Martha Rosler is a visual artist whose writings on photography theory have been widely influential over the last two decades. In this essay, her concern is with how documentary photography can continue to function in the postmoden world. The traditional practice of social documentary photography as a means of helping underprivileged, dispossessed or marginalised groups [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Post-Documentary, Post-Photography – Martha Rosler (2001)
Posted in On Documentary, Photography Criticism, tagged documentary, martha rosler, ncad, photography, Photography Criticism, visual culture on November 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Image World – Susan Sontag (1977)
Posted in Photography Theory, tagged ncad, on photography, philosophy, photography, realism, susan sontag, the image world, visual culture on November 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Susan Sontag’s On Photography is a text that every photography theory student grapples with at one point or another. I read it myself a good year before starting this course but if there was ever a case of something you read going in one eye and out the other this was it. Second time around [...]
Mirror of Visual Culture: Discussing Documentary (2006)
Posted in On Documentary, Photography Theory, tagged art, documentary, Maartje van den Heuvel, ncad, photography, visual culture on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
from Documentary Now! Contemporary Strategies in Photography, Film and the Visual Arts In this essay Maartje van den Heuvel examines the engagement of documentary photography with the art world and argues that we should consider this in the context of an increased visual literacy in our society, with documentary increasingly being used to hold a [...]
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