Photography : theoretical snapshots /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Description:x, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7840269
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Other authors / contributors:Long, J. J. (Jonathan James), 1969-
Noble, Andrea.
Welch, Edward, 1973-
ISBN:9780415477062 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0415477069 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780415477079 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415477077 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-172) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • A Small History of Photography Studies
  • 1. Mindless Photography
  • 2. Thinking Photography beyond the Visual?
  • 3. On Snapshot Photography: Rethinking Photographic Power In Public And Private Spheres
  • 4. Family Photography and the Global Drama of Human Rights
  • 5. Dreams of Ordinary Life: Cartes-De-Visite and the Bourgeois Imagination
  • 6. Race and Reproduction in Camera Lucida
  • 7. Benjamin, Atget, and the 'Readymade' Politics of Postmodern Photography Studies
  • 8. Being Exposed: Thinking Photography and Community in Spencer Tunick's Naked World Through the Lens of Jean-Luc
  • 9. 'And in This Fairy World of Labour See A Type Of What The Actual World Should Be': Plato's Dilemma Donald Preziosi Notes on Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index