Books in the CRITICAL PHOTOGRAPHY series

Based on the 2012 symposium On Perfection, held at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London, this book explores the ways in which artists engage with ideas of perfection, drawing on screenings, performances, and discussions.

Storytelling and intimacy conspire in the magic of the street theatre that is the contingent encounter. Here one's participation is already loaded; any engagement involves risks of thought or of feeling. The authors work with an aesthetic of the glimpse; fleeting encounters with wisdom and beauty.

A collection that combines visual works with critical essays around the theme of everyday life to explore the concept of otherness and highlight photography as a form of critical practice. Put together in this way, the book images and text work in dialogue with one another to construct a new perspective on questions of otherness and alterity.

Photography in Alter Space. Leading academics explore ideas alongside the photographs.

A range of social, technological, and political issues converge in the rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and consumption of public photography today. The Culture of Photography in Public Space collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions, the events, and the anxieties that give rise to them.

Bringing together a series of photographs with essays discussing and analyzing the influence of the media, particularly photographs and video, on the culture at large and how conflict is "discussed" in the visual realm, this book offers a look at the influence of contemporary conflicts, and their omnipresence in the media, and on popular culture.

Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image by providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs. He applies contemporary research and theories to the analysis of photographs, using forensic photographs to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity.

Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema - or the interplay of the still and moving image, this title features photographs and critical essays that explore the ways in which the two media converge and diverge, expanding the boundaries of each in interesting and unexpected ways.

Provides a fresh account of landscape photography which focuses on the settler societies of the United States and Australia. This title demonstrates the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, in which photographers captured the fascination with and the appeal of the land and its expense.

The Blind offers an opportunity to explore how we see animals in photography and, in parallel to this exploration which questions the human attitude towards animals, the text examines the role of Darwin's evolutionary theory in the context of human relations.

Features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in fourteen different cities around the world. This volume significantly challenges and expands the critical discourse on photography and text may be of interest to artists, curators, photographers, architects, and critical theorists.