The Resource Photography, Stephen Bull
Photography, Stephen Bull
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- Summary
- Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form. Stephen Bull considers our media-saturated society and the place of photography in everyday life, introducing the theories used to analyze photographs and exploring the impact of digital technology. Topics covered include: *the identity of photography *the meanings of photographs *photography for sale *snapshots *the photograph as document *photography as art *photographs in fashion *photography and celebrity
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- [xiii], 240 p.
- Contents
-
- 1. Photography now : The structure of this book
- 2. The identity of photography : Fixing the image : the conception of photography ; Modernism : the nature of photography ; Postmodernism : the culture of photography ; The thing itself? The question of indexicality ; Past/present/future : photography and time ; Digital debates : revolution or evolution? ; The photograph as object : materiality ; The photograph as image : dematerialisation ; From fixity to transience : the re-conception of photography
- 3. The meanings of photographs : Understanding semiotics : signs, signifiers and signifieds ; A bag of pasta and a cup of tea : rhetoric of the image ; Fixing meanings : words ; Fixing meanings : contexts ; Fixing meanings : discourses ; Photography and psychoanalysis : the unconscious, fetishism and the uncanny ; Pleasures of looking at photographs : the gaze ; Viewers of photographs : other looks ; Camera Lucida : studium and punctum
- 4. Photography for sale : Photography for selling : advertising and identification ; From selling products to creating atmospheres : advertising photography and image banks ; Photography against selling : subvertising and stencils ; Selling photographs : marketing the media ; Selling photography : mass-marketing the medium ; Selling digital photography : fixed and transient commodities
- 5. Snapshots : Private snapshots : the silent majority of photography ; The nature of snapshots : the snapshooter's eye ; The Kodak culture of snapshots : tourism, family and memory ; Phototherapy : the family album and beyond ; Digital snapshots : screens and performance ; Online social networking : snapshots go public
- 6. The photograph as document : Photographs as evidence : portraits and surveillance ; Classification by observation : anthropology and colonialism ; Objective fictions : documentary photography and photojournalism ; Subjective facts: documentary photography in the photobook and gallery ; Shock and awe : war and its aftermath ; Evidence by participants: amateur documents and citizen journalism
- 7. Photographs as art : Pictorialism : photography as painting ; Modernism : 'straight' photography ; Photography in the modern art gallery : authorship and expression ; Conceptual art : artists using photography ; Postmodernism : the artist as photographer and 'the death of the author' ; Contemporary art photography : the photographer as artist
- 8. Photographs in fashion : The 1920s to the 1960s : elitism to accessibility ; The 1970s and the 1980s : fantasy
- Into the 1990s : abject realism ; Post-photographic pre-millennial fashion photography : anxiety and desire ; The 2000s : performance art
- 9. Photography and celebrity : The face of celebrity: photographing the famous ; The golden age of celebrity : fame and mass reproduction ; The celebrity close-up : paparazzi photography and fan culture ; The circle of shame : mortification and the age of mass celebrity ; Virtually famous : digital reproduction and online celebrity
- 10. After photography?
- Isbn
- 9780415428941
- Label
- Photography
- Title
- Photography
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Bull
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form. Stephen Bull considers our media-saturated society and the place of photography in everyday life, introducing the theories used to analyze photographs and exploring the impact of digital technology. Topics covered include: *the identity of photography *the meanings of photographs *photography for sale *snapshots *the photograph as document *photography as art *photographs in fashion *photography and celebrity
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bull, Stephen
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- TR183
- LC item number
- .B85 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Routledge introductions to media and communications
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Photography
- Photography
- Photographs
- Mass media
- Berühmte Persönlichkeit (Motiv)
- Dokumentarphotographie
- Hermeneutik
- Kunst
- Mode
- Photographie
- Schnappschuss
- Label
- Photography, Stephen Bull
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-227) and index
- Contents
- 1. Photography now : The structure of this book -- 2. The identity of photography : Fixing the image : the conception of photography ; Modernism : the nature of photography ; Postmodernism : the culture of photography ; The thing itself? The question of indexicality ; Past/present/future : photography and time ; Digital debates : revolution or evolution? ; The photograph as object : materiality ; The photograph as image : dematerialisation ; From fixity to transience : the re-conception of photography -- 3. The meanings of photographs : Understanding semiotics : signs, signifiers and signifieds ; A bag of pasta and a cup of tea : rhetoric of the image ; Fixing meanings : words ; Fixing meanings : contexts ; Fixing meanings : discourses ; Photography and psychoanalysis : the unconscious, fetishism and the uncanny ; Pleasures of looking at photographs : the gaze ; Viewers of photographs : other looks ; Camera Lucida : studium and punctum -- 4. Photography for sale : Photography for selling : advertising and identification ; From selling products to creating atmospheres : advertising photography and image banks ; Photography against selling : subvertising and stencils ; Selling photographs : marketing the media ; Selling photography : mass-marketing the medium ; Selling digital photography : fixed and transient commodities -- 5. Snapshots : Private snapshots : the silent majority of photography ; The nature of snapshots : the snapshooter's eye ; The Kodak culture of snapshots : tourism, family and memory ; Phototherapy : the family album and beyond ; Digital snapshots : screens and performance ; Online social networking : snapshots go public -- 6. The photograph as document : Photographs as evidence : portraits and surveillance ; Classification by observation : anthropology and colonialism ; Objective fictions : documentary photography and photojournalism ; Subjective facts: documentary photography in the photobook and gallery ; Shock and awe : war and its aftermath ; Evidence by participants: amateur documents and citizen journalism -- 7. Photographs as art : Pictorialism : photography as painting ; Modernism : 'straight' photography ; Photography in the modern art gallery : authorship and expression ; Conceptual art : artists using photography ; Postmodernism : the artist as photographer and 'the death of the author' ; Contemporary art photography : the photographer as artist -- 8. Photographs in fashion : The 1920s to the 1960s : elitism to accessibility ; The 1970s and the 1980s : fantasy -- Into the 1990s : abject realism ; Post-photographic pre-millennial fashion photography : anxiety and desire ; The 2000s : performance art -- 9. Photography and celebrity : The face of celebrity: photographing the famous ; The golden age of celebrity : fame and mass reproduction ; The celebrity close-up : paparazzi photography and fan culture ; The circle of shame : mortification and the age of mass celebrity ; Virtually famous : digital reproduction and online celebrity -- 10. After photography?
- Control code
- 212849130
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- [xiii], 240 p.
- Isbn
- 9780415428941
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009024077
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)212849130
- Label
- Photography, Stephen Bull
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-227) and index
- Contents
- 1. Photography now : The structure of this book -- 2. The identity of photography : Fixing the image : the conception of photography ; Modernism : the nature of photography ; Postmodernism : the culture of photography ; The thing itself? The question of indexicality ; Past/present/future : photography and time ; Digital debates : revolution or evolution? ; The photograph as object : materiality ; The photograph as image : dematerialisation ; From fixity to transience : the re-conception of photography -- 3. The meanings of photographs : Understanding semiotics : signs, signifiers and signifieds ; A bag of pasta and a cup of tea : rhetoric of the image ; Fixing meanings : words ; Fixing meanings : contexts ; Fixing meanings : discourses ; Photography and psychoanalysis : the unconscious, fetishism and the uncanny ; Pleasures of looking at photographs : the gaze ; Viewers of photographs : other looks ; Camera Lucida : studium and punctum -- 4. Photography for sale : Photography for selling : advertising and identification ; From selling products to creating atmospheres : advertising photography and image banks ; Photography against selling : subvertising and stencils ; Selling photographs : marketing the media ; Selling photography : mass-marketing the medium ; Selling digital photography : fixed and transient commodities -- 5. Snapshots : Private snapshots : the silent majority of photography ; The nature of snapshots : the snapshooter's eye ; The Kodak culture of snapshots : tourism, family and memory ; Phototherapy : the family album and beyond ; Digital snapshots : screens and performance ; Online social networking : snapshots go public -- 6. The photograph as document : Photographs as evidence : portraits and surveillance ; Classification by observation : anthropology and colonialism ; Objective fictions : documentary photography and photojournalism ; Subjective facts: documentary photography in the photobook and gallery ; Shock and awe : war and its aftermath ; Evidence by participants: amateur documents and citizen journalism -- 7. Photographs as art : Pictorialism : photography as painting ; Modernism : 'straight' photography ; Photography in the modern art gallery : authorship and expression ; Conceptual art : artists using photography ; Postmodernism : the artist as photographer and 'the death of the author' ; Contemporary art photography : the photographer as artist -- 8. Photographs in fashion : The 1920s to the 1960s : elitism to accessibility ; The 1970s and the 1980s : fantasy -- Into the 1990s : abject realism ; Post-photographic pre-millennial fashion photography : anxiety and desire ; The 2000s : performance art -- 9. Photography and celebrity : The face of celebrity: photographing the famous ; The golden age of celebrity : fame and mass reproduction ; The celebrity close-up : paparazzi photography and fan culture ; The circle of shame : mortification and the age of mass celebrity ; Virtually famous : digital reproduction and online celebrity -- 10. After photography?
- Control code
- 212849130
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- [xiii], 240 p.
- Isbn
- 9780415428941
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009024077
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)212849130
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