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Writing in the context of two Polaroid Corporation bankruptcies, not to mention the obsolescence of its film, Peter Buse argues that Polaroid was, and is, distinguished by its process—by the fact that, as the New York Times put it in 1947, “the camera does the rest.” Polaroid was often dismissed as a toy, but Buse takes it seriously, showing how it(...)
The camera does the rest: how Polaroid changed photography
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Writing in the context of two Polaroid Corporation bankruptcies, not to mention the obsolescence of its film, Peter Buse argues that Polaroid was, and is, distinguished by its process—by the fact that, as the New York Times put it in 1947, “the camera does the rest.” Polaroid was often dismissed as a toy, but Buse takes it seriously, showing how it encouraged photographic play as well as new forms of artistic practice. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Polaroid Corporation, Buse reveals Polaroid as photography at its most intimate, where the photographer, photograph, and subject sit in close proximity in both time and space—making Polaroid not only the perfect party camera but also the tool for frankly salacious pictures taking. Along the way, Buse tells the story of the Polaroid Corporation and its ultimately doomed hard-copy wager against the rising tide of digital imaging technology. He explores the continuities and the differences between Polaroid and digital, reflecting on what Polaroid can tell us about how we snap photos today. Richly illustrated, The Camera Does the Rest will delight historians, art critics, analog fanatics, photographers, and all those who miss the thrill of waiting to see what develops.
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From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travelers to doctored portraits of Chairman Mao and the avant-garde photographic performances of the post–Cultural Revolution era, photography in China has followed divergent paths. In this book, Wu Hung explores the multiple histories of photographic production in China, using them to tell a larger story about(...)
Zooming in: histories of photography in China
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From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travelers to doctored portraits of Chairman Mao and the avant-garde photographic performances of the post–Cultural Revolution era, photography in China has followed divergent paths. In this book, Wu Hung explores the multiple histories of photographic production in China, using them to tell a larger story about China’s shifting sociopolitical contexts and the different agendas, technologies, and aesthetics that have helped define its arts.
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The documentary impulse
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Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and(...)
The documentary impulse
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Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and science. Looking at photojournalism, war photography and work recording our culture, Franklin identifies some of its driving impulses: curiosity, outrage, reform and ritual; the search for evidence, for beauty, for therapy; and the immortalization of memory. As our understanding of 'documentary' continues to expand, Franklin considers photographic staging - where, perhaps, the future of the genre may lie: in search of truth over fact.
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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(...)
Théorie de la photographie
juin 2007, Montreal Kingston London Ithica
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.
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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.
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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(...)
Théorie de la photographie
octobre 2007, New York
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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What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In Eyewitnessing, Peter Burke reviews graphics, photographs, films and other media from many countries and periods and examines their pragmatic uses. This profusely illustrated book surveys the oppotunities and the challenges of using images to understand other times.
Eyewitnessing: The use of Images as Historical Evidence
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What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In Eyewitnessing, Peter Burke reviews graphics, photographs, films and other media from many countries and periods and examines their pragmatic uses. This profusely illustrated book surveys the oppotunities and the challenges of using images to understand other times.
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Artiste contemporain majeur, Sigmar Polke reste pourtant mal connu du public français. Interroger ses pratiques photographiques permet de mesurer l'importance d'expérimentations remontant aux années 1960. Xavier Domino nous présente, non sans humour, le large spectre des protocoles mis en œuvre et des résultats obtenus. À la description des éléments constitutifs de la (...)
Le photographique chez Sigmar Polke
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Artiste contemporain majeur, Sigmar Polke reste pourtant mal connu du public français. Interroger ses pratiques photographiques permet de mesurer l'importance d'expérimentations remontant aux années 1960. Xavier Domino nous présente, non sans humour, le large spectre des protocoles mis en œuvre et des résultats obtenus. À la description des éléments constitutifs de la «Polkographie», fait suite un «No medium's land» où voisinent photocopies et peintures; enfin, en «Photopolkie», le photographique ouvre à une compréhension globale de l'œuvre, et fonde son originalité, au croisement improbable du Pop Art et du post-modernisme.
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Théorie de la photographie
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Reproduced with stunning fidelity, this album takes us across Asia, Oceania, the Americas, the Arabic Lands and Africa. The introduction by Paul Theroux, one of the greatest travel writers, demonstrates just why these ‘visions of the faraway and the fantastic’ continue to have such a powerful appeal to us all. This remarkable compilation is not only for those who enjoy(...)
Théorie de la photographie
avril 2007, New York / London
Exotic postcards : the lure of distant lands
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Reproduced with stunning fidelity, this album takes us across Asia, Oceania, the Americas, the Arabic Lands and Africa. The introduction by Paul Theroux, one of the greatest travel writers, demonstrates just why these ‘visions of the faraway and the fantastic’ continue to have such a powerful appeal to us all. This remarkable compilation is not only for those who enjoy collecting postcards, but also for artists, historians, fashion and jewelry designers and anyone with a desire to travel and experience the exotic.
Théorie de la photographie