Fred Ritchin scrive un'analisi lucida e documentata sul destino della fotografia nell'epoca dell'intelligenza artificiale. L'occhio sintetico è uno strumento imprescindibile per interpretare criticamente il nuovo contesto visivo contemporaneo. Viviamo in un'epoca in cui duecento milioni di fotografie vengono realizzate ogni ora. La maggior parte poi viene caricata online, modificata, condivisa…
Come si costruisce una mostra? Quali strumenti servono per valorizzare un progetto visivo? Come si comunica un evento? La valigia del fotografo è una guida pratica e insieme critica pensata per chi desidera portare la propria ricerca visiva fuori dallo studio e condividerla con il pubblico.Attraverso le esperienze di curatela e progettazione di Simone Azzoni e Alessia Locatelli, il libro accom…
Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant's work as a visual and literary editor allowed him to pioneer and develop the genré of picture-based journalism at a period that saw the emergence of modern mass communications. Lorant became a guiding force on an international scale, disseminating his ideas and political knowledge throughout Europe in the late-twenties and thirties by working in Hungary, Germany, …
Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues further that even those images produced by humans, …
What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in this English translation of the German book Fascination of Science, an indelible collection of portraits of and interviews with sixty pioneering scientists of the twenty-first century. Koelbl's approach is intimate and ac…
A faded image of a family gathered at a festively served dinner table, raising their glasses in unison. A group of small children, sitting in orderly rows, with stuffed toys at their feet and a portrait of Lenin looming over their heads. A pensive older woman against a snowy landscape, her gaze directed lovingly at a tombstone. These are a few of the evocative images in In Visible Presence by O…
Picture Research focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, and searched for in a time before scanners, servers, and search engines, and describes the dramatic difference it made when images became scannable, searchable, and distributable via the internet. While the camera, the darkroom, and the printed page are well-known sites of photographic production that have been replaced by cell phones…
Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention: living death—mortevivum—in a series of still frames that refuse a complex humanity. In Mortevivum, Kimberly Juanita Brown shows us how the visual logic of documentary photography and the cultural legacy of empire have come together to produce the…
Designed for photographers who haven't memorized every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Canon EOS R5 II, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about. • Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist • Identify every button and dial on your camera • Learn the essential modes and s…
Designed for photographers who haven't memorized every button, dial, setting, and feature on their Nikon Z50 II, Rocky Nook's handy and ultra-portable quick reference Pocket Guide helps you get the shot when you're out and about. • Confirm that your camera is set up properly with the pre-shoot checklist • Identify every button and dial on your camera • Learn the essential modes and sett…