Photography: portraits and self-portraiture Books
Chronicle Books Activist
Book SynopsisA speech on the radio. A high school literature class. A promise made to a mother.Activism begins in small ways and in unexpected places. In this inspiring book, over forty activists from Billie Jean King to Bernie Sanders and Angela Davis to Edward Snowden recount the experiences that sparked their journeys and share the beliefs that keep them going. These are citizens who met challenge with action. Their visions for peace, equality, and justice have reshaped American society—from voting to reproductive rights, and from the environment to the economy.
£23.75
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Florida Baby
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£19.96
Arcadia Publishing Lost Buxton Images of America
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£21.24
Skyhorse Publishing The Selfie Generation: Exploring Our Notions of
Book SynopsisWhether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation? Millennial Alicia Eler's The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, including why people take them in the first place and the ways they can change how we see ourselves. Eler argues that selfies are just one facet of how we can use digital media to create a personal brand in the modern age. More than just a picture, they are an important part of how we live today. Trade Review"Eler's book alights on the source of the selfie's power: It is the easiest way to assert one's humanity in our hyper-networked world. Perhaps our much-fussed-over narcissism is not a flaw but a survival tactic."—The New York Times "Through a mix of reportage and personal reflection, Eler gives a snapshot of the snapshot, situating the selfie in a variety of cultural milieux: intimacy and relationships, journalism and activism, memes and savvy advertising."—Los Angeles Review of Books "I am taking a picture of myself as I write this blurb about Alicia's neat new book addressing the joys and hazards of phone-operated self-reflection. And in taking this selfie, I find my selfie." —Maria Bamford, comedian "Eler a selfie semiotician. Her book is in defense of millennials and all those who dare to take a selfie."—Wired Magazine "In this kaleidoscopic exploration of the selfie, Alicia Eler challenges the popular view of the selfie as a narcissistic act. Part Millennial apologist, part cultural sage, Eler transforms this work of personal memoir into a meditation on the deep need of human beings for social connection. The Selfie Generation exposes the level of privacy we're willing to sacrifice in order not only to meet our basic need of food and shelter, but one another." —Elaine Romero, playwright, assistant professor, School of Theatre Film and Television, University of Arizona "Fascinating, provocative, entertaining and enlightening, and likely to be the foundation of all future books on this subject."—Chicago Tribune "Alicia Eler breaks with clichés to imagine the selfie as a double-edged sword, at once an empowering and vulnerable phenomenon, characteristic of the digital age."—BBC "A timely addition to growing research on selfie culture. Weaving first-person narrative and conversations with tech and social media experts, the Minnesota Star Tribune journalist offers a wide-ranging exploration of the effects of the selfie on our cultural relationship to technology, privacy, and gender."—Chicago Reader "From activists recording themselves through what Eler calls “sousveillance” to artists exploring how social media users craft their own self image, Selfie Generation uses these images to explore the boundaries of the Internet and the physical world, along with questions of consent and copyright. Through interviews with both professionals and friends, Eler toes the line between a personal essay and a scholarly resource."—Minneapolis Journal "Eler herself emerges as an open sharer, seizing and maintaining the reader’s attention. . . . [The Selfie Generation] works to offer glimpses into her busy life for us to explore, search, and like. And we do because it comes alive confidently, disclosing a set of experiences marked by changes imbricated in contemporary culture. Eler, attentive to the forces at work in the selfieverse, shares and celebrates her own vulnerability outside obvious boundaries and in the realm where privacy is always at risk."—University of Hawai'i Press"Eler's book alights on the source of the selfie's power: It is the easiest way to assert one's humanity in our hyper-networked world. Perhaps our much-fussed-over narcissism is not a flaw but a survival tactic."The New York Times"Through a mix of reportage and personal reflection, Eler gives a snapshot of the snapshot, situating the selfie in a variety of cultural milieux: intimacy and relationships, journalism and activism, memes and savvy advertising."Los Angeles Review of Books "I am taking a picture of myself as I write this blurb about Alicia's neat new book addressing the joys and hazards of phone-operated self-reflection. And in taking this selfie, I find my selfie." Maria Bamford, comedian "Eler a selfie semiotician. Her book is in defense of millennials and all those who dare to take a selfie."Wired Magazine "In this kaleidoscopic exploration of the selfie, Alicia Eler challenges the popular view of the selfie as a narcissistic act. Part Millennial apologist, part cultural sage, Eler transforms this work of personal memoir into a meditation on the deep need of human beings for social connection. The Selfie Generation exposes the level of privacy we're willing to sacrifice in order not only to meet our basic need of food and shelter, but one another." Elaine Romero, playwright, assistant professor, School of Theatre Film and Television, University of Arizona "Fascinating, provocative, entertaining and enlightening, and likely to be the foundation of all future books on this subject."Chicago Tribune"Alicia Eler breaks with clichés to imagine the selfie as a double-edged sword, at once an empowering and vulnerable phenomenon, characteristic of the digital age."BBC"A timely addition to growing research on selfie culture. Weaving first-person narrative and conversations with tech and social media experts, the Minnesota Star Tribune journalist offers a wide-ranging exploration of the effects of the selfie on our cultural relationship to technology, privacy, and gender."Chicago Reader"From activists recording themselves through what Eler calls “sousveillance” to artists exploring how social media users craft their own self image, Selfie Generation uses these images to explore the boundaries of the Internet and the physical world, along with questions of consent and copyright. Through interviews with both professionals and friends, Eler toes the line between a personal essay and a scholarly resource."Minneapolis Journal
£11.99
Skyhorse Publishing Black: A Celebration of a Culture
Book SynopsisOver 500 glorious black-and-white photographs celebrating black culture throughout American history, from Jesse Owens to Barry Bonds, Ella Fitzgerald to Halle Berry. Tucked away in the dusty halls of the Smithsonian archives and nearly forgotten by most historians, black culture is a vast, complex, interconnected web of different people, trends, and lifestyles. Deborah Willis has dug through the archives and hunted down the remnants that tell the wonderful and tragic history of a people. Tackling all subjects with bravery and frankness, Deborah Willis’s work is a true treasure to behold.Black: A Celebration of a Culture, which would be a perfect complement to any Juneteenth celebration, presents a vibrant panorama of twentieth-century black culture in America and around the world. Broken up into segments that examine in detail such subjects as children, work, art, beauty, Saturday night, and Sunday morning, the photos detail the history and the evolution of a culture. Each photograph, handpicked by Deborah Willis, America’s leading historian of African American photography, celebrates the world of music, art, fashion, sports, family, worship, or play. With five hundred photographs from every time period from the birth of photography to the birth of hip-hop, this book is a truly joyous exhibition of black culture. From Jessie Owens to Barry Bonds, Ella Fitzgerald to Halle Berry, Black: A Celebration of a Culture is joyous and inspiring.
£31.50
Vehicule Press Closer to Home: The Author and the Author
Book SynopsisFixing its gaze on writers as they are seldom seen, this anthology of photographs and accompanying stories provides an intriguing exploration into the personal and professional lives of various artists. This series of narratives delves inside the lives of its subjects, as well as the process of making portraits, before finishing with a touch of refined literary gossip. Based on a decade of research, this study takes a remarkable tour from the seventh-century scribe, Ezra, to the contemporary literary greats such as Man Booker Prize–winner Yann Martel and MacArthur Fellowship author Ann Carson.
£24.26
Smithsonian Books The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington:
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£29.75
Turner Publishing Company Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Book SynopsisFranklin Delano Roosevelt followed in the footsteps of the political career blazed by his cousin (and uncle by marriage), President Theodore Roosevelt. Beginning with local politics, he went on to serve a stint in Washington, then became governor of New York, and then won the presidency. His was a charisma similar to that of TR, but derived from his Delano side. His sunny disposition carried him through many trials, including disabling paralysis. As president his was a fearsome task, with two principal thrusts—restoring hope to an America mired in the Great Depression and leading the nation to victory in the Second World War.FDR became an American icon. The hundreds of photos in Historic Photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the collections of the FDR presidential library, portray him throughout his life and career, revealing a presidency marked by the twin struggles for economic recovery and military victory. FDR's life in pictures, published here in striking black and white, captioned and with introductions, is sure to enthrall every reader interested in the biography of this renowned American leader.
£29.99
Aperture Josef Koudelka: Gypsies
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£24.00
Akashic Books Do Something for Nothing: Seeing Beneath the
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£23.96
The New Press Revealing Selves
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£21.91
Tiller Press Yoga While You Wait: Finding Purpose in Each
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£14.44
Yale University Press Dawoud Bey
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£26.12
Rizzoli American Firefighter
Book SynopsisFOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards — 2017 SILVER Winner for PhotographyA celebration of and tribute to our nation’s courageous firefighters and first responders. Paul Mobley has taken his camera on the road again to photograph America’s bravest citizens. In this collection of intimate and powerful photographic portraits, we get a glimpse of what it means to answer the call and run toward danger. Stunning portraits of these brave men and women—chief fire officers, company and wildland crew leaders, instructors, and line-firefighters—are accompanied by firsthand accounts of those who put it all on the line, as well as stories of those firefighters who have made the greatest sacrifice of all. American Firefighter contains the real-life stories of firefighters, from the most rural volunteers to the most sophisticated and technologically advanced metropolitan departments, and it also profileTrade Review"Many books written about the fire service range from the tales of individuals to a broad look at the service in whole. This pictorial account, in my opinion, is one of the best, if not the best, in paying tribute to the entire fire service… The accounts presented in American Firefighter serve as more than a benefit for the NFFF but as gentle tug that keeps us in the path of service towards others in a cause greater than ourselves.” —Fire Rescue Magazine"Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, but few are as important as America’s first responders. These men and women choose to run toward danger while most flee. In the recently released American Firefighter, photographer Paul Mobley captures portraits of some of the country’s bravest citizens—firefighters, EMTs and paramedics.” —Parade Magazine “What they reveal through their words and photos will leave you with a greater appreciation for the commitment, courage, and compassion firefighters share with each other and their community.” —Chief Ronald J. Siarnicki, Executive Director, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation"Mobley's new book, "American Firefighter," profiles the brave, selfless men and women he met at around 50 different firehouses."—Business Insider
£13.48
Duke University Press Baltimore Portraits
Book SynopsisDocuments a sector of Baltimore that has virtually disappeared due to substance abuse, AIDS, and, societal or familial neglect. This volume contains images of bar and street people - transvestites, strippers, drug addicts, drag queens, and hustlers - spanning a twenty-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s.Trade Review“Baltimore Portraits is a rich and stark picture of community: as beautiful as it is ugly, as depressing as it is joyful, as lean as it is full. Badertscher’s photographs and their scrawling inscriptions are telling stories that we long to hear (or not hear) but rarely get. By picturing the unpictured, by writing the unsaid, our expectations are meaningfully betrayed.”—Carol Mavor, author of Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs“These images of many of the denizens of Baltimore’s gay ‘underground’ in the 1970s are often deeply disturbing. The literal nakedness of many of the subjects provides only a minimal index of how painfully exposed and vulnerable some of them are. I feel grateful to Amos Badertscher for having produced and preserved these images, and to Tyler Curtain for the responsive generosity of his vision of them.”—Michael Moon, author of A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol“A brilliantly disturbing collection of photographs. . . . It is a hard, frequently painful experience to tour Badertscher’s Baltimore; this is not your mother’s Best of Life Magazine. There is very little triumph here, and a great deal of human tragedy, at least to anyone living a comfortable middle-class existence. However, it is a very important tour to take. No one, after looking at these photographs, will feel quite the same about his or her ‘privileged’ world again.” * A&U Magazine *“[A] fascinating pictorial account of some of Badertscher’s Baltimore subjects. . . . A very powerful snapshot of what was, is now, and always will be as long as mankind lives on this earth. This is true documentary photography. . . .” * AIDS Book Review Journal *“In Baltimore Portraits, photographer and Baltimore native Amos Badertscher gives us a view of ‘Charm City’ through a lens that crosses Diane Arbus with Robert Mapplethorpe. . . . The beautifully composed and printed black and white portraits contrast the grim lives of people on the margins—young street hustlers, prostitutes, and drug users—with a few local underground celebrities, drag queens, and self-portraits thrown in to soften the blow. . . . The images in Baltimore Portraits appear to be reality in its purest form.” * Washington Blade *Table of ContentsForeward / Michael P. Mezzatesta x Preface / Amos Badertscher xii A Baltimore Essay: Photograpahy, Sexuality, Community / Tyler Curtain 1 Baltimore Portraits / Amos Badertscher 13
£27.90
Rizzoli International Publications Good Dog: A Collection of Portraits
Book SynopsisRandal Ford now focuses his portraiture lens on the one species that has been by our side for millennia: our best friend. Good Dog captures the warmth, humor, and unconditional love that is at the heart of every dog. From mutts beaming with charisma and charm to show dogs exuding grace and elegance, Ford s 150 dog portraits bring out the dog lover in all of us. With a compelling essay by W. Bruce Cameron, this warm, tender, playful, and heartfelt collection of dog portraits gives us a beautiful look into the lives of our most cherished companions.Trade Review“When in doubt, a coffee table book is always a fun gift, and any dog lover will appreciate Good Dog: A Collection of Portraits. This beautiful book is filled with 150 dog portraits taken by photographer Randal Ford, and it features pooches of all ages and breeds. The photograph-filled book is incredibly fun to flip through, and we think it would make a perfect addition to any dog enthusiast’s home.” —USA Today“Photographer Randal Ford has done it again. Good Dog: A Collection of Portraits is a humorous, silly, and heartwarming compendium of snapshots of man’s best friend. Ford, one of the most prolific animal photographers out there and highly admired for his stunning book Animal Kingdom—which features animal portraits taken in-studio—is back with a book worthy of much love. With 150 dog portraits spanning all breeds…there is no end to the joy emanating from these pages. An engaging foreword by W. Bruce Cameron, a much-loved newspaper columnist and New York Times best-selling author of the A Dog’s Purpose series, offers an unyielding stamp of approval. As he says ‘What Randal Ford can do with his lens is let dogs communicate their stories of love and loyalty, of dedication and devotion. If there is a creature more joyous than a dog, I don’t know what it is. And in this miracle of a book, all the mischief and happiness and love and fun come through the dogs’ eyes and straight as us.’ We’d have to agree. The joy a furry companion infuses into any life is unarguable, but with Good Dog, Ford has offered a new way to enjoy the comfort dogs bring. The book also serves as a fantastic stocking stuffer or holiday gift for new, constant, and soon-to-be ‘pawrents.’”— Downtown Magazine NYC"There's nothing standard about these poodles. Local photographer Randal Ford just released his second Rizzoli book, Good Dog, a stunning collection of portraits of man's best friend. Flip the pages for studio shots of four-legged character studies like bearded Ceelo, pictured above, Enzo—a rare black-splotched Golden—and adorable bi-color eyed Buckley. Photos are accompanied by Randal's beautiful prose about what made each canine captivating from behind the lens. Who's a good cover boy?" — DALLAS TIDBITS "Best Gifts for Dog Lovers... Photographer Randal Ford's collection of portraits features sweet furry faces of all breeds and is the perfect addition to any dog fan's coffee table." — Country Living"The Best Coffee-Table Books of 2020. Think your pup is practically human? These striking portraits of 150 soulful, expressive canines prove you might just might be onto something." —People Magazine"Design Goes to the Dogs—in the Best Possible Way! Ford’s lovely images in this Rizzoli volume have a classical simplicity to them, all the dogs posed like supermodels, some with wind in their fur, against plain backgrounds. Ford is a kind of Richard Avedon of dog art, in most cases avoiding the arty whimsy of William Wegman in favor of a more noble take that looks into the subject’s eyes for understanding; it wouldn’t be surprising if the dogs themselves had commissioned these flattering portraits." — 1st Dibs / Introspective Magazine “Photographer Randal Ford’s collection of portraits features sweet furry faces of all breeds and is the perfect addition to an dog fan’s coffee table.” – Country Living“The Absolute Best Holiday Gifts for Dogs and Dog Parents. From poodles to pitbulls, 150 good boys and girls are photographed in this sweet coffee table book—and yes, you’ll fall in love with each and every one of them.” --WHOWHATWEAR.COM
£24.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Trump
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£25.00
Michel Haddi Studio Ltd The Legend Tupac
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£90.00
Gingko Press Travis Barker
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£57.38
Easy on the Eye Books Boom Boom Boom Boom
Book SynopsisA collection of detailed photographs taken in Manchester during the sixties of the biggest names in American blues music.
£21.24
Taylor & Francis Ltd Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie
Book SynopsisThis collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, selfies, with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital self-portraiture as representation: as work that is committed to rigorous object-based analysis. The scholars in this volume consider the topic of online self-portraitureboth its social function as a technology-driven form of visual communication, as well as its thematic, intellectual, historical, and aesthetic intersections with the history of art and visual culture.This book will be of interest to scholars of photography, art history, and media studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Selfie as Visual Culture: A Methodological QuandaryDerek Conrad Murray1. Counter-Selfies and the Real Subsumption of SocietyGrant Bollmer2. Self-Portraiture and Self PerformanceKatherine Guinness3. Proliferating Identity: Trans Selfies as Contemporary Art Ace Lehner4. The Evolution of the Selfie: Influencers, Feminism and Visual CultureDerek Conrad Murray5. How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital PhotographyKyle Parry6. Domestic Snapshots: Female Self-Imaging Practices Then and NowSoraya Murray7. The Selfie in Consumer CultureJonathan Schroeder8. Selfie Narcissism, Consumerism and the Pathologizing of WomenDerek Conrad Murray
£37.99
Octopus Publishing Group Oasis The Masterplan
Book Synopsis''As iconic photographer, adventurous fan and inside eye-witness, Kevin Cummins has always been where the cultural action is.'' Paul Morley''No one has captured the look of alternative UK music over the past half a century more tellingly than Kevin Cummins.'' Simon Armitage***How does a band come into being? What are the myriad forces that shape the sound, look, and identity of an emerging band?In 1993, Oasis signed to Creation Records and were shortly to begin recording their first album. Unknown, and unknowing what was ahead, the following year began with a masterplan - the creation of Oasis.At the centre of this enterprise was Kevin Cummins, brought on board to help the band find a look that fitted their sound. As chief photographer of Joy Division depicting that band on a snowy bridge and in the chilly environs of Manchester with a backdrop of the black stone of a gothic cathedral, Cummins was well aware of the intersection between the visual and the sonic.Oasis 1994 The Masterplan tells the story of how Oasis cemented their identity. Drawing on the first six months of the year, we follow Cummins as he photographs the band in various locations such as London, Manchester and the Netherlands. Using many unseen images as well as more well-known iconic shots, Cummins guides us through the ways a band can be shaped and designed, such as the famous photographs of the Gallagher brothers in Manchester City shirts - emblazoned with the Brother logo (a Japanese electronics company) which helped provoke worldwide interest in the band. With input from Noel Gallagher, we see how they played with fashion, were taught how to pose, and present themselves as they approached the summer of that year when their first album, Definitely Maybe was released on 29 August.The story from that moment on is well-known. This book reveals just how effective the masterplan was to get them to that point.
£28.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Silent History
Book SynopsisThe written and verbal traces of the past have been extensively studied by historians, but what about the nonverbal traces? In recent years, historians have expanded their attention to other kinds of sources, but seldom have they taken into account the most vital and omnipresent nonverbal aspect of life body language. Silent History explores the potential of early photography to uncover the structure and nature of everyday body language in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close study of street photography by pioneering photographers who were the first to document urban everyday life with hidden cameras, Peter Andersson examines a key period of history in a new light. By focusing on a number of body poses and gestures common to the nonverbal communication of the fin de siècle, he reveals the identifications and connotations of daily social interaction beyond the written word. Andersson also depicts a broader picture of the body and its relationship to populaTrade Review"Drawing together methods and literature from cultural history and the social sciences, and informed by literature on the history of photography and more sociological sources, Silent History is an engaging and original consideration of important issues in visual representation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." Jordan Bear, University of Toronto"Readers looking for a scholarly exploration of how bodies can communicate will find much of interest in Andersson's rigorous study of popular historical poses in England, Sweden and Austria (with forays into southern Germany)." Times Literary Supplement
£34.20
Ohio University Press Face to Face
Book SynopsisA remarkable collection of photographs by an ex-Marine who worked as a lawyer in Lawrence County, Ohio, for around thirty-six years.Trade Review“Originally published in 2004, this exceptional book of photographs deserves wider distribution than it has received, and (Ohio University Press) has taken on the task.” * Book News *“The portraits that Moore documented throughout his community (Lawrence County, Ohio) are always remarkable. His photography allowed him to get to know the people he photographed, to hear their stories and gain the right to represent them through his portraits. Many of his portraits in (Face to Face) are accompanied by a brief anecdote either of what the person shared with him or what his experience photographing them was like; it is clear that each portrait captures the essence of their stories.” * The Photo Review *
£30.15
Rizzoli Lin Dan Dolce Gabanna
Book SynopsisThe images in Lin Dan—never before published and taken specially for this book—portray the young man in a previously unseen dimension, at times even brazen and unprincipled. In each of these photographs, Lin Dan appears in ever-different situations, each of which interpret a specific role: from the seducer to the Greco-Roman hero, from the gladiator to the great Imperial Emperor, from the aristocratic dandy to the Neapolitan street urchin.
£40.00
Rizzoli Movement at the Still Point
Book SynopsisRenowned portrait photographer Mark Mann documents an impressive host of dancers their eloquent bodies in posed tranquility and vibrant motion representing years of excellence and varied disciplines of the art form.Trade Review"The eminent portraitist photographs dancers — including Misty Copeland and Chita Rivera — statically posed and mid-motion, capturing their verve in shimmering black and white." —NEW YORK TIMES"A glorious new coffee table book by Mark Mann celebrating the New York dance scene." —GRAMILANO"Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to Dance, captures 142 artists whose impact and legacies span many generations and disciplines. From Misty Copeland, Andy Blankenbuehler, Tiler Peck, Chita Rivera, Sara Mearns, James Whiteside, Carmen De Lavallade, Kyle Abraham and many others, these photos show the true strength in beauty and resolve during a time of incredible uncertainty." —THINKING THEATER NYC
£42.75
University of Iowa Press Down to the River
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£23.36
SMUT Press After Life
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£23.40
Castle Point Books Go High
Book SynopsisThe editor of Hugs from Obama presents this photographic celebration of the former first lady's elegance and strength in Go High: The Unstoppable Presence and Poise of Michelle Obama.Featuring more than 50 full-color photographs illustrating her warmth, wisdom, and belief in a bright future, this one-of-a-kind collection highlights Michelle Obama's compassion, verve, and dynamic approach to unifying people from all walks of life. Each picture is accompanied by some of her most compelling wordsinspirational quotes sharing her earnest expression that the United States of America is a place of unity, fairness, vitality, and optimism.A perfect gift book for mothers and graduates, Go High revisits the beloved first lady's heartfelt embrace of the American people, and her persistent encouragement to always lift one another up, reach higher, and rise to the occasion.
£14.39
McFarland & Co Inc The Suffrage Photography of Lena Connell
Book Synopsis Lena Connell was one of a new breed of young professional women who took up photography at the turn of the 20th century. She ran her own studio in North London, only employed women, and made her mark on history by creating compellingly modern portraits of women in the British suffrage movement. The women that Connell captured on film are as class-inclusive a group as you could find: whether they were factory workers, schoolteachers, or aristocrats, they joined the cause to make a difference for future generations of women, if not for themselves. Connell''s portraits created a new kind of visibility for these activists as hard-working, unrelenting women, whose spirits rose above injustice. This book examines Connell''s artistic career within the Edwardian suffrage movement. It discusses her body of portraits within the British suffrage movement''s propagandistic efforts and its goals of sophisticated, professional representations of its members. It includes all of her known portrTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Lena Connell, British Suffrage Photographer: Creating a Cult of Great Women Chapter 1. Lena Connell's Photographic Studio, Professional Presentation, and Practice Chapter 2. The Cult of Great Women: Portraying Representative Leaders and Organizers Chapter 3. Theatrical and Literary Representations in the Cult of Great Women: The Women Writers' Suffrage League, the Actresses' Franchise League and Other Women Workers for the Cause Chapter 4. Transgressive and Transformative Acts and Resistance Narratives: Public Performances Speaking Through Studio Portraits Epilogue: The Legacy of Lena Connell's Suffrage Portraits Within the Cult of Great Women Appendix: Royal Photographic Society Exhibits by Miss Lena Connell Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
£55.76
Offcuts Off the Shelf
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Temple University Press,U.S. Picturing Model Citizens
Book SynopsisHow images portraying Asians as civil subjects contribute to debates on Asian American citizenshipTrade Review"This book concerns the appearance of Asians in nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs as related, first, to civility and, secondarily, to issues of citizenship...Thy Phu is deeply interested in probing the symbolic meanings behind the photographs as they relate to Asians as the 'model minority.'... Phu makes some interesting points."--Pacific Historical Review , August 2013 "Picturing Model Citizens presents a compelling, original, and timely contribution to the nascent field of Asian American visual studies, productively drawing together a set of photographic archives and contexts that have, for too long, been arbitrarily imagined as discrete and disconnected... Phu's Picturing Model Citizens is itself a model of engaged and innovative scholarship, charting new directions for Asian American studies, visual studies, citizenship studies, and the emergent combinations therein."--caa.reviews, June 26, 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Clasped Hands and Clenched Fists; Spectacles of Intimacy and the Aesthetics of Domestication; Cultivating Citizenship: Internment Landscapes and Still Lifes; A Manner of Apology: Transpacifism and the Scars of Reparation; Racial Hygiene: SARS, Surgical Masks, and the Civility of Surveillance; Postscript: The Inhospitable Politics of Repatriation; Bibliography.
£22.49
powerHouse Books,U.S. Ditch Montauk New York 11954
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£35.99
James Perolls Lost and Found
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£20.70
Hurtwood Press Ltd Sean Palfrey Dance
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£20.00
CHEERIO Publishing PISSING WOMEN
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£12.60
Simon & Schuster Stories from a Stranger
£21.25
Psylon Press Poze de bikini
£16.18
Kent State University Press My Likeness Taken
Book SynopsisDuring the 19th century fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic location, and economic standing. These daguerreotypes are analyzed to clarify datable clothing and fashion components.
£55.46
The New Press Believable: The Portraits of Lola Flash
Book SynopsisNamed one of the Best Photo Books of the Year by SmithsonianA stunning full-color collection of photographs, old and new, by the renowned photographer and LGBTQIA+ activist Lola Flash Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics, celebrated photographer Lola Flash has become known for images that manage to both interrogate and transcend preconceptions about gender, sex, and race. Spurred by their experience as an active member of ACT UP and ART+ during the AIDS epidemic in New York City, their art is profoundly connected to their activism, fueling a lifelong commitment to visibility and preserving the legacy of queer communities, especially queer communities of color.The seventeenth volume in a groundbreaking series of LGBTQ-themed photobooks from The New Press, Believable draws on the extraordinary body of work that Flash has created over four decades, from their iconic “Cross Colour” images from the 1980s and early 1990s to their more recent photography, which used the framework of Afrofuturism to examine the intersection of Black culture and technoculture and science fiction. Also included in the book are portraits that explore the impact of skin pigmentation on Black identity and consciousness, as well as people who have challenged traditional concepts of gender and trendsetters in the urban underground cultural scene.In all their images, their passion for photography and their belief in the medium’s ability to provide agency and freedom and initiate change shine through. For the first time, Believable brings together the remarkable work of this queer art icon. Believable was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).Trade ReviewPraise for Believable:"Taken together, Flash’s Believable is a celebration of the beauty and wonder of humanity at its very best, honoring artists like Amy Sherald, Carrie Mae Weems, and Tabboo!, trans legends Buck Angel, and philanthropist Agnes Gund. They stand as a testament to a shared lineage connecting past, present, and past, existing simultaneously as both art and artifact."—Blind“So sensual, so vivid, and always at the service of the art, Flash’s work reminds us of what is possible in photography today.”—Cheryl Dunye, film director, The Watermelon Woman“An important and vital document that will live beyond us.”—Zanele Muholi, photographer and visual artist “Flash, through photography, becomes one of our generation’s most needed and great seers.”—Pamela Sneed, author of Funeral Diva “Celebrates self-love, survival, endurance, and the efforts toward a future that dismantles the horror of overt and institutional racism, sexism, and homophobia one frame at a time.”—Halima Taha, arts writer, advisor, and author of Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas
£14.39
She Writes Press The Artist Portrait Project: A Photographic
Book SynopsisAfter five years’ absence from San Diego’s art community, Jennifer G. Spencer returned and began to photograph the artists she became acquainted with during her thirteen-year stint as an executive director of a visual arts organization—a project that became a ten-year journey. In The Artist Portrait Project, Spencer reveals the results of her adventure in portraiture after her retirement, and shares how this endeavor enlightened and shaped her opinion of these fifty artists and her art community. Engaging and visually stunning, The Artist Portrait Project is a book about self-discovery and the persistence of the creative spirit.Trade Review“Jennifer Spencer has created a very moving, compassionate, and celebratory series of portraits of a generation of tenacious San Diego artists. These creative men and women have beaten the attrition rate that so often snares artists in mid career and thereby enriched our community immeasurably through their profound influence as teachers and creators.” —Hugh M. Davies, PhD, Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego “Jennifer Spencer, because of her dedicated work with the umbrella arts organization COVA, is beloved by many San Diego Artists. These artists make up the bulk of the portraits in this book and what is interesting is how she has continued to learn about and support them. This is shown not only in the words that accompany the images but in the images themselves. They tell us more than words could ever express. She has caught a mood of a time and so these photographs, which are works of art themselves, will also be an important historical record of this visual arts community.” —Patricia Frischer, founder and coordinator of San Diego Visual Arts Network “Tucked into this wonderfully realized selection of 50 artists, there is a 51st: Jennifer Spencer is in every image. She is reflected in the generosity she gives the sitters, who are seen with respect and affection. Her camera distance, little more than arm's length, shows her intimacy. That her subjects open to her identifies her warmth, and she allows the artist's work to be as present and speak as eloquently as do their faces.” —Arthur Ollman, former director of MOPA (Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego), San Diego State University, head of the School of Art and Design “For the past 10 years, Jennifer Spencer has taken intimate photographs of a cross section of the most influential mid-career and established artists working in the San Diego area. These photographs, which are presented in The Artist Portrait Project: Fifty San Diego Artists 2006-2016, are themselves works of art in that they reflect not only the unique personality of each artist, but also their diverse bodies of work. Jennifer’s portraits document an important period of time in the long history of San Diego as a world-class center for art, and remind us of the numerous accomplished artists we are lucky to call our own.” —Lawrence J. Poteet, Art Collector, Ablon, Lewis, Bass & Gale, LLP
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Museum of Modern Art Ming Smith: The Invisible Man, Somewhere,
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Mango Media The Secrets to Amazing Photo Composition: 83
Book Synopsis# 1 Best Seller in Photography Lighting ─ The Secrets to Creating Amazing PhotosLearn the secrets to composition: There's a common misconception that composition is mysterious and that only certain people have that natural gift for the techniques involved. The truth is that composition involves a set of skills that you can master. Just as you can use cookbook recipes to make your favorite meal―you don't have to be a famous French chef―you also can take amazing photos by just following a recipe! Easy-to-follow photography composition recipes: Marc Silber has spent years studying the works of masters and interviewing some of the biggest names in photography. Now he can provide you with simple and easy-to-follow recipes for creating photographs that you and others will love! The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos puts at your fingertips ideas for improving your skills by giving you easy-to-follow "recipes" that will improve your photography right now! Take your photography to the next level: Composition is one of the biggest keys to creating photos that others will love. No matter what kind of camera or smartphone you're using, you can take your photography to the next level and beyond by learning composition tools and secrets known to the masters of the art. Carry The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos in your camera bag: The book is compact in size and easy to carry with you, so you can flip to the look you want and follow the recipe for creating an image that inspires you. Use it when you're out photographing to get new ideas and inspiration. You'll be able to rapidly up you photography game by learning the skills in Picture Perfect Processes. Key benefits of owning The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos include: Taking better photographs today by learning the keys to composition Having quick and easy to follow "recipes" for composition at your fingertips Learning the secrets of composition from the masters of classical art and photographyTrade Review“Once again, with this book, The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos, Marc Silber proves to be a wonderful and worthwhile compendium of photographic knowledge, tips, tricks, survival skills, and historical perspective. This book is a go-to collection of lucid composition strategies and tools for any photographer who is striving and seeking to up their game in the fast pace endeavor known as digital photography. Joe McNally, internationally acclaimed, award-winning photographer“The popularity and accessibility of photography are at an all-time high, but within the masses of image makers are those looking for a deeper understanding of the process of photography itself. There are those looking for the unique, the original and the knowledge required to craft remarkable moments. Marc Silber’s The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos details and describes the compositional building blocks of successful photographs. Great photography requires commitment, education, practice and even luck. Silber’s book is a roadmap to the starting line.” Daniel Milnor, photographerTable of ContentsThe Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos: Lighting and Composition Secrets from the Masters Preface – MCS Acknowledgements How to use this book to create amazing photos Part One: Recipes for ____ (final number) composition techniques, with examples of each. They could be used on their own or combine them Definition of Composition: It is how you arrange your subject within the frame of your camera. 1. Framing: Putting an edge around it. 2. Framing: Placing it in the frame of the camera 3. Landscape and portrait. Angles 4. Flat angle (head on) 5. High Angle looking down 6. Low angle looking u 7. Side angle 8. Points of thirds. 9. Use geometry 10. Leading lines 11. Diagonal 12. Symmetry 13. Viewpoint 14. Punctuation points 15. Gestures. (Examples from Composition Made Easy) 16. Steelyard 17. L 18. Grouped Mass 19. Three spot 20. Silhouette 21. Tunnel 22. Pattern 23. Golden mean 24. S curve 25. O 26. U 27. Diagonal line 28. Triangle 29. Cross 30. Radiating line 31. Balance scale 32. Emotions in composition: Mood lines http://zevendesign.com/mood-lines-giving-designs-attitude/ search for other composition references https://www.slideshare.net/MarkiyanVavrykovych/uxellent-lines-shapes-in-visual-composition Part Two: Recipes for Natural Light 1. Observe light sources. 2. Seeing as your camera does. 3. Color temperature and WB 4. Sunlight at different times of day. 5. Golden hours 6. Direct sunlight 7. Shade 8. Overcast, cloudy. 9. Blue hour 10. Reflected light (sand, windows, walls, etc.) 11. Vermeer lighting. 12. Rembrandt lighting 13. Light from inside the frame. 14. Motherwell 15. Bouncing light. 16. Using reflectors. 17. Contrast. 18. Exposing for highlights. 19. Leave mystery with lack of detail in darks. Envoy: Putting these skills together to tell your stories: Share them with #AYPClub and read AYP. (Glossary shouldn’t be needed since text will define and index also not needed.)
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Distributed Art Publishers Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy
Book SynopsisHow photographers from Nan Goldin to Leigh Ledare have portrayed intimacy and eros between themselves and their subjects Love Songs brings together series dating from 1952 to 2022 by established and emerging contemporary photographers that explore love, desire and intimacy in all their complex and contradictory ways. Among the major series reproduced here are Nan Goldin’s seminal 1986 photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey (1969) and Winter Journey (1989–90), which present the beginning and end of the relationship with his wife Yoko, from their honeymoon to her death; RongRong&inri’s tender and poetical Polaroid series Personal Letters (2000); and Leigh Ledare’s Double Bind (2010), a complex account of a love triangle between himself, his ex-wife and her new husband. These and the other series in Love Songs together make a portrait of love in all its risk, complexity, sensuality and tenderness. Photographers include: Nobuyoshi Araki, Motoyuki Daifu, Nan Goldin, Emmet Gowin, René Groebli, Hervé Guibert, Sheree Hovsepian, Clifford Prince King, Leigh Ledare, Lin Zhipeng, Sally Mann, RongRong&inri, Collier Schorr, Hideka Tonomura and Karla Hiraldo Voleau.Trade ReviewCaptures the complexity, risk and tenderness of love. * The New York Times Book Review *Love Songs embraces radical intimacy between photographer, subject, and viewer in a shared moment of profound trust, care, and vulnerability. -- Miss Rosen * Huck *Love Songs offers a subtler, more expansive take on how photography can be used to create, sustain, and destroy intimacy in its many forms. -- Kaelen Wilson-Goldie * Aperture *Thought-provoking exhibition 'Love Songs is as much about what photography cant do as about what it can. -- Arthur Lubow * The New York Times: Arts *If photography is the undisputed medium of testimony, capable of describing the world, landscapes, wars, and even everyday life, what is its potential when it comes to showing the feeling of love, and thus the invisible and the impalpable? -- Sophie Bernard * Blind *...conceived as a mixtape of songs gifted to a lover...Through the myriad lens of intimate relationships, Love Songs brings together series dating from 1952 to 2022 by some of the leading photographers of our time that explore love, desire and intimacy in all their most complex and contradictory ways... * All About Photo *
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Rare Bird Books Daughters of Darkness
Book SynopsisDaughters of Darkness is a collection of fine art portraits of women in corpse paint. A nod to black metal and doom album cover art, Daughters of Darkness was photographed over 10+ years, with more than 400 models from all over the world, almost all of which did their own corpse paint and are fans of black metal. Daughters of Darkness features many celebrities, actresses, musicians, and models (some under the cover of corpse painted anonymity) all of whom donned only corpse paint for this book. Photographed by internationally renowned music and fine art photographer Jeremy Saffer, this project combines both his music photography and fine art photography worlds into a single project, which was conceived to capture the memory of flipping though albums in a music store and buying albums based entirely on the albums cover art (which often featured a nude portrait, someone in corpse paint, or both) prior to knowing the music or the band. Like the music that inspired it, Daughters of Darkness shows the duality of finding beauty in dark imagery, and finding darkness within beauty.
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Page Street Publishing Co. The Ultimate Guide to iPhone Photography: Learn
Book SynopsisTaking professional-quality photos doesn’t require a fancy camera — with the help of Yasseen and Moaz, the photographer duo behind Camera Bro, you can learn to take stunning, dramatic, unforgettable and “like-worthy” photos with your iPhone. Yasseen and Moaz give you a crash course in everything you need to know about iPhone photography, from finding the best lighting and framing your shots to adding motion and editing finished images. The result? Cutting edge shots that look like the work of a professional photographer including elements like dramatic back lighting, incredible silhouettes, striking camera angles and more. Whether you’re looking to take better shots to remember your vacation by, build an Instagram feed with an on-point aesthetic or take next-level selfies, with the help of the Camera Bros, your everyday photos will transform into something extraordinary and you’ll be a photography pro before you know it. This book contains 30 lessons and over 100 photos.
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Marquand Books Inc Ash Kolodner: Gayface
Book SynopsisThese photographic diptychs of LGBTQ+ people in America express the acute vulnerability of coming out From 2011 to 2015, Brooklyn-based photographer Ash Kolodner (born 1987) traveled across the United States photographing hundreds of LGBTQ+ individuals of all ages. They made two consecutive portraits of each of their subjects, photographing them twice during the same sitting: once with eyes closed and then with eyes open. These diptychs symbolize the vulnerability many have felt at the outset of discovering their personal identities, and then the realization and self-actualization manifest in the intimate and profound process of coming out. Through more than 180 color portraits, along with subject interviews and contributing texts by filmmaker Kimberly Peirce and Tony award-winning producer Jordan Roth, and icon and performer, RuPaul, Gayface reflects the beauty, intimacy and sometimes the pain of a community kept in the shadows for decades. Ultimately these pictures and this handsome volume represent a revelatory statement on the profound humanity we all share. Ash Kolodner was born in Washington, DC, and holds a BFA in commercial photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Their first major project, GAYFACE 1st Class, in 2013, is a series of more than 500 portraits of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals living in America. Their follow-up series, Showing Face, was exhibited across Philadelphia’s subway stations and billboards in 2016 as part of the Philadelphia Mural Arts program. As a commercial photographer, they have photographed artists and musicians including Nas, Damien Marley, Mayer Hawthorne and Nipsey Hustle. Kolodner's work, which ranges from photography to drawing to sculptural installations, has been featured in numerous magazines, newspapers, galleries and group shows, including Miami Beach Art Basel, Toronto Fashion Week, Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Project, Huffington Post, Curve magazine and Photographer’s Forum.
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Skyhorse Publishing Rebels Rogues and Outlaws
Book SynopsisAs an artist, Dan Fleuette has always identified with the marginal, the rebels, those at the margins of society. Traditionally, these characters have been artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers. Since the dawn of woke culture, where many of today's artists march in lockstep with the dominant, politically correct corporate news and political space, these marginal characters have taken a different look. Today's rebels would have been considered quite mainstream just a few years ago. Included in their ranks are the scorned, mocked, ridiculed and canceledthose who risk everything to dare to speak their mind and run counter to mainstream narratives. These are the people captured inRebels, Rogues, and Outlaws: A Pictorial History of WarRoom. This is not just a portrait book, it is also a WarRoom historical document showcasing the brave souls who are courageous enough to stand up against a ceaseless and powerful battering of politicians, woke social media tyrants, school boards, editorial pages, and polite society in general. This book is Fleuette's small attempt to honor these people, who show us, day in and day out, what real courage is.
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