In these seven essays Travis presents his thoughts on some of his favorite subjects: Weston, Stieglitz, Kertesz, Brassai and Strand.
Literatur Und Fotografie: Analysen Eines Intermedialen Verhaltnisses
by Anne-Kathrin Hillenbach
Graffiti Coloring book for Kids
by Graffiti Coloring Book for Kids and Tamika V Alvarez
This is the story of popular photography told in relation to the Kodak Museum within the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. Kodak has donated its entire archive to the NMPFT in Bradford, where a museum is being built, to open in Spring 1989. This book will draw on the collection for the first time in telling the story of amateur photography, looking as much at the social uses to which photography has been put as at the technical evolution of equipment. The book look...
Photography in Japan 1853-1912 is a fascinating visual record of Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern, industrial nation at a time when the art of photography was still in its infancy. The 350 rare and antique photos in this book, most of them published here for the first time, chronicle the introduction of photography in Japan and early Japanese photography. The images are more than just a history of photography in Japan; they are vital in helping to under...
Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital as war, national identity, and citizenship. Cara A. Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the editor, trial testimony, books, and speeches produced by viewers in response to specific photos they encountered in public. From the portrait of a you...
Suspicious of what he called the spectator’s “sticky” adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a hypnotic trance, the philosopher warned, an audience can become susceptible to ideology and “myth”. In this book, Patrick Ffrench explains that although Barthes was wary of film, he engaged deeply with it. Barthes’ thought was, Ffrench argues, punctuated by the experience of watching films – and likewise his philosophy of photography, culture, semio...
Self-reflection by celebrities tends to be fraught with unmentionable difficulties. Not, though, when the star in question is the ever intelligent, self-aware, articulate, and magnificent Isabella Rossellini. For years, a wall in the entrance of Rossellini's apartment has been covered in pictures taken of her by different photographers. Looking at the Me Wall, Rossellini writes that she never really saw herself; instead she saw the photographer's work, their ideas, and our collaboration in captu...
One of the great wonders of the natural world, the Grand Canyon has long enticed visitors to gaze down upon its expansive beauty. For others, it is best observed from the river that flows through its majestic walls. In The Hidden Canyon, renowned photographer and river guide John Blaustein and environmental hero and bestselling author Edward Abbey document their epic journey through the canyon from the vantage point of the Colorado River. Abbey's humorous and lyrical journal, accompanied by Blau...
An unprecedented publication provides insight into the life and work of Pirkle Jones. Rarely has a photographer fused poetic intuition and the photographic document in a stronger or more cohesive fashion. Valuing content above all, Jones's sensibility is to inform through the use of the quality black and white image as a sophisticated tool. The book includes his politically controversial and widely exhibited documentation of top leaders in the Black Panther movement, A Photographic Essay on the...
Sensational Modernism (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by Joseph B Entin
Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, "Sensational Modernism" uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind, and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using what he call...
Digital Snaps
Photography as an everyday practice is once again changing dramatically. At this moment of transition from analogue to digital, Digital Snaps aims to develop a new media ecology that can accommodate these changes to photography 'as we know it'. Expert contributors representing varied disciplines demonstrate how and to what extent the traditional social practices, technologies and images of analogue photography are being transformed with the movement to digital photography. They zoom in on typic...
Not Fade Away collects the best of Marshall's photography for the first time - and gives us an electrifying visual history of the rock & roll era that is unprecedented in its intimacy, immediacy, and impact. The 124 duotone images include virtually every artist in the rock pantheon, from Muddy Waters to Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. With a foreword by actor-producer Michael Douglas, a feature article profiling Jim Marshall by Jon Bowermaster, and extended caption...