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Combining selections from her celebrated performance pieces as well as independent projects, Valie Export's photography takes center stage in this unprecedented exploration that offers new insights into the career of an early radical feminist artist. In groundbreaking controversial works such as Touch and Tap Cinema and Action Pants: Genital Panic, Valie Export was one of the first feminist artists to reconsider the ways in which the female body is depicted in conventional film and media. This volume considers how Export's photography plays into these projects, as a means of documentation, as experiments, or as independent works. Beginning in the late 1960s it spans decades of conceptual photographs that critically examine visual images and mass media's modes of functioning, portrayal, and perception. Rarely seen publicly, these photographs afford new insights into Export's oeuvre. They are situated at the nexus of film, video, and body art and causally linked to the socially critical and feminist issues around subject and space, performance and visual image, body and gaze, and femininity and representation. The volume traces Export's photographic work as parallel to her first performance pieces and then later in her career as she investigates all characteristics of the photographic image, from one-point perspective to cropping, to the temporal implications of static individual images. Accompanying the first exhibition to highlighting Export's photographs, this stunning volume was produced in close collaboration with the artist and reflects her exacting standards and vision.

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Filled with meticulously constructed photographs that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, this sumptuously produced retrospective features more than thirty years of work by one of America's most influential photographers. For more than three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been luring viewers into the worlds of his cinematic, highly detailed, and assiduously crafted photographs. This retrospective catalog features images from nine series that represent a broad chronological spectrum of Crewdson's oeuvre. Included are selections from Twilight, the eerie and often darkly humorous photographs inspired by Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Beneath the Roses, which illuminates townscapes, forest clearings and broad, desolate streets with unsettling clarity; the black and white images ofSanctuary, shot on location at the legendary Cinecitta` studios on the outskirts of Rome; Cathedral of the Pines, a paean to the beauty and tragedy of a gritty western

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Starting with Helmar Lerski’s outstanding photo series Metamorphose – Verwandlungen durch Licht from 1935/36, the magnificent volume Faces – The Power of the Human Visage presents portraits from the era of the Weimar Republic. The photographs taken by the photographers of the 1920s and 1930s achieved a radical renewal of portrait photography. Portrait photos traditionally served to depict the personality of an individual. The photographers of the interwar years saw the face as material to be presented in accordance with their own ideas. Through the photograph of a face they explored aesthetic considerations as well as the politicalchanges that took place during the Weimar Republic. Modernist experiments, the elationship between individual and type, feminist roles and political ideologies collided and hence expanded the concept of portrait photography.

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L'ouvrage propose trois axes de reflexion sur le concept de transfert. Dans la premiere partie du volume, Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink evoque les changements contemporains qui augmentent les communications interculturelles. Walter Moser examine l'histoire des concepts et explore la possibilite de faire du "transfert culturel" un instrument qui permettrait de rendre compte de la grande mobilite culturelle que nous observons de nos jours a l'echelle mondiale. Pierre Levy donne a cette exploration conceptuelle la plus grande amplitude en la deplacant vers le domaine general du transfert des informations. La deuxieme partie, "Le transfert et les savoirs", occupe le gros de l'ouvrage. Daniel Simeoni y explore la traductologie en documentant le parallelisme des concepts de traduction et de transfert. Dans la psychanalyse, tant comme site du savoir que comme pratique, le transfert a une longue histoire conceptuelle; Ellen Corin ouvre pourtant le dialogue a d'autres savoirs et disciplines et evoque la possibilite de deplacer lateralement les acquis de sa reflexion vers le domaine de l'anthropologie. En matiere de droit criminel, Alvaro Pires explore des questions theoriques et methodologiques du transfert, etayant ses propos d'exemples. Nicolas Goyer fait la distinction entre le "transfert genealogique" et le "transfert migratoire" pour illustrer la necessite de contester la priorite qu'on a longtemps accordee au transfert intergenerationnel. La troisieme partie explore l'imbrication des transferts et des medias. Timothy Murray explore le new media art, ou se croisent le politique, le mediaticotechnologique, le psychanalytique et l'interculturel. Wolfgang Ernst s'interroge sur le "transfert" au confluent de l'ethnologie, l'ethnographie, la museologie, l'histoire et l'analyse des cultures, en regard de la theorie et de l'histoire des medias.

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