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Media Studies

Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy

Kennedy Liam

ISBN: HB: 9780226337265, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones

In 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconic – comparable to the infamous photo by Nick...

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Albino

Palacios Ana

ISBN: HB: 9788494423413, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
108 pp., 27.9x31.1 cm, 82 colour plates

In "Albino", photojournalist Ana Palacios takes us inside a shelter for people with albinism and reveals what daily life is like for those living with the genetic condition in Tanzania. As Palacios documents, widespread ignorance of the causes of alb...

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Photography, Trace, and Trauma

Iversen Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226370163, ISBN: HB: 9780226370026, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 17 colour plates, 29 halftones

Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer – similar to what happens when a traumatic ev...

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Documenting the World Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

Mitman Gregg, Wilder Kelley

ISBN: HB: 9780226129112, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 colour plates, 40 halftones

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It would b...

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Spotlights Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Eckmann Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780936316420, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 2017
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 75 colour plates

In 2015, the "U. S. News & World Report" raved that the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum "houses one of the most distinguished university collections in the country".Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum" commemorates the museum's...

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Gender Studies

Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image

Campbell Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226373690, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 75 halftones

On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elem...

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Public Image Photography and Civic Spectatorship

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226342931, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 colour plates

Even as the media environment has changed dramatically in recent years, one thing at least remains true: photographs are everywhere. From professional news photos to smartphone selfies, images have become part of the fabric of modern life. And that m...

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Landscapes Photographs 1926-1946

Sander August

ISBN: HB: 9780226399461, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
112 pp., 31.7x26.7 cm, 59 black&white photographs, 1 map

In 1975, German readers were introduced to the "Rheinlandschaften", a collection of stunning images of the Rhineland captured in the first half of the twentieth century by photographer August Sander (1876-1964). This fresh edition, now in English, br...

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Camera Orientalis Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

Behdad Ali

ISBN: PB: 9780226356402, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 4 colour plates, 80 halftones

In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and fa...

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Camera Does the Rest How Polaroid Changed Photography

Buse Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226176383, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 colour plates, 6 halftones

In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there's still something magical f...

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