Photography after Postmodernism: Barthes, Stieglitz and the Art of Memory
Zoomicon-zoom-in
Photography after Postmodernism: Barthes, Stieglitz and the Art of Memory

Photography after Postmodernism: Barthes, Stieglitz and the Art of Memory

By
David Bate (Author)  

Hardback

Available / dispatched within 1 - 4 weeks

Quantity

Also available on eBook for £20.99. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo

In life after postmodernism, photography, cinema, television and the internet have all changed the way we think about pictures.Addressing this new visual landscape, David Bate, acclaimed writer and thinker in photography and culture, introduces a new approach to the analysis of photographs and their location in the world He shows how photographs circulate in an 'image-world' that exists beyond art and media origins and has affected our sense of time and its relationship to memory. He argues that these images permeate our minds as much as does the environment. Re-thinking the arguments of Roland Barthes' 'Camera Lucida' and usingcontemporary and historical visual examples, ranging from Stieglitz, to Jeff Wall, to anonymous machine pictures, Bate demonstrates the complex ways in which photographic images resonate across public and private spaces, and that they also carry a slippage of meaning that is never quite fixed, yet always contingent and social.These innovative readings of photographs are breathtaking in their breadth and depth and will appeal to a wide audience interested in visual culture as much as to specialists in photography. This book is also essential reading for students of photography.
David Bate lives in London, where he is Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster. His many writings on photography, art and culture are widely published and his first book was the highly-acclaimed Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent, published by I.B.Tauris in 2004. Also a practicing artist, his photographic works have been shown in the UK, Europe and North America, most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago in 2006.
  • Contributor: David Bate
  • Imprint: I.B. Tauris
  • ISBN13: 9781845115012
  • Number of Pages: 200
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2022-06-26
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: David Bate lives in London, where he is Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster. His many writings on photography, art and culture are widely published and his first book was the highly-acclaimed Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent, published by I.B.Tauris in 2004. Also a practicing artist, his photographic works have been shown in the UK, Europe and North America, most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago in 2006.

Delivery Options

Home Delivery

Store Delivery

Free Returns

We hope you are delighted with everything you buy from us. However, if you are not, we will refund or replace your order up to 30 days after purchase. Terms and exclusions apply; find out more from our Returns and Refunds Policy.