{"title":"Writing on Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003eTitles that are word first, while still being on \u0026amp; about photography broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"words-photographs","title":"words \u0026 photographs","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"p1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ewords \u0026amp; photographs\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/jessejacksoniv.com\/#photographer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJesse Jackson IV\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNearest Truth Editions \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e130 pages \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eISBN: 979-8-9912263-0-1 \u003cbr\u003e$35 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ewords \u0026amp; photographs\u003c\/i\u003e is the first part of a trilogy of photo-texts within which Jesse Jackson IV explores his relationship to the camera, and the ways in which use of the camera has altered his perception of the world around him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nearest Truth Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44847147581497,"sku":"3-0001","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0742\/9878\/5849\/files\/2025_09_05_REALM_0458_wordsandphotographs_smallCU.jpg?v=1757188714"},{"product_id":"against-barthes-the-eye-and-the-index","title":"Against Barthes: The Eye and the Index","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"p1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAgainst Barthes: The Eye and the Index\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJoan Fontcuberta \u003cbr\u003eMack \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePaperback with flaps \u003cbr\u003e12.5 x 19.5 cm, 208 pages \u003cbr\u003eApril 2025 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eISBN 978-1-915743-93-0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e$20\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFrom Mack: The gesture of pointing is the perfect embodiment of photography’s function as a visual document: an injunction to look at \u003ci\u003ethis\u003c\/i\u003e. In this textual and visual essay, artist Joan Fontcuberta takes the index finger as his point of departure for an insightful and irreverent consideration of photography’s relation to indexicality. He refutes, as well as draws on, Roland Barthes’s suggestion that every photograph tells us ‘this has been’ (‘\u003ci\u003eça a été\u003c\/i\u003e’), reckoning with the inconvenient multiplicity of \u003ci\u003ethises\u003c\/i\u003e in any given image. If a photograph constitutes such a statement – as made explicit in images that include a pointing finger – does the camera witness reality or performance? These existential issues are further complicated by the emergence of post-photography and generative AI. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn this typically engaging and iconoclastic essay, Fontcuberta destabilises our ideas about the authority and authoriality of images, drawing on psychoanalysis, semiotics, and his own autobiography. 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