The Photography Reader

by Wells; Liz

• ISBN13: 9780415246613
• ISBN10: 041524661X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Photography Reader is a comprehensive introduction to theories of photography; its production; and its uses and effects. Including articles by photographers from Edward Weston to Jo Spence, as well as key thinkers like Roland Barthes, Victor Burgin and Susan Sontag, the essays trace the development of ideas about photography. Each themed section features an editor's introduction setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context. Sections include: Reflections on Photography; Photographic Seeing; Coding and Rhetoric; Photography and the Postmodern; Photo-digital; Documentary and Photojournalism; The Photographic Gaze; Image and Identity; Institutions and Contexts.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
General introduction	p. 1
Extracts from Camera Lucida	p. 19
What has Occurred only Once: Barthes's Winter Garden/Boltanski's Archives of the Dead	p. 31
Extracts from the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	p. 42
Benjamin and the Political Economy of the Photograph	p. 53
Photography within the Humanities	p. 59
In Our Image	p. 67
Fire and Ice	p. 76
Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image	p. 87
What the Eye does not See	p. 90
A New Instrument of Vision	p. 92
Introduction to the Photographer's Eye	p. 97
Seeing Photographically	p. 104
Rhetoric of the Image	p. 114
A Photograph	p. 126
Looking at Photographs	p. 130
Photography and Fetish	p. 138
Winning the Game when the Rules have been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism	p. 152
The Crisis of the Real: Photography and Postmodernism	p. 164
Snapshooters of History: Passages on the Postmodern Argument	p. 180
'The Shadow of the Object': Photography and Realism	p. 202
Extracts from Introduction to the Photographic Image in Digital Culture	p. 218
Photogenics	p. 228
The Paradoxes of Digital Photography	p. 240
Evidence, Truth and Order: Photographic Records and the Growth of the State	p. 257
In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)	p. 261
Access and Consent in Public Photography	p. 275
Photographs of Agony	p. 288
Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press	p. 291
Cuba Made Me So	p. 309
Re-reading Edward Weston: Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis	p. 327
Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House	p. 338
Doubletake: The Diary of a Relationship with an Image	p. 343
The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes: The Example of National Geographic	p. 354
The Vertigo of Displacement	p. 380
In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life	p. 387
Remembrance: The Child I Never Was	p. 395
Photo-Therapy: Psychic Realism as a Healing Art?	p. 402
Self Image: Personal is Political	p. 410
The Museum's Old, the Library's New Subject	p. 422
Words and Pictures: On Reviewing Photography	p. 428
Art, Education, Photography	p. 435
Reading an Archive: Photography between Labour and Capital	p. 443
Index	p. 453
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