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Photography : a critical introduction /

Photography : a critical introduction / edited by Liz Wells. - London : Routledge, 1996. - 312p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking about photography : debates, historically and now / Derrick Price and Liz Wells -- Surveyors and surveyed : photography out and about / Derrick Price -- 'Sweet it is to scan ... ' : personal photographs and popular photography / Patricia Holland -- Constructions of illusion : photography and commodity culture / Anandi Ramamurthy -- On and beyond the white walls : photography as art / Liz Wells -- Photography in the age of electronic imaging / Martin Lister.

The documentary role of the camera, the popular and the personal with particular attention to the family album, advertising and commodity culture, photography as fine art and digital imaging are just some of the topics covered in this introductory text.

9780415125581 (hbk.) : �40.00 9780415125598 (pbk.) : �14.99 0415125596 (pbk)

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Photography.
Photography--Philosophy
Photography.
Photography & photographs

770 WEL

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