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You can purchase the ebook via this listing, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/book\/photographys-neoliberal-realism\/id1535194159\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/book\/photographys-neoliberal-realism\/id1535194159\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/bzgPqL?store=amazon\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/bzgPqL?store=amazon\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eConfronting the work of widely celebrated photographers Annie Leibovitz, Gregory Crewdson and Andreas Gursky, \u003cem\u003ePhotography’s Neoliberal Realism\u003c\/em\u003e examines how these artists produce capitalism’s equivalent of the Soviet Union’s socialist realism by giving photographic form to widely held and rarely questioned beliefs and ideas. 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A small booklet is included with an essay by Francesco Zanot, which offers a contemporary perspective on the historical impact of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKodachrome\u003c\/em\u003e, alongside French and German translations of the original texts from the book (which were published in English and Italian).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘The daily encounter with reality, the fictions, the surrogates, the ambiguous, poetic or alienating aspects, all seem to preclude any way out of the labyrinth, the walls of which are ever more illusory… to the point at which we might merge with them… The meaning that I am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things, and life.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLuigi Ghirri\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Scandiano in 1943, Luigi Ghirri spent his working life in the Emilia Romagna region, where he produced one of the most open and layered bodies of work in the history of photography. 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Renting an all-American kit house, Ethridge and his family discovered objects stowed in the garage, things discarded by a different family and from a different moment in time. The faded objects, which are leitmotifs of an Americana of the past, speak of a lifetime of childhood summers: dusty Cola bottles, a plastic bat or fallen kite. In Ethridge’s work, the passage of time, and youth itself, is both acutely personal and stylised, in images that are at once synthetic and spontaneous, laden with familiar photographic tropes which are shown to us askance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoe Ethridge, born in 1969 in Miami, Florida, lives and works in New York. His work has been shown extensively at institutions around the world, including MOMA\/PS1 (2000), Barbican Center, London (2001), Carnegie Museum of Art (2002), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2005), The Whitney Biennial (2008), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010), Les Recontres D’Arles, France (2011). 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The result is more akin to a digital life mask than a photograph; a three-dimensional facsimile of the face that can be easily rotated and closely scrutinised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is significant about this camera is that it is designed to make portraits without the co-operation of the subject; four lenses operating in tandem to generate a full frontal image of the face, ostensibly looking directly into the camera, even if the subject himself is unaware of being photographed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe system was designed for facial recognition purposes in crowded areas such as subway stations, railroad stations, stadiums, concert halls or other public areas but also for photographing people who would normally resist being photographed. 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The fragile silhouette of a hand, a coiled nude body, or the transfixing symmetry of crystalline minerals are shown in soft, translucent black and white images, held together by an enigmatic interior logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I was prepared for the transformation of the forest – the crystalline tress hanging like icons in those luminous covers, the jewelled casements of the leaves overhead, fused into a lattice of prisms, through which the sun shone in a thousand rainbows, the birds and crocodiles frozen into grotesque postures like heraldic beasts carved from jade and quartz…\" - \u003c\/em\u003eJG Ballard,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Crystal World\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMayumi Hosokura (b. 1979, Japan) was recipient of 2011 FOAM magazine Talent award. She has exhibited widely in Japan, with exhibitions including at FOTOGRAFIA, Rome (2011) and FOAM, Amsterdam (2011). 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Ghirri's writings spiral outwards from his practice, intuitively exploring the subjects at the core of his images – the themes of identity, time, memory, vision, representation, and sense of place. With a taste for the eclectic, he interweaves references as varied as Prince, Dylan, Hendrix, McLuhan, Mallarmé, Gulliver, Eggleston, Evans, neo-realist film, Cézanne and Pessoa. Together, the essays offer a unique and comprehensive treatise on the history and theory of photography. Above all, they constitute a special form of autobiography for someone whose ironic wit and gentle style has trickled down to so much of contemporary photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuigi Ghirri (1943–1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and then often depart in new directions. 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People of my generation fight against the void left behind the abandoned dogmas.” It is this world that Kollar turns to, one of aborted eternities and slackened certainties – to situations which reveal the disintegration of permanences, capturing their fall into the provisional. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMartin Kollar was born in Zilina, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). He studied at the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava and has been working as a freelance photographer and cinematographer since he graduated. 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The project continues Strand’s decades-long engagement with the scrapbooks, magazines and photographs that she has drawn together since her mid-teens. In this iteration of Strand’s ongoing research and reflection, women and girls are pictured holding, playing with and gazing fondly at snakes. Key to understanding the intention of the imagery is the inclusion of original accompanying text attached to the reverse, revealing stories of the bizarre and the erotic, alongside Myth and Credo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSiegfried Kracauer would recognise Strand as a dedicated “Rag Picker”. She describes her working method as being like \"rolling in newly cut grass and seeing what you pick up on your jumper”. Strand’s constantly evolving practice brings together intensive research, deadpan humour and insights into popular culture. She shifts from the mysterious and the absurd to understand public obsessions, often via trickery and manipulation. Recently exhibited work includes machines to encourage entropy, web programmes, looped films and intricate photographic constructions subverting, reimagining and manipulating the medium’s origins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClare Strand (b.1973) lives and works in Brighton. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at National Museum of Krakow (2014); Forum Fur Fotografie, Cologne (2010); and Folkwang Museum, Essen (2009). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Tate Britain; The Hassleblad Center, Gothenburg; Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; The Courtauld Institute, London; Victoria \u0026amp; Albert Museum, London; and Teatro Fernan-Gomez Arts Center, Madrid amongst others. Strand’s work is held in the collections of Arts Council England; The National Collection; British Council; Folkwang Museum; New York Public Library; Victoria \u0026amp; Albert Museum; Centre Pompidou, Paris and most recently MoMA New York and The Mead Gallery, Massachusetts. 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Under Fabbri’s lens we encounter a silent world roused from its slumber, where objects are animated and personified. Fabbri nods to the photographic practice of Luigi Ghirri, bringing to mind the Italian master’s words:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e“the camera is a magical toy capable of bringing together the great and the small, illusion and reality, our adult awareness and the fairy-tale world of childhood.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eIndeed, in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Flying Carpet\u003c\/em\u003e, we encounter scenes that might derive from comics – a rural hut with painted questioning eyes, a plant uprooted and hovering mid-air, and an embroidered carpet lifting up in the breeze. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCesare Fabbri (b. 1971 in Ravenna, Italy) studied photography and urban planning at the IUAV in Venice. 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So, rather than photographing the material trace – a chair or bed – Hernandez photographs what might be might seen and observed from the street itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title was drawn from a previous work\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLandscapes for the Homeless\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(1996), exhibited at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. The catalogue included a conversation between Hernandez and Lewis Baltz titled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eForever Homeless: A Dialogue\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Departing from mere documentation, Jude lures us into peering through windows, doorways and crevices of walls into empty classrooms and corridors, as we become increasingly conscious of the perils of our own gaze and the uncertainty of looking. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNausea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e established the building blocks for the next twenty-five years of Jude’s photographic output, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOther Nature, Alpine Star, Lick Creek Line\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackbooks.co.uk\/products\/lago-br-ron-jude\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/mackbooks.co.uk\/products\/lago-br-ron-jude\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the heart of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNausea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lies the premise that philosophical inquiry might be filtered and consumed through photographs, just as it is filtered through Sartre’s work of literary fiction. 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