{"title":"Sarah Greenough","description":"\u003cp\u003eSarah Greenough's works offer a rich exploration of visual culture, with a particular focus on photography as an art form. Her books delve into the narratives behind iconic images and the artists who shaped the medium, providing both historical insight and critical analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful, beautifully illustrated volumes that celebrate creativity and cultural moments within the arts. Greenough's writing invites a deeper appreciation of how photography reinvents perspectives and documents the evolving human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dorothea-lange-by-andrea-nelson-9780300272000","title":"Dorothea Lange","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn expansive look at portraiture, identity, and inequality as seen in Dorothea Lange’s iconic photographs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDorothea Lange (1895–1965) aimed to make pictures that were, in her words, “important and useful.” Her decades-long investigation of how photography could articulate people’s core values and sense of self helped to expand our current understanding of portraiture and the meaning of documentary practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLange’s sensitive portraits showing the common humanity of often marginalised people were pivotal to public understanding of vast social problems in the twentieth century. Compassion guided Lange’s early portraits of Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as her depictions of striking workers, migrant farmers, rural African Americans, Japanese Americans in internment camps, and the people she met while travelling in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on new research, the authors look at Lange’s roots in studio portraiture and demonstrate how her influential and widely seen photographs addressed issues of identity as well as social, economic, and racial inequalities—topics that remain as relevant for our times as they were for hers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition Schedule\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (November 5, 2023–March 31, 2024)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424061604076,"sku":"9780300272000","price":95.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300272000.jpg?v=1774769270"},{"product_id":"photography-reinvented-by-sarah-greenough-9780691172873","title":"Photography Reinvented","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotography Reinvented\u003c\/em\u003e brings together thirty-five works by eighteen critically acclaimed artists who, through innovative experimentation and visionary conceptual scope, have changed the course of contemporary photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the seemingly objective, straightforward style and large-scale, vibrantly coloured prints of famed Düsseldorf School photographers Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff to works by groundbreaking contemporary artists, including Thomas Demand, Vik Muniz, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Catherine Opie, \u003cem\u003ePhotography Reinvented\u003c\/em\u003e traces the aesthetic, technical, and philosophical shifts of the art form during a period of substantial change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the artists, such as Sherman and Demand, as well as Muniz and John Baldessari, explore the nature of photography as a medium that appropriates imagery from mass culture and other sources. 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