#LIZ WELLS PHOTO READER SERIES#

He collaborates with a number of cultural magazines and has published and given lectures on critical art, culture and participation, urban planning, image and visual culture, the rights of artists, etc. He works in a number of disciplines (from the production of images to written text), proposing a reflection on the instrumental uses of the image as well as the social and political function of art and culture. NACHO PARÍS, artist, theoretician, and activist. The photography reader Author: Liz Wells (Editor) Summary: A comprehensive collection of twentieth-century writings on photography-its production, its uses. She is Professor in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Plymouth University, UK, and co-convenes the research group for Land/Water and the Visual Arts ( She is an elected member of the Board of Directors, Society for Photographic Education. Exhibitions as curator include: Light Touch, Baltimore Washington International Airport (February 12 th – June 21 st 2014) Futureland Now – John Kippin, Chris Wainwright (Laing Gallery, Newcastle, September 15 th 2012 – January 20 th 2013), Sense of Place, European Landscape Photography (BOZAR, Brussels, 14 th June – 15 th September 2012), and Landscapes of Exploration (British art from Antarctica, Plymouth, February/March 2012 Cambridge, October/November 2013 Bournemouth, January/February 2015). Publications on landscape include Land Matters, Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity (2011). She edited The Photography Reader (2003), and Photography: A Critical Introduction (2015, 5 th ed.) and is a co-editor for photographies, Routledge journals. Liz Wells writes and lectures on photographic practices. Liz Well, Bleda y Rosa and Nacho Paris will launch the book and engage in a conversation with the artists after the presentation.Īctivity in Collaboration with the Master in Photography at the UPV and Fundació Per Amor a l’Art. Texts by Liz Wells, Paola Cortés-Rocca and Nacho París reflecting on landscape, history and philosophy, accompany the projects.

#LIZ WELLS PHOTO READER SERIES#

Bleda y Rosa: a book that collects the complete series of the work.

Geografía del tiempo, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Museo de la Universidad de Navarra and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea have produced the publication Campos de batalla. On the occasion of the exhibition Bleda y Rosa. Mitchell, Tina Modotti, László Moholy-Nagy, Wright Morris, Darren Newbury, Daniel Palmer, Marjorie Perloff, Fred Ritchin, Martha Rosler, Steven Skopik, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Susan Sontag, Lucy Soutter, John Szarkowski, John Tagg, Hilde Van Gelder, Ian Walker, Liz Wells, Edward Weston, Peter Wollen.LAUNCH OF THE PUBLICATION Campos de batalla.

Includes essays by: Jan Baetens, Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, David Bate, André Bazin, Walter Benjamin, Lynn Berger, Matthew Biro, Osip Brik, Victor Burgin, Hubert Damisch, Edmundo Desnoes, Umberto Eco, Elizabeth Edwards, Steve Edwards, Andy Grundberg, Lisa Henderson, Estelle Jussim, Sarah Kember, Siegfried Kracauer, Rosalind Krauss, Martin Lister, Lev Manovich, Christian Metz, W. Sections on Art photography, Documentary and Photomedia.Revised introductions, setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context.

New essays from photographers and academics.Presenting both the historical ideas and the continuing theoretical debates within photography and photographic study, this second edition contains essays by photographers including Edward Weston and László Moholy-Nagy, and key thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag.Īlong with its companion text – The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity – this is the most comprehensive introduction to photography and photographic criticism. Following on from its hugely successful first edition, The Photography Reader: History and Theory provides deeper insight into the critical discussions around photography – its production, its uses and its effects.

Liz wells photo reader