How Photography Became Contemporary Art
Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300276756,
ISBN: HB: 9780300234107,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
296 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 130 colour illus.
296 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 130 colour illus.
When Andy Grundberg landed in New York in the early 1970s as a budding writer, photography was at the margins of the contemporary art world. By 1991, when he left his post as critic for the New York Times, photography was at the vital center of artis...
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£25.00
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Julia Margaret Cameron
The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781913107420,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
288 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 89 colour and black&white illus.
288 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 89 colour and black&white illus.
A bold new study of Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs, charting the legacy of colonialism following the 1857 Indian Uprising.
Julia Margaret Cameron's photography unfolded in the shadow of the 1857 Indian Uprising, the momentous anticolonial rev...
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£45.00
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Alexey Brodovitch
Astonish Me
ISBN: PB: 9780300276190,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
160 pp., 29,2x21,6 cm, 70 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
160 pp., 29,2x21,6 cm, 70 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Reassessing the career of the hugely influential Harper's Bazaar art director, who changed the course of twentieth-century American photography and graphic design.
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the influence and significance of the Russ...
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In Our Hands
Native Photography, 1890s to Now
ISBN: PB: 9780300272161,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
304 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.
304 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.
A groundbreaking exhibition catalogue of Native, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit photography from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Photographs of and by Native people have long been exhibited in museums. All too often, however, such exhib...
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America and Other Myths
Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955
ISBN: HB: 9780300270891,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
184 pp., 27,3x25,4 cm, 102 duotone illus., 13 halftone illus.
184 pp., 27,3x25,4 cm, 102 duotone illus., 13 halftone illus.
Robert Frank's and Todd Webb's parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture.
In 1955 two photographers were awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to embark o...
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David Goldblatt
No Ulterior Motive
ISBN: HB: 9780300273410,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
288 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 215 colour and black&white illus.
288 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 215 colour and black&white illus.
A panorama of the career of South African photographer David Goldblatt, elucidating his artistic commitments, networks, and influence.
"David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive" coincides with a major traveling retrospective of the renowned South Africa...
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Dorothea Lange
Seeing People
ISBN: HB: 9780300272000,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
208 pp., 26,6x23,4 cm, 60 tritone, 40 black&white illus.
208 pp., 26,6x23,4 cm, 60 tritone, 40 black&white illus.
An expansive look at portraiture, identity, and inequality as seen in Dorothea Lange's iconic photographs.
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) aimed to make pictures that were, in her words, "important and useful". Her decades-long investigation of how phot...
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Seeing and Not Believing
The Photography of Allan Chasanoff
ISBN: HB: 9780300273397,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
224 pp., 29,8x22,2 cm, 185 colour illus.
224 pp., 29,8x22,2 cm, 185 colour illus.
An introduction to the postmodern photographs of Allan Chasanoff, whose work interrogates and subverts the notion of photography as a truthful record of the real.
From the 1960s onward, Allan Chasanoff (1936-2020) maintained a daily photographic pr...
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Window Suddenly Opens
Contemporary Photography in China
ISBN: HB: 9780300269888,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
240 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 150 colour illus.
240 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 150 colour illus.
A lively tour through experimental Chinese photography from the early 1990s to today.
The past thirty years were dynamic, transformative decades in Chinese photography. Artists exposed to recent work from around the globe experimented with photogra...
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Called to the Camera
Black American Studio Photographers
ISBN: HB: 9780300267389,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
256 pp., 27,9x24,7 cm, 110 colour and black&white illus.
256 pp., 27,9x24,7 cm, 110 colour and black&white illus.
A timely reconsideration of the history of photography that places Black studio photographers, and their subjects, at the center.
From photography's beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of popul...
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