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Book SynopsisDuring the 1970s, London-based photographers joined together to form collectives which engaged with local and international political protest in cities across the UK. This book is a survey of the radical community photography that these collectives produced. The photographers derived inspiration from counterculture while finding new ways to produce, publish and exhibit their work. They wanted to do things in their own way, to create their own magazines and exhibition networks, and to take their politicised photographic and textual commentary on the re-imagination of British cities in the post-war period into community centres, laundrettes, Working Men's Clubs, polytechnics, nurseries - anywhere that would have them. The laminated panel exhibitions were sufficiently robust, when packed into a laundry box, to withstand circulation round the country on British Rail's Red Star parcel network. Through archival research, interviews and newly discovered photographic and ephemeral material, this tells the story of the Hackney Flashers Collective, Exit Photography Group, Half Moon Photography Workshop, producers of Camerawork magazine, and the community darkrooms, North Paddington Community Darkroom and Blackfriars Photography Project. It reveals how they created a 'history from below', positioning themselves outside of established mainstream media, and aiming to make the invisible visible by bringing the disenfranchised and marginalised into the political debate.Trade Review'It offers a detailed look at some important yet rather undervalued figures in the history of 20th-century British photography who deserve to be brought back into focus.' - Art Quarterly magazine'Stacey's book includes copious illustrations of placards, posters, scrapbooks & more...For those interested in the social and intellectual history of the community photography movement, this is a satisfying & illuminating volume.' - Tom Allbeson, Source magazine‘Stacey’s research is outstanding… she has marshalled this information into an intriguing account of an exciting, idealistic, and sometimes fractious period.' – Diane Smyth, Photomonitor'Essential Art Books of 2020' - Elephant magazine‘Stacey has written a rare and important book which integrates word, image, artistry and activism in the real lives of working people and those who documented their lives and struggles, and although it records events and initiatives nearly half a century ago, its relevance to now-times is total.’ – Chris Searle, Race and Class Journal'it is both an enlightening history of this period and a critical reference book for the present. Indeed, although the advent of social media has reshaped the visual landscape, the strategies employed by the collectives still resonate on a theoretical and practical level today.' – British Journal of Photography'The archival research and oral histories compiled by Stacey will remain a lasting contribution of this text. Stacey has a remarkable ability to let the tensions, contradictions and difficulties encountered by her protagonists remain a central part of the history, underscoring the rich complexity of community photography…. Among the well-trodden political debates surrounding documentary, photojournalism and the mass media, ‘community photography’ has remained an overlooked and under-theorised subject. Stacey corrects this oversight with an intervention that is sure to be an indispensable resource for scholars in this area.’ – History of Photography JournalTable of ContentsChapter 1. Photography, Collectives and the 1970s; Chapter 2. From the Half Moon Gallery to Camerawork; Chapter 3. Photography, Protest an Urban Crisis: On 'Problem in the City' and Exit Photography Group; Chapter 4. The Hackney Flashers Collective: 'The Personal is Political'; Chapter 5. North Paddington Community Darkroom and Blackfriars Photography Project: Bringing Community into the Darkroom; Chapter 6. Camerawork, Schism and Legacy

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Book SynopsisThe Flash s world has changed, and the whole DC Universe with it. Even the Fastest Man Alive can run out of time, and if there is to be anything left of the past, present, or future, Barry Allen must learn the secret of FLASHPOINT! Barry Allen awoke in a world he barely recognizes, but it isn t a trick or a parallel Earth. Something or someone has altered time, replacing Barry s world with a new one. And this new world is not a safe place. The planet is on the brink of destruction as Wonder Woman and the Amazons wage war with Aquaman and the Atlanteans. A motley group of heroes is mounting a resistance, but in this world, heroes are hard to come by. No one has ever heard of the Flash, or the Justice League, or even Superman. Hal Jordan was never given a Green Lantern ring, and Bruce Wayne was killed in Crime Alley when he was just a little boy. Without his powers or his friends to aid him, Barry reaches out to a new Batman to put the world right. If they fail, they ll never escape the twisted world of...FLASHPOINT! Collecting the five-issue Flashpoint miniseries along with the prelude story from The Flash #8-12 and all 56 tie-in issues, Flashpoint Omnibus features a rogues gallery of comics talent including GEOFF JOHNS, ANDY KUBERT, BRIAN AZZARELLO, EDUARDO RISSO, SCOTT SNYDER, JEFF LEMIRE, GENE HA, DAN JURGENS, and more.

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Book SynopsisFrom acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War.The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised but nonetheless very intense wars throughout the wider world in which air power played a vital role. Flashpoints describes eight of these Cold War conflicts: the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Congo Crisis of 196065, the Indo-Pakistan Wars of 1965 and 1971, the Arab-Israeli Wars of 1967 and 1973, the Falklands War of 1982 and the IranIraq War of 198088. In all of them both sides had a credible air force equipped with modern types, and air power shaped the final outcome.Acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier details the wide range of aircraft types used and the development of tactics over the period. The postwar years saw a revolution in aviation technology and design, particularly in the fields of missile deTrade ReviewCovering the Suez Crisis, the Congo crisis, the two Indo-Pakistan wars, the Arab-Israeli wars, the Falklands war and the Iran-Iraq war, the book casts a wide net and offers superbly researched and very detailed accounts -- Susan Wilson * Army Rumour Service *A readable compendium with much interest to Britain at War readers. -- Andrew Thomas * Britain at War *Table of ContentsForeword by Itamar Neuner, Mirage Pilot Author’s Note Chapter 1. Suez Crisis, 29 October–7 November 1956 Chapter 2. Congo Crisis, July 1960–June 1964 Chapter 3. Indo-Pakistan War, 1–23 September 1965 Chapter 4. Six-Day War, 5–10 June 1967 Chapter 5. Indo-Pakistan War, 3–16 December 1971 Chapter 6. October War, 6–25 October 1973 Chapter 7. Iran–Iraq War, 22 September 1980–20 August 1988 Chapter 8. South Atlantic War, 2 April–14 June 1982 Chapter 9. Debrief Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBarry Allen has just woken up in universe where nothing is the way he left it! Writer Geoff Johns (Blackest Night, The Flash: Rebirth) and artist Andy Kubert (Dark Knight III: The Master Race) team up to put The Flash in a race across time to save the universe.When Barry Allen wakes up at his desk, he discovers the world has changed. His mother is alive and old allies are now strangers. It''s a world on the brink of a cataclysmic war – but where are Earth''s Greatest Heroes to stop it? It''s a place where America''s last hope is Cyborg, who’s attempting to gather the forces of The Outsider, The Secret 7, S!H!A!Z!A!M!, Citizen Cold and other new and familiar-yet-altered faces! It''s a world that could be running out of time, if The Flash can''t find the villain who altered the timeline! 

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Book SynopsisThis book is a visual guide that collects 400 downloadable copyright-free images of a social and political nature that can be used in T-shirts, posters, fanzines, stationery, and many other supports. Presenting complex ideas in a straight to the point way, these images make us reflect on the contradictions of this world. Accompanied by thought-provoking texts, they are a reaction to issues such as racism, drugs, terrorism, inequality, poverty, war, destruction, life and death, freedom, war and peace, smoking, and animal rights, among others. This brilliant work not only raises important questions about today’s society in general but is also a superb illustration of pure graphic design with a political conscience. It is an ideal working tool and reference for professionals and students, or anyone with a keen interest in visual culture and communication. With a foreword by Liz McQuiston and texts by Steven Heller, Bettina Richter, Sarah Corbett, Fons Hickmann, Lincoln Cushing, King ADZ, and others.

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Book SynopsisPresents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who participated in the movement as activists with SNCC, SCLC, and CORE. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, these photographers lived within the movement and documented its activities by focusing on student activists and local people.Trade ReviewThis book of photographs, interviews, and biographies pays homage to nine activist photographers associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who advanced the US civil rights cause by documenting movement actions and backlashes. The photographs poignantly and brilliantly capture key events in the southern movement in the 1960s—protests, memorials for murdered activists and innocent children, exuberant songfests, marches, and bloody encounters. . . . A must-read. Summing Up: Essential." - CHOICE"This Light of Ours offers insightful commentary and a treasure trove of stunning images gleaned from the files of nine activist photographers, seven of whom were connected to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Based on a traveling exhibit designed by the Center for Documentary Expression & Art, this beautifully produced book highlights the understudied and often underappreciated visual dimension of the 1960s civil rights struggle. Confronting the artists and historical dimension of these photographs fifty years after their creation was an unforgettable and moving experience that I hope thousands of individuals will ultimately share." - Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice and The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America"Movement photographers created a striking visual history of the black freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. This superb collection of their best work will evoke powerful memories among those who lived through those turbulent times, while introducing a new generation to the courage and tenacity of local people determined to take charge of their destiny. This Light of Ours should be required reading for all who believe in the possibilities of democracy." - John Dittmer, professor emeritus at DePauw University and author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi"This remarkable collection is as inspiring as it is instructive. A few iconic images are represented but most of these photos will be new to most readers. Collectively, they make palpable a moment of possibility, not fully realized but not fully missed either. Perhaps what is most striking is the way these photos capture the sheer determination of ‘ordinary’ people to be free. One caption says it best: ‘Strength where you might least expect it was often encountered . . . reflecting vitality and dignity in a society trying to strip it away." - Charles M. Payne, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, and coeditor of Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African American Tradition

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Book SynopsisThe world of Flashpoint returns! After sacrificing everything to help the Flash put the universe back together and save Bruce Wayne's life, Thomas Wayne wakes up in a world he thought was no more. Forced to don the cowl once again, Batman prowls the streets of Gotham searching for answers to how this world still exists, but what he starts to uncover will send him hurtling around the globe. The hunt for the Clockwork Killer brings Batman to Europe and face to face with the mad king, Aquaman. On the eve of Aquaman's sinking of London, Batman infiltrates his stronghold and goes on the warpath for answers. Nothing matters to Batman, whose world is already dead, but if he can track down the Clockwork Killer, Thomas can save his son's world and put everything back together again. Legendary writer Geoff Johns comes back to the alternate world he created, partnering with prolific artist Eduardo Risso for prelude story Flashpoint Beyond #0, and writers Jeremy Adams and Tim Sheridan for the main story, with stunning art by Xermanico. This volume collects Flashpoint Beyond #0 and #1-6.

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Book SynopsisThe powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black photojournalist from Orangeburg, South CarolinaCecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams worked at the center of emerging twentieth-century civil rights activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to White violence perpetrated by law officials and ordinary citizens. Williams's story is the story of the civil rights era.Williams and award-winning journalist Claudia Smith Brinson combine forces in Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams. Together they document civil rights activism in the 1940s through the 1960s in South Carolina. Williams was there, in South Carolina, to witness and document pivotal movements such as then-NAACP legal counsel Thurgood Marshall's arrival in Charleston to argue the landmark case Briggs v. Elliott and the aftermath of the infamous Orangeburg Massacre. Featuring eighty stunning photographs accompanied by Brinson's rich research, interviews, and prose, Injustice in Focus offers a firsthand account of South Carolina's fight for civil rights and describes Williams's life behind the camera as a documentarian of the civil rights movement.

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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.

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Book Synopsis"Global Flashpoints" critically examines today's neoliberal order and the new resistance movements which it has sparked across the globe. This timely and panoramic work offers penetrating historical analysis of the role of politics, religion and imperialism in shaping the contemporary crisis in the Middle East and of the prospects for the Left throughout the Islamic world. "Global Flashpoints" also explores the present state of resistance movements in Europe and the United States and highlights developments in Latin America, including Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, the recent uprising in Oaxaca, indigenous agrarian movements in Bolivia, and Brazil's landless movement. "Global Flashpoints" offers a uniquely powerful and provocative account of the worldwide struggle against imperialism and neoliberalism in the new century.Table of Contents1. AIJAZ AHMAD, Modern Islam in Historical Perspective: The Fall of Three Empires; 2. GILBERT ACHCAR, Religion and Politics Today from a Marxian Perspective; 3. ASEF BAYAT, Islamism and Empire; 4. SABBAH ALNASSERI, Understanding Iraq; 5. BASHIR ABU-MANNEH, The Transformation of the Palestinian Resistance; 6. YILDIZ ATASOY, The Islamic Ethic and the Spirit of Turkish Capitalism; 7. HIDAYAT GREENFIELD, Kalya's Kalashnikov: Islamic Radicalism in East Asia; 8. ANA ESTHER CECENA, New Forms of Resistance in Latin America.; 9. MARGARITA LOPEZ MAYA, Venezuelan Revolution? Participatory Democracy under Chavez; 10. JACK HAMMOND, A Leftist Resurgence in Latin America?; 11. WILLIAM ROBINSON, Transformative Possibilities in Latin America; 12. WES ENZINNA, All We Want is the Earth: Bolivia's 'Agrarian Revolution'; 13. JOAO PEDRO STEDILE & ATILIO BORON, The Landless Movement and Brazilian Politics Today; 14. RICHARD ROMAN & EDUR VELASCO ARREGUI, The Oaxaca Uprising: Implications for Mexico; 15. G. M. TAMAS, Fifty Years Later: The Hungarian Revolt of 2006; 16. RAGHU KRISHNAN & ADRIEN THOMAS, Resistance to Neoliberalism in France; 17. PETER BURNHAM, The Blair Decade: New Labour and Beyond; 18. KIM MOODY, Harvest of Empire: The U.S. Immigrant Workers' Struggle; 19. ALFREDO SAAD FILHO, ELMAR ALTVATER & GREG ALBO, Understanding Neoliberalism: A Symposium.

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Book SynopsisAn alternative account of the Kashmir conflict centring the voices of the KashmirisTrade Review'Repeated clashes between India, Pakistan and China over Kashmir threaten to erupt into a nuclear conflict that might kill as many as 120 million in India and Pakistan, and perhaps several 1000 million worldwide. These disputes need to be resolved, which requires understanding their origins, the people of Kashmir and their struggles, and recent changes in the region. Nuclear Flashpoint provides essential insight into these issues for all who are concerned.' -- Professor Brian Toon, University of Colorado Boulder'An urgent and trenchant examination of Kashmir. Beautifully meshing history with modern political analysis, Chak masterfully interrogates ... the intersecting flashpoints that make the Kashmir crisis one of the most politically sensitive issues in modern world history. Beyond intellectual examination, Chak injects first-hand insights as a scholar, advocate and ancestral Kashmiri to offer a richness that few other books provide - bringing intimacy and empathy to words that spring colorfully from the pages.' -- Khaled A. Beydoun, Law Professor and author of 'The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims''Institutionalized systemic racial persecution ... against the people of Kashmir has pushed the world to the edge of nuclear conflict. Torture, unlawful killings and the denial of basic human rights and freedoms are well-documented by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and others. Dr. Chak's skillful analysis explains just how this unresolved crisis threatens global peace.' -- Ilyasah Shabbazz, educator and author of 'Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X'Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Who Are the Kashmiris? Resisting Post-Colonial Identity Theft and False Narratives 3. The Long Life Cycle of Resistance 4. Jammu Genocide 5. The Myth of Partition 6. India, Islamophobia, and the Hindutva Playbook 7. The 'Final Solution': Abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A 8. Nuclear Flashpoint: Sino-Indian Rivalry and Kashmir 9. Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA stunning collection of images celebrating the remarkable career of Burnis ‘Mac’ McCloud, Denver’s premiere Black photographer between 1950 and 1980. His remarkable photographs captured the ordinary lives of African Americans during a period that witnessed the end of Jim Crow segregation and the beginning of the Civil Rights era.Trade ReviewWilliam Wyckoff has done a splendid job of exhuming Mac McCloud and his photographs of everyday life in Denver's now fading Black neighborhood of Five Points." - Thomas J. Noel, author of Colorado: A Historical Atlas"William Wyckoff breathes new life into a remarkable collection of images taken by Burnis 'Mac' McCloud during the middle years of the twentieth century, introducing Denver's legendary African American photographer to a new generation of admirers. More important, he uses McCloud's evocative photos of the Five Points neighborhood to transport readers to a time and to a place that today exists only in the pages of this book." - Geoffrey L. Buckley, coeditor of The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United StatesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionGallery 1. PlacesGallery 2. WorkGallery 3. PlayGallery 4. FameFurther ReadingIndex

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Book Synopsis“Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way.” — Jack Delano Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country’s rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and writers to record the lives of the rural poor and “introduce America to Americans.” This book records the full reach of the FSA program from 1935 to 1943, honoring its vigor and commitment across subjects, states, and stylistic preferences. The photographs are arranged into four broad regional sections but otherwise allowed to speak for themselves—to provide individual impressions as much as they cumulatively build an indelible survey of a nation. The images are both color and black-and-white, and span the complete spetrum of American rural life. They show us convicts, cotton workers, kids, and relocated workers on the road. We see subjects victim to the elements of nature as much as to the vagaries of the global economic market. We find the work of such perceptive, sensitive photographers as Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange, and read their own testimonies to the FSA project and their encounters with their subjects, including Lange’s worn, weather-beaten and iconic Migrant Mother. What unites all of the pictures is a commitment to the individuality and dignity of each subject, as much as to the witness they bear to this particular period of the American past. The subjects are entrenched in the hardships of their historical lot as much as they are caught in universal cycles of growing, playing, eating, aging, and dying. Yet they face the viewer with what is utterly their own: a unique, irreplaceable, often unforgettable presence.Trade Review“…a comprehensive survey of the work done by the FSA, including that more rarely seen color work. From street scenes to pictures of field laborers and train yards, these images show us what the United States looked like in a bygone era, one rife with economic struggle.” * washingtonpost.com *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection offers a bold and timely discussion of key debates in Asian American studies provoked by the institutionalization of Asian American studies in the neoliberal university. In a context of budget crises and also persistence of anti-Asian racism, the essays by a diverse group of scholars offer frank, sometimes autobiographical, reflections from the trenches about questions of incorporation, diversity management, interracial solidarity, public scholarship, and survival. This is a book I have been waiting to read, especially in the era of and Black Lives Matter and BDS activism and with Trump's election, as it offers important lessons for faculty, administrators, and students about how Asian American studies can resist the logics of multiculturalism and austerity." -- -Sunaina Maira University of California, Davis "Flashpoints for Asian American Studies offers an ambitious, bracing, and wide-ranging critique of Asian American studies by practitioners within the field. It calls for a wholesale reconsideration of how Asian American studies operates inside and outside universities; how it theorizes, selects, and defines its subjects and constituencies; and how it functions as an academic and political project. This volume presents a highly original reassessment from the inside of Asian American studies that is unparalleled in terms of its breadth and sustainment." -- -Daryl Maeda University of Colorado, BoulderTable of ContentsIntroduction: Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Part I Ethnic Studies Revisited 1. Five Decades Later: Reflections of a Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet Amy Uyematsu 2. Has Asian American Studies Failed? Timothy Yu 36 3. The Racial Studies Project: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus Nitasha Sharma 4. Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Resistance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 5. Un-homing Asian American Studies: Refusals and the Politics of Commitment Anita Mannur Part II Displaced Subjects 6. No Muslims Involved: Letter to Ethnic Studies Comrades Junaid Rana 7. Outsourcing, Terror, and Transnational South Asia Asha Nadkarni 8. Asian American Studies and Palestine: The Accidental and Reluctant Pioneer Rajini Srikanth 9. Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States Candace Fujikane Part III Remapping Asia, Recalibrating Asian America 10. Transpacific Entanglements Yên Lê Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama 11. Tensions, Engagements, Aspirations: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Filipino American Studies Martin F. Manalansan 12. Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era Cynthia Wu 13. Asians Are the New . . . What? Kandice Chuh Part IV Toward an Asian American Ethic of Care 14. Asian Americans, Disability, and the Model Minority Myth Yoonmee Chang 15. Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection Sharon A. Suh 16. What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul) Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano 17. An Ethics of Generosity Min Hyoung Song Afterword: Becoming Bilingual, or Notes on Numbness and Feeling Viet Thanh Nguyen Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised and updated second edition of Photography as Activism is both a study of activist photography, and a call to action. It offers students and documentary photographers insights into the theory, history, philosophy, and practice of photography as activism. The book is lavishly illustrated with 85 key historical and contemporary images. Chapters have been revised to include contemporary ideas about representation, gaze, agency, and decolonizing the camera, as well as an expanded history that includes work from the global South and the civil rights movements in the US. A new fourth chapter focuses on activist practices that go beyond traditional reportage. It features 19 new interviews and updates on the original interviews. Photographers talk about their practices, the challenges they face in the twenty-first century, advice on working with NGOs and non-profits, and how to form partnerships to expand the dissemination of their work.Photography

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Book SynopsisNow in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing.Individual chapters cover:â Key debates in photographic theory and historyâ Documentary photography and photojournalismâ Personal and popular photographyâ Photography and the human bodyâ Photography and commodity cultureâ Photography as art.This revised and updated edition includes new case studies on topics such as: Black Lives Matter and the racialised body; the #MeToo movement; materialism and embodiment; nation branding; and an extended critical discussion of landscape as genre. Illustrated with over 100 colour and black and white photographs, it features work from Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Fran Herbello, Hannah HÃch, Mari Katayama, Sant Khalsa, Karen Knorr, Dorothea Lange, Susan Meiselas, Lee Miller, Ingrid Pollard, Jacob Riis, Alexander Rodchenko, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall. A fully updated resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites, full glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography, plus additional resources at routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780367222758/ make this an ideal introduction to the field.Trade Review"More than 20 years after its original publication, Photography: A Critical Introduction remains a key go-to text for photography students. This new edition sees canonical case studies such as Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother joined by new material on #MeToo and Black Lives Matter securing the book’s place as an important resource for students interested in exploring photography in its social and political contexts."Sally Miller, Senior Lecturer Photography, University of Brighton, UK"In its sixth edition, the Critical Introduction remains at the top of any booklist for students of photography. True to its aim, it introduces the principal concepts and debates for photography history, theory and practice, with plenty of examples and accessible analyses. Updated for a photography that has thoroughly assimilated digital technology, it provides insightful and critical overviews of the developing approaches to understanding and using photography in response to its ubiquitous availability and to changes in theoretical thinking."Jane Tormey, Author of Routledge Companion to Photography Theory; Cities and Photography; Photographic Realism: late twentieth-century aestheticsPraise for previous editions:"Liz Wells’ book provides an excellent point of entry into the complex theoretical terrain of photography studies, guiding students through critical debates towards an informed understanding of key domains of photographic practice. First published in the 1990s, Photography: A Critical Introduction has established itself as an essential introduction; written in an accessible style, it consolidates the critical literature on photography that has emerged over recent decades, and helps the reader to navigate this extensive and growing field of study." Darren Newbury, Professor of Photographic History, University of Brighton, UK"The boundaries of contemporary photography are becoming difficult to define while its past is becoming more complicated than we ever imagined. Wells' book is an extraordinary attempt to hold it all together and guide us through." David Campany, Reader in Photography, University of Westminster, UK"Bravo to Liz Wells who has done it again with her new edition. It is a must for both educators and students." Ann Chwatsky, photographer and educator, New York University, USA"A brilliantly designed book. It provides a much-needed conceptual perspective, so lacking in other histories of photography, and with the new material on photojournalism [the book] is even stronger." Ulrich Keller, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA"Bravo to Liz Wells for putting together such a comprehensive critical introduction. Lucid, smart and well illustrated, this will be a "must read" for every serious student of the medium." Deborah Bright, Professor of Photography and Art History, Rhode Island School of Design, USA"An essential purchase. It raises awareness of the main contemporary issues related to photographic practice."Howard Riley, Swansea Institute of Higher Education, UK"A timely revision of a great book. It is invaluable in setting the stage for critical research in photography...A substantial contribution to the critical study of photography." Professor Lynne Bentley-Kemp, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA"Precisely the kind of book I have been yearning to see appear for a long time. Carefully structured, it fulfils the need for a critical theory text for FE, HE and introductory college courses." Nicky West, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK"Ideal for stimulating discussions on the critical use of photographic images and their evaluation. It is ideal for teaching this part of my BTEC Media and BTEC Art and Design courses." Ken Absalom, Gwent Tertiary College, UK"Well structured – each chapter is thorough and relevant. The quality of the finish is superb – lovely photos and good use of margin notes." Richard Swales, Roade School, Northampton, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Thinking about photography: debates, historically and now ; 2. Surveryors and surveyed: photography out and about ; 3. 'Sweet it is to scan...': personal photographs and popular photography ; 4. The subject as object: photography and the human body ; 5. Spectacles and illusions: photography and commodity culture ; 6. On and beyond the white walls: photography as art ; Afterword ; Glossary ; From analogue to digital ; Photography archives ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLatin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section Best Book PrizeLatin American Studies Association Historia Reciente y Memoria Section Best Book PrizeThe role of documentary photography in exposing and protesting the crimes of a dictatorship. After Augusto Pinochet rose to power in Chile in 1973, his government abducted, abused, and executed thousands of his political opponents. The Insubordination of Photography is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations, and independent media used photography to expose and protest the crimes of Pinochet’s authoritarian regime.Ángeles Donoso Macaya discusses the ways human rights groups such as the Vicariate of Solidarity used portraits of missing persons in order to make forced disappearances visible. She also calls attention to forensic photographs that served as incriminating evidence of government killings in the landmark Lonquén case. Donoso Macaya argues that the field of documentary photography in Chile was challenged and shaped by the precariousness of the nation’s politics and economics and shows how photojournalists found creative ways to challenge limitations imposed on the freedom of the press.In a culture saturated by disinformation and cover-ups and restricted by repression and censorship, photography became an essential tool to bring the truth to light. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and other archival material, this book reflects on the integral role of images in public memory and issues of reparation and justice. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.Trade Review“Donoso Macaya offers an engaging, multidisciplinary, and well-researched analysis of Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship and in the process contributes to understanding the complexity and political implications of photography.”—Choice“A necessary, timely, and original book. . . . Donoso Macaya skillfully and carefully has traced the ways photographs travel, incite public discussion, move from one setting to another, and transform.”—H-Net“Enriches the existing literature on the Chilean dictatorship by taking seriously the social and political power of photography. . . . Excellent and necessary.”—Latin Americanist“Through a series of emblematic case studies, the book makes a powerful argument about the multi-faceted visual and social impact of photography under repressive rule. . . . Its immense value lies in the way [Donoso Macaya] traces the social history of photographers who pushed the performative dimension of photography to challenge the dictatorship in various forms.”—Journal of Social History“A valuable addition to the literature examining the social construction and performativity of images as well as the use of photography as a civil practice, areas that are essential to understanding the political uses and consequences of protest photography.”—The Americas“A very thoroughly researched and original contribution to studies of Chilean visual culture.”— Bulletin of Spanish Studies

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Book SynopsisWhy do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? This book examines lynching photographs as a way of analyzing photography's historical role in promoting and resisting racial violence. It charts the history of lynching photographs - their meanings, uses, and controversial display.Table of ContentsIntroduction Anthony W. Lee The Evidence of Lynching Photographs Shawn Michelle Smith Lynching Photographs and the Politics of Public Shaming Dora Apel Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection offers a bold and timely discussion of key debates in Asian American studies provoked by the institutionalization of Asian American studies in the neoliberal university. In a context of budget crises and also persistence of anti-Asian racism, the essays by a diverse group of scholars offer frank, sometimes autobiographical, reflections from the trenches about questions of incorporation, diversity management, interracial solidarity, public scholarship, and survival. This is a book I have been waiting to read, especially in the era of and Black Lives Matter and BDS activism and with Trump's election, as it offers important lessons for faculty, administrators, and students about how Asian American studies can resist the logics of multiculturalism and austerity." -- -Sunaina Maira University of California, Davis "Flashpoints for Asian American Studies offers an ambitious, bracing, and wide-ranging critique of Asian American studies by practitioners within the field. It calls for a wholesale reconsideration of how Asian American studies operates inside and outside universities; how it theorizes, selects, and defines its subjects and constituencies; and how it functions as an academic and political project. This volume presents a highly original reassessment from the inside of Asian American studies that is unparalleled in terms of its breadth and sustainment." -- -Daryl Maeda University of Colorado, BoulderTable of ContentsIntroduction: Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Part I Ethnic Studies Revisited 1. Five Decades Later: Reflections of a Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet Amy Uyematsu 2. Has Asian American Studies Failed? Timothy Yu 36 3. The Racial Studies Project: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus Nitasha Sharma 4. Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Resistance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 5. Un-homing Asian American Studies: Refusals and the Politics of Commitment Anita Mannur Part II Displaced Subjects 6. No Muslims Involved: Letter to Ethnic Studies Comrades Junaid Rana 7. Outsourcing, Terror, and Transnational South Asia Asha Nadkarni 8. Asian American Studies and Palestine: The Accidental and Reluctant Pioneer Rajini Srikanth 9. Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States Candace Fujikane Part III Remapping Asia, Recalibrating Asian America 10. Transpacific Entanglements Yên Lê Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama 11. Tensions, Engagements, Aspirations: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Filipino American Studies Martin F. Manalansan 12. Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era Cynthia Wu 13. Asians Are the New . . . What? Kandice Chuh Part IV Toward an Asian American Ethic of Care 14. Asian Americans, Disability, and the Model Minority Myth Yoonmee Chang 15. Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection Sharon A. Suh 16. What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul) Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano 17. An Ethics of Generosity Min Hyoung Song Afterword: Becoming Bilingual, or Notes on Numbness and Feeling Viet Thanh Nguyen Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1921, over the course of twelve hours, white Tulsans reduced one of the America's most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people. This volume, featuring more than 175 photographs, along with oral testimonies, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors.

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Book SynopsisThe work of nearly every photographer of consequence since the nineteenth century is captured in this collection of photographs of California farmworkers, raising moral questions about the exploitation and colonization of an entire class of people.Trade Review"[Street's] Photographing Farmworkers records lives in beautifully stark, often haunting and at times poetic visual representations....Street's book, which includes his own stunning photography, goes beyond an anthology of photographs of farmworkers; he provides a historical overview and technical commentary at the beginning of every chapter."—California History"Photographing Farmworkers in California is a marvelously rich, thoughtful piece of scholarship that takes its readers on an exploration of the emotionally powerful body of photographic work relating to the lives of California's agricultural laborers. . . . [Street's] passion for the subject is matched by his expertise, and he has produced an unusual work that simultaneously draws the reader into the histories of twentieth-century documentary photography, California agriculture, and the labor struggles of farmworkers"—Agricultural History"Perhaps Street's most original achievement lies in combining a photographer's acute and sophisticated awareness of the constructed nature of every image with an historian's drive to reconstruct an accurate—and truthful—narrative of the past. In these two works, he invites us to reflect on the nature of image and texts as modes of knowledge and historical understanding in order to better come to terms with the extraordinary and moving history of California farmworkers."—History Workshop Journal"Richard Street's two books offer a new benchmark in the history of agricultural labor, with a perceptive, fascinating Californian focus. Only 1,283 pages? I wanted to look and read further."—Anthropology of Work Review

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Book SynopsisFeatures over one hundred of Florence Mars’ photographs, most taken in the decade between 1954 and 1964, almost all published here for the first time. While a few depict public events, most feature private moments, illuminating the separate and unequal worlds of black and white Mississippians in the final days of Jim Crow.

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Book SynopsisThe history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs of the era to focus on images of everyday activists who fought campaigns against segregation, police brutality, and job discrimination from Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles to Seattle, Des Moines, Wichita, and Spokane. With images by photojournalists, artists, and activists including Bob Adelman, Charles Brittin, Leonard Freed, Diana Davies, Matt Herron, Gordon Parks, and many others, North of Dixie offers a broader and more complex view of the American civil rights movement than is usually presented in books, television, and film. North of Dixie also considers the camera as a tool that served both those in support of the movement and against it. Photographs inspired activists, galvanized public support, and implored local and national politicians to act, but they also provided means of surveillance and repression that were used against movement participants. North of Dixie brings to light numerous long-forgotten or previously unknown images and illuminates the multifaceted story of the civil rights movement in the American North and West.Trade Review"With over one hundred images, many never before published, North of Dixie offers a complex and inclusive view of the civil rights era in America."--African American Intellectual History Society "A hard-hitting photographic look at the fight for civil rights."--On Milwaukee "This compendium demonstrates how many mid-century civil rights struggles were waged far above the Mason-Dixon line. With requisite coverage of famed leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, the survey also reveals hundreds of unknown activists and unsung heroes from myriad walks of life, united in a courageous struggle for social change, dignity, and survival."--American Photo, The Best Photography Books of the Year: 2016 "North of Dixie is a stunning compilation of photos, combining images of strength and reserve evident in activists in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Los Angeles with images of the backlash they faced."--Huffington Post "As the overwhelming negative issues of race persist in tearing away at the soul of our nation, America needs to be more enlightened on the history of this subject and how it continues to demand resolve morally and politically. As Dr. King often said, 'If the issue of race is not squarely debated and favorably brought to closure this nation will not survive.' North of Dixie makes this tragic story of our nation worthy of our attention. It helps us understand the ways in which this tragedy can be addressed. This opportunity should not be missed." --Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, and social activist "Powerful and compelling."--Yahoo "The imagery in [Speltz's] book, North of Dixie: Civil Rights beyond the South (available in November), captures the essence of the violent climate toward grassroots activists and civilians alike who participated in peaceful protests."--Daily Beast "A much-welcome corrective to standard histories, as well as journalistic coverage at the time, which focused on Jim Crow segregation in the South, especially as captured in some historic, disturbing and indelible images of the day."-New York Times

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