Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-380) and index.
Introduction 1. Thinking About Photography: Debates,
Historically and Now 2. Surveyors and Surveyed: Photography Out
and About 3. 'Sweet it is to Scan...': Personal Photographs and
Popular Photography 4. The Subject as Object: Photography and
the Human Body 5. Spectacles and Illusions: Photography and
Commodity Culture 6. On and Beyond the White Walls: Photography
as Art 7. Photography in the Age of Electronic Imaging. (source:
Nielsen Book Data) Making photography theory accessible to
students for the first time when originally published just over
ten years ago, "Photography: A Critical Introduction" was the
first introductory textbook to examine key debates in
photographic theory and place them in their social and political
contexts. Written especially for students in further and higher
education and for introductory college courses, it provides a
coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. This
revised and updated fourth edition in