Cultural History of Photography
Subtitle: Mapping the Image Flow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781138782532
Subjects: Photography, history
Description: Photography : The Unfettered Image traces the emergence of new ways of understanding photography, but also presents a differently nuanced and materialist history in which photography is understood as part of a larger development of media technologies. It is situated in much broader cultural contexts: caught up in the European colonial ambition to "grasp the world" and in the development of a new, artificial "second nature" dependent on the large-scale processing of animal and mineral materials. Focussing primarily on Victorian and 1920s-30s practices and theories, it demonstrates how photography was never simply a technology for fixing a fleeting reality.