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Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition: Commemorating the Present book cover

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Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition Commemorating the Present

By Peter D. Osborne Copyright 2019
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge
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In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery. He examines how photography embodies, contributes to, and even in effect critiques how the... Read more

1. Commemorating the Present: Introductory Thoughts 2. The Accelerating Eye: Photographic Mobilities 3. Relocated Visions: Some Themes in the Photography of Landscape in England 1990–2007 4. The Unapproachable Light: Photography and the Sacred, Part 1 5. “Life’s Redemption”: Photography and the Sacred, Part 2 6. anredoM acitpO or Aztec Cameras: Cultural Hybridity and Latin American Photography 7. The Accidental Theorist: Three Views on the Work of Edgar Martins 8. The Damage: Photography and the Aesthetics of Fragility

Biography

Peter D. Osborne is Senior Lecturer in the Media Faculty of the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK. He is the author of several essays on photography and culture. His book, Travelling Light—Photography, Travel and Visual Culture, was published in 2000.

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