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Text engl. - "Designed by Arlyn Nathan and Jack Woody. 'The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone - many times a professional photographer - carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that we may now look back on the terrorism unleashed on America's African-American community and perhaps know our history and ourselves better. The almost one hundred images reproduced here are a testament to the camera's ability to make us remember what we often choose to forget'. This is the extremely unsettling book published in conjunction with a circulating exhibition of harrowing vintage photographic images of lynchings drawn from the collection of James Allen." (www.antiqbook.com/boox/ara/019615.shtml; seen 02.2018).

Text engl. - Each of the eight chapters in this book takes a timeframe of between 15 and nearly 40 years in which to examine the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media, and individual practitioners. These broad topics work alongside a fully developed cultural context in which the emphasis is more on key ideas than individuals. There are debates such as the nature of invention, the effect of mass media on morality, the use of imagery as a tool of Western colonialism, and the role of the photograph in advertising, radical politics, and family life. Focus boxes highlight interesting cultural or controversial issues, for example Photography and Futurism and Lewis Carroll's Photographs of Children. The author also pays close attention to how contemporary practitioners, commentators, and beholders have talked about specific works, the nature of photography, and the photographer's changing role in society. States, the book benefits from two decades of research into non-Western photography and yields rarely seen work from Latin America, Africa, India, Russia, China, and Japan. Great names from the world over are well represented [...]. Additionally, featured in more detail: arts, music and photography, equipment, techniques and reference, history, humanities, etc. (www.eurobuch.com/buch/isbn/0130198560.html; seen 02.2018).

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Text engl. - Du Camp''s traveling companion Gustave Flaubert once remarked: „I don't know why Maxime hasn't killed himself with this raging mania for photography.“ The Stillness of Hajj Ishmael explores this mania as a manifestation of the cultural hypochondria typical of Du Camp's time and social class,linking the general anxiety of the age over the apparent demise of French culture with the personal travails of Du Camp, who grew up an orphan. The book explores the role played by Nubian sailor Hajj Ishmael in Du Camp's photographs, travel writings, journals and novel as a unique marker of a malaise simultaneously subjective and historical.

Text engl. - Other ed.: Originally published in 1895. 2nd printing 2001.

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