The Photography Reader : History and Theory (Paperback, 2 ed)

Contents

Introduction

Extracts from Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1984)

What Has Occurred Only Once: Barthes's Winter Garden/Boltanski’s Archives of the Dead (1994)

Extracts from The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1973)

Extracts from Benjamin and the Political Economy of the Photograph (1986)

Extracts from Photography (1993)

The Ontology of the Photographic Image (1960)

Photography within the Humanities (1975)

In Our Image (1978)

Introduction

Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image (1978)

What the Eye does not See (1989)

11 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

A New Instrument of Vision (1966)

Manifesto; on photography (2000)

Introduction from The Photographer's Eye (1966)

Seeing Photographically (1964)

Introduction

Rhetoric of the Image (1977)

16 Umberto Eco

A Photograph (1986)

Looking at Photographs (1982)

Through the Picture Plane: On Looking into Photographs (2005)

The Eternal Moment: Photography and Time (1989)

Objects of Affect: Photography Beyond the Image (2012)

Photography and Fetish (1985)

Fire and Ice (1984)

Introduction

Photography After Art Photography (1984)

Photography’s Discursive Spaces (1982)

The Crisis of the Real: Photography and Postmodernism (1990)

Snapshooters of History: passages on the postmodern argument (1989)

Why Art Photography? (2007)

Conversation with Hilde Van Gelder (2011)

Introduction

Evidence, Truth and Order: Photographic Records and the Growth of the State (1988)

Photography and the Visualisation of Working Class Lives in Britain (1999)

In, Around, and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography) (1989)

Access and Consent in Public Photography (1988)

‘The shadow of the object’: photography and realism (1996)

34 Hilde Van Gelder and Jan Baetens

A Note on Critical Realism Today (2010)

The Authentic Amateur and the Democracy of Collecting Photographs (2009)

Cuba Made Me So (1995)

Introduction

Editorial Statement (2008)

Photogenics (1998)

Redundancy in Photography (2012)

The Paradoxes of Digital Photography (1995)

Extracts from Of Pixels and Paradox (2009)

Introduction from The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (2013)

From Analogue to Digital Photography: Bernd and Hilla Becher and Andreas Gursky (2012)

Digital Photography: Truth, Meaning, Aesthetics (2003)