Title & Author:

The camerawork essays : context and meaning in photography / edited by Jessica Evans ; picture research by Sandy Weiland ; preface by Barbara Hunt.

Publication:

London : Rivers Oram Press ; New York : Published in the USA by New York University Press, 1997.

Description:

264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ways of remembering / John Berger -- Context as a determinant of photographic meaning / John A. Walker -- The world of photography or photography of the world? / John Tagg -- Art, common sense and photography / Victor Burgin -- The object of photography / Don Slater -- On Foucault: disciplinary power and photography / David Green -- Mass observation: the intellectual climate / David Alan Mellor -- Nation, mandate, memory / Don Macpherson -- Pictured history: the matchgirls' strike 1888 / Terry Smith -- Marketing the medium: an anti-marketing report / Don Slater -- Towards a feminist erotica / Kathy Myers -- Fashion: double-page spread / Rosetta Brooks -- Left in sight: an interview with Stuart Hall -- Loves labour lost / Kathy Myers -- An affront to taste? The disturbances of Jo Spence / Jessica Evans.

Summary:

"Camerawork was the only UK magazine devoted to a critical and contextual study of photography as a social practice involving relations between the producer, the forms of distribution and the viewers and participants. It thus challenged hallowed ideas on photography and photographic education and helped its contributors to establish regulations, in some cases world-wide, as writers and thinkers on photographic and art history and theory." "This book collects essays first published in Camerawork between 1976 and 1985, but no longer easily accessible, and a new essay on the work of Jo Spence, an originator of the magazine and workshop. The substantial introduction provides an historical survey of the development of radical photographic practice. The essays cover genres ranging from advertising and documentary to amateur photography; each author has written a new introduction to contextualise the original piece. While The Camerawork Essays will appeal to the beginner in photographic theory, media studies and cultural studies, it also offers a sophistication helpful to specialists."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

1854890808
9781854890801
1854890816 (pbk.)
9781854890818 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photographic criticism.
Photography Philosophy.
Critique photographique.
Photographie Philosophie.

Added entries:

Evans, Jessica.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126829
Call No.: ID TR642.C36; ID:97-B1185
Status: Available