1st Edition
The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography
1. Introduction: photography, domesticity, interiors 2. Domestic things: animating objects and the still life 3. Domestic time: diaries, habits, durations 4. Domestic selves: relationality and slow portraiture 5. Domestic display: proximity and the handheld Conclusion: Windows, doorways, footpaths
Biography
Jane Simon is a senior lecturer in photography and film at Macquarie University, Australia.
"Seen in a specific light, domestic interiors have always held a fascination for artists. At once both eerie and familiar the domestic scene challenges us with its quotidian ambiguities, its surprising juxtaposition of scale, and its eruptions and longueurs. Now, for the first time, we have a critical cartographer to guide us through these uncharted lands. And, wonderfully, we have in Jane Simon a writer as sensitive and insightful as the artists she writes about."
-- Ben Highmore, University of Sussex
