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The Photography Reader

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Taylor & Francis Group, 2003 - Photography - 466 pages
The Photography Reader is a comprehensive introduction to theories of photography; its production; and its 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, the essays trace the development of ideas about photography. Each themed 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; The Photographic Gaze; Image and Identity; Institutions and Contexts.

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User Review  - Casey Riggs - Goodreads

Very good Essays on photography theory. Good source book to have on the shelf. Read full review

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User Review  - Mona - Goodreads

If you have an interest in photo history, I highly recommend this book. It's a collection of readings by or on historical figures in photography such as Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, and many others. Read full review

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PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
The Photography Reader. Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida. Susan Sontag, On Photography. Naomi Rosenblum, World History of Photography (Note that this book is ...
www.arthistory.upenn.edu/ fall03/ 586601/ syl.doc

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Also in Wells L. 2003, The Photography Reader, Routledge, London, Grundberg A., 2003, The Crisis of the Real: Photography and Post-Modernism. ...
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“Introduction to The Photographer’s Eye,” in The Photography Reader. ... “Extracts from Camera Lucida” in The Photography Reader, edited by Liz Wells, ...
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Tom Persinger | f295 Notes » history
49 (January, 20, 1943) but is included in a great collection of essays Lizz Wells pulled together back in 2003 to make The Photography Reader (you can ...
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University of Illinois at Chicago
Required textbooks for the course: Mary Warner Marien Photography: A Cultural History and *The Photography Reader, Liz Wells, editor, London and New York: ...
www.uic.edu/ depts/ arch/ ah/ 05_Spring_Syllabi/ AH231.doc

4.341 Introduction to Photography and Related Media, Spring 06 ...
Geoffrey Batchen, Photogenics, The Photography Reader, Liz Wells, Editor, Routledge, 2003. Susan Sontag, In Plato’s Cave, On Photography, Anchor Books, ...
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Liz Wells, directrice des publications Photography: A Critical Introduction et The Photography Reader Une captivante exploration de la culture visuelle et ...
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The Photography Reader. Ed. Liz Wells. Routledge 2003. 466 pages, 1 colour and 32. B/W illustrations .... tell, but The Photography Reader provides a valu- ...
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About the author (2003)

Liz Wells is Reader in Photographic Theory, School of Media and Photography, University of Plymouth; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Member, European Society for the History of Photography and Society for Photographic Education, USA. She has written and contributed to numerous publications.

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TitleThe Photography Reader
AuthorLiz Wells
EditorLiz Wells
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group, 2003
ISBN0415246601, 9780415246606
Length466 pages
Subjects › 

Photography / Criticism
Photography / General
Photography / History
Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries
Social Science / Media Studies
  
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