Fiona Tan: vox populi: Tokyo
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Following Vox Populi, Norway and Vox Populi, Sydney this is the third in the series of Vox Populi publications, each one presenting us with a social portrait of a people taken from images selected from personal and private family photo albums. Drawing on the documentary tradition, in combination with contemporary concerns of participation and egalitarianism, Vox Populi,(...)
Fiona Tan: vox populi: Tokyo
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Following Vox Populi, Norway and Vox Populi, Sydney this is the third in the series of Vox Populi publications, each one presenting us with a social portrait of a people taken from images selected from personal and private family photo albums. Drawing on the documentary tradition, in combination with contemporary concerns of participation and egalitarianism, Vox Populi, Tokyo continues this ever-expanding mappo mundi.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Looking encountering staging
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"Looking, Encountering, Staging" investigates the ways cultural practices (exhibitions, news reports, documentary photography, artistic and scientific discourses) stage their subjects and thus construct positions for their audiences. The contributors analyse how these positions come to be naturalized as 'given', or use strategies of staging, performing and(...)
Looking encountering staging
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"Looking, Encountering, Staging" investigates the ways cultural practices (exhibitions, news reports, documentary photography, artistic and scientific discourses) stage their subjects and thus construct positions for their audiences. The contributors analyse how these positions come to be naturalized as 'given', or use strategies of staging, performing and re-theatricalization to rethink the role of the artist or curator as mediator and to relocate the viewer
Contemporary Art Monographs
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A teacher, an architect and critic, Moneo now turns his analytical eye to his own work. Twenty-one carefully selected projects are presented in detail, from the initial idea and through construction to the completed work and illustrated by a suite of new color images by architectural photographer Michael Moran. These are combined with Moneo’s own drawings as well as(...)
Rafael Moneo: remarks on 21 works
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A teacher, an architect and critic, Moneo now turns his analytical eye to his own work. Twenty-one carefully selected projects are presented in detail, from the initial idea and through construction to the completed work and illustrated by a suite of new color images by architectural photographer Michael Moran. These are combined with Moneo’s own drawings as well as informal documentary material from the design of each of the projects.
Architecture Monographs
Rebel video: the video movement of the 1970s amd 1980s. London -- Bern -- Lausanne -- Basel -- Zuric
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"Rebel Video" portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents the topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and fleshed out with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book(...)
Rebel video: the video movement of the 1970s amd 1980s. London -- Bern -- Lausanne -- Basel -- Zuric
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"Rebel Video" portrays protagonists of this activist movement in London, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, and Zurich. It documents the topics and concerns these creative rowdies picked up and the lasting effect their work has until today. Richly illustrated and fleshed out with brief essays by expert authors on specific aspects of film documentary and video art, the book demonstrates and illuminates the significance and manifold facets of the community media movement.
Art Theory
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The French philosopher Felix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the "machinic eros" of Japanese culture put him into contact with media theorists such as Tetsuo Kogawa and activists within the mini-FM community (Radio Home Run), documentary filmmakers (Mitsuo(...)
Machinic Eros: writings on Japan
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The French philosopher Felix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the "machinic eros" of Japanese culture put him into contact with media theorists such as Tetsuo Kogawa and activists within the mini-FM community (Radio Home Run), documentary filmmakers (Mitsuo Sato), photographers (Keiichi Tahara), novelists (Kobo Abe), internationally recognized architects (Shin Takamatsu), and dancers (Min Tanaka).
Critical Theory
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The Smith Tapes transcribes, for the first time ever, sixty-one of those recorded sessions, from an archive of more than one hundred fifty reels unearthed after more than forty years. Edited by documentary film writer and director/producer Ezra Bookstein, this book reveals the time capsule that Smith ingeniously captured, and contains raw and unscripted talks that take(...)
The Smith tapes: lost Interviews with rock stars & icons 1969-1972
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The Smith Tapes transcribes, for the first time ever, sixty-one of those recorded sessions, from an archive of more than one hundred fifty reels unearthed after more than forty years. Edited by documentary film writer and director/producer Ezra Bookstein, this book reveals the time capsule that Smith ingeniously captured, and contains raw and unscripted talks that take you right into the midst of a transformative cultural and musical explosion.
Acoustics
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Many of the images that have came to sum up the twentieth century, the most turbulent in human history, belong to the realist tradition of photography. At once objective and polemical, disengaged and yet concerned, the documentary photograph has not merely recorded, but also shaped the way we see our world. Over 200 photographs are reproduced in this(...)
Cruel and tender : the real in the twentieth-century photography
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Many of the images that have came to sum up the twentieth century, the most turbulent in human history, belong to the realist tradition of photography. At once objective and polemical, disengaged and yet concerned, the documentary photograph has not merely recorded, but also shaped the way we see our world. Over 200 photographs are reproduced in this book,together with essays and biographies of the photographers featured.
Theory of Photography
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Decoys and Disruptions is the first comprehensive collection of writings by American artist and critic Martha Rosler. Best known for her videos and photography, Rosler has also been an original and influential cultural critic and theorist for over twenty-five years. The writings collected here address such key topics as documentary photography, feminist art, video,(...)
Decoys and disruptions : selected writings 1975-2001
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Decoys and Disruptions is the first comprehensive collection of writings by American artist and critic Martha Rosler. Best known for her videos and photography, Rosler has also been an original and influential cultural critic and theorist for over twenty-five years. The writings collected here address such key topics as documentary photography, feminist art, video, government patronage of the arts, censorship, and the future of digitally based photographic media.
Art Theory
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The modern house today
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"The Modern House Today" follows on from F.R.S. Yorke's book of 1934, The Modern House, and considers the impact of modern architects such as Kubetkin, Gropius, Mendelsohn, Chermayeff, Breuer, Hill and Goldfinger. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the modern house through both newly commissioned photography and documentary records, both of which are written(...)
The modern house today
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"The Modern House Today" follows on from F.R.S. Yorke's book of 1934, The Modern House, and considers the impact of modern architects such as Kubetkin, Gropius, Mendelsohn, Chermayeff, Breuer, Hill and Goldfinger. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the modern house through both newly commissioned photography and documentary records, both of which are written and commented upon by the architectural historian Kenneth Powell. Photography by Nick Dawe.
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Residential Architecture
But still, it turns
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With 'But Still, It Turns', Paul Graham curates a subtle thesis and revitalising manifesto for photography. The dynamic and diverse work gathered here advocates an unashamed, but not uncomplicated, dedication to the brilliant tangle of reality. Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of conventional documentary, these artists tell(...)
But still, it turns
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With 'But Still, It Turns', Paul Graham curates a subtle thesis and revitalising manifesto for photography. The dynamic and diverse work gathered here advocates an unashamed, but not uncomplicated, dedication to the brilliant tangle of reality. Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of conventional documentary, these artists tell open-ended stories that shift, warp, and branch, attuned unfailingly to life-as-it-is.
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