The photography reader
By: edited by Liz Wells.
Contributors: Wells, Liz, 1948-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Photography
Description: "A comprehensive collection of twentieth-century writings on photography--its production, its uses and efects ... traces the development of ideas about photography, exploring issues such as identity, consumption, the gaze, and digital technology ... Sections include: reflections on photography; photographic seeing; codes and rhetoric; photography and the Postmodern; photo-digital; documentary and photojournalism; the photographic gaze; image and identity; institutions and contexts--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Extracts from Camera Lucida / Roland Barthes; title: What has occurred only once : Barthes's Winter garden/Boltanski's archives of the dead / Marjorie Perloff; title: Extracts from The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin; title: Benjamin and the political economy of the photograph / W.J.T. Mitchell; title: Photography within the humanities / Susan Sontag; title: In our image / Wright Morris; title: Fire and ice / Peter Wollen; title: Five notes for a phenomenology of the photographic image / Hubert Damisch; title: What the eye does not see / Ossip Brik; title: A new instrument of vision / László Moholy-Nagy; title: Introduction to the photographer's eye / John Szarkowski; title: Seeing photographically / Edward Weston; title: Rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes; title: A photograph / Umberto Eco; title: Looking at photographs / Victor Burgin; title: Photography and fetish / Christian Metz; title: Winning the game when the rules have been changed : art photography and postmodernism / Abigail Solomon-Godeau; title: The crisis of the real : photography and postmodernism / Andy Grundberg; title: Snapshooters of history : passages on the postmodern argument / Steve Edwards; title: 'The shadow of the object' : photography and realism / Sarah Kember; title: Extracts from Introduction to the photographic image in digital culture / Martin Lister; title: Photogenics / Geoffrey Batchen; title: The paradoxes of digital photography / Lev Manovich; title: Evidence, truth and order : photographic records and the growth of the state / John Tagg; title: In, around and afterthoughts (on documentary photography) / Martha Rosler; title: Access and consent in public photography / Lisa Henderson; title: Photographs of agony / John Berger; title: Photojournalism and the tabloid press / Karin E. Becker; title: Cuba made me so / Edmundo Desnoes; title: Re-reading Edward Weston : feminism, photography and psychoanalysis; title: Cindy Sherman : bruning down the house / Jan Avgikos; title: Doubletake : the diary of a relationship with an image / Lucy R. Lippard; title: The photograph as an intersection of gazes, the example of national geographic / Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins; title: The vertigo of displacement / David A. Bailey and stuart Hall; title: In our glory : photography and black life / bell hooks; title: Rememberance : the child I never was / Annette Kuhn; title: Photo-therapy : psychic realism as a healing art? / Rosy Martin and Jo Spence; title: Self image : personal is political / Angela Kelly; title: The museum's old, the library's new subject / Douglas Crimp; title: Words and pictures : on reviewing photography / Liz Wells; title: Art, education, photography / David Bate; title: Reading an archive : photography between labour and capital.