Sylvia Wolf

"Photographers who use digital technologies as tools for creative expression are responsible for the most exciting and transformative developments in photography today. Taking readers from the earliest experiments in digitally manipulated photography to the latest innovations, photography historian and curator Sylvia Wolf offers an expert survey of a medium that is changing how we look at pictures and the world"--Publisher description.

photographic art in the electronic age

The digital eye

Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe's black-and-white Polaroid photographs of the 1970s--a medium in which he established the style that would bring him international acclaim--are brought together in this new paperback edition. Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. This book brings together almost 300 images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist, revealing the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career. Included is a selection of color Polaroids and objects incorporating his early "instant" photography. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. The author traces the development of Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography over a period of five years, from 1970 to 1975, when the artist worked mainly in this medium. The images include self-portraits; figure studies; still lifes; portraits of lovers and friends such as Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff, and Marianne Faithful; and observations of everyday objects. Marked by a spontaneity and creative curiosity, these fragile images offer an illuminating contrast to the glossy perfection of the work for which Mapplethorpe is best known, allowing us a more personal glimpse of his artistry.

Mapplethorpe

Polaroids

Photographic Art in the Electronic Age

The Digital Eye

Deirdre English

Susan Meiselas

From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for smalltown carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. She also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers and paying customers. Meiselas' frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention. Produced during the early years of the women's movement, "Carnival Strippers" reflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that characterized a complex era of change. This revised edition contains a new selection of Meiselas' black-and-white photographs together with the original interview excerpts. Additionally, an audio CD featuring a collage of participants' voices and a 1977 interview with the photographer are included. Essays by Sylvia Wolf and Deirdre English reflect on the importance of this body of work within the history of photography and the history of feminism.

Carnival Strippers

Umschläge, Visitenkarten, Grusskarten

Briefbogen

Michal Rovner

The Space Between

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Debra N. Mancoff

Stephanie Lipscomb

Julia Margaret Cameron

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Phyllis Rose

Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women

Julia Margaret Cameron's Women

Sylvia Wolf

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