The book explores the rise of crowdsourced public media projects, highlighting how advancements in camera technology have made it easier for individuals to document and share their experiences. It examines the implications of this trend on storytelling, community engagement, and the democratization of media production. Through various case studies, the author delves into the transformative power of collective creativity and the challenges faced in maintaining quality and authenticity in an era of ubiquitous media creation.
This richly illustrated volume examines the idiosyncraticphenomenon of social nudism in mid-20th-century Britain, anisland nation fabled for its lack of sunshine and its reservedsocial attitudes.Structured across three interrelated phases, readers firstencounter the movement at its genesis in the 1920s,when nudism was synonymous with vegetarianism,intellectualism and utopianism. That nascent cultureproliferated in the postwar era, with a widening landscapeof amateur clubs and governing organizations alongsidehigh circulation publications and censorship-challengingphotographers. Finally, Annebella Pollen examines themovement's redefinition as naturism, its cultural battles andits struggle to survive amid shifts in sexual liberation in thepermissive 1960s.Unadorned bodies were the central campaigning tool ofBritish naturism's photographic propaganda. They drewattention to the cause and drove publication sales but theyalso attracted regular public opprobrium. Naturism's shiftingvisual culture thus provides a microcosmic view of Britishmoral, legal and aesthetic transformations in a period of rapidsocial change, revealing evolving perspectives on health andsex, gender and ethnicity, pleasure and power.
How art can enhance cultural relations: the work of the British Council, from 1935 to nowFor more than eight decades, the British Council has sent British art abroad to foster dialogue with over 1,000 countries, amassing a collection comprising over 8,500 pieces. This book follows the work of the Council since 1935.
