Photography Against the Grain
Photography Against the Grain

Author: Allan Sekula

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9781910164495

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Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, in these essays and images Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between labour and material culture, drawing deeply on Marxist theory to argue passionately for a collective model of progress. Sekula taught at California Institute of Arts (CalArts) from 1985 until his death in 2013, and from that insider's position he critiqued photography and the circumstances of its production and consumption, exposing what the medium failed to represent - women, labourers, minorities and the institutional structures that reinforce cultural biases. Allan Sekula (1951-2013) was an American artist, whose work spans multiple media: long form photographic series (Aerospace Folktales, 1973; School as a Factory,1980; War Without Bodies, 1991/96), critical texts (The Body and the Archive, 1986 and Debating Occupy, 2012) and film (The Forgotten Space, 2012).

Ebony Jr.
Ebony Jr.

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1985-10

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Created by the publishers of EBONY. During its years of publishing it was the largest ever children-focused publication for African Americans.

The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff

Author: Tom Wolfe

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2008-03-04

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1429961325

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Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.

1979-1990
1979-1990

Author: Henryk Sawoniak

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 1284

ISBN-13: 3110975068

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International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia
International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia

Author: Philip G. Altbach

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-08

Total Pages: 763

ISBN-13: 1134261268

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First Published in 1996. This encyclopedia is unique in several ways. As the first international reference source on publishing, it is a pioneering venture. Our aim is to provide comprehensive discussion and analysis of key subjects relating to books and publishing worldwide. The sixty-four essays included here feature not only factual and statistical information about the topic, but also analysis and evaluation of those facts and figures. The chapters are significantly more comprehensive than those typically found in an encyclopedia.