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Documentary Photography Reconsidered

Author : Michelle Bogre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000211368

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Documentary photography is undergoing an unprecedented transformation as it adapts to the impact of digital technology, social media and new distribution methods. In this book, photographer and educator Michelle Bogre contextualizes these changes by offering a historical, theoretical and practical perspective on documentary photography from its inception to the present day. Documentary Photography Reconsidered is structured around key concepts, such as the photograph as witness, as evidence, as memory, as narrative and as a vehicle for activism and social change. Chapters include in-depth interviews with some of the world's leading contemporary practitioners, demonstrating the wide variety of different working styles, techniques and topics available to new photographers entering the field. Every key concept is illustrated with work from a range of innovative, influential and often under-represented photographers, giving a flavor of the depth and range of projects from the history of this global art form. There are also creative projects designed to spark ideas and build skills, to help you conceive, develop and produce your own meaningful documentary projects. The book is supported by a companion website, which includes in-depth video interviews with featured practitioners.

Photography as Activism

Author : Michelle Bogre
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781136097102

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Photography as Activism by Michelle Bogre Pdf

You want to look through the lens of your camera and change the world. You want to capture powerful moments in one click that will impact the minds of other people. Photographic images are one of the most popular tools used to advocate for social and environmental awareness. This can be as close to home as drug use, prostitution, or pollution or as far away as famine, war, and the plight of refugees and migrant workers. One well-known example of an activist photographer would be landscape photographer Ansel Adams, who trudged to Washington with stunning images of the American west to advocate protecting these areas. His images and testimony were instrumental in creating the National Park System and garnering specific protection for Yellowstone National Park. More recently Robert Glenn Ketchum's images of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge raised awareness of why this area should be protected. Nigel Barker's seal photographs advocates against seal clubbing. What is your cause and how can you use your camera to make the world a better place? This book provides a comprehensive theory of, and history of, photography as activism. It also includes interviews with contemporary photographers. It is a call to action for young photographers to become activists, a primer of sorts, with advice for how to work with NGOs and non-profits, how to work safely in conflict zones and with suggestions for distribution on websites, blogs, and interactive agencies.

Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA

Author : Sara Blair,Eric Rosenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780520265653

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Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA by Sara Blair,Eric Rosenberg Pdf

"Coauthored by the literary scholar Sara Blair and the art historian Eric Rosenberg, this volume of the Defining Moments in American Photography series offers new ways to understand the work of the famous Farm Security Administration photographers by exploring an expanded and much more variable idea of the documentary than what New Dealers proposed. The coauthors follow in the line of scholars who have, on the one hand, looked critically at the FSA photography project and identified its goals, biases, contradictions, and ambivalences and, on the other hand, discerned strikingly independent directions among its photographers. But what distinguishes their work from that of others is their wrestling with a specific term often applied to the Depression era: trauma. If it was the case that documentary, as a genre, and FSA photographs, as an umbrella project, came to prominence during a time of trauma and in the hands of socially minded photographers was meant to address and publicize trauma, the coauthors of this volume seek to understand how trauma and photography mixed and how, in the volatility of that mixture, the competing ideas for documentary took shape. Among the key figures they study are some of the most beloved in American photography, including Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Aaron Siskind"--Provided by publisher.

Doing Documentary Work

Author : Robert Coles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195124952

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Investigates the nature of documentary work, arguing that the work of an observer is not only to represent, but also to interpret reality, and uses examples from literature and photography to show how the observers' personal frame of reference has influenced his or her work.

Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth

Author : James Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 087722627X

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Discusses the concept of documentary photographs, the Farm Security Administration, and the use of photography to influence the viewer

The Ethics of Seeing

Author : Jennifer Evans,Paul Betts,Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785337291

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The Ethics of Seeing by Jennifer Evans,Paul Betts,Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann Pdf

Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.

Understanding Photojournalism

Author : Jennifer Good,Paul Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000211399

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Understanding Photojournalism by Jennifer Good,Paul Lowe Pdf

Understanding Photojournalism explores the interface between theory and practice at the heart of photojournalism, mapping out the critical questions that photojournalists and picture editors consider in their daily practice and placing these in context. Outlining the history and theory of photojournalism, this textbook explains its historical and contemporary development; who creates, selects and circulates images; and the ethics, aesthetics and politics of the practice. Carefully chosen, international case studies represent a cross section of key photographers, practices and periods within photojournalism, enabling students to understand the central questions and critical concepts. Illustrated with a range of photographs and case material, including interviews with contemporary photojournalists, this book is essential reading for students taking university and college courses on photography within a wide range of disciplines and includes an annotated guide to further reading and a glossary of terms to further expand your studies.

Robert Frank's The Americans

Author : Jonathan Day
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 1841503150

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Robert Frank's The Americans by Jonathan Day Pdf

In the mid-50s, Robert Frank embarked on a ten-thousand-mile road trip across post-war America, capturing thousands of photographs that resulted in The Americans, which represents a seminal moment in both photography and in America's emerging understanding of itself. Jonathan Day revisits this work and contributes a thoughtful critical commentary.

Day Sleeper

Author : Sam Contis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 1912339641

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Day Sleeper by Sam Contis Pdf

In this book, Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Lange's extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper - at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Lange's ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side of Lange, and includes previously unseen photographs of her family, portraiture from her studio, and pictures made in the streets of San Francisco and the East Bay. Day Sleeper will be featured alongside other works of Contis's in the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures at the Museum of Modern Art, February-May 2020.

John Vachon’s America

Author : John Vachon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0520223780

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John Vachon’s America by John Vachon Pdf

From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon travelled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression. This collection offers a record of his vision and of America's land and people.

Reflections in a Glass Eye

Author : International Center of Photography,Anne Hollander,Ellen Handy
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821226258

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Reflections in a Glass Eye by International Center of Photography,Anne Hollander,Ellen Handy Pdf

Celebrates the artistry and diversity of the photographic medium

Photography as Activism

Author : MICHELLE. BOGRE
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0367723522

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Photography as Activism by MICHELLE. BOGRE Pdf

This fully revised and updated second edition of Photography as Activism is both a study of activist photography, and a call to action. It offers students and documentary photographers insights into the theory, history, philosophy and practice of photography as activism. The book is lavishly illustrated with 85 key historical and contemporary images. Chapters have been revised to include contemporary ideas about representation, gaze, agency and decolonizing the camera, as well as an expanded history that includes work from the global South and the civil rights movements in the US. A new fourth chapter focuses on activist practices that go beyond traditional reportage. It features 19 new interviews and updates on the original interviews. Photographers talk about their practices, the challenges they face in the 21st century, advice on working with NGOs and non-profits, and how to form partnerships to expand the dissemination of their work. Photography as Activism is an essential text for courses on documentary and photojournalism, and those that explore art as social change more broadly, but also a call to action for young photographers to pick up their cameras and advocate for change.

Latinx Photography in the United States

Author : Elizabeth Ferrer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295747644

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Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer Pdf

Whether at UFW picket lines in California’s Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful, innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest, borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration and marginalization common to many of their communities. Yet the work of these artists has largely been excluded from the documented history of photography in the United States. Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies. She traces the rise of a Latinx consciousness in photography in the 1960s and '70s and the growth of identity-based approaches in the 1980s and '90s. Ferrer argues that in many cases a shared sense of struggle has motivated photographers to work purposefully, driven by a deep sense of resistance, social and political commitments, and cultural affirmation, and she highlights the significance of family photos to their approaches and outlooks. Works range from documentary and street photography to narrative series to conceptual projects. Latinx Photography in the United States is the first book to offer a parallel history of photography, one that no longer lies at the margins but rather plays a crucial role in imagining and creating a broader, more inclusive American visual history.

Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century

Author : Michelle Bogre
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781317693857

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Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century by Michelle Bogre Pdf

An invaluable resource for photography educators, this volume is a survey of photographic education in the first decade of the 21st Century. Drawing upon her 25 years of teaching experience and her professional network, Michelle Bogre spoke with 47 photo educators from all over the world to compile this diverse set of interviews. The themes of these conversations explore: Why students should study photography The value of a formal photography degree Teaching philosophies Whether video and multimedia should be an essential part of a photographic curricula The challenges of teaching photography today Changes in photographic education overall The second half of the book shares 70 photography assignments of varying level of difficulty from these educators, some paired with examples of how students completed them. This book will inspire and invigorate any photography educator’s curriculum.

Dereliction of Duty

Author : H. R. McMaster
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062031181

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"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. McMaster pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published theories of other historians and excuses of the participants. A page-turning narrative, Dereliction Of Duty focuses on a fascinating cast of characters: President Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, General Maxwell Taylor, McGeorge Bundy and other top aides who deliberately deceived the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Congress and the American public. McMaster’s only book, Dereliction of Duty is an explosive and authoritative new look at the controversy concerning the United States involvement in Vietnam.