Photography

<strong>Photography</strong> A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook toexamine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their so... » 

Photography A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook toexamine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social andpolitical contexts and is now established as one of the leading textbooks inits field. Written especially for students in further and higher education andfor introductory college courses this fully revised edition provides acoherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing.This revised and updated fourth edition includesKey concepts biographies of major thinkers seminal referencesA full glossary of terms comprehensive bibliography and new chapter abstractsUpdated resource information including guides to public archives and usefulwebsitesIndividual chapters coverKey debates in photographic theory and historyDocumentary photography and photojournalismPersonal and popular photographyPhotography and commodity culturePhotography and the human bodyPhotography as artPhotography in the age of electronic imagingThis lavishly illustrated fourth edition includes over one hundred photographsand images of huge diversity in full colour throughout featuring work fromBill Brandt Susan Derges Rineke Dijkstra Lee Friedlander Fran HerbelloHannah Hch Karen Knorr Dorothea Lange Chrystal Lebas Lee Miller MartinParr Ingrid Pollard Jacob Riis Alexander Rodchenko Andres Serrano and JeffWall. «