The contest of meaning : critical histories of photography / edited by Richard Bolton.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 1992.Description: xix, 407 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cmISBN:- 9780262521697 (pbk.) :
- 0262521695 (pbk) :
- 770.9 BOL
- TR642 .C66 1992
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 770.9 BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 216865 |
Originally published: 1989.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The contest of meaning: crucial histories of photography. Richard Bolton -- What are the social consequences of aesthetic practice? -- The museum\'s old/the library\'s new subject . Douglas Crimp -- The judgement seat of photography. Christopher Phillips -- From Faktura to factography. Behnamin H. D. Buchloh -- The armed division disarmed: radical formalism from weapon to style. Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- How does photography construct sexual difference? -- What becomes a legend most: The short, sad career of Diane Arbus. Catherine Lord -- Of mother nature and Marlboro men: an inquiry into the cultural meaning of landscape photography. Deborah Bright -- The graphic ordering of desire: modernization of a middle-class women\'s maagazine, 1914-39. Sally Stein -- Dykes in context: some problems in minority representation. Jan Zita Grover -- How is photography used to promote class and national interests? -- The corporate year in pictures. Carol Squiers -- C/over ideology: two images of revolution. Esther Parada -- In the American east: Richard Avedon incorporated. Richard Bolton -- What are the politics of photgraphic truth? Photography\'s discursive spaces. Rosalind Krauss -- In, aaround, and afterthoughts (on documentary photography). Martha Rosler -- The body and the archive. Allan Sekula.