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Melanie Manchot Love Is a Stranger: Photographs1998-2001 (Photography)Melanie Manchot Love Is a Stranger Photographs Edited by Klaus Honnef With contributions by Janet Hand and Stuart Horodner Whether playfully voyeuristic or deliberately ambivalent, Melanie Manchot ’s photographs never fail to elicit a reaction whether it be of amusement, unease or even disgust. Love is a Stranger presents six of the artist ’s most important recent series.... |
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Shattered DreamsThese photographs are more than simply a journalistic record of conflict and turmoil. They are the product of a very personal journey in a place full of shattered dreams brought about by an endless conflict which crosses the boundaries of culture and time. It's a place where the young are robbed of their youth and the elderly stripped of their dignity. The people who live here glorify their past, curse the present, and have difficulty imagining a future. Publishing this book for the 60th annive... |
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A Portrait Of Southern WritersThe American South has a passionate affinity with literature that no other region of the country can claim and its heritage is evoked and constantly reinvented through the words of its writers. Internationally acclaimed photographer Curt Richter was initially commissioned by Louis D. Rubin Jr. to photograph the founding members of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The first author to sit for him for the series was Eudora Welty and the last was Alice Walker. The project grew and, over a seven-y... |
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Face of War: New Zealand's Great War PhotographyAn authoritative history of combat photography and its cultural, emotional, and memorial roles, this collection is the first to examine the vernacular photos of World War I taken by its New Zealand participants. The book discusses how photography was used to capture and narrate, memorialize and observe, romanticize and bear witness to the experiences of New Zealanders at home and abroad. The first to argue for the importance of New Zealand photography to the history of war, this overview examin... |
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What Did We Do to Deserve This? Palestinian Life Under Occupation in the West BankThis book gives an up-to-date account of the life of Palestinians in the West Bank in its fortieth year of occupation by Israel. Based around photographs of, and interviews with, ordinary Palestinian people, it looks at all aspects of daily life ranging from restrictions on movement and imprisonment to the effects of the occupation on business, the practising of religion and the development of democracy. Finding a solution to what is frequently termed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is now wide... |
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Bless EthiopiaEthiopia is a vast country of remarkable scenic beauty. The vivid contrast in its geographical environment, from fertile plains to hostile scrublands, has produced remarkable differences in lifestyles. Many groups of people make their homes in this little known land, speaking 80 different languages, practicing a variety of religions and maintaining a diversity of cultures. The lowlands are a sea of Islam, the highlands an island of Christianity religions existing side by side with age-old ritual... |
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China ObscuraArriving in mainland China by chance just a day after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, young Chinese-American photographer Mark Leong was compelled to stay and explore with his camera's lens the fascinating contradictions of a rapidly changing but still intensely traditional Chinese society. Living in Beijing and traveling across China for the past fifteen years, he has captured images that astonish with their power and with his unprecedented access to both official and underground Chinese c... |
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