Frenchkiss

Frenchkiss

Author: Anders Petersen

Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781904587583

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World renowned phoptographer Anders Petersen explores the fringes of society with these haunting, documentary-style black-and-white photographs. The photographs found in this collection exude the poetic sadness, restlessness and sense of urgency that is characteristic of all of Petersen's work. The images are a raw, brutal and sometimes disturbing portrait of society set against the stunning backdrop of the south of France.


From Back Home

From Back Home

Author: Anders Petersen

Publisher: Max Strom

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789171261649

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Summary: Anders Petersen and J.H. Engström are world renowned photographers, both originally from Värmland in western Sweden. Their new book "From back home" is one of the strongest photographic stories in many years about a Sweden far from the big city.


Veins

Veins

Author: Anders Petersen

Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907893452

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Born in Stockholm in 1944, Anders Petersen is undoutedly one of the world's most important photographers of the last 40 years. In 1978 he published Caf Lehmitz, which established his international reputation and is now recognised as one of the classic photobooks of the 20th century. Jacob Aue Sobol is a member of Magnum Photos. A winner of the 'European Publishers Award For Photography' and of a 'World Press Photo Award', he gained international recognition with his book Sabine which was the result of a three year period spent on the East Coast of Greenland.


Exploring Grief

Exploring Grief

Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0429574827

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As modern society’s routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society’s growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects. Thematically organised in order to consider the historical changes in our understanding of grief, literary treatments of grief, contemporary forms of grief and grief as a perspective from which to engage in critique of society, it provides insights into the sociality of grief and will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and cultural studies with interests in the emotions and social pathologies.


The Emergence and Evolution of Religion

The Emergence and Evolution of Religion

Author: Jonathan H. Turner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 135162069X

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Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all human societies? The authors of the book—each with a different background across the social sciences and humanities—assimilate conceptual leads and empirical findings from anthropology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary sociology, neurology, primate behavioral studies, explanations of human interaction and group dynamics, and a wide range of religious scholarship to construct a deeper and more powerful explanation of the origins and subsequent evolutionary development of religions than can currently be found in what is now vast literature. While explaining religion has been a central question in many disciplines for a long time, this book draws upon a much wider array of literature to develop a robust and cross-disciplinary analysis of religion. The book remains true to its subtitle by emphasizing an array of both biological and sociocultural forms of selection dynamics that are fundamental to explaining religion as a universal institution in human societies. In addition to Darwinian selection, which can explain the biology and neurology of religion, the book outlines a set of four additional types of sociocultural natural selection that can fill out the explanation of why religion first emerged as an institutional system in human societies, and why it has continued to evolve over the last 300,000 years of societal evolution. These sociocultural forms of natural selection are labeled by the names of the early sociologists who first emphasized them, and they can be seen as a necessary supplement to the type of natural selection theorized by Charles Darwin. Explanations of religion that remain in the shadow cast by Darwin’s great insights will, it is argued, remain narrow and incomplete when explaining a robust sociocultural phenomenon like religion.


Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents

Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents

Author: Kieran Keohane

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1315447193

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This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.


Café Lehmitz

Café Lehmitz

Author:

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 3791389289

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This classic work of analog photojournalism—focusing on the idiosyncratic denizens of an iconic bar in the red-light district of Hamburg, Germany—is now available in a gorgeous new edition that features a tribute by musician and actor Tom Waits. Photographer Anders Petersen was hanging out at a dive bar on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in 1968 when someone grabbed his camera from the table where he was sitting and started taking pictures. Petersen used the opportunity to photograph the culprit—and the rest of the bar’s motley crew of patrons. The resulting project is one of the most revered photobooks of all time, a celebration of a gritty city at the tail end of the sixties, and the cornerstone of Petersen’s storied career. The images have become classics of their genre; Tom Waits used one for the cover of his legendary album Rain Dogs. Their candidness and authenticity remain as eloquent today as when they were first published in 1978. This sumptuously produced reissue features a new foreword by Waits, and is certain to find a new audience, who will appreciate the stunning analog photography and its elegiac collective portrait of the fringes of society.


Tractor Boys

Tractor Boys

Author: Christian Caujolle

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907893353

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Youth culture in rural Sweden where teenage boys race 'car-tractors'.


Shot in Soho

Shot in Soho

Author: Karen McQuaid (Photographer)

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791358895

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A visual exploration of London's most intriguing square mile captures Soho's essence--from seedy to sublime, and everything in between. During a time of development and change that has the potential to transform the unique character of London's Soho, this book delves into the area's storied past as a place of disobedience and eccentricity. Opening with a look at Soho through the years, this book includes archival images of Suffragettes learning Jiu-jitsu in a Soho gym, David Bowie preparing to record at Trident Studios, and Francis Bacon drinking at the French House. The book then presents the work of photographers who have shed light on Soho's many faces through the decades, including Kelvin Brodie, Clancy Gebler Davies, Corinne Day, William Klein, and Anders Petersen. Also featured is a new series of work by young, up-and-coming photographer Daragh Soden, whose images were specially commissioned by The Photographers' Gallery for this project. These streetscapes and portraits are by turns intimate and haunting, visceral and vibrant, nostalgic and provocative. Throughout the volume, texts narrate a social history marked by subculture and controversy. This book captures Soho as a refuge for marginalized, pioneering, and unconventional people.