Photography: Theoretical Snapshots

Over the past 25 years, photography has moved to centre stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image.

J.J. Long is Professor of German at Durham University. He is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard and of W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity, and has published widely on German literature and photography. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2005. Andrea Noble is Professor of Latin American Studies at Durham University, author of Mexican National Cinema, and co-editor of Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative. Edward Welch is Senior Lecturer in French at Durham University, and author of Franccidle;ois Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual. His research interests include post-war French visual culture and documentary photography, and he is a regular contributor to Source photography journal.