A Companion to Photography.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Photography in the Twenty‐first Century -- Photography in the Twenty‐first Century -- Structure of the Book -- Conclusion -- Part I Themes -- Chapter 2 Histories -- References -- Chapter 3 Locating Photography -- From Calcutta to Constantinople -- Terra Infirma: Photography Beyond the Nation -- World System Photography -- Conclusion: Locating Martín Chambi -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 4 The Participation of Time in Photography -- References -- Chapter 5 Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory -- Memory Rising -- Objects of Memory -- Memories Lost and Found -- Memorable Moments -- Sights of Memory -- Commemoration and Repossession -- Acting the Art -- Family Resemblances -- References -- Chapter 6 The Indexical Imagination -- Semiotics -- Sign-making -- Perception -- Note -- References -- Chapter 7 The Thingness of Photographs -- Some Framings -- Albums and the Material Performance of Narrative -- Photographs and Their Sensory Entanglements -- The Material Archive and Photographic Meaning -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Beyond Representation?: The Database-driven Image and the Non-human Spectator -- Introduction -- Photography and the "Algorithmic Turn" -- "Seeing" the Photograph? -- Photography as "Content" -- Extracting Meaning from "Content" -- Metadata and Tagging: Re‐writing the Image as Text -- The Meaning Machine? -- Pattern Recognition and Non‐verbal Orderings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Interpretation -- Chapter 9 Semiotics -- Exposing the Construction of Photographs -- People, Roles, and Modality in Photographs -- Modality and the Modification of Photographs -- Peircean Semiotics, Emotion, and the Status of the Photograph -- References -- Further Reading.

Chapter 10 A Culture of Texts -- "Nature's" Marks -- Imitations -- The Multiple Medium -- The Photograph as "Text" -- Dismantling the System -- A Liminal View -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Psychoanalysis and Photography: Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman -- Mary Kelly -- Cindy Sherman -- References -- Chapter 12 Reviewing the Gaze -- The Gaze in Theory and History -- The Gaze: Optical, Linguistic, Haptic -- The Gaze and the Look -- Psychoanalysis, the Gaze, and the Photograph -- Three Historical Moments -- In the Realm of the Senses -- Three Theoretical and Historical Moments -- Ethics, Politics, and the Gaze -- The Gaze as Civil Contract -- References -- Part III Markets -- Chapter 13 Marketing Photography: Selling Popular Photography on the British High Street -- Marketing Mass Photography: The Debates -- Mass-Marketing Photography: Kodak as the Founding Model -- The Rise of the High Street Photographic Chemist in Britain -- Stratifying the Market: Advertising Photography to the Man‐in‐the‐Street -- From Labcoat to Laptop: Changing Identities for Photographic Providers -- Prescriptive and Policed Esthetics: The Role of Business in Shaping Photographic Practice -- Visual Economies: The Hidden Financial Dominance of Commercial Developing and Printing -- Duping and Knowing, Prescription and Resistance: Marketing's Effects -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14 Advertising and Photography: Rhetoric and Representation -- Advertising: Information and Persuasion -- Photography: Documentary and Persuasion -- Barthes on the Newspaper Photograph -- Barthes on the Advertising Photograph -- Derrida, Barthes, and Photography -- Advertising, Photography, Rhetoric, and Representation -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Websites -- Chapter 15 Fashion's Image: The Complex World of the Fashion Photograph.

The Changing World of the Fashion Photograph -- Fashion as Image -- What Is a Fashion Photograph? -- How Fashion Works in the Street Style Blog -- Is Fashion Photography Art? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16 Value Systems in Photography -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part IV Popular Photography -- Chapter 17 Snapshot Photography: History, Theory, Practice, and Esthetics -- History -- Theory -- Practice -- Esthetics -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 Mobile Photography -- The Problem with "Mobile Photography" -- The Research Area -- A Mobile History -- Mobility-As-Transience -- Networked Photography -- Conclusion [Mobile Meaning] -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19 Famous for a Fifteenth of a Second: Andy Warhol, Celebrity, and Fan Photography -- Andy Warhol as Fan -- Andy Warhol as Artist -- Andy Warhol as Celebrity -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 Boring Pictures: Photography as Art of the Everyday -- Art of the Everyday -- The Photograph -- Noticing Things -- Tactical Resistance -- Everyday Aesthetics -- The Sensible -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Part V Documents -- Chapter 21 "Things As They Are": The Problematic Possibilities of Documentary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22 Citizens' Photojournalism -- Champions and Opponents -- Precedents and Legacies -- Art,Photography and the Internet -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23 Seeing Is Not Believing: On the Irrelevance of Looking in the Age of Operational Images -- The Unseen Image -- The Irrelevance of Looking -- The Operational Image -- Where, Then, to Look? -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading.

Chapter 24 Travel Books, Photography, and National Identity in the 1950s and 1960s, : seen through the prism of the LIFE World Library -- References -- Further Reading -- Part VI Art -- Chapter 25 Photography's Conflicting Modernisms and Modernities -- Photography's Conflicting Modernisms and Expanded Modernities -- Photographic Modernism and the Avant-Gardes -- American Modernism -- Modernism Expanded/Modernism from Below -- Modernism without Borders and Late Modernism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 26 Spectacle and Anti‐spectacle: American Art Photography and Consumer Culture -- Consumer Photography: The Bad Art Photography of Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari -- The Cultic Power of Images: Richard Prince and Louise Lawler -- From the Ideal to the Real: Philip‐Lorca diCorcia's and Larry Sultan's Post‐Documentary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 27 What Can Photography Do?: Considerations on Photography's Potential as Contemporary Art -- What Has Photography Done? -- What Can Photography Do? -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28 Practicing Desires: Authorship in Contemporary Photographic Art -- A Very Brief Survey of the Artist Photographer as Author -- Roundtable Discussion, London, November 2011 (Chair: Fergus Heron) -- Joachim Schmid in Conversation with Stephen Bull, London, November 2011 -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Index -- EULA.

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