| Description |
xii, 241 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Series |
The critical image |
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Critical image.
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| Contents |
Introduction: realism, contradiction and interpretation -- 1. Photography, the everyday and the Russian Revolution -- 2. Technique, technology and the everyday: German photographic culture in the 1920s and 1930s -- 3. The making of documentary: documentary after factography -- 4. The state, the everyday and the archive -- 5. Surrealism, photography and the everyday -- 6. Inside Modernism: American photography and post-war culture -- 7. John Berger and Jean Mohr: the return to communality -- 8. The rise of theory and the critique of realism: photography in Britain in the 1980s -- 9. Disfiguring the ideal: the body, photography and the everyday -- 10. Jeff Wall: the social pathology of everyday life -- 11. Jo Spence: photography, empowerment and the everyday -- 12. Digital imagery and the critique of realism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Berger, John.
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Mohr, Jean.
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Spence, Jo.
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Wall, Jeff, 1946-
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Photography -- History -- 20th century.
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Photography -- Philosophy.
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Realism in art.
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| LC no. |
97012650 |
| ISBN |
0719035600 (cl) |
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0719035619 (pb) |
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