The Lives of Images: Repetition, Reproduction, Circulation - Couverture souple

Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley; Pfeiffer, Paul; Steciw, Kate

 
9781597115025: The Lives of Images: Repetition, Reproduction, Circulation

Synopsis

The Lives of Images, edited by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, is a set of contemporary thematic readers designed for educators, students, practicing photographers, and others interested in the ways images function within a wide set of cultural practices. The series tracks the many movements and "lives" of images--their tendency to accumulate, circulate, and transform through different geographies, cultures, processes, institutions, states, uses, and times.

Volume I of the series, Repetition, Reproduction, Circulation, addresses the multiple life cycles of the image--its modes of dispersion, reception, consumption, and aggregation--and the significance of technological reproduction for contemporary forms of social, cultural, and political life. The image is considered both a tool for liberation and a means of repression within the evolving structures of modern life. The essays consider the implications of the nature and effect of the reproducible image on the categories, shapes, and aims of contemporary art and society. Further grounded by two interviews with practitioners in the field, Repetition, Reproduction, Circulation promises to be an accessible, rigorous, and timely resource for all students, educators, and practitioners of photography.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a photographer, writer, and educator. His book One Wall a Web (2018) was winner of the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation First Book Award. Wolukau-Wanambwa has a BA in philosophy and French from Oxford University, and an MFA in photography from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has contributed essays and interviews to catalogues and monographs by Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, Paul Graham, and Gregory Halpern. He is currently assistant professor and graduate program director of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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