Photography

Chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped photography from the invention of the daguerreotype in the early 19th century up to the digital revolution and beyond.

Surveys the history of photography with the medium's multifold developments the historical and cultural contexts in which photographers lived and worked. Incorporating the latest research and international uses of photography.

Features the work of seven artists who investigate the possibilities of analog photography by finding innovative, surprising, and sometimes controversial ways to push light-sensitive photographic papers and chemical processing beyond their limits.

An illustrated showcase of the work of 300 women photographers from all over the world, from the invention of the medium to the dawn of the 21st century.

Photographic manipulation is a familiar phenomenon in the digital era. The desire and determination to modify the camera image are as old as photography itself--only the methods have changed. This book traces the history of manipulated photography from the earliest days of the medium to the release of Photoshop 1.0 in 1990.

Covers alternative processing from its historical roots through to digital manipulation and contemporary techniques and how to combine them. It features several new techniques alongside new approaches to older techniques, including hand painting on silver gelatin prints, ceramics and photography, cyanotypes, wet plate collodion, digital prints and many more.

In this book, practicing photographers and writers across several fields of scholarship share a range of fresh approaches to reading the photobook, developing new ways of understanding how meaning is shaped by an image's interaction with its text and context, and engaging with the visual, tactile, and interactive experience of the photobook in all its dimensions.

Presenting a diverse geographic and ethnic selection, the What They Saw anthology interprets historical photobooks by women in the broadest sense possible: classic bound books, portfolios, personal albums, unpublished books, zines and scrapbooks.

Whether set amidst traffic in London's financial district, conflict in the Nigeria Delta, a Catholic home in Damascus, rebel territory in the Philippines, a field in Syria, a church in Greenwich, or upon an acting stage in Hollywood, Boulos traces the complexities of our era at the fringes of politics and cinema.

Flat Pictures (You Can Feel) consists of photographs made in response to the ways in which spontaneous screen-based collage influences and complicates our perception of the 3-dimensional world. Douglas photographs video monitors and commercial displays, appropriates imagery, and flattens experiences while considering photography and its construction through consumerism, belief systems, masculinity, and failure.

The Devil's Pool photographs explore a swimming hole in Philadelphia's Wissahickon Park and emphasize the value of access to green spaces within an urban setting. The project investigates how people relate to their environment and affirms a human need or impulse to commune with the natural world.

Isla de Las Palmas is a “docu-literary” photography project examining Puerto Rican identity within the layered sociopolitical dynamics and systemic pressures of colonialism. The project exposes overlooked histories and subjectivities in an effort to activate civil debate amongst a diverse audience of native islanders, the diaspora, and all other U.S. citizens.

Pine Tree Ballads is a poetic memoir, featuring the artist's daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother as a single protean character (or multiple characters?) vibrating in time, navigating the mysteries and menace of a shared ancestral forest. This deeply personal photographic sequence is part visual narrative of family myths and part origin story.