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Ghirri's writings spiral outwards from his practice, intuitively exploring the subjects at the core of his images – the themes of identity, time, memory, vision, representation, and sense of place. With a taste for the eclectic, he interweaves references as varied as Prince, Dylan, Hendrix, McLuhan, Mallarmé, Gulliver, Eggleston, Evans, neo-realist film, Cézanne and Pessoa. Together, the essays offer a unique and comprehensive treatise on the history and theory of photography. Above all, they constitute a special form of autobiography for someone whose ironic wit and gentle style has trickled down to so much of contemporary photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuigi Ghirri (1943–1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and then often depart in new directions. 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Sekula taught at California Institute of Arts (CalArts) from 1985 until his death in 2013, and from that insider’s position he critiqued photography and the circumstances of its production and consumption, exposing what the medium failed to represent – women, labourers, minorities, and the institutional structures that reinforce cultural biases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAllan Sekula (1951–2013) was an American artist, whose work spans multiple media: long form photographic series (\u003cem\u003eAerospace Folktales,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e1973;\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSchool as a Factory,\u003c\/em\u003e1980;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWar Without Bodies,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e1991\/96), critical texts (\u003cem\u003eThe Body and the Archive,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e1986 and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDebating Occupy\u003c\/em\u003e, 2012) and film (\u003cem\u003eThe Forgotten Space,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e2012).\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44939949179068,"sku":"9781910164495","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0553\/5950\/4572\/files\/PHAgainstheGrain_cover1.jpg?v=1742989684"},{"product_id":"war-primer-2-paperback-br-adam-broomberg-oliver-chanarin","title":"War Primer 2 [paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 2011 as a limited edition hardback, this paperback edition is a facsimile of the book which earned Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin the 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWar Primer 2\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eappropriates the first English-language version of Bertolt Brecht’s remarkable 1955\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKriegsfibel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein which Brecht combined press photographs from the World Wars with four-line poems. 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They stayed in touch over the course of the intervening decades, Stein pursuing teaching and writing about the history of photography while Rebhan pursued teaching and image-making in various formats, with increasing recourse to text as an integral part of her graphic statements. When Rebhan was invited to show a retrospective at the American University Museum, she invited Stein to serve as guest curator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLed by Stein’s insightful and often humorous commentary, this book charts Rebhan’s unique artistic and political progressions, from early works using serial snapshot photographs to track the repetitive actions of domestic life through to wider-reaching studies of gentrification and inequality her home city of Washington, DC. The publication culminates with her most recent series, which examines the ways her own body bears the marks of time that women especially have learned to fear. 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In the book’s titular essay, Armstrong asks of Ellen Gallagher’s 2008 painting \u003cem\u003eAn Experiment of Unusual Opportunity\u003c\/em\u003e, which depicts a barely-visible sea creature created out of ink, graphite, oil, varnish, and variously sliced paper, ‘in what sense is this a painting exactly?’ This enquiry into the very essence of the medium provides a thread that runs throughout the book’s wide-ranging essays and ties together a variety of works on paper ‘inscribed, drawn, printed, photographed, and variously pierced and punctured’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eConsidering these various works, \u003cem\u003ePainting Photography Painting\u003c\/em\u003e provides a compelling path through Armstrong’s decades of writing, weaving together figures from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Cézanne, Ellen Gallagher, Georges Seurat, Julia Margaret Cameron, Tina Modotti, and Diane Arbus in a single, illuminating volume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42387204702396,"sku":"9781913620974","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":45911561273532,"sku":"9781913620974E","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0553\/5950\/4572\/files\/paintingphotography_angled_ae1bcac8-9f3a-4bbe-bc25-96c1eff4ce58.jpg?v=1771320201"},{"product_id":"meat-love-an-ideology-of-the-flesh-br-amber-husain","title":"Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEbook available via this listing, on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id6450424936\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/3ydJ2V?store=amazon\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat has been decisively made over. 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Notoriously, the art collector Peter Brant commissioned the wickedly satirical Italian American artist Maurizio Cattelan to make a sculpture of his wife, the supermodel Stephanie Seymour. The work was technically called \u003cem\u003eStephanie\u003c\/em\u003e, but became known in the industry as ‘Trophy Wife’. With the sculpture valued at 1.5 million dollars, while Seymour herself is purportedly worth one hundred million dollars, you might be tempted to wonder which has the claim to be the ‘better’ work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this illustrated essay, critic Philippa Snow asks whether all great, or iconic, celebrities can be considered technically self-authored artworks in and of themselves. 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Taking a 213-day blackout in 2019 as its starting point, the project aims to detail the reasoning behind these blockades, seeking a new register of writing and image that makes visible the conditions of occupation and the protracted violence of the blackout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the book’s first part, Scott and Thomas bring together hundreds of sources, filling in the gaps from Srinagar to the remote Himalayan valleys along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, to create a unique log of fifteen days under siege, during which Kashmiri constitutional rights were revoked, the state partitioned, and stripped of its special statehood. 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She investigates an experience riddled with adversities – loneliness, loss, and violence, stolen wages and exploitative shipowners – as well as ephemeral moments of joy and solidarity. In the unique arena of the ship, Khalili traces the many forms of corporeality involved in work at sea and the ways the body is engaged by the institutions that engulf seafarers’ lives and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout with the author’s own photographs, this book takes in both scholarly and literary accounts to describe with care and imagination the material and physical realities of contemporary commerce at sea. 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