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Photography at the dock : essays on photographic history, institutions, and practices / Abigail Solomon-Godeau ; foreword by Linda Nochlin

Author(s): Solomon-Godeau, Abigail

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Main Title: Photography at the dock : essays on photographic history, institutions, and practices
Author(s): Solomon-Godeau, Abigail
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1991
Collation: xxxiv, 322 pages : illustrations
26 cm
Series Title: Media & society
Summary: "Abigail Solomon-Godeau has set as her task the examination of the politics of photographic criticism, history, and practice. Photography at the Dock is a revisionist approach to the history of photography, a critique of photographic modernism and the institutions promoting it, and a feminist exploration of the camera's role in producing (and reproducing) dominant social and sexual ideology"--Publisher description.
ISBN: 9780816619146
Dewey Class: 770
Contents: The Politics of Aestheticism. Calotypomania : the gourmet guide to nineteenth-century photography -- Canon fodder : authoring Eugène Atget -- The armed vision disarmed : radical formalism from weapon to style -- Photography and Postmodernism. Playing in the fields of the image -- Photography after art photography -- Living with contradictions : critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics -- Rethinking Documentary. A photographer in Jerusalem, 1855: Auguste Salzmann and his times -- Who is speaking thus? : Some questions about documentary photography -- Reconstructing documentary: Connie Hatch's representational resistance -- Photography and Sexual Difference. Reconsidering erotic photography : notes for a project of historical salvage -- Just like a woman -- Sexual difference : both sides of the camera.
Language: English
Subject: Photography, Artistic
BRN: 9769