THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL CULTURE
The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography.
Comprising an impressive range of essays and interviews by experts and scholars from across the globe, this book examines the mediums history, its central issues and emerging trends, and its much-discussed future. The collected essays and interviews explore the current debates surrounding the photograph as object, art, document, propaganda, truth, selling tool, and universal language; the perception of photography archives as burdens, rather than treasures; the continual technological development reshaping the field; photography as a tool of representation and control, and more.
One of the most comprehensive volumes of its kind, this companion is essential reading for photographers and historians alike.
Moritz Neumller is a curator, educator and writer in the field of Photography and New Media. He has worked for institutions such as MoMA New York, La Fbrica Madrid and PhotoIreland Festival in Dublin. He is the academic director of the Photography Department of IED Madrid, and runs a postgraduate course for the IDEP school in Barcelona. He is a regular contributor to European Photography Magazine (Berlin) and Photoresearcher (Vienna), and has curated exhibitions on artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Yamamoto Masao, Cristina de Middel, Stephen Gill, Gabriel Orozco, Martin Parr, Chris Jordan, and Erik Kessels. Since 2010, he has run The Curator Ship, an online resource for visual artists. Recent curatorial projects include the Daegu Biennial 2014 (Korea), the Photobook Week Aarhus (Denmark), and the exhibition Photobook Phenomenon for the CCCB center in Barcelona.
The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture
Edited by Moritz Neumller
First published 2018
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Contents
Moritz Neumller
Bernd Stiegler
Alison Nordstrm in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
Charlotte Cotton in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
David N. Martin, Suzanne Szucs, and James W. Koschoreck
David N. Martin, James W. Koschoreck, and Suzanne Szucs
Alise Tifentale
Lisa Richman
Ines Weizman
Moritz Neumller
Gael Newton
John Mraz
Timothy Prus and Marcelo Brodsky in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
Irina Chmyreva
Yining He
Moritz Neumller
Rita Leistner
Erik Kessels in Conversation with Olivia Estalayo
Mette Sandbye
Rolf Sachsse
rika Goyarrola
Swaantje Gntzel and Chris Jordan in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
Moritz Neumller
Stephen Chalmers
Alexander Streitberger
Lars Blunck
Federica Chiocchetti in Conversation with Nina Strand
Moritz Neumller and Andreas Reichinger
Roger Ballen
Moritz Neumller
Alexander Rotter in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
Simone Klein in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
Pavel V. Khoroshilov and Anastasia Khoroshilova in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
Wolfgang Ullrich
Moritz Neumller
Alessandra Mauro
Gerry Badger and Martin Parr in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
Susumu Shimonishi
Jess Mic
Peter Smith
Michelle Bogre
Sara Bodinson and Sarah Meister
Moritz Neumller
Annekathrin Kohout
Robert Cook
Jim Casper in Conversation with Moritz Neumller
Joan Fontcuberta
Friedrich Tietjen
Guide
Gerry Badger is a British photographer, architect and photography critic. He has published a number of books, among them Collecting Photography (2002) and The Pleasures of Good Photographs (2010), and is co-author of The Photobook: A History (2004, 2006, and 2014).
Roger Ballen was first introduced to the photographic medium early on, yet for many years his day job did not allow him to pursue his artistic practice. It was only after the publication of Outland that Ballen started to work in a more systematic way; he is now fully dedicated to his artistic career.
Lars Blunck is an art historian and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, Germany. He has published extensively on modern and contemporary art as well as on the history and theory of photography.
Sara Bodinson is Director of Interpretation, Research and Digital Learning at The Museum of Modern Art, where she oversees the interpretive planning process, the development of in-gallery and online resources including labels, audio tours, online courses, and qualitative visitor research and evaluation. She wrote her masters thesis on the Arab Image Foundation.
Michelle Bogre , an Associate Professor, Photography at Parsons School of Design in New York, is a documentary photographer, copyright lawyer and author of Photography as Activism: Images for Social Change and Photography 4.0 : An Educators Guide to the 21st Century .
Marcelo Brodsky is an artist and political activist whose work is situated on the border between installation, performance, photography, monument and memorial. Buena Memoria , his emblematic work of 1996, has been shown more than 150 times in museums and public spaces around the world. In 2014 he initiated Visual Action, an organization dedicated to incorporate visual culture in human rights campaigns.
Jim Casper is the editor and publisher of LensCulture, a global photography network and online magazine celebrating current trends of contemporary photography in art, media, politics, commerce and popular cultures worldwide.
Stephen Chalmers has worked as a Counselor to Severely Emotionally Disturbed children, and as an Emergency Medical Technician, and taught gang children photography before earning his MFA in Cinema and Photography. He is currently a Professor of Photography at Youngstown State University in Ohio and serves on the National Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education. His work is in several collections, has been widely exhibited and covered extensively by international media. www.stephenchalmers.com .
Federica Chiocchetti is a writer, curator and lecturer specializing in photography. Through her photo-literary platform the Photocaptionist she collaborates with international institutions, such as Foam and the V&A. Recently she curated the 2017 edition of Jaipur Photography Festival. Co-author of Amore e Piombo (Archive of Modern Conflict, 2015 Kraszna Krausz book award), she is a PhD candidate in phototextualities at the University of Westminster.