Photography: portraits and self-portraiture Books
Aperture Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter
Book SynopsisTommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter weaves together self-portraits and classically bucolic landscapes punctuated by the traces of East Asian stories embedded in the topography of the American South. In this first major monograph, featuring almost a decade of work, Tommy Kha explores the highly personal psycho-geography of his hometown. As the artist states, “Memphis has become, for me, not only the place where I was raised but an active borderland between fantasy and memory, nostalgia and history, nonfiction and mythology.” Memphis is where his mother, fleeing Vietnam in the early 1980s, settled, along with his extended family. Throughout the work, his mother emerges as a recurring character, sometimes the subject of quiet photographic study, and in others, a collaborative muse. “I’m a cut of my mom,” Kha asserts, “Every photograph I make of her is a Half Self-Portrait.” In snapshots drawn from a family album that serves as the one record of her journey to the United States, she is the source of nostalgia and barely captured memory. In assembling a visual account of the struggle to find his own voice and narrate the fragmented history of his family, Kha challenges the cultural amnesia around Asian lives and experiences in recent American histories. Acclaimed author Hua Hsu contributes an engaging essay, “People Need to Smile More,” and MacArthur Fellow An-My Lê conducts an incisive conversation with Kha that delves into his family history and artistic strategies. Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter is the result of the Next Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, in collaboration with the 7 G Foundation. An exhibition of the work will open at Baxter St in New York in February 2023.Trade Review“‘My work is about how much the landscape has been unkind to immigrants,’ says Tommy Kha of his latest photo project, which captures the Asian diaspora in America with a surreal edge.” —Tony Wilkes, AnOther magazine “Kha’s poignant photographs bring together his family’s East Asian ancestry and everyday life in the American South, where found photographs, self-portraits and “half self-portraits” of his mother tell a story of displacement and shared identity.” —Stefanie Li, Galerie magazine “‘These are mostly from the book, but also thinking a lot about the Southern landscape,” [Kha] says, referring to Half, Full, Quarter, his first monograph, published this February by the prestigious photo-centric publisher Aperture.” —Chris McCoy, Memphis magazine “The artist makes wry commentaries on the immigrant experience using scattered visual fragments, from the depths of Tennessee’s Chinatown to the fishing communities of rural Vietnam. A new book and exhibition prove there’s method to the melange.” -Larissa Pham, British Journal of Photography “Kha’s layered portraits, still lifes, and landscapes exist alongside his mother’s own photographs. The collaborative world between mother and son expands.” —Harley Wong, Artforum “Together, they form a picture not just of his family or how they made a home in the South but of how important humor, placemaking and ultimately photography are to Kha’s understanding of this region.” —Michael Adno, The New York Times “‘Ghost Bites’ maps the psycho-geography of a fractured self; of all the losses, phantoms, and questions that emerge from the diasporic lineage.” —Jacinda Tran, The Amp
£40.50
Aperture Myriam Boulos: What's Ours
Book SynopsisA searing, diaristic portrayal of a city and society in revolution by Magnum nominee Myriam Boulos In her debut monograph, Myriam Boulos casts an unflinching eye on the revolution that began in Lebanon in 2019 with protests against government corruption and austerity—culminating with the aftermath of the devastating Beirut port explosion of August 2020. She portrays her friends and family with startling energy and intimacy, in states of pleasure and protest. Boulos renders the body in public space as a powerful motif, both visceral and vulnerable in the face of state neglect and violence. Of her approach to photography, Boulos states: “It’s more of a need than a choice. I obsess about things and I don’t know how to deal with these obsessions in any other way but photography.” Featuring a contextual essay by noted writer Mona Eltahawy, What’s Ours showcases Boulos’s strident and urgent vision.
£38.66
Taschen GmbH Sebastião Salgado. Children
Book SynopsisIn every crisis situation, children are the greatest victims. Physically weak, they are often the first to succumb to hunger, disease, and dehydration. Innocent to the workings and failings of the world, they are unable to understand why there is danger, why there are people who want to hurt them, or why they must leave, perhaps quite suddenly, and abandon their schools, their friends, and their home. In this companion series to Exodus, Sebastião Salgado presents 90 portraits of the youngest exiles, migrants, and refugees. His subjects are from different countries, victims to different crises, but they are all on the move, and all under the age of 15. Through his extensive refugee project, what struck Salgado about these boys and girls was not only the implicit innocence in their suffering but also their radiant reserves of energy and enthusiasm, even in the most miserable of circumstances. From roadside refuges in Angola and Burundi to city slums in Brazil and sprawling camps in Lebanon and Iraq, the children remained children: they were quick to laugh as much as to cry, they played soccer, splashed in dirty water, got up to mischief with friends, and were typically ecstatic at the prospect of being photographed. For Salgado, the exuberance presented a curious paradox. How can a smiling child represent circumstances of deprivation and despair? What he noticed, though, was that when he asked the children to line up, and took their portraits one by one, the group giddiness would fade. Face to face with his camera, each child would become much more serious. They would look at him not as part of a noisy crowd, but as an individual. Their poses would become earnest. They looked into the lens with a sudden intensity, as if abruptly taking stock of themselves and their situation. And in the expression of their eyes, or the nervous fidget of small hands, or the way frayed clothes hung off painfully thin frames, Salgado found he had a refugee portfolio that deserved a forum of its own. The photographs do not try to make a statement about their subjects’ feelings, or to spell out the particulars of their health, educational, and housing deficits. Rather, the collection allows 90 children to look out at the viewer with all the candor of youth and all the uncertainty of their future. Beautiful, proud, pensive, and sad, they stand before the camera for a moment in their lives, but ask questions that haunt for years to come. Will they remain in exile? Will they always know an enemy? Will they grow up to forgive or seek revenge? Will they grow up at all?
£34.00
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Inner Harmony: Living in Balance
Book Synopsis"...explores how and why Buddhist practices have come to inspire and enlighten people worldwide, offering insight into the universally relevant principles that can enhance our ability to live a less stressful, more balanced life, regardless of one's spiritual path." – OM Yoga & Lifestyle "The arresting visuals and accompanying words will remind you to slow down, zen out, and remember that your problems probably aren’t as big as you’re making them out to be." —Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Journal “A rare and intimate glimpse into Buddhist practices.” —Amateur Photographer Searching for peace within — an increasing necessity, and challenge, in our turbulent times. In this richly illustrated book, photographer and physician Jon Kolkin explores how and why Buddhist spiritual practices have come to inspire and enlighten people all around the globe. For 12 years, Kolkin travelled to Buddhist centres across Asia, capturing the everyday life of monks and nuns on camera. Impressive and respectful, his 220 mostly black-and-white photographs offer powerful insight into the otherwise hushed and hidden world of meditation and mindfulness. With his profound feeling for light and composition, Kolkin’s rare and intimate images capture the uniqueness of each mindful moment, as well as the universal reach and inspiration of Buddhist practice. Text in English and German.Trade Review"The Dalai Lama's response reinforced in me the realization that even when people have similar objectives they can interpret words from significantly different perspectives. In response to His comments, my first book released by a traditional publishing house, teNeues, covers the same topic and is called, Inner Harmony: Living in Balance." - Authority Magazine"It (this book) explores how and why Buddhist practices have come to inspire and enlighten people worldwide, offering insight into the universally relevant principles that can enhance our ability to live a less stressful, more balanced life, regardless of one's spiritual path." - OM Yoga & Lifestyle"The arresting visuals and accompanying words will remind you to slow down, zen out, and remember that your problems probably aren’t as big as you’re making them out to be." - Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Journal“A rare and intimate glimpse into Buddhist practices.” - Amateur Photographer"The photographs in this book are meant to communicate concepts central to living a healthy and balanced life much in line with his practice in medicine and the view that inner harmony can only be cultivated through practice." - Bonnie Nadzam, Lion's Roar"This impressive collection of 220 mostly black and white images offers an intriguing insight into the hushed and hidden world of meditation and mindfulness." - Black & White PhotographyTable of ContentsLocation Terminology Foreword by The Dalai Lama Foreword by The Queen Mother of Bhutan Inner Harmony by Jon Kolkin 1. Seeking Balance 2. Embracing Robes 3. caring for One’s Temple 4. Nurturing Nature 5. Transforming Lives 6. Opening Minds 7. Engaging Debate 8. Healing Wisdom 9. Meditating Stillness 10. Sounding the Sacred 11. Offering Blessings 12. Illuminating Heart 13. Compassion Embodied 14. Navigating Pathways 15. Longing for Home 16. Calm Pools Within 17. Emanating Joy 18. Living Enlightenment Glossary Partners Biography Acknowledgments
£28.00
Terra Uitgeverij Casper Faassen
Book Synopsis“With his technique, Casper refers to the theme ‘Vanitas’ that was often used in 17th-century painting: symbols that represent the transience of earthly existence. This places Casper in a long line of painters who have passed on inspiration from one generation to the next.” —Meta Knol, director Museum De Lakenhal Beauty is central to the artworks of Dutch visual artist Casper Faassen. He has developed a unique visual language through the combination of photography, paint, and the application of craquelure to his canvases. He builds them up from multiple transparent layers, creating a distance between subject and viewer, highlighting the contrast between beauty and apparent decay. This first overview of his photographic work includes his Asia series, dancers from the Dutch National Ballet series, cityscapes, and still lifes in the style of Morandi.
£45.00
Terra Uitgeverij Backstage: Portraits of Actors at Work in the
Book Synopsis“…delivers an absorbing portrait of actor’s final preparation during their last 30 minutes before going on stage.” – The Lady British photographer Simon Annand has been shooting candid photographs backstage at West End theatres in London for 35 years. In these meditative portraits, often shot in the intimate space of the dressing room, he captures the focus and tension of world-class actors right before they go on the stage. Actors such as Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal and Judi Dench are seen in these moments of vulnerability, which every actor experiences no matter how long they have been working. Backstage, with an introduction by Cate Blanchett, contains a hand-picked selection of Simon Annand's remarkable and unique portraits.
£23.75
Penguin Books Ltd Amour How the French Talk about Love
Book Synopsis''A collection of intimate and heartfelt confessions of what love means, each with a wonderfully expressive colour portrait'' Guardian ''Will restore your faith in the world'' New York Post Award-winning journalist and documentary maker Stefania Rousselle had stopped believing in love. She had covered a series of bleak assignments, from terrorist attacks to the rise of the far right. Her relationship had fallen apart. Her faith in humanity was shaken. She decided to set out alone on a road trip across France, sleeping in strangers'' homes, asking ordinary men and women the one question everyone wants to know the answer to: what is love? From a baker in Normandy to a shepherd in the Pyrénées, from a gay couple estranged from their families to a widow who found love again at 70, Amour is a treasure trove of poignant and profound stories about love, accompanied by beautiful photographs.''Astonishing. BeautifuTrade ReviewThis is one of the best things I have read for a very long time. These wonderful stories really bring out what is important in life * Guardian reader response *These stories make my heart ache * Guardian reader response *Coming back to this again after re-reading it and finding it just as moving the second time - if not more so. Thank you Stefania Rouselle for this gift. * Guardian reader response *These are beautiful, heart-rending stories of small, great truths * Guardian reader response *This is exceptional photojournalism. Wonderful * Guardian reader response *These short stories and accompanying photos capture the human spirit with raw honesty * Guardian reader response *Beautiful. Made me cry a little. Thank you for such honest, diverse and open stories * Guardian reader response *Will restore your faith in the world * New York Post *A collection of more than 80 (...) intimate and heartfelt confessions of what love means... each with a wonderfully expressive colour portrait. Some are illustrated with additional photos by Rousselle, revealing an unerring eye for colour, composition and the unexpected beauty to be found in the mundanity of life, reminiscent of William Eggleston's images... Taken as a whole, these frank statements reveal a diverse account of love in the 21st century * Guardian *
£11.69
Rizzoli International Publications Outsiders Hustlers Bikers Junkies CrossDressers
Book SynopsisIdealists, outsiders, and those brave enough to be themselves, as depicted by visionary photographers and filmmakers including Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin, reveal another America. A visual tour through life at the margins in the United States from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, Outsiders highlights the work of iconic photographers and filmmakers who profoundly changed the image of American culture. Kenneth Anger, Diane Arbus, Shirley Clarke, Nan Goldin, Danny Lyon, Garry Winogrand, and their contemporaries challenged rigid postwar society with their powerful films and photographs. Lyon’s travels with Chicago biker gangs and Arbus’s swordswallowers form a dramatic counterpoint to a trove of midcentury images from Casa Susanna, a community of cross-dressers enjoying country life en femme. Outsiders captures diverse and significant subcultures and interests, united by each subject’s will to determine his or her own identity. Accompanying the images, essa
£16.96
Rizzoli International Publications Life After Birth
Book SynopsisIntimate stories from notable and influential women that celebrate the early stages of life and the start of motherhood. A book that changes the narrative about postpartum, Life After Birth illustrates what life is really like after birth—not just days and weeks later, but also years afterward. What is the transition to motherhood really like? From a parent in the military to a mother’s pregnancy of 42 weeks, Life After Birth is filled with accounts of strength, resilience, and power. Every birth is a unique story. While we tend to focus our attention on the arrival of a baby, in pregnancy parents are also introduced to a new self. Life After Birth reflects on the many physical changes as well as the myriad of feelings that are brought on by this transformation and the inseparable bond a new life brings. Revealing real experiences and raw emotions, this book is a celebration of life and a celebration of the human body.Trade Review"Joanna Griffiths and Domino Kirke-Badgley first launched Life After Birth as a photo exhibit in New York City. But the response was so great they knew they had to continue in their mission to "change society's postpartum narrative." Life After Birth, a collection of portraits that celebrate and highlight the truth of postpartum for women of all ages and backgrounds, is their answer." —PEOPLE
£30.88
Rizzoli International Publications Postcards from Home Creativity in a Time of
Book SynopsisVogue gathers a stylish collection of at-home, intimate portraits photographed by today's fashion icons, designers, models, and artists, each documenting their creative lives under lockdown.Vogue: Postcards from Home is a beautiful and unforgettable collection of self-rendered images from a bevy of celebrities, photographers, filmmakers, actors, creative directors, performance artists, fashion designers, and models. Kendall Jenner, Virgil Abloh, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Karen Elson, Florence Pugh, Maurizio Cattelan, Billy Porter,Donatella Versace, Gisele Bündchen, Cindy Sherman, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Kim Kardashian West are among those who share a glimpse of their lives under lockdown. From singer Lizzo meditating at home, to actress Florence Pughhoning her cooking skills, to Miuccia Prada contemplating Prada's next collection in her garden--these snapshots reflect a moment in history when the world turned upside down but creativity flourished.
£23.96
National Portrait Gallery Publications David Hockney: Normandy Portraits
Book SynopsisDavid Hockney: Normandy Portraits accompanies a major exhibition on David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery, London. It reveals new portraits painted in Hockney's Normandy Studio between 2020 and 2022. David Hockney: Normandy Portraits illustrates around 40 acrylic on canvas works painted by Hockney at his Normandy studio – depicting his friends and visitors, including his partner JP, pop-star sensation Harry Styles, and the artist himself. This image-led book product will showcase a series of some previously unseen portraits, through 48 pages, uninterrupted by text, to allow readers to engage directly with the artworks that will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery as well as some added exclusives. These works highlight the ongoing importance of portraiture within the artist’s practice and demonstrate his sentiment that ‘drawings and paintings … are a lot better than photographs to give you a sense of the person’. Hockney returned to painting after an intensive period spent depicting the Normandy landscape using an iPad. The portraits were painted quickly and directly onto the canvas without under drawing. As Hockney has said ‘to do a portrait slowly is a bit of a contradiction’.
£15.16
Damiani Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury: Portraits 1967-1968
Book SynopsisElaine Mayes was a young photographer living in San Francisco’s lively Haight-Ashbury District during the 1960s. She had photographed the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and, later that year, during the waning days of the Summer of Love, embarked on a set of portraits of youth culture in her neighborhood. By that time, the hippie movement had turned from euphoria to harder drugs, and the Haight had become less of a blissed-out haven for young people seeking a better way of life than a halfway house to runaway teens. Realizing the gravity of the cultural moment, Mayes shifted from the photojournalistic approach she had applied to musicians and concert-goers in Monterey to making formal portraits of people she met on the street. Choosing casual and familiar settings, such as stoops, doorways, parks, and interiors, Mayes instructed her subjects to look into her square-format camera, to concentrate and be still: she made her exposures as they exhaled. Mayes’ familiarity with her subjects helped her to evade mediatized stereotypes of hippies as radically utopian and casually tragic, presenting instead an understated and unsentimental group portrait of the individual inventors of a fleeting cultural moment. Elaine Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968 is the first monograph on one of the decade’s most important bodies of work, presenting more than forty images from Mayes’ extensive series. An essay by art historian Kevin Moore elaborates an important chapter in the history of West Coast photography during this critical cultural and artistic period.
£30.00
Blacksmith Books Hong Kong Shifts
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£23.19
Rizzoli International Publications Charles III
Book SynopsisGetty Images Royal Photographer Chris Jackson has accompanied the British royal family on tours and engagements throughout the world. This book celebrates the life of King Charles on the historic occasion of his accession to the throne.From the excitement of royal tours to capturing official portraits and behind-the-scenes moments of senior members of the British royal family, Jackson’s singular insight into what it means to document the most famous family on the planet has never been more exciting than now, on the cusp of the coronation of a new British monarch, the first in an astounding seventy years.Jackson has an extensive archive of photographs of the former Prince of Wales and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, now King Charles III and the Queen Consort, delivering definitive insight into the extraordinary life of His Royal Highness as he takes the throne, a watershed moment in modern history and in the British monarchy.Trade Review"This book so beautiful, it’s a must have if you are a lover of the British royal family as seen through Chris Jackson’s camera." —NEW ROYALTY WORLD BLOG "His new book, Charles III: A King and His Queen, out today, focuses on the big moments, but also the quieter ones, of King Charles and Queen Camilla. While some photographs may be recognizable to the average royal fan, plenty are brand new." —TOWN & COUNTRY
£36.00
Candela Books Memory Orchards Photographers and Their Families
Book SynopsisPersonal and candid family photographs from the private collections of today''s leading contemporary photographersThis volume presents an anthology of family-related images, through highs and lows, through lust and loss, creating a survey of work which reflects our understanding of family in this moment. These photographs are derived from long-term documentary projects, archive-based explorations, mundane interactions and moments of intimacy. While the motivations of any given photographer are distinctly individual, there are some foundational ideas that persist. Some artists write of their longing to remember, to document their own peculiar and beautiful realities. Others write of their desire to share their experience in hopes of adding to larger conversations about representation or identity. Taken as a whole, Memory Orchards is complex, personal and deeply relatable.Photographers include: Priya Kambli, Elijah Gowin, Rashod Taylor, Lissa
£55.80
Abrams ANIMALS
Book SynopsisAn innovative and insightful look at our relationship with animals in the age of the Anthropocene from Henry Carroll, the bestselling author of HUMANS, with original images from an innovative array of contemporary photographers In ANIMALS, Henry Carroll deep-dives into an ecosystem of contemporary images to consider how we relate to animals in the Anthropocene. His accessible analysis of emotive imagery suggests that our appreciation for some animals and disregard, or repulsion, for others is shaped by our own physicality as much as theirs. He shows how the conventions of natural history offer a very politicized understanding of fauna and how the role of animals as spiritual, cultural, and personal symbols can be an equally valid means of classification. Carroll reflects on the psychological power struggles infusing our daily interactions with animals and unpacks the photographers’ visual insights relating to our treatment of animals,
£11.69
Johns Hopkins University Press Faces of Civil War Nurses
Book SynopsisA collection of rare archival images and biographical sketches of the dauntless women who served as nurses and caregivers during the Civil War. During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the war effort in countless ways: forming charitable societies, becoming nurses, or even marching off to war as vivandières, unofficial attachés to the regiments. In Faces of Civil War Nurses, Ronald S. Coddington turns his attention to the experiences of 77 women of all ages and walks of life who provided care during the war as nurses, aid workers, and vivandières. Their personal narratives are as unique as fingerprints: each provides a distinct entry point into the larger social history of the brutal and bloody conflict. Coddington tells these determined women's stories through letters, diaries, pension files, and newspaper and government reports. Using identified tintypes and cartes de visite of Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsThe ProfilesNotesReferencesIndex
£24.75
HarperCollins Publishers Behind the Crown
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£22.50
HarperCollins Publishers King Charles III
Book SynopsisA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fansAs the nation celebrates the coronation of a new monarch, The Sun looks back on 100 moments in the life of the man who would be king.The longest heir apparent in British history, King Charles has lived a remarkable life during his 70-year wait to be king. From his childhood to his later years, each day of Charles's life has led up to the moment he ascended to the throne. With exclusive articles from The Sun's archives, rarely seen photographs and a foreword written by celebrated royal photographer Arthur Edwards MBE, this book paints a unique portrait of the man behind the monarch.Featuring the ups and downs, highs and lows, and the key moments that have shaped the life of a son, father, grandfather and king, including:The birth of a prince, 1948From Balmoral to boarding school, 1958Investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1969Blazing a trail for the environment, 1970Charles meets Camilla, 1972We
£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Talking Pictures
Book SynopsisA collection of found images from the past-men, women, and children pulled from obscurity, posing for unknown cameraman. It shows us how a few scribbled lines can turn a blurry black-and-white snapshot of people who seem a million miles and a million years away into an intensely personal sliver of experience that anyone can relate to.
£10.44
The University of Chicago Press Remembering to Forget Holocaust Memory Through
Book SynopsisRevealing the unique significance of the concentration camp photographs, this text shows how they have become the basis of our memory of the Holocaust and how they have affected our presentations and perceptions of contemporary history's subsequent atrocities.
£21.85
University of Illinois Press Photographic Presidents
Book SynopsisDefining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincoln's somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson's swearing in. George W. Bush's reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama's selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium's transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography, but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographsas representations of leaders who symbolized the nationsparked public debate on these values and their implications. An original journey through political history, Photographic PresideTrade Review"Entertaining yet informative. . . Photographic Presidents is an excellent book that brings context and depth to certain decision points within history and how photography shaped them. It takes on a concept often overlooked by scholars as simply there, and moves it front and center into the discussion." --Congress & the Presidency "Well-written and engaging . . . What will be the next step in how presidents become photographic? Finnegan cannot—and does not try to—answer that question, but the fact that the question resonates in my head after putting down her book is a testament to how thought-provoking Photographic Presidents is." --Journal of American History "Very interesting and informative . . . Finnegan has covered a lot of ground in this well-illustrated book. She traces the development of the photographic medium and techniques with the history of visual communications and the image of the presidents, and has done it extremely well." --Journal of American CultureTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Daguerreotype Presidents1. Photographing George Washington2. Early Daguerreotypes in the U.S. and the Nation’s Capital3. John Quincy Adams and National PortraiturePart II. The Snapshot President4. Handheld Photography and the Halftone Revolution5. William McKinley’s Last PhotographsPart III. The Candid Camera Presidents6. Visual News in the Early Twentieth Century7. Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Candid CameraPart IV. The Social Media President8. Changing Visual Media from the Mid-Twentieth Century to the Digital Age9. Barack Obama and FlickrConclusion: The Portrait Makes Our PresidentNotesSelected BibliographyIndexBack cover
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Photographic Presidents
Book SynopsisDefining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincoln's somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson's swearing in. George W. Bush's reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama's selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium's transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography, but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographsas representations of leaders who symbolized the nationsparked public debate on these values and their implications. An original journey through political history, Photographic PresideTrade Review"Entertaining yet informative. . . Photographic Presidents is an excellent book that brings context and depth to certain decision points within history and how photography shaped them. It takes on a concept often overlooked by scholars as simply there, and moves it front and center into the discussion." --Congress & the Presidency"Well-written and engaging . . . What will be the next step in how presidents become photographic? Finnegan cannot—and does not try to—answer that question, but the fact that the question resonates in my head after putting down her book is a testament to how thought-provoking Photographic Presidents is." --Journal of American History"Very interesting and informative . . . Finnegan has covered a lot of ground in this well-illustrated book. She traces the development of the photographic medium and techniques with the history of visual communications and the image of the presidents, and has done it extremely well." --Journal of American Culture"Today, the camera, the press, and the presidency are inextricably linked. But how did we get here and, more importantly, how does that evolution inform the present visual and rhetorical landscape? Based on her longstanding research, writing and commentary as a 'presidential visual scholar,' there is no one better equipped to compose this picture than Cara Finnegan. This narrative weaves the evolution of a technology, a communications medium, and the highest office in the land into a vivid historical panorama. In current times, in an atmosphere in which visual politics can be all too affecting and effecting, Photographic Presidents places the visual presidency into a necessary frame."--Michael Shaw, Publisher, Reading the Pictures"A valuable resource for students of both American politics and the history of photography." --Booklist"Informative, knowledgeable, and enjoyable . . . . Photographic Presidents is a valuable addition to presidential history." --Foreword Reviews"Captivating . . . . Broad in scope and rich in anecdotal detail, this will please photography and history buffs." --Publishers Weekly"Fascinating." --Air Mail
£17.09
Indiana University Press The Future Is in Your Hands Portrait Photography
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book does a wonderful job of complicating histories of photography globally, and through a combination of historical and ethnographic work, shows the enduring but changing power of images in Senegal."—Joshua A. Bell, editor of Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones
£26.99
Indiana University Press The Future Is in Your Hands Portrait Photography
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book does a wonderful job of complicating histories of photography globally, and through a combination of historical and ethnographic work, shows the enduring but changing power of images in Senegal."—Joshua A. Bell, editor of Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones
£67.15
MIT Press Ltd The Day after Yesterday
Book SynopsisA deft combination of narrative and portraiture that breaks the taboo around dementia, replacing the fear and futility with empathy and nuance.A graphic designer, a writer, a public servant, a retired PhD, a 29-year-old with early-onset Alzheimer’s. These are just some of the 50 million people living with dementia who share their deeply personal stories with Joe Wallace in The Day after Yesterday, a powerful collection of portraits and personal stories that humanizes the millions of people living with the disease. Each story in this poignant volume offers a unique and powerful lesson—not just about how to live with a terminal illness, but how to do so with resilience and dignity.Dementia is often a taboo subject with limited public awareness or discourse. A diagnosis can become a mechanism for segregating those affected from society, making it easier to see only the label and not the individual, which, in turn, makes it easier to ignore the bur
£28.80
University of Texas Press All Tore Up
Book SynopsisIconic portraits of greasers and gearheads, families and pinup girls, rockers and regular Joes capture the distinctive people and scene around hot rod and custom cars.Trade Review"Brainard's hot rod portraits capture a sense of individualistic pride that runs deep in the culture and spans across ages, genders or stereotypes." * The Houston Chronicle *"What you will learn from the book is what Brainard learned at the car shows—that a Texas hot rod event is probably the best place in the world for people watching." * Pro Photo Daily *"From Brainard's portraits, it is evident that people themselves are like living works of art, externally embellished in expression and internally rich in history and meaning." * CNN *"Every single one of Brainard's shots has an undeniable aura of authenticity. They stop time just long enough for you to get a better look at the men, women and children who live and breathe hot rods and custom cars." * Rodder's Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword: When Fast and Fashion Fuse with FuelIntroductionAll Tore Up
£35.10
University of Washington Press Concrete Mama
Book SynopsisJournalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on reform and rehabilitation and returned to cell time and punishment. It was a brutal transition. McCoy and Hoffman roamed the maximum-security compound almost at will, observing and befriending prisoners and guards. The result is a striking depiction of a community in which there was little to do, much to fear, and a culture that both mimicked and scorned the outside world. McCoy's unadorned prose and Hoffman's stunning black-and-white photographs offer as authentic a portrayal of life in the Big House as outsiders are ever likely to experience. Originally published in 1981, Concrete Mama revealed a previously unseen stark and complex world of life on the inside, for which it won the Washington State Book Award. Long unavailable yet still relevant, it is revitalized in a sec
£27.90
University of Washington Press Out o Fashion Photography
Book SynopsisIncludes full-page illustrations of works by more than fifty internationally recognized photographersTable of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty Deborah Willis Plates Imagining Identities Fashioning the Body The Speculative Pose Exhibition Checklist Index
£26.59
University of Washington Press Mary Randlett Portraits
Book SynopsisKnown for both her landscapes and portraits, the author began documenting Northwest figures in 1963 when Theodore Roethke asked her to photograph him in his Seattle home. In addition to Roethke, this title includes portraits of renowned artists Jacob Lawrence, Mark Tobey, and Morris Graves; writers Tom Robbins, Henry Miller; and more.
£31.50
Yale University Press Photography and the American Civil War
Book SynopsisThis eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its influence on history and our responses to warTrade Review"The American Civil War, for the purposes of this riveting study, begins just before the 1860 presidential election, which swept Abraham Lincoln to power, and ends with the aftermath of his assassination in 1865.Warfare itself . . . makes up only a part of this book. There is striking and unexpected imagery . . . The final pictures are as momentous as any. Gardner’s sequence showing the execution of the Lincoln assassins . . . still have in our desensitised times the power to shock. For a book of this scope and depth, academic, meticulously researched and a corrective to much that has gone before, the text reads throughout like a thriller."—Robin Muir, World of Interiors
£38.00
Yale University Press The Writers
Book SynopsisIntimate photo essays of thirty-eight important writers, including Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Zadie Smith, and Colm TóibínTrade Review"In The Writers: Portraits, you'll find front-facing images of poignant intensity...But subjects are also seen informally, in their home milieu, often with friends or spouses."—Damian Thompson, World of Interiors 'Holiday roundup'
£28.50
Yale University Press Man Ray
Book SynopsisA close look at Man Ray’s interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris
£28.50
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc This is What a Librarian Looks Like
Book SynopsisIn 2014, author and photographer Kyle Cassidy published a photo essay on Slate.com called This is What A Librarian Looks Like, a montage of portraits and a tribute to librarians. Since then, Cassidy has made it his mission to remind us of how essential librarians and libraries are to our communities. His subjects are men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and personal style-from pink hair and leather jackets to button-downs and blazers. In short, not necessarily what one thinks a librarian looks like. The nearly 220 librarians photographed also share their personal thoughts on what it means to be a librarian. This is What A Librarian Looks Like also includes original essay by some of our most beloved writers, journalists, and commentators including Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin, Nancy Pearl, Cory Doctorow, Paula Poundstone, Amanda Palmer, Peter Sagal, Jeff VanderMeer, John Scalzi, Sara Farizan, Amy Dickinson, and others. Cassidy also profiles a handful of especially in
£20.69
Little, Brown & Company Biden The Obama Years and the Battle for the Soul
Book SynopsisThis book captures the core of who Joe Biden is as a lifelong public servant, and who he would be as America''s next President--featuring photographs from his eight years as one of America''s most consequential vice presidents and partner to Barack Obama.These visually arresting photographs and behind-the-scenes stories show Biden stepping into his own as a leader ready to guide a nation in distress. They also reveal a new dimension to Biden''s humanity--as a man whose decency and kindness shines through both tragedy and triumph, whose working-class roots inform his values, and whose candor and approachability enable him to connect with citizens of all kinds.This book traces Biden''s vice presidency in unprecedented detail, shedding light on who he is as a political leader and patriot, and also as a father, husband, and friend. It will delight and fascinate readers who yearn for the return of honesty and ethics to the nation''s highest offices.As we draw clos
£26.99
WW Norton & Co American Photobooth
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of an American institution that includes an extraordinary collection of photobooth images.Trade Review"That a perceptive, dedicated, and sensitive artist like Nakki Goranin has rescued from oblivion so many amazing self-portraits created by amateurs confronting themselves in the fleeting privacy of humble photobooths is yet another miracle for which we can be grateful." David Haberstich"
£22.79
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale The Atlas of Beauty Women of the World in 500
Book SynopsisBased on the author's online photography project, this stunning collection features portraits of 500 women from more than 50 countries, accompanied by revelatory captions that capture their personal stories. Since 2013 photographer Mihaela Noroc has traveled the world with her backpack and camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the diversity of beauty all around us. The Atlas of Beauty is a collection of her photographs celebrating women from all corners of the world, revealing that beauty is everywhere, and that it comes in many different sizes and colors. Noroc's colorful and moving portraits feature women in their local communities, ranging from the Amazon rainforest to London city streets, and from markets in India to parks in Harlem, visually juxtaposing the varied physical and social worlds these women inhabit. Packaged as a gift-worthy, hardcover book, The Atlas of Beauty presents a fresh perspective on the global lives of women t
£27.00
University of California Press Lynching Photographs
Book SynopsisWhy do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? This book examines lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. It charts the history of lynching photographs - their meanings, uses, and controversial display.Table of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee The Evidence of Lynching Photographs Shawn Michelle Smith Lynching Photographs and the Politics of Public Shaming Dora Apel Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£21.25
University of California Press Acting Out
Book SynopsisCabinet cards were America's main format for photographic portraiture throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Standardized at 6 x 4 inches, they were just large enough to reveal extensive detail, leading to the incorporation of elaborate poses, backdrops, and props. Inexpensive and sold by the dozen, they transformed getting one's portrait made from a formal event taken up once or twice in a lifetime into a commonplace practice shared with friends. The cards reinforced middle-class Americans' sense of family. They allowed people to show off their material achievements and comforts, and the best cards projected an informal immediacy that encouraged viewers to feel emotionally connected with those portrayed. The experience even led sitters to act out before the camera. By making photographs an easygoing fact of life, the cards forecast the snapshot and today's ubiquitous photo sharing. Organized by senior curator John Rohrbach, Acting Out is the first ever in-depthTrade Review"Acting Out adds to the historical narrative of photography." * Dallas Morning News *
£32.30
Little, Brown Book Group Kate Inside the Rainbow
Book SynopsisA MUST-HAVE COLLECTION OF RARE AND UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF KATE BUSH.WITH ESSAYS BY HER BROTHER, JOHN CARDER BUSH, ABOUT KATE''S LIFE AND CAREER.Stunning and unique images from throughout Kate Bush''s career including:Outtakes from classic album shoots and never-before-seen photographs from The Dreaming and Hounds of Love sessionsRare candid studio shots and behind-the-scenes stills from video sets, including ''Army Dreamers'' and ''Running Up that Hill''Includes original essays from Kate''s brother: From Cathy to Kate: Describes in vibrant detail their shared childhood and the whirlwind days of Kate''s career Chasing the Shot: A vivid evocation of John''s experience of photographing his sister ''For me, each of these images forms part of a golden thread that shoots through Trade ReviewLong-term Kate watchers will lose precious hours here, absorbing John Carder Bush's memories and thoughts... In the absence of an autobiography, Inside the Rainbow might be as close as anyone gets to the real Kate Bush * Mojo *
£37.50
Running Press,U.S. Koreatown Dreaming
Book SynopsisExplore and celebrate Korean culture in America through photographs and interviews by award-winning photographer Emanuel Hahn.
£27.00
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Edward S. Curtis Portraits
Book SynopsisIn 1906, J. P. Morgan commissioned Edward S. Curtis to produce a series of books depicting Native American life. Edward S. Curtis Portraits contains over 250 of the project’s beautiful and haunting portraits. “In Mr. Curtis we have both an artist and a trained observer, whose pictures are pictures, not merely photographs.” —President Theodore Roosevelt Talented photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis set out on the project with the goal of becoming a successful portrait artist, but as he worked taking photographs of the “vanishing Indian,” he discovered a calling as an ethnographer and embarked on a mission to document every aspect of traditional Native American culture before it disappeared forever. He considered the loss of Native American traditions a national tragedy and sacrificed his financial security, marriage, and even his health to pursue his mission. Curtis’s highly expressive portrTable of ContentsIntroduction I The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho. II The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai III The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin. IV The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa. V The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina. VI The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho. VII The Yakima. The Klickitat. The Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai. VIII The Nez Perces. Wallawalla. The Umatilla. The Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes. IX The Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa. X The Kwakiutl. XI The Nootka. The Haida. XII The Hopi. XIII The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. The Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath. XIV The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts. XV The Southern California Shoshoneans. The Diegueños. The Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo. XVI The Tiwa. The Keres. XVII The Tewa. The Zuñi. XVIII The Chipewyan. The Western Woods Cree. The Sarsi. XIX The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The Southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote Cult. XX The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak. The Eskimo of Hooper Bay. The Eskimo of King Island. The Eskimo of Little Diomede Island. The Eskimo of Cape Prince. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik. Index
£27.62
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. Chelsea Hotel
Book SynopsisThe classic photo book portraying the denizens of the Chelsea Hotel in all their eccentric, bohemian glory back in print in a revised and expanded edition.When the young Brazilian photographer Claudio Edinger moved into the Chelsea Hotel in the late 1970s, on the recommendation of a friend, he was just looking for a place to live. He had little idea that this twelve-story Victorian Gothic pile at 222 West 23rd Street had been, for almost a century, one of Manhattan's chief bohemian enclaves, where authors, writers, and musicians lived, played, and sometimes even worked. But Edinger was quickly fascinated by his new surroundings, and turned his lens on hotel residents both celebrated like Warhol superstar Viva, stylist and nightlife impresario Susanne Bartsch, and composer Virgil Thomson and obscure, from Dan the mime to Corey the porn starlet. Together, these portraits taken in their subjects' memorably decorated living quarters form an invaluable record of the Chelsea Hotel community at one of the peaks of its flourishing, under legendary owner-manager Stanley Bard.Chelsea Hotel met with immediate acclaim on its original publication in 1983; Edinger's absorbing black-and-white photographs were wonderfully complemented by an introduction from Pete Hamill, dean of New York newsmen, and contributions from such legendary hotel residents as William Burroughs and Arthur C. Clarke. Now this highly collectible and sought-after book is back in print for the first time in decades, with additional, previously unseen photos from Edinger's archives and intriguing where-are-they-now updates. The revised and expanded Chelsea Hotel will be a must-have for anyone who loves the creative side of New York.
£22.46
Chronicle Books Porn for Women
Book SynopsisPrepare to enter a fantasy world. A world where clothes get folded just so, delicious dinners await, and flatulence is just not that funny. Give the fairer sex what they really wantbeautiful PG photos of hunky men cooking, listening, asking for directions, accompanied by steamy captions: I love a clean house! or As long as I have two legs to walk on, you''ll never take out the trash. Now this is porn that will leave women begging for more!
£9.89
Watson-Guptill Publications Your Baby in Pictures
Book SynopsisShows new parents how to capture the story of their baby's first year with 40 'photo recipes' anyone can do, with any camera. This book inspires new parents and grandparents with easy, step-by-step photo ideas for capturing developmental milestones and special moments, from tiny yawns to first smiles, learning to sit up and much more.
£14.39
Duke University Press 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
Fordham University Press Portrait
Book SynopsisSuspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portrait continue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.Table of ContentsPreface to the English- Language Edition vii Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait 1 Jeffrey S. Librett The Look of the Portrait The Autonomous Portrait 13 Resemblance 21 Recall 29 Look 36 The Other Portrait L’altro ritratto 47 Character 51 The Eye 54 Visageity 56 Mimesis 59 Withdrawn Presence 63 Ipseity 67 Theophany 72 Revelation 76 Divine Abandonment 81 Dis- figuration 84 Eclipse 89 Infinite Detachment 93 Coda I 99 Coda II 101 Coda III 104 Notes 109 List of Figures 125
£19.79
Fordham University Press Portrait
Book SynopsisSuspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portrait continue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.Table of ContentsPreface to the English- Language Edition vii Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait 1 Jeffrey S. Librett The Look of the Portrait The Autonomous Portrait 13 Resemblance 21 Recall 29 Look 36 The Other Portrait L’altro ritratto 47 Character 51 The Eye 54 Visageity 56 Mimesis 59 Withdrawn Presence 63 Ipseity 67 Theophany 72 Revelation 76 Divine Abandonment 81 Dis- figuration 84 Eclipse 89 Infinite Detachment 93 Coda I 99 Coda II 101 Coda III 104 Notes 109 List of Figures 125
£62.90
