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In a nostalgic tribute to the vanishing single-screen theaters of small-town America, photographer Putnam captures the once prominent cinemas in decline and transformation. The images are accompanied by an Introduction by Robert Skylar and essays by Peter Bogdanovich, Molly Haskell, and others. 58 duotones, 24 halftones.

After years of photographic research, the author explains methods of analyzing photographs historically. She outlines how you can recognize architecture, clothing, monuments, and other objects in photos; and where you can find additional help.

According to the 1990 census, New York, for the first time in a century, had more foreign-born inhabitants than native-born residents. A city of continual immigration, New York's people have been documented by major artists and photographers from the earliest European settlers to the present.In this majestic illustrated history, with over 500 prints, paintings, and photographs, many never before published, we see the arrival of the first wave of Dutch and Anglo-Saxon settlers in the seventeenth century. We progress through Irish and German immigrations in the mid-nineteenth century, the immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of vast numbers of Italians and Eastern European Jews as well as Greeks and Slavs, followed by African Americans moving from the South after World War I. Finally, as the twentieth century comes to a close, Caribbeans, Latinos, Africans, and Asians have become the dominant new New Yorkers.As he did with Harlem on My Mind, The Lower East Side, American Jewish Album, and The Italian Americans, Allon Schoener has brought together wonderful images as well as documentary accounts from diaries, letters, news articles, and other sources, giving us the rich history and texture of this great city.

Aura Rosenberg is concerned with the visible expression of sexual desire. Capturing the moment of orgasm on camera is usually reserved for the voyeur, the hidden witness. What Rosenberg has done is present herself as the public's witness via the camera, inviting a number of men into her studio to reenact the ecstasy of release, the moment when potency and vulnerability coexist. The result is a collection of extraordinary photographs that run the gamut of psychosexual expression. Whether her subjects were really giving their best shot or simply indulging in sublime fakery is just one of the very pertinent questions these pictures throw out. In acting out their most abandoned sexual and emotional moment before her lens, Rosenberg's subjects invite us to step beyond the traditional limits of voyeurism. These beautiful, curious and erotic images reserve the traditional male-on-female gaze and relieve it of some of its associations with misogyny and perversity. Writers Lynn Tillman and Gary Indiana reflect together on the experience of witnessing these photographs.

"(An) exceptionally handsome and informative book. It contains 68 photographs, a representative sample of Bodine's work along with intelligent commentary... For readers who have known his work for years and for those coming to it for the first time, it is an eminently rewarding and pleasurable book." -- Washington Post

The fiestas provide tangible links to the pre-Hispanic cultures of middle America, intertwining some of the great Pagan festivals of these ancient peoples with catholic ritual and tradition. In the Eye of the Sun is a remarkable visual chronicle of Mexican life. The book also includes an introduction by Richard Rodriguez and an essay by J.M.G. Le Clezio.

As a young photojournalist just out of college in the early fifties, Flip Schulke moved to Miami and began covering social issues. In 1958, while working as a freelancer for Jet and Ebony, he was assigned to photograph Martin Luther King. Afterwards, the two men talked late into the night about King's philosophy. Schulke became convinced that King's plans would change the face of the country. At King's invitation, he began photographing behind the scenes at Southern Christian Leadership Conference meetings and eventually became committed to covering King and the growing civil rights movement. For a decade before King's death, Schulke was as close to him and his inner circle as a photographer could be. He was privy to momentous events public and private, and always he was photographing. This book is the result.

In ihren Arbeiten beschäftigen sich Katja Stuke und Oliver Sieber mit Fragen nach den Strukturen von Städten und dem Zusammenhang zwischen städtebaulichen und sozialen Grenzen. In ihren Fotografien zeigt sich ein besonderes Interesse an marginalisierten oder in der kollektiven Wahrnehmung stigmatisierten Regionen und Stadtteilen. Dabei ist ihre Arbeit weniger dem Einzelbild verpflichtet. Stuke und Sieber arbeiten vielmehr in Serien und Sequenzen; sie schichten, mischen und verknüpfen Material, um so vielschichte Assoziationen zu schaffen.Ihre neueste Arbeit setzt die französische Hauptstadt in Bezug zum Ruhrgebiet und seinem imaginären Zentrum, der oft als "Eiffelturm des Ruhrgebiets" bezeichneten Zeche Zollverein. Dabei sind weder Eiffelturm noch Zeche im Blickpunkt ihrer Aufnahmen. Vielmehr haben Stuke und Sieber in ihrer Versuchsanordnung den Aufnahmen, die entlang der Pariser Périphérique entstanden sind, jeweils Plätze zur Seite gestellt, die auf das Ruhrgebiet referieren.Die aufgesuchten Orte in diesem System sind scheinbar willkürlich gewählt und zeigen gerade deshalb in ihrer randomisierten, fragmentarischen Anordnung unerwartete Schnittmengen und erkenntnisreiche Verknüpfungen zwischen geografisch und zeitlich disparaten Orten, Handlungen, Ereignissen und Akteur:innen auf.

Realität(streue) ist ein markantes Thema in der Medienkultur des 21. Jahrhunderts, das sich auf widersprüchliche Weise entfaltet: Realness scheint derzeit sowohl eine Krise als auch eine Konjunktur zu erleben. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet dieses Thema im medialen Kontext der Fernsehserie mit Hilfe von Fallstudien aus interdisziplinären Perspektiven. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die sozialen, kulturellen, politischen und ästhetischen Potenziale von Realitätsbehauptungen und -effekten in seriellen Fernsehformaten.

An inspirational photography book that opens up new perspectives and redefines our way of seeing.

Der Titel dieses Buches verrät uns, wer hier vor der Kamera steht: Kathleen McCain Engman posiert seit 2009 für ihren Sohn Charlie. In "MOM" treten wir einer Frau gegenüber, die wir nie kennenlernen: ihr intensiver Blick und die mit Sommersprossen besiedelte Haut werden uns zwar bald vertraut, doch die Rollen, die sie in den Bildern einnimmt, werden zunehmend unklarer. Engman begann seine Mutter abzubilden, weil sie verfügbar war und stets bereit ist, den Ansprüchen ihrer Kinder gerecht zu werden. Was als eine natürliche Sache seinen Lauf nahm, verwandelte sich in eine intensive Zusammenarbeit. Das Resultat ist weder ein Familienalbum noch eine Hommage an eine Mutter, sondern eine viel tiefere und weit komplexere Interaktion. Eine, welche die Limitationen von Vertrautheit sowie die Regeln und Begrenzungen um Rolle und Repräsentation, Verletzlichkeit und Kontrolle hinterfragt. Eine auch, die sich mit dem Sehen und Gesehen-werden beschäftigt.

Nowhere is the human condition more apparent than in India, a window to life, a window to all. Departures presents a journey through place, life, and our preparations for departure from the material to the ethereal. To journey with India is to reflect, a portal to the experiences of a universal human condition, Departures weaves together a sometimes-haunting story of modernity and urbanisation with an ancient, diverse, and complex land. 0A work in the humanist and social realist genre of photography, Departures reflects on the 21st century urban stage contrasting the gritty realism of urban life, work and the struggles and joys of the everyday with the dramatic beauty of people, ritual, belief, and landscape. 0Created from an archive of 20 years photographing, living and working in India, Departures goes beyond the often incidental or serendipitous nature of street photography to open the door and explore the life within.

This impressive book is richly illustrated with 91 gorgeous macro photographs--of flowers, and also some of their pollinators--by John Rodrigues, an artist who has taken that time to truly see. We invite you to sit back, maybe with a cup of hot Chamomile tea, and indulge in these images--taking the time to truly see these flowers, and to appreciate their inherent majesty. John Rodrigues takes an old lens and new camera and gives us a new look at an old photographic subject.

Marking the occasion of Didier Vermeiren's eponymous solo exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, this book illuminates the recurrent strategies of repetition, reversal, doubling and inversion that the artist explores in his work.