Product Description: In his numerous acclaimed photo series, such as Portraits, Nudes, Jpegs and m.a.r.s., Thomas Ruff (born 1958) has brilliantly challenged the medium of photography itself. This 50-minute documentary (in German with English subtitles), made over three years, portrays the artist in his studio and creating an exhibition...read more

Product Description: Since Apartheid's fall in 1994, South African photography has exploded from the grip of censorship onto the world stage. A key figure in this movement is Zwelethu Mthethwa, whose portraits powerfully frame black South Africans as dignified and defiant individuals, even under the duress of social and economic hardship...read more

Product Description: The Frankfurt am Main Städelschule, and its gallery Portikus, form a leading international center for experimental contemporary art. The Städelschule was founded in 1817 by Johann Friedrich Städel for the purpose of introducing students to his prodigous art collection...read more

Product Description: From January to July of 2005, photographer Ahlam Shibli, born in Palestine in 1970, followed the young Palestinians of the Israeli army, soldiers of Bedouin descent deployed in tracking units at borders and in the occupied territories...read more

Product Description: Focusing on the contemporary confluence of aesthetics and politics, The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society is concerned with the complexities of intimacy, proximity, antagonism, and renews. Published in conjunction with the Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs 2), The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society functions as more than simply a catalog for the exhibition...read more

Product Description: Photography plays a role in most of our lives - but rarely in our deaths. If you happened to live in the West African country of Benin * during the 1960s and 1970s, photography was quite literally a matter of life and death.It is a commonly held belief in many non-Western cultures that a person's soul lives on, as if trapped, within the photograph...read more

Product Description: Recently democracy has been the watchword for a range of disparate, yet apparently convergent contestations and negotiations within the global order. Democracy Unrealized, detailing the results of Platform1, the first of four conferences held in conjunction with Documenta 11, presents a context within which the interpretive and conceptual regimes surrounding democracy can be reargued against the claims of a neoliberal ideology...read more

Product Description: Extensively illustrated, the Catalog contains an essay of the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 curatorial team: Ute Meta Bauer, Carlos Basualdo, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, and Angelika Nollert as well as texts written by invited authors from different fields, such as art history, philosophy, or theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the past decade, contemporary African art has been featured in major exhibtions in museums, galleries, international biennials, and other forums. African cinema has established itself on the stage of world cinema, culminating in the Ouagadougou Film Festival...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)