The weight of photography
By: [edited by] Johan Swinnen & Luc Deneulin
Publisher: Academic and Scientific Publishers; ASP Editions
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 763
ISBN-13: 9789054877042
Subjects: Photographic criticism; Photography; Philosophy; History
Other titles: Photography history, theory and criticism : introductory readings
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 753-754).
Table of contents: title: General introduction: thinking about the theory of  photography; title: A foreword about thinking / Johan Swinnen & Luc Deneulin; title: Homo futuris: a world of possibilities (among others) / Jean Paul Van Bendegem; title: The majority world looks back / Shahidul Alam; title: Daguerreotypes by Southworth & Hawes convey mid-19th century America through its luminaries and ordinary citizens / Michaël Amy; title: Architecture of destruction : the (in)human spatial condition / Ariella Azoulay; title: Freeze! / Annette W. Balkema; title: Principles for interpreting photographs / Terry Barrett; title: Body representations in art and photography / Ben Baruch Blich; title: Camera Lucida, another little history of Photography / Geoffrey Batchen; title: Jean Baudrillard, the world behind the mirror / Johan Swinnen; title: Violence inflicted on images / Jean Baudrillard; title: For illusion is not in conflict with reality / Jean Baudrillard; title: Creating a museum of photography (1896-1898) : the collection pictorialist photographs of the Royal  Museums of Art and History in Brussels / Tamara Berghmans; title: The motionless journey / Xavier Canonne; title: Counting the teeth: photography for philosophers / Allan D. Coleman; title: In-between ways / Tom De Mette; title: Leni Riefenstahl's career as a photographer reassessed / Luc Deneulin; title: Towards a theory of photography / Hubert Dethier; title: Prejudices in the history of philosophy of photography from Benjamin to Barthes / Willem Elias; title: The digital imprint. The theory and practice of  photography in the digital age / André Gunthert; title: Of bodies and other things. German photography from the Weimar to the Berlin Republic / Klaus Honnef; title: Beings between: Tony Oursler's The influence machine as hauntological practice / Louis Kaplan; title: 'Perceive the City.' Brussels' photographic memory  in phases. The relationship between the city and photography / Danielle Leenaerts / Questioning the document: the art of Alfredo Jaar / Jan-Erik Lundström; title: The world in light : Cartier-Bresson's time signatures / Michel Onfray; title: The identity of photography / Michel Onfray; title: The modern condition of photography in the twentieth  century / Michel Poivert; title: Visual memory as mental inscription on the formation of  contexts / Rolf Sachsse; title: Weightless photography / Jan Simons; title: The hybrid photograph / Johan Swinnen; title: The image revealed: Roger Kockaerts The paradox of photography or the non-knowledge of photography / Johan Swinnen; title: Observations on the perils (and rewards) of majority world photography / Johan Swinnen; title: Pictures of pictures: interview with Lynne Cohen / Jian-Xing Too; title: Photography and anthropogeny : from granular images to indexed indices / Henri Van Lier; title: .Art - a place for internet art in the Museum of  Contemporary Art / Karen Verschooren; title: Reproduction and the revenant Derrida and Genet / Hubertus v. Amelunxen; title: The crypt of the gaze / Hubertus v. Amelunxen; title: Photography after photography : the terror of the body in digital space / Hubertus v. Amelunxen; title: Space in-between : on women and landscape  photography in Britain / Liz Wells; title: Exit : madly or not at all: from Stiegler to Swinnen / Luc Deneulin.