SECTION ONE Critical Reflections 1. Introduction: Photography, Curation, Criticism 2.Speaking of this Collection: A Conversation Between Martha Langford and Liz Wells, 2022 SECTION TWO On Curation and Residency 3. Curatorial strategy as critical intervention - The Genesis of Facing East, 2007 4. Landscapes of Exploration, 2012 5. On Being Out of Place, 2018 SECTION THREE Phenomena 6. Icy Prospects’, 2003. 7. Light Touch, 2014. 8. No Man’s Land: Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime’, 2011. SECTION FOUR Place 9. Points of Departure: currencies of the post-industrial sublime, 2012 10. Questions of Distance, 2011. 11. Photography, Nation, Nature’, 2012. 12. A Man of the North’, 2014. 13. Hidden Histories and Landscape Enigmas, 2019. 14. Histories and Imagination: narrative and metaphor in the work of John Kippin’, 2018. 15. Silent Witness, 2013 SECTION FIVE Critical Spaces 16. Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing the Visual’, 2001. Co-author, Martin Lister. 17. The Critical Forum’, 2000. 18. Then and Now, some notes on photography and theory’, 2002. 19. Modes of Investigation: on photography and environment, 2014.
Biography
Liz Wells, writer, curator, and lecturer, edited The Photography Reader and The Photography Culture Reader (2019; 2003, 1st ed.) and Photography: A Critical Introduction (2021, 6th ed.; trans, Greek, 2008; Chinese, 2012; Korean, 2016) and is a co-editor for photographies, Routledge journals. She has contributed many essays within artist books, exhibition catalogues, journals, and other edited collections, some of which form part of this anthology of her (dispersed) writings. She is series editor for Photography, Place, Environment published by Routledge.
'Liz Wells is one of our most sincere, intelligent, and respected scholars and curators of photography. Her edited anthologies are touchstone texts for all of us researching, teaching, and creating photographic histories. Photography, Curation, Criticism presents us with a real gift: a collection of career-spanning essays devoted solely to her distinct voice on the pressing socio-political, epistemic, and aesthetic issues that traverse the history of photography. A voice that will resound into the future of our complex field.'
Jae Emerling, College of Arts + Architecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
