Kategoria BISAC: Photography >> Criticism

Viele kleine Eingriffe verwandeln lebendige Stadte kontinuierlich. Reinhard Mandl transformiert solch fluchtige Momente des Wiener Grossstadtlebens zu bleibenden fotografischen Erinnerungen. Welche Uberraschungen gibt es von der Abbegasse bis zum Baaderwiesenweg und warum ist gleich zu Beginn fotografieren verboten ? Eroffnen sich beim Gang vom larmenden Trubel am Calafattiplatz zur Dachauer-Strasse tatsachlich neue Perspektiven auf Altbekanntes?

The photographer must "arrive unannounced" and "get in the way of the world," Roberts argues, committing photography to the truth-claims of the spectator over the self-interests and sensitivities of the subject. Yet even though the violating...

Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life--family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love--as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, subservience, and violence. In Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves, Ann-Janine Morey presents a collection of antique photographs of dogs and their owners in order to investigate the meanings associated with the canine body. Included are reproductions of 115 postcards, cabinet cards, and...

A Companion to Photography presents a contemporary approach to the subject, advancing the critical ideas that inform the study of photography in the 21^st century.

Features a collection of original, up-to-date essays relating to contemporary photography

• Introduces several new ideas that expand current photographic theory
• Combines essays by established and emerging writers, providing a dynamic and engaging discussion
• Essays are organized in thematic sections: photographic interpretation, markets, popular photography, documents, and...

Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of photography, this collection offers essays, interviews, and theoretical reflections at the intersection of comparative, visual, and cultural studies. Its chapters, illustrated with more than 130 black and white images and an eight-page colour section, explore how Italian literature, cinema, popular culture, and politics have engaged...

Allegories of Time and Space explores efforts by leading photographers, artists, architects, and commercial designers to re-envision Japanese cultural identity during the turbulent years between the Asia Pacific War and the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990s. This search for a cultural home was a matter of broad public concern, and each of the artists under consideration engaged a wide audience through mass media. The artists under study had in common the necessity to establish distance from their immediate surroundings temporally or geographically in order to gain some...

Rodrigo Moya is a prominent Mexican documentary photographer who began as a photojournalist in 1955. He covered the convulsive period that shook Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s, including the guerrilla movement in Guatemala, the invasion of Santo Domingo, and the Cuban Revolution, producing the iconic images "Guerillas in the Mist" and "Melancholy Che." Since the 1960s, Moya's work has broadened to encompass more of Mexico and Latin America--the land and sea, people both famous and anonymous, religious processions, the streets of Mexico, laborers, and cultural events involving...