Criticism

The photograph found a home in the book before it won for itself a place on the gallery wall. Only a few years after the birth of photography, the publication of Henry Fox Talbot's "The Pencil of Nature" heralded a new genre in the history of the book,...

Language has always been central to the meaning and exploitation of photographic images. However, the various types and 'styles' of language associated with different photographic genres have been largely overlooked. This book considers the nature of...

This issue of Aperture considers the natural world in the age of climate change, extreme weather, and dramatically politicized landscapes. Earth focuses on our relationship with the natural world, during a moment of continued debate about global...

"NO POLITICS whatever." Walker Evans made this emphatic declaration in 1935, the year he began work for FDR's Resettlement Administration. Evans insisted that his photographs of tenant farmers and their homes, breadlines, and the unemployed should be...

How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with analogue techniques. Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former...

A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and female When photographer Coda Gray befriends a family with a special interest in a young boy, the motivation...

In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster...

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...

Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a...

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...

Two important essays on Etienne-Jules Marey published for the first time in English alongside his breathtaking images of moving air and smoke. Featuring more than one hundred and fifty photographs and images, Movements of Air reprints the breathtaking...

This winter, Aperture magazine presents "Reference," an issue that considers the role images play in the creation of something else. Spanning fashion design, architecture, film, and print, "Reference" includes a conversation between renowned British...

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...

In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam...

Roland Barthes, one of photography's most influential critics, once described the 'trouble' introduced by the advent of photography. Studies of literature and photography tend to assess the literary effects of photography, with literature seen as the...

Reduced Price! Now only EURO 10,00 instead of EURO 27,50 Henri Van Lier's contribution to the field of photography is comparable, in its scope as well as in its achievements, to the work of all those we now consider being the great modern classics:...

Envisioning the intersections of photography and performance. This issue, a collaboration between Aperture and Performa, the nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in visual art, takes a capacious approach...

In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford shows how photographic albums tell intimate and revealing stories about individuals and families. Rather than isolate the individual photograph, treat albums as texts, or argue that photography has supplanted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597115247Author ApertureFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint AperturePublisher ApertureWeight(grams) 235g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048279Author Oksana SarkisovaFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1202gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 184mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785420023Author Kamila KucFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Open Humanities PressPublisher Open Humanities PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

A leading voice in the field of photography criticism, Vicki Goldberg is well known for her cogent and perceptive writing. Aperture is pleased to release in paperback Light Matters, a selection of this remarkable author's essays and criticism culled from...

In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies...

This anthology offers a fresh approach to the philosophical aspectsof photography. The essays, written by contemporary philosophers ina thorough and engaging manner, explore the far-reaching ethicaldimensions of photography as it is used today. * A...

In the first philosophical book wholly about photography, Patrick Maynard dispels some basic, persistent confusions by treating photography as a technology-a way to enhance and filter human power. Once photography is understood as a kind of technology,...

Cold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography's role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experienced. The contributors show how the camera stretched the parameters of the Cold War beyond dominant...

This title offers a lavishly illustrated exploration of the history of photography in China. Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the West's engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen. As a result,...

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...

Must-read conversations with nine of the world's most influential photographers. The Interview Issue features in-depth conversations with a selection of influential photographers of an older generation, who continue to produce and publish, about...

How do homes serve as emblems of a moment, markers of the past, or articulations of future possibilities? The Spring 2020 issue of Aperture considers the meanings and forms of a home, and the relationships between architecture, design, and the domestic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241574Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications

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...

This is a collection of essays on the multitudinous uses and abuses of photography in contemporary cultural life. From photojournalism to surrealism, from "green" advertising to pornography, celebrated theorists and famous practitioners examine how...

This issue explores the myriad ways in which Asian American image makers have negotiated the tension between being seen and unseen as strategies of survival, play, and reclamation, from the pursuit of anonymity or effacement during times of exclusion to...

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...

In Photographic Returns Shawn Michelle Smith traces how historical moments of racial crisis come to be known photographically and how the past continues to inhabit, punctuate, and transform the present through the photographic medium in contemporary art...

Even as the media environment has changed dramatically in recent years, one thing at least remains true: photographs are everywhere. From professional news photos to smartphone selfies, images have become part of the fabric of modern life. And that may...

This collection explores women's multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa. The book offers new ways of thinking about the history of photography, exploring through case studies the complex and historically specific...

One of the most original and memorable photographers of the 20th century, Brassai was also a journalist, sculptor and writer. He took great pride in his writing, and he loved literature and language - French most of all. When he arrived in Paris in 1924,...