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Book SynopsisThe Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity engages with contemporary debates surrounding photographic cultures and practices from a variety of perspectives, providing insight and analysis for students and practitioners.
With over 100 images included, the diverse essays in this collection explore key topics, such as: conflict and reportage; politics of race and gender; the family album; fashion, tourism and surveillance; art and archives; social media and the networked image. The collection brings together essays by leading experts, scholars and photographers, including Geoffrey Batchen, Elizabeth Edwards, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Martha Langford, Lucy R. Lippard, Fred Ritchin, Allan Sekula and Val Williams. The depth and scope of this collection is testament to the cultural significance of photography and photographic study, with each themed section featuring an editorâs introduction that sets the ideas and debates in context.
Along with its companion volume â The Photography Reader: History and Theory â this is the most comprehensive introduction to photography and photographic criticism.
Includes essays by: Jan Avgikos, Ariella Azoulay, David A. Bailey, Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, David Bate, Gail Baylis, Karin E. Becker, John Berger, Lily Cho, Jane Collins, Douglas Crimp, Thierry de Duve, Karen de Perthuis, George Dimock, Sarah Edge, Elizabeth Edwards, Francis Frascina, Andrà Gunthert, Stuart Hall, Elizabeth Hoak-Doering, Patricia Holland, bell hooks, Yasmin Ibrahim, Liam Kennedy, Annette Kuhn, Martha Langford, Ulrich Lehmann, Lucy R. Lippard, Catherine Lutz, Roberta McGrath, Lev Manovich, Rosy Martin, Mette Mortensen, Fred Ritchin, Daniel Rubinstein, Allan Sekula, Sharon Sliwinski, Katrina Sluis, Jo Spence, Carol Squiers, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Ariadne van de Ven, Liz Wells, Val Williams, Judith Williamson, Louise Wolthers and Ethan Zuckerman.
Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction
Part One
The Photographic Gaze
Introduction
1 Roberta McGrath
Re-Reading Edward Weston: Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis
2 Jan Avgikos
Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House
3 Sarah Edge and Gail Baylis
Photographing Children: The Works of Tierney Gearon and Sally Mann
4 Lucy R. Lippard
Doubletake: The Diary of a Relationship with an Image
5 Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins
The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes: The example of National Geographic
6 Ariadne van de Ven
The Eyes of the Street Look Back: In Kolkata with a Camera Around My Neck
7 Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
Tourists with Cameras: Reproducing or Producing
8 Louise Wolthers
Surveilling Bodies: Photography as Control, Critique and Concern
Part Two
Reportage – Image as Agent
Introduction
9 John Berger
Photographs of Agony
10 Fred Ritchin
Of Them, and Us
11 Francis Frascina
Face to Face: Resistance, Melancholy and Representations of Atrocities
12 Liam Kennedy
Framing Compassion
13 Sharon Sliwinski
On Photographic Violence
14 Ariella Azoulay
The Ethic of the Spectator: The Citizenry of Photography
15 Elizabeth Hoak-Doering
A Photo in a Photo: The Optics, Politics and Powers of Hand-held Portraits in Claims for Justice and Solidarity
16 André Gunthert
Digital Imaging Goes to War: The Abu Ghraib Photographs
17 Ethan Zuckerman
Curating Participation
18 Mette Mortensen
When Citizen Photojournalism Sets the News Agenda: Neda Agha Soltan as a Web 2.0 Icon of Post-Election Unrest in Iran
Part Three
Image and Identity
Introduction
19 David A. Bailey and Stuart Hall
The Vertigo of Displacement
20 Rosy Martin and Jo Spence
Photo-Therapy: Psychic Realism as a Healing Art?
21 George Dimock
"The Negro As He Really Is": W. E. B. Du Bois and Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore
22 bell hooks
In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life
23 Annette Kuhn
Photography and Cultural Memory: a Methodological Exploration
24 Lily Cho
Citizenship, Diaspora and the Bonds of Affect: The Passport Photograph
Part Four
Snapshot Culture and Social Media
Introduction
25 Pat Holland
Family Snaps, Introduction: History, Memory, and the Family Album
26 Martha Langford
Strange Bedfellows: Appropriations of the Vernacular by Photographic Artists
27 Geoffrey Batchen
Observing by Watching: Joachim Schmid and the Art of Exchange
28 Lev Manovich
Watching the World
29 Daniel Rubenstein and Katrina Sluis
A Life More Photographic: Mapping the Networked Image
Part Five
Medium and Meditations
Introduction
30 Roland Barthes
Ornamental Cuisine and The New Citroën
31 Judith Williamson
Tiffany, Porsche Panamera and Microsoft Cloud
32 Yasmin Ibrahim
The Pornography of Food Imaging: The Aesthetics of Capturing Food Online
33 Karin E. Becker
Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press
34 Carol Squiers
Class Struggle: The Invention of Paparazzi Photography and the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
35 Karen de Perthuis
The Synthetic Ideal: The Fashion Model and Photographic Manipulation
36 Ulrich Lehmann
Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce
37 Val Williams
A Heady Relationship: Fashion Photography and the Museum, 1979 to the Present
Part Six
Contexts: Art, Archives, Education
Introduction
38 Douglas Crimp
The Museum’s Old, the Library’s New Subject
39 Thierry Du Duve
Art in the Face of Radical Evil
40 Allan Sekula
Reading an Archive: Photography Between Labour and Capital
41 Elizabeth Edwards
Photographs: Material Form and the Dynamic Archive
42 Liz Wells
Words and Pictures: On Reviewing Photography
43 David Bate
Art, Education, Photography
