Photography after Postmodernism
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Photography after Postmodernism

Barthes, Stieglitz and the Art of Memory

  1. 188 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Photography after Postmodernism

Barthes, Stieglitz and the Art of Memory

About this book

In life after postmodernism our conception of photography is not the same as before. Photography After Postmodernism starts with this conception and explores what changes have affected photography, its relation to social life and our image-centred culture.

Engaging with the visual environment and issues that have emerged in the postmodern world, David Bate introduces fresh approaches and analysis of photographs and their place within the aftermath of postmodernist thought. The book shows how photographs circulate in an 'image-world' beyond their art or media origins that deeply affects our sense of time and relation to memory. The role of archives, dreams, memories and time are deployed to develop and resituate arguments about photography made by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida to further engage and understand our contemporary condition. By considering how 'afterwardness' is invoked in the developments of modern and contemporary photography, Bate demonstrates the complex ways in which photographic images resonate across public and private spaces, while carrying a slippage of meaning that is never quite fixed, yet always contingent and social. The approach shows how modernist photography was already invested in values that its discourse could not enunciate, which resonates with much contemporary photography today.

Featuring a range of historical and contemporary images, the book offers detailed and innovative readings of specific photographs which open new avenues of thought for those studying and researching visual culture and photography.

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Information

Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781000182491
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Photography

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 After Postmodernism?
  9. 2 Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida
  10. 3 Return of the Tableau
  11. 4 The Lactation of Meaning: Jeff Wall
  12. 5 Alfred Stieglitz and the Migration of Meaning
  13. 6 The Archival Dream
  14. 7 The Photographic Episteme
  15. Bibliography
  16. Picture Credits
  17. Index