Studies in Photography

Strategy: Get Arts. 35 Artists Who Broke the Rules, edited by Christian Weikop, is the first print publication to consider the formation and impact...

The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity ...

The study of race and ethnicity should be considered as an overlooked subject in the field of Iranian photography. One of the important themes in t...

Combining case studies with theoretical and philosophical insights, this book explores the role of photography in representing conflict and genocid...

Reducere. DescriptionFailed Images approaches photography in terms of its divergence from the reality it would claim to show. How does the photograph transfo...

DescriptionThis collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the ...

Reducere. Gardeners and nature lovers delight in taking pictures--especially close-ups of flowers, butterflies, and insects. And though advances in digital c...

Reducere. Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting the...

This hillwalking and photo-location guidebook features stunning mountain photography that provides inspiration and motivation, as well as being stu...

Reducere. Since the 1990s, Thomas Struth has been one of the best-known and internationally successful photographers of the German art scene. Struth studied ...

Whether you're investigating fashion as a material object, an abstract idea, a social phenomenon, or a commercial system, qualitative techniques ca...

DescriptionA fascinating survey of the varied career of an inventive and influential 19th-century photographer, from allegorical montage to Darwin'...

However beautiful or technically dazzling your photographs might be, if they don't tell a story, convey an idea or make your viewer stop and think,...

Are you a researcher struggling to mine and make sense of a mountain of fashion data? Are you interested in learning about how digital methods and ...

These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possi...

Description Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insi...

Contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current deve...

Description Throughout Germany's tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, w...

An investigation into the complex politics of data centers, through photographs and essaysOften hidden in plain sight, data centers are the backbon...

This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their cor...

Reducere. Rockachusetts. An Explorer's Guide to Amazing Boulders of Massachusetts: New hiking destinations and fun-filled adventures for individuals, couples...

A fun collection of Martin Parr's food pictures, which documents the simple notion that 'we are what we eat'.Real Food celebrates all things food t...

Reducere. Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continui...

DescriptionIn this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy pro...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Richard TimberlakeEditor: Philip G. TerrieContribution by: Caroline WelshIn 1880, Jesse Sumner Wooley, an energetic and ent...

In late 2008, artist and creative director Christian Kieffer began his retro revival, when he brought WWII nose-art pinups to life. He began shooti...

Reducere. DescriptionErratic Wandering. An Explorer's Hiking Guide to Astonishing Boulders of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont: New destinations and fun adve...

How the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Through 18 case studies dating from the ...

Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of ...

DescriptionSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restric...

Reducere. What have you lost? A friend? A brother? A wallet? A memory? A meaning? A year?Each NightImages, dream news, fragments, flashthen fade.These darken...

DescriptionAugust Sander (1876-1964) was a documentary photographer whose greatest project lasted his entire working life. His series of portrait s...

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressIllustration(s): 136 photos, full colourNumber of pages: 368Collection: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadi...

Reducere. Wide, breathtaking landscapes; crystal-clear, blue lakes; high, snow-covered mountain peaks; but also wild grizzlies, buffalos, mustangs and rare a...

The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more releva...

DescriptionKenzo Tange (1913-2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versat...

Reducere. From Table of Contents: ◊ Performative Beginnings◊ Autobiographical Selves◊ Topoi of Life Writing in Performative Literary Experiments◊ Gertrude St...

Reducere. The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same pa...

Reducere. A critical reader on culture and society in postwar Central and Eastern EuropeIn Cold Revolution, essayists examine the relationship between visual...

Contributor(s): Author: Katie HornsteinFrom the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevo...

Bringing a poet's perspective to an artist's archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon ...

Reducere. Because of his recourse to language, photography and systems of information, On Kawara is often described as a key figure in the history of Concept...

Reducere. Available together in a single volume for the first time are Canadian anthropologist Diamond Jenness' pioneering studies of three Athapaskan nation...

Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

Between the countless works of art in the world and numerous laws on their care, the task of deciphering correct procedure can seem daunting. In Ar...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first in the City Edition series of books by Trope Publishing Co., Chicago showcases a unique view of one of the most photographed c...

Reducere. This pedagogically astute introduction to the Hebrew Bible is designed specifically for undergraduates. It begins with the most basic questions: fr...

An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a wide-ranging introduction to the now established interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Mapping a ...

Reducere. "Elementary Biblical Hebrew: An Introduction to the Language and its History gives students a general overview of the language and focuses on its m...

DescriptionFor over a decade, Simon Roberts has photographed events and places across Britain that have drawn people together in public, communal e...

Reducere. On two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fift...

Reducere. PROSEIn 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented t...

Forever Wandering documents the endless beauty of our natural world. Photographer and the creative mind behind @helloemilie, Emilie Ristevski, invi...

For the past thirty years, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has undertaken a photographic examination of the life of cities and the built env...

DescriptionTechnological changes have radically altered the ways in which people use visual images. Since the invention of photography, imagery has...

Best-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents a full-color ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses th...

Reducere. We can be sure of this: It's a circle without end. It' 's pumpkin seeds to pumpkins To pumpkin seeds againThis treat of a picture book comes cloake...

Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, ...

The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs, new in paperback This lavis...

Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major...