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This elegant volume features eighty highlights of th SFMOMA collection, from nineteenth-century daguerreotypes and turn-of-the-century pictorialist works to ground-breaking works by the f.64 Group, experimental European photographs from the 1920s and '30s, works in the American documentary tradition, and contemporary color images.
Picturing modernity : highlights from the photography collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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This elegant volume features eighty highlights of th SFMOMA collection, from nineteenth-century daguerreotypes and turn-of-the-century pictorialist works to ground-breaking works by the f.64 Group, experimental European photographs from the 1920s and '30s, works in the American documentary tradition, and contemporary color images.
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March 1999, San Francisco
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This book presents Brasser's photos of 59 desolate stations built along the Geisterbahn, an abandoned tramway in Berlin, before the renovation associated with reunification changed their character.
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January 1900, Amsterdam
Fons Brasser : Berlin Geisterbahn
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This book presents Brasser's photos of 59 desolate stations built along the Geisterbahn, an abandoned tramway in Berlin, before the renovation associated with reunification changed their character.
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January 1900, Amsterdam
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For many people, the name Porto Marghera conjures up images of pollution and the damage done by industry to the environment. Partly in disuse, Porto Marghera is a fascinating industrial area which up to now has been inaccessible to the general public. Fifteen Italian photographers were invited to take part in the project to record the very unusual urban(...)
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June 1997, Milan
Venezia Marghera : photography and transformations in the contemporary city
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For many people, the name Porto Marghera conjures up images of pollution and the damage done by industry to the environment. Partly in disuse, Porto Marghera is a fascinating industrial area which up to now has been inaccessible to the general public. Fifteen Italian photographers were invited to take part in the project to record the very unusual urban landscape of Porto Marghera, a decisive area for the future of Venice which is on the threshold of profound changes. With an introduction by Phyllis Lambert.
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June 1997, Milan
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Catalogue for an exhibition of ninety 19th-century photographs drawn principally from the collection of Michael G. Wilson. Included are the photographs of Sergeant James McDonald's survey of Palestine and Jerusalem, recently discovered photographs by Ernest Benecke, and the rare photographs taken by Maxime Du Camp as he travelled with Flaubert. With an(...)
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October 1997, Santa Barbara
Revealing the holy land : the photographic exploration of Palestine
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Catalogue for an exhibition of ninety 19th-century photographs drawn principally from the collection of Michael G. Wilson. Included are the photographs of Sergeant James McDonald's survey of Palestine and Jerusalem, recently discovered photographs by Ernest Benecke, and the rare photographs taken by Maxime Du Camp as he travelled with Flaubert. With an introduction by Nitza Rosovsky.
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October 1997, Santa Barbara
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New objectivity : August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bernd and Hilla Becher
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By presenting the systematic approaches to photo-documentation as practised by these 20th century German photographers, this book examines the differences and similarities in their work.
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September 1997, Munich
New objectivity : August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bernd and Hilla Becher
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By presenting the systematic approaches to photo-documentation as practised by these 20th century German photographers, this book examines the differences and similarities in their work.
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September 1997, Munich
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Taking up where "Notations in Passing" left off, "Riding 1st Class on the Titanic" encompasses Nathan Lyons's work from 1974 to the present. Like the earlier book, this one consists primarily of a series of paired images, beautifully sequenced by the photographer, with very little (...)
Riding 1st Class on the Titanic : photographs by Nathan Lyons
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Taking up where "Notations in Passing" left off, "Riding 1st Class on the Titanic" encompasses Nathan Lyons's work from 1974 to the present. Like the earlier book, this one consists primarily of a series of paired images, beautifully sequenced by the photographer, with very little text. Found language, such as that on building facades and signs, plays a prominent role in many of the sequences. The book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, contains a foreword by Adam Weinberg, Director of the Addison Gallery, and an essay by Leroy Searle. The title refers to the paradox of the Titanic, a symbol of invulnerability that became the carrier of our ultimate vulnerability. Lyons's work investigates the value systems that we have embraced, only to discover that their elusive meanings do more to challenge our belief systems than to reinforce them.
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January 1960, Cambridge, Mass.
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Accompanying the British Army during its decisive foray into China in 1860, Felice Beato was the first photographer to document a military campaign in progress. He captured not only the immediacy of war, the aftermath of battle, and strategic military positions, but also the sumptuous new Summer Palace before its destruction by the British. His(...)
Of battle and beauty : Felice Beato's photographs of China
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Accompanying the British Army during its decisive foray into China in 1860, Felice Beato was the first photographer to document a military campaign in progress. He captured not only the immediacy of war, the aftermath of battle, and strategic military positions, but also the sumptuous new Summer Palace before its destruction by the British. His photographic record of the Second Opium War consisted of approximately 100 images, including a number of panoramic views, which survive in the form of private albums orignally compiled by British officers as a record of their victorious campaign. In addition to providing a strikingly beautiful glimpse of nineteenth-century China, these images also reveal how photography functioned as an integral component of British imperialism by shaping perceptions about a distant country and its culture. This publication accompanies a major exhibition of Beato's work in China.
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November 1999, Santa Barbara
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Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith’s ''The Wealth of Nations'' and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s ''The Communist Manifesto.'' Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays collected here investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask(...)
Capitalism and the camera: essays on photography and extraction
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Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith’s ''The Wealth of Nations'' and Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s ''The Communist Manifesto.'' Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays collected here investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalism’s violence—and if so, how? Drawn together in productive disagreement, the essays in this collection explore the relationship of photography to resource extraction and capital accumulation, from 1492 to the postcolonial; the camera’s potential to make visible critical understandings of capitalist production and society, especially economies of class and desire; and the ways the camera and the image can be used to build cultural and political counterpublics from which a democratic struggle against capitalism might emerge.
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Berenice Abbot (1898–1991) is best known for her work in the fields of architecture, portraiture, and science. She first learned photography in Paris, as an assistant to Man Ray. It was at his studio where she also encountered work by Eugène Atget (1857–1927), who in turn played an influential role in her practice. Abbot was committed to modernity and capturing the poetry(...)
Berenice Abbott: selected writings
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Berenice Abbot (1898–1991) is best known for her work in the fields of architecture, portraiture, and science. She first learned photography in Paris, as an assistant to Man Ray. It was at his studio where she also encountered work by Eugène Atget (1857–1927), who in turn played an influential role in her practice. Abbot was committed to modernity and capturing the poetry of the moment, whether through inventing new techniques for taking pictures of physics experiments or shooting the streets of New York. This book casts a fascinating look back at her writings, combining precise instructions and theoretical content in texts aimed towards either professionals or amateurs.
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In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to them. They could take in the vista from an observation ride, see a painting of the view from Notre-Dame, or overlook a miniature model city. In Aeroscopics, Patrick Ellis offers(...)
Aeroscopics: Media of the bird's-eye view
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In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible, those who sought such vantages had countless options available to them. They could take in the vista from an observation ride, see a painting of the view from Notre-Dame, or overlook a miniature model city. In Aeroscopics, Patrick Ellis offers a history of the view from above, written from below. Illustrated and premised upon extensive archival work, this interdisciplinary study reveals the forgotten media available to the public in the Balloon Era and after. Ellis resurrects these neglected spectacles as "aeroscopics," opening up new possibilities for the history of aerial vision.
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