CiNii Books - The Routledge companion to photography theory

With newly commissioned essays by some of the leading writers on photography today, this companion tackles some of the most pressing questions about photography theory's direction, relevance, and purpose. This book shows how digital technologies and global dissemination have radically advanced the pluralism of photographic meaning and fundamentally transformed photography theory. Having assimilated the histories of semiotic analysis and post-structural theory, critiques of representation continue to move away from the notion of original and copy and towards materiality, process, and the interdisciplinary. The implications of what it means to 'see' an image is now understood to encompass, not only the optical, but the conceptual, ethical, and haptic experience of encountering an image. The 'fractal' is now used to theorize the new condition of photography as an algorithmic medium and leads us to reposition our relationship to photographs and lend nuances to what essentially underlies any photography theory - that is, the relationship of the image to the real world and how we conceive what that means. Diverse in its scope and themes, The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory is an indispensable collection of essays and interviews for students, researchers, and teachers. The volume also features extensive images, including beautiful colour plates of key photographs.

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List of figures List of plates List of contributors Introduction Mark Durden and Jane Tormey PART I - AESTHETICS 1. Feeling in photography, the affective turn, and the history of emotions Thy Phu, Elspeth H. Brown, and Andrea Noble 2. Jacques Ranciere: aesthetics and photography David Bate 3. Ambiguity, accident, audience: Minor White's photographic theory Todd Cronan 4. Testing humanism: the transactions of contemporary documentary photography Mark Durden 5. Jeff Wall speaks with David Campany Jeff Wall and David Campany 6. Deleuze and the simulacrum: simulation and semblance in Public Order Sandra Plummer 7. Five versions of the photographic act: archival logic in the work of Andrea Robbins and Max Becher Shep Steiner 8. Jean Baudrillard's photography-a vision of his own strange world Gerry Coulter 9. Visual episodic memory and the neurophenomenology of digital photography Jill Bennett PART II - POLITICS 10. Seeing the public image anew: photography exhibitions and civic spectatorship Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites 11. Still images on the move: theoretical challenges and future possibilities Marta Zarzycka 12. Interview with Ariella Azoulay Ariella Azoulay and Justin Carville 13. Human rights practice and visual violations Ruthie Ginsburg 14. Love the bomb: picturing nuclear explosion Paula Rabinowitz 15. Twice captured: the work of atrocity photography Molly Rogers 16. Presenting the unrepresentable: confrontation and circumvention Jane Tormey 17. The eco-anarchist potential of environmental photography: Richard Misrach and Kate Orff's Petrochemical America Conohar Scott 18. Counter-forensics and photography Thomas Keenan PART III - THEORIES 19. Derrida and photography theory Malcolm Barnard 20. Image, affect, and autobiography: Roland Barthes' photographic theory in light of his posthumous publications Kathrin Yacavone 21. Ideation and photography: a critique of Francois Laruelle's concept of abstraction John Roberts 22. Fractal photography and the politics of invisibility Daniel Rubinstein 23. Photographic apparatus in the era of tagshot culture Mika Elo 24. Artistic representation and politics: an exchange between Victor Burgin and Hilde Van Gelder Victor Burgin and Hilde Van Gelder 25. Decentering the photographer: authorship and digital photography Daniel Palmer 26. Out of language: photographing as translating

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