Criticism

In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic...

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

A groundbreaking examination of post-war photography in East and West Germany This ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that emerged during Germany's geopolitical division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With...

Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such...

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...

In a time of hyperactive communication, unending consumerism, and political confusion, Wolfgang Tillmans guest-edits an issue of Aperture on the subject of spirituality and its connection to solidarity. "People are touched and moved by experiences of...

What is the place of Critical Realism today, given the fact that both realism and commitment in art have become highly problematic notions since at least several decades? Realism in the first place appears to be relegated to the museum of pre-modern...

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,...

Published in 1986, Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency, with its fresh, unflinching portrayal of the photographer's circle of friends, dramatically changed the course of photography. Decades on, the series retains its searing power, influencing new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486795256Author William HogarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

In the middle of the nineteenth century a sympathetic relationship between art, science and technology laid the groundwork for photography to flourish, including camera obscura and the panorama. This is a lavishly produced book on the eventful first...

In the context of an environmental crisis, photography and its related practices can be part of an emancipatory project, challenging techno-utopian solutions and envisioning alternative possibilities for sustaining life on this planet. This anthology...

Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography's ability to "touch" us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380830Author Ben BurbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148659Author Matt JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee

Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor's...

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...

Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916041295Author Daniel C BlightFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Spbh EditionsPublisher Spbh EditionsWeight(grams) 152g

Through engaging interviews, testimonials, and anecdotes from photographers, curators, printers, and colleagues, Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson pays homage to a legendary figure whose name is synonymous with the evolving history and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190646233Author Lecturer in Art History Claire RaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

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 show...

Twenty years ago, before the era of digital cameras, cell phones, Photoshop, and the World Wide Web, Fred Ritchin presciently outlined many of the ways in which the digital age would transform society. His groundbreaking book, In Our Own Image, the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988340442Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988340435Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986166532Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint OsmosPublisher OsmosWeight(grams) 458g

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990698074Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint OsmosPublisher OsmosWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988340411Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986166525Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

This title offers monographs on the most important Spanish, African and Latin American photographers. "The PhotoBolsillo" series is dedicated to publishing monographs on the most notable Spanish, African, and Latin American photographers of the recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991660803Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

In Unfixed Jennifer Bajorek traces the relationship between photography and decolonial political imagination in Francophone west Africa in the years immediately leading up to and following independence from French colonial rule in 1960. Focusing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988340428Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to pinpoint the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwarzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of media...

In Shooting from the Hip, Patricia Vettel-Becker reveals how photography helped to reconstruct and redefine the American idea of masculinity after the traumas of World War II. She argues that from 1945 to 1960 photography became increasingly concerned...

Documents and critically analyses the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in...

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...