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Stereotyping As A Signifying Practice – Stuart Hall (1997)

Posted in Photography Theory, tagged , , , , , , on December 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This entry discusses an extract from the book Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. In it, Stuart Hall examines stereotyping and how this practice is employed to construct negative representations of people and groups. We routinely make sense of the world using types – broad categories of things with common characteristics. This allows us to [...]

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Criticizing Photographs – Terry Barrett (1999)

Posted in Photography Criticism, Photography Theory, tagged , , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Terry Barrett’s book Criticizing Photographs is a general introduction to photography theory with an emphasis on criticism – it aims to show the reader why criticism is important, how to understand photography criticism, and how to read photographs critically. This is a pretty good introduction to the area of photography criticism. I’m not going to [...]

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The Image World – Susan Sontag (1977)

Posted in Photography Theory, tagged , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Camera Lucida 1 (1981) by Roland Barthes

Posted in Photography Theory, tagged , , , , , , on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

from The Photography Reader, edited by Liz Wells Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida is a classic text of the realist school of Photography theory. I’ve been reading extracts from it as published in The Photography Reader (ed. Liz Wells). This post covers parts 1, 2,4 and 5 of the original text. Barthes commences by describing how [...]

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Mirror of Visual Culture: Discussing Documentary (2006)

Posted in On Documentary, Photography Theory, tagged , , , , , 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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