Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments, Pickering J. L., Bisney John

Автор: Bogdan Robert
Название: Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen & Other Photographic Rhetoric
ISBN: 0815633025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815633020
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. In Picturing Disability, Bogdan and his collaborators gather over 200 historical photographs showing how people with disabilities have been presented and exploring the contexts in which they were photographed.

Автор: Ehrenpreis David
Название: Picturing Harrisonburg: Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City Since 1828
ISBN: 1938086503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781938086502
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Picturing Harrisonburg provides the most vibrant examination available of the history of the Virginia city, once a frontier town founded in the 1730s but now a burgeoning city centrally located in one of America’s most beloved, historic, and beautiful regions—the Shenandoah Valley. Taking advantage of the rich visual record of Harrisonburg, the book serves as a model for how pictures of every kind reveal and represent a community’s evolving ideals and aspirations that change over time.Editor David Ehrenpries and a cast of contributors that includes historians and other experts on the region have organized six illuminating essays around 258 illustrations, many in full color, to discuss Harrisonburg’s changing built environment, its iconic ""places of memory,"" and how ideal visions of the place were often at odds with the lived reality. Their captivating essays and visual presentations begin in 1828 and include town maps and plans, a pivotal 1867 panoramic oil painting of Harrisonburg, early twentieth-century postcards, mid-twentieth century documentary and commercial photographs, images of ""urban renewal,"" and the graphic designs, logos, and digital photographs pertaining to the twenty-first-century city. The innovative approach of Picturing Harrisonburg offers a new model for understanding the past and present of the places we inhabit.

Автор: Derrick Price
Название: Coal Cultures: Picturing Mining Landscapes and Communities
ISBN: 1350037834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350037830
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help.

Автор: Bernier Celeste-Marie, Stauffer John, Trodd Zoe
Название: Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century`s Most Photographed American
ISBN: 1631494295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631494291
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 29560.00 T
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Описание: Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A landmark and collectible volume-beautifully produced in duotone-that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.

Автор: Elizabeth A. Kessler
Название: Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime
ISBN: 0816679568 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816679560
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Цена: 60720.00 T
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Описание: The vivid, dramatic images of distant stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have come to define how we visualize the cosmos. In their immediacy and vibrancy, photographs from the Hubble show what future generations of space travelers might see should they venture beyond our solar system. But their brilliant hues and precise details are not simply products of the telescope\u2019s unprecedented orbital location and technologically advanced optical system. Rather, they result from a series of deliberate decisions made by the astronomers who convert raw data from the Hubble into spectacular pictures by assigning colors, adjusting contrast, and actively composing the images, balancing the desire for an aesthetically pleasing representation with the need for a scientifically valid one.In Picturing the Cosmos, Elizabeth A. Kessler examines the Hubble\u2019s deep space images, highlighting the remarkable resemblance they bear to nineteenth-century paintings and photographs of the American West and their invocation of the visual language of the sublime. Drawing on art history and the history of science, as well as interviews with astronomers who work on the Hubble Heritage Project, Kessler traces the ways that the sublime, with its inherent tension between reason and imagination, not only forms the appearance of the images, but also operates on other levels. The sublime informs the dual expression—numeric and pictorial—of digital data and underpins the relevance of the frontier for a new era of exploration performed by our instruments rather than our bodies. Through their engagement with the sublime the Hubble images are a complex act of translation that encourages an experience of the universe as simultaneously beyond humanity\u2019s grasp and within the reach of our knowledge.Strikingly illustrated with full-color images, this book reveals the scientific, aesthetic, and cultural significance of the Hubble pictures, offering a nuanced understanding of how they shape our ideas—and dreams—about the cosmos and our places within it.