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A Companion to Photography presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore a variety of key areas of current debate relating to the state of photography. Essays are written by both established and emerging photographers and scholars, as well as various experts in their respective areas. .

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xvii

1 Introduction: Photography in the Twenty‐first Century 1
Stephen Bull

Part I Themes 9

2 Histories 11
Sabine T. Kriebel

3 Locating Photography 29
Christopher Pinney

4 The Participation of Time in Photography 49
Anthony Luvera

5 Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory 61
Martha Langford

6 The Indexical Imagination 85
David Bate

7 The Thingness of Photographs 97
Elizabeth Edwards

8 Beyond Representation?: The Database‐driven Image and the Non‐human Spectator 113
Katrina Sluis

Part II Interpretation 131

9 Semiotics 133
Paul Cobley and David Machin

10 A Culture of Texts 155
Matthew Lindsey

11 Psychoanalysis and Photography: Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman 173
Kathy Kubicki

12 Reviewing the Gaze 189
Roberta McGrath

Part III Markets 209

13 Marketing Photography: Selling Popular Photography on the British High Street 211
Annebella Pollen

14 Advertising and Photography: Rhetoric and Representation 237
Malcolm Barnard

15 Fashion’s Image: The Complex World of the Fashion Photograph 253
Karen de Perthuis

16 Value Systems in Photography 275
Francis Hodgson

Part IV Popular Photography 289

17 Snapshot Photography: History, Theory, Practice, and Esthetics 291
Catherine Zuromskis

18 Mobile Photography 307
Rachel K. Gillies

19 Famous for a Fifteenth of a Second: Andy Warhol, Celebrity, and Fan Photography 329
Stephen Bull

20 Boring Pictures: Photography as Art of the Everyday 351
Clare Gallagher

Part V Documents 369

21 “Things as they are”: The Problematic Possibilities of Documentary 371
Ian Walker

22 Citizens’ Photojournalism: History’s New First Draft 393
David Brittain

23 Seeing is not Believing: On the Irrelevance of Looking in the Age of Operational Images 411
Edward Dowsett

24 Travel Books, Photography, and National Identity in the 1950s and 1960s, Seen Through the Prism of the LIFE World Library 429
Val Williams

Part VI Art 437

25 Photography’s Conflicting Modernisms and Modernities 439
Sarah E. James

26 Spectacle and Anti‐spectacle: American Art Photography and Consumer Culture 465
David Campbell and Mark Durden

27 What Can Photography Do?: Considerations on Photography’s Potential as Contemporary Art 483
Hilde Van Gelder

28 Practicing Desires: Authorship in Contemporary Photographic Art 501
Fergus Heron

Index 527

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 12/03/2020
      ISBN13: 9781405195843, 978-1405195843
      ISBN10: 1405195843
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A Companion to Photography presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that explore a variety of key areas of current debate relating to the state of photography. Essays are written by both established and emerging photographers and scholars, as well as various experts in their respective areas. .

      Table of Contents

      List of Figures ix

      Notes on Contributors xi

      Acknowledgments xvii

      1 Introduction: Photography in the Twenty‐first Century 1
      Stephen Bull

      Part I Themes 9

      2 Histories 11
      Sabine T. Kriebel

      3 Locating Photography 29
      Christopher Pinney

      4 The Participation of Time in Photography 49
      Anthony Luvera

      5 Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory 61
      Martha Langford

      6 The Indexical Imagination 85
      David Bate

      7 The Thingness of Photographs 97
      Elizabeth Edwards

      8 Beyond Representation?: The Database‐driven Image and the Non‐human Spectator 113
      Katrina Sluis

      Part II Interpretation 131

      9 Semiotics 133
      Paul Cobley and David Machin

      10 A Culture of Texts 155
      Matthew Lindsey

      11 Psychoanalysis and Photography: Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman 173
      Kathy Kubicki

      12 Reviewing the Gaze 189
      Roberta McGrath

      Part III Markets 209

      13 Marketing Photography: Selling Popular Photography on the British High Street 211
      Annebella Pollen

      14 Advertising and Photography: Rhetoric and Representation 237
      Malcolm Barnard

      15 Fashion’s Image: The Complex World of the Fashion Photograph 253
      Karen de Perthuis

      16 Value Systems in Photography 275
      Francis Hodgson

      Part IV Popular Photography 289

      17 Snapshot Photography: History, Theory, Practice, and Esthetics 291
      Catherine Zuromskis

      18 Mobile Photography 307
      Rachel K. Gillies

      19 Famous for a Fifteenth of a Second: Andy Warhol, Celebrity, and Fan Photography 329
      Stephen Bull

      20 Boring Pictures: Photography as Art of the Everyday 351
      Clare Gallagher

      Part V Documents 369

      21 “Things as they are”: The Problematic Possibilities of Documentary 371
      Ian Walker

      22 Citizens’ Photojournalism: History’s New First Draft 393
      David Brittain

      23 Seeing is not Believing: On the Irrelevance of Looking in the Age of Operational Images 411
      Edward Dowsett

      24 Travel Books, Photography, and National Identity in the 1950s and 1960s, Seen Through the Prism of the LIFE World Library 429
      Val Williams

      Part VI Art 437

      25 Photography’s Conflicting Modernisms and Modernities 439
      Sarah E. James

      26 Spectacle and Anti‐spectacle: American Art Photography and Consumer Culture 465
      David Campbell and Mark Durden

      27 What Can Photography Do?: Considerations on Photography’s Potential as Contemporary Art 483
      Hilde Van Gelder

      28 Practicing Desires: Authorship in Contemporary Photographic Art 501
      Fergus Heron

      Index 527

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