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Shot at Dawn
Commissioned by the Ruskin School of Art at the Universty of Oxford as part of 14-18 Nov WWI Centenary Art Commissions, Shot at Dawn is a new body of work by the photographer Chloe Dewe Mathew that focuses on the sites at which British, French and Belgian troops were executed for cowardice and desertion between 1914 and 1918. The project comprises images of twenty-three locations at which individuals were shot or held in the period leading up to their executions and all were taken as close to the exact time of execution as possible and at approximately the same time of year.
Cindy Sherman
This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, considers Cindy Sherman's oeuvre through the lens of portraiture. Featuring key examples of her work - from her earliest photographs through to her most recent - it explores the mercurial relationship between appearance and reality Cindy Sherman is among the most influential artists of her generation. Using herself as model, wearing a range of costumes and portraying herself in invented situations, she interrogates the imagery employed by the mass media, po pular culture and fine art. Television, advertising, magazines, fashion and Old Master paintings all form part of her visual language. Whether using make-up...
On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters
The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material.
Dialogue with Photography
Classic interviews with the men and women who shaped twentieth century photography.
St Kilda
Using a 'battered medium format camera' once belonging to Fay Goodwin, Alex Boyd captures the archipelago of St Kilda in a new light, from a 21st century perspective. From the crumbling Cold War military base to the wild beauty of the natural landscape, this collection of photographs is both an ode to the history of the islands and an insight into the modern day lives of those who live and work on St Kilda today.
Collected Shadows
Curated by Timothy Prus from the Archive of Modern Conflict, Collected Shadows presents photography from the 1850s to the present day, both professional and amateur, which juxtapose time periods, geographies and photographic techniques. Cross-cultural and transhistorical, the book combines images of earth, air, fire, water, divinity, astrology, flight and portraiture, creating associations between the elements, the cosmos and humanity.0Artists include: Brassaï, Eugène Atget, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Edward Curtis, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Bert Hardy, Bertha Jaques, Frances Benjamin Johnstone, Marketa Luskacova, Étienne-Jules Marey, Jaroslav Rössler, Charles Henry Turner, and Dorothy Wilding among others.00Exhibition: Paris, France (2012) / Toronto, Canada (2013) / San Francisco, USA (2014) / Void, Derry, Northern Ireland (12.08.-07.10.2017) / Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland (03.02.-08.04.2018) / The Edge, University of Bath, England (20.04.-16.6.2018) / Peninsula Art, Plymouth University, England (06.07.-01.09.2018).
Photography
This textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political context. This second edition includes key concepts, biographies of major thinkers and seminal references, and provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic viewing.
Photo Text Text Photo
Purely visual perception and viewing of pictures is impossible. We always encounter pictorial images - as in this book description itself - in contexts. It is to this complex of interrelationships between text and photography and the aesthetic potential it holds that the book photo text text photo is dedicated. Based upoon a representative selection of important examples of this work across media boundaries from recent photographic history since 1967, ...
All This Stuff
Introduced by Clive Phillpot, and including artists and writers such as Gustav Metzger, Bruce McLean, Barbara Steveni, John Latham, Barry Flanagan, Edward Burra, Penelope Curtis, and Neal White, "All This Stuff "breaks new ground in the field of archive theory. It documents the innovative ways in which the arts are challenging the distinctions, processes, and crossovers between artworks and archives. This critical reexamination exemplifies how the field of art archiving is changing theory and practice as well as our understanding of what an archive is, or could be. Valuable insights are given into the archival process and the book also explores how archives can be made accessible and the unpredictable ways in which they may be explored and reinterpreted in the future.
