Routledge Companion to Photography Theory

Taylor & Francis

The Routledge Companion to Photography TheoryAuthor(s): Mark Durden, Jane Tormey\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032085364, 978-1032085364\nSynopsis\nWith newly commissioned essays by some of the leading writers on photography today, this companion tackles some of the most pressing questions about photography theorys direction, relevance, and purpose. \n\nThis book shows how digital technologies and global dissemination have radically advanced the pluralism of photographic meaning and fundamentally transformed photography theory. Having assimilated the histories of semiotic analysis and post-structural theory, critiques of representation continue to move away from the notion of original and copy and towards materiality, process, and the interdisciplinary. The implications of what it means to see an image is now understood to encompass, not only the optical, but the conceptual, ethical, and haptic experience of .