The weight of photography : photography history theory and criticism : introductory readings

Bringing together a wide range of essays from contemporary scholars, this collection marks a growing interest in the suggestive yet problematic relation between the experience of photography, video, and film and the perception of the visual world. As an essential concentration of contemporary thought, this selection provides an excellent introduction for newcomers and a fresh point of view for those already engaged in discussions about photography, art, history, education, culture, and criticism. The featured essays are penned by an assortment of noted thinkers, including Jean Baudrillard, Terry Barrett, Philippe Dubois, Willem Elias, Annette W. Balkema, and Jan Simons. General introduction: thinking about the theory of photography A foreword about thinking / Johan Swinnen & Luc Deneulin Homo futuris: a world of possibilities (among others) / Jean Paul Van Bendegem The majority world looks back / Shahidul Alam Daguerreotypes by Southworth & Hawes convey mid-19th century America through its luminaries and ordinary citizens / Michaël Amy Architecture of destruction : the (in)human spatial condition / Ariella Azoulay Freeze! / Annette W. Balkema Principles for interpreting photographs / Terry Barrett Body representations in art and photography / Ben Baruch Blich Camera Lucida, another little history of Photography / Geoffrey Batchen Jean Baudrillard, the world behind the mirror / Johan Swinnen Violence inflicted on images / Jean Baudrillard For illusion is not in conflict with reality / Jean Baudrillard Creating a museum of photography (1896-1898) : the collection pictorialist photographs of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels / Tamara Berghmans The motionless journey / Xavier Canonne Counting the teeth: photography for philosophers / Allan D. Coleman In-between ways / Tom De Mette Leni Riefenstahl's career as a photographer reassessed / Luc Deneulin Towards a theory of photography / Hubert Dethier Prejudices in the history of philosophy of photography from Benjamin to Barthes / Willem Elias The digital imprint. The theory and practice of photography in the digital age / André Gunthert Of bodies and other things. German photography from the Weimar to the Berlin Republic / Klaus Honnef Beings between: Tony Oursler's The influence machine as hauntological practice / Louis Kaplan 'Perceive the City.' Brussels' photographic memory in phases. The relationship between the city and photography / Danielle Leenaerts / Questioning the document: the art of Alfredo Jaar / Jan-Erik Lundström The world in light : Cartier-Bresson's time signatures / Michel Onfray The identity of photography / Michel Onfray The modern condition of photography in the twentieth century / Michel Poivert Visual memory as mental inscription on the formation of contexts / Rolf Sachsse Weightless photography / Jan Simons The hybrid photograph / Johan Swinnen The image revealed: Roger Kockaerts The paradox of photography or the non-knowledge of photography / Johan Swinnen Observations on the perils (and rewards) of majority world photography / Johan Swinnen Pictures of pictures: interview with Lynne Cohen / Jian-Xing Too Photography and anthropogeny : from granular images to indexed indices / Henri Van Lier .Art - a place for internet art in the Museum of Contemporary Art / Karen Verschooren Reproduction and the revenant Derrida and Genet / Hubertus v. Amelunxen The crypt of the gaze / Hubertus v. Amelunxen Photography after photography : the terror of the body in digital space / Hubertus v. Amelunxen Space in-between : on women and landscape photography in Britain / Liz Wells Exit : madly or not at all: from Stiegler to Swinnen / Luc Deneulin.