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Landmark : the fields of landscape photography
Landscape photography has traveled far from its origins in the picturesque or pastoral. It is at the cutting edge of contemporary image-making with leading photographers creating work that transcends definitions of art or documentary. This is the first truly international survey of a vibrant, burgeoning field of photography, its masterful image-makers, and their work. William A. Ewing has selected more than 230 photographs by over 100 photographers, ranging from renowned figures such as Susan Derges, Edward Burtynsky, and Simon Norfolk, to younger rising stars including Pieter Hugo, Olaf Otto Becker, and Penelope Umbrico. Each of them represents an individual viewpoint of a shared concernfor our changing landscape and environment. Organized into ten themes Sublime; Pastoral; Artefacts; Rupture; Playground; Scar; Control; Enigma; Hallucination; and Reverie Landmark is an intelligent and poetic survey which captures a genre of photography to perfection.\"
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Alien and philosophy
Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am presents a philosophical exploration of the world of Alien, the simultaneously horrifying and thought-provoking sci-fi horror masterpiece, and the film franchise it spawned. - The first book dedicated to exploring the philosophy raised by one of the most successful and influential sci-fi franchises of modern times - Features contributions from an acclaimed team of scholars of philosophy and pop culture, led by highly experienced volume editors - Explores a huge range of topics that include the philosophy of fear, Just Wars, bio-weaponry, feminism and matriarchs, perfect killers, contagion, violation, employee rights and Artificial Intelligence - Includes coverage of H.R. Giger’s aesthetics, the literary influences of H.P. Lovecraft, sci-fi and the legacy of Vietnam, and much more!
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Landmark : the fields of landscape photography
Landscape photography has traveled far from its origins in the picturesque or pastoral. It is at the cutting edge of contemporary image-making with leading photographers creating work that transcends definitions of art or documentary. This is the first truly international survey of a vibrant, burgeoning field of photography, its masterful image-makers, and their work. William A. Ewing has selected more than 230 photographs by over 100 photographers, ranging from renowned figures such as Susan Derges, Edward Burtynsky, and Simon Norfolk, to younger rising stars including Pieter Hugo, Olaf Otto Becker, and Penelope Umbrico. Each of them represents an individual viewpoint of a shared concern for our changing landscape and environment. Organized into ten themes, Landmark is an intelligent and poetic survey which captures a genre of photography to perfection.
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Civilization : the way we live now
Every day and every hour, human civilization expands, evolves, and mutates. These universal movements are chronicled by prestigious curator William A. Ewing in this stunning photographic exploration, Civilization. Ewing illuminates how contemporary photography, notably art photography, is fascinated by, and attempts to decode, the way we live today. This landmark publication is accompanied by an internationally touring exhibition produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography--a global cultural event for a global subject.
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Weekend: MOVERS AND FAKERS: How can the new generation of art photographers make their mark when almost anyone with the latest equipment can take excellent pictures? Judge for yourself. And William A Ewing , who has been seeking stars of the future across the world, identifies the new directions
There were common threads, but also strong individual voices that confound generalisation. European and North American photographers did dominate (we refused to adhere to a quota system, and hid the photographer's name, nationality and school during the process). Digital photography was fast becoming a fundamental tool, but the embrace wasn't uncritical - far from it: photographers used film where appropriate, and the computer when necessary to achieve certain effects. By and large, these photographers considered themselves artists, although there were a few strong photojournalists and documentary photographers. Their heroes turned out to be theorists rather than photographers: Sontag, Barthes and Derrida were cited far more often than Man Ray, Friedlander or Arbus. Colour photography is by far the preferred medium. Again, this is partly the influence of contemporary art, in which black-and-white photography has always been suspect, a peripheral practice like etching or engraving. But partly it is a necessary correction in the evolution of photography: for decades, \"serious\" photographers disdained colour photography which, because it was expensive and required laboratory processing, was considered the domain of commerce. Curators excluded colour prints from their collections because of their impermanence. But by 1980 the situation was beginning to change; various ways of making prints permanent had won grudging acceptance, and seminal exhibitions such as William Eggleston's Guide at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1976 (the first all-colour one-man show) demonstrated that colour was not just about capturing sunsets and the primary hues of quaint Greek villages. For the current generation, black-and-white photography seems an anachronism. The traditional genres that have dominated art photography for a century are now largely passe. The nude, the classical portrait, the sublime natural landscape - all have been largely dismissed, or are fading away as meaningful categories. The nude - traditionally almost always female, youthful and inert - was entirely absent from the portfolios we looked at, and portraits in the classic sense (claiming to reveal the soul, or otherwise valorising the individual) have given way to studies of types: faces have been replaced by facades. As for landscape, young photographers see only degradation and menace - the brutal hand of man. Edward Weston's nudes, Ansel Adams' mountain ranges and Yousuf Karsh's portraits are aeons away from the concerns of the young.
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