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Ubiquity
Photography's Multitudes
2021 || Paperback || Jacob W. Lewis e.a. || Leuven University Press
From its invention to the internet age, photography has been considered universal, pervasive, and omnipresent. This anthology of essays posits how the question of when photography came to be everywhere shapes our understanding of all manner of photographic media. Whether looking at a portrait image on the polished silver surface of the daguerreotype, or a viral image on the reflective glass of the smartphone, the experience of looking at photographs and thinking with photography is inseparabl...
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Time and Photography
2018 || Paperback || Jan Baetens e.a. || Leuven University Press
Despite our stereotypical ideas on photographic images as snapshots (slices of time), photography is fundamentally a time-based medium. The relationships between photography and time are manifold: time can be directly represented within the image, it can be its theme and philosophical horizon, but it can also represent the global framework in which photographic practices develop and change through time. It is the ambition of this book to bring together the various aspects of time in photograp...
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Contact Zones
Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the U.S.
2021 || Paperback || Justin Carville e.a. || Leuven University Press
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has had a central place in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘conta...
Women, Art, Freedom
Artists and Street Politics in Iran
2024 || Paperback || Pamela Karimi || Leuven University Press