IAPT Press Books
Island of Aphrodite II
2020, by Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Nicolas Lambouris, IAPT PRESS
The International Association of Photography and Theory Press (IAPT Press), is proud to present its most recent publication by Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Nicolas Lambouris, titled Cyprus: Island of Aphrodite II, published in 2020. The publication departs from George Lanitis’ book, Cyprus: Island of Aphrodite [Νάσος τας Αφροδίτας], published in 1965, in Nicosia. Fifty-five years on, Cyprus: Island of Aphrodite manifests both as an artistic and historical artefact, a segment of a ‘curated’ archive of Cypriot imagery and it becomes a tactile and conceptual point of departure for the new publication. Cyprus: Island of Aphrodite II, meticulously reproduces the original book, only this time, ‘new’ photographs –photographs from Lanitis’ archive– are introduced and partially overlaid on top of the original pages in an attempt to renegotiate and adress the islands’ visual past and meaning, through the creative process of photographic selection, exclusion and erasure.
Editor and Art Director: Artemis Eleftheriadou
You can find more information about the project here: https://www.photographyandtheory.com/projects/cyprus-island-of-aphrodite-ii
The Ar(t)chaeology Project: Intersections of Photography and Archaeology, Vol. 1 & 2
2018, Edited by Elena Stylianou, Artemis Eleftheriadou & Yiannis Toumazis
In 2018, IAPT Press published its first book which resulted from the project Ar[t]chaeology. Ar[t]chaeology was a collaborative project that seek to investigate the relationship between archaeology and contemporary art photography. It involved meetings with international artists, a roundtable discussion, a visual publication and an exhibition, all aiming to critically negotiate issues such as the fabrication of narratives and the possibility of re-imagining history, the construction of archives and their politics, and processes of tracing and collecting. The final publication consists of two volumes: one outlining the process and one that could serve as an exhibition catalogue.
You can find more information about the project here: https://www.artchaeologyproject.com/
Other IAPT Related Books
Museums and Photography: Displaying Death
Edited by Elena Stylianou & Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
Publisher: Routledge, 2017
Resulted from the 2nd International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT2012).
Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types of museums—history, anthropology, art, ethnographic, and science museums – and to understand the changing role of photography in museums. Contributors explore the politics and poetics of displaying death, and more specifically, the role of photography in representing and interpreting this difficult topic. Working with nearly 20 researchers from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines, the editors critically engage the recent debate on the changing role of museums, exhibition meaning-making, and the nature of photography. They offer new ways for understanding representational practices in relation to contemporary visual culture.
Photographies: Special issue on photography, artists and museums
Guest editors: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Elena Stylianou, 2014
Resulted from the 2nd International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT2012).
The six papers included in this special issue of photographies are selected from the papers presented at the 2nd International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2012). The theme of the special issue is the intricate relationship between photography, artists and museums. More specifically, it focuses on artistic practices that use photography to challenge the theoretical complexities of this relationship. The featured papers of this issue examine what happens when artists turn their lens on such museum practices as collecting, archiving, exhibiting, and interpreting.
Find more information here.
Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place and Identity
Editors: Liz Wells, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Nicos Philippou
Publisher: Routledge, (previously I.B.Tauris), 2014.
Resulted from the 1st International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT2010).
Formerly a British colony, the island of Cyprus is now a divided country, where histories of political and cultural conflicts, as well as competing identities, remain contested. Cyprus provides the ideal case study for this innovative exploration, extensively illustrated, of how the practice of photography in relation to its political, cultural and economic contexts both contributes and responds to the formation of identity. International contributors, representing diverse disciplines, draw from photography theory, art history, anthropology and sociology to explore how the island and its people have been represented photographically. They reveal how the different gazes – colonial, political, gendered and within art photography – contribute to the creation of individual and national identities and, by extension, to the creation and re-creation of imagery of Cyprus as place.