Photography and photographs Books

Book SynopsisTo celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ‘ordinary’ people could afford to own their portraits. Weddings captures all the stages of the ceremony, with preparations, wedding vehicles and their various casts of people in lively scenes at church and home. Each book contains 200 images chosen with the eye of a leading artist from a visually rich vein of social history. Their covers will also feature a thematically linked painting, especially created for each title, from Tom Phillips’ signature work, A Humument.Trade Review'An important contribution to social history and visual culture.' * Visual Studies *

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Book SynopsisThis series celebrates the Bodleian Library’s acquisition of Tom Phillips’s archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ‘ordinary’ people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips’s signature work, A Humument. With an illuminating foreword by Eric Musgrave, 'Menswear' presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to c. 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time. The rich variety of accessories on display includes ties, gloves, pocket squares, walking sticks, canes, boutonnières and spats.Trade Review‘The perfect gift for the sartorially discerning man.’ -- Susannah Frankel * The Independent *

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Book SynopsisThis series celebrates the Bodleian Library’s acquisition of Tom Phillips’s archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ‘ordinary’ people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips’s signature work, A Humument. Fantasy Travel shows people sitting proudly and playfully in studio mock-ups of aeroplanes, cars, speedboats and hot air balloons. Such modes of transport were beyond the dreams of the average person in the early twentieth century but the photographic studios allowed them to indulge wild flights of fancy and take away the resulting postcards.

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Book SynopsisLanguage has always been central to the meaning and exploitation of photographic images. However, the various types and 'styles' of language associated with different photographic genres have been largely overlooked. This book considers the nature of photography, examining the language used in titles, captions and commentaries, particularly as they relate to documentary photography, photojournalism and fashion photography. "The Spoken Image" addresses the question of how the photograph communicates its message, with or without the aid of language. The book looks at the work of film-makers such as Antonioni and Greenaway to contrast filmic methods of narration with those of photography. Scott concludes that photography has arrived at a level of communicative sophistication equal to that of modern textual narratives, in conjunction with which it often works.Trade Review'In this excellent study, Scott argues that while language is deemed crucial to the interpretation of photography, we have insufficient information about how language is used in relation to various photographic genres ... Readers interested in photography, film, postmodernism, and the nature of narrative itself will find Scott's book captivating, and, at times, positively breathtaking.' - British Journal of Aesthetics 'The Spoken Image displays its author's deep knowledge of a wide range of literature on meaning and photography, and the book is well produced and illustrated.' - Times Higher Education

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Book SynopsisWith its moving landscapes and famously independent cultural traditions, Australia is uniquely suited to having its national narrative told through visual documentation. The author gathers here a selection of photographs that recount the story of Australia, and through this visual chronicle she uncovers a distinctively Australian visual culture.

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Book SynopsisThis is a subtle, yet uncompromising analysis of the iconic photographs of torture from the prison at Abu Ghraib.Trade ReviewIlluminating and timely ... Eisenman's concepts and questions constitute a challenging discourse on politics and art. Art in America Stephen Eisenman's provocative discussion of the omnipresence of the imagery of aggression, domination, and subjugation in Western art is as disturbing as it is timely. Coming as it does in the wake of the exposure of American torture of detainees, it reminds us that what we call "culture" is as marked by the evidence of cruelty and brutality as is the history of warfare itself. His book is an exemplary demonstration of the inseparability of the aesthetic and the political. -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Professor of Art History, University of California Santa Barbara a potent book ... This brilliantly argued volume should be read by all art historians. The Art Book Illuminating and timely ... Eisenman's concepts and questions constitute a challenging discourse on politics and art. Art in America Presented in a slim, stylish volume of 142-pages with sixty-six black and white images, The Abu Ghraib Effect ... traverses revolutionary terrain in its unravelling of the function of artistic metaphor in the justification of imperialist power. Media-Culture Review Writing about events that never, ever should have happened is no small challenge, even for the citizens of a US culture that now flirts with "representing the unrepresentable" and disputes any evidential role for photography. Nonetheless, Stephen Eisenman has taken up this daunting challenge with an unflinching analysis that will long endure - as will our stark memories of the horrors unleashed by the administration of George W. Bush. -- Professor David Craven, author of Art & Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990Table of ContentsPreface 7 1 Resemblance 11 2 Freudian Slip 18 3 Documents of Barbarism 42 4 Pathos Formula 60 5 Stages of Cruelty 73 6 Muscle and Bone 92 7 Theatre of Cruelty 101 8 Orientalism 108 Afterword: What is Western Art? 111 References 123 Acknowledgements 139 Photographic Acknowledgements 141

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Book SynopsisDuring the first two decades of the twentieth century, the St. Louis Street Department generated one of the most extensive troves of photographs ever taken of the city. Ostensibly created to document municipal challenges and improvements, the images inadvertently captured richly detailed scenes of everyday life. Largely led by Charles Clement Holt (1866–1925), St. Louis’s photography operation expanded until it produced about six thousand images per year in 1914. Many of these photographs were lost, but a city historian salvaged a collection of three hundred glass plate negatives in the 1950s, which are now in the Missouri Historical Society collections. This small, but superb, group of photographs provides a wealth of information on the visual culture of St. Louis during a period of rapid transformation. Capturing the City is the first book to examine these photographs, placing the people and landscapes depicted within the broader context of a swiftly urbanizing and industrializing metropolis. Collected and analyzed here by Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz, the compelling images in Capturing the City reveal the national trend among cities to use the camera as a documentary tool. Reformers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine imagined the camera as a truth-telling instrument and used their photographs to mobilize public consciousness. Across the nation, cities used photographers to document slums, workhouses, and crime scenes, as well as municipal improvements like street lighting, pavement, and model housing. In this vein, Holt and his staff showcased both the challenges and the successes of government action in St. Louis. Consistent with their Progressive-era peers, their efforts contributed to the record of ongoing public works while shaping the narrative of urban progress itself.

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Book SynopsisA study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period In an era that saw the birth of photography (c. 1839) and the rise of the illustrated press (c. 1842), the British experience of their empire became increasingly defined by the processes and products of image-making. Examining moments of military and diplomatic crisis, this book considers how artists and photographers operating "in the field" helped to define British visions of war and peace. The Victorians increasingly turned to visual spectacle to help them compose imperial sovereignty. The British Empire was thus rendered into a spectacle of "peace," from world’s fairs to staged diplomatic rituals. Yet this occurred against a backdrop of incessant colonial war—campaigns which, far from being ignored, were in fact unprecedentedly visible within the cultural forms of Victorian society. Visual media thus shaped the contours of imperial statecraft and established many of the aesthetic and ethical frames within which the colonial violence was confronted.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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Book SynopsisThe book is a descriptive history of the major photographic printing processes that were used between the years 1840-1895, the first fifty years of photography. The Albumen and Salted Paper Book is a descriptive history of the major photographic printing processes that were used between the years 1840-1895. These first 50 years of photography established a tradition of individual experimentation and craftsmanship where each photographer participated in the manufacture of the printing materials that were used. Albumen print and salted paper print were the ordinary, all-purpose materials of the time-albumen print is the second most common type of photograph ever made. This book describes both the technical information of these historical materials and offers the reader a very organized approach to this interesting process. James Reilly is the Director of the Image Permanence Institute, a recognized leader in the development and deployment of sustainable practices for the preservation of images and cultural property.

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Book SynopsisThe life and career of Lejaren à Hiller (1880-1969), the American illustrator and photographer who changed the face of advertisement photography. Lejaren à Hiller (1880-1969) pioneered advertising photography for an industry dominated by text and an occasional line drawing. An advertising and editorial photographer in early twentieth-century America, Hiller began his careeras an illustrator. He first recognized photography's potential as a persuasive method to sell products and services, as well as illustrating magazine stories. Best known for his large and exquisitely detailed studio sets that often depicted historical scenarios or exotic foreign lands, Hiller produced thousands of photographs for a variety of clients. The author includes examples from all aspects of Hiller's career, and he examines two of Hiller's most recognizable projects: the 87 Lands campaign for Canadian Club Whisky and Surgery Through the Ages, commissioned by Davis and Geck, a manufacturer of surgical sutures. Doug Manchee is professor of photography and program chair for the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. He teaches classes in advertising photography and his commercial clients include Adobe Systems, Corning Inc., Xerox, Eastman Kodak, Simpson Paper, Bausch & Lomb, and many others. Manchee's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions.Table of ContentsIntroduction Life and Career Surgery Through the Ages Hiram Walker's Canadian Club Whisky Conclusion Methods Notes References Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1875, after being acquitted for the murder of his wife’s lover, Eadweard Muybridge spent a year photographing along the Central American Pacific Coast, particularly in Guatemala and Panamá. Upon his return to California in 1876, he published a very limited number of albums of the photographs (11 are known), each of which was unique in size and scope. In 2007, photographer Byron Wolfe (born 1967) tracked down and cataloged every known Muybridge Central American photograph. Then, with cultural geographer Scott Brady, he traveled to many of Muybridge’s sites to rephotograph them. Through photographic collage, interpretive rephotography, illustrations and essays, this book examines an exceptionally rare series by Muybridge. Also included is a catalogue of every known Muybridge Central American picture.

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Book SynopsisFrom Wounded Knee to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and from the Upper Big Branch mine disaster to the Trail of Tears, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered presents photographs of significant sites from US history, posing unsettling questions about the contested memory of traumatic episodes from the nation’s past. Focusing especially on landscapes related to African American, Native American, and labor history, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered reveals new vistas of officially commemorated sites, sites that are neglected or obscured, and sites that serve as a gathering place for active rituals of organized memory.These powerful photographs by award-winning photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein are interspersed with short essays by some of the leading historians of the United States. The book is introduced with substantive meditations on meaning and landscape by Alex Lichtenstein, editor of the American Historical Review, and Edward T. Linenthal, former editor of the Journal of American History. Individually, these images convey American history in new and sometimes startling ways. Taken as a whole, the volume amounts to a starkly visual reckoning with the challenges of commemorating a violent and conflictual history of subjugation and resistance that we forget at our peril.

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Book SynopsisDeciduous trees provide a beautiful progression of leaf colours as the seasons pass. Munsell Trees: A Season of Leaves and Colours by Mark D. Fairchild traces the journey of twenty-four trees through a growing season and includes striking transilluminated images of regularly collected leaves, colour analyses of the leaves, and layouts that illustrate progression of colour through the season as well as compare all twenty-four trees at points along the way. The book includes chapters on place (Mendon Ponds Park), time (progression of seasons), science (nature of trees and Munsell's colour system), and the inspiration of Henry David Thoreau through his dedicated and detailed journals and his exceptionally keen abilities to observe the natural world and share through inspirational writing. Additionally, it includes an appendix with all the technical details of the project. May the uniquely beautiful photographs inspire you to think more about the natural world and take the time to appreciate the trees and what they do for us.

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Book SynopsisThe Jersey Shore, our most treasured asset, the envy of forty-nine other states, comes alive in this new book by the reporter and writer who knows New Jersey—and the Jersey Shore—best. Every conceivable topic—where to eat, where to stay, landmarks and attractions, what to do with the kids—is covered with the kind of inside information you just won’t find on tourism web sites or Facebook. All one hundred-plus Shore towns are included, from Sandy Hook to Cape May. There are hundreds of restaurant listings and recommendations. The book also contains engaging profiles and vignettes of the people and places that give the Shore its special character and charm. A throwback five-and-dime store on Long Beach Island. Banner pilots. Birders. Baby parades. And more. You want lists and rankings? The book is full of them—twenty best Shore towns, twenty-one secret spots down the Shore, twenty essential Jersey Shore experiences, fifty things we bet you didn’t know about the Shore, and so on. The book is the next best thing to being at the Shore; actually, it may be better than being there (think of those epic traffic jams on the Parkway, and all the money you’ll save on tolls, beach fees, and bad boardwalk pizza).Trade Review"What a feast for fans of the Jersey Shore and for all those others who wonder why there are so many fans! Peter Genovese’s latest trip to the Shore is chock-full of 'Best of' lists, places to visit, tantalizing secret places, and lore that makes returning to the Shore every year an ever-eventful pleasure. My own list of attractions, breweries, eateries, ice cream parlors, and more has now grown considerably." -- Dominick Mazzagetti * author of The Jersey Shore: The Past, Present, and Future of a National Treasure (Rutgers University *"Pete Genovese is the person whose opinions I trust most on all things regarding my home state. And I'm from New Jersey—I trust no one." -- Chris Gethard * comedian and host of New Jersey is the World podcast *"For those of us whose hearts live at the Jersey Shore, finally there is a guidebook for our stomachs. Pete Genovese is the best food writer covering the best beat in the best state." -- Pearl Gabel * creator of the @njgov Twitter account *Table of ContentsIntroduction Town Slogans Raritan Bayshore Get Naked or Get Lost I Walked the Entire Jersey Shore. Sort of. The 20 Best Jersey Shore Towns Sandy Hook to Point Pleasant Beach 50 Shore Facts We Bet You Didn’t Know Keep Your Friends Close and Your Cookies Closer The 22 Best Shore Pizzerias The Shore’s Best Strip Mall for Food Jersey Shore Lighthouse Guide 21 Secret Spots Down the Shore Bay Head to Island Beach State Park Unlocking the Ocean The Big Six Boardwalks The 15 Best Boardwalk Foods Long Beach Island to Atlantic City My 25 Favorite Jersey Shore Bars Ghostwriters in the Sky Farmers markets 20 Essential Jersey Shore Experiences Ocean City to Cape May When Seagulls Attack Why is the Wildwood Beach so Damn Wide? Watch the Tram Car, Please Best Ice Cream Stands/Stores Upper Middle Lower! Top 20 Boardwalk Pizzerias Parting Words Index

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Book SynopsisThe Jersey Shore, our most treasured asset, the envy of forty-nine other states, comes alive in this new book by the reporter and writer who knows New Jersey—and the Jersey Shore—best. Every conceivable topic—where to eat, where to stay, landmarks and attractions, what to do with the kids—is covered with the kind of inside information you just won’t find on tourism web sites or Facebook. All one hundred-plus Shore towns are included, from Sandy Hook to Cape May. There are hundreds of restaurant listings and recommendations. The book also contains engaging profiles and vignettes of the people and places that give the Shore its special character and charm. A throwback five-and-dime store on Long Beach Island. Banner pilots. Birders. Baby parades. And more. You want lists and rankings? The book is full of them—twenty best Shore towns, twenty-one secret spots down the Shore, twenty essential Jersey Shore experiences, fifty things we bet you didn’t know about the Shore, and so on. The book is the next best thing to being at the Shore; actually, it may be better than being there (think of those epic traffic jams on the Parkway, and all the money you’ll save on tolls, beach fees, and bad boardwalk pizza).Trade Review"What a feast for fans of the Jersey Shore and for all those others who wonder why there are so many fans! Peter Genovese’s latest trip to the Shore is chock-full of 'Best of' lists, places to visit, tantalizing secret places, and lore that makes returning to the Shore every year an ever-eventful pleasure. My own list of attractions, breweries, eateries, ice cream parlors, and more has now grown considerably." -- Dominick Mazzagetti * author of The Jersey Shore: The Past, Present, and Future of a National Treasure (Rutgers University *"Pete Genovese is the person whose opinions I trust most on all things regarding my home state. And I'm from New Jersey—I trust no one." -- Chris Gethard * comedian and host of New Jersey is the World podcast *"For those of us whose hearts live at the Jersey Shore, finally there is a guidebook for our stomachs. Pete Genovese is the best food writer covering the best beat in the best state." -- Pearl Gabel * creator of the @njgov Twitter account *Table of ContentsIntroduction Town Slogans Raritan Bayshore Get Naked or Get Lost I Walked the Entire Jersey Shore. Sort of. The 20 Best Jersey Shore Towns Sandy Hook to Point Pleasant Beach 50 Shore Facts We Bet You Didn’t Know Keep Your Friends Close and Your Cookies Closer The 22 Best Shore Pizzerias The Shore’s Best Strip Mall for Food Jersey Shore Lighthouse Guide 21 Secret Spots Down the Shore Bay Head to Island Beach State Park Unlocking the Ocean The Big Six Boardwalks The 15 Best Boardwalk Foods Long Beach Island to Atlantic City My 25 Favorite Jersey Shore Bars Ghostwriters in the Sky Farmers markets 20 Essential Jersey Shore Experiences Ocean City to Cape May When Seagulls Attack Why is the Wildwood Beach so Damn Wide? Watch the Tram Car, Please Best Ice Cream Stands/Stores Upper Middle Lower! Top 20 Boardwalk Pizzerias Parting Words Index

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Book SynopsisNew Jersey has roughly one hundred and thirty miles of coastline, including a wide array of habitats from marshes to ocean beaches, each hosting a unique ecosystem. Yet these coastal landscapes are quite dynamic, changing rapidly as a result of commercial development, environmental protection movements, and of course climate change. Now more than ever, it is vital to document these landscapes before they disappear. Based on numerous aerial images from helicopter and drone flights between 2015 and 2021, this book provides extensive photographs and maps of the New Jersey coast, from the Pine Barrens to the ocean beaches. The text associated with each exceptional image describes it in detail, including its location, ecological setting, and relative position within the larger landscape. Author Kenneth Able, director of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station for over thirty years, has thoroughly ground-truthed each image by observations made through kayaks, boats, and wading through marshes. Calling upon his decades of expertise, Able paints a compelling portrait of coastal New Jersey’s stunning natural features, resources, history, and possible futures in an era of rising sea levels. Trade Review“Dr. Able is truly an expert on Southern New Jersey with decades of personal knowledge. Coastal Landscapes is a vivid and powerful way to use unique imagery to help share his experiences and perspective–a must-have book on the region.” -- David Tulloch * professor of landscape architecture, Rutgers University *“Coastal Landscapes provides new and intriguing views of landscapes readers might already be familiar with from the ground. There are few people that combine Dr. Able’s academic expertise along with his boots-on-the ground perspective on these coastal ecosystems.” -- Richard G. Lathrop Jr. * editor of The Highlands: Critical Resources, Treasured Landscapes *“The Jersey Shore is one of the nation’s great natural and scenic resources, with the great forests of the Pine Barrens feeding extensive marshes and estuaries formed by beautiful barrier islands. With his scientific expertise and vast knowledge of the region, Ken Able is an ideal guide to showcase this extraordinary systems of interconnected ecosystems.” -- Carleton Montgomery * Executive Director, Pinelands Preservation Alliance *Table of Contents1 Introduction 1 2 Nature Revealed 3 3 Relics of the Past 41 4 Recent Human Footprints 73 5 Connecting People, Places, and Resources 125 6 Sea Level Rising 161 Acknowledgements 191 General References 193 Index 000

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses photographic and cinematographic representations of war and its memorialisation rituals in the period of late modernity from the perspectives of cultural sociology, philosophy, art theory and film studies. It reveals how the experience of war trauma takes root in everydayness and shows how artists try to question the ‘normality’ of the everyday, to actualise the memory of war trauma, to rethink the contrasting experiences of the time of war and everydayness, and to oppose the imposed historical narratives. The new representations are analysed by developing theories of war as a ‘magic spectacle’, also by using such concepts as spectres, triumph and trauma, collective social catastrophes, forensic architecture and others.Table of Contents1. ​Introduction.2. Cold War Cinema and the Traumatic Turn in Europe.3. The Holocaust in the Screen Memory of the USSR.4. The Conflict of Photographic and Cinematographic Representations of War in Soviet Lithuania.5. The Architecture of Lingering War in Everyday Life: Photography and the Double Time of Military Apparatus.- 6. The Erasure of Trauma and its Visualisation in Post-Soviet East European Cinema.7. Manifestations of Specters of War: Deimantas Narkevičius’ Legend Coming True and Sergei Loznitsa’s Reflections.8. War Machine, Visuality and Hypernormalization of Humans and Non-Human Lives in Works by Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl.9. From Sites of Atrocities to Film of Death and Vice Versa.

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Book SynopsisThis rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis. With contributions from astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more the book signals new moves in inter and multidisciplinary research on visual-vertical thinking and related practices within the social sciences, humanities and across the arts. Grounded in socio-visual thinking, Vision and Verticality addresses the emerging shift in the way social scientists move from a sociology of or through images towards a sociology with images. In doing so, this volume illustrates how the sky and atmosphere remain a surprisingly underexplored domain within visual sociology, beyond the framework of drone-related research. Finally, this volume asserts how vertical and atmospherically framed socio-visual analysis is beginning to shape and inform how we see and experience urban spaces, travel, leisure, politics, and environmental challenges through various prisms, including artistic practices, methodological processes, and user-generated content. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gary Bratchford & Dennis Zuev –Vision & Verticality: A Visual Sociology of the SkySection 1. Experimental and Experiential Approaches to Volume and Atmospheres1. Open-weather – The Open-Weather Feminist Handbook: A Preamble2. Of Carnal Gravity: A Three-voice Conversation, Julie Patarin-Jossec, Jean-François Clervoy and Jeanne More3. Seeing in Verticality: From ‘Vertical Gaze’ to ‘Figuring Out’, Andrea Pavoni and Andrea Brighenti4. Vertical Visualities, Experiences and Inequalities: A Conversation with Stephen Graham, Gary Bratchford, Dennis Zuev, and Stephen GrahamSection 2. Sensing, Seeing, and Monitoring from Above5. Repositioning Drone Sensing in Landscape Urbanism & Planning, Paul Cureton & Ole Jensen6. Vocabularies of Drone Sensing, Anna Jackman7. Viewing from Where? Satellite Imaging and the Politics of Space Technology: Unpacking Depravity’s Rainbow, Lewis Bush8. The Algorithmic Apparatus of Neocolonialism: Counter-Operational Practices and the Future of Aerial Surveillance, Anthony DowneySection 3: Assembling and Representing: Artistic Perspectives on Volume, Vertigo and Falling9. Wassily Kandinsky and the Aerial Gaze: Re-considering the Punctual, Linear, and Planar Forces Inherent in the Politics of Visibility of Civil Drones, Francisco Klauser10. After Falling Away: Eeflections on a Vertiginous Art Exhibition, Davide Deriu11. Towards a Typology of Imaginary Skyscrapers, Ana Aragão12. Higher Returns, David KendallSection 4: Mapping Cultural Landscapes, Vertically13. Epistemology of the ‘laje' – Notes From Favela Rooftops, Bianca Freire-Medeiros & Leo Name14. Rio’s ‘Natural Born Monument:’ Visual Imaginaries of The Sugarloaf Mountain, Jorge De La Barre15. Elemental Monsters: Using the Wind to Document Protests Against Wind Farms in Tinos, Greece, Adam Fish16. Revitalization and Touristification: the Vertical Cultural Landscape of Dacha Community in Siberia, Artem Yakovlev and Dennis Zuev

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Book SynopsisAfter the Crisis offers a platform for discussions between some of today's leading artists, writers, theorists, curators, and historians aimed at questioning the very status of photography today. Contributors come from the realms of critical theory, fiction, performance art, fashion photography, and museums, as well as film and design, and their conversations bring together history and the contemporary. Comparing the current situation of photographic images with the crisis experienced by representation at the time of the birth of photography, they set our relationship with photographic images in the digital era in perspective. Through these discussions, we come to sense the existential burden of being surrounded by images, while also beginning to grasp the historical depth of a questioning of images that started long before the current generation and engages with crucial political and cultural issues of our time.

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Book SynopsisEadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world’s visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge’s work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-images and his creation of a moving-image auditorium—long before cinemas—in which to project his work at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. That auditorium was both a catastrophe and a vital precursor for the following century’s manias for projection. Based on new research into his travels, audiences, auditoria, and projectors, Projectionists explores Muybridge’s initiating role in moving-image projection and also maps his driving inspiration for subsequent filmmakers preoccupied with the volatile entity of projection, from 1890s Berlin to contemporary Japan, via further World’s Exposition events and cinemas’ overheated projection-boxes.Trade Review"Beginning in 1992 with Artaud: Blows & bombs, Stephen Barber has quietly, independently forged one of the most singular and enriching bodies of work in contemporary writing. In his latest book, The Projectionists: Eadweard Muybridge and the future projections of the moving image (Diaphanes), Barber tells the largely unknown story of Muybridge as the first ever moving-image projectionist, retracing the 1891 tour of European cities in which Muybridge first projected his work to audiences of royalty, artists and scientists, none of whom had seen moving images before, visiting many of the auditoria which have miraculously survived. Barber’s own obsession with the moving image began as a teenager in Yorkshire, where he worked as a relief projectionist and, through encounters with projectionists around the world, the book is also an interrogation of the solitary and gradually vanishing occupation of the cinema projectionist as embodied by the enigmatic figure of Muybridge himself." * Times Literary Supplement *"This is one of those rare books, a very readable and erudite academic account of the innovative filmmakers and projectionists Barber believes should be more prominent as players in the history event of the arts.“ * 3:AM Magazine *"[An] imaginative, complex and singular book." * Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film *Table of Contents1. The Projectionists 2. Muybridge's Central European Projections, 1891 3. Muybridge's Chicago Exposition Projections, 1893 4. Projection's Devils: Max and Emil Skladanowsky, 1895-97 5. Projections of the Osaka World Exposition, 1970 6. Lovers: Teiji Furuhashi's Projections, 1994/2016/2020 7. Projections of Future Cities, Projections of Future Bodies Bibliography Illustrations List

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Book SynopsisSiegfried Kracauer was one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. This book brings together Kracauer's essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933 as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung, as well as an essay that appeared in the Magazine of Art after the eminent emigre's exile to America.

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Book SynopsisAnhand der Arbeit namhafter Vertreterinnen und Vertreter des Fotojournalismus erläutert der Band die Entstehung und die Entwicklung des Genres seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, unter Einbeziehung technischer, kultureller, wirtschaftlicher, vor allem aber auch politischer Rahmenbedingungen. Gleichzeitig wird für die Zukunft die Frage abgeleitet, wohin sich der Fotojournalismus angesichts einer volldigitalisierten Medienlandschaft und einer mit Handy-Kameras durchsetzten Gesellschaft entwickelt.Trade Review“... ein engagiertes, gut formuliertes und eingängiges Buch vorgelegt, das dem Zynismus, der den Photojournalisten der Gegenwart unterstellt wird, eine Abfuhr erteilt ...” (Wilbert Ubbens, in: Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken, informationsmittel-fuer-bibliotheken.de, Jg. 26, Heft 1, 2018)“… verknüpft in seiner Studie technische, kulturelle, wirtschaftliche und politische Faktoren, die die Geschichte des Fotojournalismus prägen … ermöglicht den Leserinnen und Lesern, vermittelt über den beruflichen Lebensweg von Fotografen, einen Zugang zu Grundsatzfragen des Fotojournalismus, die auch kontrovers diskutiert werden … ” (in: Politisches Lernen, Jg. 34, Heft 3-4, 2016)“... einen guten, ansprechend und sachlich geschriebenen grundlegenden Überblick über die historische, technische, soziale und ästhetische Entwicklung des Fotojournalismus ...” (Evelyn Runge, in: MEDIENwissenschaft, Heft 3, 2016)“... kann diese kurze Geschichte des Fotojournalismus jedem empfohlen werden, der über Produktion und Evidenzcharakter von Foto und Film heute kenntnisreich ‘ins Bild gesetzt‘ werden möchte.” (Prof. Dr. Marion G. Müller, in: Publizistik, S. 353 f., 2016)“... chronologisch angelegten Schlaglichtern ist für Einsteiger zweifellos interessant zu lesen und kann die Lehre zur Kriegsberichterstattung bereichern ...” (in: rkm Rezensionen Kommunikation Medien, 23. Juli 2015)“... Das neue Buch ist eine wertvolle und unverzichtbare Quelle für alle Interessierten an der Geschichte der Fotografie im Allgemeinen und für alle an der Entwicklung des Fotojournalismus Interessierten im Besonderen!.“ (in: Bücherrundschau, Heft 1, 2015)Table of ContentsEntwicklung der Kriegs- und der Sozialfotografie – zwischen Platten- und Kleinbildkameras.- Fotografie im Lichte von Zensur, Dokumentation und Propaganda.- Humanistische Fotografie.- Fotografie zwischen Berichtspflicht und Voyeurismus.- Fotojournalisten unter militärischer Kuratel.- Digitalfotografie und die Auflösung professioneller Strukturen.

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Book SynopsisBilder sind Bestandteil von Kampagnen, Ausstellungen, Zeitungen, Artikeln, Posts, Werbung und Plakaten – sie sind aus der medialen Kommunikation nicht wegzudenken. All diese Bilder werden von einer Vielzahl an Personen an unterschiedlichen Orten betrachtet. Sehen all diese Personen das Gleiche, was empfinden sie beim Betrachten eines Bildes, was denken sie? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, bündelt Reik Benjamin Stiebeling im Picture Interpretation Model aktuelle theoretische Ansätze und verdichtet diese zu einem Modell der individuellen Rezeption von Bildern. Mithilfe dieses Modells analysiert der Autor die empirisch gewonnenen Interpretationen von sechs Fotografien und arbeitet deren Struktur und Entstehung heraus.Table of ContentsGrundlagen der Bildkommunikation.- Zentrale Bausteine einer Theorie der Bildrezeption.- Ein semiotisches Kommunikationsverständnis.- Die Psychologie der Bildrezeption.- Erkenntnisse zur Rezeption von Bildern.- Eine Untersuchung der Interpretation von Bildern aus PR und Werbung.

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Book SynopsisWir Menschen wissen bereits seit über 400 Jahren, dass wir uns unverschämterweise nicht im Zentrum des Universums befinden. Dennoch war die Überraschung groß, als mit Beginn der Raumfahrt die ersten Fotografien der blauen Erdkugel auftauchten. Umweltaktivisten erschraken vor der Fragilität der Atmosphäre, Philosophinnen distanzierten sich vom Menschen und Landschaftsfotografen entdeckten fremde Welten in der bereits bekannten. Bernd Pröschold hat in Wüstenlandschaften, im Erdorbit und sogar in der Tiefsee außerirdisch anmutende Motive aufgespürt und zu einem essayistischen Bildband im Querformat verarbeitet. Vor kosmischer Kulisse zeichnet er die Konturen eines zweibeinigen Wesens, dessen Schicksal viel enger mit dem Weltall verwoben ist, als unsere Alltagserfahrung es erahnen lässt. Wir begeben uns auf einen visuellen Streifzug durch extraterrestrische Bildwelten, bereichert durch Zitate und Anekdoten – ein Muss für alle Naturfreunde, Philosophen und Weltraum-Fans.Table of Contents1 Ein neues Weltbild.- 2 Der Overview-Effekt.- 3 Entgrenzungserfahrung.- 4 Entgrenzungsphysik.- 5 Der Underview-Effekt.- 6 Kosmische Landschaften.- 7 Lichter der Nacht.

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Book SynopsisDas Fotopraktikum vermittelt systematisch das gesamte Spektrum der heutigen angewandten Fotografie. Es wurde für Leser geschrieben, die es exakt, gründlich und ohne Umschweife wissen wollen. Für Studenten der Hoch-, Fachhoch-, Abend- und Volkshochschulen, für den Nachwuchs der Fotobranche sowie für die, denen die Fotografie im Beruf unentbehrlich ist. Und natürlich auch für ambitionierte Amateure.Table of Contents1 Die Kamera.- 2 Das Negativ.- 3 Das Positiv.- 4 Das Licht.- 5 Das Bild.- 6 Rückblick und Ausblick.- Sachwortverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisSo begins this lovely volume of exquisite photographs from Laos, a country whose remote regions are still hidden away to all but a few inquisitive scholars and venturesome travelers. The capital city of Vientiane and far-flung regions of the country are richly illustrated in 150 color images. The photographs recount the author's personal journey to towns and villages in the 1990s, portraying ethnic minorities and lowlanders, their traditional life and work, and the natural environment and terrain. Apart from a descriptive introduction, the captions provide the only text. The author observes signs of modernization with each subsequent visit--traditional dress replaced by Western clothing, forests destroyed by a new road. The book provides a rare and nuanced glimpse into the country and people of Laos as they stand at the crossroads of change.

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Book SynopsisFrom artifacts of ancient pre-Thai civilizations to achievements of the Thai kingdom in the early twentieth century, the enduring vestiges and persistent vitality of Thai heritage continue to entice visitors, residents, and researchers. Photographer and author Jim Wageman traveled to both well-known and little-visited sites throughout Thailand to capture images that convey the breadth and intricacy of the country’s heritage. Wageman presents his images in a gorgeous layout that is matched by solid, well-researched captions and explanations. Beautiful and incisive, The Timeless Heritage of Thailand is an outstanding compendium for anyone fascinated by the treasures of Thailand’s cultural heritage.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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Book SynopsisThis survey of Mexicos visual culture from the mid-1800s to the present illuminates the powerful role of photographs, films, illustrated magazines, and image-filled books in the construction of Mexican identity.Trade Review“Mraz’s book constitutes a significant step in our understanding of Mexican photography in the twentieth-century Mexican landscape. The sections on contemporary photographers, from Hector Garcia to Pedro Meyer and from Manuel Alvarez Bravo to the rise of photojournalism in Mexico, are particularly noteworthy.” - Juan Javier Pescador, Hispanic American Historical Review“To paraphrase Octavio Paz, Mexican identity is constructed of distinct races and languages, as well as of various levels of history. Mraz’s thoughtful treatment of this profound idea benefits scholars, students, and other interested readers with its near comprehensive, but necessarily abbreviated, coverage of a rich and colorful topic.” - Charles Heath, H-Net Reviews“Looking for Mexico represents a significant advance in the fields of visual culture and Mexican history that should be read by all those interested in the construction of national identities in Latin America and beyond. . . . Accessible, engaging, and innovative, Looking for Mexico will surely find a well-deserved place on many undergraduate and graduate course outlines and become a standard work on the topic.” - Amelia M. Kiddle, The Latin Americanist“Mraz not only displays an encyclopedic knowledge of Mexican photography; he also proposes extremely original, insightful, and creative ways of organizing and making sense of this vast archive. . . . Looking for Mexico is brilliantly researched, passionately argued, and beautifully written. It will become the definitive history of Mexican photography. No otheravailable book is as broad and as informed.” - Rubén Gallo, Hispanic Review“Mraz’s ambitious study remains of great value in providing an overview that enables the reader to make connections across a vast terrain of photographic and cinematic practice, and will no doubt inspire further investigation into the still underdeveloped field of Latin American visual studies.” - Pippa Oldfield, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies“[T]he scope, accessibility, and argument of this important book make it a great choice for use in a course on visual culture, or a more general course on modern Mexico.” - John Lear, The Americas"John Mraz contributes new insights to a growing body of literature that examines the role of photography and film within the "renaissance" that emerged in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910…. [T]he book is written in an easily accessible and engaging style…. Looking for Mexico brings together a provocative array of images and image-makers." - Adriana Zavala, Visual Resources“No one is better qualified to present and analyze Mexico’s vast visual archive than John Mraz, and he does so with great finesse. Drawing a broad arch from the daguerreotype to digitalization, he successfully links the past to the present in ways that only one as knowledgeable as he could accomplish.”—Eric Zolov, author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of Mexican Counterculture“Looking for Mexico represents a significant advance in the fields of visual culture and Mexican history that should be read by all those interested in the construction of national identities in Latin America and beyond. . . . Accessible, engaging, and innovative, Looking for Mexico will surely find a well-deserved place on many undergraduate and graduate course outlines and become a standard work on the topic.” -- Amelia M. Kiddle * The Latin Americanist *“[T]he scope, accessibility, and argument of this important book make it a great choice for use in a course on visual culture, or a more general course on modern Mexico.” -- John Lear * The Americas *“Mraz not only displays an encyclopedic knowledge of Mexican photography; he also proposes extremely original, insightful, and creative ways of organizing and making sense of this vast archive. . . . Looking for Mexico is brilliantly researched, passionately argued, and beautifully written. It will become the definitive history of Mexican photography. No otheravailable book is as broad and as informed.” -- Rubén Gallo * Hispanic Review *“Mraz’s ambitious study remains of great value in providing an overview that enables the reader to make connections across a vast terrain of photographic and cinematic practice, and will no doubt inspire further investigation into the still underdeveloped field of Latin American visual studies.” -- Pippa Oldfield * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *“Mraz’s book constitutes a significant step in our understanding of Mexican photography in the twentieth-century Mexican landscape. The sections on contemporary photographers, from Hector Garcia to Pedro Meyer and from Manuel Alvarez Bravo to the rise of photojournalism in Mexico, are particularly noteworthy.” -- Juan Javier Pescador * Hispanic American Historical Review *“To paraphrase Octavio Paz, Mexican identity is constructed of distinct races and languages, as well as of various levels of history. Mraz’s thoughtful treatment of this profound idea benefits scholars, students, and other interested readers with its near comprehensive, but necessarily abbreviated, coverage of a rich and colorful topic.” -- Charles Heath * H-Net Reviews *"John Mraz contributes new insights to a growing body of literature that examines the role of photography and film within the "renaissance" that emerged in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910…. [T]he book is written in an easily accessible and engaging style…. Looking for Mexico brings together a provocative array of images and image-makers." -- Adriana Zavala * Visual Resources *Table of ContentsAuthor's Note ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. War, Portraits, Mexican Types, and Porfirian Progress (1847-1910) 13 2. Revolution and Culture (1910-1940) 59 3. Cinema and Celebrities in the Golden Age 107 4. Illustrated Magazines, Presente, Photojournalism, and Historia gráfica (1940-1968) 153 5. New Visual Cultures and the Old Battle to Picture the Past and Present (1968-2007) 201 Notes 251 Bibliography 309 Index 333

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Book SynopsisA book of evocative and atmospheric photographs taken by Dick Hawkes to create a representative record of this precious and ecologically unique habitat – before much of it is lost to the many threats it faces. Chalk streams have been described as England’s “rainforest”. Around 85% of the world’s chalk streams are in England. They are beautiful, biologically distinct and amazingly rich in wildlife, but are under threat from man-made issues of abstraction, pollution from chemicals and effluent, development for housing, and climate change. Included in the book are images of typical habitats and species of wildlife found in chalk streams and water meadows, highlighting those that are rare or most under threat.

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