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Photography and landscape
With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia, Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. Beginning with the frontier days of the American...
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Softimage
With today's digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. It no longer functions as a political and iconic representation, but plays a vital role in synchronic data-to-data relationships. It is...
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Theatre in passing 2
This book discusses spaces of performance from formal opera houses to parks and graffiti around the world and is a companion to Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s notion of a 'second poetic geography', this new volume examines theatrical destinations in New Y...
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Cosmopolitics of the camera
An in-depth intellectual and historical analysis of Les Archives de la Planète, Albert Kahn’s collection of early colour photography and documentary film. The book examines the extraordinary context of Kahn’s work, considers archival theory and visual culture, and investigates the cosmopolitan st...
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Theatre in passing
Theatre in Passing explores spaces of performance in contemporary Moscow. Inspired by French philosopher Michel de Certeau’s model of a 'second, poetic geography' in which the walker – the everyday practitioner – invents the space observed by the voyeur, this book takes the reader on a tour of sp...
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The critical eye
The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts – historical, generic, biographical and aesthetic. Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works ...
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Issues in curating contemporary art and performance
To stay relevant, art curators must keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation as well as the aesthetic tastes of fickle critics and an ever-expanding circle of cultural arbiters. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance argues that, despite these daily pressures, good cur...
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Photography from the turin shroud to the turing machine
This book compares two conceptual models for theorizing about photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. It explores new propositions about the theory of photography; the concept of quasi-photography; a unique model for photography as algorithmic art; and an interface between...
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The culture of photography in public space
A range of social, technological, and political issues converge in the rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and consumption of public photography today. The Culture of Photography in Public Space collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions, th...
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Street fashion moscow
In this book, former Moscow resident Elena Siemens travels as an urban flâneur, taking photographs of contemporary fashion in action and setting it alongside explorations of modern and historic representations of fashion and beauty as seen in a wide variety of products of Russian culture.
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Fortunes of war
An extended edit of Eric Lesdema’s photographic series of the same name, with 83 colour photographs and essays from leading academics which analyse how his work provides an alternative approach to documentary photography. Twenty-first-century interpretations and applications of photography are qu...
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Photography as critical practice
A collection that combines visual works with critical essays around the theme of everyday life to explore the concept of otherness and highlight photography as a form of critical practice. Put together in this way, the book images and text work in dialogue with one another to construct a new pers...
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Contingency in madagascar
As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency – central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably ...
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On perfection
Framed from an artist’s perspective and spanning a diverse range of artworks that question how ideas of perfection shape our personal identities and our social and political systems, On Perfection considers the multifaceted nature of lens-based practices.
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Stanley kubrick at look magazine
Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine features never-before-published photographs from the Look archives and complete scans of Kubrick’s photo essays from hard-to-obtain back issues of the magazine. It will be an indispensable addition to the libraries ...
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Theater of war
For five years, Meredith Davenport has photographed and interviewed men who play live-action games based on contemporary conflicts, such as a recreation of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden that took place thousands of miles from the conflict zone on a campground in Northern Virginia. Her images speak...
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Personal style blogs
From Style Rookie to Style Bubble, personal style blogs exploded onto the scene in the mid-2000s giving voice to young and stylish writers who had their own unique take on the seasonal fashion cycle and how to curate an individual style within the shifting swirl of trends. Personal Style Blogs ex...
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Fashion cities africa
In a searing 2012 Guardian op-ed, Hannah Azieb Pool took Western fashion designers to task for their so-called African-inspired clothing. 'Dear Fashion,' she wrote, 'Africa is a continent, not a country. Can you imagine anyone describing a fashion trend as "European-inspired?" Of course not. It's...
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