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Photography: theoretical snapshots

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

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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, and addresses the question of photography history, revisiting the work of some of the most influential theorists such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and the October group.

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

Summary

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, and addresses the question of photography history, revisiting the work of some of the most influential theorists such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and the October group.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 179 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780203869031, 0203869036, 6612125098, 9786612125096, 9781135253639, 1135253633, 9781135253585, 1135253587, 9781135253622, 1135253625
  • oclc:ocn418385237
  • LC Classification:TR183
  • Dewey Decimal:770.1

Table of Contents

1. Mindless photography / John Tagg -- 2. Thinking photography beyond the visual? / Elizabeth Edwards -- 3. On snapshot photography : rethinking photographic power in public and private spheres / Catherine Zuromskis -- 4. Family photography and the global drama of human rights / Andrea Noble -- 5. Dreams of ordinary life : cartes-de-visite and the bourgeois imagination / Geoffrey Batchen -- 6. Race and reproduction in Camera Lucida / Shawn Michelle Smith -- 7. Benjamin, Atget and the 'readymade' politics of postmodern photography studies / Kelly Dennis -- 8. Being exposed : thinking photography and community in Spencer Tunick's naked world through the lens of Jean-Luc Nancy / Louis Kaplan -- 9. Plato's dilemma : 'And in this fairy world of labour see/a type of what the actual world should be' / Donald Preziosi.

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Subjects

Fotografi -- teori, filosofi Fotokonst -- teori, filosofi Images photographiques Images, Photographic Photographie -- Philosophie Photography -- Philosophy PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Sys…

Writers

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

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