Criticism

Real Stories from Wildly Creative Women"If you need an extra boost of bravery, read this book! If you want to simply feel more positive about the world, read this book!" -Sherry Richert Belul, founder of Simply Celebrate and author of Say It Now#1 New...

One of the most captivating and provocative artists of the Sensation generation, Richard Billingham (b. 1970) came to prominence in the late 1990s with his visceral photobook Ray's a Laugh, a slice of everyday life in a high-rise sink estate in the...

Anniversary issue features seven original commissions by leading photographers and artists, and seven essays about Aperture's legacy by award-winning writers and critics This fall, Aperture celebrates seventy years in print with an issue that...

A lethal cocktail of memoir and criticism.A documentary through the speaker's post-adolescent relationships.An arrangement of time in Chemnitz, Bergen, Dublin, Paris, Gwangju, Munich and Madrid.An intimate portrayal of unstable masculinity and sexual...

This fall, Aperture magazine presents an issue exploring the idea of cosmologies-the origins, histories, and local universes that artists create for themselves. In an exclusive interview, Greg Tate speaks to Deana Lawson about how her monumental staged...

With its vibrant street life, vast media industry, and influence on the fashion world, New York has long been considered the capital of photography. Since last March, though, life in the city has been altered in unthinkable ways due to the Covid-19...

The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that few...

The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert...

In the mid-1970s in the United States as feminism gained huge momentum, three American photographers Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman and Susan Meiselas published books of a new kind. Combining testimonies and images, they offer very original documentaries of...

If the year 2020 has resembled a disquieting sci-fi plot or a sinister speculative work, this year has also shown us that other ways of living are possible-if the collective will exists. But is it naive to speak of utopia today? In this issue, artists,...

100 Ideas that Changed Photography chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped photography from the invention of the daguerreotype in the early 19th century up to the digital revolution and beyond.Each photographic idea is presented through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869304366Author Lewis BaltzFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969991350Author Juergen TellerFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 540g

Cinema and photography are both intimately associated with time-cinema with time in passing, the photograph with the lost moment. In Photography, Cinema, Memory, Damian Peter Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of...

Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.Book InformationISBN 9780918172082Author Alan...

After Photography examines the myriad ways in which the digital revolution has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information, from photos of news events taken by ordinary people on cell phones to the widespread use of image surveillance. In...

This winter, Aperture magazine presents an issue that celebrates the dynamic visions of Latinx photography across the United States. Guest edited by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, chief curator at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, "Latinx" spans a...

In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound,...

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The debut collection of essays from one of Britain's most celebrated photographers. For many years, photographer Michael Collins had wondered what exactly it was that he found so mysterious and compelling about photography. In this series of linked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304014Author Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

What are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change? A fundamental dilemma exists in documentary photography: can white artists successfully portray Indigenous lives and communities in a manner that neither...

What are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change? A fundamental dilemma exists in documentary photography: can white artists successfully portray Indigenous lives and communities in a manner that neither...

Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As...

Between science and art, revisiting photography's role in discovery and experimentation. This edition of Aperture focuses on "Curiosity." Taking its name from the Mars Rover, which has reminded us that a fundamental purpose of photography is to...

In Unseeing Empire Bakirathi Mani examines how empire continues to haunt South Asian American visual cultures. Weaving close readings of fine art together with archival research and ethnographic fieldwork at museums and galleries across South Asia and...

The Osmos brand was initiated 15 years ago with a project space in Berlin and has since developed into a fully integrated concept for curatorial and editorial activities. Currently, the Osmos address is located at 50 East 1st Street, in a Manhattan East...

The Osmos brand was initiated 15 years ago with a project space in Berlin and has since developed into a fully integrated concept for curatorial and editorial activities. Currently, the Osmos address is located at 50 East 1st Street, in a Manhattan East...

Osmos is "an art magazine about the use and abuse of photography," explains founder and editor Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (formerly of Parkett and Fantom). It is divided into recurring thematic sections-some traditional, such as "Portfolio," "Stories" and...

This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases, that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that the use of a photograph determines its meaning...

Light features prominently in the work of Australia's artists, writers, and photographers. Myths of a distinctly Australian light have shaped national identity and belonging, and the notion that photography is a language of light has particular...

Honorable Mention, Exhibition Catalogues - 2014 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated, and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an...

Writings by Michael Asselin and Stephanie Cristello, an essay on Joanna Piotrowska, recent works by Onyedika Chuke and Neil Winokur, and more, in the latest issue of Osmos OSMOS Magazine is "an art magazine about the use and abuse of photography,"...

After cofounding Fantom in 2009 in Milan and New York, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz is continuing the endeavor by launching her magazine with the new name of Osmos. Osmos magazine focuses its editorial practice on texts and image series by practitioners and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496466272Author AlfonsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

Whether pasted into an album, framed or shared on social media, the family photograph simultaneously offers a private and public insight into the identity and past of its subject. Long considered a model for understanding individual identity, the idea of...

Presenting two decades of work by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography after Photography is an inquiry into the circuits of power that shape photographic practice, criticism, and historiography. As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms...

Hershberger is the winner of a 2015 Insight Award from the Society for Photographic Education for his work on this book and for his overall contributions to the field! Photographic Theory: An Historical Anthology presents a compendium of readings...

The Osmos brand was initiated 15 years ago with a project space in Berlin, and since then, with Osmos Exhibitions, Osmos Books, Osmos Magazine and the Osmos Preserve Collection, it has developed into a fully integrated concept for curatorial and...

After cofounding Fantom in 2009 in Milan and New York, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz is continuing the endeavor by launching her magazine with the new name of Osmos. Osmos magazine focuses its editorial practice on texts and image series by practitioners and...