Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture
<p>At the heart of the model minority myth—often associated with Asian Americans—is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, <I>Picturing Model...
View ArticleDynamics and Performativity of Imagination: The Image between the Visible and...
<p>In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including...
View ArticleSurface: land/water and the visual arts symposium 2004
This book is a collection of six papers from the 2004 Land/Water and Surface symposium. These works contribute both to contemporary academic debates within artist and curatorial practices, and to...
View ArticlePhotography and Its Violations
Theorists critique photography for “objectifying" its subjects and manipulating appearance for the sake of art. In this bold counterargument, John Roberts recasts photography's violating...
View ArticleAnother Way of Telling
"There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts." With these words, two of...
View ArticleArgentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan Photography: Feminist, Queer, and...
One of the important cultural responses to political and sociohistorical events in Latin America is a resurgence of urban photography, which typically blends high art and social documentary. But unlike...
View ArticlePhotography, History, Difference
Thinking differently about photography and its histories
View ArticleReel Photos: Balancing Art and Truth in Contemporary Film
<span><span>This book </span><span>focuses on the role of photographs embedded in specific films to look at how we understand images. The book also explores how the viewer's...
View ArticleOn Photography
<p><b>Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticis</b>m.</p><p>One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, <i>On Photography</i> first...
View ArticleThe Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North...
Edward S. Curtis's <i>The North American Indian</i> is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as...
View ArticleCivil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography
Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always involves...
View ArticleBiopolitical Media: Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare Life
This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. It...
View ArticleSensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America
Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, <i>Sensational Modernism</i> uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically...
View ArticleSurface: land/water and the visual arts symposium 2004
This book is a collection of six papers from the 2004 Land/Water and Surface symposium. These works contribute both to contemporary academic debates within artist and curatorial practices, and to...
View ArticleReel Photos: Balancing Art and Truth in Contemporary Film
<span><span>This book </span><span>focuses on the role of photographs embedded in specific films to look at how we understand images. The book also explores how the viewer's...
View ArticleIreland in Focus: Film, Photography, and Popular Culture
From an analysis of the Guinness brand's reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to present...
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