Download or read book The Surface of Things written by Prita Meier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major history of photography from coastal East Africa The ports of the Swahili coast—Zanzibar and Mombasa among them—have long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge. With the arrival of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, these predominantly Muslim coastal communities cultivated and transformed the medium. The Surface of Things examines the complex maritime dynamics that shaped the photography of coastal Africa, exploring the pleasure and power of beautiful things and the ways people and their pictures transcended the boundaries of the colonial world. Immersing readers in the globally interconnected networks of eastern Africa’s port cities, Prita Meier demonstrates how photographs are not static images but mobile objects with remarkable shape-shifting qualities. Beginning with the earliest photographs introduced through seaborne commerce, the medium’s integration into the cultural landscape was swift. Photographs functioned as objects of decoration, good taste, and cosmopolitanism, but were also used by local elites and foreigners to coerce and objectify enslaved people. Meier uncovers the oppressive agenda behind postcards and other popular images while describing African strategies of subversion and rebellion, revealing the performative authority that individuals exerted over their photographic likenesses. Featuring more than two hundred images published here for the first time, The Surface of Things repositions the continent’s islands and archipelagos at the center of global photographic histories and shows how the people of the African Indian Ocean world experienced photography as a force of both oppression and freedom.
Download or read book The Surface of Things written by Phebe Davidson and published by Wordtech Communications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Surface of Things written by Felice Frankel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using innovative photographic technology, Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George M. Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.
Download or read book The Pale Surface of Things written by Janey Bennett and published by Janey Bennett. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast moving novel in a Cretan village - kidnappings and killings, prayers and healing, ethics and ritual...and a darn good tale.
Download or read book On the Surface of Things written by Felice Frankel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Surface of Things written by Sir Charles Waldstein and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Surface of Things written by Charles Waldstein and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by Charles Waldstein explores the role of art and beauty in everyday life. Drawing on his experiences as a professor and art expert, Waldstein delves into the power of aesthetics and the importance of paying attention to the world around us. A thought-provoking read for anyone interested in art, philosophy, or the human experience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Considering the Surface of Things written by Nicole Eleanor Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Surface of Things by Charles Waldstein written by Sir Charles Waldstein and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Surface of Things Classic Reprint written by Charles Waldstein and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Surface of Things This suggests a general question of serious import in the life and work of men of letters, of science, and of art. Nay, we may classify these professions from this point of view, i.e., as the vocation itself tends to blend or to dis sociate the person and his work. The man of science is thus least hampered by the fear of the inopportune obtrusion of his personality' while at the other end of the scale, the artist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Surface Breaks a reimagining of The Little Mermaid written by Louise O'Neill and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep beneath the sea off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of being human... but at what terrible price? Hans Christian Andersen's dark original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans.
Download or read book Beneath the Surface written by Barbara Garay and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the surface is a collection of poetry about overcoming trauma, navigating love, enduring heartbreak, dealing with depression and anxiety, and coping through it by becoming emotionally resilient. The book is split into five chapters: Roots. Love. Hear break. Internal Struggle. Resilience.
Download or read book On the Surface of Things written by Richard M. Pashley and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to explain in basic scientific terms the fundamental cause for many of the properties and behaviour of liquids, solids and air that we see in our daily lives. We can explain and so understand many of the phenomena that we observe everyday using some fairly simple scientific principles developed over many centuries of study of the properties of natural materials. This book demonstrates that a strong scientific background is not needed to explain many of the examples we see in everyday life and in many important industrial processes. The author was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire. He obtained his PhD from Imperial College, London just before moving to Australia in 1978. He has spent most of his academic career at the Australian National University in Canberra, as Professor of Chemistry, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Chair, Board of the Faculties and as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education). In 2009, he was appointed the Founding Chief Investigator of the new National Centre of Excellence in Desalination at Murdoch University, Perth. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales, Canberra.
Download or read book The Surface written by Ales Kot and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-bending SF action epic in the tradition of Philip K. Dick and INCAL now bound in a psychedelic collection -- ready to twist your strings!
Download or read book Wallace Stevens written by Wallace Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Wallace Stevens was born in Pennsylvania in 1879. Harmonium, published in 1923, became a landmark in modern American poetry with its startling imagery and meditations on art, reality and imagination. It was followed by Ideas of Order, The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems, Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Transport to Summer and The Necessary Angel. Stevens died in 1955.
Download or read book The Oldest Living Things in the World written by Rachel Sussman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and unique visual collection of ancient organisms unlike anything that has been created in the arts or sciences before, insightfully and accessibly narrated by Sussman along the way. Her work is both timeless and timely, and spans disciplines, continents, and millennia. It is underscored by an innate environmentalism and driven by Sussman’s relentless curiosity. She begins at “year zero,” and looks back from there, photographing the past in the present. These ancient individuals live on every continent and range from Greenlandic lichens that grow only one centimeter a century, to unique desert shrubs in Africa and South America, a predatory fungus in Oregon, Caribbean brain coral, to an 80,000-year-old colony of aspen in Utah. Sussman journeyed to Antarctica to photograph 5,500-year-old moss; Australia for stromatolites, primeval organisms tied to the oxygenation of the planet and the beginnings of life on Earth; and to Tasmania to capture a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub that’s the last individual of its kind. Her portraits reveal the living history of our planet—and what we stand to lose in the future. These ancient survivors have weathered millennia in some of the world’s most extreme environments, yet climate change and human encroachment have put many of them in danger. Two of her subjects have already met with untimely deaths by human hands. Alongside the photographs, Sussman relays fascinating – and sometimes harrowing – tales of her global adventures tracking down her subjects and shares insights from the scientists who research them. The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future.
Download or read book On the Surface of Things written by Isobel Parker Philip and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue Essay for the exhibition 'On the Surface of Things' curated by Isobel Parker Philip. Featuring the work of Kate Beckingham // Bianca Chang // Deb Mansfield // Sarah Mosca // Tasha Ong // Isobel Parker Philip // Eloise Rapp // Jacob Ring // Justine Varga On the Surface of Things is an attempt to dissect the complex and fluid relationship between the surface and the submerged. Concerned with mutable boundaries and shifting planes, the exhibition draws attention to the interstitial space between over and under, veil and veiled. The artists featured share a preoccupation with surface, skin, screen and shroud. They erect edifices and penetrate palimpsests. Moving across thresholds, their work animates the logic of the liminal and in-between. This collective fascination with surface is interrogated in relation to the ontological specificity of the photographic medium. Preserving moments beyond the limits of chronology, the photograph is cloaked in a temporal shroud. The tangible and tactile becomes an imprint of light on a flat plane. To photograph is to cover and to drape. Published by Threshold Publications, 2013 Supported by the Firstdraft Curatorial Grant. Firstdraft Gallery 116-118 Chalmers St Surry Hills NSW Australia
