Aperture jun 2021 (4 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Made for young readers, six and up, this book features portraits that celebrate the diverse beauty of human skin. By depicting people from all over the world against a background that matches their skin tone, Angélica Dass shows us how wonderfully colorful humans really are, questioning the concept of race and the limited categories we use to describe each other. These ideas are simply too small for a world that contains so many beautiful colors and people. The book asks us to consider how we see ourselves and others, through both similarities and differences. Kids also discover how to mix their own skin color with paint. Through a playful and dynamic layout, The Colours We Share encourages looking, questioning, and thinking bigger-inviting us think about race, and our common humanity, in a new way.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This summer, Aperture presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from Delhi. Guest edited by Rahaab Allana, the Alkazi Foundation's lead curator, the issue explores multiple incarnations of the city's photographic culture, from O. P. Sharma's experimental works from the 1960s to Aditi Jain's intimate tableaux of Delhi's trans community today. Interviews with revered writer Arundhati Roy and with Bangladesh's best-known photojournalist, Shahidul Alam, illuminate sites of protest in the city and throughout South Asia. Skye Arundhati Thomas revisits Sheba Chhachhi's feminist staged portraits from the 1980s and '90s. Featuring a cross section of dynamic image-makers and thinkers, such as Jyoti Dhar, Sunil Gupta, Ishan Tankha, and Anshika Varma, and emerging voices Uzma Mohsin and Prarthna Singh, the issue is a distinctive meditation on regionalism, politics, and identity, through archival and contemporary photographic viewpoints.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I¿m Looking Through You is an expansive visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. Animating Tim Davis's wry observations and the mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of his images is the photographer and writer¿s decades long, gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. As Davis states, ¿The camera is a machine that sees only surfaces. The world casts its spell, and the camera gobbles up its glamour, uncritically, with pure certainty, assuming there is nothing underneath.¿Davis¿s keenly observational images, interspersed with a selection of his writings on the medium¿the joys and pitfalls of camera seeing¿solidify I¿m Looking Through You as an unabashed celebration of photography.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sales Points - A photo archive of prison life reimagined by incarcerated men - Unique blend of art, education, and activism from an acclaimed cocreator of the Ear Hustle podcast - Insightful essay contributions from writers Rachel Kushner and Reginald Dwayne BettsAdditional Comp Titles- Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons, by Bruce Jackson. 9780292744967, $50.00 USD (University of Texas Press, 2013)- In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America, by Bruce Jackson. 9780807835395, $36.00 USD (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)- Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture, by Bruce Jackson. 9781592139491, $39.95 USD (Temple University Press, 2009)The San Quentin Project also featured in:Truth in Photography, 2021Financial Times, 2021 (Print)Elephant Magazine, May 3, 2021 It¿s Nice That, May 14, 2021.…