"Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England's most celebrated photographer during the 1850s, the young medium's most glorious moment. After studying law and painting, Fenton took up the camera in 1851 and immediately began to produce highly original images. During a decade of work he …
Dutch commentators repeatedly claim that their nation has forgotten its violent colonial past. In this compelling study, however, Paul Bijl demonstrates that photographs of colonial atrocities have appeared consistently in the Dutch public sphere and remain widely available in p…
The life of Erwin Blumenfeld, one of the century's best-known photographers, was by no means conventional. By turns acerbic, self-mocking, playful, even absurd, his autobiography is a compelling, virtuoso account of an extraordinary man. All his subjects - his Jewish family, the…
I don't make photographs, I take photographs: Photographien 1957-2003 von Manfred Leve
by Verspohl, Franz-Joachim, Platen, Karl-Michael, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena., Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena., Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Polke, Sigmar
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I don't make photographs, I take photographs: Photographien 1957-2003 von Manfred Leve
by Polke, Sigmar, Verspohl, Franz-Joachim, Platen, Karl-Michael, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena., Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena., Kunsthistorisches Seminar
fromMinerva : Jenaer Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte
"In recent years, interest in old photographs has grown significantly among a broad public, from collectors, conservators, and archivists to amateurs seeking to preserve precious family albums. Although the medium of photography is barely 150 years old, its relatively brief hist…
Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait pho…
Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait pho…
The advent of photography opened up new worlds to 19th century viewers, who were able to visualize themselves and the world beyond in unprecedented detail. But the emphasis on the photography's objectivity masked the subjectivity inherent in deciding what to record, from what an…
The advent of photography opened up new worlds to 19th century viewers, who were able to visualize themselves and the world beyond in unprecedented detail. But the emphasis on the photography's objectivity masked the subjectivity inherent in deciding what to record, from what an…
"This book recounts the history of the use and abuse of Holocaust photographs and illustrates the stories it tells and the questions it explores with a wide range of photographs, including a number never published before."--Jacket.
The Commissar Vanishes offers a chilling look at how one man - Joseph Stalin - manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase the memory of his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were airbrushed from group portraits, and crowd sce…
