Unikat, Index, Quelle

Unikat, Index, Quelle
Author: Cornelia Kemp
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3835327127

Über Genese, Gebrauch und Manipulation des Negativs in der Fotografie. Mit dem Ende der analogen Fotografie ist auch das Schicksal des Negativs als materieller Speicher der Bildinformation besiegelt. An die Stelle der optisch vermittelten Anschauung ist die digitale Information getreten. Im Zuge des »material turn" ist es daher an der Zeit, sich aus der Distanz heraus kritisch mit dem Phänomen des Negativs zu beschäftigen und es auf seinen Anteil an der Fotografie zu befragen. Die Beiträge richten sich auf die Genese des Mediums und seine »Zurichtung" im Lauf der Geschichte und stellen Anwendung und Bedeutung des Negativs in Kunst, Wissenschaft und Filmproduktion zur Diskussion.

Reproducing Images and Texts / La reproduction des images et des textes

Reproducing Images and Texts / La reproduction des images et des textes
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004468331

This volume explores how reproduction and reproducibility impact artistic and literary creation while also examining the ways in which reproducibility impacts our practices and disciplines. Ce volume explore l’impact de la reproduction et de la reproductibilité sur la création artistique et littéraire, mais aussi l’impact de la reproductibilité sur nos pratiques et sur nos disciplines.

Negative/Positive

Negative/Positive
Author: Geoffrey Batchen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000224767

As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored, and uses this to tell a representative, rather than comprehensive, history of the medium. The fact that a photograph is split between negative and positive manifestations means that its identity is always simultaneously divided and multiplied. The interaction of these two components was often spread out over time and space and could involve more than one person, giving photography the capacity to produce multiple copies of a given image and for that image to have many different looks, sizes and makers. This book traces these complications for canonical images by such figures as William Henry Fox Talbot, Kusakabe Kimbei, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray, Seydou Keïta, Richard Avedon, and Andreas Gursky. But it also considers a number of related issues crucial to any understanding of photography, from the business practices of professional photographers to the repetition of pose and setting that is so central to certain familiar photographic genres. Ranging from the daguerreotype to the digital image, the end result is a kind of little history of photography, partial and episodic, but no less significant a rendition of the photographic experience for being so. This book represents a summation of Batchen’s work to date, making it be essential reading for students and scholars of photography and for all those interested in the history of the medium

Landmedien

Landmedien
Author: Clemens Zimmermann
Publisher: StudienVerlag
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2018-10-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3706559382

Der vorliegende Band thematisiert die oftmals unterschätzte Geschichte der Landmedien im 20. Jahrhundert in verschiedenen europäischen Kontexten. Das Spektrum der in diesem Band untersuchten Einzelmedien reicht von der Fotografie über Postkarten und Fahrradkarten bis zum Kino und Fernsehen. Es wird der im 20. Jahrhundert wachsenden und überraschend starken Präsenz von Medien auf dem Land nachgegangen und gezeigt, dass ländliche Kommunikationsweisen stark medialisiert waren, sich indes wichtige Charakteristika ländlicher Soziabilität behaupteten. In hohem Maße wurden und werden Bilder von Ländlichkeit durch öffentliche und private Medien erstellt und weiterverbreitet, auch in die ländlichen Gesellschaften hinein. Romantisierend-idealisierende Aspekte, Nostalgie, Idylle, Utopie und immer noch dichotomisch angelegte Vorstellungen von Stadt und Land kennzeichnen eine solche medial hergestellte Ruralität. Medialität und Ruralität, so die Gesamtthese dieses Bandes, erweisen sich als zentrale Kategorien ländlicher Gesellschaftsanalyse. Dabei wird deutlich, dass sich im Zusammenhang ländlicher Gesellschaften und Publika aktive Aneignungsprozesse vollzogen und vollziehen. Die Kommunikations- und Medienanalyse sollte folglich, wie das hier geschieht, nicht allein von den jeweiligen Produkten ausgehen, sondern soziale Praktiken einbeziehen.

Saint's Blood

Saint's Blood
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1784299642

'High energy, highly unique, swashbuckling-cop-epic-noir story. Buy it. BUY IT NOW' Sam Sykes The Greatcoats are back - and this time it's personal. How do you kill a Saint? Falcio, Brasti and Kest are about to find out, as someone is doing just that, and they've started with a friend. The Dukes were already looking for ways to weasel out of their promise to put Aline on her father's throne - but with Saints turning up dead, and Church Inquistitors pushing for control - rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascension. The only way Falcio can stop the country turning into a vicious theocracy is to find and stop the Saint-killer - but his only clue is the iron mask encasing the head of the Saint of Mercy, which prevents her from speaking. And even if he can find the murderer, he will still have to face them in battle - and this may be a duel that no swordsman, no matter how skilled, can win.

Way of the Argosi

Way of the Argosi
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1471405532

Ten year old Ferius Parfax has a simple plan: kill every last inhabitant of the spell-gifted nation that destroyed her people, starting with the man who murdered her parents. Killing mages is a difficult business, of course, so Ferius undertakes to study the ways of the Argosi: the loosely-knit tribe of tricksters known for getting the better of even the most powerful of spellcasters. But the Argosi have a price for their teachings, and by the time Ferius learns what it is, it may be too late. Perfect for fans of The Dark Tower, Firefly, Guardians of the Galaxy, Terry Pratchett, Ben Aaronovitch and Jim Butcher.

Traitor's Blade

Traitor's Blade
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623658101

With swashbuckling action that recalls Dumas's Three Musketeers, Sebastien de Castell has created a dynamic new fantasy series. In Traitor's Blade, a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy. The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening. Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world. A carefully orchestrated series of murders that began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king will end with the death of an orphaned girl and the ruin of everything that Falcio, Kest, and Brasti have fought for. But if the trio want to foil the conspiracy, save the girl, and reunite the Greatcoats, they'll have to do it with nothing but the tattered coats on their backs and the swords in their hands, because these days every noble is a tyrant, every knight is a thug, and the only thing you can really trust is a traitor's blade.

Knight's Shadow

Knight's Shadow
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623653991

Following his beloved debut, Traitor's Blade, Sebastien de Castell returns with volume two of his fast-paced fantasy adventure series, inspired by the swashbuckling action and witty banter of The Three Musketeers. Knight's Shadow continues the series with a thrilling and dark tale of heroism and betrayal in a country crushed under the weight of its rulers' corruption. A few days after the horrifying murder of a duke and his family, Falcio val Mond, swordsman and First Cantor of the Greatcoats, begins a deadly pursuit to capture the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies. As chaos and civil war begin to overtake the country, Falcio has precious little time left to stop those determined to destroy his homeland.

Artifact Space

Artifact Space
Author: Miles Cameron
Publisher: Gollancz
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473232627

Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships. With their vast cargo holds and a crew that could fill a city, the Greatships are the lifeblood of human occupied space, transporting an unimaginable volume - and value - of goods from City, the greatest human orbital, all the way to Tradepoint at the other, to trade for xenoglas with an unknowable alien species. It has always been Marca Nbaro's dream to achieve the near-impossible: escape her upbringing and venture into space. All it took, to make her way onto the crew of the Greatship Athens was thousands of hours in simulators, dedication, and pawning or selling every scrap of her old life in order to forge a new one. But though she's made her way onboard with faked papers, leaving her old life - and scandals - behind isn't so easy. She may have just combined all the dangers of her former life, with all the perils of the new . . .

Play of Shadows

Play of Shadows
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2024-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787471446

Swordplay, magic, intrigue and friendships stronger than iron: the first volume in the new swashbuckling fantasy series set in the universe of THE GREATCOATS. Damelas Chademantaigne picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel. He has precious little hope of escaping the wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duellist in the entire city, until he stumbles through the stage doors of the magnificent Operato Belleza and tricks his way into the company of actors. An archaic law provides a temporary respite from his troubles - until one night a ghostly voice in his head causes Damelas to fumble his lines, inadvertently blurting out a dreadful truth: the city's most legendary hero may actually be a traitor and a brutal murderer. With only the help of his boisterous and lusty friend Bereto, a beautiful assassin whose target may well be Damelas himself, and a company of misfit actors who'd just as soon see him dead, this failed grandson of two Greatcoats must somehow find within himself the courage to dig up long-buried truths before a ruthless band of bravos known as the Iron Orchids come for his head. Oh, and there's still that matter of the Vixen waiting to duel him . . . Readers love Play of Shadows! 'De Castell's masterful writing weaves an impressive tale with a fantastic plot, intriguing characters, and wondrous storybuilding. Another masterpiece' - 5* reader review 'If you are looking for a swashbuckling adventure with a dash of romance and a leaven of humour, then go out and get a copy of this book' - 5* reader review 'Everything that you come to expect from a Greatcoats world book - swashbuckling, emotional rollercoaster, a hero to root for and a great cast of characters some you will love and some you will hate' - 5* reader review