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Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...

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Culture Studies

Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

Linfield Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780226482514, ISBN: HB: 9780226482507, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images – and lea...

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Literary Criticism

Kind of Touching Beauty Photographs of America by Pedro Meyer, Text by Jean-Paul Sartre

Meyer Pedro, Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857425843, Seagull Books, May 2012
160 pp., 24x24 cm, 100 halftones

Photographer Pedro Meyer is one of the pioneers of contemporary photography and was an early leader in its digital revolution. In "A Kind of Touching Beauty" his lens is focused on the American city, capturing its growth and transition through the 19...

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Making a Presence F. Holland Day in Artistic Photography

Fairbrother Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300180381, Yale University Press, April 2012
128 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus.

Boston photographer Fred Holland Day (1864-1933) first distinguished himself in literary circles as a critic, bibliophile, and co-founder of the progressive publishing firm Copeland and Day, before turning to photography in the 1880s. By the turn of...

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Contemporary Art

Jindrich Heisler Surrealism Under Pressure, 1938-1953

Witkovsky Matthew S., Toman Jindrich

ISBN: HB: 9780300179699, Yale University Press, A+D Series, April 2012
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

Czech poet and photographer Jindrich Heisler (1914-1953) joined the Czech Surrealist Group in 1938, just as Nazi occupation of the country was driving the movement and Czech artists underground. Heisler published his first book of poetry a year later...

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Manuals

Expanded Guide: Techniques Understanding RAW Photography

Taylor David

ISBN: PB: 9781907708558, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, April 2012
192 pp., 17.8x14.5 cm, photos

"Understanding RAW Photography" is a comprehensive guide, written by a professional photographer, that explains the procedure from the start of a photo shoot through each stage of post-processing your image to ultimately displaying it in print or on...

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Boris Mikhailov Time is out of Joint

ISBN: HB: 9783942405645, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, March 2012
176 pp., 27.5x23 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German

Since starting out as a photographer in the mid-1960s, Boris Mikhailov (b. Kharkov, Ukraine, 1938; lives and works in Kharkov and Berlin) has built a wide-ranging and strikingly multifaceted oeuvre. A virtuoso of his art, he has explored a great vari...

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Reset. Beyond Fukushima Will the Nuclear Catastrophe Bring Humanity to Its Senses?

Obara Kazuma

ISBN: PB: 9783037782927, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2012
216 pp., 29.7x23 cm, 130 illus., language: English / Japanese

Ever since the first days following the disastrous events that took place in Japan in March 2011, photojournalist Kazuma Obara has been visiting the sites and the people affected. He even visited the Fukushima power plant itself, where he talked to t...

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50 Series

50 Photos You Should Know

Finger Brad

ISBN: PB: 9783791346113, Prestel Publishing, March 2012
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 150 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

This collection of world-renowned photographs offers a stunning visual history of photography and photojournalism. The birth of photography opened the doors to a new kind of art, one that recorded events with the immediacy not possible with painting...

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Prom

Mark Mary Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9781606061084, Getty Publications, March 2012
132 pp., 33x26 cm, 129 colour illus.

This title offers a compelling look at a modern rite of passage by the acclaimed documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark. The high school prom is an American (but fast becoming an international) tradition and rite of passage. The internationally ren...

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