Title & Author:

The "public" life of photographs / edited by Thierry Gervais.

Publication:

Toronto, Canada : Ryerson Image Centre ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

xi, 275 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Series:

RIC books ; 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Paul Roth -- Introduction / Thierry Gervais -- Part 1. Photographs as mass culture -- Making photographs public / Joel Snyder -- Double displacement: photography and dissemination / Geoffrey Batchen -- Displaying forensic pictures in court: photography as visual argument / Vincent Lavoie -- Part 2. Photographs as visual news -- Pictures at work: Romana Javitz and the New York Public Library picture collection / Mary Panzer -- The ubiquitous exhibition: magazines, museums, and the reproducible exhibition after World War II / Olivier Lugon -- Visual journalism, or the hidden narration / André Gunthert -- Part 3. Photographs as art -- The (in)visible public life of colour photography / Nathalie Boulouch -- Indecisive moments: proliferation and the passerby in conceptual photography / Heather Diack -- Encounters in the museum: the experience of photographic objects / Sophie Hackett.

Summary:

"Through a broad range of case studies, the contributors to this volume highlight the historical conditions under which photographs have been made available to the public: in books, magazines, photographic studios, courtrooms, libraries, touring exhibitions, and art galleries. The collected essays focus on those responsible for the dissemination of images, their belief in the power of the photographic medium, the goals they pursued, and the constraints they faced. Addressing the multiple rather than the unique photograph, stressing collective practices of image sharing, and examining the mobility of photographs from one context to another, this book pursues avenues of research in the history of photography that remain surprisingly underexplored."--Page 4 of cover.
"The "Public" Life of Photographs features nine essays by Geoffrey Batchen, Nathalie Boulouch, Heather Diack, André Gunthert, Sophie Hackett, Vincent Lavoie, Olivier Lugon, Mary Panzer and Joel Snyder. These contributors, international curators and scholars from a range of disciplines, examine the emergence of photography as mass culture: through studios and public spaces; by the press; through editorial strategies promoting popular and vernacular photography; and through the dissemination of photographic images in the art world. The book is edited by Thierry Gervais, Head of Research at the Ryerson Image Centre, and an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University"--Publisher's website, viewed November 9, 2016.
"Do we understand a photograph differently if we encounter it in a newspaper rather than a book? In a photo album as opposed to framed on a museum wall? The "Public" Life of Photographs explores how the various ways that photographs have been made available to the public have influenced their reception. The reproducibility of photography has been the necessary tool in the creation of a mass visual culture. This generously illustrated book explores historical instances of the "public" life of photographic images--tracing the steps from the creation of photographs to their reception. The contributors--international curators and scholars from a range of disciplines--examine the emergence of photography as mass culture: through studios and public spaces; by the press; through editorial strategies promoting popular and vernacular photography; and through the dissemination of photographic images in the art world. The contributing authors discuss such topics as how photographic images became objects of appropriation and collection; the faith in photographic truthfulness; Life magazine's traveling exhibitions and their effect on the magazine's "media hegemony'; and the curatorial challenges of making vernacular photographs accessible in an artistic environment."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

0262035197 (hardcover)
9780262035194 (hardcover)

Subject:

Photography Social aspects.
Images, Photographic History.
Photography Philosophy.
Vernacular photography History.
Photojournalism.
Art and photography.
Photographie Aspect social.
Photographie de presse.
Art et photographie.
Photographe légale
Images photographiques Histoire.
Photographie Philosophie.
Photographie vernaculaire Histoire.
journalistic photography.
Images, Photographic.
Vernacular photography.
Fotografie
Kontexteffekt
Öffentlichkeit
Photographie vernaculaire.
1840-2016

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Gervais, Thierry, editor.
RIC books ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293570
Call No.: BIB 238671
Status: Available