The Photography Reader

The Photography Readeris a comprehensive collection of twentieth-century writings on photography- its production, its uses and effects. Encompassing essays by photographers including Edward Weston and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and key thinkers from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, the reader traces the development of ideas about photography, exploring issues such as identity, consumption, the gaze, and digital technology. Each themed section features an editor's introduction setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context.

List of illustrations

xi

Notes on contributors

xiii

Acknowledgements

xix

General introduction

1

(11)

PART ONE Reflections on photography

Introduction

12

(7)

Extracts from Camera Lucida

19

(12)

Roland Barthes

What Has Occurred Only Once: Barthes's Winter Garden/Boltanski's Archives of the Dead

31

(11)

Marjorie Perloff

Extracts From the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

42

(11)

Walter Benjamin

Benjamin and the Political Economy of the Photograph

53

(6)

W. J. T. Mitchell

Photography Within the Humanities

59

(8)

Susan Sontag

In Our Image

67

(9)

Wright Morris

Fire And Ice

76

(11)

Peter Wollen

PART TWO Photographic seeing

Introduction

82

(5)

Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image

87

(3)

Hubert Damisch

What the Eye Does Not See

90

(2)

Ossip Brik

A New Instrument of Vision

92

(5)

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Introduction to the Photographer's Eye

97

(7)

John Szarkowski

Seeing Photographically

104

(10)

Edward Weston

PART THREE Codes and rhetoric

Introduction

110

(4)

Rhetoric of the Image

114

(12)

Roland Barthes

A Photograph

126

(4)

Umberto Eco

Looking At Photographs

130

(8)

Victor Burgin

Photography and Fetish

138

(14)

Christian Metz

PART FOUR Photography and the postmodern

Introduction

148

(4)

Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism

152

(12)

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

The Crisis of the Real: Photography and Postmodernism

164

(16)

Andy Grundberg

Snapshooters of History: Passages on the Postmodern Argument

180

(22)

Steve Edwards

PART FIVE Photo-digital

Introduction

198

(4)

`The Shadow of the Object': Photography and Realism

202

(16)

Sarah Kember

Extracts From Introduction to the Photographic Image in Digital Culture

218

(10)

Martin Lister

Photogenics

228

(12)

Geoffrey Batchen

The Paradoxes of Digital Photography

240

(17)

Lev Manovich

PART SIX Documentary and photojournalism

Introduction

252

(5)

Evidence, Truth and Order: Photographic Records And The Growth of the State

257

(4)

John Tagg

In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)

261

(14)

Martha Rosler

Access and Consent in Public Photography

275

(13)

Lisa Henderson

Photographs of Agony

288

(3)

John Berger

Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press

291

(18)

Karin E. Becker

Cuba Made Me So

309

(18)

Edmundo Desnoes

PART SEVEN The photographic gaze

Introduction

324

(3)

Re-Reading Edward Weston: Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis

327

(11)

Roberta McGrath

Cindy Sherman: Burning Down The House

338

(5)

Jan Avgikos

Doubletake: The Diary of a Relationship with an Image

343

(11)

Lucy R. Lippard

The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes the Example of National Geographic

354

(26)

Catherine Lutz

Jane Collins

PART EIGHT Image and identity

Introduction

376

(4)

The Vertigo of Displacement

380

(7)

David A. Bailey

Stuart Hall

In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life

387

(8)

bell hooks

Remembrance: The Child I Never Was

395

(7)

Annette Kuhn

Photo-Therapy: Psychic Realism as a Healing Art?

402

(8)

Rosy Martin

Jo Spence

Self Image: Personal is Political

410

(12)

Angela Kelly

PART NINE Contexts: gallery, museum, education, archive

Introduction

418

(4)

The Museum's Old, The Library's New Subject

422

(6)

Douglas Crimp

Words and Pictures: On Reviewing Photography

428

(7)

Liz Wells

Art, Education, Photography

435

(8)

David Bate

Reading An Archive: Photography Between Labour and Capital

443

(10)

Allan Sekula

Index

453

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The Photography Reader

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