{"product_id":"global-photography-9781474240673","title":"Global Photography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoxed 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTanya Sheehan, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, Colby College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTanya Sheehan, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, Colby College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. Realisms \u003c\/strong\u003e1. Description and Abstraction 2. Truth and Fiction \u003cstrong\u003eII. Evidence \u003c\/strong\u003e3. Measuring the Body 4. Mapping the Land \u003cstrong\u003eIII. Ethics \u003c\/strong\u003e5. Politics of Representation 6. Pictures of War \u003cstrong\u003eIV. Art Heather Diack \u003c\/strong\u003e7. Form 8. Appropriation \u003cstrong\u003eV. Collections \u003c\/strong\u003e9. Museums 10. Archives Collections \u003cstrong\u003eVI. Expanded Field \u003c\/strong\u003e11. Celebrity Style, the Publicity Shot, and the Maverick 12. Photography and the Cinematic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019912610135,"sku":"9781474240673","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474240673.jpg?v=1750781705","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-photography-9781474240673","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}