Close-ups from Afar: Selected Short and Longer Essays on Social Uses of Photography masculinity whose brutally honest portraits of

whose brutally honest portraits of his mother insisted that ‘Even the smallest wrinkles and veins must not be ignored’

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and a wry comment on the climate of power in the artist’s home country

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Close-ups from Afar: Selected Short and Longer Essays on Social Uses of Photography masculinity whose brutally honest portraits ofSally Stein has long investigated the role of photography in relation to broader questions of culture and society. This first collection of her selected essays, Close ups from Afar, brings together essential writings from over five decades, cumulatively demonstrating Steins distinctive critical approach to the history and proliferation of photography and its role within mass media and contemporary culture. In this richly illustrated volume, Stein