Criticism

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986180101Author Luigi CassinelliFormat PaperbackImprint Materia Et LumenPublisher Materia Et LumenWeight(grams) 218g

In role-play and sex-play, illuminating theater, jokes, leisure, and fantasy. This edition of Aperture focuses on "Playtime." Taking its name from the 1967 film by Jacques Tati, the articles and portfolios explore how photography illuminates,...

A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. 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...

The study of photography has never been more important. A look at today's digital world reveals that a greater number of photographs are being taken each day than at any other moment in history. Countless photographs are disseminated instantly online and...

The first book to apply the concept of the 'minor' to the theory of photography. The notion of the minor, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in Kafka, Towards a minor literature (1975), is introduced and connected applied here for the very...

Photographic realism: Late twentieth-century aesthetics provides an accessible and useful introduction to uses of photography in art practice, and relates them to wider cultural ideas. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990916628Author Jon BogleFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Jon BoglePublisher Jon BogleWeight(grams) 349g

"A comprehensive study on Barthes and photography . . . the most studious research on the topic."--Antoine Compagnon, Columbia University and the Sorbonne "Interesting and significant. . . . Important for scholars, students, and general...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906477707Author Kate McDonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885311182Author Dean ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 227g

"It's about the underlying impulse that goes into perceiving a photographic moment and the techniques that support both this perception and the process of capturing these instances in a manner that is not just technically adept, but creatively original."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958890103Author Robert DunnFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 621g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908419408Author Marina VaizeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint CV PublicationsPublisher CV Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935512547Author Robert DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 440g

Internationally known as a writer, Eudora Welty has as well been spotlighted as a talented photographer. The prevalent idea remains that Welty simply took snapshots before she found her true calling as a renowned fiction writer. But who was Welty as a...

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. Renowned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615467672Author DeForestFormat PaperbackImprint Sunface Entertainment, LLCPublisher Sunface Entertainment, LLCWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998237510Author Dean LockwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986166563Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint OsmosPublisher OsmosWeight(grams) 499g

On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of poststructuralism, the role of photography in autobiography is far from simple or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986166594Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986166556Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986166570Author Cay Sophie RabinowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint OsmosPublisher Osmos

Within the larger context of cultural memory, family pictures have become one of the most intriguing multi- and interdisciplinary fields of investigation in the past decade. This field brings together artists working in different media (e.g. documentary...

Exploring the influence of other media on contemporary photography. 'Heterogeneous Objects' provides various essays that explore the encounter of photography with other media since the 1960s. The essays offer new ways of thinking about photography beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597111843Author Melissa HarrisFormat PaperbackImprint AperturePublisher ApertureWeight(grams) 454g

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised system of audio-visual representations or its collapse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907893469Author David BrittainFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dewi Lewis PublishingPublisher Dewi Lewis PublishingWeight(grams) 366g

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...