{"title":"Jane Tormey","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cities-and-photography-book-jane-tormey-9780415564403","title":"Cities and Photography","description":"Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines: across the social sciences and humanities, photography and fine art.  This text offers different perspectives from which to view social, political and cultural ideas about the city and urbanism, through both verbal discussion and photographic representation. It provides introductions to theoretical conceptions of the city that are useful to photographers addressing urban issues, as well as discussing themes that have preoccupied photographers and informed cultural issues central to a discussion of city. This text interprets the city as a spatial network that we inhabit on different conceptual, psychological and physical levels, and gives emphasis to how people operate within, relate to, and activate the city via construction, habitation and disruption. Cities and Photography aims to demonstrate the potential of photography as a contributor to commentary and analytical frameworks: what does photography as a medium provide for a vision of ‘city’ and what can photographs tell us about cities, histories, attitudes and ideas?  This introductory text is richly illustrated with case studies and over 50 photographs, summarizing complex theory and analysis with application to specific examples. Emphasis is given to international, contemporary photographic projects to provide provide focus for the discussion of theoretical conceptions of the city through the analysis of photographic interpretation and commentary. This text will be of great appeal to those interested in Photography, Urban Studies and Human Geography.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533310664977,"sku":"GOR006063896","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52336226074897,"sku":"NLS9780415564403","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53205190738193,"sku":"GOR012365830","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0415564409.jpg?v=1751229915"},{"product_id":"drawing-now-book-jane-tormey-9781845115333","title":"Drawing Now","description":"An exhibition in book form, this showcase drawing features one hundred works by almost fifty artists including Susan Hauptman, Paul Noble, Jeff Gabel, Tracey Emin, Jane Harris, Julia Fish, Cornelia Parker and Jerwood Drawing Prize winner Sarah Woodfine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49557384823057,"sku":"GOR003279484","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53133056606481,"sku":"GOR005863666","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1845115333.jpg?v=1751217358"},{"product_id":"art-politics-and-the-pamphleteer-book-jane-tormey-9781350022454","title":"Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer","description":"Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer brings together a collection of text-based and visual essays, commissioned artworks and graphics. This richly illustrated book responds to the concept, aesthetics and function of the political pamphlet. It is diverse in content, interpreting the ‘pamphlet’ in the broadest terms, and encompassing a number of case studies that offer historical or specific examples of contemporary pamphleteering practice that can be seen to perform ‘a clear political implication’ or protest. Besides exploring the radical history and diverse cultures of the pamphlet, it also celebrates the rich visual rhetoric, typography and contemporary relevance of the format for both artists and activists. Contributions include an historical overview and essays by: Andy Abbott,  Angeliki Avgitidu,  Aziz Choudry and Désirée Rochat,  David Murrieta Flores,  Michelle Kempson,  Pil and Galia Kollectiv,  Rachel Schreiber,  Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley; visual contributions by Gary Anderson and Steven Shakespeare,  Ruth Beale,  Ami Clarke, Common Culture,  Jeremy Deller,  Freee,  Patrick Goddard,  Gavin Grindon,  Ferenc Grof,  Marc Herbst,  Joanne Lee,  Josh MacPhee,  Manual Labours,  Mark McGowan, Minute Works,  Chris Morton,  radicalreThink,  Hester Reeve,  Oliver Ressler,  Greg Sholette \u0026amp; Christopher Darling, Laura Wild,  Andrew Wilson.  As the book was conceived as predominantly visual from the outset, the book concept has been a collaboration with The Little Riot Press (Phil Eastwood and Chris Dunne). Overall, an aesthetic of protest and propaganda was considered integral to the design to reiterate the generally handmade, analogue techniques found in political pamphlets. The Little Riot Press have thus approached the illustration and overall visual cohesion from the perspective of the radical artist pamphleteer. www.thelittleriotpress.com","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50697667903761,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697670066449,"sku":"NGR9781350022454","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52684056723729,"sku":"NLS9781350022454","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350022454.jpg?v=1752144409"},{"product_id":"photography-and-political-aesthetics-book-jane-tormey-9780367609153","title":"Photography and Political Aesthetics","description":"This accessible book explores the creative uses of photography with political purpose, both in terms of subject matter and of the political perspectives that have driven attitudes to viewing photographs.   The shorter Part I reviews twentieth-century thinking that has influenced attitudes to photography and the political. Part II identifies the political ideas that drive practical strategies in the twenty-first century. It considers the politics of photography by looking at what affects people’s lives and agency: attitudes to difference and identity; power relations between institutions, individuals, and communities; the impact of trauma and global change. With a focus on the exchange of ideas between visual practice and theories, a selection of projects are examined from a range of perspectives, such as post-colonial and feminist thinking, post-humanism, and cultural and social theory, with references ranging from Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to Achille Mbembe, Bruno Latour, and Chantal Mouffe. The pursuit of ‘political aesthetics’ borrows from Jacques Rancière’s ideas about cultural production. Photography and Political Aesthetics identifies photography as politically productive when positioned within political movements, and champions practices that perform, investigate, or give attention to presentation and public dissemination.   This book is ideally suited to students studying photography, art and aesthetics, visual politics, and cultural studies, and researchers across the fields of photography, media, art, and politics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50698766385425,"sku":"NGR9780367609153","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0367609150.jpg?v=1750942402"},{"product_id":"photographic-realism-book-jane-tormey-9781526106728","title":"Photographic Realism","description":"Discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice. -- .","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52484300636433,"sku":"NLS9781526106728","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52750523400465,"sku":"NIN9781526106728","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781526106728.jpg?v=1763128280"},{"product_id":"photographic-realism-book-jane-tormey-9780719081569","title":"Photographic Realism","description":"Photographic realism: Late twentieth-century aesthetics provides an accessible and useful introduction to uses of photography in art practice, and relates them to wider cultural ideas. Focusing on conceptual and political projects between 1970 and the turn of the century, it draws parallels between issues discussed in theory and those displayed visually in practice. Tormey discusses a dynamic era in photography's history, which follows the influences of conceptual art and shifts in thinking about representation and subjectivity. The author moves away from the preoccupations of modernist photography to outline a photographic aesthetic that signals a direction for development in the twenty-first century, exampled here by the complex practices of Chinese photography. This book emphasises how photographs construct ideas, make comments and promote thought - philosophically, culturally and politically.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52485507907857,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52485509054737,"sku":"NLS9780719081569","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780719081569.jpg?v=1763121261"},{"product_id":"art-politics-and-the-pamphleteer-book-jane-tormey-9781350022461","title":"Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer","description":"Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer brings together a collection of text-based and visual essays, commissioned artworks and graphics. This richly illustrated book responds to the concept, aesthetics and function of the political pamphlet. It is diverse in content, interpreting the ‘pamphlet’ in the broadest terms, and encompassing a number of case studies that offer historical or specific examples of contemporary pamphleteering practice that can be seen to perform ‘a clear political implication’ or protest. Besides exploring the radical history and diverse cultures of the pamphlet, it also celebrates the rich visual rhetoric, typography and contemporary relevance of the format for both artists and activists. Contributions include an historical overview and essays by: Andy Abbott,  Angeliki Avgitidu,  Aziz Choudry and Désirée Rochat,  David Murrieta Flores,  Michelle Kempson,  Pil and Galia Kollectiv,  Rachel Schreiber,  Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley; visual contributions by Gary Anderson and Steven Shakespeare,  Ruth Beale,  Ami Clarke, Common Culture,  Jeremy Deller,  Freee,  Patrick Goddard,  Gavin Grindon,  Ferenc Grof,  Marc Herbst,  Joanne Lee,  Josh MacPhee,  Manual Labours,  Mark McGowan, Minute Works,  Chris Morton,  radicalreThink,  Hester Reeve,  Oliver Ressler,  Greg Sholette \u0026amp; Christopher Darling, Laura Wild,  Andrew Wilson.  As the book was conceived as predominantly visual from the outset, the book concept has been a collaboration with The Little Riot Press (Phil Eastwood and Chris Dunne). Overall, an aesthetic of protest and propaganda was considered integral to the design to reiterate the generally handmade, analogue techniques found in political pamphlets. The Little Riot Press have thus approached the illustration and overall visual cohesion from the perspective of the radical artist pamphleteer. www.thelittleriotpress.com","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53088826392849,"sku":"NLS9781350022461","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781350022461.jpg?v=1770080539"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-jane-tormey.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}