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>