Pierre Bourdieu

Broschiertes Buch

Photography

A Middle-Brow Art

Herausgeber: Bourdieu, Pierre

Beschreibung

This wide-ranging analysis of the practice of photography brings out the logic implicit in this cultural field. The norms which define the occasions and the objects of photography serve to display the socially differentiated functions of, and attitudes towards, the photographic image and act. The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateurphotographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, thewedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highlypersonal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that fewcultural activities are more structured and systematic than thesocial uses of this ordinary art.

Autor

Pierre Bourdieu is Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1996.
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780745617152
• ISBN-10: 0745617158
• Artikelnr.: 13601520

Rezensionen

"At his best Pierre Bourdieu observes the world like an acerbicnovelist, and Photography is Bourdieu at his best - itsinsights into the popular use of the camera still offer thedelights of recognition and a valuable reminder that culturalstudies need the empirical and theoretical underpinnings providedby good, Durkheimian sociology." Simon Frith
"Interesting ... in its scope and insights." TheGuardian

"Pathbreaking [and] intriguing." Times Higher EducationSupplement