Photojournalism Books
GOST Books Tall Socks
Book SynopsisPhotographs taken in New York over 50 years ago by Mark Cohen will be published for the firsttime in Tall Socks.
£47.50
All Night Long Publishing Cracked Reflections of Imperfection 2 Robbie Kaye
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£24.98
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Aerosol Art Kings
£30.74
Duke University Press A Different Light
Book SynopsisThis is the first full critical study of the work of the popular documentary photographer SebastiãoSalgado. Nair explores all the stages of Salgado's work, including the recent more ecological subjects, showing its planetary commitments.Trade Review“Through exhaustive research on Salgado's work, Nair raises critical questions on ethics, politics, history, photography, and aesthetics. . . . Particularly poignant are the intimate conversations among Nair, Salgado, and his wife, Lélia, which add tremendous clarity to Salgado's worldview. Highly recommended for fans of Salgado's work and for those interested in photojournalism, documentary photography, and global humanitarian issues.” - Shauna Frischkorn, Library Journal“[A]dvance[s] a perceptive, penetrating understanding of social and natural discord encoded in the photographs.” - Giovanna L. Costantini, Leonardo Reviews“[T]his treatise is useful for its focus on Salgado and its contribution to the search for answers about the ongoing presence of what often seems an unsolvable but significant concern. Nair's book highlights another central core within Salgado's ongoing visual investigation: the varying relationship(s) between humans and the land. . . . Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.” - C. Chiarenza, Choice“This work constitutes, to my knowledge, the first book-length study of the Brazilian documentarist’s work, and as such it represents a significant contribution to Latin American scholarship on photography and beyond—to visual cultural studies writ large. The author effortlessly ranges across aesthetic theory, Latin American historiography, and postcolonial criticism, as well as theories of photography, in addressing her subject.” - Jorge Coronado, The Americas“One need not be familiar with photographer Sebastião Salgado in order to uncover something innovative about visual studies within Parvati Nair’s biography. . . . . Nair effectively compares and contrasts Salgado to other influential photographers across time and place . . . while at the same time confronting both his detractors and fans through a theoretical lens.” - Bree Akesson, Visual Studies“The importance of Salgado as a photographer is indisputable, he is the curator of chiaroscuro, and it is remarkable that Parvati Nair’s A Different Light is the first full-length study of him to appear in print. Her book offers an interdisciplinary overview of his work.” - Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books“A superb book on the most important photographer in the world today, A Different Light cuts a very wide swath: critical photojournalism, humanitarian documentation, political aesthetics, visual epistemology and historiography, representational theory, documentary ethics, the colonial gaze, the Frankfurt School, Latin America, Africa, the place of still photography in a rapidly moving world, ecology, art, profit, and concern. This is the book that the photography of Sebastião Salgado deserves.”—John Mraz, author of Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity“An excellent study! Parvati Nair simultaneously places the work of Sebastião Salgado within broader contexts and illuminates contemporary debates on aesthetics, ethics, and photodocumentary, with welcome emphasis on perspectives from the Global South. A must-read for all those concerned with photographs as visible evidence.”—Liz Wells, Plymouth University, United Kingdom“[A]dvance[s] a perceptive, penetrating understanding of social and natural discord encoded in the photographs.” -- Giovanna L. Costantini * Leonardo Reviews *“[T]his treatise is useful for its focus on Salgado and its contribution to the search for answers about the ongoing presence of what often seems an unsolvable but significant concern. Nair's book highlights another central core within Salgado's ongoing visual investigation: the varying relationship(s) between humans and the land. . . . Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.” -- C. Chiarenza * Choice *“Through exhaustive research on Salgado's work, Nair raises critical questions on ethics, politics, history, photography, and aesthetics. . . Particularly poignant are the intimate conversations among Nair, Salgado, and his wife, Lélia, which add tremendous clarity to Salgado's worldview. Highly recommended for fans of Salgado's work and for those interested in photojournalism, documentary photography, and global humanitarian issues.” -- Shauna Frischkorn * Library Journal *“Nair's study is excellent because of its documentary quality. She interviews Salgado and his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, as to their projects and the contexts of their work and she is careful to discuss in depth the controversies surrounding his work and the museological issues associated with the privileged exhibition of misery and poverty. Because it is so meticulously documented, the reader has access to an excellent understanding of the Salgado project.” -- David William Foster * Luso-Brazilian Review *“With English language studies on Brazilian photography and photographers relatively scarce, A Different Light makes an important and very welcome contribution to the field.” -- Alice L. Allen * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Photo-Trajectory 1 1. The Moving Lens: Abiding Concerns and Photographic Projects 49 2. Engaging Photography: Between the Aesthetic and the Documentary 119 3. Eye Witness: On Photography and Historiography 167 4. Just Regard: On Photography, Aesthetics, and Ethics 217 5. The Practice of Photography: Toward a Polity of the Planet 264 Notes 315 Bibliography 341 Index 351
£22.79
Spokesman Books Picturing the DPRK
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£15.19
Karen Benveniste Arts Fun with Flowers
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£12.99
Abrams Life Love of the Forest
Book SynopsisShowcasing the work of the world’s leading nature photographers, The Life & Love of the Forest is a breathtaking visual tour of our most remarkable woodlands. Author Lewis Blackwell takes us on an extraordinary journey with essays and deep captions that explore the science and incredible histories of everything from seedlings, thickets, and underbrush to the extraordinary trees themselves. Capturing the beauty of these vibrant, fascinating landscapes, this book celebrates the spectacular power of forests around the world.The Life & Love Of series:The Life & Love of the SeaThe Life & Love of TreesThe Life & Love of CatsThe Life & Love of Dogs
£28.00
Xlibris Us The Tenderloin
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£21.80
Xlibris Attractions Within the Uintah Range and Basin
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£14.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Making of Visual News
Book SynopsisThe Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since. Drawing on a wide selection of images, author Thierry Gervais (in collaboration with Gaëlle Morel) analyses news photographs in the context of their original presentation in print. Highly illustrated, the book contains 85 full colour magazine layouts and spreads, offering the reader a view of how photographs were and are used in print publications, including Life, Picture Post, the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung and VU. It examines how photographs were employed to attract new readers throughout the twentieth century, arguing that photography was the main tool by which news editors sought to communicate the news and attract a broader readership. Looking beyond the roles of photographer and journaTrade ReviewRichly illustrated and clearly written, this book firmly and definitively anchors such well-known mid-century photo weekly magazines as LIFE in a much longer history. Photojournalism is meticulously and meaningfully given its vital role in shaping information and communication since the nineteenth century in this excellent survey - Co-Editor of Getting the Picture and The Visual Culture of the News - Vanessa R. SchwartzTable of ContentsIntroduction The invention of the magazine (1843-1918)From a photographThe halftone agePress photographersThe role of the art directorReflections of the warGeneral news magazines: European know-how (1919-1936)Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung before the warThe postwar German press: a competitive marketPropagandist visual strategies A style for news magazinesAn aesthetics of transparencyVU: a photographic workshopNarrating the newsThe Life model and the standardization of news magazines (1936-1976)From idea to actuality: the beginnings of LifeDramatizing the newsFrom the photographic essay to the pictorial essayChallenges to authorityTowards diversificationConclusion
£28.99
The New Press Charging Forward
Book SynopsisA clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energyCalifornia’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the country. It is also ground zero for a new “lithium gold rush”—a race to extract a mineral critical to the rapidly expanding electric vehicle and renewable energy storage markets. With enough lithium lurking beneath the surface to provide a third of global demand, who will benefit from the development of this precious resource? A work of stunning analysis and reporting, Charging Forward shows that the questions raised by Lithium Valley lie at the heart of the “green transition.” Weaving together movement politics, federal policy, and global supply chains, noted experts Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor stress that extracting lithium is just a first step: the real question is whether the region and the nation will address and overcome the environmental d
£17.99
Cityfiles Press Chicago Exposed: Defining Moments from the
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£22.49
New Dimension Smoke Filled Mirror
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£40.50
Guest Editions Genesis
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£40.50
Rocky Mountain Books A Ribbon of Highway: A Photographic Exploration
Book SynopsisAn adventurous and thoughtful photographic exploration of Canada and Canadian identity.This collection of images, taken over a decade and in every corner of the country, explores and questions what being a Canadian means. The photographs depict Taylor's poignantly observed, first-person experience, visiting both recognizable and remote places that vary drastically in geography, history, socio-economic status, and overarching lifestyle.Roades intrigues the viewer with images of the cultural threads that hold Canada together, and effortlessly weaves local idiosyncrasies together with iconic landscapes from coast to coast. If you have travelled in any part of Canada, you will see something delightfully familiar, and in a country with so much to explore somewhere new to add to your list.
£26.09
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Terrorist Image: Decoding the Islamic State's
Book SynopsisThe summer of 2014--when the Islamic State seized Mosul, Iraq's second city; captured vast swathes of eastern Syria; and declared itself a latter-day Caliphate--marked a turning point in the history of photography, one that pushed its already contested relationship with reality to its very limits. Uniquely obsessed with narrative, image management and branding, the Islamic State used cameras as weapons in its formative years as a Caliphate. The tens of thousands of propaganda photographs captured during this time were used to denote policy, to navigate through defeat and, perhaps most importantly, to construct an impossible reality: a totalising image-world of Salafi-Jihadist symbols and myths. Based on a deep examination of the 20,000 photographs Charlie Winter collected from the Islamic State's covert networks online in 2017, this book explores the process by which the Caliphate shook the foundations of modern war photography. Focusing on the period in which it was at its strongest, Winter identifies the implicit value systems that underpinned the Caliphate's ideological appeal, and evaluates its uniquely malign contribution to the history of the photographic image. The Terrorist Image travels to the heart of what made the Islamic State tick during its prime, providing unique insights into its global appeal and mobilisation successes.Trade Review‘The Terrorist Image offers an exhaustive and brilliant account of the Islamic State’s use of photography to imagine, convey, and construct reality in view of its ideological and strategic goal(s).’ -- E-International Relations‘[T]his book is an excellent read given the prominent resort to images in jihadist communication and their powerful resonance… In a fast-evolving digital world, Winter shows how to deconstruct the ideas and the systems of meaning embedded in propaganda images.’ -- International Affairs'A welcome addition to the literature on militant Islamist groups, non-state actors, and media/information warfare. [Winter's] approach to the semiotics, techniques, and strategies of IS media warfare is comprehensive and rigorous and his writing style engaging while also being informative.' -- The Muslim World Book Review'Everybody knows images matter, but few have studied them as deeply as Charlie Winter. Stop what you are doing and join him on this fascinating visual journey into the mind of the Islamic State.' -- Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment'This in-depth, detailed and insightful investigation of the Islamic State's use of visual semiotics offers a highly sophisticated understanding of how photographic images can be used to transmit a certain authority in propaganda and its meaning-making.' -- Tahir Abbas, FRSA, FAcSS, Professor of Radicalisation Studies, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University'This brilliant and highly original analysis of how and why the Islamic State used cameras as weapons is indispensable for all who seek to understand the pull of militant jihad. It takes us into the heart of the meticulously constructed "reality" of the world's most propaganda-savvy jihadist terror group.' -- Elisabeth Kendall, Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Oxford University'A very insightful look at the photographic campaign of ISIS in its heyday. This will be an invaluable archive for years to come.' -- Kareem El Damanhoury, Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies, University of Denver'The meticulous work of one of the world's leading experts on the Islamic State and its propaganda machine. For everyone from scholars and policymakers to journalists and students, The Terrorist Image is essential reading.' -- Haroro J. Ingram, Senior Research Fellow, Program on Extremism, George Washington University
£31.50
O'Brien Press Ltd The 1950s: Ireland in Pictures
Book SynopsisIreland's premier photographers, The Lensmen, captured the essence of life in Ireland during the 1950s in their stunning and thought provoking images. This collection offers a fascinating insight into the cultural and political events of the decade. Showcasing an era of change in Ireland, this book is a celebration of a time gone by.
£13.49
Emerald Publishing Limited Camera in Times of Crisis
Book SynopsisEdited by communication experts Kehinde Christopher Adewumi, Folasayo Enoch Olalere, Gambo Giles Duniya, this timely work is reinforced by each academics' unique expertise, covering the practical, historical, and artistic aspects of visual media in crisis.
£76.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Nazi Death Camps: Then and Now
Book SynopsisIn the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany, upwards of 15,000 concentration and labour camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state. Contents includes: GERMANY Dachau, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Flossenburg, Neuengamme, Ravensbruck, Niederhagen/Wewelsburg, Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora-Nordhausen, Arbeitsdorf. AUSTRIA Mauthausen. BELGIUM Breendonk, Mechelen: Caserne Dossin. CZECHOSLOVAKIA Theresienstadt. ESTONIA Vaivara/Klooga. FRANCE French Transit Camps, Natzweiler-Struthof, Wiesengrund/Vaihingen. HOLLAND Westerbork, Amersfoort, Herzogenbusch/Vught. ITALY Fossoli, Bolzano, Risiera di San Sabba. LATVIA Riga-Kaiserwald. LITHUANIA Kauen. NORWAY Falstad, Grini. UNITED KINGDOM Alderney, Channel Islands. BERLIN Wannsee Conference and Operation Reinhard'. POLAND The Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek-Lublin, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof-Danzig, Krakow-Plaszow, Auschwitz , Birkenau, War Crimes Trials.
£40.00
Trolley Books Marching to the Freedom Dream
£37.50
Carpet Bombing Culture Return to Fukushima
Book SynopsisFollowing on from her epic photographical journey behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Ghosts The Soviet Union Abandoned: A Communist Empire in Decay Rebecca Bathory undertakes an emotional and thought provoking journey to Fukushima. As one of the first photographers to be granted access to the site, Bathory now presents never-before-seen images which provide a unique and moving meditation on human failure seen through the lens of an accomplished artist. Bathory's images take you behind the scenes of the ghost town that is Fukushima, at turns heartbreaking and devastating. These photographs ask the question - what next for a nuclear future?
£999.99
Dewi Lewis Publishing HOJA SANTA
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£34.20
Graffeg Limited Behind the Mask: The NHS family and the fight
Book SynopsisNestled in the quiet market town of Abergavenny sits Nevill Hall district general hospital. This is the story, in words and pictures, of how its dedicated team of professional staff, with their eight-bed Intensive Care Unit and a posse of willing recruits, faced up to the challenge of COVID-19.
£999.99
Orion Publishing Co Into the Wild: The Story of the World's Greatest
Book SynopsisAn epic visual story of wildlife photography's pioneers and world firsts. From some of the very first pictures of wild lions and tigers on record and the first-ever underwater colour photograph, right up to the spectacular images from the wildest corners of the earth that modern-day technology allows, Into the Wild is an extraordinary collection of over 250 images and 150 years of our efforts to document the natural world. Now, more than ever, these are the photographs and stories that matter."Gemma Padley takes us on a fascinating journey through 150 years of the wildlife photography that has informed and delighted us. The text tells us not only about the images themselves, but describes how cameras gradually got faster shutter speeds, longer lenses, greater resolution and are now mostly digital. But it is the patience and endurance of the photographer who waits for hours or even days in tropical heat or arctic freeze to capture these special shots: taken at just the right moment in just the right light and from just the right angle. Into the Wild is a must-have coffee table book."Dr. Jane Goodall, DBEFounder of the Jane Goodall Institute& U.N. Messenger of Peace
£32.00
GOST Books Zwischen den Jahren
Book SynopsisThe book’s title Zwischen den Jahren, describes the time between Christmas and New Year—the time between years. It acts as a metaphor to explain the period of transition between child and adulthood, in addition to the sense of suspended time or paralysis between before the Covid pandemic and an unknown future. The photographs in the book are a combination of observed and staged moments, and recreated memories. The young people they depict are often lit by the light of a phone or laptop, as they are pictured in small groups or alone in kitchens, bedrooms, on urban streets or in the midst of Covid-compliant nature. Where family groups are shown, often at dining room tables, the images reflect the silence and shared tension between the generations. As the book progresses, a sense of isolation increases, even those in groups often appear alone in contemplation. There is only one crowd scene in the book, incongruous, and jarring against the isolation which had become the norm.
£38.00
GOST Books JML NYC 0223
Book SynopsisThe photographs in JML NYC 02-23 were made over two decades as Joseph Michael Lopeztraversed the streets of the boroughs of New York by foot. Devoid of the visual tropes associatedwith the city, the images instead present a vision of New York as it was experienced.
£42.75
GOST Books Julian and Jonathan
Book SynopsisJulian and Jonathan portray the relationship between Herman's father, Julian, and her half-brother, Jonathan.
£38.00
GOST Books Small Museum
Book SynopsisSmall Museum by Simone Rosenbauer documents forty-one unique small museums across everystate and territory of Australia.
£42.75
Radius Books Miki Kratsman & Ariella Azoulay: The Resolution
Book SynopsisMiki Kratsman (born 1959) has worked as a photojournalist in the Palestinian Occupied Territories for over three decades. Originally created in the context of daily news, his photographs look at both "wanted men"--individuals sought by the Israeli state--and the everyman and everywoman on the street who, by virtue of being Palestinian in a particular time and place, can be seen as a "suspect." Kratsman has also provoked long-term interaction around the images on social media, creating a Facebook page on which viewers are invited to identify the individuals portrayed and comment on their "fate." This complex project is chronicled in this book in more than 300 images that powerfully implicate the viewer. A text by Ariella Azoulay explores the ways in which the shadow of death is an actual threat that hovers over Kratsman's subjects.
£40.50
Oro Editions Hippie India
Book SynopsisIn the 1970s many thousands of young persons travelled from Europe to Asia on the Hippie Trail in search of adventure, spiritual enlightenment, and personal discovery. Their sprawling, free-wheeling escapades changed their lives and the places they visited. While the overland route between Amsterdam and Kathmandu no longer exists, its stopovers in India Pushkar, Rishikesh, Hampi, Goa, and the Pushkar Valley continue to attract counterculture travelers from throughout the world. And just as the visitors have absorbed experiences and material culture, even spiritual wisdom, from their Indian hosts, so, too, have local residents learned a thing or two from their hippie guests. During the past half century, an intense cultural intermingling has taken place in these distant locales, where lifeways, architectures, and philosophies are exchanged as freely as costumes, music, and hairstyles. This photographic book, the first of its kind, vividly captures the beguiling love affair between
£31.50
Lars Muller Publishers Inside CERN: European Organization For Nuclear
Book SynopsisFor most people locations that hold a particular importance for the development of our society and for the advancement of science and technology often remain hidden from view. They are separate and protected, such as CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, close to the city of Geneva. CERN is best known for its giant particle accelerator. Here researchers from around the world take part in a diverse array of fundamental physical research, in the pursuit of knowledge that will perhaps one day revolutionize our understanding of the universe and life on our planet. The Swiss photographer Andri Pol mixed with this multicultural community of researchers and followed their work over an extended period of time. In doing so he created a unique portrait of this fascinating underworld.A" The cutting-edge research is given a human face and even if we don't fully understand the processes at work, the pictures allow us to perceive how in this world of the tiniest particles the biggest connections are searched for. With an explanatory text and scientific-philosophical essay.
£999.99
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Thomas Ruff. Tableaux Chinois
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£71.25
Hirmer David Katzenstein
Book SynopsisDavid Katzenstein is a New Yorkbased photographer. He is the author of Ritual, also published by Hirmer.
£40.00
Hirmer Verlag News – The Televised Revolution: Monika Huber –
Book SynopsisThe year 2012 is forever associated with protest from Occupy Wall Street protesters in America to the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, and popular unrest in the face of austerity measures in Greece and Spain. The evening news covers these events in one-and-a half minute segments, accompanied by a flood of images, making them difficult for viewers to assess.
£23.96
Taschen GmbH Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham.
Book SynopsisOn October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble and who kept his hands in his pockets “the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case.” Observing them both was Norman Mailer, whose grasp of the titanic battle’s feints and stratagems—and sensitivity to their deeper symbolism—made his 1975 book The Fight a masterpiece of sportswriting. Whether analyzing the fighters’ moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer was a commentator of unparalleled acumen—and surely one of the few intrepid enough to accompany Ali on a late-night run through the bush. Through The Fight he restores our tarnished notions of heroism to a blinding gleam, and establishes himself as a champion in his own right. Over four decades after its original publication, this edition of The Fight has been introduced and abridged by Mailer scholar J. Michael Lennon and illustrated for the first time with principal photography by the two men who captured Ali and Foreman in the ring and in private like no one else: Neil Leifer and Howard L. Bingham. Widely considered to be the greatest sports photographer of his generation, Neil Leifer’s vibrant color coverage dominates from ringside. It also serves as a living testimony to the pageantry, sheer physical power, and deep psychological interplay of the fighters, their camps, and their controversial host, Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, Howard Bingham was Ali’s constant companion, documenting his every move from the moment he stepped off the plane in Zaire, his daily training regime, right through to the dressing room tension as he prepared to face Foreman once and for all. Together with pictures from other photojournalists, reproductions of Mailer’s original manuscript pages, and additional visual documentation of the media frenzy surrounding the “Rumble in the Jungle,” the result is a dazzling tribute to The Champ and a vivid document of one of the most epic, adrenaline-laced events in sporting history.Trade Review“…the most in-depth look at every step of the fight for the Heavyweight Championship of the World.” * thedailybeast.com *“A sensitive portrait of an extraordinary athlete and man, and a pugilistic drama fully as exciting as the reality on which it is based.” * The New York Times *“No fighter, no American athlete, would ever be so connected with a writer as Ali would be with Mailer.” * The Atlantic *
£64.00
Steidl Publishers Latoya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family in Three
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£51.00
Steidl Publishers Dayanita Singh: Let's See
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£17.00
Skira Genius of the Place Al Muftaha
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£43.20
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop) Paper Soldiers by Simone Crivelli - The Italian
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£15.69
Schilt Publishing b.v. Embrace
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£37.50
Writers Republic LLC Acts Beyond the Apps
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£15.47
Actes Sud The Elevator Resides in 501
Book SynopsisBetween 1978 and 1981, Sophie Calle went on a clandestine exploration of the then abandoned Hôtel du Palais d'Orsay. She selected room 501 as her home and without any pre-established method, set about photographing the abandoned hotel over 5 years. As she explored, she picked up items she found: room numbers, customer reception cards, old telephones, diaries, messages addressed to a certain “Oddo” and more besides. What happened to room 501? More than 40 years later it has disappeared and an elevator has taken its place. At the invitation of Donatien Grau, the Musée d’Orsay curator, Sophie Calle returned, equipped with a flashlight, to explore the site again during the lockdown period. She hunted down the ghosts of the Palais d'Orsay, now connected to the present by the visitors that had also deserted the museum. The work reconstructs the artist’s archive of photography, letters, invoices and other daily items which bring a forgotten past back to life. To provide commentary on her discoveries, Sophie Calle called upon the archaeologist Jean-Paul Demoule, who writes a series of texts combining fact and fiction. All this evidence has been assembled together to create an objet d’art which resembles an investigation notebook.
£63.00
McGill-Queen's University Press The Official Picture
Book SynopsisMandated to foster a sense of national cohesion The National Film Board of Canada''s Still Photography Division was the country''s official photographer during the mid-twentieth century. Like the Farm Security Administration and other agencies in the US, the NFB used photographs to serve the nation. Division photographers shot everything from official state functions to images of the routine events of daily life, producing some of the most dynamic photographs of the time, seen by millions of Canadians - and international audiences - in newspapers, magazines, exhibitions, and filmstrips. In The Official Picture, Carol Payne argues that the Still Photography Division played a significant role in Canadian nation-building during WWII and the two decades that followed. Payne examines key images, themes, and periods in the Division''s history - including the depiction of women munitions workers, landscape photography in the 1950s and 60s, and portraits of Canadians during the Centennial in 1Trade Review"Although the more well-known film activity of the NFB is widely studied, the photo division has been left out of discussions of film and art history alike. Through painstaking research and lucid analysis, this important work reconnects these areas, enriching discussions of documentary photography, film, and art history in Canada." Zoe Druick , School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, and the author of Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board of Canada "The wealth and variety of Payne's sources are exceptional, all of which she examines with intelligence and rigour. Through her remarkable understanding of the period and her compelling analysis of the images, Payne shows herself to be an accomplished art "The Official Picture marks an important turning point in studies on Canadian visual history by deconstructing images of government-approved Canadian nationalism and providing new questions for historians to ask of historic photographs. [It] should appeal
£40.50
Archaeopress Minoan Extractions: A Photographic Journey
Book SynopsisArchaeologist and award-winning photographer Gavin McGuire's involvement with the Sissi Archaeological Project, where he conducted a seven year photographic study of the Bronze Age Minoan excavations under the auspices of the Belgian School in Athens, Universite Catholique de Louvain, offered an extraordinary opportunity to capture moments of human interaction during excavations as they interconnected with an ancient Minoan culture, stretching back millennia (2600-1200 BC). With the Sissi Photography Project, at a unique coastal landscape four kilometres from Malia Palace in Crete, McGuire follows a proud photographic tradition that is now facing yet another major technological change - from digital to virtual, from handheld cameras to drones and to live excavation access. It is also the age of the smartphone - easy for anyone to use, producing high quality images that regularly engages a global general audience. McGuire's approach revolves around being at the right place and at the right fleeting moment, making images that highlight motion and emotion from the more than 80 `players' on the archaeological stage for the excavation season during each July-August. There are images of scientists at work - archaeologists, anthropologists, technical specialists, local workmen digging (many proudly following in the wake of their forefathers) and restorers and conservators dealing with the thousands of finds housed at the apothiki or workshop. Yet the Sissi Project encompasses not only the dig period but includes images of the site throughout the year, showing, in part, the impact of the environment. 137 black and white photographs are accompanied by a series of short essays presented in English and Greek providing an overview of the project's photographic approach and an introduction to the long and complex relationship between archaeology and photography from their 19th century beginnings. The outcome shows that archaeological sites are not just created overnight but are the result of years of discovery, restoration and preservation. They are not just for now, but hopefully for the future. The ancient past deserves nothing less.Table of ContentsDedication: In the Footsteps of Harry Burton; Part One: The Journey Begins: The Minoan Settlement at Sissi; Connections; Visuality in Archaeology; Decisive Moments; Old School House Project; Part Two: Waking the Kephali; Part Three: The Land Where Death Delights; Part Four: Redeeming the Past; Part Five: Au Revoir
£28.50
Isola Press The RoughStuff Fellowship Archive Adventures with
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£999.99
Taschen Deutschland GmbH Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia
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£95.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd F104 Starfighter
Book SynopsisAn illustrated guide to the F-104 Starfighter, a high-speed interceptor sometimes referred to as the "widowmaker"
£20.69
Prestel Magnum Atlas: Around the World in 365 Photos from
Book SynopsisFeaturing new and iconic images, this follow-up to Prestel's highly successful A Year in Photography: Magnum Archive includes some of the most striking photography ever collected in one volume. As readers flip the pages they will find themselves traveling from west to east across the globe. Each country is represented in three or four images captured by a single photographer. While renowned figures such as Robert Capa, Bruce Davidson, and Martin Parr are included, readers will also find younger photographers such as Olivia Arthur, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Mikhael Subotzky, all of whom present dazzling new views of our changing world. Shining a light on the human condition in every corner of the globe, this compilation exemplifies Magnum founder Henry Cartier- Bresson's vision of "a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually."Trade Review"Featuring images by founding members like Robert Capa, pioneers like Martin Parr and Bruce Davidson, and newer members like Alessandra Sanguinetti, Mikhael Subotzky, and Olivia Arthur, this book is a testament to the human condition and those who dare to document it." -Feature Shoot
£16.88
