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Even a superficial assessment of the current state of photography theory would be too long to contain here. Instead, what follows is an introduction to three important figures whose contributions to the field continue to inform discussions of the medium: John Szarkowski, Susan Sontag, and Roland Barthes. A museum curator, a cultural critic, and ...
Mar 4, 2024 · Theory and Criticism of Photography. The Camera As Actor by Amy Cox Hall (Editor) Date: 2020. Looking beyond the impact photographs have on the perpetuation and expression of social norms and stereotypes, and the influence of the act of taking a photograph, this new collection brings together international scholars to examine the camera itself ...
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Feb 20, 2021 · Often confused with the symbol itself, semiotics is the study of how certain symbols acquired their meaning, how they have come to represent information, and how the relationship between the meaning and the image affects the reception of this information. Originally credited to Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), whose pioneering ...
May 11, 2020 · Social theory and photographic aesthetics both engage with issues of representation, realism and validity, having crossed paths in theoretical and methodological controversies. This discussion begins with reflections on the realism debate in photography, arguing that beyond the polar positions of realism and constructivism the photographic ...
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By Allan Sekula. I. THE MEANING OF A PHOTOGRAPH, like that of any other entity, is inevitably subject to cultural definition. The task here is to define and engage critically something we might call the “photographic discourse.”. A discourse can be defined as an arena of information exchange, that is, as a system of relations between ...
philosopher Charles Peirce, who in his theory about semiotics distinguishes three kind of signs: the symbol, the index, and the icon. Photography can be defined according to Pierce’s definition of “index” in the way it refers to its object according to a dynamic and active connection with it. This connection is material, photochemical.
Jun 14, 2018 · Photography Theory. London: Routledge, c2007. P resents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, Margaret Iversen and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, in animated debate on the definition and nature of photography.
