Learning How to See

New books: Dec-Feb

2012-02-29T16:53:00.001Z

The latest new acquisitions lists have been uploaded to Google Books. Follow the links below.

Highlights include:

Empire and film / edited by Lee Grieveson, Colin MacCabe.
Film and the end of empire / edited by Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe.
Utopia / Merlin Coverley.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness / Julian Germain
Believing is seeing : observations on the mysteries of photography / Errol Morris.
The Latin American photobook / Horacio Fernandez.

Animation

Film and Television

Miscellaneous

Photography

Clinical Photography (donations)

Screen - new issue

2012-02-29T13:01:00.003Z

These are the main articles in the new issue of Screen. The journal also includes reviews.

Eagle, J.K., (Spring 2012). A rough ride: strenuous spectatorship and the early cinema of assaults. Screen. 53 (1), 18-35. [online] Available from: <http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/18.abstract> .

Handyside, F., (Spring 2012). The possibilities of a beach: queerness and François Ozon's beaches. Screen. 53 (1), 54-71. [online] Available from: <http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/54.abstract> .

Kouvaros, G., (Spring 2012). ‘Time and how to note it down’: the lessons of Pull My Daisy. Screen. 53 (1), 1-17. [online] Available from: <http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/1.abstract> .

Mamula, T., (Spring 2012). Metaphorically seeing: the place names of Marguerite Duras. Screen. 53 (1), 36-53. [online] Available from: <http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/36.abstract> .

Fifty key texts in art history - ebook

2012-02-28T12:47:00.000Z

Fifty key texts in art history is an anthology of critical commentaries on a spectrum of art historical theories and texts, introducing the reader to an extensive range of primary and secondary sources across the discipline... A corresponding volume of critical commentaries on photography edited by Mark Durden, Fifty key texts on photography, will be appearing towards the end of the year.

(taken from the introduction)

Newall, D. and Pooke, G. (2012). Fifty Key texts in art history. Routledge.

See also

Lechte, J. (2007). Fifty key contemporary thinkers; from sructuralism to post-humanism, 2nd ed. Routledge.

Short film screening opportunity

2012-02-23T12:10:00.001Z

Harrow Arts Centre is offering the opportunity to screen a short film you have made at an event on Saturday 9th June 2012.

They welcome films of any style from applicants aged between 14 and 25. DVDs with a synopsis, along with your contact details and your age, must be sent by Monday 30th April 2012. Alternatively, you can send a link to your film by email.

Further details from Cate Gordon at cate.gordon@harrow.gov.uk (tel. 0208 416 8963)

Moving Image Review & Art Journal - first issue free

2012-02-23T10:30:00.002Z

The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) is the first international peer-reviewed scholarly publication devoted to artists’ film and video, and its contexts. The first issue is available online for free.

History of Photography - new issue

2012-02-17T16:53:00.002Z

· ‘Waiting Still:’ Baudelaire and the Temporality of the Photographic Portrait

Dana MacFarlane

· Francis Watts Lee: A Reintroduction

Patricia J. Fanning

· Textual Inhibitions: Photographic Criticism in Late Victorian Britain

Michelle Foa

· Tea Cups, Cameras and Family Life: Picturing Domesticity in Elite European and Javanese Family Photographs from the Netherlands Indies, ca. 1900–42

Susie Protschky

· From God's-eye to Camera-eye: Aerial Photography's Post-humanist and Neo-humanist Visions of the World

Paula Amad

· The Key to a Hidden World: Photomicrography and Close-up Nature Photography in Interwar Britain

Edward Juler

· Third Census of H. Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature

Larry J. Schaaf

Ebooks for digital imaging

2012-02-13T14:53:00.000Z

The following ebooks have been, or are about to be, added to the collection:

Measuring colour, 4th ed.
Robert W. G. Hunt & M. R. Pointer, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2011, ISBN 978-1-119-97537-3

Color Gamut Mapping
Jan Morovic, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008, ISSN: 978-0-470-03032-5

Digital image processing : PIKS Scientific inside 4th ed., Newly updated and rev. ed.
William K. Pratt, published by Interscience, 2007; ISBN 9780471767770

The image processing handbook 6th ed.
John C. Russ, published by CRC Press Inc, ISBN: 9781439840450

COMING SOON

Color Management Understanding & Using ICC Profiles
Phil Green, editor, published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2010; ISBN: 978-0-470-05825-1

The art and science of HDR imaging
John J. McCann & Alessandro Rizzi, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2011; 384 pages; ISBN 978-0-470-66622-7

David Campany to receive Infinity Award

2012-02-13T10:05:00.000Z

University of Westminster academic, David Campany, is to receive the 2012 Infinity Award in the writing category.

The Infinity Awards are awarded annually by the International Center of Photography in New York. The full list of award recipients are below:

Lifetime Achievement: Daidō Moriyama

Cornell Capa Award: Ai Weiwei

Young Photographer: Anouk Kruithof

Writing: David Campany

Art: Stan Douglas

Publication: The Worker-Photography Movement 1926–1939, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia [IN LIBRARY]

Photojournalism: Benjamin Lowy

Applied/Fashion/Advertising: Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes

A biography of David Campany is available on the university's website, and a list of his publications is available on WestminsterResearch.

Congratulations, David!

Royal Mail Film Classics - JISC MediaHub

2012-02-10T15:24:00.001Z

The Royal Mail Film Classics collection is now available in JISC MediaHub. This includes world-famous documentaries such as 'Night Mail' and cinematic experiments such as 'Colour Box'.

The GPO Film Unit , which opened in the 1930's, showcased an array of artistic talent and provided a training ground for British documentary film-makers.

Read more about the Royal Mail Film Classics collection at :

http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/about/inside

Adapted from the Mediahub blog

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism - new issue

2012-02-10T11:58:00.000Z

The latest issue of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism focusses on the philosophy of photography...

COSTELLO, D. and MCIVER LOPES, D., (2012). Introduction. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 1-8. [online] Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01493.x; .

ALWARD, P., (2012). Transparent Representation: Photography and the Art of Casting. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 9-18. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01494.x> .

ATENCIA-LINARES, P., (2012). Fiction, Nonfiction, and Deceptive Photographic Representation. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 19-30. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01495.x> .

BEAUDOIN, R. and KANIA, A., (2012). A Musical Photograph? The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 115-127. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01503.x> .

COOK, R.T., (2012). Drawings of Photographs in Comics. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 129-138. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01504.x> .

COSTELLO, D., (2012). The Question Concerning Photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 101-113. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01502.x> .

IRVIN, S., (2012). Artwork and Document in the Photography of Louise Lawler. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 79-90. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01500.x> .

MAG UIDHIR, C., (2012). Photographic Art: An Ontology Fit to Print. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 31-42. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01496.x> .

NANAY, B., (2012). The Macro and the Micro: Andreas Gursky's Aesthetics. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 91-100. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01501.x> .

PERINI, L., (2012). Depiction, Detection, and the Epistemic Value of Photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 151-160. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01506.x> .

SHUSTERMAN, R., (2012). Photography as Performative Process. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 67-78. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01499.x> .

WALDEN, S., (2012). Photography and Knowledge. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 139-149. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01505.x> .

WILSON, D.M., (2012). Facing the Camera: Self-portraits of Photographers as Artists. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 56-66. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01498.x> .

ZEIMBEKIS, J., (2012). Digital Pictures, Sampling, and Vagueness: The Ontology of Digital Pictures. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 70 (1), 43-53. [online] Available from: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01497.x> .

50 years of The Sunday Times Magazine

2012-02-02T16:41:00.000Z

The Sunday Times Magazine will be celebrating its 50th anniversary with a free exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery (until 19th February) and a commemorative issue next Sunday (5th February). Further details here.

Just about every edition is available in the library.

Photobooks of 2011

2012-01-25T15:21:00.001Z

I missed blogging about many of the photobook awards etc last year due to other commitments. This year, I've developed a year planner to remind me about what's coming up. This also includes awards for films, and other annual events.

Here's a selection of things I missed...

January

Photo-eye Best Books of 2010

April

Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards

International Photobook Festival 2011

May

ICP Infinity awards

July

Les Rencontres d’Arles 2011

October

The Lucie Awards

November

Hasselblad Award

December

Deutscher Fotobuch Preis
You can read a google translated overview here

Guardian Photography Books Christmas gifts [Sean O’Hagan]

The Independent Photo books of the year

Alec Soth Top 20 Photobooks of 2011

Source. List-mania 2011: photbook roundups

Telegraph Books for Christmas: Photography, Art & Design

January 2012

Photo Eye Magazine best books

Related posts

Photography festival roundup

Artists' serials since 1955

2012-01-23T11:05:00.000Z

A new exhibition, which surveys Artists' serials since 1955, opens at the ICA on Wednesday.

The artists' serial they explain is...

neither artists’ book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique object. The publications are by young artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures and established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace. The publications are artworks, often idiosyncratic and produced in collaboration, and they do not feature news items, criticism, or reproductions of artworks.

Photography titles that are included in the accompanying book are Kiroku, Ohio, Sluts magazine and Zerokkusu Shashicho.

Exhibition website

Further reading

Allen, G. (2011). Artists' magazines : an alternative space for art, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Aarons, P. (2009). In numbers : serial publications by artists since 1955. Zurich, Switzerland: PPP Editions.

Klanten, R. (2011). Behind the zines : self-publishing culture, Berlin : Gestalten.

New issues of journals and magazines

2012-01-09T19:26:00.002Z

New issues of the following publications have recently arrived in the library. Follow the links for the online copies of October and Oxford Art Journal.

Hotshoe http://www.hotshoeinternational.com/
October
Oxford Art Journal
Source http://www.source.ie

Gregory Baker: Your books are often small runs, only recently approaching 1000 copies. They regularly become out of print incredibly quickly. To what extent is this intentional?

Aaron Morel: I like small run books as they feel more like works of art - I suppose it's an affordable work of art for a collector. It's also nice to have a book go out of print, which opens space for a new book to be put out.

Extract from 'Beg, borrow, steal & make books: Aron Morel in the hot seat' in Hotshoe. Dec/Jan 2011 / Issue 175

Morel books: www.morelbooks.com

Access to e-resources – troubleshooting guide for Xmas

2011-12-21T12:53:00.000Z

With any luck, you are now ensconced in the warm hearth of home, surrounded by mince pies, the Xmas edition of the Radio Times, and everything you need for a merry festive break. And you are not in the slightest way sorry that the university libraries are closed between midday on the 23rd December to 9am on the 3rd January!

If you do find yourself straying to the computer in order to finesse your essay, dissertation proposal, PhD theses, article, book chapter or module outline, you may find the following tips useful for overcoming problems accessing e-journals, e-books, and the like.

E-books

1. Try another browser. This is good advice for many issues, including downloading PDFs from Blackboard. There is a known problem with the latest version of Safari, and if you are particularly keen on Safari, you can download a patch to resolve it (see https://sites.google.com/a/staff.westminster.ac.uk/new-blackboard/macintosh). Alternatively, many users have suggested that Google Chrome is a good option.

2. Get a PC! (only kidding). But if you do have a Mac and would like to access e-books, makes sure you have Adobe Reader installed (http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/). The default viewer on Macs (Preview) is not compatible with our main e-book supplier, and will tend to display a page of nonsense code. Open the files with Adobe Reader instead, or better still change your default PDF viewer to Adobe Reader. To do this, CTRL click on any PDF document in the Finder window, click ‘Get info.’ then choose Adobe Reader in the “open with” section and click on the ‘Change All’ button.

3. Viewing e-books often works by displaying the book one page at a time, embedding PDFs in a browser window. If the PDF is not opening within the browser, open Adobe Reader and go to Adobe>Preferences>Internet and make sure that “display PDF in browser using” is checked.

E-Journals

1.   As with e-books, the simple advice to try another browser can resolve a number of issues relating to accessing e-journals (e.g. following links from Library Search to the full-text).

2.   You will need to be signed in to access an e-journal. Once you get to a particular platform, look to see whether it has recognised where you are from (there will normally be a message to say that the resource has been brought to you by ‘University of Westminster Library’ ). If that is not displayed, and you cannot access the content, look for a sign-in link at the top right hand corner of the screen. It is normally described as one of the following:

UK Federation login
Institutional login
Shibboleth login.

Once you click this, you will normally be asked to select your institution.

3.   Check to see whether the library subscribes to the content you are trying to get. You can check what e-holdings we should have for any journal by signing in to Library Search and clicking on E-journals. This will also provide you with a link to the journal.

Library Search

1.   When using Library Search ‘articles & more’ do not rely on the ‘quick search.’ This is not a complete search of the resources available to you. Choosing a specific subject scope (e.g. Art & Design, or Arts & Humanities) or searching a particular databases (e.g. Film Indexes Online for film students) can often provide better results.

Alternative sources

1.   Google Books (www.google.co.uk/books) often provides extensive previews of books. You may find that several pages are missing, but this is still better than nothing. Search for, “The Contest of meaning: critical histories of photography” for example.

2.   Other works may be provided on an author’s own website, and can be identified using Google. Putting the title of a work in quotation marks can sometimes help – try "Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men” as an example.

Photography: History and Theory

2011-12-20T15:19:00.003Z

It's not often a new textbook covering theoretical perspectives on photography comes on the market, so I will be interested to view the following when it arrives:

Photography: History and Theory
By Jae Emerling, J.
Routledge

More details here: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415778558/

Happy Christmas!

2011-12-12T10:35:00.001Z

Opening Hours
The library will continue to be open 24 hours a day until Friday 23 December, when we will close at 12 noon. We will reopen after the Christmas vacation at 9 a.m. on Tuesday 3rd January. Details of opening hours at all sites are available here.

News
You will find links to lists of new books added to the collection below, and details of a few new ebook packages too. There are also three new journal titles for you to look at.

Happy Christmas!

James

"Happy Christmas", Christmas card from http://www.bridgemaneducation.com

Focal Press collection online
An excellent collection of ebooks from Focal Press is now available via Science Direct. Access the collection to find manuals for Animation (e.g. Maya), Film & Television Production (e.g. Final Cut Pro) and Photography (e.g. Photoshop). Includes Langford's Basic Photography (Ninth Edition), The Manual of Photography (Tenth Edition) and Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers.

Palgrave Media and Culture collection 2011 online
A collection of ebooks from Palgrave, with a particular emphasis on film. Access the collection here.

Cambridge Collections Online

Electronic versions of the Cambridge Companions series - Literature and Classics; and Religion and Culture. This includes Cambridge Campanions to...

Freud
Foucault
Lacan
Modernism
Postmodernism
Walter Benjamin

Access via Library Search

New Books
I have continued to upload lists of new acquisitions to my Google Books account, and posted links on the blog.

New Journals
The following journals are newly available:

C Magazine (Arts & Humanities Full Text) - check out the Autumn 2011 special edition on libraries

Études Photographiques‎ (Arts & Humanities Full Text - 6 months delay)

Photographies (print and online)

Bridgeman Education: New e-resource
An online resource from the Bridgeman Art Library which provides access to over 370,000 images all copyright cleared for educational use. Access here: http://www.bridgemaneducation.com

Library Search upgrade
Library Search now includes 'Quick Search' for articles. This is a faster search than previously available, but for a more comprehensive search you should continue to use one of the subject scopes.

New books - Sept -Nov 2011

2011-12-12T10:07:00.000Z

Hello there. Lots of new books added to the collection for Semester one, and lots more on the way! We have increased our range of books by Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler and Jacqueline Rose, and on the topic of globablisation. We have two new major publications - Magnum contact sheets and The New York Times Magazine photographs, and new titles by Edgar Martins and Taryn Simon.

Enjoy.

2011 Animation Sept-Nov 2011

2011 Film&TV Sept-Nov 2011

2011 Miscellaneous Sept-Nov 2011

2011 Photography Sept-Nov 2011

New books - May-Sept 2011

2011-11-29T11:54:00.001Z

Hello there. I've been a bit quiet on the blog front this semester - just one post. Sorry about that.

Here are some links to my Google Book account showing the new acquisitions for the end of last year:

2011 Animation May-Sept 2011

2011 Film & TV May-Sept 2011

2011 Photography May-Sept 2011

Best wishes,

James

New ebooks platform - Science Direct

2011-09-20T11:23:00.001+01:00

Over the summer, we have been increasing the number of manuals that are available online.

As well as our existing platforms - Safari PQ, Dawsonera, and NetLibrary - we now have access to ebooks via Science Direct, which provides publications from Focal Press. Explore the collection now!.

Langford's basic photography is a stalwart of reading lists for photography students, and I am glad to say that its now available on the Science Direct platform - in a format, which is better than any of our other ebook platforms. Follow the link below:

Langford, M. J. et al (2010). Langford's basic photography, 9th ed. Focal Press.

(This is my recommended book for the day!)

Investigating archives - links

2011-05-18T07:52:00.000+01:00

I am talking today to the Photojournalism students about archives, which gives me a chance to reflect on the course I attended earlier in the year. I wonder what they will think of it...

I am collating all the relevant links in the post below.

Exhibition [at Tate Modern]

Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From The War In Afghanistan [video]

Course details

Investigating the Archive; Photographic Collections of London [Birkbeck/Photographers’ gallery]

Individual archives mentioned

http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about/archive-services

http://www.flickr.com/photos/westminsteruniarchives/

http://www.rothschildarchive.org/ta/

http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/collections/photoarchiveintro/photoarchive.aspx

http://www.magnumphotos.com/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/resources/print_study_reading/index.html

http://www.therai.org.uk/the-rai-photographic-library/

http://www.apimages.com/

http://www.galeuk.com/trialsite/ [Picture Post Historical Archive trial site]

Other archives

http://www.corbisimages.com/

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/

www.gettyimages.com/archival

http://www.arts.ac.uk/kubrick-archive.htm

London Metropolitan Archives

Internet Archive

Digital Book Index [Photography Collections] [Photography periodicals]

http://www.npg.org.uk/research/archive.php

http://www.winningendeavours.org/

Online hubs

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/

http://www.aim25.ac.uk/

http://www.photographiclibraries.com/

References

Foster, J. & Sheppard, J. (2002) British archives: a guide to archive resources in the United Kingdom, 4th ed. Hampshire: Palgrave. [available in Archive Services at Regent]

McDonald, S. (2004). HultonArchive – History In Pictures. Accessed from: http://corporate.gettyimages.com/masters2/conservation/articles/HAHistory.pdf

Mereweather, C. (2006) (ed.). The archive [documents in contemporary art]. London: Whitechapel.

Phillips, C. (1982). The judgement seat of photography. October, 22: 27-63. [online]. Accessed from: JSTOR < http://www.jstor.org/stable/778362 >. [Accessed 29 March 2011].

Picture Post Historical Archive [online] [product description]. Available from: http://gale.cengage.co.uk/product-highlights/history/picture-post-historical-archive.aspx [Accessed 05/05/2011].

Phillips, S. S. (2003). ‘A history of evidence’ in Sultan, L. & Mandel, M. (2003). Evidence. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.

Sekula, A. (2002). ‘Reading an archive; photography between labour and capital’ (pp. 443-452 in Wells, L. (ed. ) (2002). The photography reader. Routledge.

Zylinska, Joanna(2010) 'On Bad Archives, Unruly Snappers and Liquid Photographs', Photographies, 3:2, 139 — 153 [Special Issue: Photography, Archive and Memory]

Library Search enhancements

2011-05-10T12:06:00.000+01:00

You can now do more in Books, journals & more...

Two features which were previously only viewable by clicking on 'Articles & more' now appear in 'Books, journals & more.'

The 'Selected Databases' scope
The 'Selected Databases' are a personalised set of databases, chosen by you in E-Resources A-Z. You can now search for journal articles using this set in Books, journals & more.

E-Resources A-Z link now appears
Some E-Resources are not searchable from within Library Search (for example the FIAF Index to Film Periodicals). You can use E-Resources A-Z to help identify and link to these: the link now appears in Books, journals & more.

Click on the 'video clips' link on the Library Search homepage to view the Library Search Tutorials. There are short videos for 'Using E-Resources A-Z' and for 'Defining an E-Resources Set.'

Norfolk's 'slow photography' draws on archive

2011-05-07T12:51:00.001+01:00

Simon Norfolk talks about his current exhibition at Tate, 'Burke + Norfolk - Photographs from the War in Afghanistan,' on the BBC World Service here.

The exhibition draws on the archive of the nineteenth-century Irish photographer, John Burke, linking the late 19th century anglo/afghan war with the current conflict. For Norfolk this shows the "circularity of imperial history". He talks in this interview about how the photographic process of the time accentuated the racial difference of the Afghans and Europeans.

There are several examples of Norfolk's books in the library collection at Harrow; and the most recent, 'Burke + Norfolk,' is on order.

The exhibition continues at Tate Modern to the 10th July.

Additional resources

Tate Channel: Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From The War In Afghanistan [17 minute video]

http://www.simonnorfolk.com/burkenorfolk/ [introduction, photographs, conversation]

Haven't we been here before? Art and design The Guardian [Ian Jack]

Afghanistan: There is a small corner that is forever England Mail Online [Simon Norfolk]

Digital imaging DVD

2011-05-03T13:27:00.000+01:00

'Basic Color Science and Imaging' - an in depth course with Dr. Robert Hunt - is now available in the DVD section of the library at Harrow. Unlike most DVDs, I have made this item requestable.

The lecture topics are:

1. The Visual System
2. Light Sources and Spectrophotmetry
3. Color Matching
4. The X, Y, Z System
5. Uniform Chromaticity Diagrams
6. Uniform Color Spaces
7. Additive Color Reproduction
8. Subractive Color Reproduction
9. Densitometry and Tone Reproduction
10. Television Technology
11. Photomechanical Printing
12. Digital Printing Technology

2011 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards

2011-03-31T10:25:00.003+01:00

The shortlists for the 2011 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards were recently announced.

This year, the winners will be announced during the Sony World Photography Awards on the 27th April. There will also be an accompanying exhibition at Somerset House, featuring some of the books submitted.

One of the judges this year - a former winner of the moving image prize - is David Campany, a Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster.

The items marked with an asterisk are either in stock in the library or on order.

Best Photography Book Award Shortlist

*TJ: Johannesburg Photographs 1948-2010 / Double Negative: A Novel, David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislaviċ (Contrasto)

*The Thirty Two Inch Ruler / Map of Babylon, John Gossage (Steidl)

*Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life 1834 – 1910, Mark Haworth-Booth (The National Portrait Gallery)

Best Moving Image Book Award Shortlist

Von Sternberg, John Baxter (The University Press of Kentucky)

*Eadweard Muybridge, Philip Brookman (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Tate Publishing, Steidl)

*Illuminations: Memorable Movie Moments, Richard D. Pepperman (Michael Wiese Productions)

*Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the 20th Century, Matthew Solomon (University of Illinois Press)

Further reading

http://www.kraszna-krausz.org.uk/