FotoFest 2008


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Velvet Generation surveys the work of Czech photographers Gabriela Kolcavová, Roman Franc, Igor Malijevský and Vojtech V. Sláma. Accompanying a lauded exhibition at FotoFest, Houston, it is lavishly illustrated with over 90 striking images, and includes texts by exhibition organizer Steven Evans, art historian Miroslav Ambroz, and preeminent photography scholar Anne Wilkes Tucker. This ambitious book offers an investigation of the relationships between these artists and explores their shared visual vocabulary.




FotoFest 2006


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Dateline Israel


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The contributors to this book explore the role of art and artists in contemporary Israel; discuss the roots of Israeli photography and video and their international context; and examine the aesthetic and political underpinnings of lens-based art made in Israel today.




Reflections on Everyday Life


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I am happy when... I meet a person in the book whose idea is exactly the same as mine.... I meet a person who likes my favorite books.... I see my old friend in my dream.... I meet a warm-hearted person.... I share sweets with people next to me in a bus or in a subway.... I wrap a gift for someone.... I get an expected gift from someone.... I get a postcard from my friend abroad.... I drive my parents to look around my favorite places.... I have a hot tea while I bask in the sunshine on a cold winter day.... I have a glass of cold water on a hot summer day.... I look at my children's messy room.... I find my children's socks hidden under their desks.... My house is crowded with my children.... My children imitate the good I did.... I spend a day walking around in my living room just looking at flowers in the vase, holding a cup of coffee in my hand without doing anything.... I get a book that I have wanted to buy.... I browse in the book shop in a foreign country.... I read Leo Tolstoy's "what men live by "before going to bed.... I find an old dry leaf between the pages of my worn-out book.... I flip through my old diary.... I see the sentences in my old book which were underlined with red pen.... My husband is kind to elders.... I look at my husband's sleeping face in bed.... I stroke my husband's grey hair I take a walk with my husband holding his hand in the evening.... I look at my husband's pillow and mine which are lying side by side on the bed.... I stroll around in the forest on a rainy day.... I walk along a clean river.... I look at pale green buds, popping out of the ground in the early spring.... I look at crystalline pure water drops sitting on the gossamer.... I go to a temple after a heavy rain.... I look at the rainy scenery through the windowpane in a train.... I look at the blue sky lying on the grass....




FotoFest H2O04


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Fotofest 2006


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FotoFest


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The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture


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The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography. Comprising an impressive range of essays and interviews by experts and scholars from across the globe, this book examines the medium’s history, its central issues and emerging trends, and its much-discussed future. The collected essays and interviews explore the current debates surrounding the photograph as object, art, document, propaganda, truth, selling tool, and universal language; the perception of photography archives as burdens, rather than treasures; the continual technological development reshaping the field; photography as a tool of representation and control, and more. One of the most comprehensive volumes of its kind, this companion is essential reading for photographers and historians alike.