Photography

ISBN-13: 9780415428941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str.

Stephen Bull

Opis

Photography explores the photograph in the twenty-first century and its importance as a media form. Stephen Bull considers our media-saturated society and the place of photography in everyday life, introducing the theories used to analyse photographs and exploring the impact of digital technology. The text is split into short, accessible chapters on the broad themes central to the study and analysis of photography, and key issues are explained and applied to visual examples in each chapter. Topics covered include:

• the identity of photography
• the meanings of photographs
• photography for sale
• snapshots
• the photograph as document
• photography as art
• photographs in fashion
• photography and celebrity.

Photography is an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive introduction to debates about photography now and is particularly useful to media, photography and visual culture students.

This newest addition to the Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications series offers a clear and easy to read introduction to photography for the media studies student.

Especially aimed at media students, this text presents photography not from a historical or artistic viewpoint, but instead gives an overview of the place of photography in contemporary society and its importance as a media form

The text is split into short chapters to make it easily accessible for students and includes chapters on the broad themes central to the study and analysis of photography, made understandable through the use of contemporary case studies:

• what it is that identifies photography as a medium
• how photographs can be interpreted
• commercial production and consumption
• the analysis of popular mainstream photography
• the idea of the document
• the photograph as art
• fashion and celebrity photography
• the photograph and memory.

An easy to read and compact guide for students, this is the perfect book to pop into a bag, and dip into again and again.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Photography Now  2. The Identity of Photography  3. The Meanings of Photographs  4. Photography For Sale  5. Snapshots  6. The Photograph as Document  7. Photographs as Art  8. Photographs in Fashion  9. Photography and Celebrity  12. Conclusion: After Photography?

O autorze

Stephen Bull is a writer, lecturer and artist. He is Course Leader for BA (Hons) Photography at the University of the Creative Arts, Farnham. He has written articles for Creative Camera, Photoworks and Source and contributed chapters to books such as The Media: An Introduction and Joachim Schmid: Photoworks 1982-2007.