{"title":"David Levi Strauss","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Levi Strauss explores the intersection of photography, belief, and culture with a deeply reflective and critical eye. His works probe the power of images to shape perception and challenge the viewer to reconsider the relationships between art, history, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful essays and nuanced meditations that blend visual analysis with cultural critique, offering an insightful journey into the meaning and impact of contemporary and historical photography.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"photography-and-belief-by-david-levi-strauss-9781644230473","title":"Photography and Belief","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this exploration of contemporary photography, David Levi Strauss questions the concept that \"seeing is believing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdentifying a recent shift in the dominance of photography, Strauss looks at the power of the medium in the age of Photoshop, smartphones, and the internet, asking important questions about how we look and what we trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first \u003cem\u003eekphrasis\u003c\/em\u003e title on photography, Strauss challenges the aura of believability and highlights the potential dangers around this status. He examines how images produced on cameras gradually gained an inordinate power to influence public opinion, prompt action, comfort and assuage, and direct or even create desire. How and why do we believe technical images the way we do?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a poignant argument in the era of \"deepfakes,\" Strauss draws attention to new changes in the technology of seeing. Some uses of \"technical images\" are causing the connection between images and belief (between seeing and believing) to fray and pull apart. How is this shifting our relationship to images? Will this crisis in what we can believe come to threaten our very purchase on the real? This book is an inquiry into the history and future of our belief in images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431959806188,"sku":"9781644230473","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781644230473.jpg?v=1774557055"},{"product_id":"words-not-spent-today-buy-smaller-images-tomorrow-by-david-levi-strauss-9781597112710","title":"Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt this transitional moment in the field of photography, how should we consider what is to come for the medium? Can its past and present practitioners help guide us, both as creators and as observers?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Levi Strauss—eminent author, critic and teacher—rises to the challenge of these questions and more in \u003cem\u003eWords Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography\u003c\/em\u003e. In the course of 25 essays, some of which appear for the first time in this volume, Strauss discusses the work of artists who provoke us with revealing, clear-eyed investigations of the ostensibly patent world in front of us, and others who transport us to new realms, poetic and unreal. Creative minds ranging from Frederick Sommer, Helen Levitt, Daido Moriyama, and Joseph Beuys to contemporary photographers Sally Mann, James Nachtwey, Susan Meiselas, Tim Davis and many others are explored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso considered are the groundbreaking theoretical writings of Susan Sontag and Jean-Luc Nancy, the films of Chris Marker and Stan Brakhage, and issues and events that have irrevocably altered the way we consider the medium of photography and how it communicates: 9\/11, Abu Ghraib, the death of Osama bin Laden, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in the \u003cem\u003eAperture Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e series, \u003cem\u003eWords Not Spent Today\u003c\/em\u003e is an incisive exploration of photography's changing role as a tool of evidence and conscience as we move forward into—can we say it?—a post-photographic era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Levi Strauss is the author of \u003cem\u003eFrom Head to Hand: Art and the Manual\u003c\/em\u003e (2010); \u003cem\u003eBetween the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, with an introduction by John Berger (2003); and \u003cem\u003eBetween Dog and Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e (1999, updated in 2010 with a prolegomenon by Hakim Bey). Strauss was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003 and received the Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 2007. He is chair of the graduate program in art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433346056428,"sku":"9781597112710","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781597112710.jpg?v=1774765100"},{"product_id":"between-the-eyes-by-david-levi-strauss-9781597112147","title":"Between the Eyes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an era of social confusion and visual pandemonium, David Levi Strauss tackles issues of photography and politics in a way that few critics today are courageous enough to attempt. The essays collected in \u003ci\u003eBetween the Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e address topics ranging from propaganda and the imagery of dreams to Sebastio Salgado's epic social documents and the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOther issues broached here include the legitimacy of photographic imagery and the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11, as well as essays on the work of Ania Bien, Miguel Rio Branco, Alfredo Jaar, Joel-Peter Witkin, and others. Additionally, the book contains an interview with painter Leon Golub, who worked from photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReviewing the first edition of \u003ci\u003eBetween the Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e wrote: \"\u003ci\u003ePhotography and Propaganda\u003c\/i\u003e, a study of the work and deaths in '80s Central America of photojournalists Richard Cross and John Hoagland, should be required reading in the age of embeddedness, and \u003ci\u003ePhotography and Belief\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrific meditation on truth in the age of digital manipulation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470104150252,"sku":"9781597112147","price":52.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781597112147-between-the-eyes.jpg?v=1775212053"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/david-levi-strauss.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}