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The Art of Interruption John Roberts

The Art of Interruption By John Roberts

The Art of Interruption by John Roberts

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Summary

Discusses the links between photography and politics in the key modernist movements of the 20th century, providing a critical overview and investigating the validation of arguments for and against the debates around photographic theory and practice.

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The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday by John Roberts

A history of theories of photographic practices, this text sets out to do a number of things: to recover the critical place of the photographic archive within the avant-garde; to defend the philosophic claims of realism in assessing photography this century; and to present a dialogic defence of the naturalistic or documnetary image.

Table of Contents

Introduction - realism, contradiction and interpretation. Photography, the everyday and the Russian Revolution; technique, technology and the everyday - German photographic culture in the 1920s and 1930s; the making of documentary - documentary after factography; the state, the everyday and the archive; Surrealism, photography and the everyday; inside Modernism - American photography and post-war culture; John Berger and Jean Mohr - the return to communality; the rise of theory and the critique of realism - photography in Britain in the 1980s; disfiguring the ideal - the body, photography and the everyday; Jeff Wall - the social pathology of everyday life; Jo Spence - photography, empowerment and the everyday; digital imagery and the critique of realism.

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GOR011645808
9780719035616
0719035619
The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday by John Roberts
John Roberts
The Critical Image
Used - Like New
Paperback
Manchester University Press
1998-06-04
256
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