A Companion to Photography 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1118598768
• ISBN-13: 9781118598764
• Author: Stephen Bull
  

A Companion to Photography presents a contemporary approach to the subject, advancing the critical ideas that inform the study of photography in the 21st century. Features a collection of original, up-to-date essays relating to contemporary photography Introduces several new ideas that expand current photographic theory Combines essays by established and emerging writers, providing a dynamic and engaging discussion Essays are organized in thematic sections: photographic interpretation, markets, popular photography, documents, and fine art Seamlessly incorporates discussion of digital photography throughout.

Table contents:

1 Introduction: Photography in the Twenty‐first Century

Part I Themes 

2 Histories

3 Locating Photography

4 The Participation of Time in Photography

5 Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory

6 The Indexical Imagination

7 The Thingness of Photographs

8 Beyond Representation?: The Database‐driven Image and the Non‐human Spectator 

Part II Interpretation 

9 Semiotics

10 A Culture of Texts

11 Psychoanalysis and Photography: Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman

12 Reviewing the Gaze

Part III Markets 

13 Marketing Photography: Selling Popular Photography on the British High Street

14 Advertising and Photography: Rhetoric and Representation

15 Fashion’s Image: The Complex World of the Fashion Photograph

16 Value Systems in Photography

Part IV Popular Photography 

17 Snapshot Photography: History, Theory, Practice, and Esthetics

18 Mobile Photography

19 Famous for a Fifteenth of a Second: Andy Warhol, Celebrity, and Fan Photography

20 Boring Pictures: Photography as Art of the Everyday

Part V Documents

21 “Things as they are”: The Problematic Possibilities of Documentary

22 Citizens’ Photojournalism: History’s New First Draft

23 Seeing is not Believing: On the Irrelevance of Looking in the Age of Operational Images

24 Travel Books, Photography, and National Identity in the 1950s and 1960s, Seen Through the Prism of the LIFE World Library

Part VI Art 

25 Photography’s Conflicting Modernisms and Modernities

26 Spectacle and Anti‐spectacle: American Art Photography and Consumer Culture

27 What Can Photography Do?: Considerations on Photography’s Potential as Contemporary Art

28 Practicing Desires: Authorship in Contemporary Photographic Art

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