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Photography after Photography
Gender, Genre, History
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Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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Edited by:
Sarah Parsons
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
In essays analyzing the photography of luminaries such as Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Susan Meiselas, pioneering feminist art critic Abigail Solomon-Godeau extends her politically engaged and theoretically sophisticated inquiry into the historical and cultural circuits of power as they shape and inform the practice, criticism, and historiography of photography.
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Abigail Solomon-Godeau is Professor Emerita of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of several books, including Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices; Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation; Rosemary Laing; Chair à canons: Photographie, discours, féminisme; and coauthor of Birgit Jürgenssen.
Sarah Parsons is Associate Professor of Art History at York University.
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"Solomon-Godeau shines when applying deconstructive feminist analysis to broader questions of representation in visual culture, and the market forces that collude to elevate an artist’s reputation to master status."
-- Wendy Vogel Camera Austria
"With its refusal to separate photography from power and patronage, Abigail Solomon-Godeau's Photography After Photography arrives at an auspicious moment.. . . Bringing a wealth of information to bear on photographic meaning, Solomon-Godeau explores her topics in historical context. In doing so, she demonstrates that the way many photographs are understood today has little to do with the circumstance of their creation, or the manner in which they were originally distributed and viewed."
-- Dore Bowen Art in America
"While Solomon-Godeau’s overarching goal is to offer a feminist critique of the art world — particularly of critical discourse around art — in some of her essays she also discusses topics that fall outside this lens, such as the role of desire in photography and images of torture. In this sense, the anthology reflects the range of Solomon-Godeau’s practice and interest as an art critic and scholar."
-- Ela Bittencourt Hyperallergic
"Solomon-Godeau’s essays are lucid and make for captivating reading. . . . It is fitting for Solomon-Godeau to present a collection that spans such a broad range of topics in a manner that is cohesive, challenging, and attentive to photography’s complex formal and cultural history."
-- Will Carroll ASAP/Journal
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Contents
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List of illustrations
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Preface: May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way
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Introduction
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1 Inside/Out (1995)
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2 Written on the Body (1997)
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3 The Family of Man refurbishing humanism for a postmodern age (2004)
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4 Torture at Abu Ghraib in and out of the media (2007)
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5 Harry Callahan gender, genre, and street photography (2007)
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6 Caught Looking Susan Meiselas’s carnival strippers (2008)
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7 Framing Landscape Photography (2010)
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8 The Ghosts of Documentary (2012)
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9 Inventing Vivian Maier categories, careers, and commerce (2013)
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10 Robert Mapplethorpe whitewashed and polished (2014)
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11 Body Double (2014)
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12 The Coming of Age Cindy Sherman, feminism, and art history (2014)
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 23, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780822373629
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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288
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38 photographs
eBook ISBN:
9780822373629
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
