Photography : a critical introduction

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Title:

Photography : a critical introduction

Author:

Wells, Liz, 1948-

ISBN:

9780415460279

9780415460873

Edition:

4th ed.

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Physical Description:

xix, 395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

General Note:

"This book introduces and offers an overview of conceptual issues relating to photography and to ways of thinking about photographs. It considers the photograph as an artefact used in a range of different ways and circumstances, and photography as a set of practices which take place in particular contexts. Thus it is essentially about reading photographic images rather than about their making."--Page 3.

Contents:

Thinking about photography : debates, historically and now / Derrick Price and Liz Wells -- Aesthetics and technologies ; Contemporary debates ; Case study : Image analysis: the example of Migrant mother ; Histories of photography ; Photography and social history -- Surveyors and surveyed: photography out and about / Derrick Price -- Documentary and photojournalism: issues and definitions ; Surveys and social facts ; The construction of documentary ; Documentary: new cultures, new spaces -- Sweet it is to scan ... : personal photographs and popular photography / Patricia Holland -- In and beyond the charmed circle of home ; Paths unholy and deeds without a name? -- The subject as object : photography and the human body / Michelle Henning -- Embodying social difference ; Objects of design and disgust ; Case study : La Ciccilina ; Technological bodies ; Photography, birth and death -- Spectacles and illusions : photography and commodity culture / Anandi Ramamurthy -- Introduction: the society and the spectacle ; The grammar of the ad ; Case study : The commodification of human relations and experience: Telenor Mobile TV advertisement, "Everywhere" ; Hegemony in photographic representation ; Fashion photography ; Case study : Tourism, fashion, and 'the other' ; The context of the image ; Case study : Bennetton, Toscani and the limits of advertising -- On and beyond the white walls : photography as art / Liz Wells -- Early debates and practices ; The modern era ; Case study : Art, design, politics: Soviet Constructivism; American formalism ; Case study : Art movements and intellectual currencies: Surrealism ; Late twentieth-century perspectives ; Photography within the institution ; Case study : Landscape as genre -- Photography in the age of electronic imaging / Martin Lister -- The early 1990s and worries about the truth ; The humanist response ; Further critical issues ; Virtual, hybrid, networked.

Abstract:

This is an introductory textbook which examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts.

Subject Term:

Photography.

Added Author:

Wells, Liz, 1948-

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Summary

Photography: A Critical Introductionwas the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, this fully revised edition provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing.

This revised and updated fourth edition includes:

key concepts, biographies of major thinkers, seminal references a full glossary of terms, comprehensive bibliography and new chapter abstracts updated resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites.

Individual chapters cover:

key debates in photographic theory and history documentary photography and photojournalism personal and popular photography photography and commodity culture photography and the human body photography as art photography in the age of electronic imaging.

This lavishly illustrated fourth edition includes 105 photographs and images, of huge diversity, in full colour throughout, featuring work from Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Lee Friedlander, Fran Herbello, Hannah Höch, Karen Knorr, Dorothea Lange, Chrystal Lebas, Lee Miller, Martin Parr, Ingrid Pollard, Jacob Riis, Alexander Rodchenko, Andres Serrano and Jeff Wall.

Summary

This revised and updated fourth edition includes:

Individual chapters cover: