A companion to photography / edited by Stephen Bull.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bull, Stephen, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photographic criticism.

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Photography, Artistic.

Physical Description:

xvii, 550 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley-Blackwell, [2020]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : photography in the 21st century / Stephen Bull

Histories / Sabine T Kriebel

Locating photography / Christopher Pinney

The participation of time in photography / Anthony Luvera

Photographic acts and arts of memory / Martha Langford

The indexical imagination / David Bate

The thingness of photographs / Elizabeth Edwards

Beyond representation? : the database-driven image and the non-human spectator / Katrina Sluis

Semiotics / Paul Cobley and David Machin

A culture of text / Matthew Lindsey

Psychoanalysis and photography : Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman / Kathy Kubicki

Reviewing the gaze / Roberta McGrath

Marketing photography : selling popular photography on the British high street / Annebella Pollen

Advertising photography : rhetoric and representation / Malcolm Barnard

Fashion's image : the complex world of the fashion photograph / Karen de Perthuis

Value systems in photography / Francis Hodgson

Snapshot photography : history, theory, practice, and aesthetics / Catherine Zuromskis

Mobile photography / Rachel Gillies

Famous for a fifteenth of a second : Andy Warhol, celebrity and fan photography / Stephen Bull

Boring pictures : photography as art of the everyday / Clare Gallagher

'Things as they are' : the problematic possibilities of documentary / Ian Walker

Citizens' photojournalism : history's new first draft / David Brittain

Seeing isn't believing : on the irrelevance of looking in the age of operational images / Edward Dowsett

Travel books, photography and national identity / Val Williams

Photography's conflicting modernisms and modernities / Sarah E James

Spectacle and anti-spectacle : American art photography and consumer culture / David Campbell and Mark Durden

What can photography do? : considerations on photography's potential as contemporary art / Hilde van Gelder

Practicing desires : authorship in contemporary photographic art / Fergus Heron.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to photography

ISBN:

9781405195843

1405195843

OCLC:

1080555957