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  1. Silent beauties
    photographs from the 1920s
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Blok, Leendert; Clément, Gilles
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783775740371; 3775740376
    Other identifier:
    9783775740371
    DDC Categories: 770; 580
    Subjects: Blok, Leendert; Pflanzenfotografie; Farbfotografie; Blume <Motiv>; Geschichte 1925-1930;
    Other subjects: Blok, Leendert; Fotografie; photography; Hardcover, Softcover / Sachbücher/Kunst, Literatur/Fotokunst
    Scope: 173 Seiten, 27 cm
  2. <<The>> alphabet of new plants
    photographische Pflanzenbilder
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Voit, Robert
    Language: German; English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783775740463; 3775740465
    DDC Categories: 770; 580
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Subjects: Voit, Robert; Makrofotografie; Schwarzweißfotografie; Pflanzendarstellung;
    Other subjects: Voit, Robert; Fotografie; photography
    Scope: 179 Seiten, 32 cm
    Notes:

    Enthält Literaturangaben

  3. <<The>> disabled body in contemporary art
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York ; ProQuest Ebook Central, [AnnArbor]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780230109971
    DDC Categories: 300
    Subjects: Behinderung <Motiv>; Anomalie <Medizin>; Amputation <Motiv>; Kunst; Geschichte 1880-2010;
    Other subjects: Image; photography; sculpting; Performing Arts; Arts; Fine Arts; Sociology, general; Medical Sociology
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (177 Seiten), Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [163]-172

  4. Sinisten maisemien mies : J. G. Granön tutkijantie 1882-1956
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    The man of blue landscapes describes the life and work of the Finnish geographer Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882–1956), whose career also reflected Finland’s development as a modern state. Granö was a scientific explorer, writer, a pioneer of Finnish... more

     

    The man of blue landscapes describes the life and work of the Finnish geographer Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882–1956), whose career also reflected Finland’s development as a modern state. Granö was a scientific explorer, writer, a pioneer of Finnish photographic art and a professor of geography at the universities of Tartu (Estonia), Helsinki and Turku. In Estonia he applied scientific method to the study of local history and from Tartu brought the tradition of urban research. Granö spent much of his youth in Omsk in western Siberia, where his father worked as a priest among displaced and deported Finns and Estonians. From 1906 to 1916 Granö made an expedition to Mongolia and the Altai mountains, but his fieldwork remained unfinished when the 1917 revolution broke out, the area was then closed to Western scholars for 70 years. Among Granö’s most important works are the classic travel book Altai, vaellusvuosina nähtyä ja elettyä (‘The Altai, seen and experienced during my years of travel’, 1921) and his methodological masterpiece Puhdas maantiede (‘Pure geography’, 1930). In it Granö outlined a theory of landscapes, and the book was a pioneering work ahead of its time: landscape was examined in terms of the relation between human beings and their environment, as the sum of all the senses.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Finnish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522229847; 9789522222923
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    Subjects: Individual photographers; Biography: general; Geography
    Other subjects: photography; geographers; explorers; scientists
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (541 p.)
  5. Nostalgia for the Present : Ethnography and Photography in a Moroccan Berber Village
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    Anthropology and photography have been linked since the nineteenth century, but their relationship has never been entirely comfortable—and has grown less so in recent years. Nostalgia for the Present aims to repair that relationship by involving... more

     

    Anthropology and photography have been linked since the nineteenth century, but their relationship has never been entirely comfortable—and has grown less so in recent years. Nostalgia for the Present aims to repair that relationship by involving intentional participants in an inclusive conversation; it is the fruit of a collaboration among an ethnographer, a photographer, a group of Moroccan farmers, and Abdelkrim Bamouh—a native intellectual whose deep understanding of rural Morocco made him not merely a translator but a facilitator of the dialogue. The result is an arresting portrait of everyday life in Tagharghist, a contemporary High Atlas village. The pictures are central, and the text bilt around them creates a dialogical form of visual ethnography. Nostalgia for the Present is both a memorialization of a people and a way of life, and a rich foray into the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration.

    The photos in this book evoke a sense of nostalgia, a longing, and the words explore the contexts and ambiguities that vitalize it. As the book concludes, nostalgia happens in our present, and is about our future. It is a call from our heart (or our liver, as villagers would say) to attend carefully to something we are leaving, something our gut tells us we ought to cherish and preserve, and bring with us on our inexorable march into the unknown.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Photographic reportage; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: photography; morocco; ethnography; Anthropology; Barley; Bart Simpson; Berbers; Mosque; Nostalgia
  6. Thomas Annan of Glasgow : Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the "Second City of the Empire,” a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes... more

     

    In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the "Second City of the Empire,” a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan’s photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accordance with the City of Glasgow Improvements Act of 1866, is widely recognized as a classic of nineteenth-century documentary photography. Annan’s achievement as a photographer of paintings and a portrait and landscape photographer is less widely known. Thomas Annan: Photographer of Victorian Scotland offers a handy, comprehensive and copiously illustrated overview of the full range of the photographer’s work. The book opens with a brief account of the immediate context of Annan’s career as a photographer: the astonishing florescence of photography in Victorian Scotland. Successive chapters deal with each of the main fields of his activity, touching along the way on issues such as the nineteenth-century debate over the status of photography — a mechanical practice or an artistic one? — and the still ongoing controversies surrounding the documentary photograph in particular. While the text itself is intended for the general reader, extensive endnotes amplify particular themes and offer guidance to readers interested in pursuing these themes further.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Photography & photographs; Individual photographers
    Other subjects: photography; victorian scotland; glasgow; portraits; thomas annan; documentary; landscapes; Edinburgh; Loch Katrine; London
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (192 p.)
  7. Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura is the first bilingual (Japanese-English) book to provide an overview of the theoretical work of Japanese photographer and video artist Osamu Kanemura, a unique voice in the world of... more

     

    Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura is the first bilingual (Japanese-English) book to provide an overview of the theoretical work of Japanese photographer and video artist Osamu Kanemura, a unique voice in the world of contemporary photography. The opening essay “Life Is a Gift” comments on the transformation of human life into an exchangeable commodity and the abstraction it entails. “Essay 01” develops Kanemura’s idea of photographic “technique” in an era when such techniques have become accessible to all, radically undermining the importance of human subjectivity in the process of capturing the photographic image: “We can say that modern technology constitutes photographic technique.” Instead, Kanemura argues, extra-technical elements such as concept and vision will have to compensate for the expression of individuality that technique is no longer able to convey. Taking cues from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the essay “Dead-Stick Landing” develops Kanemura’s theory of the moving image as mechanical system, solely governed by an “on-off switch.” “Essay 02” develops these ideas into a consideration of cinematic time and the experience of boredom in cinema as the result of a truthful “loyalty” expressed to machines, and not to stories. The essays are accompanied by an extensive two-part interview with Italian photographer Marco Mazzi, touching upon topics ranging from the technical aspects of his equipment, the concept of non-editing, and the destruction of the frame to the similarity between Mao’s dialectics and the camera, the presence of the human figure as trace, and the politics of photographing Tokyo.

     

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    Contributor: Mazzi, Marco (Publisher); Gerven Oei, Vincent W.J. van (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Individual photographers
    Other subjects: photography; media studies; Osamu Kanemura; Japan; aesthetics
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (230 p.)
  8. Flash + Cube (1965–1975)
    Author: Long, Marget
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Flash + Cube (1965-1975) is an artist’s book about the Sylvania flashcube — the space-aged, flash photography device, revolutionary in 1965 and nearly obsolete by 1975. Assembled from a wide range of archival materials — a “terrorist letter,” G.I.... more

     

    Flash + Cube (1965-1975) is an artist’s book about the Sylvania flashcube — the space-aged, flash photography device, revolutionary in 1965 and nearly obsolete by 1975. Assembled from a wide range of archival materials — a “terrorist letter,” G.I. photographs from Vietnam, Sylvania flashcube advertisements, as well as Long’s photographs and photomontages—the book explores the links between light, war, history and photography. Apart from its circulation as a novelty item online, the flashcube is largely forgotten. The history of photographic flash is also often relegated to a footnote and is strikingly under-analyzed. Yet flash’s blinding effects and military genealogy, and the flashcube’s precise contemporaneity with the war in Vietnam make this a rich analytical object with which to reflect on the cultural, political and economic imperatives of its moment. As Long’s deft work with this archive shows, the flashcube is good to think with

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Individual artists, art monographs
    Other subjects: artist book; exhibition catalog; photography; history of photography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (160 p.)
  9. Nothing in MoMA
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the “grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking,” in the words of art historian David... more

     

    Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the “grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking,” in the words of art historian David Joselit’s introduction, the book imagines a composite empty museum or a narrative of marginal attention. Originally displayed in partial prototype as a children’s board book at Artists Space in 2015, Nothing in MoMA is here collected for the first time in the series’ entirety. Evoking the history of indeterminacy as much as that of institutional critique, the deadpan composition of Adams’s photographs likewise recalls François Jullien’s theory of bland aesthetics, in a playful reductio of socio-institutional space to a bare literality. Both a visual essay on museum phenomenology and a performance document, Nothing in MoMA describes a choreography of avoidance, in which a conceptual constraint becomes a means of seeing and navigating concrete space.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781947447769
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    Subjects: Individual photographers
    Other subjects: conceptual art; museology; photography; void studies; architecture
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (90 p.)
  10. Self-Representation in an Expanded Field : From Self-Portraiture to Selfie, Contemporary Art in the Social Media Age
    Contributor: Lehner, Ace (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  MDPI Books, Basel

    Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a... more

     

    Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise representationally marginalized constituencies to insert self-representations into visual culture. In the Western European and North American art-historical context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly albeit obliquely defined, and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who literally holds the power to self-image. Like self-portraits, not all selfies are inherently aesthetically or conceptually rigorous or avant-guard. But, –as this project aims to do address via a variety of interdisciplinary approaches– selfies have irreversibly impacted visual culture, contemporary art, and portraiture in particular. Selfies propose new modes of self-imaging, forward emerging aesthetics and challenge established methods, they prove that as scholars and image-makers it is necessary to adapt and innovate in order to contend with the most current form of self-representation to date. The essays gathered herein will reveal that in our current moment it is necessary and advantageous to consider the merits and interventions of selfies and self-portraiture in an expanded field of self-representations. We invite authors to take interdisciplinary global perspectives, to investigate various sub-genres, aesthetic practices, and lineages in which selfies intervene to enrich the discourse on self-representation in the expanded field today.

     

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    Contributor: Lehner, Ace (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783038975649; 9783038975656
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    Subjects: The arts
    Other subjects: Selfies; self-portraiture; social media; art history; representation; photography; contemporary art; Intersectionality; intersectional approaches; identity; aesthetics; contemporary life; consumer culture; avant-guard
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (228 p.)
  11. Image Photograph
    Author: Lafia, Marc
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    We no longer live in the society of the spectacle, passively seeing the world. Now we perform our very own spectacle in a society that demands it at every turn. We’ve become advertisements of ourselves, our own PR agents, continually putting on a... more

     

    We no longer live in the society of the spectacle, passively seeing the world. Now we perform our very own spectacle in a society that demands it at every turn. We’ve become advertisements of ourselves, our own PR agents, continually putting on a performance and measuring it hour by hour. This is no longer the society of the spectacle but the society of performance. All events have become a pretense to create the image, to orchestrate an image of images that is us. We believe the image confers on us a kind of immortality: just as the artist believes her works collected by a major museum will do the same, we believe the network will forever host the archive we build everyday. The image that is us lives in the circulation of the network. Though a file, though virtual and malleable, made out of bits and instantly accessible to anyone who wants to find it around the world, this image that lives only lives on screen, as virtual as it might be, is a material fact. In its impression, its reception, its archivability, its remixability, the electronic image is today’s photograph

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Individual artists, art monographs
    Other subjects: exhibition catalog; photography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (310 p.)
  12. Photography in the Middle: Dispatches on Media Ecologies and Aesthetics
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    It’s easy to forget there’s a war on when the front line is everywhere encrypted in plain sight. Gathered in this book’s several chapters are dispatches on the role of photography in a War Universe, a space and time in which photographers such as... more

     

    It’s easy to forget there’s a war on when the front line is everywhere encrypted in plain sight. Gathered in this book’s several chapters are dispatches on the role of photography in a War Universe, a space and time in which photographers such as Hilla Becher, Don McCullin and Eadweard Muybridge exist only insofar as they are a mark of possession, in the sway of larger forces. These photographers are conceptual personae that collectively fabulate a different kind of photography, a paraphotography in which the camera produces negative abyssal flashes or ‘endarkenment.’ In his Vietnam War memoir, Dispatches, Michael Herr imagines a ‘dropped camera’ receiving ‘jumping and falling’ images, images which capture the weird indivisibility of medium and mediated in a time of war. The movies and the war, the photographs and the torn bodies, fused and exchanged. Reporting from the chaos at the middle of things, Herr invokes a kind of writing attuned to this experience. Photography in the Middle, eschewing a high theoretical mode, seeks to exploit the bag of tricks that is the dispatch. The dispatch makes no grand statement about the progress of the war. Cultivating the most perverse implications of its sources, it tries to express what the daily briefing never can. Ports of entry in the script we’re given, odd and hasty little glyphs, unhelpful rips in the cover story, dispatches are futile, dark intuitions, an expeditious inefficacy. They are bleak but necessary responses to an indifferent world in which any action whatever has little noticeable effect.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: photography; media studies; cultural theory; science fiction; William Burroughs
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)
  13. Lapidari 3: Images, Part II
    Contributor: Mazzi, Marco (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    In June and July 2014, philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and photographer Marco Mazzi undertook the Albanian Lapidar Survey, a project to map, document, and photograph the large majority of Albanian lapidars, a particular type of monument,... more

     

    In June and July 2014, philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and photographer Marco Mazzi undertook the Albanian Lapidar Survey, a project to map, document, and photograph the large majority of Albanian lapidars, a particular type of monument, mainly produced in the period that the communist Labor Party of Albania ruled the country (1945–1990) to commemorate the partisan victims, battles, and military units from the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War (which coincided with World War II), as well as historical figures from before the liberation and the accomplishments of socialism in Albania afterward. These lapidars, which can still be found, albeit in ever decreasing numbers, all over the country — in cities and villages, alongside roads, in forests and on mountain passes — are witness to an enormous expenditure of labor and resources to turn the landscape into a site of what was called “monumental propaganda.” The Albanian Lapidar Survey aimed to capture these monuments as fact. The results of this project are collected into a three-volume, dual-language (English and Albanian) catalogue, under the title Lapidari. The first volume comprises a series of critical reflections on Albanian monumentality of the period 1945–1990 from a variety of perspectives, as well as historical documents and a full indexation of all inscriptions found on the documented monuments. Volume 2 and Volume 3 feature the photographic documentation of all 649 recorded monumental sites by photographer Marco Mazzi.

     

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    Contributor: Mazzi, Marco (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Memorials, monuments
    Other subjects: communism; Albania; public art; monumentality; socialism; political history; photography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (336 p.)
  14. Lapidari 2: Images, Part I
    Contributor: Mazzi, Marco (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    In June and July 2014, philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and photographer Marco Mazzi undertook the Albanian Lapidar Survey, a project to map, document, and photograph the large majority of Albanian lapidars, a particular type of monument,... more

     

    In June and July 2014, philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and photographer Marco Mazzi undertook the Albanian Lapidar Survey, a project to map, document, and photograph the large majority of Albanian lapidars, a particular type of monument, mainly produced in the period that the communist Labor Party of Albania ruled the country (1945–1990) to commemorate the partisan victims, battles, and military units from the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War (which coincided with World War II), as well as historical figures from before the liberation and the accomplishments of socialism in Albania afterward. These lapidars, which can still be found, albeit in ever decreasing numbers, all over the country — in cities and villages, alongside roads, in forests and on mountain passes — are witness to an enormous expenditure of labor and resources to turn the landscape into a site of what was called “monumental propaganda.” The Albanian Lapidar Survey aimed to capture these monuments as fact. The results of this project are collected into a three-volume, dual-language (English and Albanian) catalogue, under the title Lapidari. The first volume comprises a series of critical reflections on Albanian monumentality of the period 1945–1990 from a variety of perspectives, as well as historical documents and a full indexation of all inscriptions found on the documented monuments. Volume 2 and Volume 3 feature the photographic documentation of all 649 recorded monumental sites by photographer Marco Mazzi.

     

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    Contributor: Mazzi, Marco (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Memorials, monuments
    Other subjects: communism; Albania; public art; monumentality; socialism; political history; photography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (336 p.)
  15. Walk on the Beach: Things from the Sea, Volume 1
    Contributor: Williams, Maggie M. (Publisher); Overbey, Karen Eileen (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    This volume brings together writing and imagery from the experimental “beachwalk” session(s) at the Third Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity, and Play at the Edge of the World. We... more

     

    This volume brings together writing and imagery from the experimental “beachwalk” session(s) at the Third Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity, and Play at the Edge of the World. We began with conversations about the sea. We meditated together on chance, discovery, agency, beauty, and material ecology. We talked about the delicate care of treading the world, the confluence of the personal and the professional, and the possibilities of storytelling. We thought about what happens when we encounter stuff, when we take it, change it, do something with it. When we display it, or sculpt it, or collect it. When we make something an object, and an object of looking. Then we met on the beach. We walked and talked about loss, home, agency, and liminality. We collected things: We picked up stones, feathers, seaweed. We pointed to stuff, gathered it, let it strike our fancy. Every shell nurtured a conversation among the artists, scientists, historians, poets, archivists, surfers, philosophers, and pirates who had joined the walk. We brought the sea-things back, manipulated them, and displayed them as works of art. Walk on the Beach is a souvenir of that project, a record of our bounty. It emerges from the process at the heart of art historical work: close looking. Thinking through objects, thinking with objects. Letting the things help us tell their stories. This is a tiny collection of looking, together

     

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    Contributor: Williams, Maggie M. (Publisher); Overbey, Karen Eileen (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
    Other subjects: art; beach; objects; photography; ocean
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (60 p.)
  16. Women and Migration : Responses in Art and History
    Contributor: Willis, Deborah (Publisher); Toscano, Ellyn (Publisher); Brooks Nelson, Kalia (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s... more

     

    "The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family.

    The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women’s joy and suffering, disaster and delight, place, memory and identity.

    This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences."

     

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    Contributor: Willis, Deborah (Publisher); Toscano, Ellyn (Publisher); Brooks Nelson, Kalia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Art treatments & subjects; Photography & photographs; Social issues & processes
    Other subjects: collection of essays; women; migration; women’s experiences of migration; women’s perspectives; writing; photography; art; film
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (670 p.)
  17. Intermedialität in der Komparatistik
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  innsbruck university press

    For over 40 years the Institute for Comparative Literature at the University of Innsbruck has focused in its teaching and research work on taking stock of the concept of intermediality and the complex relations that exist between literature and other... more

     

    For over 40 years the Institute for Comparative Literature at the University of Innsbruck has focused in its teaching and research work on taking stock of the concept of intermediality and the complex relations that exist between literature and other art forms such as painting, architecture, dance, music, photography, film, performance art and digital art. Students of comparative literature studying in Innsbruck have gained insights into this field through the diverse and innovative lectures held by Klaus Zerinschek, to whom this anthology is dedicated. All of the articles were written by scholars of comparative literature or philologists active in the field of comparative literature. They address theoretical concepts of intermediality, use such concepts to carry out practical analyses of concrete artistic phenomena, or incorporate concepts of intermediality into their own artistic work. This broad range of approaches to intermediality from the perspective of comparative literature studies is also reflected in the individual contributions to this anthology. In some, literary works or the individual literary components of an intermedial hybrid form create the foundation for analysis, while other articles focus on the narrative qualities of audiovisual and/or iconic media such as dance, performance art and film. A number of contributions looking at the development of new models of intermedial theory combine approaches from the fields of culture, literature and media theory and apply them to intermedial phenomena. As a whole, the articles brought together in this anthology are impressive evidence of the kaleidoscopic diversity of research into comparative literature and intermediality. Intermedialität und das komplexe Relationsgeflecht zwischen Literatur und anderen Kunstformen, wie Malerei, Architektur, Tanz, Musik, Fotografie, Film, Performance-Art und digitaler Kunst, zählen seit nunmehr 40 Jahren zu den zentralen Lehr- und Forschungsschwerpunkten der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft in Innsbruck. Den Innsbrucker Studierenden wurde dieser Schwerpunkt vor allem in den innovativen und breit gefächerten Lehrveranstaltungen von Klaus Zerinschek vermittelt, dem dieser Band gewidmet ist. Alle Beiträge in diesem Band stammen von Komparatist_innen oder komparatistisch arbeitenden Philolog_innen, die sich mit theoretischen Intermedialitätskonzepten beschäftigen, sie zur praktischen Analyse konkreter künstlerischer Phänomene nutzen oder sie in die eigene künstlerische Arbeit einfließen lassen. Diese unterschiedliche und vielfältige Auseinandersetzung mit medialen Verschränkungen aus komparatistischer Perspektive spiegelt sich auch in den Beiträgen dieses Bandes wider: So bilden in einigen Beiträgen literarische Werke oder die literarischen Teilkomponenten einer intermedialen Hybridform die Basis für die wissenschaftliche Analyse, während wiederum in anderen Fällen die narrativen Qualitäten audio-visueller und/oder ikonischer Medien wie Tanz, Performance-Art und Film in den Blick genommen werden. In manchen, auf die Entwicklung neuer, intermedialitätstheoretischer Modelle ausgerichteten Beiträgen werden hingegen kultur-, literatur- und medientheoretische Ansätze auf komparatistische Weise verknüpft und auf intermediale Phänomene angewendet. In ihrer Gesamtheit zeugen die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge somit eindrücklich von der kaleidoskopischen Vielfalt des komparatistisch-intermedialen Forschungsfeldes.

     

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  18. Digital Light
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Open Humanities Press

    Light symbolises the highest good, it enables all visual art, and today it lies at the heart of billion-dollar industries. The control of light forms the foundation of contemporary vision. Digital Light brings together artists, curators,... more

     

    Light symbolises the highest good, it enables all visual art, and today it lies at the heart of billion-dollar industries. The control of light forms the foundation of contemporary vision. Digital Light brings together artists, curators, technologists and media archaeologists to study the historical evolution of digital light-based technologies. Digital Light provides a critical account of the capacities and limitations of contemporary digital light-based technologies and techniques by tracing their genealogies and comparing them with their predecessor media. As digital light remediates multiple historical forms (photography, print, film, video, projection, paint), the collection draws from all of these histories, connecting them to the digital present and placing them in dialogue with one another. Light is at once universal and deeply historical. The invention of mechanical media (including photography and cinematography) allied with changing print technologies (half-tone, lithography) helped structure the emerging electronic media of television and video, which in turn shaped the bitmap processing and raster display of digital visual media. Digital light is, as Stephen Jones points out in his contribution, an oxymoron: light is photons, particulate and discrete, and therefore always digital. But photons are also waveforms, subject to manipulation in myriad ways. From Fourier transforms to chip design, colour management to the translation of vector graphics into arithmetic displays, light is constantly disciplined to human purposes. In the form of fibre optics, light is now the infrastructure of all our media; in urban plazas and handheld devices, screens have become ubiquitous, and also standardised. This collection addresses how this occurred, what it means, and how artists, curators and engineers confront and challenge the constraints of increasingly normalised digital visual media.

     

    While various art pieces and other content are considered throughout the collection, the focus is specifically on what such pieces suggest about the intersection of technique and technology. Including accounts by prominent artists and professionals, the collection emphasises the centrality of use and experimentation in the shaping of technological platforms. Indeed, a recurring theme is how techniques of previous media become technologies, inscribed in both digital software and hardware. Contributions include considerations of image-oriented software and file formats; screen technologies; projection and urban screen surfaces; histories of computer graphics, 2D and 3D image editing software, photography and cinematic art; and transformations of light-based art resulting from the distributed architectures of the internet and the logic of the database.

     

    Digital Light brings together high profile figures in diverse but increasingly convergent fields, from academy award-winner and co-founder of Pixar, Alvy Ray Smith to feminist philosopher Cathryn Vasseleu.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781785420085
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: photography; digital visual media; print; digital light-based technologies; mechanical media; projection; video; light; paint; electronic media; technology; technique; film; Transparency and translucency
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  19. Frame by Frame : A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland

    For most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called "cels") and then... more

     

    For most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called "cels") and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians, most of them anonymous. In order to understand how the industrial mode of production influenced the medium’s visual style, this book regards each frame of a given animated cartoon as a historical document in its own right. This new consideration of the materiality of the medium analyzes cartoons frame by frame to expose hitherto unseen qualities of the image. The book covers the different technologies of reproduction involved in this process, from photography to xerography, as well as the idiosyncrasies of the image—from abstract imagery to mistakes in reproduction—that can be seen only when the film is halted. What emerges is both a new methodology for thinking about animation, the idea of frame-by-frame analysis, and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520303621
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    Subjects: Films, cinema; Media studies
    Other subjects: Aesthetics; animation; avant-garde; cartoons; labor; photography; technology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (278 p.)
  20. Between Stillness and Motion : Film, Photography, Algorithms
    Contributor: Røssaak, Eivind (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    New technological media such as film, photography and computers have altered the way we perceive possible relations between stillness and motion in the visual arts. Traditionally, cinema theory saw cinema and especially the 'illusion of motion' as... more

     

    New technological media such as film, photography and computers have altered the way we perceive possible relations between stillness and motion in the visual arts. Traditionally, cinema theory saw cinema and especially the 'illusion of motion' as part of the ideological swindle of the basic cinematic apparatus. This collection of essays by acclaimed international scholars including Tom Gunning, Thomas Elsaesser, Mark B.N. Hansen, George Baker, Ina Blom and Christa Blümlinger, starts out from a different premise to analyse stillness and motion as part of a larger ecology of images and media. They argue that the strategic uses of stillness and motion in art and entertainment since the 1850s illuminate and renegotiate urgent issues within both aesthetics, film, art and media history on the one hand, and, on the other, new perspectives on affects, memories and the contemporary patterns of communication and image circulation. Paperback versie, hardback verkrijgbaar onder het ISBN 9789089642134 Het in de jaren zeventig opkomende debat binnen de filmwetenschappen over stilstaand ('still') tegenover bewegend beeld ('moving') werd gevoed door de 'apparatus theory' en het idee van verstilde beweging door belichting. Filmische beweging was een illusie, luidde het axioma; beweging een 'ideologische invloed van het filmische apparaat'. Stilstaand beeld gold als de verborgen, zelfs verdrongen, basis voor de industriële illusie van filmische beweging. De auteurs stellen voor om af te stappen van dit verstokte 'still/moving'-debat binnen de filmstudies en zich te richten op een positievere kritiek en een meer affectieve vorm van media-archeologie.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Røssaak, Eivind (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Film, TV & radio; Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: photography; algorithms; motion pictures; film; Photography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (244 p.)
  21. Rasende Reporter : Eine Kulturgeschichte des Fotojournalismus. Fotografie, Presse und Gesellschaft in Österreich 1890 bis 1945
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Primus Verlag, Darmstadt

    The book deals with the genesis of modern photojournalism between 1890 an 1945 Thema des Buches ist die Entstehungsgeschichte des modernen Fotojournalismus zwischen 1890 und 1945 more

     

    The book deals with the genesis of modern photojournalism between 1890 an 1945 Thema des Buches ist die Entstehungsgeschichte des modernen Fotojournalismus zwischen 1890 und 1945

     

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  22. Hiroshi Sugimoto
    conceptual forms and mathematical models ; [Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 7 - May, 10, 2015]
    Contributor: Ottmann, Klaus (Publisher); Sugimoto, Hiroshi (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Ottmann, Klaus (Publisher); Sugimoto, Hiroshi (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783775739214; 3775739211
    Other identifier:
    9783775739214
    RVK Categories: AP 92183 ; AP 94100 ; LI 87320 ; LI 99999
    DDC Categories: 770
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Subjects: Sugimoto, Hiroshi; Metallplastik; Fotografie; Mathematik <Motiv>; Ausstellung; Washington, DC <2015>;
    Other subjects: Sugimoto, Hiroshi; Fotografie; photography
    Scope: [96] S., überw. Ill., 250 mm x 230 mm, 10 g
  23. Rotes Licht : Jugoslawische Partisanenfotografie. Bilder einer sozialen Bewegung, 1941-1945
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Davor Konjikušić provides an in-depth presentation and contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans between 1941 and 1945. In doing so, the author is not only interested in presenting the photographs from an aesthetic... more

     

    Davor Konjikušić provides an in-depth presentation and contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans between 1941 and 1945. In doing so, the author is not only interested in presenting the photographs from an aesthetic perspective, but in the history of their use and function within one of the biggest anti-fascist movements in Europe during the Second World War.

     

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  24. Liminal Spaces : Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora
    Contributor: Ali, Grace Aneiza (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of... more

     

    "Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history – from the 1950s to the present day – bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana.

    Eloquent and visually stunning, Liminal Spaces unpacks the global realities of migration, challenging and disrupting dominant narratives associated with Guyana, its colonial past, and its post-colonial present as a ‘disappearing nation’. Multimodal in approach, the volume combines memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, art and curatorial essays to collectively examine the mutable notion of ‘homeland’, and grapple with ideas of place and accountability.This volume is a welcome contribution to the scholarly field of international migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, both in its creative methodological approach, and in its subject area – as one of the only studies published on Guyanese diaspora. It will be of great interest to those studying women and migration, and scholars and students of diaspora studies."

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Ali, Grace Aneiza (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Art treatments & subjects; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social groups
    Other subjects: migration; migration narratives; women; Guyana; Guyanese women; from the 1950s; visual exhibition; essays; artwork; memoir; creative non-fiction; poetry; photography; art and curatorial essays; notion of homeland; accountability
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
  25. Photographic Literacy
    Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Photography, introduced to Russia in 1839, was nothing short of a sensation. Its rapid proliferation challenged the other arts, including painting and literature, as well as the very integrity of the self. If Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky greeted... more

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    Photography, introduced to Russia in 1839, was nothing short of a sensation. Its rapid proliferation challenged the other arts, including painting and literature, as well as the very integrity of the self. If Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky greeted the camera with skepticism in the nineteenth century, numerous twentieth-century authors welcomed it with a warm embrace. As Katherine M. H. Reischl shows in Photographic Literacy, authors as varied as Leonid Andreev, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn picked up the camera and reshaped not only their writing practices but also the sphere of literacy itself.For these authors, a single photograph or a photograph as illustration is never an endpoint; their authorial practices continually transform and animate the frozen moment. But just as authors used images to shape the reception of their work and selves, Russian photographers — including Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky and Alexander Rodchenko — used text to shape the reception of their visual work. From the diary to print, the literary word imbues that photographic moment with a personal life story, and frames and reframes it in the writing of history. In this primer on photographic literacy, Reischl argues for the central place that photography has played in the formation of the Russian literary imagination over the course of roughly seventy years. From image to text and back again, she traces the visual consciousness of modern Russian literature as captured through the lens of the Russian author-photographer

     

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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501730481
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Alexander Rodchenko; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Ilya Ehrenburg; Leonid Andreev; literature; photography; Russia; Sergie Prokudin-Gorsky; Soviet Union; USSR.; visual consciousness; Literature and photography; Literature and photography; Photography in literature; Russian literature; Fotografie; Schriftsteller
    Other subjects: Andreev, Leonid N. (1871-1919)
    Scope: 1 online resource, 20 color photos, 78 b&w halftones
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)