When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon con...
The landscape of Britain is dotted with remarkable features - Neolithic burial chambers, enigmatic hill carvings, standing stones, holy wells and ancient fonts, crude pagan effigies,and fifteenth-century memento mori and bizarre fanciful follies in estates and country parks. This book captures these "mysteries" and recounts their histories and the tales that surround them. From Stonehenge in Wiltshire, to the healing spring water of St Winefride's Well in Wales, and the weird Brimham rocks in Yo...
Twenty years ago, while working as a security guard in an art museum, Peter Rock staved off the job's inherent boredom and loneliness by trying to make up a story for each photograph, painting and object in the museum. A few years ago, reminded of the pleasures and play that he felt in danger of forgetting, he began to envision a similar project. As he explains, "First, I found photographers whose work I was drawn to, and contacted them with a very hypothetical and tentative description of what...
Between 1935 and 1943, a group of photographers under the direction of Roy Emerson Stryker set out to photograph the United States for the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information. Photographs taken by this celebrated group, whose ranks included Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Gordon Parks, Russell Lee and Walker Evans, have since become icons of the 1930s and 1940s. In recent years, however, their work has been reproduced with little discussion of the particular circumstances s...
Manfred Heiting (ed.): At the Still Point Photographs from The Manfred Heiting Collection
by Manfred Heiting
Yes Yes Yes Yes - Difference and Repetition in the Pictures of the Olbricht Collection
by A Heil and W Schoppmann
A handy travel-sized photographic tour of Ireland, region by region, that's ideal for tourists. It contains a collection of atmospheric photographs showing the beauty and diversity of Ireland's landscape. It includes: GlendaloughThe Giant's CausewayThe BurrenThe SkelligsMizen HeadLough DergRock of CashelGlen of AherlowClew BayKillary HarbourThe Slieve Bloom Mountains And many more.