Photography Reframed: Always, Already, Again, Ben Burbridge and Annebella Pollen
Section I. New Ontologies: Photography between the Archive and the Network
1. Technology and Interaction: Penelope Umbrico’s TVs from Craigslist, Duncan Wooldridge
2. Post-representational Photography, or the Grin of Schrödinger’s Cat, Daniel Rubinstein
3. Archival Measures: Photography Collections in a New Media Age, Tina Di Carlo
4. The Grain of Ephemera/Event: Thinking Digital Archive through Photography, Sen Uesaki and Jelena Stojkovic
5. Tomorrow’s Headlines Are Today’s Fish and Chip Papers: Some Thoughts on ‘Response-ability’
David Campany interviewed by Duncan Wooldridge
Section II. Mass Culture and the Politics of Distinction
6. Popular Photographic Cultures in Photography Studies, Gil Pasternak
7. The Photographer as Reader: The Aspirational Amateur in the Photo-Magazines, Peter Buse
8. Mrs Wagner’s Aspirations: The Album as Monument, Martha Langford
9. When is a Cliché not a Cliché?: Reconsidering Mass-produced Sunsets, Annebella Pollen
Section III. (Networked) Society and the Spectacle: Photography and Exhibitionism
10. The Shirt Off His Back: Male Torsos on Display in Contemporary Visual Culture, Marvin Heiferman
11. The Politics of Amateurism in Online Pornography, Feona Attwood
12 What a Body Can Do: From the Frenzy of the Communicative to the Visual Bond, Francis Summers
13. Hating Habermas: On Exhibitionism, Shame and Life on the Actually Existing Internet, Theresa M. Senft
14. Paradise Lost: Exhibitionism and the Work of Nan Goldin, Ben Burbridge
Section IV. Documentary Photography and Global Crisis
15. The Déjà Vu of September 11: An Essay on Inter-iconicity, Clément Chéroux
16. Facing War: Photography and Humanism, Iain Boal and Julian Stallabrass
17. War Primers, David Evans
18. Immigration Photography in Italy, Andrea Pogliano
19. Landscape Photography’s ‘New Humanism’, Chad Elias
Section V. Citizens? Photography, Resistance and Control
20. Dead End Streets: Photography, Protest and Social Control, David Hoffman
21. Escaping the Panopticon, Pauline Hadaway
22 ‘You Don’t Even Represent Us’: Picturing the Moscow Protests, Aglaya Glebova
23. Occupy the Image, Liam Devlin
24. The Becoming-Photographer in Technoculture, Sarah Kember
Closing Reflections, Ronnie Close, Catherine Grant, Sarah E. James and Sandra Plummer
Afterword, Charlotte Cotton
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Credits
Contributor Biographies
Index
Ben Burbridge is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Co-Director of the Centre for Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex. He is widely published in the field of photography, art and politics. Curatorial projects include the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennial, Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space and Revelations: Experiments in Photography (Science Museum, London and National Media Museum, Bradford, 2015).Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. She is widely published in the field of visual and material culture. She is the author of The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (2015), Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life (I.B.Tauris, 2016) and co-editor of Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice (2015).