Presents a look at photography in the twenty-first century, dividing the topic into such categories as documentary, landscapes, history, the body, color, and constructions and presenting leading photographers and examples of their work.

Photography Today: A History of Contemporary Photography

Durden, Mark

History

Phaidon Press

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is one of the most famous documentary photographers of all time. In 1935, tired of studio portraiture, she began working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), documenting the disastrous migration of farming families to the west. She created many of the images that define the Depression in the United States in the popular imagination.

Dorothea Lange

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

The books in this series are accessible, collectable pocket books which present the best and most interesting figures in photography worldwide, and since the medium began, to established and new audiences.

Dorothea Lange (55s)

Taking its title from a term Karl Marx used to explain how value is produced in a commodity, Variable Capital charts the strategies that artist have employed in order to redirect attention toward the usually invisible processes of exploitation and alienation underlying artistic production. Examining a range of international artists, including Common Culture, Richard Hughes, Melanie Jackson, Brian Ulrich, and Andy Warhol, much of the work discussed is characterized by a willingness to engineer awkward and embarrassing situations that challenge the viewer with uncomfortable realities. Many of the artists featured achieve this by humorously subverting familiar objects and rituals to critique and emphasize the ridiculous—creating an art that, though not necessarily redemptive, is still a vehicle by which the often absurd and brutal logic of commodification is revealed.

Variable Capital

Campbell, David

History & Criticism

Liverpool University Press

Mark Durden and Craig Richardson has a simple goal: to examine the history of documentary photography and map out solutions to the relationship between photographer and subject. Well, mayble not so simple. But in Face On, these two photographers make an intriguing effort with photographic and other lens-based works featuring artists including Jennifer Bornstein, Adam Chadzko, Sophie Calle, Rineke Dijkstra and Philip-Locra di Corcia. Dimension: 8 x 10 inches, 80 b&amp;w and color reproductions.

Face on

Richardson, Craig

Photography & Video

Black Dog Publishing