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Camera Geologica
In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus focuses on the inextricable links between image-making and resource extraction, revealing how the mining of bitumen, silver, platinum, iron, uranium, and rare earth elements is a precondition of photography. Photography, Angus contends, begins underground and, in photographs of mines and mining, frequently returns there. Through a materials-driven analysis of visual culture, she illustrates histories of colonization, labor, and environmental degradation to expose the ways in which photography is enmeshed within and enables global extractive capitalism. Angus places nineteenth-century photography in dialogue with digital photography and its own entangled economies of extraction, demonstrating the importance of understanding photography’s complicity in the economic, geopolitical, and social systems that order the world.
Tangents
Tangents and A Circle! Eight highly reputed people from Mumbai– a retired judge, an actress, a doctor, a lawyer, a chef, a scientist, an international businessman and a retired police officer-- attend a three-day workshop on a luxury island. The resort and the island are as beautiful and irresistible as the invite itself from the mysterious Mr DK. The eight are required to talk among themselves with the promise that they could earn a huge sum of Rs 1 crore each! Is this game a cake walk? How life can change in three days after this visit to a floating resort! An unputdownable thriller!
God Won't Let Me Die
Alaska’s Kenai court system is corrupt. I read that the hardest walk is the walk alone, but it also makes you the strongest. Be careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. (Ephesians 5:15–16) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10) The fear of the Lord prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. (Proverbs 10:27) I’ve never feared death. I understand death. Death has no hold on me, and death is not the end. My blade is for the King. My heart belongs to Monica and my children. These are my friends. These are my famil...
Politics Unseen
In Politics Unseen, Ellen Macfarlane radically reframes the "pure photographs" of California art photography society Group f.64, known for depicting Western landscapes, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and faces. By foregrounding f.64 members’ and their prints’ alliances across commercial, political, and artistic domains, the book shatters entrenched understandings of the group as disinterested in contemporary events and unseats conceptions of its prints as icons of modernist purity. Instead, Politics Unseen argues the politics of f.64’s photographs become visible when interwar ideas about "purity" in the areas of eugenics, racial essence, nutrition, colonialism, and horticulture are interrogated. Ultimately, Politics Unseen alters perceptions not only of f.64, but also of what constituted a political image in 1930s America.
The Economic Power of Public Art
The Economic Power of Public Art is a groundbreaking 2024 publication by CODAworx that explores how public art is transforming communities and economies around the world. Backed by data-driven insights, this comprehensive report details the $4.4 billion global public art industry—from tourism and urban revitalization to infrastructure and placemaking. Inside, readers will discover how public art generates economic growth, improves mental wellness, fosters social equity, and drives community engagement. Through compelling case studies, visuals, and statistics, the eBook highlights powerful art initiatives like BLINK, Burning Man, and Discovery Green, showcasing their multimillion-dollar impact. Whether you're a policymaker, city planner, creative professional, or advocate, this guide provides essential tools and evidence to support investment in public art. Featuring profiles of top artists and a ranked list of the 50 U.S. cities with the highest per capita public art spending, The Economic Power of Public Art is both a celebration and a call to action for the creative future of our built environment.
Good Pictures
A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with camera phones in hand and social media accounts at the ready. And we know which pictures we like. But what makes a "good picture"? And how could anyone think those old styles were actually good? Soft-focus yearbook photos from the '80s are now hopelessly—and happily—outdated, as are the low-angle portraits fashionable in the 1940s or the blank stares of the 1840s. From portraits to products, landscapes to food pics, Good Pictures proves that the history of photography is a history of changing styles. In a series of short, engaging essays, Kim Beil uncovers the origins of ...
Contact Zones
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States.
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The Forever War
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs—an instant classic of war reporting from the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, we witness the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, the aftermath of the attack on New York on September 11th, and the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins is the only American journalist to have reported on all these events, and his experiences are conveyed in a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters and astonishing scenes. Brilliant and fearless, The Forever War is not just about America's wars after 9/11, but about the nature of war itself.
