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In addition to making their own artwork, they published essays, reviewed shows and organized exhibitions. 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Hailed as a master of visual story-telling, Soth is also the author of multiple bestselling photobooks. Derived from his four most celebrated bodies of work, these photographs of American landscapes, people and culture are elucidated in an accompanying booklet with illustrated text.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895496036527,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/8479\/4799\/files\/Bookpictemplate_setborderto1.2pt_27_21bbacc8-68b5-42fb-973f-a8cd643ec66d.png?v=1780781636"},{"product_id":"the-camera-essence-and-apparatus","title":"THE CAMERA: Essence and Apparatus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the press\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eVictor Burgin is one of the most influential artists and writers working today. He came to prominence as a key figure in the Conceptual Art of the late 1960s. After turning to photography in his artistic practice he produced a series of groundbreaking theoretical essays that drew on semiotics, psychoanalysis and feminism in order to think through the ideological role of photographs in the production of beliefs and values, and in the understanding of memory, history, subjectivity and space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the last decade or so, Burgin has worked with computer-generated imagery and the virtual camera. But rather than accepting a radical divide between so-called ‘analogue’ and ‘digital’ realms, Burgin has emphasised the continuity of the virtual camera, the various physical cameras in use today, and the painted images of Quattrocento painting – all of which have their essence in the perspectival system of representation. Further to this, Burgin argues that no image is merely an optical experience – all images are essentially psychological events and thus virtual also. Inseparable from language, they form the psychical spaces of fantasy and projection, recognition and misrecognition. Whether on pages, walls or screens, in galleries or online, single views, or swarms of picture fragments, images are the making and unmaking of our sense of self, and the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together for the first time Victor Burgin’s writings related specifically to the camera, following the shifts and nuances in his thinking over nearly five decades. 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In doing so, it proposes a new way of thinking about literature and photography, and the ways in which shared themes – such as class, travel, social stereotypes, and individual identity within the modern urban environment – might be explored between these two forms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895497052335,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/8479\/4799\/files\/Bookpictemplate_setborderto1.2pt_25_55bf5494-df9c-4843-ba1a-92bf25f7c317.png?v=1780780460"},{"product_id":"a-civil-rights-journey","title":"A CIVIL RIGHTS JOURNEY","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the press\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Civil Rights Journey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents the astonishing archive of Dr Doris Derby: photographer, activist, and professor of anthropology. 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