Photography, Curation, Criticism

An Anthology
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-40773-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

This unique collection brings together the work of photography writer, curator, and lecturer, Liz Wells, reflecting on key themes of landscape, place, nationhood, and environmental concerns.

A newly written introductory chapter contextualizes the collection. This is followed by an ‘in conversation’ with Martha Langford, Concordia University, Montreal, that brings together two leading figures in the field to respond to Wells’ thought and the themes that emerge in her writings. The essays included in this anthology draw on work from a variety of sources including artists’ photobooks, exhibition catalogues, magazines, academic books, and journals. Seventeen previously published articles, organized thematically in relation to Curation and Residency, Phenomena, Place, and Critical Reflections, demonstrate Wells’ critical and curatorial approach to research through photographic practices, reflecting a core view of art (at its best) operating to convey the implications of what is being explored and to evoke responses that are simultaneously sensory and intellectual.

This collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of photography, visual culture, and art history, especially those examining landscape and environmental photography.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wells, Liz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

SECTION ONE Critical Reflections 1. Introduction: Photography, Curation, Criticism 2.Speaking of this Collection: A Conversation Between Martha Langford and Liz Wells, 2022 SECTION TWO On Curation and Residency 3. Curatorial strategy as critical intervention - The Genesis of Facing East, 2007 4. Landscapes of Exploration, 2012 5. On Being Out of Place, 2018 SECTION THREE Phenomena 6. Icy Prospects’, 2003. 7. Light Touch, 2014. 8. No Man’s Land: Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime’, 2011. SECTION FOUR Place 9. Points of Departure: currencies of the post-industrial sublime, 2012 10. Questions of Distance, 2011. 11. Photography, Nation, Nature’, 2012. 12. A Man of the North’, 2014. 13. Hidden Histories and Landscape Enigmas, 2019. 14. Histories and Imagination: narrative and metaphor in the work of John Kippin’, 2018. 15. Silent Witness, 2013 SECTION FIVE Critical Spaces 16. Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing the Visual’, 2001. Co-author, Martin Lister. 17. The Critical Forum’, 2000. 18. Then and Now, some notes on photography and theory’, 2002. 19. Modes of Investigation: on photography and environment, 2014.

Über Autor(innen)

Liz Wells, writer, curator, and lecturer, edited The Photography Reader and The Photography Culture Reader (2019; 2003, 1st ed.) and Photography: A Critical Introduction (2021, 6th ed.; trans, Greek, 2008; Chinese, 2012; Korean, 2016) and is a co-editor for photographies, Routledge journals. She has contributed many essays within artist books, exhibition catalogues, journals, and other edited collections, some of which form part of this anthology of her (dispersed) writings. She is series editor for Photography, Place, Environment published by Routledge.