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Camera Indica : The Social Life of Indian Photographs
Christopher Pinney
Paperback - $65.95
A wedding couple gazes resolutely out at the viewer from the wings of a butterfly, a commemorative portrait of a deceased boy surrounded by rose petals - such moving and quiet images represent the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, a ...
The Photograph : A Strange, Confined Space
Mary Price
Paperback - $49.95
This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases, that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that the use of a photograph determines its meaning.
Light in Dark Room : Photography and Loss
Jay Prosser
Paperback - $38.95
When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory's loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but "memento mori: reminders of the fact of death ...
A World History of Photography
Naomi Rosenblum
Paperback - $96.95
Photography has affected the other visual arts to a profound degree. Now accepted for itself as a visual statement with its own aesthetic character, the photograph had an earlier role in replicating and popularizing artistic expression in other media ...
Picturing Place : Photography and the Geographical Imagination
Joan M. Schwartz
Paperback - $66.95
The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their communities, and the world beyond. The geographical imagination-- the ability to know the world and situ ...
Photography on the South Texas Frontier : Images from the Witte Museum Collection
Bruce M. Shackelford
Hardcover - $60.95
Compelling images of people in a region that in many ways remains a frontier fill the pages of this survey of photography in South Texas. The photographs, most published for the first time, are from the top-ranked collection of San Antonios Witte Mus ...
Roland Barthes on Photography : The Critical Tradition in Perspective
Nancy Shawcross
Hardcover - $109.95
Nancy Shawcross places Barthes' thought on photography in the context of his developing ideas about semiology, tracking origins, rejections, and departures. She shows Barthes' affinities with and distinction from other theorists of photography such a ...
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Paperback - $23.95
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as " a progress of essays about the meaning and career of p ...
Deep Light
Daniel Spanke
Hardcover - $54.95
Featuring photographic series by Zofia Kulik, Peter Schlor, Michael Schnabel, Ingolf Timpner and Adam Thompson, this small volume examines the color black--the shade of darkness, of evil, of mourning, the opposite of light, of color itself. Here, it ...
Over Exposed : Essays on Contemporary Photography
Carol Squiers
Paperback - $32.95
A group of distinguished photographers, critics, and cultural historians examine the many roles of photography in contemporary Western culture, covering questions about representation, sexual politics, public policy, and cultural activism. 40 photos.