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Photography : a critical introduction / edited by Liz Wells.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxi, 419 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780367241100 (pbk)
  • 9780415854283 (hardback)
Uniform titles:
  • Photography (Wells)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 770 WEL 23 017536
LOC classification:
  • TR145 .P48 2015
Other classification:
  • ART015000 | PHO000000 | PHO010000
Online resources: Summary: "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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-399) and index.

"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

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