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Title What is this thing called photography? : Australian photography 1975-1985 / edited by Ewen McDonald with Judy Annear
Published Annandale, NSW : Pluto Press, 2000

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Description 95 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Foreword / Edmund Capon & Andrew Jakubowicz -- Introduction / Judy Annear & George Alexander -- What is this thing called photography? / Judy Annear --Avoiding art, desperately seeking photography: revising the history of photography by post-object art / Charles Green -- Peer pressure: practising politics in the 1970s / Sandy Edwards -- Somebody has to make something sometime: between theory and practice lies the shadow / Ingeborg Tyssen -- Photo-discourse: critical theory and practice in Australia / Kurt Brereton -- After postmodernism / Geoffrey Batchen -- The end of photography as we know it? / Blair French
Summary An overview of Australian photography from 1975 to 1985, a volatile period when photography emerged as a major force in communicating new ideas and challenging the institutions of art. Features essays and photographs
Notes Published in association with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the Trans/forming Cultures Research Group, University of Technology, Sydney
Bibliography Bibliography: page 94
Subject Photography -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Photography, Artistic -- History.
Photography -- Australia -- History.
Photography, Artistic -- Australia.
Photography, Artistic.
Author Annear, Judy.
McDonald, Ewen, 1952-
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
University of Technology, Sydney. Transforming Cultures Research Group
LC no. 2002391169
ISBN 1864031611
Other Titles Australian photography 1975-1985