Evidence

Evidence

Author: Larry Sultan

Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel began working collaboratively together in 1973 while graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. They work together on occasional projects that include artists' books, exhibitions and public art.


The Fairies

The Fairies

Author: Suza Scalora

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1999-10-31

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 0060282347

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An archeologist, a woman of science and logic, always believed fairies were the stuff of storybooks. That was before she made the discovery of a lifetime. After learning the secrets behind locating and luring these magical creatures out from hiding, she vows to travel all over the world photographing every fairy she can find. This remarkable book is the result of her quest, the first set of fairy photographs the world has ever seen. Join our archeologist as she travels to remote parts of the globe in search of her mysterious subjects. Read about the details of her journey as she documents the events of each fairy discovery and see for yourself her results--amazing, dazzling photographs straight from another world. Images of these creatures, vibrant and luminous, are captured and catalogued, each one more astonishing than the next. There is no greater proof--fairies are real. 2000 Quick Picks for Young Adults (Recomm. Books for Reluctant Young Readers)


Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel

Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel

Author: Larry Sultan

Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9783863352066

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This richly illustrated publication chronicles for the first time the collaborative artwork by Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan. Their prolific artistic collaboration began in 1973 when they were both graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. During the course of the next twelve years, they created nineteen projects together.During this period their projects took the form of artists' books, How To Read Music In One Evening, 1974, and Evidence, 1977; a series of a dozen outdoor billboards in the form of hand painted photographs, silkscreen posters, oil paintings and digitally printed posters, 1973-1983; a film, JPL, 1980; and an installation, Newsroom, 1983.Although they both pursued individual projects during this twelve year span they nurtured and developed an intense and focused artist collaboration. Their seminal work, Evidence has been widely recognized as a landmark photographic book.


Reasoned and Unreasoned Images

Reasoned and Unreasoned Images

Author: Josh Ellenbogen

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0271052597

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"Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally"--


Race and Photography

Race and Photography

Author: Amos Morris-Reich

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-01-11

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 022632088X

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Historian Amos Morris-Reich here tracks the trajectory of racial photography from 1876 through the Weimar and Nazi periods in Germany and, briefly, after WWII. With a particular focus on German and Jewish contexts, "Race and Photography "reveals the important role of racial photography within academic discourse on race. Photography was not simply a medium of illustration but rather it was a conduit for new forms of visual perception. Approaching the history of racial photography from an epistemic point of view raises questions concerning the similarity and specific difference of photography compared with other scientific media, and makes explicit the scientific and cultural assumptions in which different uses of photography were embedded. Paying particular attention to the effect of photography on concepts of visual perception and also to the intricate relationship between racial photography and the imagination, Morris-Reich examines numerous scientists and scholars, both prominent and obscure, who developed photographic methods for the study of race or made methodical use of photography for its study. His careful reconstruction of individual cases, conceptual genealogies, and emergent patterns points to transformations in the scientific status of photography throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and uncovers the agency of photographic media in the history of scientific racism. This work makes a distinctive contribution to the fields of history of science, history of photography, intellectual history, European and Jewish history, and the history of race.


Documenting the World

Documenting the World

Author: Gregg Mitman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-12-20

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 022612925X

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Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would be a history, in other words, of just artists’ renderings and the spoken and written word. To inhabitants of the twenty-first century, deeply immersed in visual culture, such a history seems insubstantial, imprecise, and even, perhaps, unscientific. Documenting the World is about the material and social life of photographs and film made in the scientific quest to document the world. Drawing on scholars from the fields of art history, visual anthropology, and science and technology studies, the chapters in this book explore how this documentation—from the initial recording of images, to their acquisition and storage, to their circulation—has altered our lives, our ways of knowing, our social and economic relationships, and even our surroundings. Far beyond mere illustration, photography and film have become an integral, transformative part of the world they seek to show us.


Spectral Evidence

Spectral Evidence

Author: Ulrich Baer

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780262025157

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An original analysis of the parallels between the arrested moment in photography and in the traumatized psyche.


The Civil Contract of Photography

The Civil Contract of Photography

Author: Ariella Azoulay

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1935408372

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In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of recent history. She argues that photography is a particular set of relations between individuals and the powers that govern them and, at the same time, a form of relations among equals that constrains that power. Anyone, even a stateless person, who addresses others through photographs or occupies the position of a photograph’s addressee, is or can become a member of the citizenry of photography. The crucial arguments of the book concern two groups that have been rendered invisible by their state of exception: the Palestinian noncitizens of Israel and women in Western societies. Azoulay’s leading question is: Under what legal, political, or cultural conditions does it become possible to see and show disaster that befalls those with flawed citizenship in a state of exception? The Civil Contract of Photography is an essential work for anyone seeking to understand the disasters of recent history and the consequences of how they and their victims are represented.


Nature Exposed

Nature Exposed

Author: Jennifer Tucker

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780801879913

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Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain.