Princeton University Press, 2008. — 304 p.
We say the camera doesn't lie, but we also know that pictures distort and deceive. In Picture Perfect, Kiku Adatto brilliantly examines the use and abuse of images today. Ranging from family albums to Facebook, political campaigns to popular movies, images of war to pictures of protest. Adatto reveals how the line between the person...
Focal Press, 2012. — 172 p.
You want to look through the lens of your camera and change the world. You want to capture powerful moments in one click that will impact the minds of other people. Photographic images are one of the most popular tools used to advocate for social and environmental awareness. This can be as close to home as drug use, prostitution, or pollution or as...
David R. Godine, 1980. — 239 p. Photography is a concrete example of how artistic expression and social forms continually influence and reshape each other. Photography and Society is concerned with this interaction. It covers the history of photography from the announcement of irs invention in 1839 to the present as reflected in individual photographic portraits and later in the...
Springer, 2011. — 214 p. From Snapshots to Social Media describes the history and future of domestic photography as mediated by technological change. Domestic photography refers to the culture of ordinary people capturing, sharing and using photographs, and is in a particular state of flux today as photos go digital. The book argues that this digital era is the third major...
Berg, 2003. — 248 p.
Quietly but implacably, powerful transnational corporations are gaining power over our visual world. A 'global, visual content industry' increasingly controls images supplied to advertisers, marketers and designers, yet so far the process has, paradoxically, evaded the public eye. This book is the first to expose the interior workings of the visual content...
Routledge, 2012. — 307 p. Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since the 1970s, but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area. Written by one of the founding fathers in the field, Visual Sociology explores how the world that is seen, photographed, drawn, or otherwise represented visually is different from the world that is...
Intellect, 2013. — 193 p.
From privacy concerns regarding Google Street View to surveillance photography's association with terrorism and sexual predators, photography as an art has become complex terrain upon which anxieties about public space have been played out. Yet the photographic threat is not limited to the image alone. A range of social, technological, and political...
University Of Chicago Press, 2015. — 240 p.
Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem’s “beauty and attraction” invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions...
University Of Chicago Press, 2015. — 149 p. Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem’s “beauty and attraction” invisible. In The Beauty of a Social Problem, Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of...
Duke University Press, 2010. — 400 p.
A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village; an old woman leafs through a family album....
Пер. с франц. Б.М. Скуратова; послесловие А.Т. Бикбова. —- М.: Праксис, 2014. — 456 с.: илл. Коллективное исследование известного французского социолога Пьера Бурдье и его коллег посвящено анализу социальных способов использования фотографии в современном обществе. Обычно фотография и занятие ею рассматриваются как частное и притом интимно-личное занятие отдельных индивидов и...
М: РГГУ, 2006. — 287 с.
В книге впервые проводится междисциплинарный анализ феномена фотографии как фактора преобразования социальной реальности и внутреннего мира человека. С точки зрения автора, фотография выступает в качестве средства формирования новых культурных практик и видов индивидуальной деятельности. Рассматривается вклад фотографии в формирование новых форм...
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