Photography Theory

<p><em>Photography Theory</em> presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, Margaret Iversen and Abigail Solomon-Godeau in animated debate on the nature of photography. </p><p>Photography has been around for nearly two centuries, but we are no closer to understanding what it is. For some people, a photograph is an optically accurate impression of the world, for others, it is mainly a way of remembering people and places. Some view it as a sign of bourgeois life, a kind of addiction of the middle class, whilst others see it as a troublesome interloper that has confused people's ideas of reality and fine art to the point that they have difficulty even defining what a photograph is. For some, the whole question of finding photography's nature is itself misguided from the beginning.</p><p>This provocative second volume in the Routledge <em>The Art Seminar</em> series presents not one but many answers to the question what makes a photograph a photograph?</p> Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Starting Points; Chapter 3 The Art Seminar; Chapter 4 Assessments; Chapter 5 Afterwords;