Teaching Photography
Author: Glenn Rand
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0240807677
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Contemporary Photography in France
Author: Olga Smith
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2022-10-19
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9462703442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography’s development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy – the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Rancière – to produce an innovative study of the intersections between the photographic image, text, practice, and theory. This analysis is guided by an understanding of photography as deeply engaged with historical, cultural, and intellectual events that defined French national experience in the contemporary period. Landscape provides a particular focus to study issues of key significance, including national identification, colonial past, legacies of modernization and environmental breakdown.
The Camera as Actor
Author: Amy Cox Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1000185702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking beyond the impact photographs have on the perpetuation and expression of social norms and stereotypes, and the influence of the act of taking a photograph, this new collection brings together international scholars to examine the camera itself as an actor. Bringing the camera back into view, this volume furthers our understanding of how, and in what ways, imaging technology shapes us, our lives, and the representations out of which we fashion knowledge, base our judgments and ultimately act. Through a broad range of case studies, the authors in this collection make the convincing claim that the camera is much more than a mechanical device brought to life by the photographer. This book will be of interest to scholars in photography, visual culture, anthropology and the history of photography.
Artists Anonymous: A Riflemaker Exhibition - Lucifer Over London
Author: Artists Anonymous
Publisher: Artists Anonymous / Riflemaker
Published: 2009-09-21
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 0956357113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArtists Anonymous Catalogue for the exhibition 'Lucifer over London' at Riflemaker Gallery in 2009 Essay by J.J Charlesworth Reproductions and Installation views photographed by Gunter Lepkowski
Train Your Gaze
Author: Roswell Angier
Publisher: AVA Publishing
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 294037337X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is common to all portrait photographs is a situational element. In portrait photography, the presence of the photographers gaze also becomes an integral part of what the picture is about- the activity of one person looking, manifested in a moment that can feel like the blink of an eye or a small eternity. This book offers for the first time a complete text that combines the theoretical with the practical.
Between Stillness and Motion
Author: Eivind Røssaak
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9089642137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSummary: Het in de jaren zeventig opkomende debat binnen de filmwetenschappen over stilstaand ('still') tegenover bewegend beeld ('moving') werd gevoed door de 'apparatus theory' en het idee van verstilde beweging door belichting. Filmische beweging was een illusie, luidde het axioma; beweging een 'ideologische invloed van het filmische apparaat'. Stilstaand beeld gold als de verborgen, zelfs verdrongen, basis voor de industriële illusie van filmische beweging. De auteurs stellen voor om af te stappen van dit verstokte 'still/moving'-debat binnen de filmstudies en zich te richten op een positievere kritiek en een meer affectieve vorm van mediaarcheologie.
War Culture and the Contest of Images
Author: Dora Apel
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012-10-19
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0813553962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWar Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ideals. Dora Apel examines a wide variety of images and cultural representations of war in the United States and the Middle East, including photography, performance art, video games, reenactment, and social media images. Simultaneously, she explores the merging of photojournalism and artistic practices, the effects of visual framing, and the construction of both sanctioned and counter-hegemonic narratives in a global contest of images. As a result of the global visual culture in which anyone may produce as well as consume public imagery, the wide variety of visual and documentary practices present realities that would otherwise be invisible or officially off-limits. In our digital era, the prohibition and control of images has become nearly impossible to maintain. Using carefully chosen case studies—such as Krzysztof Wodiczko’s video projections and public works in response to 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the performance works of Coco Fusco and Regina Galindo, and the practices of Israeli and Palestinian artists—Apel posits that contemporary war images serve as mediating agents in social relations and as a source of protection or refuge for those robbed of formal or state-sanctioned citizenship. While never suggesting that documentary practices are objective translations of reality, Apel shows that they are powerful polemical tools both for legitimizing war and for making its devastating effects visible. In modern warfare and in the accompanying culture of war that capitalism produces as a permanent feature of modern society, she asserts that the contest of images is as critical as the war on the ground.
Feeling Photography
Author: Elspeth H. Brown
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014-09-09
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0822377314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive. Concerns associated with the affective turn—intimacy, alterity, and ephemerality, as well as queerness, modernity, and loss—run through the essays. At the same time, the contributions are informed by developments in critical race theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist theory. As the contributors bring affect theory to bear on photography, some interpret the work of contemporary artists, such as Catherine Opie, Tammy Rae Carland, Christian Boltanski, Marcelo Brodsky, Zoe Leonard, and Rea Tajiri. Others look back, whether to the work of the American Pictorialist F. Holland Day or to the discontent masked by the smiles of black families posing for cartes de visite in a Kodak marketing campaign. With more than sixty photographs, including twenty in color, this collection changes how we see, think about, and feel photography, past and present. Contributors. Elizabeth Abel, Elspeth H. Brown, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Lisa Cartwright, Lily Cho, Ann Cvetkovich, David L. Eng, Marianne Hirsch, Thy Phu, Christopher Pinney, Marlis Schweitzer, Dana Seitler, Tanya Sheehan, Shawn Michelle Smith, Leo Spitzer, Diana Taylor
Cities and Photography
Author: Jane Tormey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1135190348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines: across the social sciences and humanities, photography and fine art. This text offers different perspectives from which to view social, political and cultural ideas about the city and urbanism, through both verbal discussion and photographic representation. It provides introductions to theoretical conceptions of the city that are useful to photographers addressing urban issues, as well as discussing themes that have preoccupied photographers and informed cultural issues central to a discussion of city. This text interprets the city as a spatial network that we inhabit on different conceptual, psychological and physical levels, and gives emphasis to how people operate within, relate to, and activate the city via construction, habitation and disruption. Cities and Photography aims to demonstrate the potential of photography as a contributor to commentary and analytical frameworks: what does photography as a medium provide for a vision of ‘city’ and what can photographs tell us about cities, histories, attitudes and ideas? This introductory text is richly illustrated with case studies and over 50 photographs, summarizing complex theory and analysis with application to specific examples. Emphasis is given to international, contemporary photographic projects to provide provide focus for the discussion of theoretical conceptions of the city through the analysis of photographic interpretation and commentary. This text will be of great appeal to those interested in Photography, Urban Studies and Human Geography.
FotoFest 2008
Author: Steven Evans
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVelvet Generation surveys the work of Czech photographers Gabriela Kolcavová, Roman Franc, Igor Malijevský and Vojtech V. Sláma. Accompanying a lauded exhibition at FotoFest, Houston, it is lavishly illustrated with over 90 striking images, and includes texts by exhibition organizer Steven Evans, art historian Miroslav Ambroz, and preeminent photography scholar Anne Wilkes Tucker. This ambitious book offers an investigation of the relationships between these artists and explores their shared visual vocabulary.
