Global Photography : A Critical History (Hardcover)

Introduction Heather Diack, Erina Duganne, and Terri Weissman I. Realisms Erina Duganne 1. Description and Abstraction Nature The Body Process Focus Box: The Helsinki School Timothy Persons 2. Truth and Fiction Focus Box: DAILY, IN A NIMBLE SEA Barry Stone Staging Painting Constructions II. Evidence Terri Weissman 3. Measuring the Body (Radical) Ethnography Self and Body Focus Box: Photography of the Minamata Disaster Namiko Kunimoto Labor 4. Mapping the Land Borders Ecology Focus Box: Ecocritical Voices Subhankar Banerjee T.J.Demos and Charlotte Cotton History III. Ethics Heather Diack 5. Politics of Representation Visual Signs Absence Identification and Dislocation Focus Box: Documents and Documentary Martha Rosler 6. Pictures of War The Politics of Proximity Afterimages Bearing Witness Focus Box: Images of War or War of Images? Khaled Barakeh IV. Art Heather Diack 7. Form The Shape of Vision The Unexpected in the Ordinary Hybridity and Objecthood Focus Box: Abstract Labor Drew Sawyer 8. Appropriation Iconic Images Altered Histories Ownership, Authorship and Originality Focus Box: Advertisement Extraction: An interview with Juan David Laserna Montoya Juan David Laserna Montoya, Gina McDaniel Tarver, and Erina Duganne V. Collections Erina Duganne 9. Museums The Judgment Seat African Agency Focus Box: Correspondence and Annotation: An interview with Raqs Media Collective Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and Amy L. Powell Everyday Pictures 10. Archives Collections Focus Box: The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast Prita Meier Memory Time VI. Expanded Field Terri Weissman 11. Celebrity Style, the Publicity Shot, and the Maverick Language of Fashion Celebrity Design and the Editorial Layout Focus Box: Owning Beauty Stephanie Baptist The Politics and Power of Dress 12. Photography and the Cinematic An Uncertain Perception: Stilled Movement and Staged Stillness Focus Box: Moving Stills Marta Zarzycka Extended Time in Still and Moving Images Projection