Photography Today
A History of Contemporary Photography
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2014
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-7148-4563-0 (ISBN)
Description
A lively and accessible survey of photography as art since the 1960s, exploring how, in the hands of some of the world's greatest photographic artists, it has developed into a respected and versatile artistic medium.
Reviews / Votes
"Deft cross-referencing, only possible by a deep knowledge of the subject, is typical of the book as a whole... Durden employs a poetic approach to writing often, which gives the book a lightness, preventing it from becoming turgid, dull, or unnecessarily academic."-British Journal of PhotographyMore details
Person
Mark Durden is a writer, artist and lecturer. He has written extensively on photography and contemporary art. Publications include
Dorothea Lange
(2001, 2012),
Fifty Key Writers on Photography
(2012), with David Campbell,
Variable Capital
(2007) and with Ken Grant,
Double Take: Portraits from the Keith Medley Archive
(2013). He is part of the artists' group Common Culture and currently Professor of Photography at the University of South Wales, UK.