Title & Author:

Photography : a critical introduction / edited by Liz Wells.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Description:

xx, 384 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"First published 1997 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-374) and index.
Thinking about photography: debates, historically and now / Derrick Price, Liz Wells -- Surveyors and surveyed: photography out and about / Derrick Price -- 'Sweet it is to scan ... ': personal photographs and popular photography / Patricia Holland -- Constructions of illusion: photography and commodity culture / Anandi Ramamurthy -- The subject as object: photography and the human body / Michelle Henning -- On and beyond the white walls: photography as art / Liz Wells -- Photography in the age of electronic imaging / Martin Lister.

Summary:

This textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political context. This second edition includes key concepts, biographies of major thinkers and seminal references, and provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic viewing.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415190576 (hb.)
9780415190572 (hb.)
0415190584 (pb.)
9780415190589 (pb.)

Subject:

Photography.
Photographie.
photographic techniques.
Fotografie.
Photography Study and teaching.

Added entries:

Wells, Liz, 1948-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233385
Call No.: TR145 .P48 2000
Status: Available