The Photography Reader.
Routledge, New York, 2002. 416 pp., 50 black-and-white illustrations, 6¾x9¾".
The Photography Reader
Liz Wells, Editor
A companion reader to our Photography: A Critical Introduction.
Comprehensive introduction to theories of photography, and its
production.
Includes essays by hooks, Eco, Barthes, Hall and Sontag
The Photography Reader is a comprehensive introduction to theories of photography, its production, 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, essays trace the development of ideas about photography. Each thematic 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; Image and Identity; The photographic
gaze; Institutions and contexts
Contributors: Rudolf Arnheim, Jan Avgikos, Roland
Barthes, Victor Burgin, Umberto Eco, Steve Edwards,
Abigail Solomon Godeau, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Angela
Kelly, Annette Kuhn, Martin Lister, Catherine Lutz, Lee
Manovich, Rosy Martin, W T Mitchell, Wright Morris,
Marjorie Perloff, Susan Sontag, Jo Spence, Edward
Weston
Liz Wells is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Arts
at the University of Plymouth. She is the editor of
Photography: A Critical Introduction.
The Photography Reader is a comprehensive survey of seminal writings on photography, encompassing everything from the technical to the philosophical. The focus is on twentieth century essays, with everyone from Californian Edward Weston to the brilliant Hungarian Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Other important writers and thinkers include Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag. The book is organized by theme beginning with Wells’ introduction which sets ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context. Anthologies like this have been attempted before, but none this successfully.
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