Glossary
KEY TERMS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC THEORY
Classroom activity: Think > Pair > Share
Glossary
Movements & Genres
Glossary
Processes & Techniques
Useful linking words & phrases
Essay structure
Essay writing
History of Photography on a shoestring
Literary sources linked to specific subject or topic
Family / childhood Photography
Stephen-Bull_Phototherapy_family-albumsDOWNLOAD
Kuhn, A. ‘Remembrance: The Child I Never Was’ in Wells, L. (ed) (2003) The Photography Reader. London: Routledge
Annette-Kuhn_Remembrance_the-child-I-never-wasDOWNLOAD
Hirsch, Marianne, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Read Introduction: Family Frames
Howarth, S. (2016) ‘Is My Family Normal?’ in Family Photography Now. London: Thames & Hudson.
McLaren, S. (2016), ‘Thanks for Sharing!’, in Family Photography Now. London: Thames & Hudson
Williams, V. (2013). ‘Who’s Looking at the Family, Now’ in Family Politics, Issue 20. Brighton: Photoworks.
All three texts above are too large a file to be uploaded to blog – find text here: M:\Radio\Departments\Photography\Students\NOSTALGIA\Contextual Studies\READING
Photography and Memory
Kuhn, ‘A. Remembrance: The Child I Never Was’ in Wells L. (ed) (2003) The Photography Reader. London: Routledge
Annette-Kuhn_Remembrance_the-child-I-never-wasDOWNLOAD
Here are a few articles and photobooks on Photography and its relationship with memory. You should read them and references them in your essay.
Colberg, J (May 28, 2012) Photography and Memory
blogger on Conscientious
Frames of Mind: Photography, Memory and Identity
by Anwandter, Patricia Marcella
In Frames of Mind, I have sought to explore the themes concerning the dynamic construction of memory. What do we choose to remember and how do we reinforce it? Who are we in relationship to who we were? Working with a collection of over five hundred images accumulated throughout my life, I have reinvestigated the images and their interrelationship with one another
A Matter of Memory: Photographs as Objects in the Digital Age
An exhibition at George Eastman House
A review on British Journal of Photography
Barthes, R (1982) Camera Lucida, London: Jonathan Cape
Overview of Barthes book Camera Lucida in Photo Pedagogy
The first half of this article talks about Barthes theory of a studium and punctum. The latter part about a photograph of his dead mother which allows him to think about memory.
Commentary on Barthes book
Rereading: Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
Article by Brian Dillon in the Guardian, 26 March 2011
Grieving for his mother, Roland Barthes looked for her in old photos – and wrote a curious, moving book that became one of the most influential studies of photography
DEATH IN THE PHOTOGRAPH – critical article in response to Roland Barthes seminal book ‘Camera Lucida’ reflecting on photography.
Snapshot Photography
Vernacular photography
Stephen-Bull-Snapshots-in-PhotographyDOWNLOAD
Catherine-Zuromskis_On-Snapshot-PhotographyDOWNLOAD
Photography and Feminism
Gender Studies > Male/Female Gaze > Self-portraiture
Mulvey, Laura (1973) ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ in Screen (1975)
Judith Butler is an academic and writer who is an authority on feminism and gender studies, incl queer theory. Her seminal book is: Gender Trouble which we do have a copy of in the Library LRC and in Media. Here is a good overview of her work – make sure you read it all and watch video as well.
Gender-as-Performance-Judith-ButlerDOWNLOAD
Feminist-Theory-Liesbet-van-ZoomenDOWNLOAD
Female-Gaze_learning-to-look-at-womenDOWNLOAD
Healy, C. M. (2023) Girlhood, London: Tate Enterprises Ltd.
C.M.-Healy_Girlhood_part1DOWNLOAD
C.M.-Healy_Girlhood_part2DOWNLOA
Photography and Portraiture
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Male Gaze – in pictures. The Guardian
Andela-Kelly_Self-Image_personal-is-politicalDOWNLOAD
Amelia Jones The “Eternal Return”: Self-Portrait Photography as Technology of Embodiment
Documentary
Realism > Representation > Ethics
A short PPT on Documentary Photography
Sontag, Susan (1977) ‘In Plato’s cave’ in On Photography. London: Penguin Books
Sontag, Susan (1977) ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ in On Photography. London: Penguin Books ch 2
S.-Sontag.-On-Photography-Ch2DOWNLOAD
Here some helpful resources on Sontag: On Photography from PhotoPedagogy
Rosler, Martha (1981) ‘In, around, and afterthoughts (on documentary photography)’ in Stallabras Julian (2013) Documentary. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.
Photograph-as-document_modern-and-postmodern-debatesDOWNLOAD
Stephen-Bull_Photographs-as-art_Pictorialism_Modernism_PostmodernismDOWNLOAD
Bate, David (2016) ‘The Art of the Document’ in Art Photography. London: Tate Gallerie
How documentary photography now is considered within a fine-art context.
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail (1994), ‘Inside/ Out’ in Photography At The Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press
Here some helpful resources on ethical questions regarding the photographer’s position of being inside or outside from PhotoPedagogy
Photography and truth
Photography and Truth – see blog post with many resources.
Bright, Susan (2019) Is it Real? in Photography Decoded.
See more short essays here in Photography Decoded
Photojournalism: Truth, Representation, Propaganda, Aesthetics