The Routledge companion to photography theory / edited by Mark Durden and Jane Tormey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Durden, Mark, editor.

Tormey, Jane, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Companion to photography theory

Photography theory

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Mark Durden is an artist, writer and academic. He has written extensively on contemporary art and photography. Recent books include Fifty Key Writers on Photography (2012) and Photography Today (2014). With Ian Brown and David Campbell, Durden regularly exhibits as part of the artist group Common Culture. With Campbell he also recently co-curated a number of substantial exhibitions on art and comedy: Double Act (Bluecoat, Liverpool and the MAC, Belfast in 2016) and The Laughable Enigma of Ordinary Life (Arquipélago, centro de artes contemporńeas, Sô Miguel in 2017). Durden is currently Professor of Photography and Director of the European Centre for Documentary Research at the University of South Wales, UK. Jane Tormey is an Honorary Fellow of Loughborough University. Her writing focuses on the exchange of ideas between art practice and otherdisciplines, the conflict between aesthetics and political content, and the ways in which aesthetictraditions can be disturbed by and through photographic/filmic practices.Published work includes: "The Ghost in the Image" in Boelderl, Leisch-Kiesl (editions.) Die Zukunft gehr̲t den Phantomen ([transcript], 2018); Photographic Realism: Late Twentieth-Century Aesthetics (2013) and Cities and Photography(2012). She is co-editor of Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer (forthcoming 2020) and the book series Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art.

Summary:

"With newly commissioned essays by some of the leading writers on photography today, this companion tackles some of the most pressing questions about photography theory's direction, relevance and purpose. This book shows how digital technologies and global dissemination have radically advanced the pluralism of photographic meaning and fundamentally transformed photography theory. Having assimilated the histories of semiotic analysis and post-structural theory, critiques of representation continue to move away from the notion of original and copy and towards materiality, process and the interdisciplinary. The implications of what it means to 'see' an image is now understood to encompass, not only the optical, but the conceptual, ethical and haptic experience of encountering an image. The "fractal" is now used to theorize the new condition of photography as an algorithmic medium and leads us to reposition our relationship to photographs and lend nuances to what essentially underlies any photography theory - that is the relationship of the image to the real world and how we conceive what that means. Diverse in its scope and themes, The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory is an indispensable collection of essays and interviews for students, researchers and teachers. The volume also features extensive images, including beautiful colour plates of key photographs"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 22, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: The Routledge companion to photography theory

ISBN:

1315727994

9781317541592

1317541596

9781317541585

1317541588

9781317541578

131754157X

9781315727998

OCLC:

1107804640

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