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"Self-portraiture then is a way to interrogate not just who I am in terms of my identity and sexuality, but, more importantly, who I can fantasise myself to be."Ajamu X, born in Huddersfield in 1963, is a British photographic artist, curator, archivist and activist. He is best known for his fine art photography which explores same-sex desire, the erotic and sensory, and the Black queer body. As a leading specialist in Black British LGBTQ+ history, heritage and memory, his work as an archivist and activist documents the lives and experiences of Black LGBTQ+ people in the United Kingdom. His work is held in many private and public collections, including Tate, the Rose Art Museum, Autograph, Arts Council of England, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. "I think photography privileges the visual, but in the darkroom the other senses kick in: the sonic, the tactility, the smell is important too."

"I feel most comfortable among people in various diasporas. I don't feel like I have one specific home; everywhere is home and nowhere is home."Sunil Gupta was born in 1953 in New Delhi, India and moved to Canada as a teenager in the late 1960s. He now lives and works in London. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist's diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration and queer identity - his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history. Working in India, the United States, and the UK, his best-known works include the Exiles series (1986-7), Lovers: Ten Years On (1984-6), the series From Here to Eternity (1999), Songs of Deliverance (2022). His newspaper articles, speeches and essays show his crucial role at the centre of grassroots queer and postcolonial organising throughout his career. He continues to forge his own cultural history, fusing the public and the personal through photographs that highlight those marginalised in society.

New York-based artist Lyle Ashton Harris spent his adolescence living between New York City and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This formative period informs his wide-ranging artistic practice in photography, collage, installation and performance - making a commentary on the societal constructs of gender, desire, and race; the complexities of African and African American experience; and his own identity as a queer, Black man. "I think it's important to talk about the triumph of laying claim to an experience and rechannelling its energy into creative expression that will go back out into the culture where an intergenerational transmission can take place."

"Women taking ownership of their bodies and allowing forgiveness of self as a form of healing is one of the ways in which I have approached my work. It is as much a formal experiment as it is a societal gift."Laura Aguilar (1959-2018) was a trailblazing Chicana artist and photographer, best known for her images that explore ideas of beauty and the female form in relation to nature and place. In the 1980s and 1990s, she experimented with portraiture and text to give visibility to a range of perspectives from Latinx and LGBTQ communities around Los Angeles. She later began using her naked body as a subject, adopting photography as a medium to empower herself and find her place among diverse interests and intersecting identities. Her images have been increasingly exhibited and praised since a major retrospective in the United States launched in 2017. This publication showcases works from different photographic series that made Aguilar one of the most influential artists of her generation. It also includes one of her previously unpublished artist statements.

Considering the visual coverage of the war in Ukraine, this book provides critical insights into how newsrooms make use of visual materials, how visuals partake in journalistic storytelling in a modern wartime context, and how visual journalism practices affect the news media's role as arbiter of accuracy and ethics.

The SuperNatural theme, conceived by Irene Alison, is a reflection that traverses multiple aspects of contemporary living in the relationship between man, nature and technology.

This book of over 200 photographs by Bernis and Peter von zur Muehlen covers the sweep of Prague's history from World War II to the "Velvet Revolution."

The first chapter, illustrated by his mother's black and white snapshots of the city, is an account of Peter's life in Prague as a young boy during the months leading up to the end of World War II and of his family's narrow escape days before the Red Army entered the city. The following chapters describe four visits by Bernis and Peter between 1985 and 1992, an epoch that saw Czechoslovakia's transformation from Communist dictatorship to the restoration of democracy. The images reveal not only a glorious city, but also the many less prominent sites that give Prague its unique charm. Haunting images of the Old Jewish Cemetery remind the reader of the turbulent history of the Jews, nearly exterminated by the Nazis. One chapter traces the evolution of the Lennon Wall, a famous symbol of Prague's long struggle for freedom. Lively accounts of the photographers' travel experiences document a city slowly coming to terms with its own history. A foreword by John Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at A the Katzen Arts Center, sets the stage for the story and images in this book.[1] Afterword by Ori Z. Soltes, noted lecturer and author of twenty books, illuminates the city's Judaeo-Christian history.A foreword provided by John Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at A the Katzen Arts Center, sets the stage for the story and images in this book. Afterword by Ori Z. Soltes, noted lecturer and author of twenty books, illuminates the city's Judaeo-Christian history.

This book presents some of the finest work by celebrated French photographer Gérard Uféras, covering such themes as the performing arts, public festivals and the institution of marriage. Text in French.

This book presents some of the finest work by celebrated French photographer Gérard Uféras, covering such themes as the performing arts, public festivals and the institution of marriage.

Tom Blachford’s cinematic photographs of Tokyo and Kyoto transport viewers to a futuristic, dystopian dimension, in which perpetual nightfall and neon-spotted cityscapes reign. Using Metabolist and postmodern architectural philosophies, classic neo-noir and sci-fi genre aesthetics, and intense angles reminiscent of sweeping manga illustrations, Blachford captures the alien-like essence of these enigmatic structures and streets. Famed director Nicolas Winding Refn and photographer Paul Tulett contribute grounding texts. Seeing Tokyo for the first time, photographer Tom Blachford felt like he had been transported to a highly-advanced parallel universe. Inspired, he shot photographs for six days straight from 9pm until the sun-up, in the pursuit of a groundbreaking series that communicated the city’s uncanny, alien-like energy. The focal point for Blachford was the architecture of Kenzo Tange, Japan’s Pritzker Prize winning architect and an icon of the Metabolist movement. A 1950s and ‘60s Japanese avant-garde architectural movement, Metabolism combined biological growth and the natural world with technological advancement and architectural ambition. Blachford shot a core list of buildings, first in Tokyo and later in Kyoto, that embodied these philosophies, including a range of 1990s postmodern, futuristic structures to heighten the sense of the unexpected and strange within Nihon Noir. Blachford spectacularly distills the impressiveness and almost otherworldliness of the structures of legendary Japanese architects, including Kisho Kurokawa, Yoji Watanabe, Kiyonori Kikutake, Makoto Sei Watanabe, and Kengo Kuma. Blachford’s cinematic photos reference the hyper-saturated palette of film director (and text contributor) Nicolas Winding Refn and the cyberpunk, “Neon Noir” cityscapes of Blade Runner. Ridley Scott himself was aesthetically inspired by the architecture of Japan——particularly the entertainment district Kabukicho——while creating the cult cinematic masterpiece. Blachford was also inspired by Japanese media, including the unique cyberpunk architecture in anime such as Akira and Ghost In The Shell, prioritizing an electric color palette and emphasizing the purples and pinks of the night over more muted, organic colors. Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn contributes an emotional and beautiful text. A contextualizing essay by Master of Urban Planning Paul Tulett serves as a guide to understanding this otherworldly environment.

The photographed faces of significant personages of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. These beautiful and mysterious images provoke enriching dialogues which inform us about ourselves as much as about the nature of any personage depicted or, indeed about the quality and capacity of any image.

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "Iranian-ness" in the context of Iran's local, regional, and global position.

By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish National Fund, this research examines its rippling impact on civil landscapes prior to 1948 in Palestine, and its lasting impact on the region to date.

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of "isms."

Focusing on the creation of the concept of whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that was common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

Art Work, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons for artists and writers-or anyone interested in the creative path. Written in the same frank, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir, Hold Still, this new book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.Illustrated throughout with photographs, journal entries, and letters that bring immediacy and poignancy to the narrative, Art Work is full of thought-provoking insights about the hazards of early promise; the unpredictable role of luck; the value of work, work, work, and more hard work; the challenges of rejection and distraction; the importance of risk-taking;and the rewards of knowing why and when you say yes. In sparkling prose and thoughtfully juxtaposed visuals and ephemera, Art Work is a generous, provocative, and compulsively readable exploration of creativity by one of our most original thinkers.

This book brings together diverse perspectives from a range of geographic settings and feature contributions from some of the key thinkers in the field. It explores various facets of the relationship between verticality and visibility, offering insights that deepen the understanding of this dynamic dyad.

This study argues that photographs from Qajar Iran (1785-1925) of harem women, royal women, and public women, such as sex workers, musicians, singers, and dancers, make profound statements on the institution of the harem in a time of flux and modernization.

A sort of journey to discover and rediscover aspects, anecdotes and curiosities of Florence, this atypical city, where every street, even the narrowest one, tells a story. Text in English and Italian.

- Li Qiang entered the public's field of vision with his hometown photography, and his works became a key for us to interpret the farming culture of northern Shaanxi. Now, after 40 years of photography, Li Qiang looks at the city and the distance from the land of his hometown - Hardcover cloth, partial silver printing and customized black card inserts, rich details; 200g high-quality Prince matte powder paper This book collects Li Qiang's classic photographs from 1981 to the present with three chapters: Northern Homeland, Distant Memory, and City Encounter. Li Qiang applies black and white images to record the changes in the lifestyle and cultural landscape of this era, from his hometown of Liyaoxian in northern Shaanxi to Xi'an, where he works and lives, and then to Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau in the south. These photographs record the social landscape of the current accelerated industrialization and urbanization, criticize the destruction of nature and original civilization, and pay attention to the state of individual existence. This deep humanistic sentiment is placed in every frozen moment, allowing us to refocus on the freshness and touching of daily life that has long been common place. Li's influence on contemporary photography is not only reflected in his absolute adherence to his own aesthetic system, but also in his personal understanding between his hometown and modernity, and between himself and the times, providing a unique path for the innovation and expression of photographic language.-á