Photography : theoretical snapshots /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 179 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Photography -- Philosophy. Images, Photographic. Images, Photographic Photography -- Philosophy
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12011611

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Other authors / contributors:	Long, J. J. (Jonathan James), 1969- Noble, Andrea. Welch, Edward, 1973-
ISBN:	9780203869031 0203869036 6612125098 9786612125096 9781135253639 1135253633 9781135253585 1135253587 9781135253622 1135253625 9780415477062 0415477069 9780415477079 0415477077
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world's leading critics and theorists. It introduces new means of looking at photographs, and addresses the question of photography history, revisiting the work of some of the most influential theorists such as Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and the October group.
Other form:	Print version: Photography. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009 9780415477062 0415477069
Standard no.:	9786612125096

Table of Contents:

1. Mindless photography / John Tagg
2. Thinking photography beyond the visual? / Elizabeth Edwards
3. On snapshot photography : rethinking photographic power in public and private spheres / Catherine Zuromskis
4. Family photography and the global drama of human rights / Andrea Noble
5. Dreams of ordinary life : cartes-de-visite and the bourgeois imagination / Geoffrey Batchen
6. Race and reproduction in Camera Lucida / Shawn Michelle Smith
7. Benjamin, Atget and the 'readymade' politics of postmodern photography studies / Kelly Dennis
8. Being exposed : thinking photography and community in Spencer Tunick's naked world through the lens of Jean-Luc Nancy / Louis Kaplan
9. Plato's dilemma : 'And in this fairy world of labour see/a type of what the actual world should be' / Donald Preziosi.

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