Light Work, 2008. — 52 p. This catalogue features the work of photographer Don Gregorio Anton. He creates photographic retablos that look like sacred objects. They are intimately small and sit on stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Frida Kahlo described retablos as the truest representation of the people's art. Also called ex votos, they have been part...
Rutgers University Press, 2015. — 229 p. Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising,...
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000. — 148 p. Through over 150 color and black and white photographs and an engaging, informed text, Black Beauty discusses the position of blacks within the beauty hierarchy of the West, as well as the kinds of work available to black models within the past century. Author Ben Arogundade also offers insight to the ways in which certain styles of black...
Routledge, 1998. — 468 p. The Passionate Camera brings together over fifty artists, scholars and critics to address a broad range of issues in photography and sexuality. The authors address the importance of reinterpreting historical works by known homosexual photographers, issues in contemporary photography and sexual diversity, and the use and abuse of photographs of sexual...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 471 p.
Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers’ studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a...
Reaktion Books, 1997. — 254 p. — (Critical Views). — ISBN10: 0948462302 ISBN13: 978-0948462306. The photographic portrait is discussed in a wide context, from general subjects such as the family photograph album and American portrait photography to the work of individual artists like Sander and Stieglitz.
I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2013. — 337 p.
From sixteenth-century Roman maps, to the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw, the London Eye to Google Earth, visual culture is saturated with aerial imagery. The aerial view - the image of everywhere- has become natural, desirable, omnipresent, yet its rise to pre-eminence as a 'way of seeing' raises pressing questions about its effects...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. — 228 p. A marriage of photography and criticism, this elegant volume celebrates details of Baltimore's fine architectural heritage and explores both familiar and unnoticed places. Photographer James DuSel and art critic John Dorsey have created a book that leads from images to thoughts, and they invite readers to follow the same path. DuSel's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 396 p. This volume explores the selfie not only as a specific photographic practice that is deeply rooted in digital culture, but also how it is understood in relation to other media of self-portrayal. Unlike the public debate about the dangers of 'selfie-narcissism', this anthology discusses what the practice of taking and sharing selfies can tell us...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 396 p. This volume explores the selfie not only as a specific photographic practice that is deeply rooted in digital culture, but also how it is understood in relation to other media of self-portrayal. Unlike the public debate about the dangers of 'selfie-narcissism', this anthology discusses what the practice of taking and sharing selfies can tell us...
University of New Mexico Press, 2003. — 200 p. Abandoned buildings in the West are the subjects of these haunting photographs by Steve Fitch. Some of the pictures show public buildings, but most are of homes. Fitch has photographed interiors rather than the architectural silhouettes that stand out against the empty landscape. Settlers were attracted to the Great Plains during the...
Amphoto, 1977. — 164 p. More than we realize, pictures of people reflect whole biographies of their personal experiences. This very readable volume by a master of people photography discusses the fine art of photographing people and teaches you how to approach this fascinating subject. The author explores in detail such topics as overcoming shyness, developing a personal style,...
MOBI Edition, 2012. — 97 p.
Released in 1961, Naked as Nature Intended created a sensation. Queues formed around the block and police were called in to manage the crowds. It stayed on the big screen for over 17 months. The film was directed by the notorious George Harrison Marks and starred Pamela Green, Britain's answer to Bettie Page. Pamela Green was best-known for her short...
Thames & Hudson, 2014. — 288 p. Sheds new light on the long history of self-portraiture with fresh interpretations of famous examples and new works, ideas, and anecdotes This broad cultural history of self-portraiture brilliantly maps the history of the genre, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of “bearing witness” to the prolific self-image-making of...
New York Graphic Society, 1976. — 202 p. Dust jacket notes: "Yousuf Karsh is a classic portrait artist of the camera, photographer of the world's great. To be photographed by Karsh has been a sig of personal accomplishment for a third of a century. During that time his camera lens has repeatedly -- and unforgettably -- recorded the illuminating gesture, the unique attitude, the...
Thomas Nelson, 1959. — 216 p. Portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh has a collection of 94 photos suitable for framing. Outstanding reproduction gives unusual range of tones. Protraits include Marion Anderson, Winston Churchill, Pearl Buck, Dwight Eisenhower, Carl Sanberg, Walt Disney. Yousuf Karsh is one of my favorite portrait photographers. It’s a great show whether your...
Profile Books, 2004. — 226 p. Faces are endlessly fascinating. Their diversity, their versatility and their unrivalled ability to communicate make them an enigma. Artists and scientists have been trying to unravel the mysteries of what makes a face and how it functions for thousands of years. Where does the face begin and end? It is a slender and fragile boundary, where interior...
Routledge, 2001. — 262 p. Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to dismantle the exclusive, classical ideal enshrined in the...
Routledge, 2001. — 262 p. — ISBN: 0-203-44870-7. Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to dismantle the exclusive,...
Routledge, 2022. — 237 p. — ISBN: 978-0-367-20608-6 This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context. This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital self-portraiture as representation: as...
Merrell, 2006. — 184 p. Acting the Part is the first major history of staged photography. Analysing many key works, from Hippolyte Bayard's 1840 self-depiction as a suicide by drowning to Man Ray's 1923 portrait of Marcel Duchamp posing as his alter ego, Rrose Selavy, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s, and Yinka Shonibare's 1998 Diary of a Victorian Dandy, it...
Routledge, 2013. — 160 p.
Contemporary art photography is paradoxical. Anyone can look at it and form an opinion about what they see, yet it represents critical positions that only a small minority of well-informed viewers can usually access.
Why Art Photography? provides a lively, accessible introduction to the ideas behind today’s striking photographic images. Exploring...
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2011. — 351 p.
In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black and white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape reflects and reinforces contemporary political,...
Institute of Network Cultures, 2014. — 55 p. Over 130 million images with the hashtag ‘selfie’ have been uploaded to the social media platform Instagram. In The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self-Portrait, Brooke Wendt examines the significant hold that the ‘selfie’, or the digital self-portrait, has over self and society. Media theorist Vilém Flusser observed that...
Institute of Network Cultures, 2014. — 55 p. Over 130 million images with the hashtag ‘selfie’ have been uploaded to the social media platform Instagram. In The Allure of the Selfie: Instagram and the New Self-Portrait, Brooke Wendt examines the significant hold that the ‘selfie’, or the digital self-portrait, has over self and society. Media theorist Vilém Flusser observed that...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — СПб.: Дабл вижн, 2014. — 248 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-905773-01-3. Книга "Стрит-фотография: Открытие плоскости" адресована всем тем, кто ставит перед собой задачу научиться видеть и понимать фотографию. Она рассказывает о почти неизвестной широкому зрителю ветви современного изобразительного искусства - о художественной непостановочной фотографии, о...
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