As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. With Inadvertent Images, Peter Geimer explores all kinds of photographic irritation from throughout the history of the medium, as well a…
Finden Sie Ihren persönlichen fotografischen Ausdruck und Stil! Beschreibt klar und verständlich, wie Sie Ihren eigenen fotografischen Stil entwickeln. Liefert Methoden und Inspiration. Mit Workshop-Kapitel, in dem Sie von den Meistern der Fotografie lernen. Wie finde ich meinen fotografischen Stil? Wer gerne und oft fotografiert, stellt sich diese Frage früher oder später – ob zum kreati…
Esta no es una nueva historia del cine argentino sino una interrogación de las que ya se han escrito a través de la revisión contemporánea de varios centenares de films importantes. Constituye un relato que puede leerse como una totalidad o de manera fragmentaria, y que adopta una curiosa circularidad: la forma en que se presenta el cine contemporáneo se parece curiosamente al inicial. Por…
170 REZEPTE FÜR TAGESLICHT-PORTRÄTS – IDEAL FÜR EINSTEIGER * Alles Wesentliche zu Ausrüstung, verschiedenen Arten von Tageslicht, Posing und Nachbearbeitung * Zum Stöbern oder Querlesen – für alle, die schnell lernen und gleich ausprobieren wollen * Leicht verständlich geschrieben, unterhaltsam erklärt Sie möchten Tageslichtporträts fotografieren, sind aber eher so der prakti…
An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station …
Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of K…
From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture. In Work! Elspeth H. Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermode…
From journeys through various countries to New Zealand's transformation in the last half century, this is a riveting and comprehensive look at the work of photographer Marti Friedlander. Showing how this distinguished artist has not only recorded the places, events, and personalities of recent history, this engaging study also demonstrates how she brings subjectivity, empathy, and a distinctive…
An authoritative history of combat photography and its cultural, emotional, and memorial roles, this collection is the first to examine the vernacular photos of World War I taken by its New Zealand participants. The book discusses how photography was used to capture and narrate, memorialize and observe, romanticize and bear witness to the experiences of New Zealanders at home and abroad. The f…
A Different Light is the first in-depth study of the work of Sebastião Salgado, widely considered the greatest documentary photographer of our time. For more than three decades, Salgado has produced thematic photo-essays depicting the massive human displacement brought about by industrialization and conflict. These projects usually take years to complete and include pictures from dozens of cou…