The photography reader / edited by Liz Wells.
Contributor(s): Wells, Liz
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BookPublisher: London : Routledge, 2003Description: xxii, 466 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415246601; 041524661X .Subject(s): PhotographyDDC classification: 770 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Photography Reader is a comprehensive introduction to theories of photography; its production; and its uses and effects. Including articles by photographers from Edward Weston to Jo Spence, as well as key thinkers like Roland Barthes, Victor Burgin and Susan Sontag, the essays trace the development of ideas about photography. Each themed section features an editor's introduction setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context.
Sections include: Reflections on Photography; Photographic Seeing; Coding and Rhetoric; Photography and the Postmodern; Photo-digital; Documentary and Photojournalism; The Photographic Gaze; Image and Identity; Institutions and Contexts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: Reflections on photography -- Part Two: Photographic seeing -- Part Three: Codes and rhetoric -- Part Four: Photography and the postmodern -- Part Five: Photo-digital -- Part Six: Documentary and photojournalism -- Part Seven: The photographic gaze -- Part Eight: Image and identity -- Part Nine: Contexts: gallery, museum, education, archive.