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| Author / Creator: | Bull, Stephen, 1971- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2010 ©2010 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge introductions to media and communications Routledge introductions to media and communications. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12011990 |
| Summary: | Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form. Stephen Bull considers our media-saturated society and the place of photography in everyday life, introducing the theories used to analyse photographs and exploring the impact of digital technology. The text is split into short, accessible chapters on the broad themes central to the study and analysis of photography, and key issues are explained and applied to visual examples in each chapter. Topics covered include: the identity of photography the meanings of photographs photography for sale snapshots the photograph as document photography as art photographs in fashion photography and celebrity.Photography is an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive introduction to debates about photography now and is particularly useful to media, photography and visual culture students. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780415429184 0415429188 9780415428941 0415428947 9781135270223 9781135270179 9780203867297 0203867297 9781135270216 113527021X 9781135270193 1135270198 |