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This comprehensive book traces the origins and progression of photography from its humble beginnings in daguerreotypes to the gradual mastering of photographic portraits, techniques, and negatives. The wider use of photography in journalism, for documenting architecture and art movements, and its capacity to produce piercing perspectives on the social and political(...)
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A history of photography : the Musée d'Orsay collection, 1839-1925
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This comprehensive book traces the origins and progression of photography from its humble beginnings in daguerreotypes to the gradual mastering of photographic portraits, techniques, and negatives. The wider use of photography in journalism, for documenting architecture and art movements, and its capacity to produce piercing perspectives on the social and political climate of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are all carefully evaluated, as well as the work of amateurs such as Zola who tried their hand at this revolutionary art form. Twenty-five years after the inauguration of France’s first permanent exhibition devoted solely to photography, the Musée d’Orsay continues in its innovative and original thread. This book bears testimony to the unique nature of the museum’s collection, noted for its rare finds, their quality, and the sheer number of works it holds (more than fifty-five thousand). The collection’s most-treasured works are exposed here, including a portrait of Baudelaire by Nadar and the recently acquired portrait of Man Ray by Stieglitz.
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Spirit photography, or the ability to photograph spiritual entities, was an integral part of the development of photography and is most identified with the late 19th century. Today, artists are returning to this practice in order to show that photography attests not only to the visible but to the invisible world. This publication, accompanied by the work of a wide range(...)
La photographie hantée par la photographie spirite
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Spirit photography, or the ability to photograph spiritual entities, was an integral part of the development of photography and is most identified with the late 19th century. Today, artists are returning to this practice in order to show that photography attests not only to the visible but to the invisible world. This publication, accompanied by the work of a wide range of Quebec artists - including Serge Clément, Sorel Cohen, Denis Farley, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Richard-Max Tremblay and Éliane Excoffier - seeks to show that photography can still make ghosts appear before our very eyes.
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Vivant entre l'Europe, les États-Unis et le Brésil, Sylvio Perlstein fait partie de ces grands collectionneurs d'art aussi réputés que discrets. Passionné de photographie, il a rassemblé un ensemble exceptionnel de tirages des années 1920 à aujourd'hui ; des chefs-d'oeuvre célèbres ou des trésors méconnus présentés ensemble pour la première fois au public. Catalogue de(...)
La photographie n'est pas l'art, la collection photographique Silvio Perlstein
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Vivant entre l'Europe, les États-Unis et le Brésil, Sylvio Perlstein fait partie de ces grands collectionneurs d'art aussi réputés que discrets. Passionné de photographie, il a rassemblé un ensemble exceptionnel de tirages des années 1920 à aujourd'hui ; des chefs-d'oeuvre célèbres ou des trésors méconnus présentés ensemble pour la première fois au public. Catalogue de l'exposition "La photographie n'est pas l'art, collection de Sylvio Perlstein" présentée au musée des Beaux-arts d'Ixelles, Belgique (octobre 2009 - jananvier 2010), puis au Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (février - avril 2010).
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Unmapping the City, the first title in the new Intellect series Critical Photography, features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in different cities around the world. The images are linked by their shared attempts to define a two-dimensional approach to a three-dimensional built reality, and to address spatial representation, ritual, and urbanity through art. In(...)
Unmapping the city: Perspectives of flatness
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Unmapping the City, the first title in the new Intellect series Critical Photography, features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in different cities around the world. The images are linked by their shared attempts to define a two-dimensional approach to a three-dimensional built reality, and to address spatial representation, ritual, and urbanity through art. In representing the cityscape through a flat texture of lines and bold colors, the reader is drawn into a conversation about the interplay between reality and its representation. This volume challenges and expands the critical discourse on photography and text and will be of interest to artists, curators, photographers, architects, and critical theorists.
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Since the rise of the photographic medium in the late 19th century, people have been fascinated by the camera’s ability to record striking moments both public and private. Photography has long served to capture not only the posed portrait but also the personal, the intimate, the unexpected, and the taboo. This fascinating book examines the ways in which acts of voyeurism(...)
Exposed: voyeurism, surveillance, and the camera since 1870
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Since the rise of the photographic medium in the late 19th century, people have been fascinated by the camera’s ability to record striking moments both public and private. Photography has long served to capture not only the posed portrait but also the personal, the intimate, the unexpected, and the taboo. This fascinating book examines the ways in which acts of voyeurism and surveillance have inspired, challenged, and expanded the medium of photography throughout its evolution. Featuring photography by Sophie Calle, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Harun Farocki, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Weegee, among others, Exposed chronicles the artistic, political, and even moral dilemmas that underlie some of these artists’ best known works.
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This in-depth look at six postwar photographers, alongwith a selection of their predecessors and contemporaries, captures a unique and pivotal moment in American photographic history. World War II and its aftermath ushered in a new era of artistic expression. Abstract Expressionism, film noir, Beat poetry, and the New Journalism are often considered responses to war's(...)
Street seen: the psychological gesture in American photography, 1940-1959
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This in-depth look at six postwar photographers, alongwith a selection of their predecessors and contemporaries, captures a unique and pivotal moment in American photographic history. World War II and its aftermath ushered in a new era of artistic expression. Abstract Expressionism, film noir, Beat poetry, and the New Journalism are often considered responses to war's shocking realities. Creative photographers responded to the same situation with images that broke the rules of conventional photographic technique. This publication, a companion volume to an exhibition, highlights six photographers who were prominent during and immediately following the war. Lisette Model's unflinching look at the urban environment; Louis Faurer's portraits of eccentrics in Times Square; Ted Croner's haunting night images; Saul Leiter's evocative glimpses of daily life; William Klein's graphic, confrontational style; and Robert Frank's documentation of American ideals gone awry-these and other beautifully reproduced photographs communicate the emotional resonance of everyday life in postwar America.
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes parus et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie, premier procédé d'enregistrement, il n'a cessé de se réinventer,(...)
Walker Evans dans le temps et dans l'histoire
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes parus et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie, premier procédé d'enregistrement, il n'a cessé de se réinventer, entre oeuvre et activité.
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes parus et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie, premier procédé d'enregistrement, il n'a cessé de se réinventer,(...)
Entre les beaux-arts et les médias: photographie et art moderne
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Cette somme rassemble un choix de textes parus et inédits, fruit de trente années de recherche sur l'art du dix-neuvième siècle à nos jours. L'art moderne a renouvelé les modes de perception, les définitions et les hiérarchies, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe des formes ; depuis l'invention de la photographie, premier procédé d'enregistrement, il n'a cessé de se réinventer, entre oeuvre et activité.
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Athens, still remains
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Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-François Bonhomme. First published in French and Greek in 1996, Athens, Still Remains is Derrida’s most sustained analysis of the photographic medium in relationship to the history of philosophy and his most personal reflection on that medium.(...)
Athens, still remains
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Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-François Bonhomme. First published in French and Greek in 1996, Athens, Still Remains is Derrida’s most sustained analysis of the photographic medium in relationship to the history of philosophy and his most personal reflection on that medium. At once photographic analysis, philosophical essay, and autobiographical narrative, this book presents an original theory of photography and throws a fascinating light on Derrida’s life and work.
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This special issue of positions analyzes how the creation and proliferation of photographic images in East Asia affect global perceptions of the region's gender, ethnic, historical, and cultural identities. The contributors assess the ways that East Asia's relationship to the world and to its own past are increasingly mediated by the global circulation of visual images.(...)
Photography's places: Positions East Asia cultures critique
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This special issue of positions analyzes how the creation and proliferation of photographic images in East Asia affect global perceptions of the region's gender, ethnic, historical, and cultural identities. The contributors assess the ways that East Asia's relationship to the world and to its own past are increasingly mediated by the global circulation of visual images. They approach photography as both an object and medium of cultural critique.
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