Photography and Its Violations

John Roberts

Published by Columbia University Press 2014

Photography and Its Violations

John Roberts

In the series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

https://doi.org/10.7312/robe16818

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About this book

A passionate defense of the medium’s truth-telling powers.

Author / Editor information

John Roberts is professor of art and aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton and the author of The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography, and the Everyday, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade, and The Necessity of Errors. He has also contributed to the Oxford Art Journal, New Left Review, Radical Philosophy, Third Text, and Parallax.

Reviews

Tom Huhn, School of Visual Arts:
I know of no other work in photographic history or theory which takes such a wide survey of well-chosen examples in service of making profound and provocative sense of the whole field of photography. This book also successfully proposes a genuinely novel position from which to re-engage the most pressing, important, and persistent problems of photography.

Blake Stimson, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation:
Photography and Its Violations poses a world-transforming ethical challenge to photography's makers, subjects, and viewers alike: to reveal or conceal the exercise of power. Armed with John Roberts's insights into the often insidious, sometimes enfranchising, always intricate interplay of these two opposing violations, sensitive readers will be empowered and emboldened as they battle for position amid the tsunami of photographs that has come to define our world.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: The Social Ontology of Photography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. The Document, the Figural, and the Index
1. Photography and Its Truth-Event Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. The Political Form of Photography Today Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. “Fragment, Experiment, Dissonant Prologue”: Modernism, Realism, and the Photodocument Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4. Two Models of Labor: Figurality and Nonfigurality in Recent Photography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Part II. Abstraction, Violation, and Empathy
5. Photography After the Photograph: Event, Archive, and the Nonsymbolic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6. Photography, Abstraction, and the Social Production of Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
7. Violence, Photography, and the Inhuman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232

eBook

Published: October 14, 2014
ISBN: 9780231538244