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  • The Disciplinary Frame

    Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning

    de John Tagg ...
    Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph become fixed? In The Disciplinary Frame, John Tagg claims that, to answer these questions, we must ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Instruction Myth

    Why Higher Education is Hard to Change, and How to Change It

    de John Tagg ...
    Higher education is broken, and we haven’t been able to fix it. Even in the face of great and growing dysfunction, it seems resistant to fundamental change. At this point, can anything be done to save it?The Instruction Myth argues that yes, higher education can be reformed and reinvigorated, but it will not be an easy process. In fact, it will require universities to abandon their central ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Ongoing Moment

    de Geoff Dyer ...
    Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both.Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston have photographed the same things—barber shops, benches, hands, roads, signs—award-winning writer Geoff Dyer seeks to ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance

    Edición de Judith Rugg, Michèle Sedgwick ...
    Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, the book's ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Vivian Maier

    A Photographer's Life and Afterlife

    de Pamela Bannos ...
    "Look[s] past the mystique of the 'eccentric nanny with a camera' to tell the true Maier story . . . [An] extraordinary work." — Library JournalWho was Vivian Maier? Many know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Big Feet, Small Feet : Book of Prehistoric Animals for Kids

    Prehistoric Creatures Encyclopedia

    de Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Prehistoric History Books
    Encourage your child to open the pages of this book to meet the different kinds of prehistoric animals. Knowledge of these animals is very important in terms of helping a child understand the theory of evolution. By using images and color, learning becomes fun and much more effective. So go ahead and grab a copy of this educational book today! ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • About to Die

    How News Images Move the Public

    de Barbie Zelizer ...
    Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the world "as it is" or is the image a fabrication or ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves

    Vintage American Photographs

    de Ann-Janine Morey ...
    Series series Animalibus
    Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life—family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love—as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, subservience, and violence. In Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves, Ann-Janine Morey presents a ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Ghost Image

    de Hervé Guibert ...
    Traducido por Robert Bononno ...
    " [A] memoir and love letter to the medium" containing essays on photography and artistic life from the French photographer and author ( Los Angeles Review of Books ).Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • I Love My Selfie

    de Ilan Stavans, Adál Maldonado ...
    What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Inadvertent Images

    A History of Photographic Apparitions

    de Peter Geimer ...
    As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. With Inadvertent Images, Peter Geimer explores all kinds of photographic irritation from throughout the history of the medium, as well as ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Singular Images, Failed Copies

    William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph

    de Vered Maimon ...
    Focusing on early nineteenth-century England?and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot?Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change.Treating photography not merely as a medium or a system of representation but also as an epistemology, Vered Maimon challenges today’s ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD