Photography Cultures Reader

Liz Wells, curator and writer, is Professor in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Plymouth, UK. She edited Photography: A Critical Introduction (2015, 5th ed.) and co-edits photographies, Routledge journals. Publications on landscape include Land Matters, Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity (2011). She is series editor for Photography, Place, Environment.

• General IntroductionPart OneThe Photographic GazeIntroduction1 Roberta McGrathRe-Reading Edward Weston: Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis 2 Jan AvgikosCindy Sherman: Burning Down the House 3 Sarah Edge and Gail BaylisPhotographing Children: The Works of Tierney Gearon and Sally Mann 4 Lucy R. LippardDoubletake: The Diary of a Relationship with an Image 5 Catherine Lutz and Jane CollinsThe Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes: The example of National Geographic 6 Ariadne van de VenThe Eyes of the Street Look Back: In Kolkata with a Camera Around My Neck 7 Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert Tourists with Cameras: Reproducing or Producing 8 Louise WolthersSurveilling Bodies: Photography as Control, Critique and Concern Part TwoReportage – Image as AgentIntroduction9 John BergerPhotographs of Agony 10 Fred RitchinOf Them, and Us 11 Francis FrascinaFace to Face: Resistance, Melancholy and Representations of Atrocities 12 Liam KennedyFraming Compassion 13 Sharon SliwinskiOn Photographic Violence 14 Ariella AzoulayThe Ethic of the Spectator: The Citizenry of Photography 15 Elizabeth Hoak-DoeringA Photo in a Photo: The Optics, Politics and Powers of Hand-held Portraits in Claims for Justice and Solidarity 16 André GunthertDigital Imaging Goes to War: The Abu Ghraib Photographs 17 Ethan ZuckermanCurating Participation 18 Mette MortensenWhen Citizen Photojournalism Sets the News Agenda: Neda Agha Soltan as a Web 2.0 Icon of Post-Election Unrest in IranPart ThreeImage and IdentityIntroduction19 David A. Bailey and Stuart HallThe Vertigo of Displacement 20 Rosy Martin and Jo SpencePhoto-Therapy: Psychic Realism as a Healing Art?21 George Dimock"The Negro As He Really Is": W. E. B. Du Bois and Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore22 bell hooksIn Our Glory: Photography and Black Life 23 Annette KuhnPhotography and Cultural Memory: a Methodological Exploration 24 Lily ChoCitizenship, Diaspora and the Bonds of Affect: The Passport Photograph Part FourSnapshot Culture and Social MediaIntroduction25 Pat HollandFamily Snaps, Introduction: History, Memory, and the Family Album26 Martha LangfordStrange Bedfellows: Appropriations of the Vernacular by Photographic Artists 27 Geoffrey BatchenObserving by Watching: Joachim Schmid and the Art of Exchange 28 Lev ManovichWatching the World 29 Daniel Rubenstein and Katrina SluisA Life More Photographic: Mapping the Networked Image Part FiveMedium and MeditationsIntroduction30 Roland BarthesOrnamental Cuisine and The New Citroën 31 Judith WilliamsonTiffany, Porsche Panamera and Microsoft Cloud 32 Yasmin IbrahimThe Pornography of Food Imaging: The Aesthetics of Capturing Food Online33 Karin E. BeckerPhotojournalism and the Tabloid Press 34 Carol SquiersClass Struggle: The Invention of Paparazzi Photography and the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales35 Karen de PerthuisThe Synthetic Ideal: The Fashion Model and Photographic Manipulation 36 Ulrich LehmannChic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce 37 Val WilliamsA Heady Relationship: Fashion Photography and the Museum, 1979 to the Present Part SixContexts: Art, Archives, EducationIntroduction38 Douglas CrimpThe Museum’s Old, the Library’s New Subject 39 Thierry Du DuveArt in the Face of Radical Evil 40 Allan Sekula Reading an Archive: Photography Between Labour and Capital 41 Elizabeth EdwardsPhotographs: Material Form and the Dynamic Archive 42 Liz WellsWords and Pictures: On Reviewing Photography43 David BateArt, Education, Photography