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Masters of street photography
Masters of Street Photography explores the craft and creative secrets of 16 leading lights of the genre. Through probing Q&A style interviews, beautifully reproduced images, captions telling the story of each picture, and detailed technical information, the reader is given an insight into the photographers' working practices, from their career paths and inspirations, to the equipment, techniques, tropes and tricks they employ to create their breathtaking and visionary works. The result is a book that combines visual inspiration with tried and tested 'street smart' advice from leading professionals, providing everything the aspiring street photographer needs to create their own distinctive urban portfolio.
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Through Soviet Jewish Eyes
Most view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, including Arkady Shaykhet, Alexander Grinberg, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Evgenii Khaldei, Dmitrii Baltermants, and Max Alpert,Through Soviet Jewish Eyespresents a different picture. These artists participated in a social project they believed in and with which they were emotionally and intellectually invested-they were charged by the Stalinist state to tell the visual story of the unprecedented horror we now call the Holocaust.These wartime photographers were the first liberators to bear witness with cameras to Nazi atrocities, three years before Americans arrived at Buchenwald and Dachau. In this passionate work, David Shneer tells their stories and highlights their work through their very own images-he has amassed never-before-published photographs from families, collectors, and private archives.Through Soviet Jewish Eyeshelps us understand why so many Jews flocked to Soviet photography; what their lives and work looked like during the rise of Stalinism, during and then after the war; and why Jews were the ones charged with documenting the Soviet experiment and then its near destruction at the hands of the Nazis.
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Photographers on photography : how the masters see, think & shoot
Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, the book reveals what matters most to the masters. With text by the author, readers will discover how the giants of the genre developed their distinctive visual styles and the core ideas that underpin their practice. -- adapted from back cover.
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William Klein
William Klein (born 1928) is a photographer who has always moved against the current. A painter, filmmaker, graphic designer and fashion photographer, Klein grew up in New York but has been based in Paris since 1948. His shots are often intense and immediate, disrupting the established order of things and capturing fragmented snatches of distortion and movement. Although best known for his images of New York in the 1950s, he has also worked in other urban environments, including Tokyo and Moscow, as well as producing a striking series of painted contact sheets. Throughout his varied body of work, his insatiable desire to confront the chaos of the world shines through.
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Women and Photography in Africa
This collection explores women’s multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa.
The book offers new ways of thinking about the history of photography, exploring through case studies the complex and historically specific articulations of gender and photography on the continent, and attending to the challenge and potential of contemporary feminist and postcolonial engagements with the medium. The volume is organised in thematic sections that present the lives and work of historically significant yet overlooked women photographers, as well as the work of acclaimed contemporary African women and non-binary photographers such as Héla Ammar, Fatoumata Diabaté, Lebohang Kganye and Zanele Muholi. The book offers critical reflections on the politics of gendered knowledge production and the production of racialised and gendered identities and alternative and subaltern subjectivities. Several chapters illuminate how contemporary African women and non-binary photographers, collectors and curators are engaging with colonial photographic archives to contest stereotypical forms of representation and produce powerful counter-histories.
Raising critical questions about race, gender and the history of photography, the collection provides a model for interdisciplinary feminist approaches for scholars and students of art history, visual studies and African history.
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The Questioning Gaze: on Ergy Landau's photos taken in China
Today, Ergy Landau (Budapest,1896 - Paris, 1967), a French-Hungarian photographer is rather known as an excellent photographer whose atelier was also an important meeting point for artists in interwar Paris. In my paper I would like to focus on a less known part of her carreer, namely on her travel to China in 1954. In the year following their visit, Landau and Goncourt Prize winner Pierre Gascard published two books about China. One of them was published under the title of \"Chine ouverte\". In this booklet the role of the photographs is not significant. However, the second book, \"Aujourd'hui la Chine\", prefaced by Claude Roy, is a carefully edited volume in which photos and texts mutually complete each other. In the 1950s, a growing number of texts by leading French authors documented the socio-political changes of China. The travel of Gascar and Landau followes the tendency of these travel reports. On the photos by Landau one can see the traces of the cultural transition, the changes of urban landscape, those of the fast insdustrialization and the mingling of times. The paper raises these questions: what might the Western reader of China actually see in 1954? How can we recognize the photographer's gaze on her photos? What is the connection between the vintage prints and the edited book? Into what kind of society the provides a glimpsee?
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Love, Cecil : a journey with Cecil Beaton
In 'Love Cecil', Lisa Immordino Vreeland offers an evocative portrait of this talented whirlwind whose creative work captured many facets of the 20th century. Using photography, drawings, letters, and scrapbooks by Beaton and his contemporaries, along with excerpts from his sparkling diaries and other writings, Immordino Vreeland brings his spirit to life in a way that no previous book has been able to do. Immordino Vreeland organizes her book around the circles of Beaton's daily life: the people who inspired and influenced him, his colorful friends, his fellow photographers, his Hollywood conquests, his wartime service, and his English roots. This cavalcade offers a shimmering vision of high style, but it also captures often-troubled souls struggling to create the open, tolerant, creative worlds of art and culture that we have inherited today.
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It Either Sinks or Floats
The subjects of his largescale photographs include, among other things, a catapulted lawn chair, shaving cream zipping through a ring of fire, and milk performing all kinds of acrobatics. To the extent that Ekberg composes portraits of performance art, many of them are also small miracles of timing-freezing the moment between up and down, over and under, here or there. [...]all sorts of anomalies arise, not least of which is the shutter speed on my camera only goes to a 500th of a second, so you have to get an object that's launched into the air at its apex, because if it's still going up or down, you'll see the blur.
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