TY - BOOK AU - Wells,Liz TI - Photography: a critical introduction SN - 9780367222758 (pbk.) : AV - TR145 .P48 2021 U1 - 770 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Photography KW - History KW - Photographic criticism KW - ukslc KW - Photography & photographs KW - thema KW - The arts: general issues KW - Cultural studies KW - Fine arts: art forms KW - Media studies KW - History of art KW - Photographic equipment & techniques: general N1 - Previous edition: 2015; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction ; 1. Thinking about photography: debates, historically and now ; 2. Surveryors 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 ; Afterword ; Glossary ; From analogue to digital ; Photography archives ; Bibliography N2 - This introductory textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts; Now in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places 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.Individual chapters cover: Key debates in photographic theory and history Documentary photography and photojournalism Personal and popular photography Photography and the human body Photography and commodity culture Photography as art.This revised and updated edition includes new case studies on topics such as: Black Lives Matter and the racialised body; the #MeToo movement; materialism and embodiment; nation branding; and an extended critical discussion of landscape as genre. Illustrated with over 100 colour and black and white photographs, it features work from Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Fran Herbello, Hannah Hch, Mari Katayama, Sant Khalsa, Karen Knorr, Dorothea Lange, Susan Meiselas, Lee Miller, Ingrid Pollard, Jacob Riis, Alexander Rodchenko, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall. A fully updated resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites, full glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography, plus additional resources at routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780367222758/ make this an ideal introduction to the field ER -