Photography : a critical introduction / edited by Liz Wells
Author(s): Wells, Liz
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Photography : a critical introduction
- Author(s)
- Wells, Liz
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
- Collation
- 382 p. : ill. (some col.)
25 cm. - ISBN
- 041530704X
- Dewey Class
- 770
- Contents
- 1. Thinking about photography : debates, historically and now / Derrick Price, 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 -- 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 -- 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 ; 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? -- 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: Objectification and images of women ; Fetishism, voyeurism and pleasure ; Class and representations of the body ; The anti-pornography campaigns ; Photography and homoerotic desire -- 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 paparazzi ; 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 - 'Omega and Cindy: time together' ; 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 ; Gendered representations -- 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 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: Soviety Constructivism ; American formalism -- Case study: Art movements and intellectual currencies: Surrealism -- Late twentieth-century perspectives: Conceptual art and the photographic ; Photography and the postmodern ; New constructions ; Women's photography ; Questions of identity ; Identity and the multi-cultural -- Photography within the institution: Appraising the contemporary ; Curators and collectors ; Internationalism: festivals and publishing ; The gallery as context -- Case study: Landscape as genre --
7. Photography in the age of electronic imaging / Martin Lister -- Introduction -- Box A: Digital encoding -- Box B. Digital simulation -- Box C. Digitising photographs: the initial implications -- Box D: Analogue and digital -- A 'post-photographic' era?: A new way of seeing and the end of the 'Cartesian dream'? -- Walter Benjamin and the precedent of the age of mechanical reproduction: The end of photography as we know it? ; Digitisation and the commodification of images ; Post-photography, postmodernity and language -- Technological change and cultural continuity: Photography's promiscuity: its historical interface with other technologies, sign systems and images -- Case study: War and surveillance -- Case study: Popular entertainment -- Photodigital: taking stock: Remembering photography's nature ; Our belief in photography's realism ; The force of the indexical image ; The reception of digital images ; Does digital photography exist? ; Photo-realism versus post-human vision -- Glossary -- Photography archives. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Photography
- BRN
- 5603
Notes
- Thomas Freitag Collection.
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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770 PHO
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