Photography at the Dock by Abigail Solomon-Godeau
This book examines the politics - both implicit and explicit - informing photographic criticism, history and practice. As a revisionist approach to the medium's history, an analysis of photographic modernism and the institutions promoting it, and a feminist exploration of the camera's role in producing (and reproducing) social and sexual ideology, the volume addresses its subject from a variety of perspectives. Since an important aspect of photographic politics is sexual politics, (both in the sense of women's historic professional exclusion from photographic practice, and in the sense of their status as objects rather than subjects of the camera's gaze), the author features the work of a feminist photographer and her attempt to reckon with the sexual politics that photography normally maintains. This, in turn, provides the bridge which takes up certain themes in both a historic repressed context to illuminate questions in light of contemporary practice.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau is Professor Emerita of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of several books, including Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices; Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation; Rosemary Laing; Chair à canons: Photographie, discours, féminisme; and coauthor of Birgit Jürgenssen. Sarah Parsons is Associate Professor of Art History at York University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780816619139 |
| ISBN 10 | 0816619131 |
| Title | Photography at the Dock |
| Author | Abigail Solomon-Godeau |
| Series | Media And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
| Year published | 1991-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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