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...Michael Naas Jacques Derrida died more than five years ago now, but his work keeps on coming out and, in the case of his work on photography, keeps on developing . While three important works on photography were published in English during Derrida's lifetime (“The Deaths of Roland Barthes” [1981...

... women a form of pleasure and desire that is not so easily correlated with traditional weddings and femininity. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Michele White Dirty Brides and Internet Settings: The Affective Pleasures and Troubles with Trash the Dress Photography Sessions...

...Catherine Liu 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Catherine Liu Getting to the Photo Finish: Photography, Autobiography, Modernity It is difficult not to ignore photography’s subtle hegemony and its effects on the very notion...

...Rosemary Hawker 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Rosemary Hawker The Idiom in Photography As the Truth in Painting While contemporary German painter Gerhard Richter is known for the diversity of his oeuvre, his...

... they appear as ordinary elements of the diegesis, the digital camera, the Internet, and the cellular smartphone each allow the film's queer male figures to exceed the generic constraints of the film in its customary dimensions and to see where digital sexualities—the visual iconography of digital photography...

... most bril­ liant semiotician, metaphysician, and his­ torian of photography. Certainly her work to date forces us to rethink the most basic assumptions about the purported realism of photography (or any mode of representa­ tion) and, beyond that, to consider how, in a photocentric culture, the body...

..., this image, unlike almost all the others in the volume, frames the enormity of the Holocaust in accordance with the conventions of landscape photography.1 It also relies on the mod­ ernist tradition of the autonomous image (as opposed to one that operates within a larger narrative) to make a statement about...

.... To that end, many of the essays collected here scrutinize the role of the medium in fields as diverse as modernist and contemporary art practice, the avant-garde tradition, photography, cinema, and architecture...

... over, I want to argue, is the authentic. Pursuing Authenticity 151 To insist on the authenticating function of photography is to go against the grain, I realize, of contemporary critical theory, most particularly against the argument of Walter Benjamin s 1936 essay The Work of Art in the Age...

...Jane Gaines Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Jane Gaines Dead Ringer: Jacqueline Onassis and the Look-Alike In Ownership of the Image, Bernard Edel­ man shows how nineteenth-century French law originally understood photography as machine-produced, not allowing it to be pro­...

... artistic traditions. Drawing on Jameson’s analysis, Rosalind Krauss describes this state of affairs as the ‘‘post-medium condition’’ of contemporary artistic produc- 3 tion. Seeking portents of this situation, Krauss focuses on conceptual art’s integration of art and photography. She reminds us...

... the art of photography to exist silently beneath an explicitly scientific agenda and thereby increase readership and further legitimate the Geographic s project as one of both beauty and truth. All of this elaborate structure of signification, however, is built on a foundation of racial and gender...

... postmodernist by its de­ fenders. Artists who have increasingly turned to film, video, photography, and performance mediums seen by modernism s defenders as situated between, or considered marginal to, those defined as dominant in mod­ ernist discourse these artists have challenged the integrity of the mediums...

... from the local and very specific to the global. Shifting the focal length of landscape images can often up­ set the sharpness ofthe distinction, emphasizing links rather than fissures. On-site photography frames the landscape from wherever one stands. Aerial photography connects farms to a bio-region...

... in the field of film and media studies to build upon, and found mediaoriented theoretical discussion of ecological issues to be very thin on the ground. One of the few related discussions I found was in Susan Sontag s book On Photography (1977), at the end of which she called, somewhat metaphorically...

... . Handsworth Songs . Black Audio Film Collective . Bailey David Hall Stuart . 1992a . “Critical Decade: An Introduction.” In “Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s.” Special issue . Ten 8 2 , no. 3 : 4 – 7 . Bailey David Hall Stuart . 1992b . “The Vertigo...

... of the state. Unfortunately this technique minimizes interpretation to such an extent that the end product resembles journalism more nearly than scholarship, or at least that the end result resembles photography more closely than portraiture. Those readers unfamiliar with the Deep South may feel that Profile...

... Puritan: Literature, Intel- lectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (with Leonard Tennenhouse; 1994), Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism (2002), and How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719–1900 (2006). Carolyn J. Dean is John Hay Professor...

... Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (2012), From Pales- tine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947- 1950 (2011), and The Civil Contract of Photography (2008). She is a coauthor, with Adi Ophir, of The One State Condition: Occupation and Democracy...

... result resembles photography more closely than portraiture. Those readers unfamiliar with the Deep South may feel that Profile in Black and White is neither photography nor portraiture, but carica­ ture. This reviewer a native (white) South Carolinian, some of whose best friends are segregationists...