Photography - History, Theory & Criticism

This book brings together a wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs to create an enduring account of America's first known trans network, Casa Susanna.In the 1950s and 60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a...

Featuring five lenticular images Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1900) is famous for his invention of very fast photographic techniques, and the discovery of how animals and people walk and run. For more than a century people have marvelled at his series of 'Locomotion' images, which depict...

From the daguerreotype to the digital age, Face Time is an accessible introduction to one of photography’s most popular subjects: ourselves. With over 250 illustrations, it presents rarely seen treasures alongside works by the greatest names in photography, including nineteenth-century pioneers Hippolyte Bayard and Julia Margaret Cameron, twentieth-century...

From as early as 1839, artists began exploring photography's enormous potential for storytelling and often went to great lengths to stage pictures for the camera. Photography as Fiction opens with a short introductory essay summarising the history of staged photography, highlighting key debates on the...

100 Ideas that Changed 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.Each photographic idea is presented through lively text and arresting visuals, and explores when...

This is the first ever retrospective monograph on Sune Jonsson's life work. His imagery is populated by people who appear distant, but who in fact exist only a few decades back in time. Sune Jonsson (1930-2009) spent nearly his entire life working in the...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: When a Photograph of...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: Funding a Photographic Elite:...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: Before the Tableau Form:...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: The ‘Greatest of War...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: Sampling Chaos: Aby Warburg...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: Brides of Men and...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: Beyond True and False?...

Since 1996, with contributions by noted scholars, the peer-reviewed journal Études Photographiques, has been leading the way in providing academics and the arts community access to the most current research on photography, the history of photography and visual culture. CONTENTS: Robert Taft in Beaumont...

This lavishly illustrated volume looks at the myriad ways in which the burgeoning art of photography dialogued with Impressionist painting. In the 19th century, numerous photographers chose the same motifs as Impressionist painters: the forest of Fontainebleau, the cliffs of Étretat or the modern...

Still is a sequence of poems written by poet laureate Simon Armaitage in response to panoramic photographs of battlefields associated with the Battle of the Somme. Chosen from archives at Imperial War Museum, these astonishingly clear photographic images were ahead of their time. Still was published...

In his acclaimed portraits, Richard Avedon captured the iconic figures of the twentieth century in his starkly bold, intimately minimal, and forensic visual style. Concurrently, his work for Harper's Bazar and Vogue transformed the ideals of women's fashion, femininity, and culture to become the defining look...