• Foreword / Bruce Barnes
• Acknowledgments / Lisa Hostetler
• A matter of memory: photography as object in the digital age / Lisa Hostetler
• Plates with accompanying text / William T. Green
• Laying the groundwork : Robert Heinecken ; Floris M. Neusüss ; Kunié Sugiura ; Ellen Carey ; Adam Fuss ; James Welling ; Kenneth Josephson ; Thomas F. Barrow
• Material memories : Mladen Bizumic ; Farrah Karapetian ; Marco Breuer ; Alison Rossiter ; Matthew Brandt
• The life of a photograph : Phil Chang ; Bryan Graf ; Nick Marshall ; Yola Monakhov Stockton ; Chris McCaw ; John Chiara
• The photograph as sculptural presence : Leslie Hewitt ; Marlo Pascual ; Laura Letinsky ; Matthew Porter
• The photograph as talisman of recollection and emotion : Bertien van Manen ; Jim Lommasson ; Jason Lazarus ; Vik Muniz ; Diane Meyer ; Augusta Wood
• A photographic Babylon : Taryn Simon ; Michelle Stuart ; Antony Cairns ; Lilly Lulay ; Melanie Willhide ; Matthew Swarts.

The majority of photographic images today are recorded and viewed digitally, rather than on film and paper. Amateurs, photojournalists and commercial photographers alike rarely produce material objects as the final step in their photographic process, making photographs in the form of physical objects increasingly scarce. But what happens to personal and collective memories when photographic images are not instantly accessible on the face of physical objects? How is society's relationship to memory changing as digital photographs become the norm? A number of contemporary artists are making work that suggests the potential consequences of photography's latest metamorphosis. Two main strategies emerge: some artists dig deep into photographic materials as though searching for the locus of memory, and others incorporate found photographs into their work as virtual talismans of recollection. Both highlight the presence of the photographic object and function as self-conscious meditations on photography's ongoing reorganization of our mental and physical landscape. 'A Matter of Memory' features the work of more than 30 artists including Thomas Barrow, Matthew Brandt, Ellen Carey, John Chiara, Adam Fuss, Robert Heinecken, Leslie Hewitt, Kenneth Josephson, Laura Letinsky, Chris McCaw, Diane Meyer, Yola Monakhov Stockton, Vik Muniz, Floris Neusüss, Marlo Pascual, Matthew Porter, Taryn Simon, Michelle Stuart, Kunié Sugiura, Bertien van Manen, James Welling and Augusta Wood.

• Artist statement
• New Bedform
• Chicago blues
• Bye-bye history
• Those who teach (1968)
• What's a career?
• Close relations (1971-1976)
• The book (1974)
• Footloose and fancy free (1970s)
• Racing days (1976-1987)
• Honky tonkin' (1972-1981)
• The art part (1970s onward)
• Louisiana (1977 onward)
• Bye-bye bohemia (1979-1981)
• I quit (1981)
• Animalia (1995-2001)
• Los Vegas of the Ozarks (1995-1997)
• Dubai (1996)
• Wesorts (1997-2004)
• Havana (2000)
• Humans (2004-2008)
• Show (2001-2009)
• Roma (2014)
• Moving pictures (1998 onward).

• Chapter 1: What is a photograph? Invention: the marriage of chemistry and optics Time and light Uses and applications The camera: an evolution Case study: Chuck Close Chapter 2: Reading the signs Where do meanings come from? Language: words, sounds and images Semiotics: the study of signs Ideology: ideas, practices and beliefs Case study: Anthony Barrett Chapter 3: Truth and lies What is 'real'? Representation and reality Facts and fiction Case study: Thomas Hoepker Chapter 4: Identity People and portraits Signifying identity Looking The body Case study: Marc Garanger Chapter 5: Big Brother is watching you The modern world The bad, the mad and the 'other' Surveillance society: the Panopticon Who is looking at whom? Public spaces - private lives Case study: Shizuka Yokomizo Chapter 6: Aesthetics But is it art? Photography cannot be art What is art? Photography as art - the history of an idea Into postmodernism Case study: Richard Billingham Conclusion Bibliography References Index Picture credits Acknowledgements.
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Reading Photographs is a clear and inspiring introduction to theories of representation and visual analysis and how they can be applied to photography. Introducing the development of photography and different approaches to reading images, the book looks at elements such as identity, gaze, psychoanalysis, voyeurism and aesthetics. Striking visual examples are used to illustrate the text and engaging case studies delve deeper into issues raised within each chapter, with brief activity points to allow the reader to apply relevant theories to their own practice.
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Art and the Internet is a much-needed visual survey of art influenced by, situated on and taking the subject of the internet over the last two and a half decades. From the early 1990s the internet has had multiple roles in art, not least in defining several new genres of practitioners, from early networked art to new forms of interactive and participatory works, but also because it is the great aggregator of all art, past and present. Art and the Internet examines the legacy of the internet on art, and, importantly, illuminates how artists and institutions are using it and why. Art and the Internet features newly commissioned essays about the history, development and future of art and the internet from leading writers and curators in the field. By breaking down art on and about the internet into distinct forms as chapters - such as "Net.Art", "social media influenced art", "Post-Fordist art", "activist art", "surveillance-related work", "post-internet art", "internet-enabled participatory, interactive and video art" - the book deals with these challenging categories, with each illustrated by the work of leading practitioners. A selection of reprinted essays and manifestos, along with new interview material, offers an alternative chronology of the internet via the changing 'of the time' opinions from the late 1980s until today. The newly commissioned essays foreground the wider cultural context of the subject, laying out a longer history in art, design, technology and software that pre-dates the internet's wider use, illuminating the cultural conditions and modes that made way for contemporary art using the internet. The changing role of the artist online is discussed. A concluding essay examines how the multifarious global art worlds use the internet, from activism to voyeurism to marketing, featuring organisations such as Rhizome and e-flux and their predecessors, illuminating how the internet has irrevocably altered the art world as a whole. As such, Art and the Internet is an essential book for all those interested in art whether directly involved in internet art or not.
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• 1. Introduction: Photography that is everywhere and nowhere Martin Lister 2. The Digital Image in Photographic Culture: Algorithmic photography and the crisis of representation Daniel Rubinstein and Katrina Sluis 3. Curating the Photographic Image in Networked Culture Andrew Dewdney 4. The Digital Condition David Bate 5. The Photographic Image in Digital Archives Nina Lager Vestberg 6. Ambient Intelligent Photography Sarah Kember 7. The Rhetoric of the JPEG Daniel Palmer 8. Drawing without Light Seth Giddings 9. New Media and Vernacular Photography: Revisiting Flickr Susan Murray 10. Beyond the Image Bank: Digital Commercial Photography Paul Frosh 11. Blurring Boundaries: professional and citizen photojournalism in a digital age Stuart Allan.
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This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies, a range of key topics are discussed including: the meaning of software in the production of photograph; the nature of networked photographs; the screen as the site of photographic display; the simulation of photography in the videogame; photography, ubiquitous computing and technologies of ambient intelligence; developments in vernacular photography and social media; the photograph and the digital archive; the curation and exhibition of the networked photograph; the dominance of the image bank in commercial and advertising photography; the complexities of citizen photojournalism. A recurring theme addressed throughout is the nature of 'photography after photography' and the paradoxical nature of the medium in the 21st century; a time when the traditional technology of photography has become defunct while there is more 'photography' than ever. This is an ideal book for students studying photography and digital media.
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• Approximately 8,000 words of new/replacement text, with 30 updated images and 1,000 words for new captions. Chapter 1. Loading Including new text on Kodak Chapter 2. The big picture Including updated references to celebrity photographers and new text on self-publishing Chapter 3. The bridge Including updated section on digital photography Chapter 4. This is a camera, now go out and take some pictures Including new text on digital practice, camera phones/smart phones, iPads and video, as well as updated text on Photoshop Chapter 5. So you want to be a photographer? Including updated text on advertising photography, digital portfolios and self-promotion Chapter 6. The bible Including updated websites and reading list.
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A complete introduction to photography, this book is an essential resource for students across the visual arts. This accessible, inspirational guide explores the subjects and themes that have always obsessed photographers and explains technique in a clear and simple way. It introduces the work of the masters of the art as well as showing fresh, dynamic images created by young photographers from all over the world. The book also provides a valuable overview of careers in photography and a comprehensive reference section, including a glossary of technical vocabulary. This second edition has been extensively updated, with a greater range of visual examples from master photographers and up-to-date information on digital photography.
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• Introduction: getting started
• Digital capture
• Camera lens
• The shutter
• Camera exposure
• Subject lighting
• Scanning
• Image editing
• Printing and other output.

The recent boom in digital camera sales has dramatically revived interest in photography. More people are taking pictures than ever before, from serious hobbyists using digital SLRs to rank amateurs using cell phones. Most photography schools now teach both "wet" and digital photography, but many programs are abandoning their darkrooms entirely, requiring students to only use digital cameras. In DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: A BASIC MANUAL, bestselling author Henry Horenstein provides step-by-step instructions, full-page prints, and line illustrations to illuminate every aspect of digital photography, from exposure controls and shutter speed to image editing, printing methods, and even file storage. Based in the same clear and comprehensive teaching techniques that made Horenstein's Black and White Photography a perennial classic, DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY is essential reading for photo enthusiasts who wish to bridge traditional darkroom technique with the digital present and future.
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From early amateur snapshots to today's advanced digital images, photography has been the perfect means to record people's lives. This provocative book explores the complex and varied ways that five contemporary photographers - Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan - use their own daily experiences as inspiration for their art. Each of these artists has created highly personal, shifting, and intriguing visions of his or her life. The works range from Tina Barney's orchestrated depictions of her friends and family in affluent New England settings to Nan Goldin's unabashed portrayal of intimate, and often brutally honest, moments. Sally Mann turned to her children and their surroundings as her subject, and Larry Sultan has accomplished something similar in his depictions of his parents. Philip-Lorca diCorcia offers up his 'storybook life' in photographs that, like others in this group, span nearly twenty years. "So the Story Goes" is arranged in portfolio format and features beautiful colour reproductions of about twenty photographs by each artist. With an introductory essay that examines the development of personal narrative in photography, as well as insightful entries on each artist, the book analyzes how these works tell a life's story.
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• I walk into a white room
• Rituals of preparation
• Your creative DNA
• Harness your memory
• Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
• Scratching
• Accidents will happen
• Spine
• Skill
• Ruts and grooves
• An "A" in failure
• The long run.

Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, it is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. Here, Tharp takes the lessons she has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career and shares them with you, whatever creative impulses you follow--whether you are a painter, composer, writer, director, choreographer, or, for that matter, a businessperson working on a deal, a chef developing a new dish, a mother wanting her child to see the world anew. When Tharp is at a creative dead end, she relies on a lifetime of exercises to help her get out of the rut, and The Creative Habit contains more than thirty of them to ease the fears of anyone facing a blank beginning and to open the mind to new possibilities.--From publisher description.

• In Plato's cave
• America, seen through photographs, darkly
• Melancholy objects
• Heroism of vision
• Photographic evangels
• Image world
• Brief anthology of quotations.

The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of "Simulacra et Simulation" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.Baudrillard uses the concepts of the simulacra - the copy without an original - and simulation. These terms are crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to the extent that they address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduceability that characterizes our electronic media culture.Baudrillard's book represents a unique and original effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a new concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
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