Photography's neoliberal realism / Jörg Colberg.

Main entry:

Colberg, Jörg, author.

Title & Author:

Photography's neoliberal realism / Jörg Colberg.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2020]
©2020

Description:

37 pages ; 20 cm

Series:

Discourse ; 004

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

Confronting the work of widely celebrated photographers Annie Leibovitz, Gregory Crewdson and Andreas Gurksy, 'Photography's Neoliberal Realism' examines how these artists produce capitalism's equivalent of the Soviet Union's socialist realism by giving photographic form to widely held and rarely questioned beliefs and ideas. The ideological framework that Colberg terms 'neoliberal realism' serves to cement an economic system whose many fault lines are becoming increasingly clear, such as staggering inequality and racial disparities. This extended essay provides an alternative reading of photographic works laden with artifice, and argues how focusing on this artifice misses the more far-reaching ways such images operate in our visual economy.

ISBN:

1913620166
9781913620165

Subject:

Leibovitz, Annie, 1949-
Crewdson, Gregory.
Gurksy, Andreas.
Documentary photography.
Photography Social aspects.
Photographie documentaire.
Photographie Aspect social.
documentary photography.
Photography Political aspects

Form/genre:

Essays

Added entries:

Discourse (MACK (Publishing firm)) ; 004.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309939
Call No.: BIB 255080
Status: Available

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