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Photography at the dock : essays on photographic history, institutions, and practices /

By: Contributor(s): Series: Media & society ; 4.Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xxxiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 081661914X
  • 9780816619146
Other title:
  • Essays on photographic history, institutions, and practices
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TR642 .S65 1991
Contents:
I. The Politics of Aestheticism : 1. Calotypomania : the gourmet guide to nineteenth-century photography -- 2. Canon fodder : authoring Eugène Atget -- 3. The armed vision disarmed : radical formalism from weapon to style -- II. Photography and Postmodernism : 4. Playing in the fields of the image -- 5. Photography after art photography -- 6. Living with contradictions : critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics -- III. Rethinking Documentary : 7. A photographer in Jerusalem, 1855: Auguste Salzmann and his times -- 8. Who is speaking thus? : Some questions about documentary photography -- 9. Reconstructing documentary: Connie Hatch's representational resistance -- IV. Photography and Sexual Difference : 10. Reconsidering erotic photography : notes for a project of historical salvage -- 11. Just like a woman -- 12. Sexual difference : both sides of the camera.
Summary: "Abigail Solomon-Godeau has set as her task the examination of the politics of photographic criticism, history, and practice. Photography at the Dock is a revisionist approach to the history of photography, a critique of photographic modernism and the institutions promoting it, and a feminist exploration of the camera's role in producing (and reproducing) dominant social and sexual ideology"--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index.

I. The Politics of Aestheticism : 1. Calotypomania : the gourmet guide to nineteenth-century photography -- 2. Canon fodder : authoring Eugène Atget -- 3. The armed vision disarmed : radical formalism from weapon to style -- II. Photography and Postmodernism : 4. Playing in the fields of the image -- 5. Photography after art photography -- 6. Living with contradictions : critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics -- III. Rethinking Documentary : 7. A photographer in Jerusalem, 1855: Auguste Salzmann and his times -- 8. Who is speaking thus? : Some questions about documentary photography -- 9. Reconstructing documentary: Connie Hatch's representational resistance -- IV. Photography and Sexual Difference : 10. Reconsidering erotic photography : notes for a project of historical salvage -- 11. Just like a woman -- 12. Sexual difference : both sides of the camera.

"Abigail Solomon-Godeau has set as her task the examination of the politics of photographic criticism, history, and practice. Photography at the Dock is a revisionist approach to the history of photography, a critique of photographic modernism and the institutions promoting it, and a feminist exploration of the camera's role in producing (and reproducing) dominant social and sexual ideology"--Publisher description.

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