Edited by Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson

With essays by Geoffrey Batchen, François Brunet, Mary Ann Doane, José Luis Falconi, Robin Kelsey, Douglas R. Nickel, Blake Stimson, John Tagg, additional contributions by Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Anne McCauley, Jorge Ribalta, John Roberts, Eric Rosenberg, Eric C. Shiner, and Bernd Stiegler, and photo essays by Sharon Harper, Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, Fiona Tan, and Akram Zaatari

$24.95 Softcover

How can we write the histories of photography? How should art history and visual studies integrate the special technical and aesthetic challenges posed by the medium and respond to the intense interest it has provoked in the art world in recent years? In this timely volume, more than fifteen leading scholars discuss the discipline, practice, historiography, and study of photography, from William Henry Fox Talbot to Vik Muniz, and reflect on the status of photography today. In addition, the book features works by important contemporary artists that probe and illustrate these same issues, together offering new perspectives on the field and what photography means to us in the early twenty-first century.
 

248 pages, 7 1/2 x 9 inches
64 black-and-white illustrations
2008
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

ISBN 978-0-300-12150-6 (softcover)