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Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born 1968) argues passionately—in one main essay and a series of lively digressions—that photography is unique among the arts in its capacity for easing the fundamental ache of our mortality; for managing the breach(...)
To photograph is to learn how to die: An essay with digressions
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Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born 1968) argues passionately—in one main essay and a series of lively digressions—that photography is unique among the arts in its capacity for easing the fundamental ache of our mortality; for managing the breach that separates the self from all that is not the self; for enriching one’s sense of freedom and personhood; and for cultivating meaning in an otherwise meaningless reality. Printed in three colors that reflect the various ''voices'' of the book, the text design follows several channels of thought, inviting various approaches to reading. A unique and instructive contribution to the literature on photography, Carpenter’s research offers both a timely polemic and a timeless resource for those who use a camera.
Theory of Photography
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This volume is an essential primer of how to look at and understand photographs, by one of the world's most influential photographers, Stephen Shore. In this book, Shore explores ways of understanding photographs from all periods and all types - from iconic images to found photographs, from negatives to digital files. This books serves as an indispensable tool for(...)
The nature of photographs: A primer
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This volume is an essential primer of how to look at and understand photographs, by one of the world's most influential photographers, Stephen Shore. In this book, Shore explores ways of understanding photographs from all periods and all types - from iconic images to found photographs, from negatives to digital files. This books serves as an indispensable tool for students, teachers and everyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look at them in a more informed way.
Theory of Photography
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In this book, Rebecca Bengal considers the photographers who have defined our relationship to the medium. Through generous essays and interviews, she contemplates photography’s narrative power, from the radical intimacy of Nan Goldin’s New York demimonde to Justine Kurland’s pictures of rebel girls on the open road. Bengal brings us closer to pioneering artists and the(...)
Strange hours: Photography, memory and the lives of artists
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In this book, Rebecca Bengal considers the photographers who have defined our relationship to the medium. Through generous essays and interviews, she contemplates photography’s narrative power, from the radical intimacy of Nan Goldin’s New York demimonde to Justine Kurland’s pictures of rebel girls on the open road. Bengal brings us closer to pioneering artists and the personal and political stories surrounding their images. She travels with Alec Soth in Minneapolis, searching for the houses where Prince once lived, and revisits Chauncey Hare’s 1979 protest against the Museum of Modern Art. She speaks with Dawoud Bey about his evocative portraits and explores Diana Markosian’s cinematic take on her family’s immigration to the US. Throughout Strange Hours, Bengal’s prose is attuned to the alchemy of experience, chance, and vision that has always pushed photography’s potential for unforgettable storytelling.
Theory of Photography
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In this volume, Graciela Iturbide—known for her portraits and landscapes imbued with poetic ambiguity and documentary truth—explores photographing in ways that employ a deeply personal vision, while also reflecting subjects’ rich cultural backgrounds. Aperture works with the world’s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on(...)
Theory of Photography
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Graciela Iturbide on dreams, symbols, and imagination
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In this volume, Graciela Iturbide—known for her portraits and landscapes imbued with poetic ambiguity and documentary truth—explores photographing in ways that employ a deeply personal vision, while also reflecting subjects’ rich cultural backgrounds. Aperture works with the world’s top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography—offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Through images and words, Iturbide shares her creative process and artistic inspirations, and discusses a wide range of issues, from the importance of surprise and recognizing what speaks to you, to capturing symbolism and meaning in the everyday
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Photography after capitalism
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In ''Photography after capitalism,'' Benedict Burbridge makes the case for a radically expanded conception of photography, encompassing the types of labor too often obscured by black-boxed technologies, slick platform interfaces, and the compulsion to display lives to others. His lively and polemical analysis of today's vernacular photographic cultures shines new light on(...)
Photography after capitalism
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In ''Photography after capitalism,'' Benedict Burbridge makes the case for a radically expanded conception of photography, encompassing the types of labor too often obscured by black-boxed technologies, slick platform interfaces, and the compulsion to display lives to others. His lively and polemical analysis of today's vernacular photographic cultures shines new light on the hidden work of smartphone assembly teams, digital content moderators, Street View car drivers, Google "Scan-Ops,"low-paid gallery interns, homeless participant photographers, and the photo-sharing masses.
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Dopostoria
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Who owns the past? Are museum archives and their re-collections of cultural heritage a cult of the dead-and if so, are we living in a necropolis? This book on photography, cemeteries, and the archive evolved out of an experimental research project at the Bibliotheca Hertzianain Rome, with its immense collection of canonic photographs from the history of art and(...)
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Dopostoria
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Who owns the past? Are museum archives and their re-collections of cultural heritage a cult of the dead-and if so, are we living in a necropolis? This book on photography, cemeteries, and the archive evolved out of an experimental research project at the Bibliotheca Hertzianain Rome, with its immense collection of canonic photographs from the history of art and architecture. An artist's book, it takes on the form of a description of an unfinished film in five acts-a cinematic fragment, so to speak: ''DOPOSTORIA.'' The title essay by Christoph Keller is complemented by two contributions on burial cultures in prehistory and in modernity from the archaeologist Maria Clara Martinelli and the modern historian Carolin Kosuch. A sequence of collages at the back of the book conjures up a phantasmagorical journey through an ancient-modern Rome.
Sur la photographie
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« Tout a débuté par un essai, consacré à quelques uns des problèmes esthétiques, et moraux, que pose l’omniprésence des images photographiques : mais plus je réfléchissais à la nature des photographies, plus elles devenaient complexes et suggestives. Si bien qu’un essai en engendra un autre, qui à son tour (à mon grand étonnement), en engendra un troisième, et ainsi de(...)
Sur la photographie
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« Tout a débuté par un essai, consacré à quelques uns des problèmes esthétiques, et moraux, que pose l’omniprésence des images photographiques : mais plus je réfléchissais à la nature des photographies, plus elles devenaient complexes et suggestives. Si bien qu’un essai en engendra un autre, qui à son tour (à mon grand étonnement), en engendra un troisième, et ainsi de suite, chacun ajoutant un maillon à une chaîne d’essais sur le sens et la vie des photographies, jusqu’à ce que je fusse allée assez loin pour que le développement esquissé dans le premier essai, étayé puis prolongé dans les suivants, pût être récapitulé et généralisé de façon plus théorique. Et trouver son terme. […] Ecrire sur la photographie, c’est écrire sur le monde. Et ces essais sont en fait une méditation prolongée sur la nature de notre modernité. » (Susan Sontag)
La maladie comme métaphore
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Dans ces deux essais complémentaires, à partir de métaphores suscitées par la tuberculose, le cancer ou le sida, Susan Sontag propose une réflexion sur la propension qu’a l’homme à s’emparer d’une maladie pour y greffer les métaphores les moins innocentes. Nourrie de culture historique, littéraire, philosophique, cette analyse embrasse sources médicales ou psychiatriques(...)
La maladie comme métaphore
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Dans ces deux essais complémentaires, à partir de métaphores suscitées par la tuberculose, le cancer ou le sida, Susan Sontag propose une réflexion sur la propension qu’a l’homme à s’emparer d’une maladie pour y greffer les métaphores les moins innocentes. Nourrie de culture historique, littéraire, philosophique, cette analyse embrasse sources médicales ou psychiatriques et textes littéraires, de l’Antiquité aux temps modernes. Sontag démystifie les fantasmes idéologiques qui démonisent certaines maladies et souligne à quel point le sida a réactivé le spectre de l’épidémie dont le monde moderne se croyait débarrassé. Certains en font la « peste » de notre temps, le châtiment infligé par Dieu aux groupes « déviants ». En dénonçant ce catastrophisme, Susan Sontag propose une réflexion extraordinaire d’intelligence. En creux, c’est l’Histoire de nos sociétés qui est donnée à lire.
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Devant la douleur des autres
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Dans cet essai rédigé au lendemain des attentats du 11 Septembre, Susan Sontag pose un regard neuf sur les emplois de la photographie devant les souffrances de la guerre. Près de quatre décennies après Sur la photographie, elle dessille une fois de plus les yeux de ses contemporains en s’interrogeant sur nos façons de voir et de représenter le monde. Les images « chocs »,(...)
Devant la douleur des autres
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Dans cet essai rédigé au lendemain des attentats du 11 Septembre, Susan Sontag pose un regard neuf sur les emplois de la photographie devant les souffrances de la guerre. Près de quatre décennies après Sur la photographie, elle dessille une fois de plus les yeux de ses contemporains en s’interrogeant sur nos façons de voir et de représenter le monde. Les images « chocs », omniprésentes, nous rapprochent-elles ou nous éloignent-elles de la réalité ? Nous aident-elles à comprendre les souffrances d’autrui, ou érigent-elles au contraire, entre notre oeil et ce qu’il voit, un mur d’indifférence ? Susan Sontag retrace l’évolution de la sensibilité collective face aux visions d’horreur auxquelles l’humanité ne cesse de se confronter, des tableaux de Goya aux charniers du Rwanda ou de Sarajevo en passant par les photographies de la guerre de Sécession, des tranchées de Verdun et des camps de la mort.
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This book deals with objects of migration on the central Mediterranean route. Traces of this phenomenon include objects left more or less voluntarily by migrant people along their journey, particularly upon arrival on the shores of Lampedusa and Sicily. Since 2013, hundreds of these objects have been retrieved by Massimo Ricciardo with his colleague Thomas Kilpper, and(...)
Encounters in an archive: Objects of migration / photo-objects of art history
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This book deals with objects of migration on the central Mediterranean route. Traces of this phenomenon include objects left more or less voluntarily by migrant people along their journey, particularly upon arrival on the shores of Lampedusa and Sicily. Since 2013, hundreds of these objects have been retrieved by Massimo Ricciardo with his colleague Thomas Kilpper, and are now part of the “Objects of Escape – Inventories of Migration’’ archive. These objects are functional to the journey, such as biscuit tins and water bottles, passports and nautical charts, but they also relate to identity and memory, such as family photographs, diaries, or a handful of earth from their homeland. In the installation “Objects of Migration, Photo-Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive,” Ricciardo creates a dialogue between selected objects from this archive and structures from the KHI Photothek on the other. The installation, which led to this book, raises a series of highly relevant questions about these ‘talking’ objects: who do they belong to? Are they part of the cultural heritage? What would be the appropriate artistic and curatorial approach if one decided to collect, archive, exhibit, transform them?
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