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ISBN 10: 0367222752
ISBN 13: 978-0367222758
Author:  Liz Wells

Now in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing.

Photography A Critical Introduction 6th Table of contents:

1 Thinking about photography: Debates, historically and now

Introduction

Aesthetics and technologies

The impact of new technologies

Art and technology

The photograph as document

Photography, modernity and the postmodern

Aesthetic debates now

Contemporary debates

What is theory?

Photography theory

Critical reflections on realism

Reading images

Photography reconsidered

Theory, criticism, practice

Case study: Image analysis: The example of Migrant Mother

Histories of photography

Which founding father?

The photograph as image

History in focus

Photography and social history

Social history and photography

The photograph as testament

Categorical photography

Institutions and contexts

Museums and archives

2 Surveyors and surveyed: Photography out and about

Introduction

Documentary and photojournalism: Issues and definitions

Documentary photography

Photojournalism

Photography and war

War and spectacle

Documentary and authenticity

Defining the real in the age of social media

Surveys and social facts

Victorian surveys and investigations

Photographing workers

The construction of documentary

Picturing ourselves

The Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Discussion: Drum

Documentary: New cultures, new spaces

Photography on the streets

Theory and the critique of documentary

Cultural politics and everyday life

The real world in colour

Documentary and photojournalism in the global age

3 ‘Sweet it is to scan…’: Personal photographs and popular photography

Introduction

Private lives and personal pictures: Users and readers

In and beyond the charmed circle of the home

The public and the private in personal photography

Beyond the domestic

Portraits and albums

The working classes picture themselves

The Kodak path: Kodak and the mass market

The supersnap in Kodaland

Paths unholy and deeds without a name?

Re-viewing the archive

Autobiography: Exploring childhood

Post-family and post-photography? The digital world and the end of privacy

Change

Continuity

Moment of taking

Moments of viewing and sharing

Moments of organising and reviewing: the role of the archive

And in the galleries…

4 The subject as object: Photography and the human body

Introduction

The photographic body in crisis

Embodying social difference

Photography and identification

New dimension: Mattering black lives

Objects of desire and disgust

Objectification, fetishism, voyeurism

The celebrity body

Pornography and sexual imagery

Class and representations of the body

New dimension: #Me 2.0

Technological bodies

The camera as mechanical eye

Interventions and scientific images

The body as machine

Digital imaging and the malleable body

Case study: Materialism and embodiment

New dimension: Seeing textures

The body in transition

Photography, birth and death

Summary

5 Spectacles and illusions: Photography and commodity culture

Introduction: The society of the spectacle

Photographic portraiture and commodity culture

Photojournalism, glamour and the paparazzi

Stock photography, image banks and corporate media

Commodity spectacles in advertising photography

The grammar of the ad

Case study: The commodification of human experience – Coca Cola’s Open Happiness Campaign

The transfer and contestation of meaning

Hegemony in photographic representation

Photomontage: Concealing social relations

The fetishisation of labour relations

The gaze and gendered representations

Fashion and Tourism

Case study: Tourism, fashion and ‘the Other’

Case study: Self-Orientalisation and the construction of nationhood in the !ncredible India campaign

The context of the image

Image worlds

Case study: Benetton, Toscani and the limits of advertising

6 On and beyond the white walls: Photography as art

Introduction

Photography as art

Early debates and practices

The complex relations between photography and art

Photography extending art

Photography claiming a place in the gallery

The modern era

Modernism and Modern Art

Modern photography

Photo-eye: New ways of seeing

Case study: Art, design, politics: Soviet Constructivism

Emphasis on form

American formalism

Case study: Art movements and intellectual currencies: Surrealism

Surrealist photography

Late twentieth-century perspectives

Conceptual art and the photographic

Photography and the postmodern

Women’s photography

Questions of identity

Identity and the multi-cultural

Case study: Landscape as genre

Photography within the institution

Art photography now

Curators, collectors and festivals

Blurring the boundaries

Afterword

Glossary

From analogue to digital

Photography archives

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