Cultural Sniping

ISBN-13: 9780415088848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 252 str.

Jo Spence

Opis

This work brings together a wide range of Jo Spence's photographs and writings. Her work is characterized by its challenging and oppositional stance. This combination is reflected in the images and texts in this book, which tackle complex issues of gender, class, health and the body, and their impact on her understanding of personal history and the construction of identity. The collection includes images from Spence's early work in documentary photography and from her pioneering photo-therapy projects, explored in collaboration with other photographers. It reproduces work from her Return to Nature and Death Mask series, in which she tries to come to terms with the reality of death. Jo Spence's commitment to engaging with personal experience, political understanding and critical theory make her writing and photography a major contribution to our understanding of the politics of representation.

Spis treści

List of illustrations, About those directly involved in this book, Acknowledgements, Editor’s preface by Jo Stanley, Introduction by Annette Kuhn, Chronology of Jo Spence’s life, PART ONE: CLASS, REALISM AND BEYOND, PART TWO: A CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION: HEALTH AND BODIES, PART THREE: IDENTITY, PHOTOGRAPHY, THERAPY, Index

O autorze

Jo Spence