The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory

List of figures

List of plates

List of contributors

Introduction

Mark Durden and Jane Tormey

PART I - AESTHETICS

1. Feeling in photography, the affective turn, and the history of emotions

Thy Phu, Elspeth H. Brown, and Andrea Noble

2. Jacques Ranciere: aesthetics and photography

David Bate

3. Ambiguity, accident, audience: Minor White's photographic theory

Todd Cronan

4. Testing humanism: the transactions of contemporary documentary photography

Mark Durden

5. Jeff Wall speaks with David Campany

Jeff Wall and David Campany

6. Deleuze and the simulacrum: simulation and semblance in Public Order

Sandra Plummer

7. Five versions of the photographic act: archival logic in the work of Andrea Robbins and Max Becher

Shep Steiner

8. Jean Baudrillard's photography-a vision of his own strange world

Gerry Coulter

9. Visual episodic memory and the neurophenomenology of digital photography

Jill Bennett

PART II - POLITICS

10. Seeing the public image anew: photography exhibitions and civic spectatorship

Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites

11. Still images on the move: theoretical challenges and future possibilities

Marta Zarzycka

12. Interview with Ariella Azoulay

Ariella Azoulay and Justin Carville

13. Human rights practice and visual violations

Ruthie Ginsburg

14. Love the bomb: picturing nuclear explosion

Paula Rabinowitz

15. Twice captured: the work of atrocity photography

Molly Rogers

16. Presenting the unrepresentable: confrontation and circumvention

Jane Tormey

17. The eco-anarchist potential of environmental photography: Richard Misrach and Kate Orff's Petrochemical America

Conohar Scott

18. Counter-forensics and photography

Thomas Keenan

PART III - THEORIES

19. Derrida and photography theory

Malcolm Barnard

20. Image, affect, and autobiography: Roland Barthes' photographic theory in light of his posthumous publications

Kathrin Yacavone

21. Ideation and photography: a critique of Francois Laruelle's concept of abstraction

John Roberts

22. Fractal photography and the politics of invisibility

Daniel Rubinstein

23. Photographic apparatus in the era of tagshot culture

Mika Elo

24. Artistic representation and politics: an exchange between Victor Burgin and Hilde Van Gelder

Victor Burgin and Hilde Van Gelder

25. Decentering the photographer: authorship and digital photography

Daniel Palmer

26. Out of language: photographing as translating

Nancy Ann Roth

27. Habitual photography: time, rhythm, and temporalization in contemporary personal photography

Martin Hand and Ashley Scarlett

Index