How contested notions of modernity, civilization and being governed were envisioned through the aid of photography.
The historiography of early photography has scarcely examined Islamic countries in the Near and Middle East, although the new technique was adopted...
Luca Del Baldo's Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality is an extraordinary testament in the recent history of visual studies. It brings together a...
Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been...
With the Jungian term of the complex the present volume inquires about the making of the artistic persona in twentieth-century photography. The...
The Colors of Photography aims to provide a deeper understanding of what color is in the field of photography. Until today, color photography has...
The book provides a comparison of contemporary art by analyzing female aesthetic subjectivity within a global context. The starting point is a...
The British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992) is famed for his idiosyncratic mode of depicting the human figure. Thirty years after his death, his...
Images are not neutral conveyors of messages shipped around the globe to achieve globalized spectatorship. They are powerful forces that elicit very...