Description
Book SynopsisThis innovative text recounts the history of photography through a series of thematically structured chapters. Designed and written for students studying photography and its history, each chapter approaches its subject by introducing a range of international, contemporary photographers and then contextualizing their work in historical terms.
The book offers students an accessible route to gain an understanding of the key genres, theories and debates that are fundamental to the study of this rich and complex medium. Individual chapters cover major topics, including: Description and Abstraction Truth and Fiction The Body Landscape War Politics of Representation Form Appropriation Museums The Archive The Cinematic Fashion Photography
Boxed focus studies throughout the text offer short interviews, curatorial statements and reflections by photographers, critics and leading scholars that link photography''s history with its practice. Short chapter sum
Trade Review
"Global Photography boldly answers the calls to expand and reframe the grand narrative that scholars constructed for photography in the twentieth century. The book broadens the geographic and temporal scope of traditional surveys, integrates multiple voices, and places history into productive dialogue with the present—all while remaining critical of its own choices and cultural biases, and skeptical of any text that claims to represent the whole story of photography."
Tanya Sheehan, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, Colby College
"Global Photography boldly answers the calls to expand and reframe the grand narrative that scholars constructed for photography in the twentieth century. The book broadens the geographic and temporal scope of traditional surveys, integrates multiple voices, and places history into productive dialogue with the present—all while remaining critical of its own choices and cultural biases, and skeptical of any text that claims to represent the whole story of photography."
Tanya Sheehan, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, Colby College
Table of ContentsI. Realisms 1. Description and Abstraction 2. Truth and Fiction II. Evidence 3. Measuring the Body 4. Mapping the Land III. Ethics 5. Politics of Representation 6. Pictures of War IV. Art Heather Diack 7. Form 8. Appropriation V. Collections 9. Museums 10. Archives Collections VI. Expanded Field 11. Celebrity Style, the Publicity Shot, and the Maverick 12. Photography and the Cinematic
