A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid living conditions of 'the other half', who might well have inhabited another country.

Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places is an indispensable guide with essential techniques for photographing landscapes, cityscapes, architecture and interior

Das Buch des amerikanischen Fotografen Ed Kashi erzählt von der Energie des Augenblicks und dem Chaos des täglichen Lebens.

Wenn das im sogenannten »decisive moment« (entscheidenden Moment) eingefangene Bild die Wirklichkeit genau im Einklang mit der Intuition des Fotografen im richtigen Moment und mit perfekter Komposition wiedergibt, dann ist der »abandoned moment« das Resultat eines winzigen Moments der Selbstvergessenheit und Hingabe an den Augenblick. Die

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The extraordinary collection of Edward Steichen's photos, received as bequest by National Museum of Luxembourg.

What scares a nation - gunmen who hold children ransom or infamous terrorists? Useful Photography 011 rifles through the history of human targets culled from US shooting ranges. In this age of high impact gun crime, are the participants seeking protection or accelerating the violence?

In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography an...

Throughout the apartheid era South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist political messages, promote Afrikaner nationalism, and consolidate white rule. By unearthing a substantial corpus of photographs that so far have been hidden in archives, this book offers a distinctive perspective on the institutional context of the regime’s photograph...

For almost twenty years the Dutch artists Jan Dietvorst and Roy Villevoye have been exploring issues as diverse as anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and culture as a means of adaptation and re-enactment.

The publication EVIDENCE is published on the occasion of their first major solo exhibition EVIDENCE in Belgium, which was from 13 May to 16 July 2017 in Argos, Brussels. The method of editing used in their collective film work has been applied in this...

The work of Thomas Kuijpers always emerges from a current event, or series of current events, which he uses to investigate how the stories told about these events influence our daily lives. To do this, he collects all kinds of material: newspapers, posters, fragments of conversations, YouTube videos, and Twitter comments. From this act of collecting, new connections appear, as well as insights into how narratives about specific subjects are shaped. From this foundation of interconnected subje...

En 1976, l'artiste, photographe et designer belge Herman van den Boom sillonne les Etats-Unis à plusieurs reprises. Son ami regretté, le Néerlandais Toon Michiels, l'y accompagne. Les deux hommes exercent les mêmes activités, et ils partagent les mêmes idées. Le but duvoyage : photographier des thèmes typiquement américains, panneaux d'affichage, enseignes lumineuses, personnages publicitaires et drive-in.