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Author:   Mark Durden (University of Wales, UK) ,  Jane Tormey (Loughborough University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.880kg
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9781032085364

ISBN 10:   1032085363
Pages:   474
Publication Date:   30 June 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of figures List of plates List of contributors Introduction Mark Durden and Jane Tormey PART I - AESTHETICS 1. Feeling in photography, the affective turn, and the history of emotions Thy Phu, Elspeth H. Brown, and Andrea Noble 2. Jacques Rancière: aesthetics and photography David Bate 3. Ambiguity, accident, audience: Minor White’s photographic theory Todd Cronan 4. Testing humanism: the transactions of contemporary documentary photography Mark Durden 5. Jeff Wall speaks with David Campany Jeff Wall and David Campany 6. Deleuze and the simulacrum: simulation and semblance in Public Order Sandra Plummer 7. Five versions of the photographic act: archival logic in the work of Andrea Robbins and Max Becher Shep Steiner 8. Jean Baudrillard’s photography—a vision of his own strange world Gerry Coulter 9. Visual episodic memory and the neurophenomenology of digital photography Jill Bennett PART II - POLITICS 10. Seeing the public image anew: photography exhibitions and civic spectatorship Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites 11. Still images on the move: theoretical challenges and future possibilities Marta Zarzycka 12. Interview with Ariella Azoulay Ariella Azoulay and Justin Carville 13. Human rights practice and visual violations Ruthie Ginsburg 14. Love the bomb: picturing nuclear explosion Paula Rabinowitz 15. Twice captured: the work of atrocity photography Molly Rogers 16. Presenting the unrepresentable: confrontation and circumvention Jane Tormey 17. The eco-anarchist potential of environmental photography: Richard Misrach and Kate Orff’s Petrochemical America Conohar Scott 18. Counter-forensics and photography Thomas Keenan PART III - THEORIES 19. Derrida and photography theory Malcolm Barnard 20. Image, affect, and autobiography: Roland Barthes’ photographic theory in light of his posthumous publications Kathrin Yacavone 21. Ideation and photography: a critique of François Laruelle’s concept of abstraction John Roberts 22. Fractal photography and the politics of invisibility Daniel Rubinstein 23. Photographic apparatus in the era of tagshot culture Mika Elo 24. Artistic representation and politics: an exchange between Victor Burgin and Hilde Van Gelder Victor Burgin and Hilde Van Gelder 25. Decentering the photographer: authorship and digital photography Daniel Palmer 26. Out of language: photographing as translating

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Mark Durden is an artist, writer and academic. He has written extensively on contemporary art and photography. Recent books include Fifty Key Writers on Photography (2012) and Photography Today (2014). With Ian Brown and David Campbell, Durden regularly exhibits as part of the artist group Common Culture. With Campbell he also recently co-curated a number of substantial exhibitions on art and comedy: Double Act (Bluecoat, Liverpool and the MAC, Belfast in 2016) and The Laughable Enigma of Ordinary Life (Arquipélago, centro de artes contemporâneas, São Miguel in 2017). Durden is currently Professor of Photography and Director of the European Centre for Documentary Research at the University of South Wales, UK. Jane Tormey is an Honorary Fellow of Loughborough University. Her writing focuses on the exchange of ideas between art practice and other disciplines, the conflict between aesthetics and political content, and the ways in which aesthetic traditions can be disturbed by and through photographic/filmic practices. Published work includes: ""The Ghost in the Image"" in Boelderl, Leisch-Kiesl (eds.) Die Zukunft gehört den Phantomen ([transcript], 2018); Photographic Realism: Late Twentieth-Century Aesthetics (2013) and Cities and Photography (2012). She is co-editor of Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer (forthcoming 2020) and the book series Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art.

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