Photography: A Critical Introduction [WorldCat Entities]

""A comprehensive collection of twentieth-century writings on photography--its production, its uses and efects ... traces the development of ideas about photography, exploring issues such as identity, consumption, the gaze, and digital technology ... Sections include: reflections on photography; photographic seeing; codes and rhetoric; photography and the Postmodern; photo-digital; documentary and photojournalism; the photographic gaze; image and identity; institutions and contexts--Back cover."
""Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, this fully revised edition provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters cover: - Key debates in photographic theory and history - Documentary photography and photojournalism - Personal and popular photography - Photography and the human body - Photography and commodity culture - Photography as art This revised and updated fifth edition includes: - New case studies on topics such as: materialism and embodiment, the commodification of human experience, and landscape as genre. - 98 photographs and images, featuring work from: Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Fran Herbello, Hannah H"
""Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, this fully revised edition provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters cover: - Key debates in photographic theory and history - Documentary photography and photojournalism - Personal and popular photography - Photography and the human body - Photography and commodity culture - Photography as art. This revised and updated fifth edition includes: - New case studies on topics such as: materialism and embodiment, the commodification of human experience, and landscape as genre. - 98 photographs and images, featuring work from: Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Fran Herbello, Hannah Höch, Karen Knorr, Dorothea Lange, Chrystel Lebas, Susan Meiselas, Lee Miller, Martin Parr, Ingrid Pollard, Jacob Riis, Alexander Rodchenko, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall."@en
"The documentary role of the camera, the popular and the personal with particular attention to the family album, advertising and commodity culture, photography as fine art and digital imaging are just some of the topics covered in this introductory text."@en
"This is the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further education, higher education and introductory college courses, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Designed to direct students to key reading and to assist understanding of central concepts, this accessible textbook includes principal references and notes in the margin, a full glossary of terms, comprehensive end-of-chapter bibliographies, and case studies demonstrating methods of analysis."
"This textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political context. This second edition includes key concepts, biographies of major thinkers and seminal references, and provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic viewing."