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Shutterbabe
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.00What if the protagonist in that age-old tale?boy goes to war, comes back a man?were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one too many adventures later, a woman. In 1988, fresh out... more...
The Burden of Visual Truth
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 41.95As the visual component of contemporary media has overtaken the verbal, visual reportage has established a unique and extremely significant role in 21st-century culture. Julianne Newton has prepared this comprehensive analysis of the development of the role of visual reportage as a critical player in the evolution of our understanding of ourselves,... more...
American Modernism and Depression Documentary
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 64.99Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the camera's eye, these stark depictions of suffering became iconic markers of a formative period in U.S. history. Although there has been... more...
The Bang-Bang Club, movie tie-in
Basic Books 2011; US$ 16.99A gripping story of four remarkable young men?photographers, friends and rivals?who band together for protection in the final, violent days of white rule in South Africa. more...
Homeland
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 17.95Homeland is Pulitzer Prize winning author Maharidge's biggest and most ambitious book yet, weaving together the disparate and contradictory strands of contemporary American society-common decency alongside race rage, the range of dissenting voices, and the roots of discontent that defy political affiliation. Here are American families who can no longer... more...
Blood on the Lens
Potomac Books Inc. 2007; US$ 27.50A personal journey from naiveté to awareness in an ancient land of stark beauty and wartime devastation more...
Kokoda Front Line
Hachette Australia 2012; US$ 27.17The story of Damien Parer ? Australia?s greatest war photographer, whose legendary 1942 documentary on Kokoda broke the news to a shocked Australia of the desperate fighting to the north. more...
The Kissing Sailor
Naval Institute Press 2012; US$ 23.95On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world's dominant... more...
Kokoda Front Line
Hachette Australia 2012; Not AvailableThe story of Damien Parer ? Australia?s greatest war photographer, whose legendary 1942 documentary on Kokoda broke the news to a shocked Australia of the desperate fighting to the north. more...
Visual Communication Research Designs
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 49.95Visual Communication Research Designs provides a step-by-step guide for designing research involving visuals relevant to communications media. This volume explains the process from conceptualization to research questions, instrumentation, analysis, and reliability and validity checks. It also addresses the lack of sufficient methods to answer theoretical... more...









