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The relatively new medium of photography has generated, from its inception, intense debate over its merits as an art form. (It was not until late in the twentieth century, for example, that colour photography was accepted in the canon of art historical scholarship.) In Reading Photography, Sri-Kartini Leet brings together over 100 extracts from writings on different themes in the medium to explore the art of photography. Beginning with the historical origins of photography, she charts the changes from daguerrotype and formal portraits to the everyday and the emergence of modernism. By the 1920s well-known surrealist artists were using the photograph to develop experimental techniques. Colour, frequently sidelined in early photography, is considered in its various incarnations of advertising, amateur pictures and its adoption in the 1960s as an expressive media. The concept of the photo as a commodifying practice, blurring the boundaries between the artistic and the prosaic, is discussed. Photography was included in the post-modernist movement to question traditional notions of what constitutes art, and several authors have been selected to illustrate this development. Landscape and the city are juxtaposed to demonstrate how location was used in the representation of political, social and psychological states. The role of the individual in these settings is expressed in a chapter on identity and photography. Preceeded by a discussion of its means of rendering the subject an object, a chapter on anthropological photography demonstrates the unattainable desire to achieve an objective view of the different natures of man. Equally, the nature of photography enables artists to dismember the body and thereby dehumanise it. Feminism and the role of the female photographer are implicated in this chapter. The final section considers the impact of the digital age. Sri-Kartini Leet's judicious selection of articles introduces the reader to a broad and enriching range of art historical comment engendered by the photograph, and makes Reading Photography an indispensable aid to the study of photography.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction; Chronology; Selected Bibliographies; Acknowledgements; Section 1: Photography as Art; Section 2: Modernist Visions: Avant-garde Photography; Section 3: Photography and Surrealism; Section 4: The Renaissance of Colour; Section 5: Critical Readings: Reflections on Photography; Section 6: Photography and Postmodernism; Section 7: Negotiating Identities: The Portrait as Representation; Section 8: Observations of the 'Other' - Contemporary Cultural Interventions; Section 9: The Body and the Gaze; Section 10: Photography, Time and Narrative; Section 11: On Memory; Section 12: Photography as a Commercial Practice; Section 13: The Idea of the Everyday; Section 14: Landscape; Section 15: Photography and the City; Section 16: The Photograph as a Cultural Document; Section 17: Shooting War; Section 18: Photography Beyond the Darkroom; Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780853319764
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Depth: 32
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 408
  • Series Title: Art in Context
  • Sub Title: A Sourcebook of Critical Texts
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0853319766
  • Publisher Date: 28 Nov 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: New ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • Weight: 571 gr


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