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Published over 40 years ago, Photography/Politics: One has been long sought-after and long out of print. This new edition reproduces the full text, images and advertisements, plus new updates from some of the original authors, in a contemporary format, and introduces its contemporary importance and relevance to a new audience. The book poses two simple, but far-reaching, questions: How does photography contribute to the defence of the old order? And how may it be used to help hasten the arrival of the new? There follow 23 chapters of perceptive and incisive analysis of the contemporary and historical role of photography in society - they remain even more relevant today than they were 40 years ago. Thread-sewn, OTA binding, with flaps. Cover: Callisto Pearl 250gsm. Text: Munken Print White 90gsm.

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Author:   Terry Dennett ,  Jo Spence
Publisher:   MuseumsEtc
Imprint:   MuseumsEtc
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781912528431

ISBN 10:   1912528436
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 March 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

AGAINST THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGY Ideology: The Base and Superstructure Debate Sylvia Harvey The Camera Against the Paris Commune Gen Doy The Social Eye of Picture Post Stuart Hall What Did You Do in the War, Mummy? Class and Gender in Images of Women Jo Spence Heartfield’s Millions Montage (Attempt at) a Structural Analysis Eckhard Siepmann The History that Photographs Mislaid Judith Williamson LEFT PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WARS Introduction: Tasks and Aims Willi Münzenberg Germany: Arbeiter-Fotografie W Körner and J Stüber Holland: Vereeniging van Arbeiders-Fotografen Bert Hogenkamp Belgium: Willy Kessels and the Borinage Film Bert Hogenkamp America: The Workers’ Film and Photo League Russell Campbell Scotland: Workers’ Photography Douglas Allen England: The Workers’ Film and Photo League Terry Dennett The Hugh Cuthbertson Collection Victoria Wegg-Prosser LEFT PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY Hackney Flashers Collective: Who’s Still Holding the Camera? Liz Heron Film and Poster Collective Interview MINDA Why Socialist Photography? Robert Golden Jean Mohr | John Berger Charity Begins at Home: The Shelter Photographs Nick Hedges Working for the Council Trisha Ziff Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary (Notes on the Politics of Representation) Allan Sekula POSTCRIPT Contacts/Worksheets Notes on Photography, History and Representation John Tagg APPENDIXES 1. Adverts 2. Authors’ Notes

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Still as relevant now as when it first came out, this is a landmark collection of essays. The first to be attentive to the politics of class, gender and race in the working of photographs, it is critically sophisticated yet accessible - and still required reading for anyone interested in understanding the history and theory of photography. It is wonderful that it is now available in a new edition. Patrizia Di Bello, Professor of History and Theory of Photography, Birkbeck, University of London. Editor-in-chief, History of Photography. A welcome reminder of the need to ask hard questions of a medium we too often take for granted as natural and truthful. Featuring now-classic essays about the photographic representation of class, race and gender, this anthology demonstrates above all that the concerns of writers and artists in the late 1970s were not so distant from our own. Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of History of Art, University of Oxford A seminal work of history and theory. Duncan Forbes, Head of Photography, V&A Museum This book opened the door to the social life of photographs for me with its the possibilities for thinking the past and the future through these sets and conditions of images. I read it so much that my copy fell apart, and I used to xerox the disaggregated segments for my students. Hopefully, another cohort will similarly devour this new edition. We need now it even more than before. Laura Wexler, Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

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