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A critical survey of nine documentary photographers who were at the cutting edge of this form of journalism during the second half of the 20th century, 'Engaged Observers' shows how since the sixties photographers such as Leonard Freed & Susan Meiselas have challenged the conventional objectivity of the newsroom.
Paul Outerbridge Jr. (American, 1896-1958) burst onto the photographic art scene in the early 1920s with images that were visually fresh, technically adept, and decidedly Modernist. He also applied his talent for composition to the commercial world, introducing an artist's sensibility to advertisements for men's haberdashery, glassware, and JELL-O(R) for magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. An early master of the technically complex carbro color process, he used it to photograph nudes, often shown with a variety of props--images that skirted the limits of propriety in their day. This catalogue was produced for the first exhibition of Outerbridge's work since 1981, which was held March 31 through August 9, 2009, at the J. Paul Getty Museum. It brought together one hundred photographs from all periods and styles of the photographer's career, including his Cubistic still-life images, commercial magazine photography, and nudes. The book includes an essay by the curator and a chronology of the artist's life and work.
An artist who has long exploited the emotional power of color and texture, Jo Ann Callis is widely known for her inventive photographs involving tactile objects and images of people in mysterious, often unsettling narratives.Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 31 to August 9, 2009. The book, comprising sixty-eight color and fifteen black-and-white works that range from 1974 to 2005, constitutes the first book-length treatment of Callis's work since 1989. Many of these invented, dreamlike scenes of people and objects will be new to viewers, including a photographic installation of fifteen images of pastries lusciously printed in Cibachrome against textile backgrounds, and a more recent series of digitally montaged domestic interiors. Others, such as Salt, Pepper, Fire, in which a pair of salt and pepper shakers and a cup of coffee stand next to a plate of food that has burst into flame while a bird flies over the table, are familiar favorites. All of these works attest to Callis's singular vision of the delicate boundary between the world within and the world without.
Physics, maths and chemistry have long played a dominant role in electronics, electrical, and other allied engineering sciences. However, wholesale implementation of life science concepts in electro-chemistry or nano-technology is relatively recent. "A guide to research in electro-biochemical technology" aims at documenting state-of-the-art research, new developments, and directions for future investigation in the field of bio-physics, electro-biochemistry and nano-biotechnology. The book will guide the electrical, electronics and allied engineering branches to initiate the biology or biotechnology projects. The book also contains basic information about establishing electro-biochemical labo...
An exact date for the invention of photography is evasive. Scientists and amateurs alike were working on a variety of photographic processes for much of the early nineteenth century. Thus most historians refer to the year 1839 as the “first” year of photography, not because the sensational new medium was invented then, but because that is the year it was introduced to the world. After more than 175 years, and for the first time in English, First Exposures: Writings from the Beginning of Photography brings together more than 130 primary sources from that very year—1839—subdivided into ten chapters and accompanied by fifty-three images of significant visual and historical importance. T...
Muss die Geschichte der Fotografie neu geschrieben werden? Zwei Jahre, bevor Henry Fox Talbot 1839 seine »photogenic drawings« bekannt gab, hatte der Mineraloge und Chemiker Franz von Kobell bereits in München die Frauenkirche und andere Gebäude in Lichtbildern festgehalten und auf Papier fixiert. Sein Kollege, der Physiker Carl August Steinheil, beschäftigte sich seit April 1839 mit dem konkurrierenden bildgebenden Verfahren der Metallfotografie und war damit der offiziellen Bekanntgabe von Louis Daguerres »Daguerreotypien« mehr als drei Monate voraus. Eingebunden in akademische, künstlerische und gesellige Netzwerke und gefördert durch die Gunst des Königs widmeten sich beide üb...
Full Spectrum guides the reader on a tour through the photographic collection of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, including examples of photographs covering nearly the entire history of the medium's existence, with texts that familiarize the reader with the reasons for and circumstances of its founding.