Photography Performing Humor

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2019-03-11

Type: BOOK

The book closes with a section on photographic wit in conceptual art, both in canonized and more locally distinct practices. With artists’ pages from Paulien Oltheten, Lieven Segers and David Helbich

Photography and Humour

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2017

Type: BOOK

With this book, Louis Kaplan remedies this, gathering together over one hundred images in a revealing look at the way photographers--from the very beginning of photography in the nineteenth century--have found so much amusement at the ends ...

Wild and Crazy

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-05-02

Type: BOOK

"The funniest photographs of wildlife from around the world collected here in one ... book [intended] for animal lovers of all stripes"--

Performing Marginality

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2004

Type: BOOK

An academic study of stand-up comedy performed by females. This will aid in the understanding of power structures in our society.

Study in Black and White

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2019-05-06

Type: BOOK

In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the ...

The Ultimate Photo Book of the Worlds Greatest Comedians

Publisher:

Published: 2019-04-09

Type: BOOK

This highly visual book is a must have for all people that enjoy comedy, photography and humor. The brand new highly visual photo book is printed for maximum photo reproduction and viewing pleasure.

Comic Genius

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2013-10-15

Type: BOOK

Page after sidesplitting page in Comic Genius offers prose as engaging as each portrait is memorable. Here, in one handsome package, is the gift of laughter itself. Comic Genius is proud to support Save The Children.

Playing It Straight

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-08-01

Type: BOOK

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Yale University, 2007) under the title: The plague of jocularity: contesting humor in American art and culture, 1863-1893.

A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-12-30

Type: BOOK

... photography, psychoanalysis, and comedy, including articles in journals such ... performing both locally and sometimes as far afield as Orlando, Florida. Joanne Gilbert is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Communication at Alma College, ...