What is this thing called photography?
What is this thing called photography?: Australian photography 1975-1985
edited by Ewen McDonald with Judy Annear
Publisher: Annandale, NSW : Pluto Press, 2000.
ISBN: 1864031611
DDC: 770.994
LCC: TR121
Edition: (Pbk)
Summary:
An overview of Australian photography from 1975 to 1985, a volatile
period when photography emerged as a major force in communicating new
ideas and challenging the institutions of art. Features essays and
photographs.
Notes:
Bibliography: p. 94.
Foreword / Edmund Capon & Andrew Jakubowicz -- Introduction / Judy
Annear & George Alexander -- What is this thing called photography? /
Judy Annear --Avoiding art, desperately seeking photography: revising
the history of photography by post-object art / Charles Green -- Peer
pressure: practising politics in the 1970s / Sandy Edwards --
Somebody has to make something sometime: between theory and practice
lies the shadow / Ingeborg Tyssen -- Photo-discourse: critical theory
and practice in Australia / Kurt Brereton -- After postmodernism /
Geoffrey Batchen -- The end of photography as we know it? / Blair
French.
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