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Loin d'un surréalisme onirique, ce recueil de textes montre le rôle de la photographie dans les stratégies du mouvement emmené par André Breton. La puissance du document assure, dans les années 1920-1930, le passage d'une culture artistique à une culture politique. Pour parvenir à cette conversion, la photographie donne une vision concrète des concepts surréalistes en(...)
L'image au service de la révolution : photographie, surréalisme, politique
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Loin d'un surréalisme onirique, ce recueil de textes montre le rôle de la photographie dans les stratégies du mouvement emmené par André Breton. La puissance du document assure, dans les années 1920-1930, le passage d'une culture artistique à une culture politique. Pour parvenir à cette conversion, la photographie donne une vision concrète des concepts surréalistes en prenant pour modèle les révolutions scientifiques. L’image mentale devient, grâce à Dali, Brassaï ou encore Man Ray, une force objective susceptible d’engager l’avant-garde dans la grande histoire.
Theory of Photography
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Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic. Should it be? In Scissors, Paper, Stone Martha Langford explores the nature of memory and art. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool of perception by arguing that photographic works are products of the mind - picturing memory is, first and foremost, the expression of a(...)
Theory of Photography
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Scissors, paper, stone : Expressions of memory in contemporary photographic art
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Making a connection between photography and memory is almost automatic. Should it be? In Scissors, Paper, Stone Martha Langford explores the nature of memory and art. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool of perception by arguing that photographic works are products of the mind - picturing memory is, first and foremost, the expression of a mental process. Langford organizes the book around the conceit of the child's game scissors, paper, stone, using it to ground her discussion of the tensions between remembering and forgetting, the intersection of memory and imagination, and the relationship between memory and history. Scissors, Paper, Stone explores the great variety of photographic art produced by Canadian artists as expressions of memory. Their work, including images by Carl Beam, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Donigan Cumming, Stan Denniston, Robert Houle, Robert Minden, Michael Snow, Diana Thorneycroft, Jeff Wall, and Jin-me Yoon, is presented as part of a rich interdisciplinary study of contemporary photography and how it has shaped modern memory.
Theory of Photography
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This volume presents more than 150 works from the collection of the Miami-raised and New York-based collector, art dealer and curator Charles Cowles. Spanning the breadth of modern photographic history from the early twentieth-century to the present, these works display a broad range of styles, processes and aesthetic intentions and an impressive number of concentrated(...)
Modern Photographs : The machine the body and the city
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This volume presents more than 150 works from the collection of the Miami-raised and New York-based collector, art dealer and curator Charles Cowles. Spanning the breadth of modern photographic history from the early twentieth-century to the present, these works display a broad range of styles, processes and aesthetic intentions and an impressive number of concentrated strengths--featuring works by Atget, Arbus, Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston, Evans, Hockney, Frank, Mapplethorpe, Ruscha, Schorr, Sherman, Sugimoto, Warhol, Weegee and Winogrand, among many others. Renowned photography critic Andy Grundberg presents a precise analysis of the collection along with studied observations about the nature of photography and how it has become the art form that it is today. Cowles provides an engaging inside look at the development of a collection in an era when photography gained acceptance as an acknowledged art form. And Miami Art Museum Director Terence Riley contributes an introduction.
Theory of Photography
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Après les succès de Vitamine P et Vitamine D, deux ouvrages témoignant respectivement, du dynamisme de la peinture, puis de celui du dessin, au sein de la création artistique la plus récente, Vitamine Ph administre une dose supplémentaire de vitalité artistique, en offrant d explorer la place prépondérante du médium photographique dans les arts visuels aujourd hui.(...)
Vitamine Ph : nouvelles perspectives en photographie
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Après les succès de Vitamine P et Vitamine D, deux ouvrages témoignant respectivement, du dynamisme de la peinture, puis de celui du dessin, au sein de la création artistique la plus récente, Vitamine Ph administre une dose supplémentaire de vitalité artistique, en offrant d explorer la place prépondérante du médium photographique dans les arts visuels aujourd hui. "Vitamine Ph : nouvelles perspective en photographie", présente ainsi les travaux photographiques de 121 artistes, originaires de plus de trente pays différents, et sélectionnés par un comité international composé d éminents critiques, commissaires d exposition et directeurs de musées. L'introduction à cette sélection audacieuse, TJ Demos examine l'évolution de la pratique photographique par les artistes qui en repoussent toujours plus loin les limites. Les artistes de Vitamine Ph renouvellent et réinventent ainsi les genres photographiques - de la photographie documentaire à celle dite «artistique», de la photographie héritée de l art conceptuel mêlant images et texte à la photographie «performative». Sont présents les travaux d artistes établis tels que ceux de Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, ou Peter Fraser comme ceux des figures montantes parmi lesquelles, Anri Sala, Tim Lee, et les français Ito Barrada et Valérie Belin.
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The vitality of New York City, its energy, ambition and beauty, has long inspired great photographers, from Berenice Abbott to Garry Winogrand, from Lisette Model to Lee Friedlander. Composed of works selected from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Life of the City celebrates the great and continuing tradition of photography about New York. Featuring work by(...)
Life of the city: New York photographs from the museum of modern art
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The vitality of New York City, its energy, ambition and beauty, has long inspired great photographers, from Berenice Abbott to Garry Winogrand, from Lisette Model to Lee Friedlander. Composed of works selected from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Life of the City celebrates the great and continuing tradition of photography about New York. Featuring work by Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz, Weegee and many others, and including a chapter of writings by notable observers of the city, the book explores the drama of New York's architecture, ranging from cavernous brick canyons and towering stone pinnacles to humble storefronts and tenements.
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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.
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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.
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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(...)
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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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