Photojournalism Books
Hartmann Books Kigali
£19.80
Hartmann Books Donostia
£19.80
Steidl Publishers Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory
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£28.00
Steidl Publishers Deanna Bowen
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£38.40
Steidl Publishers Hans Georg Näder: Futuring Human Empowerment
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£25.50
DruckVerlag Kettler Sitara Thalia Ambrosio
Book SynopsisWith her book Fragile as Glass, Sitara Thalia Ambrosio presents a sensitive and stirring photographic essay that documents the fates of several queer people in Ukraine. The long-term project creates space for images and thoughts that are increasingly occluded in times of crisis and war.Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the political and social reformation of the country initiated by Euromaidan has been severely tested. Old priorities have shifted, taken a back seat, or are more in focus than ever. The difficult situation of the community is further exacerbated by war, homophobic and anti-trans propaganda driven by Russia, and the persecution of queer activists. The book tells their stories by way of example. Quotes and interviews complement the documentary photos from the lives of the five protagonists. In intimate, powerful, and moving portraits and statements, the fragility of their situation is exposed, and it becomes clear
£29.25
DruckVerlag Kettler Byron Smith Testament 22
Book SynopsisTestament ''22 is Byron Smith's powerful debut monograph documenting his 10,000-mile photographic odyssey through Ukraine's first year under Russia's unprovoked invasion. Inspired by Taras Shevchenko's literary legacy, Smith captures an intimate yet varied portrait of a nation at war.His unflinching images, which have won several awards, bear witness to the staggering human cost grieving mothers, shattered communities amid ruin while also celebrating Ukraine's tenacious spirit resilient against unspeakable tragedy. From Kyiv's devastated suburbs to newly liberated villages, Smith's hauntingly beautiful black and white and colour photographs ensure these sacrifices won't be forgotten.Contributing to the overwhelming evidence of Russian crimes, these profoundly moving portraits feature texts by Kyiv Independent reporter Igor Kossov, with whom Smith collaborated on front-line dispatches. An essential reminder that the costs extend far beyond the battlefield, Testament ''22 gives voice to the Ukrainians' resilience and to their fight for their beloved homeland.
£999.99
Skira Into the Heart of the World: 25 Years of
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£999.99
Skira Hanoi after the War
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£25.50
Skira Fulvio Roiter (Bilingual edition): High-Rise New
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£24.00
Skira A Time of Distance: The COVID-19 Visual Project
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£33.60
Skira On the move (Arabic edition): Reframing Nomadic
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£29.75
Skira De Nora Stories from a century of life
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£28.00
Skira Roma: Resilient Tradition
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£32.00
Skira Maurizio Galimberti: Marcinelle
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£29.75
£38.40
Skira Genius of the Place Al Muftaha Arabic edition
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£43.20
Damiani Pierre Fatumbi Verger: United States of America
Book Synopsis"..new studies of Verger’s archive show a greater range of interest in his pictures, many of which celebrated jazz age nightlife and an emergent professional class. The rediscovered images are collected in a new book that offers a nuanced portrait of black America before the war." "Verger’s pictures offer a different perspective: thoughtful, often hopeful images of arresting individuals in black communities, full of aspirational intent and not shy of beauty." "Verger devoted his life to the study of the African diaspora across the world, always alive to human joys as well as social hardships." - The Observer "...illuminating collection of images.." "The 150 photographs – most previously unpublished – are, indeed, vibrant and full of energy, while the accompanying texts and images shine a light on this part of his life as well as his later career. This is an excellent study of a 20th-century great, for existing fans and those new to his work." - B&W Magazine Pierre Fatumbi Verger is considered one of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century as well as a recognized researcher in the field of African Diaspora and religion studies. Verger traveled to the United States of America in 1934 and 1937, during the Great Depression, producing a collection of stunning images that document the national symbols that configure American identity and the challenging social and economic atmosphere of the time. Verger was able to capture with great sensibility the complex cultural and racial diversity of the country where many citizens still confront segregation and poverty, while struggling to live a better life. Verger´s photographs constitute an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of the 1930´s in the U.S., and to the growth of photojournalism, documentary and artistic photography, representing the world from new and enriching perspectives.In the introduction, Javier Escudero Rodríguez frames Verger´s significant contribution to modern photography as well as the lasting relevance of this new collection of iconic images of the Great Depression. The 150 images included in the book, the majority of them never published before, were selected among 1110 negatives, after a meticulous research from Verger´s archive at the Pierre Verger Foundation in Salvador.
£39.20
The University of Chicago Press Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Book SynopsisBefore publishing his book How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) spent his first years in the US as an immigrant and itinerant laborer, until he landed a job as a muckraking reporter. This book places Jacob Riis' images in historical context. It explores Riis' reporting and activism within the gritty specifics of Gilded Age New York.Trade Review"An evocative and valuable reminder both of one unrelenting individual's ability to make a difference and of the relevance of his revelations to the painfully familiar problems we face today." (Sam Roberts, New York Times) "A rigorous, scholarly reexamination of Riis's life and work.... Riis's lightning-flash images of social catastrophe still have the power to shock, even after 120 years." (Matthew Power, New York Times Book Review)"
£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Seeing Silicon Valley
Book SynopsisAcclaimed American photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world.Trade Review"For more than seven decades, business leaders, politicians, and would-be entrepreneurs have tried to unravel the secrets of Silicon Valley. In a little more than one hundred powerful, haunting pages, Meehan and Turner have captured a side of the Valley rarely seen: the deeply inequitable landscape of contingent and disproportionately foreign-born labor that makes its high-tech magic possible. Humane, insightful, and deeply compelling, this book tells the story of Silicon Valley in a completely new and utterly magnetic way."--Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America "It is a Silicon Valley rarely described and never shown that photographer Mary Beth Meehan sought to document. . . . Without descending into pathos, she reveals the striking contrasts between the world of start-ups and that in which their employees live. . . . But underneath, Meehan also depicts another, more subtle dissonance--between the way Silicon Valley sees itself, and the way it really is."-- "Le Monde" "Meehan's photographs provide a compelling cross section of peoples and places in the Valley, featuring hidden and untold stories. The photographs are excellent, the selection is clever and balanced, and the accompanying texts are well-written and engaging."--Phillip Prodger, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsThe Valley on the Hill Fred Turner Photographs and Stories Mary Beth Meehan Cristobal Ravi and Gouthami Victor Warren Justyna Teresa Mary Diane Abraham and Brenda Ariana and Elijah Mark Imelda Richard Leslie Geraldine Jolea Melissa and Steve Jon Gee and Virginia Branton and Shirley Konstance Aurora Erfan Ted Elisa and Family Elizabeth Afterword Acknowledgments
£22.80
Columbia University Press Residual Futures The Urban Ecologies of Literary
Book SynopsisFranz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from Japan's intensive urbanization in the 1960s and 1970s. He maps the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation.Trade ReviewAn important and necessary book that even beyond the discussion of its immediate objects will help further thedebate on the status of the city in cultural discourse, then and today. * Journal of Asian Studies *This book will command attention from a wide range of scholars and other critically minded readers to urgent consideration of these registers, as well as of the urban space they formed and transformed. * Japanese Language and Literature *An engaging and challenging work that will attain a secure position among studies of 1960s/1970s visual and textual culture, and, one hopes, stimulate future scholarly work in these areas. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *Franz Prichard's Residual Futures is a thrilling exploration of the literary and visual remaking of the urban landscape of Cold War Japan. It offers us radically new ways to think about the interrelationship of urban ecologies, media forms, aesthetics, and politics--not only in Japan of the 1960s and ’70s, but here and now. -- Marilyn Ivy, Columbia UniversityResidual Futures traces connections between the rapidly changing cityscape of Tokyo in the 1960s and 1970s and transformations of the mediascape of literature, cinema, and photography. Prichard adroitly shows how the new mediascape strove to inhabit a strange new set of linkages inadvertently afforded by the concerted efforts to remake both city and country. Residual Futures calls attention to the unforeseen possibilities emerging from the tangled infrastructural skein of mediascape and cityscape. -- Thomas Lamarre, McGill UniversityThis original, provocative, and timely study expands the horizon of Japan studies, as well as literary and visual cultural studies, onto a complex urban terrain that is at once cosmopolitan and dystopic. Residual Futures renders a future-present that is formed in the atomic residues of the postwar planet, but also along a fault line that opens onto a future that has already come and gone. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern CaliforniaThis book provides a deeply fascinating view into a crucial trajectory that has not received enough attention in the study of media or visual arts in general, much less of Japan. The transition of media culture from the 1960s to the 1980s is deeply consequential for our situation today, and Prichard lays it out in surprising and lucid ways, always keeping an eye on the possibilities it contained. Immensely informative, this book will make a tremendous contribution to work on visual arts and to the study of the contexts of Japan. -- Alexander Zahlten, Harvard UniversityAdvancing existing work on 1960s and ’70s Japan significantly, Prichard treats photographers like Nakahira as full-fledged intellectuals making a direct and meaningful contribution to contemporaneous discourse on the fundamental characteristics of modern urban life, further unsettling notions of the position of the artist in society as a mirror held up to certain kinds of social problems. -- Steven Ridgely, University of WisconsinHis book draws attention to a corpus of works from one of Japan's most formative eras and is an excellent addition to the current literature. * Urban History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Prelude to the Traffic War: Infrastructural Aesthetics of the Cold War2. Disappearance: Topological Visuality in Abe Kōbō’s Urban Literature3. Landscape Vocabularies: For a Language to Comeand the Geopolitics of Reading4. An Illustrated Dictionary of Urban Overflows5. Photography as Threshold and Pathway After Reversion6. Residual FuturesNotesIndex
£83.60
Columbia University Press Residual Futures
Book SynopsisFranz Prichard offers a pathbreaking analysis of the works wrought from Japan's intensive urbanization in the 1960s and 1970s. He maps the ways in which Japanese filmmakers, writers, photographers, and other artists came to grips with the entwined ecologies of a drastic transformation.Trade ReviewAn important and necessary book that even beyond the discussion of its immediate objects will help further thedebate on the status of the city in cultural discourse, then and today. * Journal of Asian Studies *This book will command attention from a wide range of scholars and other critically minded readers to urgent consideration of these registers, as well as of the urban space they formed and transformed. * Japanese Language and Literature *An engaging and challenging work that will attain a secure position among studies of 1960s/1970s visual and textual culture, and, one hopes, stimulate future scholarly work in these areas. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *Franz Prichard's Residual Futures is a thrilling exploration of the literary and visual remaking of the urban landscape of Cold War Japan. It offers us radically new ways to think about the interrelationship of urban ecologies, media forms, aesthetics, and politics--not only in Japan of the 1960s and ’70s, but here and now. -- Marilyn Ivy, Columbia UniversityResidual Futures traces connections between the rapidly changing cityscape of Tokyo in the 1960s and 1970s and transformations of the mediascape of literature, cinema, and photography. Prichard adroitly shows how the new mediascape strove to inhabit a strange new set of linkages inadvertently afforded by the concerted efforts to remake both city and country. Residual Futures calls attention to the unforeseen possibilities emerging from the tangled infrastructural skein of mediascape and cityscape. -- Thomas Lamarre, McGill UniversityThis original, provocative, and timely study expands the horizon of Japan studies, as well as literary and visual cultural studies, onto a complex urban terrain that is at once cosmopolitan and dystopic. Residual Futures renders a future-present that is formed in the atomic residues of the postwar planet, but also along a fault line that opens onto a future that has already come and gone. -- Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern CaliforniaThis book provides a deeply fascinating view into a crucial trajectory that has not received enough attention in the study of media or visual arts in general, much less of Japan. The transition of media culture from the 1960s to the 1980s is deeply consequential for our situation today, and Prichard lays it out in surprising and lucid ways, always keeping an eye on the possibilities it contained. Immensely informative, this book will make a tremendous contribution to work on visual arts and to the study of the contexts of Japan. -- Alexander Zahlten, Harvard UniversityAdvancing existing work on 1960s and ’70s Japan significantly, Prichard treats photographers like Nakahira as full-fledged intellectuals making a direct and meaningful contribution to contemporaneous discourse on the fundamental characteristics of modern urban life, further unsettling notions of the position of the artist in society as a mirror held up to certain kinds of social problems. -- Steven Ridgely, University of WisconsinHis book draws attention to a corpus of works from one of Japan's most formative eras and is an excellent addition to the current literature. * Urban History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Prelude to the Traffic War: Infrastructural Aesthetics of the Cold War2. Disappearance: Topological Visuality in Abe Kōbō’s Urban Literature3. Landscape Vocabularies: For a Language to Comeand the Geopolitics of Reading4. An Illustrated Dictionary of Urban Overflows5. Photography as Threshold and Pathway After Reversion6. Residual FuturesNotesIndex
£999.99
Pennsylvania State University Press Cold War Photographic Diplomacy
Book SynopsisExamines the United States Information Agency’s program of photographic diplomacy with Africa, locating photography at the intersection of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War.Trade Review“Cold War Photographic Diplomacy’s major achievement is the way that it theorizes a large archive by showing the transatlantic interactions between the image makers, the imagery, and the audiences of the images. It is a fascinating read.”—Liam Buckley,Professor of Anthropology, James Madison University
£71.36
University of Texas Press Viewpoints
Book SynopsisA broad study of the innovations, obligations, and new possibilities in the field of visual anthropology.Trade Review"The authors in this volume include some of the best current researchers in the anthropological study of visual means of signification, communication, and representation." Thomas D. Blakely, Pennsylvania State University, Past President of the Society for Visual Anthropology and Organizer and Chair of the annual Visual Research ConferenceTable of Contents Historical Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Section I. Photography Now Chapter 1. Photographic Exploration of Social and Cultural Experience (Malcolm Collier) Chapter 2. Documentary Photography in the Field (Laena Wilder) Chapter 3. Photography and Ethnography (Richard Freeman) Section II. Images from the Past Chapter 4. Historical Photographs of North American Indians: Primary Documents, BUT View with Care (Joanna Cohan Scherer) Chapter 5. Blasting a Boulder and Building Memories (Julie M. Flowerday) Section III. Moving Pictures, Film, Video, and Computer-Generated Media Chapter 6. Reading the Mind of the Ethnographic Filmmaker: Mining a Flawed Genre for Anthropological Content (Carol Hermer) Chapter 7. Visual Anthropology in a Time of War: Intimacy and Interactivity in Ethnographic Media (Peter Biella) Chapter 8. Guestworkers: Farmworkers, Filmmakers, and Their Obligations in the Field (Charles Thompson) Section IV. Roads Less Traveled, Unusual Subfields Part I. Uncommon Subject Areas Chapter 9. Envisioning Primates (Anne Zeller) Chapter 10. Steps to an Ethnography of Dance (Najwa Adra) Chapter 11. Looking for the Past in the Present: Ethnoarchaeology at al-Hiba (Edward Ochsenschlager) Part II. Media: Beyond Camera Work Chapter 12. In Search of Live Relics in Cold Lake (Kimowan McLain) Chapter 13. Art and Mind: Working on Murals (Mary Strong) Chapter 14. Art History and Anthropology (Louly Peacock Konz and James Peacock) Section V. Epilogue Chapter 15. Elementary Forms of the Digital Media: Tools for Applied Action Collaboration and Research in Visual Anthropology (Peter Biella) Glossary Author Biographies Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press ExodusExodo
Book SynopsisJust in time for the 2008 election and the national immigration debate, this searing documentary of the largest single transnational migration in history forces us to face the tremendous human cost of a failed Mexican state and a relentlessly globalizingTable of Contents acknowledgments a short note photo section one part one. dreams and nightmares photo section two part two. what's your name? who's your daddy? is he rich like me? photo section three part three. a dream in the hole in our hearts photo section four afterword. baghdad notes bibliography extended captions
£35.10
University of Texas Press A Procession of Them
Book SynopsisOne of the world’s foremost documentary photographers offers an unflinching look at the inhuman conditions suffered by the mentally ill and disabled in many countries.
£31.50
University of Texas Press Photographing the Mexican Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920 is among the world’s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes—commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this day—Francisco Villa galloping toward the camera; Villa lolling in the presidential chair next to Emiliano Zapata; and Zapata standing stolidly in charro raiment with a carbine in one hand and the other hand on a sword, to mention only a few. But the identities of those who created the thousands of extant images of the Mexican Revolution, and what their purposes were, remain a huge puzzle because photographers constantly plagiarized each other’s images.In this pathfinding book, acclaimed photography historian John Mraz carries out a monumental analysis of photographs produced during thTrade ReviewMraz and his editor at the University of Texas Press have produced a highly readable and lavishly illustrated book, perfect for a broad range of readers. With this book, advanced undergraduates will get an aesthetically rich and authoritatively narrated introduction to the Mexican Revolution, and graduate students will engage with the thinking of a pathbreaking historian of visual culture. * Hispanic American Historical Review *The relationship between humans and their environment also plays a role in John Mraz's Photographing the Mexican Revolution, which masterfully analyzes the work of revolutionary-era photographers. Widely considered the preeminent expert on the history of Mexican photography, Mraz compiles and interprets more than two hundred photographs from the 1910s, including many hitherto unknown images...For that reason alone, this is a book worth buying. * Latin American Research Review *Historians of Mexican politics and society will benefit from this book’s synthesis of the latest research and original analysis. * Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Porfiriato: From the Studio to the Street Chapter 2. Representing the Revolution Chapter 3. The Myth of the Casasolas Chapter 4. Learning to Photograph War Chapter 5. The Zapatista Movement and Southern Cameras Chapter 6. Photographing the Reaction Chapter 7. The Caudillo of the Cameras? Chapter 8. The Advantages of Photographing the Constitutionalist Movement Epilogue: The Icons of the Mexican Revolution Notes Bibliography Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Photojournalists on War
Book SynopsisWith visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts from the front lines, three dozen of the world’s leading photojournalists reveal the inside and untold stories of the Iraq war in this groundbreaking oral history.Trade ReviewWith visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by an incredibly diverse group of the world’s top news photographers, Photojournalists on War presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East. The hard-hitting accounts of these practitioners would be rare in the annals of any war, yet here they reveal the inside and untold stories behind the headlines in Iraq. Each interview is logged with the year and location it took place, and is accompanied by a selection of the photographer’s work made on and off the battlefield. * PhotoArchiveNews.com *Michael Kamber’s new book, Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq, is a vital record of a conflict that will shape America, and Iraq, for decades to come. * Columbia Journalism Review *Anyone who wants to see the real war in Iraq would do well to buy a copy of Michael Kamber's new book, Photojournalists on War. It's a vivid contradiction to many of the images widely broadcast and published during the past decade. * Architects and Artisans *The Photojournalist who covers a war is usually nameless and faceless... Now there is a new important oral history, Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq by Michael Kamber…Not all the photos are about war. Some show people in their daily lives, images, which depict the results of war on often innocent civilians. All are memorable. * Hot Shoe *The book—required reading for anyone interested in the way news is gathered an disseminated these days—collects Kamber’s interviews with 39 colleagues who covered the war…so these conversations are remarkably candid—confidences shared among friends that we’re privileged to be listening in on. * Photograph *The book is wonderfully printed, which is of course important for a book of photographs. But I find it hard to know how to describe the book less superficially-that is, to describe the content. The story is painful but you'll find the images hard to get out of your head. The images in the book bust open a hornet's nest of emotions: amazement and horror, admiration and sorrow, gratitude and pain. * William-Porter.net *Photojournalists On War is THE reference book for any discussion of the War on Iraq and photography. * Photo-Eye Blog *Photojournalists on War is the result of five years of interviews with some of the world's leading photojournalists. However, finds Gwen McClure, it's also the fruit of Michael Kamber's frustration over the harrowing images that were never shown or published before … The aim of the book … is to tell the uncensored story to the general public, an audience that hasn't been privy to much of what went on there. The photographs in the book are at once stunning and arrestingly graphic. * British Journal of Photography *
£48.60
University of Texas Press UnsettledDesasosiego
Book SynopsisCulminating thirty years of photographing gang members and their families, award-winning photojournalist Donna De Cesare uncovers the effects of decades of war and gang violence on the lives of youths in Central America and in refugee communities in the UTrade ReviewBetween chapters of text, De Cesare lets her images stand with a minimum of explanation—just year and place. Close readers will recognize recurring characters by their tattoos, but given a less detailed reading, the images offer a sense of the tremendous scope of De Cesare’s work, and the scale of the troubles she documents. * The Texas Observer *Table of Contents Prologue/Prólogo Foreword by Fred Ritchin/Prefacio I. Civil War: Central America 1980s/Guerra civil: Centroamérica en los años ochenta II. Gang War: Los Angeles 1990s/Guerra de pandillas: Los Ángeles en los años noventa III. Unsettled: Central America after War/Desasosiego: Centroamérica después de la guerra Epilogue/Epílogo Spanish translation of Prologue, Main text, and Epilogue by Javier Auyero/Traducción al español del prólogo, texto principal y epílogo a cargo de Javier Auyero Plate thumbnails and captions/Lista de imágenes Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos
£48.60
Yale University Press After 911 Photographs by Nathan Lyons Yale
Book SynopsisIn response to the attacks on America of 11th September 2001, photographer Nathan Lyons, known for his honest and often questioning depictions of American culture, has created a portfolio of images.
£19.00
Yale University Press Alexander Gardner
Book SynopsisA glimpse into the development of the American West through startling photographs of the frontier landscape and the rich culture of American Indian tribesTrade ReviewShortlisted for the 2015 Kraszna Krausz best photography book award -- Best Photography Book Award * Kraszna Krausz Foundation *
£999.99
University of California Press Artist as Reporter
Book SynopsisActive from 1940 to 1948, PM was a progressive New York City daily tabloid newspaper committed to the politics of labor, social justice, and antifascism-and it prioritized the intelligent and critical deployment of both pictures and their perception as paramount in these campaigns. With PM as its main focus, Artist as Reporter offers a substantial intervention into the literature on American journalism, photography, and modern art. The book considers the journalistic contributions to PM of such signal American modernists as the curator Holger Cahill, the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, the photographers Weegee and Lisette Model, and the filmmaker, photographer, and editor Ralph Steiner. Each of its five chapters explores one dimension of the tabloid's complex journalistic activation of modernism's potential, showing how PM inserted into daily print journalism the most innovative critical thinking in the fields of painting, illustration, cartooning, and the lens-based arts. Artist as Reporter promises to revise our own understanding of midcentury American modernism and the nature of its relationship to the wider media and public culture.Trade Review“Amazing to excavate so radical and genuinely experimental a position in the moldering pages of an ancient five-cent fish wrap.” * Artforum *"'Looking is not as simple as it looks,' reads Ad Reinhardt's drawing entitled 'How to Look at Things Through a Wineglass' and published in the New York daily PM . . . The essential education that derives from such a finding—untranslatable in its circular efficiency—is at the heart of the book just released by Jason E. Hill." * Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art modern *"Hill’s Artist as Reporter stands among the most insightful treatments of the entanglement of US art and visual culture published in recent memory, and it is an exemplar for future studies of art-journalism intermediality." * History of Photography *Table of ContentsA Note about Captions of PM Pages Preface Introduction 1. The Artist as Reporter at the Museum of Modern Art 2. Drawing on Newsprint 3. Ralph Steiner’s Editorial Model 4. Weegee’s Corpus 5. How to Look at News Pictures in America Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Sources Art Credits Index
£46.75
Pluto Press From Palestine to Israel
Book SynopsisBeautifully presented photobook, featuring 200 rarely seen photographs from the Palestinian NakbaTrade Review'From Palestine to Israel will confirm Azoulay's status as one of the politically boldest theorists at work in the field of visual studies today' -- Jacqueline Rose'A rare achievement. Truly interdisciplinary, she marshals material from photography, history and political theory to offer an incisive political critique of the discourses through which we understand Israel-Palestine. The result is the most original conceptualisation of photography, history and politics and their connections that we have seen for a very long time' -- David Campbell, Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies'Extracting photographs primarily from Israeli state archives -- in which they performed a Zionist role -- she breathes into them new life, looking at them as no one looked before and seeing the contours of a possible shared future ... A groundbreaking work of political imagination' -- Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths University Department of Visual Cultures, author of Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation'An extraordinary set of photographs, elucidated with brilliant and provocative captions that embody prodigious research. The result is a stunningly eloquent documentary record and analysis of the violence that accompanied the establishment of Israel in 1947-49' -- Zachary Lockman, New York University'This is a stunning book, fierce and subtle in its visual documentation of the early making of the Israeli regime. Ariella Azoulay does more than redefine what photography can be about. She offers us new methodological tools that probe the power of visual history. In insisting that we attend to “the photographic event” as much as the photographic document itself, she tracks the violences and transgressions that made possible this photograph, in this place, at this particular time. Instructing us with sharp political acuity, she rivets our senses on the political logics of a regime in the making that these photographs register, the absences they pronounce, the conceptual vocabulary they use, the potentialities of imagining a non-evitable course of events. Whether one draws on her analysis to gain a new understanding of the Israeli/Palestinian divide, or to learn how to write visual history differently, Azoulay's gift to us is to transform the political analytics of visual documentation and to broaden the scope of what tangible violences such images actually bear witness to.' -- Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, New School for Social Research'The disappearance of the country of Palestine in 1948 was, predictably, accompanied by the disappearance of many people. This tragic time gave rise to desperate searches and also countless images. Long hidden away in archives, these images are finally beginning to emerge. Ariella Azoulay is one of the image seekers as those who sift through the riches of forgotten basement archives are called who for many years has helped to give new visibility to those who disappeared. This means, above all, that the truth of their stories can finally be told. In addition to [Azoulays] passionate work, this book makes a fundamental contribution to the truth needed to bring about a just and shared peace.' -- Elias Sanbar, Palestinian Ambassador to UNESCO'A very significant addition to the study of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948... It is a must-read for all those interested in the events surrounding the declaration of Israel's statehood.' -- Issam Nassar, Journal of Palestine StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Constituent Violence 1947–50 Acknowledgements Bibliography 1. Military Governmentality 2. Socialisation to the State, and the Mechanisms of Subordination 3. Architecture of Destruction, Dispossession and Gaining Ownership 4. Creating a Jewish Political Body and Deporting the Country’s Arab Residents 5. Borders, Strategies of Uprooting, and Preventing Return 6. Looting, Monopolising and Expropriation 7. Observing 'Their Catastrophe' Index
£22.49
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Paparazzi
Book SynopsisPaparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today s media landscape. This book charts the historical and cultural significance of the industry, profiles its protagonists and discusses how its imagery of celebrity have become a major part of media consumption.Trade Review"Kim McNamara has written an excellent and most useful book. Drawing on a rich vein of information from her industry research as well as from the academic literature, McNamara�s Paparazzi is indispensable for anyone wanting to properly understand the contemporary production and circulation of celebrity."Graeme Turner, University of Queensland"In this fascinating and important study Kim McNamara takes issue with the familiar image of the paparazzi as the invasive hooligans of contemporary journalism. Drawing on first hand research in LA, London and Sydney, she explores the working lives of the paparazzi, the structure of the industry, and the way in which social media are transforming celebrity photography. A fresh, insightful and readable book that has much to teach us about news organisations today - highly recommended."Rosalind Gill, City University LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Paparazzi: A Genealogy 2. Paparazzi and Media Practices 3. Agencies and Image Markets 4. Paparazzi and Celebrity News 5. Paparazzi and Photographic Genres 6. Celebrities, Photography, and Privacy Conclusions References
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Paparazzi Media Practices and Celebrity Culture
Book SynopsisPaparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today s media landscape. This book charts the historical and cultural significance of the industry, profiles its protagonists and discusses how its imagery of celebrity have become a major part of media consumption.Trade Review"Kim McNamara has written an excellent and most useful book. Drawing on a rich vein of information from her industry research as well as from the academic literature, McNamara�s Paparazzi is indispensable for anyone wanting to properly understand the contemporary production and circulation of celebrity."Graeme Turner, University of Queensland"In this fascinating and important study Kim McNamara takes issue with the familiar image of the paparazzi as the invasive hooligans of contemporary journalism. Drawing on first hand research in LA, London and Sydney, she explores the working lives of the paparazzi, the structure of the industry, and the way in which social media are transforming celebrity photography. A fresh, insightful and readable book that has much to teach us about news organisations today - highly recommended."Rosalind Gill, City University LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Paparazzi: A Genealogy 2. Paparazzi and Media Practices 3. Agencies and Image Markets 4. Paparazzi and Celebrity News 5. Paparazzi and Photographic Genres 6. Celebrities, Photography, and Privacy Conclusions References
£15.19
University of Nebraska Press Lets Be Reasonable
Book SynopsisJoel Sartore has spent twenty years taking pictures for National Geographic. His fresh insights and engaging warmth and wit - accompanied by extraordinary photographs - provide a sensory experience that draws readers into one fascinatingly different world after another.Trade Review“The notion that one picture is worth a thousand words has always seemed silly to me. It depends on what pictures and what words you’re talking about. Some pictures require no words at all. Some words create their own pictures in the mind of the beholder; different pictures for different beholders. In the case of Joel Sartore’s work we get both. Words that illuminate mere pictures, pictures that give shape, substance, light and shade to mere words. Together they are a uniquely personal artistic expression. As readers of National Geographic and viewers of CBS News Sunday Morning have discovered to our delight over the years, nobody but Joel Sartore would ever, could ever, combine the men women, children, animals, and Nebraska countryside in just this way. The insights, the sense and sensibility, the quirky humor, love, outrage and passion are his and his alone. That’s what makes his work and this book such a treasure.”—Charles Osgood, host of CBS News Sunday Morning and The Osgood File "For this collection of essays and images, photojournalist Santore drew on various subjects encountered in his travels on assignment for CBS Sunday Morning and National Geographic magazine. By turns quirky, candid, whimsical and moving, they cover a wide range of topics, including endangered species, the power of laughter, state-fair food, mud, money, conspicuous consumption, and his own life and family at home in Nebraska."—Neil Pond, American ProfileTable of Contents[no toc - 19 unnumbered chapters]
£16.14
New York University Press Death Makes the News How the Media Censor and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Death Makes the News is a breakout study and milestone contribution to the literature . . . By taking us behind the curtain of newsrooms, inside the editorial decision-making process through interviews and observation, [Fishman] reveals how and why journalists make the choices they do in terms of what to show us about the dead." * International Journal of Communication *"The book pinpoints political pressures affecting news choices, particularly when it comes to wartime censorship." * Times Higher Education *"“Death Makes the News is a breakout study and milestone contribution to the literature. As such, it is likely to remain a highly cited standard source." -- International Journal of Communication"Fishman’s study is clearly written, liberally illustrated, and compelling… a significant study of value-laden dimensions of gatekeeping decisions, one that should stimulate discussions in classes on media sociology and media ethics." -- Newspaper Research Journal"Fishman provides readers with a powerful and informed dissection of the presentation of both death and the corpse in contemporary American media. Weaving a rich tapestry… [in] carefully crafted, meticulously copy-edited and beautifully type-set prose, accompanied by a cacophony of images, she presents a holistic account of the role and treatment of the corpse… and has created a powerful and engaging manuscript." -- Canadian Journal of Sociology
£23.74
Duke University Press Iraq Perspectives
Book SynopsisSelected by William Eggleston as WinnerThe Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in PhotographyBenjamin Lowy’s powerful and arresting color photographs, taken over a six-year period through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles, capture the desolation of a war-ravaged Iraq as well as the tension and anxiety of both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. To photograph on the streets unprotected was impossible for Lowy, so he made images that illuminate this difficulty by shooting photographs through the windows and goggles meant to help him, and soldiers, to see. In doing so he provides us with a new way of looking at the war—an entirely different framework for regarding and thinking about the everyday activities of Iraqis in a devastated landscape and the movements of soldiers on patrol, as well as the alarm and apprehension of nighttime raids. “Iraq was a land of blast walls and barbed wire fences. I made my fTrade Review“Lowy's photos are unmistakably scenes from Iraq—ruined buildings, street vendors, kids with missing limbs, billboards for newly minted cellphone services. In Lowy's images, we see daily life returning to this country, but the children shown have known little but this forlorn landscape. Dreariness is all. The most original component of Lowy's book is the thematic divisions. The first part consists of images captured through the windows of military Humvees, while the second part consists entirely of green night-vision images and yields the most intimate moments, including Iraqi civilians being intimidatd and detained in what appear to be their own homes.” - David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly“Lowy’s photographs of both daily life and the terror of warfare were taken through the windows of a Humvee and through military-issue night vision goggles. They provide a revealing perspective on what he describes as ‘the fear and desperation that is war.’” - Shelf Unbound (A Top Small Press Books of 2011)“The mediation inscribed in the image - the window frame, the night vision haze - positions us in relation to the scene. By representing the act of perception, by addressing the experience of observation as much as the observation of experiences, Lowy’s subject is both what the soldier sees and how the soldier sees. The pictures contain the clues and tools that encourage the audience to consider photojournalism as practice. Lowy’s frames do what all photography does, but they do it exceptionally well: they simultaneously invite us to look, and hold us in place.” - Leo Hsu, Foto8“Whether looking out of armoured car windows or through green-tinted night-vision goggles, the military has little opportunity to connect with the local people or everyday life, as Lowy's shots make chillingly clear.” - British Journal of Photography (named one of their best books of 2011)“I’m not one to shirk engaging the discussion of a book but Iraq | Perspectives puts me in an unusual place. It is an important, memorable and arresting photobook, and for all these reasons I’m left rather without anything to say. This book is hard for me to talk about simply because the work speaks so extraordinarily well for itself. The images that are compact and succinct, presenting at once the literal and metaphorical. It is among the best representations of the day to day realities of our soldiers and the psychological boundaries keeping us from comprehending Iraq and this war.” - Sarah Bradley, Photo-Eye"These images were practically asking to be in a book together-everything about them-the conception, the subject, the fact that we're still at war, the way the pictures were taken. Benjamin's work is an opportunity to see as an American soldier sees when in Iraq-nobody's ever shown that, especially through night vision goggles.”—William Eggleston, Prize Judge“I’m not one to shirk engaging the discussion of a book but Iraq | Perspectives puts me in an unusual place. It is an important, memorable and arresting photobook, and for all these reasons I’m left rather without anything to say. This book is hard for me to talk about simply because the work speaks so extraordinarily well for itself. The images that are compact and succinct, presenting at once the literal and metaphorical. It is among the best representations of the day to day realities of our soldiers and the psychological boundaries keeping us from comprehending Iraq and this war.” -- Sarah Bradley * Photo-Eye *“Lowy’s photographs of both daily life and the terror of warfare were taken through the windows of a Humvee and through military-issue night vision goggles. They provide a revealing perspective on what he describes as ‘the fear and desperation that is war.’” (A Top Small Press Books of 2011) * Shelf Unbound *“The mediation inscribed in the image - the window frame, the night vision haze - positions us in relation to the scene. By representing the act of perception, by addressing the experience of observation as much as the observation of experiences, Lowy’s subject is both what the soldier sees and how the soldier sees. The pictures contain the clues and tools that encourage the audience to consider photojournalism as practice. Lowy’s frames do what all photography does, but they do it exceptionally well: they simultaneously invite us to look, and hold us in place.” -- Leo Hsu * Foto8 *
£31.50
University of Pittsburgh Press Pastoral and Monumental
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£45.95
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The SpaceAge Presidency of John F. Kennedy A
Book SynopsisCaptures the compelling story of John F. Kennedy's role in advancing the US's space program, set against the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The stunning collection of history and photographs crafted by authors John Bisney and J.L. Pickering illustrates Kennedy's close association with the race to space during his time in office.Trade Review“This period is brilliantly documented in the present coffee-table volume, with hundreds of photographs … for the space buff and/or science historian it is a treasure trove, and for those of a certain age it’s a nostalgic walk down memory lane”- David Stickland, The Observatory
£39.71
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Where the Roads All End
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£30.56
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Human Documents
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£35.66
Texas Christian University Press El Paso 120
£26.96
Texas Christian University Press Dallas Through a Lost Lens 19391954
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£31.41
Johns Hopkins University Press Maryland in Black and White
Book SynopsisThese photographs reveal places we know but scarcely recognize and give us another look at the people of the greatest generation.Table of ContentsForeword, by Frederick N. RasmussenAcknowledgmentsThe ContextThe Place: Maryland, 1930–1945The Project: Roy Stryker and the Historical SectionThe Photographers: Biographical SketchesThe PhotographsSurviving the DepressionCentral and Western MarylandChesapeake Bay and TidewaterEastern Shore Agriculture and IndustrySouthern Maryland Agriculture and the Faces of PovertySuburb, City, and Highway: Beginnings of the Eastern Metropolitan CorridorGood Times in Hard Times—Recreation and LeisureMaryland Goes to War, 1940–1943Wartime PreparednessLife on the Home FrontNotesBibliographyIndex
£29.25
University of Texas Press Rodrigo Moya
Book SynopsisWith photographs that have never been published before, this is the first English-Spanish bilingual retrospective of a prominent Mexican photographer who has documented Latin America from revolutionary movements to timeless moments of daily life.Table of Contents Fotografía y conciencia / Photography and Conscience Essay by Ariel Arnal El nacimiento de las imágenes / The Origin of the Images Introduction by Rodrigo Moya 1. La ciudad que viví / The City I Lived In 2. Más allá de la urbe / Beyond the Metropolis 3. América Latina / Latin America 4. Entre mar y tierra / Between Land and Sea 5. Célebres y anónimos / The Famous and the Anonymous 6. La fe agnóstica / Agnostic Faith 7. Figuraciones / Chimeras Agradecimiento de Rodrigo / Acknowledgments
£45.00
University of Texas Press Struggle for Justice
Book SynopsisStruggle for Justice celebrates the legacy of the photographers who helped galvanize public support for the civil rights movement, often at great personal risk.
£31.50
University of Texas Press Flash of Light Wall of Fire
Book SynopsisIn August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the immediate aftermath was documented by Japanese photographers. For the most part the images they produced were censored or confiscated, but many were preserved in secret. Some were published widely in Japan during the 1950s, though not in the United States. Later, prints and negatives were gathered by groups such as the Anti-Nuclear Photographers’ Movement of Japan, whose collection is now housed at the Briscoe Center for American History. The center’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photographs Archive consists of more than eight hundred photographs, over one hundred of which are seen here for the first time in an English-language publication.To mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the bombings, Flash of Light, Wall of Fire features the work of twenty-three Japanese photographers who risked their lives to capture the devastation. Together these images serve as a vi
£35.10
