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Street photography : a history in 100 iconic images
This visually arresting book charts a global history of street photography, from its inception to today, through the most candid, immediate and provocative images captured by the genre's biggest names.
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To The City
In the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States moved from a rural to an urban nation, the pull of the city was irrepressible. It was so strong that even a photographic mission designed to record the essence of rural America could not help but capture the energy of urbanization too.To the Cityshowcases over 100 photographs from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) project along with extracts from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) guidebooks and oral histories, to convey the detail and dimensions of that transformation.
This artfully grouped collection of photographs includes magnificent images by notable photographers Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Gordon Parks, among many others. Foulkes organizes this history of Americana into five themes: Intersection; Traffic; High Life and Low Life; The City in the Country; and Citizens to illuminate the changes in habits, landscapes, and aspirations that the march to cities encompassed.
As the rural past holds symbolic sway and the suburb presents demographic force, the urban portion of our history-why and how cities have been a destination for hope-recedes from view.To the Cityis a thoughtful, engaging reminder.
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The Historian's Eye
Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the \"historian's eye\" during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a moment with unquestionable historical significance. This book presents more than 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past, present, and future. The images reveal diverse expressions of civic engagement that are emblematic of the aspirations, expectations, promises, and failures of this period in American history. Myriad closed businesses and abandoned storefronts stand as public monuments to widespread distress; omnipresent, expectant Obama iconography articulates a wish for new national narratives; flamboyant street theater and wry signage bespeak a common impulse to talk back to power. Framed by an introductory essay, these images reflect the sober grace of a time that seems perilous, but in which \"hope\" has not ceased to hold meaning.
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Bystander : a history of street photography
In this book, the authors explore and discuss the development of one of the most interesting and dynamic of photographic genres. Hailed as a landmark work when it was first published in 1994, Bystander is widely regarded by street photographers as the 'bible' of street photography. It covers an incredible array of talent, from the unknowns of the late 19th century to the acknowledged masters of the 20th, such as Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand and Levitt to name just a few. In this new and fully revised edition, the story of street photography is brought up to date with a re-evaluation of some historical material, the inclusion of more contemporary photographers and a discussion of the ongoing rise of digital photography.
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This Far and No Further
Standing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 2017,
photographer William Abranowicz was struck by the weight of
historical memory at this hallowed site of one of the civil rights
movement's defining episodes: 1965's \"Bloody Sunday,\" when Alabama
police officers attacked peaceful marchers. To Abranowicz's eye,
Selma seemed relatively unchanged from its apperance in the
photographs Walker Evans made there in the 1930s. That, coupled
with an awareness of renewed voter suppression efforts at state and
federal levels, inspired Abranowicz to explore the living legacy of
the civil and voting rights movement through photographing
locations, landscapes, and individuals associated with the
struggle, from Rosa Parks and Harry Belafonte to the barn where
Emmett Till was murdered.
The result is This Far and No Further , a collection of
photographs from Abranowicz's journey through the American South.
Through symbolism, metaphor, and history, he unearths extraordinary
stories of brutality, heroism, sacrifice, and redemption hidden
within ordinary American landscapes, underscoring the crucial
necessity of defending-and exercising-our right to vote at this
tenuous moment for American democracy.
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East End fashionistas
Multicultural, adjacent to London's wealthy financial district, home to artists and designers of all stripes, funky boutiques, and a vibrant night-life, the East End is alive with creative possibility, and its inhabitants are stylishly individual and self-fashioned to the extreme. Photographer Anthony Webb has trawled the streets of East London, using his metropolitan savvy to present the colorful characters and inspirational personalities in a mix of fashionable portraits animated by aphorisms culled from the wisdom of urban life.
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The Day in Its Color
Featuring over a hundred evocative images, The Day in Its Color sheds new light on the everyday American landscape from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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Unmapping the city
The first title in the new Intellect series 'Critical Photography', features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in fourteen different cities around the world. The images are linked by their shared attempts to define a two-dimensional approach to a three-dimensional built reality, and to address spatial representation and urbanity through art.
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