Queer Methodology for Photography (Routledge Research in Gender and Art) - Softcover

Johannesson, Asa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032312149 ISBN 13: 9781032312149

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This book presents new ways of approaching photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering discussions on what a queering methodology for photography may entail by drawing links between artistic strategies in photographic practice and key theoretical concepts from photography theory, queer theory, critical theory, and philosophy. With different examples of conceptual perspectives, including representation, formalism, and mediumlessness, it seeks to diversify queer methodology for photography.

While primarily addressing photography, this book is entwined with broader philosophical questions concerning identity, difference, and the creations of systems of thought that limit the possibilities of existence to binary categorisation. It proposes a new concept of the photographic image that addresses its materiality, in the form of the poetic and the political, in relationship to a generative principle that is named as a queer quality: the photograph’s ability to voice queer concerns also beyond its role as representation.

This book will be of interest to scholars working in photography, art history, queer studies, new materialism, and posthumanism.

About this title

About the Author

Åsa Johannesson is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032312149
• ISBN 13: 9781032312149
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134