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“On the eve of Christmas Eve...” Paul Auster writes, “Tyler Kobe Nichols collapsed onto the sidewalk with three knife wounds in the front of his torso and one in the back.”His death soon followed. With it, the twenty-one-year-old joined the ranks of young people killed by senseless violence in America. Tyler’s death warranted just two paragraphs in the New York Daily News. And yet with each death, a new story begins that is rarely if ever told; one that centers around the fallout from traumatic loss. This story, as Tyler’s mother Sherma Chambers keenly observes, is generational, with no clear end in sight.Long Live King Kobe began with a mistake. Photographer Spencer Ostrander had arrived at the funeral for Tyler believing he was a victim of gun violence, and hoping to include him in an ongoing project Ostrander had created to document the lives of gun victims. Instead, he met Sherma Chambers, and a week later a collaboration, which soon included Paul Auster, had begun--one in which a pair of strangers would join a family in their sorrow.Thanks to the generosity of the entire Nichols/Chambers family, Long Live King Kobe invites us to join them in their intimate grief in the weeks that followed Tyler’s death. The family’s response to his murder, including their creation of a foundation dedicated to counteracting street violence with love, is one that presents their tragedy as a means for our society to grow.Long Live King Kobe offers a privileged journey into the power of community for all who have felt outrage, confusion, sadness, and deep despair at the epidemic of violence in our country. It also provides reason to hope. The Long Live King Kobe Foundation, started by Sherma Chambers, will support nonviolence initiatives to keep youth safe. Proceeds from this book will benefit the foundation.

Over 40 stunning destinations from around the world captured by up-and-coming as well as established photographers, with useful travelling information for when you are there.

Ever since ancient astronomers gazed up at a distant ruby spark in the night sky and named it for their god of war, Mars has captivated the human imagination as a source of endless speculation and a beacon of hope for its potential habitability. The many mysteries of the fourth planet from the sun are uncovered through six decades of missions and pioneering research at NASA-photographs have revealed a rocky world, visually so much like our own, that likely supported ancient life.See the earliest close-up images of Mars taken by the Mariner 4 spacecraft in 1965, the first ever captured of another planet, along with historical illustrations, before scientific advancement matched our curiosity. Science and art collide as NASA's later missions capture ancient riverbeds, polar ice caps, dust devils, vast canyons, and formidable volcanoes in an endlessly varied landscape. As they traverse Mars' scarred surface, NASA's rovers have operated as mechanical extensions of humankind for the past 25 years-until we can get there ourselves-marveling at mountain ranges and blue sunsets, drilling holes, and searching for traces of water.Through hundreds of cutting-edge photographs from NASA and JPL's extensive archives, we join NASA scientists in the ongoing quest to better understand Mars. Essays from some of the masterminds behind NASA's missions to the Martian planet James L. Green and Robert Manning, curator Margaret Weitekamp, poet Nikki Giovanni, and more illuminate the latest electrifying research on the red planet and its enduring hold on our culture.

Extreme Lakeland by Nadir Khan and Tom McNally is a photographic celebration of all that makes the Lake District a magnet for those with a heart for adventure. Nadir and Tom showcase adventure sports through the seasons, including rock climbing, mountain biking, fell running and wild swimming. Features a foreword by rock climber Leo Houlding.

Award-winning author and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela presents a fascinating study of hummingbirds in a collection of photographs and information.

Als die Fotografie im 19. Jahrhundert auf den Plan tritt, die Träume verfrorener Nordlichter von Italien als, je nach Perspektive, unsterbliches Kunstland der wiederentdeckten Antike oder glückselige Naturlandschaft zu bebildern, und den Vedutenmaler und das eigene Skizzenbuch ablöst, ist Italien noch ein Agrarstaat. Erst 1861 nach einer Reihe von Aufständen und Kriegen aus einem Patchwork von Fürstentümern und Kleinstaaten zur Nation vereint, tut sich das Land schwer mit der Industrialisierung, die sich weitgehend auf den Großraum Mailand, Turin, Genua beschränkt. Von 30 Millionen Einwohnern sind 1880 etwa gerade einmal 400.000 Industriearbeiter.Die zahlreichen Reisenden aus Frankreich, England, Deutschland oder den USA - der Massentourismus steht gerade im Begriff, das Erbe von Grand Tour und Romantik anzutreten - treffen auf eine Bevölkerung, die noch weitgehend im jahrhundertealten Traditionalismus befangen ist, auf scheinbar unberührte Landschaften wie den malerischen Lago Maggiore mit seiner eindrucksvollen Bergkulisse, die ligurische Küste oder die einsame Campagna und Städte, Venedig, Florenz, Bologna, Mailand, Rom, die seltsam entrückt und traumverloren leer wirken.Wie Reiseberichte aus vergangenen Jahrhunderten laden auch die Aufnahmen in diesem Band zu einer Entdeckungsfahrt durch die Zeit ein. Sie folgen der klassischen Besichtigungsroute kunstbeflissener Italienfahrer*innen, nehmen aber auch die soziale Wirklichkeit im Schatten der Monumente und Sehenswürdigkeiten in den Blick. Ein historisches Panorama, das nicht nur erklärte Italienfans fesseln wird.

Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph by Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective.Red Star centers Native American life and material culture through imaginative self-portraiture, vivid collages, archival interventions, and site-specific installations. Whether referencing nineteenth-century Crow leaders or 1980s pulp fiction, museum collections or family pictures, she constantly questions the role of the photographer in shaping Indigenous representation. Including a dynamic array of Red Star's lens-based works from 2006 to the present, and a range of essays, stories, and poems, Delegation is a spirited testament to an influential artist's singular vision.Copublished by Aperture and Documentary Arts

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Issue 33 features the famous Joey Badass and the final book series in Preme Magazine for 2021

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically.

The legendary feminist and revolutionary Margaret Randall once again turns her eye to keen, insightful poetry. Stormclouds Like Unkept Promises is both political and personal as one, with turns into mythology and language. For the first time, this book publishes Randall alongside her longtime partner (now wife), the visual artist Barbara Byers, whose boldly textured black-and-white photography accompanies the written work. Their brilliance, put together, results in a collection with all the power and beauty of a looming storm.

memymom is the mother-daughter artistic collaboration of Marilene Coolens and Lisa De Boeck. Their transgenerational project consists of intimate archives and family photos where Marilene urges her daughter Lisa to express and invent herself by improvising her own theatrical scenes. Text in English and French.

Presented in a pocket-sized landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each photo, Florida is a stunning collection of images that vividly brings to life America's Sunshine State from the swamps of the Everglades to the beauty of the Keys, the swagger of Miami and the speed of Daytona Beach...

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.

Paul Strand (1890-1976) defined twentieth-century American photography in a prolific career that spanned more than sixty years. His photographs explore the abstract and dynamic qualities found in the natural world, search for humanity in portraits of people and places, and document theexperience of life itself. Highlighting the development of the photographer's aesthetic from his early encounters with Cubism to his humanistic depictions of people throughout the world, this book presents nearly forty years of Strand's wide-ranging and powerful work.In Focus: Paul Strand is published to coincide with an exhibition of the photographer's work at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles from May 10 through September 4, 2005.Commentaries on the pictures, along with an introduction and chronology of Strand's life, are provided by Anne Lyden, associate curator of photographs at the Getty Museum. The book also includes an edited transcript of a colloquium on Strand's work that incorporates Lyden's contributions along withthose of five other participants: David Featherstone, a freelance writer and editor; Weston Naef, curator of photographs at the Getty Museum; Naomi Rosenblum, independent scholar; Mark Ruwedel, photographer and professor of photography at California State University, Long Beach; and AlanTrachtenberg, Neil Gray Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University.

Then and Now.

Featuring 75 battlefield sites divided by wartime theatre, World War II Battlefields allows the reader to explore well-known battle locations around the world as they appear today, from remote island beaches to modern cities, solemn memorials and quiet villages.

Presented in a pocket landscape format and with captions explaining each photo, California is a stunning collection of images that vividly brings to life on the west coast of America, from Beverly Hills and Hollywood to Death Valley and the vineyards of Napa Valley, not to mention San Francisco and the tech giants of Silicon Valley.

Presented in a pocket-sized landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each photo, New York is a stunning collection of images that vividly brings to life the world's greatest city from Battery Park to Central Park, Wall St to Staten Island and Broadway to Brooklyn.

This nostalgic and often hilarious collection of images taken in the last century capture the wonderfully defiant spirit of those that picnic in the British Isles. Whether tucking into crisp sandwiches in a field of cows, sharing a thermos flask on the edge of a windy cliff, or having a cheeky cuddle under a tree - the people in these pictures represent community, friendship and optimism. So don''t forget: if your car breaks down, get out the tartan blanket, sit on the roadside and enjoy the simple, honest fun of time spent in good company while eating white bread and drinking mildly warm tea

To See and Be Seen is also available as an audiobook via Amazon, Audible, and Apple Books.Whether inscribed in physical media, projected on surfaces, or viewed on digital devices, we find ourselves constantly inundated with streams of visual data. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how these images are made, especially in journalistic contexts where representations are long-lasting and where repercussions can be dramatic. To See and Be Seen considers some of the ideological, aesthetic, pragmatic, institutional, cultural, commercial, environmental, and psychological forces that consciously or otherwise shape the production of news images and subsequently influence their reception. T. J. Thomson examines the expectations, experiences, and reactions of those depicted by visual journalists and considers other relevant factors: how do everyday people perceive cameras and those who operate them? How are identities visually represented and presented to different audiences? And how does the physical and the socially constructed environment shape those depictions?The results of ThomsonΓÇÖs research provide one of the first empirical and real-time glimpses into the experience of being in front of a journalistΓÇÖs lens. To See and Be Seen enables us to understand the stories behind images by considering the environment in which such images are made, the exchange (if one occurred) between the camera-wielding observer and the observed, the identities of both parties, and how they react to the representations that are created.To See and Be Seen is the winner of the National Communication AssociationΓÇÖs 2020 Diane S. Hope Book of the Year Award. NCA reviewers called the book ΓÇ£a signature achievement in understanding the process of media production and the ethics of photojournalism.ΓÇ¥

Ireland's premier photographers, The Lensmen, captured the essence of life in Ireland during the 1950s in their stunning and thought provoking images. This collection offers a fascinating insight into the cultural and political events of the decade. Showcasing an era of change in Ireland, this book is a celebration of a time gone by.