Photography and Its Publics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Miles, Melissa; Welch, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Photography is a ubiquitous part of the public sphere. Yet we rarely stop to think about the important role that photography plays in helping to define what and who constitute the public.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000213331
• Artikelnr.: 59969985

Autorenporträt

Professor Melissa Miles is an Australian Research Council Fellow based at Monash University in Australia. Her interdisciplinary research examines the relationships between photography and public and private realms, the role of photography in processes of truth and reconciliation, and photography's operation as a medium of cultural exchange. Her books include The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light (2008, reprinted in 2010), The Language of Light and Dark: Light and Place in Australian Photography (2015), The Culture of Photography in Public Space (2015) co-edited with Anne Marsh and Daniel Palmer and Photography, Truth and Reconciliation forthcoming. Professor Edward Welch is the Carnegie Chair of French at the University of Aberdeen, and Director of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Cultures. His current research focuses on French literary and visual culture of the post-war period, and its responses to processes of modernisation, decolonisation and urban change. His books include Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria (2013) co-authored with Joseph McGonagle, Francois Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual (2006) and Photography: Theoretical Snapshots (Routledge, 2009) co-edited with Jonathan Long and Andrea Noble.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Melissa Miles, 'Introduction: Photography and Its Publics' Part I:
Photography and the Provocation of the Public 2. Robert Hariman and John
Louis Lucaites, 'Photography and Public Culture' Part II: Photography,
Publics and Counterpublics 3. Andrés Mario Zervigón, 'Photography, Truth
and the Radicalized Public Sphere in Weimar Germany' 4. Edward Welch,
'"Match nous a raconté une histoire": Thinking with Roland Barthes about
Photography, Publics and the Exercise of Power in Post-war France' 5. Tom
Allbeson, 'Prehistories of Visual Activism: Photography, Counterpublics and
the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Post-war Britain' Part III: Within
and Beyond the National Public Sphere 6. Melissa Miles, 'Photography,
Aboriginal Rights and the 1967 Australian Referendum' 7. Angeles Donoso
Macaya, 'A Little History of Photographic Displacements: from Chile from
within (1990) to Chile desde adentro (2015)' Part IV: Human Rights and the
Ethics of Spectatorship 8. Thy Phu, 'Afterimages of S-21: Distant and
Proximate Spectatorship and the Legacies of Cold War Human Rights' 9.
Rebecca A. Adelman, 'Hospitable Looking: Towards a Different Way of Seeing
the War in Syria' Part V: Global Media Publics 10. Paul Frosh, 'Is
Commercial Photography a Public Evil? Beyond the Critique of Stock
Photography' 11. Michele Zappavigna and Sumin Zhao, 'Selfies and
recontextualization: Still life self-imaging in social media' Afterword 12.
Edward Welch, 'Photography's Interdisciplinary Publics: A Tribute to
Professor Andrea Noble'