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The Pivot of the World : Photography and Its Nation
Blake Stimson
Paperback - $37.95
The old dream of social belonging and political sovereignty--the dream of nation--was fraught with anxiety and contradiction for many artists and intellectuals in the 1950s. On the one hand, memories of the Second World War remained vivid and the cha ...
Between the Eyes : Essays on Photography and Politics
David Levi Strauss
Hardcover - $49.95
Persuasive and Poetic Writing On Photography and Photographers
"In Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography, David Levi Strauss tackles subjects ranging from "Photography and Propaganda" to the imagery of dreams; from Sebastiao Salgado's epic soci ...
Truth and Photography : Notes on Looking and Photographing
Jerry L. Thompson
Hardcover - $45.95
Essays by one of the great, classical, American portrait photographers of this era. Move over Susan Sontag! --Michael Lesy. Not only are Jerry Thompson's essays beautifully composed, but their complete success in aligning so much precise observation ...
Classic Essays on Photography
Alan Trachtenberg
Paperback - $27.95
Thirty essays that embody the history of photography. Contributors include Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston, Abbot, Barthes, and others.
At the Edge of the Light at the Edge of the Light : Thoughts on Photography & Photographers, Talent & Genius Thoughts on Photography & Photographers, T
David Travis
Hardcover - $49.95
Shooting from the Hip : Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America
Patricia Vettel-Becker
Paperback - $33.95
In Shooting from the Hip, Patricia Vettel-Becker reveals how photography helped to reconstruct and redefine the American idea of masculinity after the traumas of World War II. She argues that from 1945 to 1960 photography became increasingly concerne ...
Jeff Wall : Exposure
Jeff Wall
Paperback - $62.95
"Jeff Wall: Exposure" introduces four new large-scale black-and-white photographs by the Canadian artist Jeff Wall. Presented publicly for the first time in an accompanying special exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, this new work is sho ...