238 Pages
62 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
238 Pages
62 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
238 Pages
62 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This accessible book explores the creative uses of photography with political purpose, both in terms of subject matter and of the political perspectives that have driven attitudes to viewing photographs.
The shorter Part I reviews twentieth-century thinking that has influenced attitudes to photography and the political. Part II identifies the political ideas that drive practical strategies in... Read more
Introduction Part I 1. Power Relations 2. Representation, Aesthetics, and Documentary 3. Instrumental Purpose and Disruption Part II 4. Image, Knowledge, and Argument 5. Immersive Worlds 6. Citizen Relations 7. Histories, Archives, and Fictions 8. Political Aesthetics
Biography
Jane Tormey is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory (2020) and Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer (2021) and the author of Cities and Photography (2012) and Photographic Realism: Late Twentieth Century Aesthetics (2013). She is an independent scholar and Honorary Fellow of Loughborough University.
