Photography A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory & place them in their social & political contexts & is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field Written especially for students in higher education & for introductory college courses this fully revised edition provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing Individual chapters cover Key debates in photographic theory & history Documentary photography & photojournalism Personal & popular photography Photography & the human body Photography & commodity culture Photography as art This revised & updated fifth edition
Includes: New case studies on topics such as materialism & embodiment the commodification of human experience & an extended discussion of landscape as genre 98 photographs & images featuring work from Bill Brandt Susan Derges Rineke Dijkstra Fran Herbello Hannah Hoch Karen Knorr Dorothea Lange Chrystel Lebas Susan Meiselas Lee Miller Martin Parr Ingrid Pollard Jacob Riis Alexander Rodchenko Andres Serrano Cindy Sherman & Jeff Wall Fully updated resource information including guides to public archives & useful websites A full glossary of terms & a comprehensive bibliography Contributors Michelle Henning Patricia Holland Derrick Price Anandi Ramamurthy & Liz Wells