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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777976903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-135-25362-5

1-135-25363-3

1-282-12509-5

9786612125096

0-203-86903-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LongJ. J <1969-> (Jonathan James)

NobleAndrea

WelchEdward <1973->

Disciplina

770.1

Soggetti

Photography - Philosophy

Images, Photographic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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