Victor Burgin counts among the most versatile figures within art and visual culture since the late 1960s. His artwork both connects with and reacts to minimalism, conceptual art, staged photography, appropriation art, video art and, more recently, computer-based imaging. As a scholar his thinking is informed by phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis.

This monograph provides a comprehensive and unique overview of Victor Burgin’s body of work over the...

This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography’s development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy – the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrill...

In this thick coffee table book, you will be taken on a revolutionary journey through the past with photography and poetry. Allow the enclosed pictures and poems to escort you to a forgotten time in history; a time that goes beyond our present-day architecture. Let your imagination have mastery over your senses so that you don't just flip through these pages, but instead, you see, hear, smell, feel and experience the worlds these pages introduce.

Will you walk with me through these corridors ...

BARENDS&PIJNAPPEL PHOTO COLLECTION #2 is een indrukwekkende aanvulling op het al even indrukwekkende eerste deel. De foto's, waar vooral fantasie en verbeelding de boventoon voeren, zijn opgenomen in chronologische volgorde en gelardeerd met beschouwende teksten en snedige quotes. De Engelse vertaling is van de hand van Michele Hutchison.

In zijn inleiding schrijft Eric Min onder meer:'Doorheen deze beeldenbank die zich over meerdere honderden bladzijden ontvouwt, keren enkele thema’s of fi...

The Film Experience offers a comprehensive introduction to the art, language, industry, culture, and experience of the movies -with new digital tools to bring that experience to life and help students master course material.

From award-wining photographer Michael Brennan comes a book highlighting his extensive archive of powerful and sometimes very moving images from the world of boxing. They Must Fall: Muhammad Ali and the Men He Fought features images of not only Ali, the 'Greatest of All Time', but also of the men he fought in the ring. Brennan located former opponents for a special feature that ran over several pages in Sports Illustrated, to discover for himself where these great athletes ended up.

Intimate and elegant photographs taken just before Kate Moss’s rise to fame, in a stylish new edition

The fourteenth edition of Erik Kessels' found photography series presents a semi-nude detective story: who chopped the heads off all the sunbathers? This latest series was discovered in the late eighties by the photographer Toon Michiels. Edited & designed by Erik Kessels.