{"id":738,"date":"2015-02-28T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=738"},"modified":"2016-03-16T21:36:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:36:06","slug":"get-em-while-theyre-fresh-new-books-for-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2015\/02\/28\/get-em-while-theyre-fresh-new-books-for-february-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ‘Em While They’re Fresh: New Books for February 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teju Cole, a photographer, writer, and art historian, wrote the introduction to the first book in this post.\u00a0 His words resonate in all three books profiled below: \u201cA photo is something that, taken in a fraction of a second, can echo for a long time\u201d (Webb & Webb, 2014, p. 8).<\/p>\n

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\"AlexThe Webbs are married photographers who also collaborate professionally. Their book,Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image<\/em>,<\/a> is challenging to describe because it offers so many things. The Webbs share carefully selected images from their collections as well as wisdom attained from the creative journeys of their careers.\u00a0 One of the threads weaving this work together is their artistic differences in style, subjects, and processes: \u201cour ways of seeing are quite different\u201d (p. 14). Another more subtle thread is their respect for each other, for the art of photography, and for the world they photograph:\u00a0 \u201cThe world is our collaborator on this twofold journey that\u2019s inward to the self and outward into the world\u201d (p. 14).\u00a0 John T. Richardson Library, Call Number:\u00a0 778.94\u00a0W3651a2014<\/p>\n

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\"OpenDavid Campany also explores the dual nature of photography\u2014specifically images taken by innovative photographers during road trips in the U.S. from 1906 to 2014. The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip<\/a><\/em> traces the evolution of the automobile, the U.S. road system, and the art of photography. More significantly, Campany teases out the ongoing societal changes that these photographs bring to light.\u00a0 He proposes that \u201cmodern America\u2026is a work in progress\u201d (p. 35) and that \u201cthe road trip remains vital precisely because American spatial discovery and mental discovery, selfhood and nationhood, are so intertwined\u201d (p. 36). While photographs from the earlier road trips provided glimpses of different geographies in the U.S. to a less mobile society, contemporary images are equally important for making sense of our internal terrain or identity.\u00a0 John T. Richardson Library, Call Number:\u00a0 770 C1869o2014<\/p>\n

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\"ForHorace Monroe Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-1984) photographed members of his multi-tribal community in the Anadarko, Oklahoma area for five decades.\u00a0 His photography is not only an intimate record of his family and community, but also an insider\u2019s view of Native American culture\u00a0in the southern plains during the mid-twentieth century.\u00a0 The collection is a rich visual documentation of a turbulent time of transition for Native Americans and therefore a valuable contribution to Native American studies.\u00a0 For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw<\/a>was published in conjunction with an exhibition of his work (August 9, 2014-February 16, 2015) at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, NY.\u00a0 John T. Richardson Library, Call Number:\u00a0 978.00497 F6921<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teju Cole, a photographer, writer, and art historian, wrote the introduction to the first book in this post.\u00a0 His words resonate in all three books profiled below: \u201cA photo is something that, taken in a fraction of a second, can echo for a long time\u201d (Webb & Webb, 2014, p. 8). The Webbs are married <\/p>\n

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