| Description |
xi, 275 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm |
| Series |
RIC Books. Critical ideas ; 1 |
| Contents |
pt. 1 Photographs as Mass Culture -- Making Photographs Public / Joel Snyder -- Double Displacement: Photography and Dissemination / Geoffrey Batchen -- Displaying Forensic Pictures in Court: Photography as Visual Argument / Vincent Lavoie -- pt. 2 Photographs as Visual News -- Pictures at Work: Romana Javitz and the New York Public Library Picture Collection / Mary Panzer -- The Ubiquitous Exhibition: Magazines, Museums, and the Reproducible Exhibition after World War II / Olivier Lugon -- Visual Journalism, or the Hidden Narration / Andre Gunthert -- pt. 3 Photographs as Art -- The (In)visible Public Life of Colour Photography / Nathalie Boulouch -- Indecisive Moments: Proliferation and the Passerby in Conceptual Photography / Heather Diack -- Encounters in the Museum: The Experience of Photographic Objects / Sophie Hackett |
| Summary |
"The "Public" Life of Photographs features nine essays by Geoffrey Batchen, Nathalie Boulouch, Heather Diack, André Gunthert, Sophie Hackett, Vincent Lavoie, Olivier Lugon, Mary Panzer and Joel Snyder. These contributorsinternational curators and scholars from a range of disciplines examine the emergence of photography as mass culture: through studios and public spaces; by the press; through editorial strategies promoting popular and vernacular photography; and through the dissemination of photographic images in the art world.The book is edited by Thierry Gervais, Head of Research at the Ryerson Image Centre, and an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University"--Publisher's website, viewed November 9, 2016 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art and photography.
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Images, Photographic -- History.
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Photography -- Philosophy.
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Photography -- Social aspects.
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Photojournalism.
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Vernacular photography -- History.
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| Author |
Gervais, Thierry, editor
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Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, Ont.)
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| LC no. |
2016934332 |
| ISBN |
0262035197 |
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9780262035194 |
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