Title: Over exposed : essays on contemporary photography /
Authors: Squiers, Carol, 1948-
Publisher: New Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Photography, Artistic; Photographic criticism; Photography History
Abstract: "In Over Exposed, a group of distinguished photographers, critics, and cultural historians examine the many roles of photography in contemporary western culture, covering questions about representation, sexual politics, public policy, and cultural activism."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction / Carol Squiers -- Ectoplasm: photography in the digital age / Geoffrey Batchen -- Mirrors and window shoppers: lesbians, photography, and the politics of visibility / Deborah Bright -- Newton's gravity / Victor Burgin -- Krysztof Wodiczko's homeless projection and the site of urban revitalization / Rosalyn Deutsche -- Instability and dispersion / Timothy Druckrey -- Ol: opportunistic identification, open identification in PWA portraiture / Jan Zita Grover -- On the dissecting table: the unnatural coupling of surrealism and photography / Andy Grundberg -- Adjusting the focus for an indigenous presence / Theresa Harlan -- Playing with dolls / Silvia Kolbowski -- A note on photography and the simulacral / Rosalind Krauss -- Mortal coil: eros and diaspora in the photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode / Kobena Mercer -- Photography and fetish / Christian Metz -- Selling green / Kathy Myers -- Missing women: rethinking early thoughts on images of women / Griselda Pollock -- Living with contradictions: critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Class struggle: the invention of paparazzi photography and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales / Carol Squiers -- The pleasures of looking: the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography versus visual images / Carole S. Vance.