This book addresses the advent of museum photography through an exploration of the multifaceted relationship between natural history, photography and emerging public museums from the 1850s to the 1880s in Britain and the colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and, to a lesser extent, India.
As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we collectively remember places and the events that have happened there. This book prese..
This is a comprehensive introduction to theories of photography. Each thematic section features an editor's introduction setting ideas and debates in ..
This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning a..
The new edition of The Photography Handbook contains new material including new chapters on ‘Photo-elicitation’ and ‘Photography and Technological Cha..
A clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our underst..
In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explore..
In her feminist inquiry into aesthetics and the gender dynamics of the Kantian sublime, Claire Raymond studies the photography of Francesca Woodman (1..
This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible ..
As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we collectively remember places and the events that have happened there. This book prese..
Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics makes the case for a feminist aesthetics in photography by analysing key works of twenty-two women photogr..