiful and daunting portrait of the region." -- Melanie Warner Spencer * New Orleans Magazine *"The work is a major contribution to knowledge of a neglected area. While there is a thorough discussion of the structures, the lack of a bibliography and index gives the false appearance of a picture book, when it is far more than that. This fascinating book should have a wide appeal. Highly recommended. All readership levels." -- T. J. McCormick * Choice *"Without doubt, the stunning photographs are the main attraction here, but the book is also a travel memoir, and in many ways, a love letter to this wild and often inaccessible part of Russia. . . . In the last resort, this book, like so much of Brumfield’s work, may be most valuable for documenting a crucially important part of Russia’s cultural heritage, a part that has suffered irreparable harm, particularly in Soviet times, and now faces an uncertain future." -- Daniel Rowland * Russian Review *"Without Brumfield’s contribution of photographs of these northern village churches, so difficult to reach given the taiga, permafrost, climate, and lack of passable roads, little photographic architectural history of this regional church architecture would exist. The publication of this book of photographs and travelogue speaks of a world almost lost to architectural history. Recommended for library collections including Russian architecture, art, history and culture." -- Kathleen Duff * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"[Brumfield] has produced a text that is historical, factual, and geographically situated. At the same time he has ‘painted’ pictures in words. These descriptive views can then be experienced on another level through the artistry of the superb photographs, which create a sense of space in the book.... Elegantly designed and produced, this volume reaffirms the value of the printed book in our electronic age. It is in itself a work of art." -- Natalia Berg * East-West Review *"The rich yet imperiled architectural heritage of the Russian North is beau-tifully presented in this large-format book by the leading English-language historian of Russian architecture, William Brumfield. The result of decades of exploration in often difficult-to-reach areas near the White Sea, the book pro-vides an elegiac journey through the outstanding architectural monuments of the Russian North, particularly churches.... The book will be of interest to everyone who wishes to know more about Russian architecture, regional artistic identity, and the Russian North." -- Susan Smith-Peter * Region *"Architecture at the End of the Earth is a splendidly successful work, undertaking to capture, in word and stunning photography, the enigma of the Russian North: its architectural wonders in silent harmony with landscapes and people. Part of the author’s monumental ongoing project to map the history of Russian architecture, the book illustrates that this vast yet little-known part of Russia—a kind of Russian outback—is emphatically not ‘cold and imponderable,’ but enchanting, full of life and warmth, as well as sadness." -- Julia Konstantinovsky * Sobornost *"The book fascinates, yet is splendidly readable. Replete with adventure, gentle humor and details of architectural marvels and wondrous encounters, the narrative is a vibrant story-telling impossible to put down. It is a must to have—and to carry on their person—for every would-be traveler to the North of Russia." -- Julia Konstantinovsky * St Vladimir's Theological Quarterly *"This book is remarkable in many ways. Apart from being a threnody for the vanishing of the remarkable churches of North Russia, it is both an engaging record of the exciting and difficult journeys made by Brumfield in his efforts to record the last remnants of this culture, and an indispensable record of what still survives. . . . Brumfield’s achievement is never likely to be superseded: his is a record of achievements that will, inexorably, be swallowed up by the march of human history. Without Brumfield’s hard-won record and account of these churches, they would pass from human memory altogether." -- Andrew Louth * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Exploring the Russian North 1 Into the Forest. A Note on the Architectural History of the Russian North 21 1. The Western Shore of the White Sea 29 2. From the Vytegra Region to the Mologa River 73 3. Kargopol and Its Surrounding Villages 115 4. From Vologda to Veliky Ustiug 151 5. Along the Northern Dvina and Beyond to the Arctic Circle 207 Postscript. What Will Remain of the Heritage of the Russian North? 243
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Duke University Press Photography after Photography
Book SynopsisPresenting two decades of work by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography after Photographyis an inquiry into the circuits of power that shape photographic practice, criticism, and historiography. As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms of artistic production are increasingly fluid, Solomon-Godeau, a pioneering feminist and politically engaged critic, argues that the relationships between photography, culture, gender, and power demand renewed attention. In her analyses of the photographic production of Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Meiselas, Francesca Woodman, and others, Solomon-Godeau refigures the disciplinary object of photography by considering these practices through an examination of the determinations of genre and gender as these shape the relations between photographers, their images, and their viewers. Among her subjects are the 2006 Abu Ghraib prison photographs and the Cold War-era exhibition The Family of Man, insofar as thesTrade Review"Solomon-Godeau shines when applying deconstructive feminist analysis to broader questions of representation in visual culture, and the market forces that collude to elevate an artist’s reputation to master status." -- Wendy Vogel * Camera Austria *"With its refusal to separate photography from power and patronage, Abigail Solomon-Godeau's Photography After Photography arrives at an auspicious moment.. . . Bringing a wealth of information to bear on photographic meaning, Solomon-Godeau explores her topics in historical context. In doing so, she demonstrates that the way many photographs are understood today has little to do with the circumstance of their creation, or the manner in which they were originally distributed and viewed." -- Dore Bowen * Art in America *"While Solomon-Godeau’s overarching goal is to offer a feminist critique of the art world — particularly of critical discourse around art — in some of her essays she also discusses topics that fall outside this lens, such as the role of desire in photography and images of torture. In this sense, the anthology reflects the range of Solomon-Godeau’s practice and interest as an art critic and scholar." -- Ela Bittencourt * Hyperallergic *"Solomon-Godeau’s essays are lucid and make for captivating reading. . . . It is fitting for Solomon-Godeau to present a collection that spans such a broad range of topics in a manner that is cohesive, challenging, and attentive to photography’s complex formal and cultural history." -- Will Carroll * ASAP/Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface. May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way / Sarah Parsons ix Introduction 1 1. Inside/Out (1995) 10 2. Written on the Body (1997) 27 3. The Family of Man: Refurbishing Humanism for a Postmodern Age (2004) 43 4. Torture at Abu Ghraib: In and Out of the Media (2007) 61 5. Harry Callahan: Gender, Genre, and Street Photography (2007) 77 6. Caught Looking: Susan Meiselas's Carnival Strippers (2008) 94 7. Framing Landscape Photography (2010) 107 8. The Ghosts of Documentary (2012) 123 9. Inventing Vivian Maier: Categories, Careers, and Commerce (2013) 141 10. Robert Mapplethorpe: Whitewashed and Polished (2014) 156 11. Body Double (2014) 171 12. The Coming of Age: Cindy Sherman, Feminism, and Art History (2014) 189 Notes 207 Bibliography 237 Index 249
£98.60
Duke University Press I Love My Selfie
Book SynopsisNoted cultural critic Ilan Stavans and artist ADÁL analyze the selfie and its role in contemporary life by exploring it in the context of the history of Western self-portraiture, mythology, literature, art, and philosophy.Trade Review"Rather than seeing selfies as a symptom of modern decay and pathology, Stavans encourages us to see the explosion of selfies as a kind of collective art project, in which everyone’s individualism squeezes into the frame next to everybody else’s individualism." -- Noah Berlatsky * Quartz *"A book of absolute contemporary relevance, I Love My Selfie reminds us that nothing has ever been as hard as having a self, and that perhaps to better be true to it, one has to learn to conceal it, in a game of hide and seek that here gains a political dimension." -- Carlos Fonseca * TLS *"Stavans’ key intuition that selfies might be understood in dialogue with self-portraiture is significant, as putting pressure on the definitions of selfies and self-portraiture—whether in the present moment or across the history of photography—can yield rich insights." -- Nicole Erin Morse * boundary 2 *Table of Contents1. Chillin' 1 2. The Plight of Narcissus 10 3. "Decisive Moments" 18 4. Out of Focus 28 Go F_ck Your Selfie: A Portfolio / ADÁL 39 5. Alone with Others 91 6. Rembrandt's Instamatic 98 7. Tropic Noir 113 8. And Then Comes Darkness 122 Acknowledgments 129 Index 131
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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
Duke University Press Photography and the Optical Unconscious
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors use Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency, thereby opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche.Trade Review"A diverse collection of essays and artists’ portfolios. . . . Overall, Photography and the Optical Unconscious is a compelling read, one that points to the significant amount of work remaining to be done with regards to the optical unconscious." -- Shandell Houslden * TOPIA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski 1 1. Photography's Weimar-Era Proliferatino and Walter Benjamin's Optical Unconscious / Andrés Mario Zervigón 32 2. "A Hiding Place in Waking Dreams": David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, and Walter Benjamin's "Little History of Photography" / Shawn Michelle Smith 48 3. Freud: The Photographic Apparatus / Sarah Kofman 75 4. "To Adopt": Freud, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious / Jonathan Fardy 81 5. The Politics of Contemplation / Zoe Leonard and Elisabeth Lebovici 93 6. Freud, Saturn, and the Power of Hypnosis / Mary Bergstein 104 7. On the Couch / Mignon Nixon 134 8. Vision's Unseen: On Sovereignty, Race, and the Optical Unconscious / Mark Reinhardt 174 9. Sligo Heads / Kristan Horton 223 10. Developing Historical Negatives: The Colonial Photographic Archive as Optical Unconscious / Gabrielle Moser 229 11. The Purloined Image / Laura Wexler 264 12. The Vancouver Carts: A Brief Mémoire / Kelly Wood 281 13. Vietnamese Photography and the Look of Revolution / Thy Phu 286 14. Shooting in the Dark: A Note on the Photographic Imagination / Sharon Sliwinski 321 15. Slow / Terri Kapsalis 339 Contributors 363 Index 367
£22.79
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
£28.80
University of Pittsburgh Press The Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania
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University of Pittsburgh Press The City as Photographic Text
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University of Pittsburgh Press Portraits in the Andes
Book SynopsisCoronado examines photography to further the argument that intellectuals grafted their own notions of indigeneity onto their subjects.Trade ReviewThe question that drives Portraits in the Addes is the relation between the lettered city and photography and the ways in which Latin America’s lettered tradition distorts our ability to see Andean photographs. Thus, while indigenismo served as an early filter of Andean photography, indigenous photography was staking out a terrain in many ways inaccessible to and perhaps even invisible to the lettered city."" - Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth College""An extraordinary study of the practices, circulation and collection of photography among indigenous and mestizo subjects in the Southern Andes, Portraits in the Andes breaks new ground in our understanding of visual regimes and their geopolitical inscription. Coronado’s detailed investigation into the material life of images in the highlands furthers an alternative genealogy of Andean modernity in the expanded field of visual culture with striking effects for our understanding of the limits of lettered culture and the underside of intellectual history."" - Julio Ramos, University of California, Berkeley
£38.95
Fordham University Press The Synagogues of New Yorks Lower East Side A
Book SynopsisThe classic book on the Lower East Side’s synagogues and their congregations, past and present—now back in print in a completely revised and expanded editionTrade Review"This book bears vital testimony to the central place of religion in immigrant social ties, to the architectural legacy constituted by grand and modest synagogue structures, and to the presence of the past in perhaps the most fascinating corner of a fascinating city." -- -Jonathan Boyarin author of Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul "Gerard R. Wolfe, joined by the photographers Jo Renee Fine and Norman Borden, has completely overhauled "The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side" (Empire State Editions, $29.95), originally published in 1978. This volume, which is illustrated with black and white photographs and has a foreword by The Times's Joseph Berger, uses historic houses of worship as a prism to explore immigrant life and culture." -- -Sam Roberts The New York Times "Readers interested in Judaism, architecture, history or New York City will all find something to learn from and enjoy in Wolfe's book." -Greater Phoenix Jewish News "This book stands as a loving tribute to Jewish life on the Lower East Side. It is filled with Wolfe's erudite narrative and beautiful archival and contemporary photographs of synagogues, Jewish life, and the restoration projects." -Jewish Book Council "[The] love for a history all American Jews share-four out of five of descendants of the eastern European immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s trace their beginning to the Lower East Side-is palpable in this valuable and important book." -- -Joseph Berger from the Foreword "Wolfe, an architectural historian, unpeels layers of the past behind the congregations and their building...[An] excellent new edition ... " -The Jewish WeekTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Intervening Years The Discovery The Active Synagogues: Street Map of the Active Synagogues 1. Congregation Khal Adas Jeshurun with Anshe Lubz / The Eldridge Street Synagogue / The Museum at Eldridge Street 2. The Bialystoker Synagogue 3. Congregation Chasam Sopher 4. Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshe Brzezan ("The Stanton Street Shul") 5. Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum 6. Congregation Anshe Slonim / Originally Ansche Chesed/ Now: Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts. 7. Beth Tomche Torah V'Zikne Yisroel / Formerly: House of Sages; Now: Home of the Sages of Israel 8. East Side Torah Center 9. Erste Lutowisker Chevra 10. Downtown Talmud Torah Synagogue 11. The Community Synagogue 12. Congregation Tifereth Israel / Town and Village Synagogue 13. The Bialystoker Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing ("The Bialystoker Home") The East Side Mikvah Building The Shtieblach and Beyond The "Lost" or Endangered Synagogues Landsmanshaftn and Banks The "Lost" or Endangered Synagogues A. Beth Hamedrash Hagodol B. First Roumanian-American Congregation, Shaarey Hashomayim C. Young Israel Synagogue of Manhattan D. Congregation Beth Haknesseth Mogen Avraham E. Sons of Israel Kalwarie ("The Pike Street Shul") F. Erste Warshawer Congregation G. Congregation Beth Haknesseth Etz Chaim Anshe Wolozin H. Congregation Senier and Wilno I. Congregation Kochob Jacob Anshe Kamenetz Lite J. Congregation Anshe Abatien K. Congregation Anshe Baranove L. Congregation Anshe Czernowitz-Bukoviner M. Congregation Adas Yisroel Anshe Mezeritch N. Congregation Ahawath Jeshurun Shara'a Torah O. Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Anshe Ungarn P. Congregation Bnai Rappaport Anshe Rembrava Q. Congregation Kehilas Bnai Moshe Yakov Anshe Zavichost veZosmer ("The 8th Street Shul") R. Congregation Poel Zedek Anshe Illiya ("The Forsyth Street Shul) S. Congregation Kol Israel Anshe Poland and Mishkan Israel Suwalki T. Congregation Tifereth Yerushelaim U. Congregation Chevra Kadisha Ansche Sochesteczewa Appendix A. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum B. The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy C. Chronology of Major Hebrew Congregations, 1854-1875 D. Recommended Readings E. Glossary
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Fordham University Press The Blind Man A Phantasmography
Book SynopsisAn anthropologist’s captivating journey into the realms of photographic imagery,exposing the complex interplay of perception and imagination in contemporarylifeTable of ContentsPreface vii Photography tears the subject from itself 1 Plastic intimacies 35 Corneal abrasion 55 Opticalterities 79 The delirium of images 95 Baroque vision 117 Phanomenology 145 The collector of eyes 163 Allusions and Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Selected Bibliography 205
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Fordham University Press The Blind Man A Phantasmography
Book SynopsisAn anthropologist’s captivating journey into the realms of photographic imagery,exposing the complex interplay of perception and imagination in contemporarylifeTable of ContentsPreface vii Photography tears the subject from itself 1 Plastic intimacies 35 Corneal abrasion 55 Opticalterities 79 The delirium of images 95 Baroque vision 117 Phanomenology 145 The collector of eyes 163 Allusions and Acknowledgments 199 Notes 201 Selected Bibliography 205
£78.30
Fordham University Press The Instant and Its Shadow
Book SynopsisVia the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly’s The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Part I: A Haystack in the Sun | 1 Part II: The Shadow of a Ladder | 57 Notes | 95
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Fordham University Press The Instant and Its Shadow
Book SynopsisVia the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly’s The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of photography to time itself.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Part I: A Haystack in the Sun | 1 Part II: The Shadow of a Ladder | 57 Notes | 95
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University of Hawai'i Press The Distorting Mirror Visual Modernity in China
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. This work examines the media and visual forms, including lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances.
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University of New Mexico Press Mac McClouds Five Points Photographing Black
Book SynopsisA stunning collection of images celebrating the remarkable career of Burnis ‘Mac’ McCloud, Denver’s premiere Black photographer between 1950 and 1980. His remarkable photographs captured the ordinary lives of African Americans during a period that witnessed the end of Jim Crow segregation and the beginning of the Civil Rights era.Trade ReviewWilliam Wyckoff has done a splendid job of exhuming Mac McCloud and his photographs of everyday life in Denver's now fading Black neighborhood of Five Points." - Thomas J. Noel, author of Colorado: A Historical Atlas"William Wyckoff breathes new life into a remarkable collection of images taken by Burnis 'Mac' McCloud during the middle years of the twentieth century, introducing Denver's legendary African American photographer to a new generation of admirers. More important, he uses McCloud's evocative photos of the Five Points neighborhood to transport readers to a time and to a place that today exists only in the pages of this book." - Geoffrey L. Buckley, coeditor of The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United StatesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionGallery 1. PlacesGallery 2. WorkGallery 3. PlayGallery 4. FameFurther ReadingIndex
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Seagull Books London Ltd Harlem
Book SynopsisThe African American at the end of the nineteenth century was described by W E B Du Bois as two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls-African and American, African-American-is still being negotiated. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom." -Homi K. Bhabha "Spivak has probably done more long-term political good in pioneering feminist and postcolonial studies within global academia than almost any of her theoretical colleagues."-Terry Eagleton "Not only does her world-renowned scholarship range widely from critiques of postcolonial discourse to feminism, Marxism, and globalization, her lifelong search for fresh insights and understanding has transcended the traditional boundaries of discipline while retaining the fire for new knowledge that is the hallmark of a great intellect."-Lee Bollinger, Columbia University"
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. From Site to Sight
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Shooting Cameras for Peace Disparando Cámaras
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Texas Christian University Press Dallas
Book SynopsisFrom an ancient Indian gathering place to an 1840s trading post to today’s dynamic metropolis, Dallas has always been a destination for people with big dreams and the determination to make them real. It’s a place known for outsized fortunes and over-the-top fun. This book celebrates that heritage, and reveals the many fascinating faces of the city.
£39.06
Getty Trust Publications Photographs of the Past Process and Preservation
Book SynopsisA guide to the techniques, methods, and processes of photographic conservation and preservation. It covers the Terminology, Positives, Negatives, and Conservation. It includes chapters that focus on specific processes - such as daguerreotypes, albumen negatives, and black-and-white prints.
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UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press La Raza
Book SynopsisLa Raza, launched in 1967 in the basement of an Eastside LA church, was conceived as a tool for community-based organizing during the early days of the Chicano movement. The all-volunteer staff of the newspaperand the magazine that followedinformed readers and exhorted them to action through images and articles that showcased protests and demonstrations and documented pervasive social inequity and police abuse. La Raza's photographers played a critical role as artists, journalists, and activists, creating an unparalleled record of the determination, resilience, and achievements of the Chicano community during a period of profound social change.This catalog presents photographs from the La Raza exhibition at the Autry Museum of the American West and the more than 25,000 images in the La Raza Photograph Collection at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. The essays offer not only scholarly assessments of the role of Chicanx photographers in so
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Terra Foundation for the Arts,U.S. Images of the West Survey Photography in French
Book SynopsisAs American settlement expanded westward in the 1860s, the US government undertook large-scale investigations of its new territories. This work presents the glass-plate photographs from these federal surveys. It also includes essays that discuss how the photographs were used to promote white settlement.
£35.15
University of Nex Mexico Press 2026 Enchanting New Mexico Calendar
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Wayne State University Press Great Architecture of Michigan
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Michael Forsberg Photography Have You Seen Mary
Book Synopsis“…and the sky blackened with dark, gray bodies. In the blurry confusion, John lost Mary.” So begins Have You Seen Mary?, Jeff Kurrus's fictional account of one sandhill crane's faithful search during spring migration for his lost mate.Trade Review“No one has photographed sandhill cranes as thoroughly or as well as Michael Forsberg. Here, author Jeff Kurrus cleverly weaves a story around these images, luring readers young and old into one of nature’s great spectacles.”—David Bristow, author of Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era and editor of Nebraska History magazine“Have You Seen Mary? is an appealing children’s story by Jeff Kurrus that blends sandhill crane natural history with Mike Forsberg’s spectacular photographs of cranes and their Great Plains wetlands habitats.”—Paul Johnsgard, Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and author of Sandhill and Whooping Cranes“Have You Seen Mary? is an enchanting love song to Plains wildness, and its fragile, magnificent migrations of feather and heart. It will appeal to both children and adults, taking us all on an unforgettable journey of joy, knowledge, and hope. A beautiful book.”—John T. Price, author of Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships“Jeff Kurrus’s words and Michael Forsberg’s photographs are teamed here to bring us a remarkable story from the natural world they both cherish. The result is an elegant, touching, and inspiring book to help reconnect our children to nature, and not a moment too late. May there be many more like this to come.”—Joel Sartore, author, conservationist, and contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine
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Michael Forsberg Photography The Tale of Jacob Swift
Book SynopsisA photo-fiction story recounting the struggles and triumphs that one swift fox family experiences in raising its son in the harsh but beautiful grasslands of North America. Written by Jeff Kurrus with photographic imagery by Rob Palmer, this book about Jacob is sure to prompt discussion between parent and child regarding the circle of life.
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