Photography as Critical Practice: Notes on Otherness (Critical Photography) - Softcover

Bate, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789381983 ISBN 13: 9781789381986

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2020

Synopsis

The ‘other’ is a topic of great interest within and across contemporary photographic practice and theory, yet it remains neglected outside the now well-established field of postcolonial studies. This volume brings together photography and written essays that relate to aspects of otherness and visual work. Presented together, the images and critical writings work in concert to construct a new social perspective on questions of otherness and alterity and to highlight photography as a form of critical practice.

In a departure from existing conceptions of otherness in postcolonial discourse, Photography as Critical Practice places emphasis on the human condition not as a liberal concept, but as something formed and framed by a broader dimension of social, sexual and cultural otherness.

Including contributions by Elina Ruka, Katrin Kivimaa, Parveen Adams and Liz Wells, the book provides a fascinating new vista on the otherness of photography.

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About the Authors

David Bate is an artist and writer with a well known international reputation for his work on photography, visual arts history, theory and culture. He is professor of photography at the University of Westminster and an editor of the international photography theory journal Photographies.

Liz Wells is professor in photographic culture at the  University of Plymouth. 

Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator and editor working across TV, radio, publishing, writing and exhibition making. He co-curated Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2010, the Maldives Pavilion and the Wales Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Biennial, 2013, and the 4th Trienala Ladina in South Tyrol in 2013. He directs MOSTYN, Wales’ leading contemporary art institution, and the itinerant projects AGM Culture and Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS). He is Research Scholar at the European Centre for Photography Research, University of Wales, Newport, and Editor of the Critical Photography series by Intellect Books. His own publications include the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789381983
• ISBN 13: 9781789381986
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300