A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, this collection of essays covers a range of topics, from Education and Democracy and Politics and Election to Cultural Participation and AIDS and Democracy: A Case Study. br With contributions by: li Erma Bombeck li li Noam Chomsky li li Alexander Cockburn li li David Deitcher li li Lisa Duggan li li Barbara Ehrenreich li li Deirdre English li li Stuart Ewen li li Henry Louis Gates Jr. li li Group Material li li bell hooks li li Gary Indiana li li Catherine Lord li li Bill Moyers li li William Olander li li Mark P. Petracca li li Yvonne Rainer li li Vito Russo li li I ..

Drawn from the International Center of Photography's archives, this book highlights the incomparable style and fascinating career of Weegee, one of New York City's quintessential press photographers. For a decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee made a name for himself snapping crime scenes, victims, and perpetrators. Armed with a Speed Graphic camera and a police-band radio, Weegee often beat the cops to the story, determined to sell his pictures to the sensation-hungry tabloids. His stark black-and-white photos were often lurid and unsettling. Yet, as this beautifully produced volume shows, they were also brimming with humanity. Designed as a series of dossiers, ..

Throughout the modern era, photography has been enlisted not only to document but also to classify the world and its people. Its status bolstered by a popular belief in the scientific objectivity of photographic evidence, photography has been used, from the earliest days of the medium, to produce and organize knowledge about the external world. br Published to accompany the exhibition The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection , this catalogue investigates the production and uses of serial portraiture, vernacular imagery, architectural surveys and time-based performance in photography from the 1880s to the present, bringing together works by ..