Close-ups from Afar: Selected Short and Longer Essays on Social Uses of Photography
2025
Mack (Verlag)
978-1-915743-64-0 (ISBN)
Mack (Verlag)
978-1-915743-64-0 (ISBN)
An essay collection bringing together Sally Stein's essential writings from over five decades, engaging with the social uses of photography and its wider contexts.
Sally Stein has long investigated the role of photography in relation to broader questions of culture and society. This first collection of her selected essays, Close-ups from Afar, brings together essential writings from over five decades, cumulatively demonstrating Stein's distinctive critical approach to the history and proliferation of photography and its role within mass media and contemporary culture.
In this richly illustrated volume, Stein turns her astute eye to diverse topics including the rise of colour photography, the place of California in the history of the medium's development, and women and photography between feminism's 'waves', as well as insightful considerations of a host of photographers from Jacob Riis to Helmut Newton, Ansel Adams to Dorothea Lange, Susan Meiselas to Dawoud Bey. She has consistently sought to challenge readers to think afresh about the social uses of photography and their broader contexts and far-reaching effects.
Sally Stein has long investigated the role of photography in relation to broader questions of culture and society. This first collection of her selected essays, Close-ups from Afar, brings together essential writings from over five decades, cumulatively demonstrating Stein's distinctive critical approach to the history and proliferation of photography and its role within mass media and contemporary culture.
In this richly illustrated volume, Stein turns her astute eye to diverse topics including the rise of colour photography, the place of California in the history of the medium's development, and women and photography between feminism's 'waves', as well as insightful considerations of a host of photographers from Jacob Riis to Helmut Newton, Ansel Adams to Dorothea Lange, Susan Meiselas to Dawoud Bey. She has consistently sought to challenge readers to think afresh about the social uses of photography and their broader contexts and far-reaching effects.
Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, UC Irvine, is a media theorist who has resided for decades in Los Angeles and recently returned to her hometown of New York City. The interrelated topics she most often engages with concern the multiple effects of documentary imagery, the politics of gender, and the status and meaning of black-and-white and colour imagery on our perceptions, beliefs, and even actions as consumers and citizens.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-915743-64-8 / 1915743648 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-915743-64-0 / 9781915743640 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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