Susan Meiselas Nicaragua Signed 1st Edition

Author : Claire Rosenberg
Publisher : Aperture Direct
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683951417

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Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua (Signed 1st Edition) by Claire Rosenberg Pdf

Originally published in 1981, Susan Meiselas' "Nicaragua" is a modern classic--a seminal contribution to the literature of concerned photojournalism. John Berger praised the work for its ability to, "take us right inside a revolutionary moment... Yet unlike most photographs of such material, these refuse all the rhetoric normally associated with such pictures: The rhetoric of violence, revolutionary heroism and the glorification of misery." "Nicaragua" forms an extraordinary narrative of a nation in turmoil. Starting with a powerful and chilling evocation of the Somoza regime during its decline in the late 1970s, the images trace the evolution of the popular resistance that led to the insurrection, culminating with the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in 1979. The 2008 edition includes "Pictures from a Revolution," a DVD in which Meiselas returns to the scenes she originally photographed, tirelessly tracking down the subjects and interviewing them about the reality of post-revolution Nicaragua. The DVD booklet features a new interview with Meiselas in which she discusses the history of the project. Susan Meiselas, born in Baltimore in 1948, received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA from Harvard University. Her first book, the classic "Carnival Strippers," was published in 1976. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hasselblad Foundation Photography Prize (1994) and the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award (2005). Her work has been exhibited at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. A member of Magnum Photos, Meiselas was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992. She lives in New York.

Author : Brett Abbott
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606060223

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Engaged Observers by Brett Abbott Pdf

A critical survey of nine documentary photographers who were at the cutting edge of this form of journalism during the second half of the 20th century, 'Engaged Observers' shows how since the sixties photographers such as Leonard Freed & Susan Meiselas have challenged the conventional objectivity of the newsroom.

Author : Melissa Miles,Edward Welch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000213331

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Photography and Its Publics by Melissa Miles,Edward Welch Pdf

Photography is a ubiquitous part of the public sphere. Yet we rarely stop to think about the important role that photography plays in helping to define what and who constitute the public. Photography and Its Publics brings together leading experts and emerging thinkers to consider the special role of photography in shaping how the public is addressed, seen and represented.This book responds to a growing body of recent scholarship and flourishing interest in photography's connections to the law, society, culture, politics, social change, the media and visual ethics.Photography and Its Publics presents the public sphere as a vibrant setting where these realms are produced, contested and entwined. Public spheres involve yet exceed the limits of families, interest groups, identities and communities. They are dynamic realms of visibility, discussion, reflection and possible conflict among strangers of different race, age, gender, social and economic status. Through studies of photography in South America, North America, Europe and Australasia, the contributors consider how photography has changed the way we understand and locate the public sphere. As they address key themes including the referential and imaginative qualities of photography, the transnational circulation of photographs, online publics, social change, violence, conflict and the ethics of spectatorship, the authors provide new insight into photography's vital role in defining public life.

Author : Mauricio Espinoza,Jared List
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683403951

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The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century by Mauricio Espinoza,Jared List Pdf

How an overlooked film industry became a cinematic force The first book in English dedicated to the study of Central American film, this volume explores the main trends, genres, and themes that define this emerging industry. The seven nations of the region have seen an unprecedented growth in film production during the twenty-first century with the creation of over 200 feature-length films compared with just one in the 1990s. This volume provides a needed overview of one of the least explored cinemas in the world. In these essays, various scholars of film and cultural studies from around the world provide insights into the continuities and discontinuities between twentieth- and twenty-first-century cinematic production on the Isthmus. They discuss how political, social, and environmental factors, along with new production modes and aesthetics, have led to a corpus of films that delve into issues of the past and present such as postwar memory, failed revolutions, trauma, migration, popular culture, minority populations, and gender disparities. From Salvadoran documentaries to Costa Rican comedies and Panamanian sports films, the movies analyzed here demonstrate the region’s flourishing film industry and the diversity of approaches found within it. The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century pays homage to an overlooked cultural phenomenon and shows the importance of regional cinema studies. Contributors: Liz Harvey-Kattou | Daniela Granja Núñez | Carolina Sanabria | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | María Lourdes Cortés | Júlia González de Canales Carcereny | Arno Jacob Argueta | Tomás Arce Mairena | Dr. Mauricio Espinoza | Lilia García Torres | Dr. Jared List | Patricia Arroyo Calderón | Esteban E. Loustaunau | Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste | Juan Pablo Gómez Lacayo | Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Lia Nicole Brozgal,Sara Kippur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781382639

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Being Contemporary by Lia Nicole Brozgal,Sara Kippur Pdf

A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field.

Author : Alan Krell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 186189144X

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The Devil's Rope by Alan Krell Pdf

In this book, Alan Krell investigates the place barbed wire holds in the social imagination.

Author : Susan Meiselas,Claire Rosenberg
Publisher : Aperture
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 159711071X

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Nicaragua, June 1978-July 1979 by Susan Meiselas,Claire Rosenberg Pdf

Accompanying DVD in pocket at the rear of book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082930499

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National Union Catalog by Anonim Pdf

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author : Mary Ellen Mark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3969990920

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Falkland Road by Mary Ellen Mark Pdf

Author : Susan Meiselas,Deirdre English,Sylvia Wolf
Publisher : Steidl Dap
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3882439548

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Carnival Strippers by Susan Meiselas,Deirdre English,Sylvia Wolf Pdf

From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for smalltown carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. She also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers and paying customers. Meiselas' frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention. Produced during the early years of the women's movement, "Carnival Strippers" reflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that characterized a complex era of change. This revised edition contains a new selection of Meiselas' black-and-white photographs together with the original interview excerpts. Additionally, an audio CD featuring a collage of participants' voices and a 1977 interview with the photographer are included. Essays by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English reflect on the importance of this body of work within the history of photography and the history of feminism.

Author : Scott MacDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520275614

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American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary by Scott MacDonald Pdf

American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film Section and the Film Study Center, the Carpenter Center and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. Scott MacDonald uses pragmatismÕs focus on empirical experience as a basis for measuring the groundbreaking achievements of such influential filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Miriam Weinstein, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Nina Davenport, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, Michel Negroponte, John Gianvito, Alexander Olch, Amie Siegel, Ilisa Barbash, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half century.

Author : Richard Elman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438402031

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Namedropping by Richard Elman Pdf

In the course of the same old race I find myself writing about knowing some people—how fame seems to set some people apart from us, once known: I was astonished by Ernest Hemingway's small, weak handshake when we were introduced at Scribners by John Hall Wheelock and by the jolt of force with which Elie Wiesel squeezed my hand. How long ago seems knowing, too: when I first meet Isaac Singer he asks me, "Who is Mr. Saul Bellow?" We're on the Upper West Side in his apartment next to the funeral parlor. A yellow parakeet hops around on Singer's bald forehead. Singer's great comic story of faith, "Gimpel the Fool," has only recently been published from Yiddish into English in a translation by Saul Bellow. They're both still a long way from Stockholm. "Do you know him? Can you tell me who this Mr. Bellow is?" he asks. It was not always possible to guess Singer's motives in acting as though he was not impressed with worldly reputations. His features of a medieval Polish saint, even to a faint white-haired tonsure effect around the crown of his skull, were backlit by the glowing monitor from his mischievous incubus.—from the Preface These are Richard Elman's candid snapshots in prose of the various, mostly literary celebrities he encountered during his four decades as a working writer and journalist—among them Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Faye Dunaway, Hunter S. Thompson, and other important artists and writers who were Elman's teachers and, occasionally, adversaries. Engagingly written and never superficial, these portraits and anecdotes in many cases strike to the center of each subject's art. To many readers, these persons are just "names"; Elman brings them to life while never simplifying or overdramatizing their work.

Author : Susan Meiselas
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 3865216854

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Susan Meiselas by Susan Meiselas Pdf

Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated in these debates than Susan Meiselas. An American photographer best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 80s--including the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador--Meiselas' process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with essential questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media and the relationship of images to history and memory. Meiselas is under no illusions about the dual nature of the photographer's role as witness: "The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation." Her tenacious engagement with these matters has made her a leading commentator in the debate on contemporary photojournalism. With 200 plates and contributions from some of photography's finest theorists--among them David Levi Strauss, Lucy Lippard, Kristen Lubben, Jan-Erik Lundstrom and Allan Sekula--this volume gives an overview of Meiselas' enormously varied and courageous work to date.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : UOM:39015030451184

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AB Bookman's Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carole Naggar,Fred Ritchin
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0714872113

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Magnum Photobook by Carole Naggar,Fred Ritchin Pdf

The first complete illustrated bibliography of 1,000 iconic photobooks created by members of the renowned photo agency Published on the occasion of Magnum Photos' seventieth anniversary, this fascinating in-depth survey brings Magnum's history alive through the genre of the photobook ? an essential vehicle for photographers to share their work. Its pages include unpublished behind-the-scenes material, together with ephemera from the photographers' archives about the making of their books. With an introduction by Fred Ritchin and texts by Carole Naggar, this book explores the evolution of the photobook, as well as the important role that Magnum has played in the history of documentary photography.