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Photography: theoretical snapshots

by Long, J. J.

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Over the past twenty-five 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. Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world's leading critics and theorists. It introduces new means of looking at photographs, with topics including: a community-based un…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Photography : theoretical snapshots / edited by J.J. Long, Andrea Noble, and Edward Welch.

Summary

Over the past twenty-five 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. Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world's leading critics and theorists. It introduces new means of looking at photographs, with topics including: a community-based understanding of Spencer Tunick's controversial installations.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.
  • Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1135253633, 9781135253639, 1282125095, 9781282125094, 9786612125096, 6612125098, 0203869036, 9780203869031
  • DOI:10.4324/9780203869031
  • oclc:on1109014325
  • LC Classification:TR183
  • Dewey Decimal:770.1

Table of Contents

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A small history of photography studies; Chapter 1 Mindless photography; Chapter 2 Thinking photography beyond the visual?; Chapter 3 On snapshot photography: Rethinking photographic power in public and private spheres; Chapter 4 Family photography and the global drama of human rights; Chapter 5 Dreams of ordinary life: Cartes-de-visite and the bourgeois imagination; Chapter 6 Race and reproduction in Camera Lucida

Chapter 7 Benjamin, Atget and the 'readymade' politics of postmodern photography studiesChapter 8 Being exposed: Thinking photography and community in Spencer Tunick's naked world through the lens of Jean-Luc Nancy; Chapter 9 Plato's dilemma': And in this fairy world of labour see A type of what the actual world should be'; Bibliography; Index

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Subjects

Images photographiques Images, Photographic Photographie -- Philosophie Photography -- Philosophy

Writers

Long, J. J. Long, J. J., (Jonathan James) Noble, Andrea Welch, Edward

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