16 Ways of Looking at a Photograph: Contemporary Theories [Paperback]

Featuring an accessible and engaging writing style,16 Ways of Looking at a Photograph: Contemporary Theoriesexplores key concepts that have shaped the interpretation of photography and photography itself. It begins with two important inventions--the development of the photographic negative and the capability to produce multiple prints--and then considers various theories from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The book concludes with an excursion into post-photography theory: the argument that in the digital era, photography as such is altered.List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Where to Look: Seeing Photographs, Reading PhotographsArt and HistoryReading and MisreadingThe Pleasure of the Photographic Text1. The Photographic Negative: Uncanny Origins2. Aesthetic Theory: Where the Image Is Not, and Is, All3. A Little History of Light4. Photography and the Crisis of Time5. Walter Benjamin's Shadow: The Optical Unconscious and the Aura6. Reticence or Symbolic Form7. The Immediate Image: Are You Close Enough?8. The Frame9. The Question of Genius10. Wonders: Photography of Estrangement11. Psychic Numbing12. The Punctum13. Capitalism and t Traffic in Photographs14. The Male Gaze: Gendering Photography15. The Archive16. Are We Post-Photography Yet?Claire Raymondis Lecturer of Art History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of several books, includingThe Photographic Uncanny(2019) andWomen Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics(2017). 16 Ways of Looking at a Photographpinpoints many of the theoretical issues/discussion points that are desirable in a photographic theory book. It will be useful at many levels of instruction. I have evaluated and considered other photographic theory texts, and many are difficult to digest. I found the writing style of this text to be compelling. --Rebecca Foley,Missouri Western State University

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