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9780415477079

Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415477079

  • ISBN10:

    0415477077

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2009-01-09
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Over the past 25 years, photography has moved to centre stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image.

Author Biography

J.J. Long is Professor of German at Durham University. He is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard and of W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity, and has published widely on German literature and photography. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2005. Andrea Noble is Professor of Latin American Studies at Durham University, author of Mexican National Cinema, and co-editor of Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative. Edward Welch is Senior Lecturer in French at Durham University, and author of Franccidle;ois Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual. His research interests include post-war French visual culture and documentary photography, and he is a regular contributor to Source photography journal.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. vii
About the contributorsp. viii
Acknowledgementsp. xi
Introduction: a small history of photography studiesp. 1
Mindless photographyp. 16
Thinking photography beyond the visual?p. 31
On snapshot photography: rethinking photographic power in public and private spheresp. 49
Family photography and the global drama of human rightsp. 63
Dreams of ordinary life: cartes-de-visite and the bourgeois imaginationp. 80
Race and reproduction in Camera Lucidap. 98
Benjamin, Atget and the 'readymade' politics of postmodern photography studiesp. 112
Being exposed: thinking photography and community in Spencer Tunick's naked world through the lens of Jean-Luc Nancyp. 125
Plato's dilemma: 'And in this fairy world of labour see / A type of what the actual world should be'p. 146
Bibliographyp. 159
Indexp. 173
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