Photography: A Critical Introduction
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Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, this fully revised edition provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing.
This revised and updated fourth edition includes:
key concepts, biographies of major thinkers, seminal references
a full glossary of terms, comprehensive bibliography and new chapter abstracts
updated resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites.
Individual chapters cover:
key debates in photographic theory and history
documentary photography and photojournalism
personal and popular photography
photography and commodity culture
photography and the human body
photography as art
photography in the age of electronic imaging.
This lavishly illustrated fourth edition includes 105 photographs and images, of huge diversity, in full colour throughout, featuring work from Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Lee Friedlander, Fran Herbello, Hannah Höch, Karen Knorr, Dorothea Lange, Chrystal Lebas, Lee Miller, Martin Parr, Ingrid Pollard, Jacob Riis, Alexander Rodchenko, Andres Serrano and Jeff Wall.
Liz Wells is Professor in Photographic Culture in the Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth. Her teaching and research covers photography history, theory, criticism; contemporary photographic practices; Independent and Experimental Film and Video, with a special interest in landscape photography. Editorial Advisory Group member , Visual Communications, Sage Editorial Advisory Group member, Visual Culture in Britain, University of Manchester Press. Along with David Bate and Martin Lister, Liz Wells is currently working on a new Routledge Journal, `Photographies’, which will launch early 2008.
Notes on contributors
Editor’s preface
Acknowledgements
Illustration acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Thinking about photography: debates, historically and now
DERRICK PRICE and LIZ WELLS
Introduction
Aesthetics and technologies
The impact of new technologies
Art or technology?
The photograph as document
Photography and the modern
The postmodern
Contemporary debates
What is theory?
Photography theory
Critical reflections on realism
Reading the image
Photography reconsidered
Theory, criticism, practice
Case study: Image analysis: the example of Migrant Mother 00
Histories of photography
Which founding father?
The photograph as image
History in focus
Photography and social history
Social history and photography
The photograph as testament
Categorical photography
Institutions and contexts
The museum
The archive
2 Surveyors and surveyed: photography out and about
DERRICK PRICE
Introduction
Documentary and photojournalism: issues and
definitions
Documentary photography
Photojournalism
Documentary and authenticity
The real and the digital
Surveys and social facts
Victorian surveys and investigations
Photographing workers
Photography within colonialism
Photography and war
Bearing witness
The construction of documentary
Picturing ourselves
The Farm Security Administration (FSA)
Discussion: Drum
Documentary: New cultures, new spaces
Theory and the critique of documentary
Cultural politics and everyday life
The real world in colour
Documentary and photojournalism in the global age
3 `Sweet it is to scan . . .’: personal photographs and popular photography
PATRICIA HOLLAND
Introduction
In and beyond the charmed circle of home
The public and the private in personal photography
Beyond the domestic
Fiction and fantasy
Portraits and albums
Informality and intimacy
The working classes picture themselves
Kodak and the mass market
The supersnap in Kodaland
Paths unholy and deeds without a name?
Twenty-first-century contemplations
Post-family and post-photography?
And in the galleries . . .
Acknowledgements
4 The subject as object: photography and the human body
MICHELLE HENNING
Introduction
The photographic body in crisis
Embodying social difference
Objects of desire and disgust
Objectification, fetishism, voyeurism
The anti-pornography campaigns
Photography and homoerotic desire
Class, commodities, `real’ bodies
Case study: La Cicciolina
Technological bodies
The camera as mechanical eye
Interventions and scientific images
The body as machine
Digital imaging and the malleable body
Photography, birth and death
Summary
5 Spectacles and illusions: photography and commodity culture
ANANDI RAMAMURTHY
Introduction: the society of the spectacle
Photographic portraiture and commodity culture
Photojournalism, glamour and the paparrazzi
Commercial photography, image banks and corporate media
Commodity spectacles in advertising photography
The grammar of the ad
Case study: The commodification of human relations and
experience – Telenor Mobile TV, `Everywhere’
The photographic message
The transfer of meaning
The creation of meaning through context and photographic
styles
Hegemony in photographic representation
Photomontage: concealing social relations
Concealing labour relations
Gender, fashion and the gaze
Fashion photography
Case study: Tourism, fashion and `the Other’
The context of the image
Image worlds
Case study: Benetton, Toscanini and the limits of
advertising
6 On and beyond the white walls: photography as art
LIZ WELLS
Introduction
The status of the photograph as art
Early debates and practices
The complex relations between photography and art
Realism and systems of representation
Photography extending art
Photography claiming a place in the gallery
The modern era
Modernism and Modern Art
Modern photography
Photo-eye: new ways of seeing
Case study: Art, design, politics: Soviet Constructivism
American formalism
Case study: Art movements and intellectual currencies:
Surrealism
Late twentieth-century perspectives
Conceptual art and the photographic
Photography and the postmodern
Women’s photography
Questions of identity
Identity and the multi-cultural
Photography within the institution
Appraising the contemporary
Curators, collectors and festivals
Internationalism: festivals and publishing
The gallery as context
Case study: Landscape as genre
7 Photography in the age of electronic imaging
MARTIN LISTER
Introduction
The early 1990s and worries about the truth
The humanist response
The humanist subject
Techno-progressivism
Media archaeology and other histories of photography
Further critical issues
Reception
Theory and practice
Virtual, hybrid, networked
The virtual image
Kodak and Nokia
Citizen (photo)journalist
Surveillance
Archives and digital image banks
Glossary
Photography archives
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.5.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 105 Halftones, color |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 885 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-46087-5 / 0415460875 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-46087-3 / 9780415460873 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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