Symbolic Imprints: Essays on Photography and Visual Culture - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8772887877 ISBN 13 : 9788772887876

Editeur : Aarhus University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Current research into photography from a European perspective strikes a solid contrast to North American studies. This synopsis of Continental thought covers recent attempts to re(write) the history and theory of photography. In assessing current research, the contributors argue that photography is the matrix according to which we produce images in the broadest sense, including imaginary ones. Major emphasis is placed on the reception of the image. Individual authors comment on the task of verbally describing a photograph, survey historical issues of visuality and interpretations, discuss new documentary practices, and measure the significance of the subject in the statement made by the photograph. The work of Victorian photographer Clementina Hawarden and her sensual, rarely pictured pictures are featured. In studying gender aesthetics and politics, the essays explore the connection between photography and pornography, reject standard psychoanalytic interpretations, and incorporate new linguistic philosophical approaches to the medium. Death, memory, the traumatic, and photography's muteness towards the past are also discussed. A final essay assesses how the impact of photography will vary once a passive viewer becomes a use of interactive video. This book should be of use in advancing theories of photography and photography's place in the post-modern consciousness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rune Gade is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the co-editor of Symbolic Imprints: Essays on Photography and Visual Culture (Aarhus University Press, 1999).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aarhus University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8772887877
• ISBN 13: 9788772887876
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 218
• Éditeur: Bertelsen Lars Kiel, Gade Rune, Sandbye Mette
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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