Photography
Photography
Summary
This introductory textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. Written for students in further and higher education, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing.
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free US shipping over $15
- Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
- Millions of affordable books
- Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!
Photography by Liz Wells
This is the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further and higher education, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters cover key debates and theorists; the documentary role of the camera; the popular and personal with particular attention to the family album; advertising and commodity culture; photography as fine art and photography and digital imaging. Designed to direct students of photography to key reading and assist the understanding of key terms, a list of resources which includes archives and galleries and a comprehensive bibliography. It is lavishly illustrated with over 80 illustrations. Among these are key nineteenth-century photographers Camille Silvy and Peter Henry Emerson; documentary photographers Frank Sutcliffe and Dorothea Lange; images from Victorian and family albums; early product advertising form Kodak and contemporary fashion photography from Benetton; computer generated images and a NASA satellite image of earth; images from famous artists such as Alexander Rodchenko, Bill Brandt and Lee Miller.Liz Wells writes and lectures on photographic practices. She is editor of The Photography Reader, 2003 and Photography: A Critical Introduction, 2004, 3rd ed. (4th edition, 2009); also co-editor of Photographies, Routledge Journals (issue 1, Spring 2008). Co-edited publications include Liz Wells and Simon Standing Change, 2007, and Surface, 2005, University of Plymouth Press; Liz Wells, Kate Newton and Catherine Fehily, Shifting Horizons, Women's Landscape Photography Now, 2000, I.B.Tauris. Revent exhibitions as curator include Crossing the Atlantic - Uneasy Spaces, New York, Sept - Nov. 2006, and Facing East, Contemporary Landscape Photography from Baltic Areas, UK tour 2004 - 2007.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780415125598 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415125596 |
| Title | Photography |
| Author | Liz Wells |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |