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The short story of photography : a pocket guide to key genres, works, themes & techniques
The Short Story of Photography is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of photography. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key photographs from the first experiments in the early 19th century to digital photography. The design of the book allows the student or photography enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key genres, artists, themes, and techniques. Accessible and concise, the book explains how, why, and when certain photographs really have changed the world.
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The Paradox of Photography
The Paradox of Photography analyzes the discourse on photography by four of the most important modern French poets and theorists (Baudelaire, Breton, Barthes and Valéry). It stresses in particular the importance of this visual language for the development of both new forms of narrative and original critical studies on issues of representation in art. It also reflects upon the integration of photography within the domain of technical modernity while emphasizing its aesthetic identity stemming from the Western tradition of figurative painting.
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Argentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan Photography
One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike other forms of cultural production in Latin America, photography has received relatively little sustained critical analysis. This pioneering book offers one of the first in-depth investigations of the complex and extensive history of gendered perspectives in Latin American photography through studies of works from Argentina, Mexico, and Guatemala.David William Foster examines the work of photographers ranging from the internationally acclaimed artists Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer, and Marcos López to significant photographers whose work is largely unknown to English-speaking audiences. He grounds his essays in four interlocking areas of research: the experience of human life in urban environments, the feminist matrix and gendered cultural production, Jewish cultural production, and the ideological principles of cultural works and the connections between the works and the sociopolitical and historical contexts in which they were created. Foster reveals how gender-marked photography has contributed to the discourse surrounding the project of redemocratization in Argentina and Guatemala, as well as how it has illuminated human rights abuses in both countries. He also traces photography's contributions to the evolution away from the masculinist-dominated post–1910 Revolution ideology in Mexico. This research convincingly demonstrates that Latin American photography merits the high level of respect that is routinely accorded to more canonical forms of cultural production.
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Photographic portraiture: Everyone has a story
Since its beginning, portrait photography has captured the life and times of people. Originally, an important tool for the portrait photographer was a neck brace to hold the sitter(s) head in place in order to get a sharp exposure, which would have been very uncomfortable for the sitter. The brace was necessary as the lens had to be open for a long period of time to capture the photograph on glass and then later on film. Despite development it was not until the latter 1900s that new technology brought fast film to both the professional and amateur photographer, ushering in a new era of portrait photography. Accordingly, a long history of creative portraiture developed alongside the faster film technology, contributing to the birth of photo-art practice and producing many iconic experimental portraits.
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Find it in everything : photographs
Actress Drew Barrymore shares the photographs she's taken of heart-shaped objects and patterns she's come across over the past ten years, some obvious and others barely discernible.
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New kinds of archives: Care leavers, state archives and narratives of the self
This paper explores the relationship between state archives and trauma for a small group of Australian care leavers by outlining the development of a collaborative artwork (apart and a part 2017) made with six individuals who spent time in institutional care in Australia in the latter half of the twentieth century. It is estimated that during this time over 500,000 children grew up in or spent time in institutional care in Australia. For many of those care leavers, their experience was marked by longing, loss, and displacement, and as a result, many have inconsistent or non-existent records of their heritage, family, and early life experiences. Sequences of events are often missing due to a lack of information, the withholding of information by authorities and institutions, or the impacts of trauma and grief on the individual. The archives that do exist are often bureaucratic and impersonal. The ontological impulse to address these gaps in narrative leads many care leavers to become 'archivists of the self'. Developed from several years of collaborative dialogue with care leavers, apart and a part (2017) creates an expanded archive of visual responses and narrative fragments that address the felt experiences often absent from institutional records and historical accounts. This paper proposes that communities that have experienced trauma require new kinds of archives that make space for, and give form to, affective languages and experiences. In this 'archive of feelings', as queer feminist theorist Ann Cvetkovich (2003) puts it, trauma knowledge can be expressed on its own terms. Building on this, the paper proposes that care leavers require new kinds of archives that centre their knowledges and experiences beyond the authority of state and institutional archives.
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Water
Adam Fuss has been exploring the subject of water for more than thirty years and is perhaps best known for life-size photograms of this essential element. Here for the first time is a book dedicated solely to the theme of water in Fuss's oeuvre. Included here are pictures that are now iconic in the history of contemporary photography, such as the swimming snakes, the splashing newborn baby, and Fuss's studies of concentric circles created by drops. Alongside these are many unpublished images, all exquisitely reproduced. The primary influence for Fuss is the personal observation of nature - nature being the underlying subject of all his work.
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