{"product_id":"fred-ritchin-bending-the-frame-photojournalism-documentary-and-the-citizen","title":"Fred Ritchin: Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHow can contemporary image makers promote new thinking and make a difference in the world?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBending the Frame\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Fred Ritchin’s third book on the future of the photographic medium, immerses the reader in the complex new ecosystem of the image and poses a series of critical questions that are relevant to today’s image makers and readers alike. He begins by asking: “What do we want from this media revolution? Not just where is it bringing us, but where do we want to go? When the pixels start to settle, where do we think we should be in relationship to media—as producers, subjects, viewers? Since all media inevitably change us, how do we \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to be changed?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo help us consider possible answers, Ritchin provides historical grounding for alternative modes of visual storytelling as well as a host of new and emerging strategies to explore the world in more complex, thoughtful, and useful ways. If there are some one billion people roaming the world with cellphone cameras, he asks, what might the role of the professional photographer be? Might there be an urgent need for a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003emetaphotography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that contextualizes and makes sense of the myriad images already online? More pointedly, if there is a photography of war, shouldn’t there also be a photography of peace?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003eder-toggle=\"{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e ","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50278335054109,"sku":"9781597111201","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781597111201.jpg?v=1755707871","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/fred-ritchin-bending-the-frame-photojournalism-documentary-and-the-citizen","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}