Photography History Difference

Author : Tanya Sheehan
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611686470

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Photography, History, Difference by Tanya Sheehan Pdf

Over the past decade, historical studies of photography have embraced a variety of cultural and disciplinary approaches to the medium, while shedding light on non-Western, vernacular, and "other" photographic practices outside the Euro-American canon. Photography, History, Difference brings together an international group of scholars to reflect on contemporary efforts to take a different approach to photography and its histories. What are the benefits and challenges of writing a consolidated, global history of photography? How do they compare with those of producing more circumscribed regional or thematic histories? In what ways does the recent emphasis on geographic and national specificity encourage or exclude attention to other forms of difference, such as race, class, gender, and sexuality? Do studies of "other" photographies ultimately necessitate the adoption of nontraditional methodologies, or are there contexts in which such differentiation can be intellectually unproductive and politically suspect? The contributors to the volume explore these and other questions through historical case studies; interpretive surveys of recent historiography, criticism, and museum practices; and creative proposals to rethink the connections between photography, history, and difference. A thought-provoking collection of essays that represents new ways of thinking about photography and its histories. It will appeal to a broad readership among those interested in art history, visual culture, media studies, and social history.

Author : Kylie Thomas,Louise Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317358244

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Photography in and out of Africa by Kylie Thomas,Louise Green Pdf

This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary photography and practices of self-representation; and with the place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics.

Author : Erina Duganne,Heather Diack,Terri Weissman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000185003

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Global Photography by Erina Duganne,Heather Diack,Terri Weissman Pdf

This 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 summaries, research questions and further reading lists help to reinforce learning and promote discussion. Whether coming to the subject from an applied photography or art history background, students will benefit from this book's engaging, example-led approach to the subject, gaining a sophisticated understanding of international photography in historical terms.

Author : Tanya Sheehan,Andres Zervigon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781317578963

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Photography and Its Origins by Tanya Sheehan,Andres Zervigon Pdf

Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of ‘first’ photographs and proclamations of photography’s death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what invented the medium. Photography and Its Origins reflects on this interest in photography’s beginnings by reframing it in critical and specifically historiographical terms. How and why do we write about the origins of the medium? Whom or what do we rely on to construct those narratives? What’s at stake in choosing to tell stories of photography’s genesis in one way or another? And what kind of work can those stories do? Edited by Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Mario Zervigón, this collection of 16 original essays, illustrated with 32 colour images, showcases prominent and emerging voices in the field of photography studies. Their research cuts across disciplines and methodologies, shedding new light on old questions about histories and their writing. Photography and Its Origins will serve as a valuable resource for students and scholars in art history, visual and media studies, and the history of science and technology.

Author : Sigrid Lien,Hilde Wallem Nielssen
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774866637

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Adjusting the Lens by Sigrid Lien,Hilde Wallem Nielssen Pdf

Through powerful case studies, Adjusting the Lens addresses the ways that the historical photographic record of Indigenous peoples has been shaped by colonial practices, and explores how this legacy is being confronted by Indigenous art activism and contemporary renegotiations of the past. Contributors to this collection analyze the photographic practices and heritage of communities from North America, Europe, and Australia, revealing how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record.

Author : Martin Lister
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136162718

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The Photographic Image in Digital Culture by Martin Lister Pdf

What does a new technology of images mean for the ways in which we encounter and use images in everyday life: in advertising, entertainment, news, evidence? And within our domestic and private worlds for our sense of self and indentity; our view of the body and our sexuality? The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the technological transformation of the image and its implications for photography. Contributors investigate such issues as the relationship of technological change to visual culture; the new discourses of `techno-culture'; medicine's new vision of the body, and interactive pornography. They also examine the cultural meanings of new surveillance images; shifts in the domestic consumption of images and their relationship to memory, history and biography; the social uses of video and computer games and the changing role of photography as document and as art.

Author : Costanza Caraffa,Tiziana Serena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110331837

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Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation by Costanza Caraffa,Tiziana Serena Pdf

The question of the (photographic) construction and representation of national identity is not limited to the ‘long 19th century’, but is a current issue in the post-colonial, post-global, digital world. The essays by international contributors aim at studying the relationship between photographic archives and the idea of nation, yet without focusing on single symbolic icons and instead considering the wider archival and sedimental dimension.

Author : Evelyn Ruppert,Stephan Scheel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912685851

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Data Practices by Evelyn Ruppert,Stephan Scheel Pdf

How EU data practices establish and assign people to categories, and how this matters in enacting--"making up"--Europe as a population and people. What is "Europe" and who are "Europeans"? Data Practices approaches this contemporary political and theoretical question by treating it as a practical problem of counting. Only through the myriad data practices that make up methods such as censuses can EU member states know their national populations, and this in turn is utilized by the EU to understand the population of Europe. But this volume approaches data practices not simply as reflecting populations but as performative in two senses: they simultaneously enact--that is, "make up"--a European population and, by so doing--intentionally or otherwise--also contribute to making up a European people. The book develops a conception of data practices to analyze and interpret findings from collaborative ethnographic multisite fieldwork conducted by an interdisciplinary team of social science researchers as part of a five-year project, Peopling Europe: How Data Make a People. The book focuses on data practices that involve establishing and assigning people to categories and how this matters in enacting Europe as a population and people. Five core chapters explore key categories of people--usual residents, refugees, homeless people, migrants, and ethnic minorities--and how they come into being through specific data practices such as defining, estimating, recalibrating and inferring. Two additional chapters address two key subject positions that data practices produce and require: the data subject and the statistician subject.

Author : Beaumont Newhall,Museum of Modern Art (Nova York, Nova York)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0870703811

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The History of Photography, from 1839 to the Present Day by Beaumont Newhall,Museum of Modern Art (Nova York, Nova York) Pdf

Author : Liz Wells
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415307031

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Photography by Liz Wells Pdf

This seminal text for photography students identifies key debates in photographic theory, stimulates discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text features of its predecessors but also expands coverage on photojournalism, digital imaging techniques, race and colonialism. The content is updated with additional international and contemporary examples and images throughout and the inclusion of colour photos. Features of this new edition include: *Key concepts and short biographies of major thinkers *Updated international and contemporary case studies and examples *A full glossary of terms, a comprehensive bibliography *Resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites

Author : Kristy L. Ulibarri
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477326572

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Visible Borders, Invisible Economies by Kristy L. Ulibarri Pdf

A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film.

Author : Jung Joon Lee
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781478059202

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Shooting for Change by Jung Joon Lee Pdf

In Shooting for Change, Jung Joon Lee examines postwar Korean photography across multiple genres and practices, including vernacular, art, documentary, and archival photography. Tracing the history of Korean photography while considering what is disguised or lost by framing the history of photography through nationhood, Lee considers the role of photography in shaping memory of historical events, representing the ideal national family, and motivating social movements. Further, through an investigation of what it means to practice photography under the normalized conditions of militarism, Lee treats the transnational militarism of Korea as a lens through which to probe the officially and culturally sanctioned readings of images when returning to them at different times. Among other themes, Lee draws on photography of militarized sex work, political protest in the military era, war orphans, and mass protests. Ultimately, Lee treats the formative periods in nation building and transnational militarization as both backdrop and cultivator for photographic works.

Author : Helmut Gernsheim
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0486251284

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A Concise History of Photography by Helmut Gernsheim Pdf

Highly acclaimed, scholarly volume examines technological advances and artistic development, with nearly 300 examples of photographic art. 285 black-and-white photos.

Author : Tanya Sheehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351997904

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Photography and Migration by Tanya Sheehan Pdf

Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography’s long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so much more can be said of photography’s role in the movement of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides. Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism. Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings. Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and other photographs that the contributors have witnessed, collected, or created through their diverse national, regional, and local contexts. Developed across thirteen chapters, this conversation encompasses images, histories, and testimonies offering analysis of new perspectives on photography and migration today.

Author : Markus Ritter,Staci G. Scheiwiller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783110590876

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The Indigenous Lens? by Markus Ritter,Staci G. Scheiwiller Pdf

The historiography of early photography has scarcely examined Islamic countries in the Near and Middle East, although the new technique was adopted very quickly there by the 1840s. Which regional, local, and global aspects can be made evident? What role did autochthonous image and art traditions have, and which specific functions did photography meet since its introduction? This collective volume deals with examples from Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the Arab lands and with the question of local specifics, or an „indigenous lens." The contributions broach the issues of regional histories of photography, local photographers, specific themes and practices, and historical collections in these countries. They offer, for the first time in book form, a cross-section through a developing field of the history of photography.