1st Edition
Photography: Theoretical Snapshots
List of Figures Introduction A Small History of Photography Studies Edward Welch and J. J. Long 1. Mindless Photography John Tagg 2. Thinking Photography beyond the Visual? Elizabeth Edwards 3. On Snapshot Photography: Rethinking Photographic Power In Public And Private Spheres Catherine Zuromskis 4. Family Photography and the Global Drama of Human Rights Andrea Noble 5. Dreams of Ordinary Life: Cartes-De-Visite and the Bourgeois Imagination Geoffrey Batchen 6. Race and Reproduction in Camera Lucida Shawn Michelle Smith 7. Benjamin, Atget, and the ‘Readymade’ Politics of Postmodern Photography Studies Kelly Dennis 8. Being Exposed: Thinking Photography and Community in Spencer Tunick’s Naked World Through the Lens of Jean-Luc Nancy Louis Kaplan 9. ‘And in This Fairy World of Labour See A Type Of What The Actual World Should Be’: Plato’s Dilemma Donald Preziosi Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
Biography
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 François 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.
'Photography: Theoretical Snapshots' rewards the reader with a careful, reasoned, broad-based survey of thinking about photographs. In part, this success stems from the ability and willingness of the editors, none of whom teaches in an art-history department, to showcase the rich inter- and multi-disciplinarity of approaches to photography...Unbound to a tight narrative, the lucid essays provide just what the original conference intended: a fine starting place for rethinking photography and its rich trajectories across traditional academic disciplines.' – Sarah Parsons, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, York University, Toronto
