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This discussion is complemented by a conversation between Sanguinetti and curators Clément Chéroux and Pierre Leyrat, unpacking the ways this work engages with and disrupts conversations around documentary photography, artistic collaboration, and the depiction of the lives of girls and women the world over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis reader coincides with a solo exhibition of Alessandra Sanguinetti’s work at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, opening 30 January 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRéalisée sur une période de vingt-quatre ans et qui se poursuit encore aujourd’hui, la série d’Alessandra Sanguinetti, \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Guille and Belinda (Les Aventures de Guille et Belinda\u003c\/em\u003e), retrace la vie de deux cousines qui évoluent au gré de la vie quotidienne en milieu rural, dans la province de Buenos Aires. Depuis leur plus jeune âge, Guille et Belinda sont les collaboratrices, les complices et les camarades de Sanguinetti. 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Ces échanges sont complétés par une conversation entre Sanguinetti et les commissaires d’exposition, Clément Chéroux et Pierre Leyrat, sur la manière dont cette œuvre nourrit et remet en question les débats autour de la photographie documentaire, de la collaboration artistique et de la représentation de la vie des jeunes filles et des femmes dans le monde entier.\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-adventures-of-guille-and-belinda-and-the-illusion-of-an-everlasting-summer-br-alessandra-sanguinetti-first-edition-second-printing\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ean idea, or another individual across an extended text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the full series \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackpublishing.au\/collections\/discourse\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49854596841764,"sku":"9781915743473","price":39.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52019257049380,"sku":"9781915743473E","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/7865\/1428\/files\/DISCOURSE_29.jpg?v=1771319527"},{"product_id":"rays-a-laugh-a-reader-br-liz-jobey-ed","title":"Ray's a Laugh: A Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEbook available via this listing, on \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/rays-a-laugh-a-reader\/id6479356359\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/bp1ee6?store=amazon\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, a book of photographs by an unknown young British photographer was launched on to the London contemporary art market to immediate popular and critical success. 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This book coincides with the release of a new edition of \u003cem\u003eRay’s a Laugh\u003c\/em\u003e restoring Billingham’s original vision for the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePurchase \u003cem\u003eRay's a Laugh\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackbooks.co.uk\/products\/rays-a-laugh-br-richard-billingham\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ean idea, or another individual across an extended text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the full series \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackpublishing.au\/collections\/discourse\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49854625775908,"sku":"9781915743367","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52019253477668,"sku":"9781915743367E","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/7865\/1428\/files\/DISCOURSE_5.jpg?v=1771440516"},{"product_id":"instructional-photography-learning-how-to-live-now-br-carmen-winant-br-spbh-editions","title":"Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEbook available via this listing, on \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/instructional-photography\/id6483932253\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApple Books \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/mgyY6X?store=amazon\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/mgyY6X?store=amazon\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eKindle Store.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eInstructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely visual essay by artist and writer Carmen Winant. 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Focusing on the increasingly isolated bodies maintaining the gargantuan vessels of today, this essay underscores the huge toll on the seafarers who work the ships that feed our ravenous Thebes.\u003c\/em\u003e’ Sally Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eThis significant study describes the labouring bodies – hands, legs, and eyes; flesh and soul; suffering and solidarity – that make the world go round. In the process, the connections and divisions of the world economy come into view.\u003c\/em\u003e’ Steve Edwards\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe body of the seafarer is a fulcrum upon which global systems of power, longstanding maritime traditions, and gendered and racialised pressures all rest. In this vital new essay, scholar Laleh Khalili draws on her ongoing research and experiences of travelling on cargo ships to explore the embodied life of these labourers. She investigates an experience riddled with adversities – loneliness, loss, and violence, stolen wages and exploitative shipowners – as well as ephemeral moments of joy and solidarity. In the unique arena of the ship, Khalili traces the many forms of corporeality involved in work at sea and the ways the body is engaged by the institutions that engulf seafarers’ lives and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout with the author’s own photographs, this book takes in both scholarly and literary accounts to describe with care and imagination the material and physical realities of contemporary commerce at sea. 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Taking a 213-day blackout in 2019 as its starting point, the project aims to detail the reasoning behind these blockades, seeking a new register of writing and image that makes visible the conditions of occupation and the protracted violence of the blackout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the book’s first part, Scott and Thomas bring together hundreds of sources, filling in the gaps from Srinagar to the remote Himalayan valleys along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, to create a unique log of fifteen days under siege, during which Kashmiri constitutional rights were revoked, the state partitioned, and stripped of its special statehood. 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There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well — patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of moral judgement — but is it really so simple? Is it a skill one can easily learn or more of a quirk or talent? And why do some people seem to be so much better at it than others? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eWritten by a psychoanalyst and a violin maker, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUneasy Listening\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e is a dialogue between two very different kinds of professional listener: the former working with speech, the latter with musical instruments. Beginning as total strangers, Anouchka Grose and Robert Brewer Young embark on an engaging, entertaining, and winding meditation on communication that weaves together wide-ranging references from across psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, contemporary politics and culture. 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In his characteristically analytical and associative manner, writer and curator David Campany takes the reader through the history and implications of \u003cem\u003ePhotopath\u003c\/em\u003e, and their place in the breadth of Victor Burgin’s art and theoretical writings.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ean idea, or another individual across an extended text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the full series \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackpublishing.au\/collections\/discourse\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50158088913188,"sku":"9781913620660","price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":51507879248164,"sku":"9781913620660E","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/7865\/1428\/files\/DISCOURSE_15_371a1680-cd4c-457b-99f5-dae225a296ff.jpg?v=1770427249"},{"product_id":"indeterminacy-thoughts-on-time-the-image-and-raceism-discourse-008-br-david-campany-stanley-wolukau-wanambwa","title":"Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEbook available on \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/id6445454923\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/3LNE97\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn a series of written exchanges, David Campany and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa consider the options for photography in resisting the oppressive orthodoxies of racial capital, conservative history, and neoliberal visual culture. 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These urgent questions and more are discussed in a spirit of speculation and possibility, in the light of signal events that have shaped the recent past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ean idea, or another individual across an extended text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the full series \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackpublishing.au\/collections\/discourse\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50158086488356,"sku":"9781913620486","price":39.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50985771925796,"sku":"9781913620486E","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/7865\/1428\/files\/DISCOURSE_19.jpg?v=1770426974"},{"product_id":"photographys-neoliberal-realism-br-jorg-colberg","title":"Photography's Neoliberal Realism","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe paperback edition is now sold out. 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This extended essay provides an alternative reading of photographic works laden with artifice, and argues how focusing on this artifice misses the more far-reaching ways such images operate in our visual economy.\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackpublishing.au\/collections\/discourse\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDISCOURSE is a series of small books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ean idea, or another individual across an extended text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the full series \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mackpublishing.au\/collections\/discourse\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50260638892324,"sku":"9781913620165","price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50260638925092,"sku":"9781913620165E","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/7865\/1428\/files\/DISCOURSE_17.jpg?v=1771440482"},{"product_id":"the-parameters-of-our-cage-br-c-fausto-cabrera-alec-soth","title":"The Parameters of Our Cage (Updated Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003eEbook available via this listing, on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-parameters-of-our-cage\/id6742457182\" style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/pleasure-gardens\/id6544798470\" style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/b50avp?store=amazon\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn January 2020, Alec Soth received a letter from Chris Fausto Cabrera, an inmate of the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Rush City, asking the photographer to engage in a dialogue. 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You can purchase the ebook via this listing, \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/an-interview-with-lewis-baltz\/id1547408623?ls=1\"\u003eApple Books\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/me7VrA\"\u003eKindle Store\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"The tension implicit in any photograph is the tension between an inert, black-and-white, two-dimensional object, and an event that actually existed in the phenomenal world. A successful photograph mediates, though never completely resolves that tension.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 1972, as his career was beginning to take off, Lewis Baltz conducted a revealing interview, his first considered statement about photography. Never published, the interview has recently resurfaced, and is printed here for the first time. 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Stein is an American academic and cultural theorist living in Los Angeles. 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