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27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 15 x 42 cm

The harsh divide : a film by Gideon Mendel.

319 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm

Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis / edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller ; Jay Prosser, principal editor.

'On Abortion' is the first part of Laia Abril's new long-term project, 'A History of Misogyny'. The work was first exhibited at Les Rencontres in Arles in 2016 and awarded the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro and the Fotopress Grant. Abril documents and conceptualises the dangers and damage caused by women's lack of legal, safe and free access to abortion. She draws on the past to highlight the long, continuing erosion of women's reproductive rights through to the present-day, weaving together questions of ethics and morality, to reveal a staggering series of social triggers, stigmas, and taboos around abortion that have been largely invisible until now.

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

On abortion : and the repercussions of lack of access / Laia Abril.

208 pages : illustrations (1 color), 1 map, portraits ; 27 cm

Images from the Likeness House / Dan Savard.

256 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 x 25 cm

The body at risk : photography of disorder, illness, and healing / Carol Squiers.

"Positive Lives is an extraordinary collaboration. Patients, photographers, friends and lovers have come together to produce a unique photodocumentary about AIDS and HIV. Their shared objective is to show the broad range of responses, both practical and emotional, developed in the face of this pandemic. Responses not just to the need to care for the infected and the affected, but to the threat of its impact on all our lives. Positive Lives is a human story. Behind the statistics, behind the campaigning, behind the prejudice and disinformation, are people. This is their story."-- Back cover.

142 pages : illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 28 cm.

Positive lives : responses to HIV : a photodocumentary / edited by Stephen Mayes, Network Photographers, and Lyndall Stein, The Terrence Higgins Trust ; foreword by Edmund White.

Reality recorded : early documentary photography / Gail Buckland.

xii, 242 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

The burden of representation : essays on photographies and histories / John Tagg.

Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. Born into a working-class London family, she worked for many years as a studio photographer. Her political concerns led to documentary photography. Soon after completing her degree in the theory and practice of photography, she discovered she had breast cancer. Through her struggle to come to terms with the illness, to find non-invasive treatments and to share her experience with others, she developed unique ways of using photography. Cultural Sniping brings together a wide range of Jo Spence's photographs and writings for the first time. Through images and texts she explores complex issues of gender, class, health and the body, and their impact on her understanding of personal history and the construction of identity. Cultural Sniping includes images from Spence's early work in documentary photography and from her pioneering photo-therapy projects, undertaken in collaboration with other photographers. In her later work Spence faces up to the experience of illness and dying, and Cultural Sniping reproduces work from her Return to Nature and Death Mask series, in which she tries to come to terms with the reality of death. Jo Spence's commitment to engaging with personal experience, political understanding and critical theory make her writing and photography a vital contribution to our understanding of the politics of representation.

249 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.

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The harsh divide : a film by Gideon Mendel.

Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis / edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller ; Jay Prosser, principal editor.

On abortion : and the repercussions of lack of access / Laia Abril.

Images from the Likeness House / Dan Savard.

The body at risk : photography of disorder, illness, and healing / Carol Squiers.

Positive lives : responses to HIV : a photodocumentary / edited by Stephen Mayes, Network Photographers, and Lyndall Stein, The Terrence Higgins Trust ; foreword by Edmund White.

Reality recorded : early documentary photography / Gail Buckland.

The burden of representation : essays on photographies and histories / John Tagg.

Cultural sniping : the art of transgression / by Jo Spence ; literary editing by Jo Stanley, picture editing by David Hevey, foreword by Annette Kuhn.

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The harsh divide : a film by Gideon Mendel.

Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis / edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller ; Jay Prosser, principal editor.

On abortion : and the repercussions of lack of access / Laia Abril.

Images from the Likeness House / Dan Savard.

The body at risk : photography of disorder, illness, and healing / Carol Squiers.

Positive lives : responses to HIV : a photodocumentary / edited by Stephen Mayes, Network Photographers, and Lyndall Stein, The Terrence Higgins Trust ; foreword by Edmund White.

Reality recorded : early documentary photography / Gail Buckland.

The burden of representation : essays on photographies and histories / John Tagg.

Cultural sniping : the art of transgression / by Jo Spence ; literary editing by Jo Stanley, picture editing by David Hevey, foreword by Annette Kuhn.

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