Photography, Curation, Criticism
An Anthology
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-032-40772-2 (ISBN)
Description
This unique collection brings together the work of photography writer, curator, and lecturer, Liz Wells, reflecting on key themes of landscape, place, nationhood, and environmental concerns.
A newly written introductory chapter contextualizes the collection. This is followed by an 'in conversation' with Martha Langford, Concordia University, Montreal, that brings together two leading figures in the field to respond to Wells' thought and the themes that emerge in her writings. The essays included in this anthology draw on work from a variety of sources including artists' photobooks, exhibition catalogues, magazines, academic books, and journals. Seventeen previously published articles, organized thematically in relation to Curation and Residency, Phenomena, Place, and Critical Reflections, demonstrate Wells' critical and curatorial approach to research through photographic practices, reflecting a core view of art (at its best) operating to convey the implications of what is being explored and to evoke responses that are simultaneously sensory and intellectual.
This collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of photography, visual culture, and art history, especially those examining landscape and environmental photography.
A newly written introductory chapter contextualizes the collection. This is followed by an 'in conversation' with Martha Langford, Concordia University, Montreal, that brings together two leading figures in the field to respond to Wells' thought and the themes that emerge in her writings. The essays included in this anthology draw on work from a variety of sources including artists' photobooks, exhibition catalogues, magazines, academic books, and journals. Seventeen previously published articles, organized thematically in relation to Curation and Residency, Phenomena, Place, and Critical Reflections, demonstrate Wells' critical and curatorial approach to research through photographic practices, reflecting a core view of art (at its best) operating to convey the implications of what is being explored and to evoke responses that are simultaneously sensory and intellectual.
This collection will be essential reading for students and scholars of photography, visual culture, and art history, especially those examining landscape and environmental photography.
Reviews / Votes
'Liz Wells is one of our most sincere, intelligent, and respected scholars and curators of photography. Her edited anthologies are touchstone texts for all of us researching, teaching, and creating photographic histories. Photography, Curation, Criticism presents us with a real gift: a collection of career-spanning essays devoted solely to her distinct voice on the pressing socio-political, epistemic, and aesthetic issues that traverse the history of photography. A voice that will resound into the future of our complex field.'Jae Emerling, College of Arts + Architecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Illustrations
49 s/w Abbildungen, 28 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 21 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder
21 Halftones, color; 28 Halftones, black and white; 49 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
433 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-40772-2 (9781032407722)
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Person
Liz Wells, writer, curator, and lecturer, edited The Photography Reader and The Photography Culture Reader (2019; 2003, 1st ed.) and Photography: A Critical Introduction (2021, 6th ed.; trans, Greek, 2008; Chinese, 2012; Korean, 2016) and is a co-editor for photographies, Routledge journals. She has contributed many essays within artist books, exhibition catalogues, journals, and other edited collections, some of which form part of this anthology of her (dispersed) writings. She is series editor for Photography, Place, Environment published by Routledge.
Content
SECTION ONE Critical Reflections 1. Introduction: Photography, Curation, Criticism 2.Speaking of this Collection: A Conversation Between Martha Langford and Liz Wells, 2022 SECTION TWO On Curation and Residency 3. Curatorial strategy as critical intervention - The Genesis of Facing East, 2007 4. Landscapes of Exploration, 2012 5. On Being Out of Place, 2018 SECTION THREE Phenomena 6. Icy Prospects', 2003. 7. Light Touch, 2014. 8. No Man's Land: Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime', 2011. SECTION FOUR Place 9. Points of Departure: currencies of the post-industrial sublime, 2012 10. Questions of Distance, 2011. 11. Photography, Nation, Nature', 2012. 12. A Man of the North', 2014. 13. Hidden Histories and Landscape Enigmas, 2019. 14. Histories and Imagination: narrative and metaphor in the work of John Kippin', 2018. 15. Silent Witness, 2013 SECTION FIVE Critical Spaces 16. Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an Approach to Analysing the Visual', 2001. Co-author, Martin Lister. 17. The Critical Forum', 2000. 18. Then and Now, some notes on photography and theory', 2002. 19. Modes of Investigation: on photography and environment, 2014.