Photography between poetry and politics
Subtitle: the critical position of the photographic medium in contemporary art
By: edited by Hilde van Gelder and Helen Westgeest.
Contributors: Gelder, Hilde van.; Westgeest, Helen, 1958-; Association of Art Historians (Great Britain). Conference
Series: Lieven Gevaert series -- v. 7; Lieven Gevaert series -- v. 7.
Publisher: Leuven University Press; Distributed in North America by Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Leuven, Belgium]; [Ithaca, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789058676641
Subjects: Photography, Artistic -- Congresses; Photography -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "This book is the outcome of a very fruitful one-day long discussion between all of its authors. The debate was held on the occasion of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, which took place at the University of Ulster in Belfast (12-14 April 2007)."--P. ix.

"NUR: 652"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The multimedia context as indicator of poetry and politics in photography; title: The changeability of photography in multimedia artworks / Helen Westgeest; title: The medium as ghost : politics and poetics in Peter Kennedy's work / Anne Marsh; title: 'The ambiguous multiple-entendre' (Baldessari) : multimedia art as rebus / Alexander Streitberger; title: Part 2. Processes of (re)construction, (re)production, and (re)presentation in photography, in relation to reception and memory; title: Can photographs make it so? : several outbreaks of VALIE EXPORT'S Genital panic, 1969-2005 / Mechtild Widrich; title: Jeff Wall's cinematography and the proximity of the photograph / Cliff Lauson; title: What photographs don't know / Susan Laxton; title: Part 3. Photography as means of communication about social and political issues and the role of the art institutions; title: Picturing the Oslo process : photography, painting and the belated occupation / Simon Faulkner; title: Recognizing the unrecognized : the photographs of Ahlam Shibli / T.J. Demos; title: Changing places : the rebranding of photography as contemporary art / Alexandra Moschovi.