STEPHEN BULL is a writer and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton. He is the author of Photography (2010) and Photography and Celebrity (2021, forthcoming) and since 1995 has been a regular contributor to books, conferences, and journals including Source: The Photographic Review. He has exhibited as an artist at venues such as Tate Britain and the Pingyao International Photography Festival, and has published photobooks including Meeting Hazel Stokes (2006). He has run courses at Tate Modern and is the host of the Photoworks talks series, Desert Island Pics.
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Introduction: Photography in the Twenty‐first Century 1 Stephen Bull
Part I Themes 9
2 Histories 11 Sabine T. Kriebel
3 Locating Photography 29 Christopher Pinney
4 The Participation of Time in Photography 49 Anthony Luvera
5 Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory 61 Martha Langford
6 The Indexical Imagination 85 David Bate
7 The Thingness of Photographs 97 Elizabeth Edwards
8 Beyond Representation?: The Database‐driven Image and the Non‐human Spectator 113 Katrina Sluis
Part II Interpretation 131
9 Semiotics 133 Paul Cobley and David Machin
10 A Culture of Texts 155 Matthew Lindsey
11 Psychoanalysis and Photography: Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman 173 Kathy Kubicki
12 Reviewing the Gaze 189 Roberta McGrath
Part III Markets 209
13 Marketing Photography: Selling Popular Photography on the British High Street 211 Annebella Pollen
14 Advertising and Photography: Rhetoric and Representation 237 Malcolm Barnard
15 Fashion’s Image: The Complex World of the Fashion Photograph 253 Karen de Perthuis
16 Value Systems in Photography 275 Francis Hodgson
19 Famous for a Fifteenth of a Second: Andy Warhol, Celebrity, and Fan Photography 329 Stephen Bull
20 Boring Pictures: Photography as Art of the Everyday 351 Clare Gallagher
Part V Documents 369
21 “Things as they are”: The Problematic Possibilities of Documentary 371 Ian Walker
22 Citizens’ Photojournalism: History’s New First Draft 393 David Brittain
23 Seeing is not Believing: On the Irrelevance of Looking in the Age of Operational Images 411 Edward Dowsett
24 Travel Books, Photography, and National Identity in the 1950s and 1960s, Seen Through the Prism of the LIFE World Library 429 Val Williams
Part VI Art 437
25 Photography’s Conflicting Modernisms and Modernities 439 Sarah E. James
26 Spectacle and Anti‐spectacle: American Art Photography and Consumer Culture 465 David Campbell and Mark Durden
27 What Can Photography Do?: Considerations on Photography’s Potential as Contemporary Art 483 Hilde Van Gelder
28 Practicing Desires: Authorship in Contemporary Photographic Art 501 Fergus Heron
Index 527
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