Product Description: A Guide for the Protection of the Public in Peacetime explores the psyche of conflict―from the primal tribalism of paint and feathers through the ideal of the chivalrous warrior to the scientific clinical quality of triggers and switches...read more

Product Description: In this volume―at once a "selfie reader" and exhibition catalogue―examples of various kinds of selfies are presented alongside essays by writers and theorists such as Jerry Saltz, Douglas Coupland and Karen Ann Donnachie, who offer an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon...read more

Product Description: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas. This edition of Aperture magazine, “Odyssey,” features photography about voyages, journeys, and the captivating spell of wanderlust.In the Words section, Tacita Dean discusses her personal quests with writer Travis A...read more

Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works -- not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and lucid meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. He constructs an argument that moves with natural logic from Thomas Pynchon (and why we read him for his vision and not his command of miscellaneous facts) to Jonathan Swift to Plato to Emily Dickinson (who wrote "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant") to detailed readings of photographs by Eugène Atget, Garry Winogrand, Marcia Due, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank. Forcefully and persuasively, he argues for photography as a medium whose business is not constructing fantasies pleasing to the eye or imagination, but describing the world in the toughest and deepest way.

Product Description: Maledetti Fotografi è un progetto nato nel 2014, fondato da Enrico Ratto. Ogni mese pubblichiamo le interviste ai più interessanti fotografi italiani ed internazionali. In questo libro sono raccolte le interviste realizzate nel 2014 con i grandi autori della fotografia...read more

Product Description: With increasingly accessible camera technology available, crowdsourced collective histories of everyday life, which harness amateur photographers to secure a snapshot of a single day, abound like never before. Mass Photography assesses the potential of these popular moment-in-time projects by examining their historical predecessors...read more

Product Description: How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography’s early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography...read more

Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography. Photography is a part of everyday life; from news and advertisements, to data collection and surveillance, to the shaping of personal and social identity, we are constantly surrounded by the photographic image. Outlining an overview of photographic genres, David Bate explores how these varied practices can be coded and interpreted using key theoretical models. Building upon the genres included in the first edition – documentary, portraiture, landscape, still life, art and global photography – this second edition includes two new chapters on snapshots and the act of looking. The revised and expanded chapters are supported by over three times as many photographs as in the first edition, examining contemporary practices in more detail and equipping students with the analytical skills they need, both in their academic studies and in their own practical work.An indispensable guide to the field, Photography: The Key Concepts is core reading for all courses that consider the place of photography in society, within photographic practice, visual culture, art, media and cultural studies.

Product Description: Maledetti Fotografi pubblica ogni mese le interviste ai più interessanti fotografi italiani ed internazionali. In questo libro sono raccolte le interviste realizzate nel 2015 con i grandi autori della fotografia. Questo libro contiene le interviste con: Giuseppe Mastromatteo Gian Paolo Barbieri Settimio Benedusi Daniele Cametti Aspri Giovanni Presutti Massimo Vitali Giovanni Gastel Marc Riboud Romano Cagnoni Massimo Sestini Szymon Brodziak Maurizio Galimberti Joel-Peter Witkin Francesco Bosso Francesco Cito Frank Kunert Valerio Bispuri Josef Koudelka...read more

Product Description: Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today's potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived newsreel footage is repeatedly used to both illustrate and re-stage past events and their significance...read more

Product Description: This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. It explains how responses to catastrophe in media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, contamination and immunity, race and species...read more

Product Description: How is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial and anthropological photography...read more

Product Description: Well before today's debates on global warming and climate change, photographic images have played an important role in educating the general public about the wonders of nature and the destruction of the global environment. Most now-iconic images have historical precursors...read more

Product Description: This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea...read more

Product Description: Riveting theatrical designs are depicted alongside insightful and inspired critical commentary in this one-of-a-kind issue from the team at Chance. Exquisite, original photo shoots of fifteen innovative designs serve as the springboard for fifteen inventive essays from leading critics and thinkers...read more

Product Description: One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America, photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis...read more

Product Description: One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America, photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis...read more

Product Description: History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. In Images Performing History, Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans offers a discussion of contemporary art practices that question received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe...read more

Product Description: Aperture is a sophisticated guide to the world of contemporary photography that combines the finest writing with inspiring photographic portfolios. Presenting fresh perspectives accessible to the photo practitioner and the culturally curious alike, each issue examines one theme at the heart of contemporary photography, explored in two sections: Words, focused on ideas, interviews and debate, and Pictures, devoted to an immersive selection of portfolios...read more

Product Description: Focusing on early nineteenth-century England?and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot?Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change...read more