Photography and the contemporary cultural condition : commemorating the present / [edited by] Peter D. Osborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Osborne, Peter D. (Peter Desmond), 1947- editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in art and visual studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography, Artistic.

Physical Description:

xv, 194 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalized system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery. He examines how photography embodies, contributes to, and even in effect critiques how the contemporary social world is now imagined, how it is made present and how the concept and the experience of the Present itself is produced. Osborne bases his discussions primarily in cultural studies and visual cultural studies. Through an analysis of different kinds of photographic work in distinct contexts, he demonstrates how aspects of photography that once appeared to make it vulnerable to redundancy turn out to be the basis of its survival and have been utilized by much important photographic work of the last three decades.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Photography and the contemporary cultural condition.

ISBN:

9780415736251

0415736250

OCLC:

1022978662