Curated Content on Photography and Contemporary Art
You will find on this page a list of curated Papers, Essays and Lectures concerning Photography and Contemporary Art. Curated Lectures Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University: What is Photography?, 2019. … Read more
Summary of Fabien Arribert-Narce’s essay on Roland Barthes’s photobiographies: how Barthes used photographs to write a life “exempt from meaning”.
A guide to Ashley la Grange’s Basic Critical Theory for Photographers (Focal Press, 2005): Berger, Sontag, Barthes, Szarkowski, Rosler and more, explained.
Summary of James Elkins’s What Photography Is (Routledge, 2011), a reply to Barthes’s Camera Lucida about what photographs show beyond meaning.
Summary of Heather Diack’s essay “Facts of Matter” (2015) on materiality, abstraction and the malleability of form in contemporary photography.
Summary of Shamoon Zamir’s essay on The Family of Man exhibition: rhyme, association, visitor participation and the lynching photograph.
Summary of Michael Shanks and Connie Svabo’s essay on mobile media photography (Digital Snaps, 2014): smartphones, Instagram and new modes of engagement.
Summary of Ana Peraica’s Culture of the Selfie (Institute of Network Cultures, 2017), an open-access book on self-representation, mirrors and narcissism.
Summary of Lior Levy’s essay on photographic meaning in Barthes’s Camera Lucida (2009): time, the Winter Garden photograph and sight.
Key points of Barthes’s “Rhetoric of the Image” (1964): the Panzani ad, denoted and connoted messages, anchorage and relay.