The most comprehensive survey of contemporary art photography on the market is now in paperback, and not a moment too soon. If photography helped shape art in the twentieth century, it has begun to dominate it in the twenty-first. Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are being celebrated as contemporary masters, with their work commanding unprecedented prices. This essential survey presents the work of 76 of the most important and best-loved artist-photographers in the world today, including Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Allan Sekula, Boris Mikhailov, Inez van Lamsweerde, Stephen Meisel, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Sam Taylor-Wood. Introductions to each thematic section-City, Portrait, Document, Object, Landscape, Fashion and Narrative-offer words from the artists and valuable insights into their motivation, inspiration and intentions. An introduction to the volume as a whole sets out the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century forward, and covers the art world's embrace of the medium in recent decades. "Art Photography Now" is a deep and visually striking guide to the essential aspects of contemporary photography.

Art Photography Now (Architecture Design)

Arts & Photography

Susan Bright

Photography & Video

THAMES HUDSON LTD

Bunny is a trickster character who dies in every poem or does something so stupid we wish that she would. These short poems celebrate the death of the idiot which we are all capable of being. "It is interesting to note that throughout the book Bunny is dead. In killing Bunny, Bright consigns the old formula of female submission to the past. At the same time, she reveals the death wish hidden in the American dream, the impulse to conquer the continent which has led to the destruction of the ecosphere." John Herndon, "Austin American-Statesman" Art by Randy Smith Huke

Bunny

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Plain View Press

The Tirades are just that, how tired we are of the personal, environmental and political atrocities that have infested the planet. The And poems are about relationships, love. Evidence is a hard look at things as they are. The Of section of the book is about the death of the parent. The Grace poems are a difficult grace--how light filters through even the darkest hours so courage shines in our souls no matter what.   "They are snapshots of the soul."  Andrew B. Preslar, Review of Texas Books   "Like her grandmother and father, Bright was born into a world of books and has made a life collecting them, teaching them, writing them, and--for almost two decades now." Elaine Ayala, Austin American-Statesman   "A metaphor--trance evolves into acute spiritual awareness in 'Urban Shadow.' The result of such a vision is not only a sense of personal terror but knowledge of what can kill the best in humanity: 'I think it has mass and is a tangible result of logic that shuts down the heart.' How terribly it does shut down, and how desperately we need poets who can endure the vision, sacrifice bliss, and strip vagueness from such an enemy that must be named if logic is ever to be overcome by its superior: the heart."  Holly Hunt Cost, Small Press   Photographs by Butch Hancock

Tirades and Evidence of Grace: Austin Book Award, 1991

This is a gathering of poetry and antique photographs in search of the healing power of the mother. It takes a hard look at the enormous world consequence of diminishing her life force, which is the healing and nurturing part of humanity. There are poems from Bright's work as an educator and poems that strip bare institutionalized child abuse. There are poems about the Heartland, America, in the '50s and '60s and poems about how the Mothers hold our lives together with love, creating relationship--the thread of life. "Susan digs down to the dirt to make you see the dark realities of womankind's struggles from pre-civilization to present day, which I call The Destructive Era. Images she fills us with: raising our children in a violent world; the storms of the raging Earth Mother; keeping track of our planetary brothers and the newest forms of their ideology; women's rights or shall I say lack of them; how what was happening 100 years ago was woven with misery, (for misery is always our shadow), the timelessness of racism . . This book is not to be missed and I sincerely mean it." 
Denise Fleischer, Gotta Write Antique photographs, many by James Dwight Safford, the poet's maternal grandfather.

House of the Mother

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Auto Focus features a dazzling array of self-portraits by seventy-five of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers. Photography writer and curator Susan Bright provides a clear guide through this significant and dynamic genre, showing how issues of identity—whether national, sexual, racial, personal, or artistic—are key to understanding the work of many of today’s leading photographers. This lavishly illustrated, accessible survey is organized into five thematic chapters: diaristic and autobiographical images; pictures of the body; the use of masks and masquerade; the return to studio portraiture and the photographic album; and performance, both public and private. An informative illustrated introduction explains the history of the photographic self-portrait from the 1840s to the late twentieth century, providing an invaluable context for the recent surge in artists’ images of themselves. From intimate images of introspection and those that consciously challenge notions of ethnicity and sexuality to dramatic, stylized photographs of dreamlike scenarios, Auto Focus shows how one of the longest-established artistic genres continues to fascinate artists today.

Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography

The Monacelli Press

Photography as an art (revised 2nd edition) (Chinese Edition)

World Publishing Guangdong Corporation

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