Reframing Photography

Reframing Photography
Author: Rebekah Modrak
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0415779197

In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history, and technique to bring photographic education up to date with contemporary photographic practice. --

Documentary Photography Reconsidered

Documentary Photography Reconsidered
Author: Michelle Bogre
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-08-13
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1000211363

Documentary photography is undergoing an unprecedented transformation as it adapts to the impact of digital technology, social media and new distribution methods. In this book, photographer and educator Michelle Bogre contextualizes these changes by offering a historical, theoretical and practical perspective on documentary photography from its inception to the present day. Documentary Photography Reconsidered is structured around key concepts, such as the photograph as witness, as evidence, as memory, as narrative and as a vehicle for activism and social change. Chapters include in-depth interviews with some of the world's leading contemporary practitioners, demonstrating the wide variety of different working styles, techniques and topics available to new photographers entering the field. Every key concept is illustrated with work from a range of innovative, influential and often under-represented photographers, giving a flavor of the depth and range of projects from the history of this global art form. There are also creative projects designed to spark ideas and build skills, to help you conceive, develop and produce your own meaningful documentary projects. The book is supported by a companion website, which includes in-depth video interviews with featured practitioners.

Perspectives on Place

Perspectives on Place
Author: J.A.P. Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1000212955

Perspectives on Place provides an inspiring insight into the territory of landscape photography. Using a range of historic and contemporary examples, Alexander explores the rich and diverse history of landscape photography and the many ways in which contemporary photographers engage with the landscape and their surroundings.Bridging theory and practice, this book demonstrates how mastering a variety of different photographic techniques can help you communicate ideas, explore themes, and develop more abstract concepts. With practical guidance on everything from effective composition, to managing challenging lighting conditions and working with different lenses and formats, you’ll be able to build your own varied and creative portfolio.Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and an assignment, encouraging you to explore key concepts and apply different photographic techniques to your own practice. Richly illustrated with images from some of the world’s most influential photographers, Perspectives on Place will help you to explore the visual qualities of your images and represent your surroundings more meaningfully.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Author: Joyce Tsai
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-04-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520290674

"Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is the first monograph on Moholy to attend to the fraught but central role painting played in shaping his aesthetic project. His reputation has been that of an artist far more interested in exploring the possibilities offered by photography, film, and other new media than in working with what he once called the 'anachronistic' medium of painting. And yet, with the exception of the period between 1928 and 1930, Moholy painted throughout his career. Joyce Tsai argues that his investment in painting, especially after 1930, emerged not only out of pragmatic and aesthetic considerations, but also out of a growing recognition of the economic, political, and ethical compromises required by his large-scale, technologically mediated projects aimed at reforming human vision. Without abandoning his commitment to fostering what he called New Vision, Moholy came to understand painting as a particularly plastic field in which the progressive possibilities of photography, film and other emergent media could find provisional expression."--Provided by publisher.

Photography Theory in Historical Perspective

Photography Theory in Historical Perspective
Author: Hilde Van Gelder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2011-04-25
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1405191619

Photography Theory in Historical Perspective: Case Studies from Contemporary Art aims to contribute to the understanding of the multifaceted and complex character of the photographic medium by dealing with various case studies selected from photographic practices in contemporary art, discussed in the context of views and theories of photography from its inception. uses case studies to explain photographic practices in contemporary art and place them in the context of theory presents current debates on theory of photography through comparisons to research of other visual media applicable to vernacular and documentary photography as well as art photography

Photography

Photography
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1990
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804726894

The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist shows that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than photography.

Reading Photographs

Reading Photographs
Author: Richard Salkeld
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 2940411891

Basics Creative Photography 04: Reading the Image is an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to theories of representation and how they can be applied to photography.

Art and Photography

Art and Photography
Author: David Campany
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Surveys the presence of photography in artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.

Photography as Critical Practice

Photography as Critical Practice
Author: David Bate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2020
Genre: Other (Philosophy)
ISBN: 9781789382006

The "other" is a topic of great interest within and across contemporary photographic practice and theory, yet it remains neglected outside the now well-established field of postcolonial studies. This volume brings together photography and written essays that relate to aspects of otherness and visual work. Presented together, the images and critical writings work in concert to construct a new social perspective on questions of otherness and alterity and to highlight photography as a form of critical practice. In a departure from existing conceptions of otherness in postcolonial discourse, 'Photography as Critical Practice' places emphasis on the human condition not as a liberal concept, but as something formed and framed by a broader dimension of social, sexual, and cultural otherness. In this way, the book provides a fascinating new vista on the otherness of photography.

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
Author: John Hannavy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1629
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1135873275

The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.