Uncommon Places
Title | Uncommon Places PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Shore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781597113038 |
"Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition over the past forty years. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, published by Aperture in 2004, presents a definitive collection of the landmark series, and in the span of a decade, has become a contemporary classic. Now, for this lushly produced reissue, the artist has added twenty rediscovered images and a statement explaining what it means to expand a series now many decades old. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore discovered a hitherto unarticulated vision of America via highway and camera. Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore in these images retains precise internal systems of gestures in composition and light, through which a parking lot emptied of people, a hotel bedroom, or a building on a side street assumes both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. In contrast to his signature landscapes with which Uncommon Places is often associated, this expanded survey reveals equally remarkable collections of interiors and portraits." -- Publisher's description.
Uncommon Places
Title | Uncommon Places PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Shore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN |
"Journeying back and forth across North America, Stephen Shore seizes upon a landscape of the commonplace--and transforms it into visions of classical beauty. These are scenes that would scarcely attract the attention of most travelers. Among them: an unpaved backstreet in Presidio, Texas; a nearly abandoned beach in Miami; a highway intersection near Kingman, Arizona; children playing on a sandbar in Yosemite; a softball game in Bozeman, Montana, and a plate of hotcakes on a diner's plastic-topped table."--Dust jacket.
Cutty, One Rock
Title | Cutty, One Rock PDF eBook |
Author | August Kleinzahler |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2005-12-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1429928492 |
Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place. These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns "poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect" (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.
The Uncommon Prayer-Book (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Title | The Uncommon Prayer-Book (Fantasy and Horror Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | M. R. James |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2016-01-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473379245 |
M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author.
Light & Lighting
Title | Light & Lighting PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Freeman |
Publisher | The Ilex Press Ltd |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2004-02 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9781904705215 |
Through exploring the capabilities of digital cameras and the theory of light, Michael Freeman helps the reader put theory into practice and to shoot like a professional.
International Relations in Uncommon Places
Title | International Relations in Uncommon Places PDF eBook |
Author | J. Beier |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2005-06-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1403979502 |
The central claim developed in this book is that disciplinary International Relations (IR) is identifiable as both an advanced colonial practice and a postcolonial subject. The starting problematic here issues from disciplinary IR's relative dearth of attention to indigenous peoples, their knowledges, and the distinctive ways of knowing that underwrite them. The book begins by exploring how IR has internalized many of the enabling narratives of colonialism in the Americas, evinced most tellingly in its failure to take notice of indigenous peoples. More fundamentally, IR is read as a conduit for what the author terms the 'hegemonologue' of the dominating society: a knowing hegemonic Western voice that, owing to its universalist pretensions, speaks its knowledge to the exclusion of all others.
The Places in Between
Title | The Places in Between PDF eBook |
Author | Rory Stewart |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0156031566 |
Traces the author's 2002 journey by foot across Afghanistan, during which he survived the harsh elements through the kindness of tribal elders, teen soldiers, Taliban commanders, and foreign-aid workers whose stories he collected along his way. By the author of The Prince of the Marshes. Original. 20,000 first printing.