The Photography Reader

by Wells; Liz

• ISBN13: 9780415246606
• ISBN10: 0415246601
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Photography Readeris a comprehensive collection of twentieth-century writings on photography- its production, its uses and effects. Encompassing essays by photographers including Edward Weston and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and key thinkers from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, the reader traces the development of ideas about photography, exploring issues such as identity, consumption, the gaze, and digital technology. Each themed section features an editor's introduction setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	xi
Notes on contributors	xiii
Acknowledgements	xix
General introduction	1	(11)
PART ONE Reflections on photography
Introduction	12	(7)
Extracts from Camera Lucida	19	(12)
Roland Barthes
What Has Occurred Only Once: Barthes's Winter Garden/Boltanski's Archives of the Dead	31	(11)
Marjorie Perloff
Extracts From the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	42	(11)
Walter Benjamin
Benjamin and the Political Economy of the Photograph	53	(6)
W. J. T. Mitchell
Photography Within the Humanities	59	(8)
Susan Sontag
In Our Image	67	(9)
Wright Morris
Fire And Ice	76	(11)
Peter Wollen
PART TWO Photographic seeing
Introduction	82	(5)
Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image	87	(3)
Hubert Damisch
What the Eye Does Not See	90	(2)
Ossip Brik
A New Instrument of Vision	92	(5)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Introduction to the Photographer's Eye	97	(7)
John Szarkowski
Seeing Photographically	104	(10)
Edward Weston
PART THREE Codes and rhetoric
Introduction	110	(4)
Rhetoric of the Image	114	(12)
Roland Barthes
A Photograph	126	(4)
Umberto Eco
Looking At Photographs	130	(8)
Victor Burgin
Photography and Fetish	138	(14)
Christian Metz
PART FOUR Photography and the postmodern
Introduction	148	(4)
Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism	152	(12)
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
The Crisis of the Real: Photography and Postmodernism	164	(16)
Andy Grundberg
Snapshooters of History: Passages on the Postmodern Argument	180	(22)
Steve Edwards
PART FIVE Photo-digital
Introduction	198	(4)
`The Shadow of the Object': Photography and Realism	202	(16)
Sarah Kember
Extracts From Introduction to the Photographic Image in Digital Culture	218	(10)
Martin Lister
Photogenics	228	(12)
Geoffrey Batchen
The Paradoxes of Digital Photography	240	(17)
Lev Manovich
PART SIX Documentary and photojournalism
Introduction	252	(5)
Evidence, Truth and Order: Photographic Records And The Growth of the State	257	(4)
John Tagg
In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)	261	(14)
Martha Rosler
Access and Consent in Public Photography	275	(13)
Lisa Henderson
Photographs of Agony	288	(3)
John Berger
Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press	291	(18)
Karin E. Becker
Cuba Made Me So	309	(18)
Edmundo Desnoes
PART SEVEN The photographic gaze
Introduction	324	(3)
Re-Reading Edward Weston: Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis	327	(11)
Roberta McGrath
Cindy Sherman: Burning Down The House	338	(5)
Jan Avgikos
Doubletake: The Diary of a Relationship with an Image	343	(11)
Lucy R. Lippard
The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes the Example of National Geographic	354	(26)
Catherine Lutz
Jane Collins
PART EIGHT Image and identity
Introduction	376	(4)
The Vertigo of Displacement	380	(7)
David A. Bailey
Stuart Hall
In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life	387	(8)
bell hooks
Remembrance: The Child I Never Was	395	(7)
Annette Kuhn
Photo-Therapy: Psychic Realism as a Healing Art?	402	(8)
Rosy Martin
Jo Spence
Self Image: Personal is Political	410	(12)
Angela Kelly
PART NINE Contexts: gallery, museum, education, archive
Introduction	418	(4)
The Museum's Old, The Library's New Subject	422	(6)
Douglas Crimp
Words and Pictures: On Reviewing Photography	428	(7)
Liz Wells
Art, Education, Photography	435	(8)
David Bate
Reading An Archive: Photography Between Labour and Capital	443	(10)
Allan Sekula
Index	453