Val Williams

Humanity has always used symbols - material objects used to denote difficult, abstract concepts - to describe thoughts and feelings, or to protect secret truths from common knowledge. This concise A-Z guide is a fascinating work of reference that brings to light all the symbols and symbolisms of the world, many aspects of which have been lost to time, including Freemasonry, the Kabbalah, the tarot, astrology, alchemy, Zoroastrianism, and ancient cultures from Egypt to Japan.

When Photography Really Works

Anna Fox

Loisirs

In the studios of India's rotiographers a collection of props and backgrounds make it possible for ordinary men and women to act out their fantasies. This book presents a selection of street photography that combines the imagined and the real Western stereotypes of India, and brings the reader face to face with a vibrant vernacular culture.

Contemporary Indian Studio Photographs from the Satish Sharma Collection

Street Dreams

This retrospective features selections from all of Fox?s major projects. Beginning with her earliest projects, Basingstoke, Work Stations and Friendly Fire? each a critical exploration of the social make up and behaviour of Thatcher?s Britain in the 1980s? the book charts her progress through more personal, diaristic bodies of work including Hewitt Road, Coackroach Diary and My Mother?s Cupboards and My Father?s Words. More recent projects, Country Girls and Pictures of Linda chronicle Fox?s relationship with the musicians Alison Goldfrapp and Linda Lunus through a series of intimate, playful and performative portraits.

Photographs 1983-2007

Susan Bright

Tate Britain (Gallery)

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Tate Britain [no dates given].

Photographing Britain

How We Are

Martin Parr

Nigel Warburton

David Campany

Geoffrey Batchen

Roger Hargreaves

Sheena Wagstaff

Mary Warner Marien

Dominic Willsdon

Darsie Alexander

Liz Jobey

Singular Images

Thy Phu

Kathy Kubicki

Photography and Culture is at the forefront of new critical, reflective and analytical writing on photography. It is pluralistic in its approach and inter-disciplinary, embracing the historic and the contemporary and independent of any one prevailing theoretical critical model. It mirrors and debates new ways of thinking about photography as the photographic image becomes an ever more central player in our personal and public histories and lifestories. It seeks to become an important text for a new community of interest clustered around those who use reference, interpret or analyse photographic images within their chosen fields in arts and humanities, science and social science. * Aims to rebalance the over emphasis on art historical approaches, to look at vernacular and applied photography * Embraces the historical, technological, cultural and social aspects of photography, as well as all genres* Answers a clear need for a vehicle that fosters exchange about photography and culture across a wide range of disciplines and subfields* Strong interdisciplinary approach * Offers a forum for diverse voices in the field * Genuinely international, it seeks to open up the study of photography beyond traditional Eurocentric and Anglo-American perspectives * Gathers together the most thoughtful writers and thinkers about photography

Photography and Culture

Liz Heron

The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women’s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years. Extraordinarily wide-ranging in its scope, this collection chronicles the role of women in photography as critics, historians, and practitioners. Readers will find Julia Margaret Cameron’s bold description of her photographic method, Rosalind Krauss’s exploration of what the camera means for Surrealism, Margaret Bourke-White and Carol Squiers with differing perspectives on Life magazine, as well as essays by Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Lucy Lippard, Berenice Abbott, Dorthea Lange, and many others. Illuminations begins with a short piece on the daguerreotype by Elizabeth Barrett Browning then moves through the avant-garde influence of Dada, Bauhaus, and surrealism, to fashion and portrait photography, continuing with documentary and reportage, the emergence of feminist analysis, and postmodern and postcolonial criticism. Encompassing many varied points of view, this volume offers pieces on individual photographers such as Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams, Barbara Kruger, Edward Weston, and Cindy Sherman along with theoretical work by contemporary writers including Jane Gallop, Coco Fusco, and Laura Mulvey. An historic anthology, Illuminations shows that women have been writing about photography from its beginnings and have intervened in the key debates of the past century and a half. It will welcomed by those interested in photography, gender studies, and women and the arts. Contributors. Berenice Abbott, Dawn Ades, Susan H. Aiken, Jan Avgikos, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret Bourke-White, Deborah Bright, Susan Butler, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cynthia Chris, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Gen Doy, Olive Edis, Ute Eskildsen, Andrea Fisher, Gisèle Freund, Coco Fusco, Jane Gallop, Nan Goldin, Jewelle Gomez, Jan Zita Grover, Judith Mara Gutman, Maria Morris Hambourg, Liz Heron, Alice Hughes, Karen Knorr, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Kuhn, Dorothea Lange, Therese Lichtenstein, Lucy Lippard, Catherine Lord, Mary Warner Marien, Elizabeth McCausland, Roberta McGrath, Lee Miller, Tina Modotti, Lucia Moholy, Laura Mulvey, Carole Naggar, Nancy Newhall, Amy Rule, Lauren Sedofsky, Ingrid Sischy, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Susan Sontag, Jo Spence, Carol Squiers, Varvara Stepanova, Anne Tucker, Eudora Welty, Dorothy Wilding, Val Wiliams, Anne-Marie Willis, Madame Yevonde

Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present

Illuminations

Paul Lowe

Brigitte Lardinois

Jennifer Good

The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting and in the representation of conflict in popular culture and historical memory. However, as contemporary culture tries to come to terms with the events and their political, psychological and cultural implications, the 'real' Vietnam War has been appropriated and changed into a set of mythologies which implicate American and Vietnamese national identities specifically, and ideas of modern conflict more broadly, particularly in shaping the mediation of the twenty-first century 'War on Terror'. This collection of interdisciplinary critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the US involvement in South East Asia, considering this process of 'mythologising' through the lenses of visual media and tracing the war's evolution from contemporary reportage to subsequent interpretation and consumption. It reassesses the role of visual media in covering and remembering the war, its memorialisation, mediation and memory. The origin of this collection of essays was an international conference, titled "Considering Vietnam", held at the Imperial War Museum, London, in February 2012, co-organised by the museum and the University of the Arts London Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC).

Visual Culture and Mediated Memory

Mythologizing the Vietnam War

Catalogue of the Exhibition Curated by Val Williams and Greg Hobson in 1999

New Natural History

Disability and Discourse applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what happens during the everyday encounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the other people with whom they interact. Explores conversations and encounters from the lives of people with intellectual disabilities Introduces the established methodology of Conversation Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of students, researchers and practitioners Adopts a discursive approach which looks at how people with intellectual disabilities use talk in real-life situations, while showing how such talk can be supported and developed Follows people into the meetings and discussions that take place in self-advocacy and research contexts Offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research

Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities

Disability and Discourse

Jonathan Watkins

Matthew Hilton

Kieran Connell

Janet Mendelsohn

This book is re-printing and will be available in April 2016. This book accompanies the largest exhibition to date of photographs by American academic and documentary filmmaker Janet Mendelsohn.Part of a 'photo-essay' Mendelsohn made as a student at the U

Varna Road

Available for the first time in an updated, compact paperback format, this book offers a stunning photographic survey of Ireland over the last seven decades, from the 1950s to the present day. Organized decade by decade, the images show the lingering influence of rural life in the 1950s; the hidden story of ordinary Irish men and women, living in a divided society during the troubled years of the sectarian conflict; the South's huge economic growth at the end of 1990s, baptised the 'Celtic Tiger', and Ireland's perpetual quest for identity, from the 1950s to the present day. Each decade is commented on by a notable contemporary Irish literary figure: Anthony Cronin, Nuala O'Faolain, Eamonn McCann, Fintan O'Toole, Colm Tóibín and Anne Enright invite the reader to dive into the social and political context of each period, providing a textual backdrop to the photographers' work.

Magnum Ireland

This selection of women's writings on photography proposes a new and different history, demonstrating the ways in which women's perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over 150 years, focusing it more deeply and, with the advent of feminist approaches, increasingly challenging its orthodoxies. Included in the book are Rosalind Krauss, Ingrid Sischy, Vicki Goldberg and Carol Squiers.

Women Writing on Photography from the 1850's to the Present

Sune Jonsson

This is the first ever retrospective monograph on Sune Jonssons 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 remote, northern Swedish counties of Ångermanland and Västerbotten. His life mission was to document the farming communities found in the agricultural landscapes of northern Sweden, whose decline parallel with the growth of an industrial and urban society he witnessed with his own eyes. This monograph covers the majority of Sune Jonssons works, from the debut book Byn med det blå huset to Och tiden blir ett förunderligt ting. The text is written by Valerie Williams, Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the University of Arts, London, and former curator at the Hasselblad Center in Sweden. In addition Sune Jonssons own texts are provided as entryways to his various photographic projects.

Daniel Meadows

Daniel Meadows was one of a group of photographers who spearheaded the independent photography movement in the early 1970s. He produced an astonishing record of urban society across Britain, working in a uniquely collaborative way with his subjects. This is the first major survey of his work.

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