Routledge History of Photography
About the Book Series
This new series will publish research monographs and edited collections focusing on the history and theory of photography. These original, scholarly books may take an art historical, visual studies, or material studies approach. Interdisciplinary books are encouraged.
The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography
1st Edition
By Chris Balaschak
September 02, 2024
With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of politically engaged photography that may serve as models for the representation of impending environmental injustices. Chris Balaschak examines ...
Hybrid Photography: Intermedial Practices in Science and Humanities
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Hillnhuetter, Stefanie Klamm, Friedrich Tietjen
August 26, 2024
This book explores the territories where manual, graphic, photographic, and digital techniques interfere and interlace in sciences and humanities. It operates on the assumption that when photography was introduced, it did not oust other methods of image production but rather became part of ever ...
How Photography Changed Philosophy
1st Edition
By Daniel Rubinstein
May 27, 2024
By analysing the philosophical lineage of notions of representation, time, being, light, exposure, image, and truth, this book argues that photography is the visual manifestation of the philosophical account of how humans encounter beings in the present. Daniel Rubinstein argues that traditional ...
Experimental Self-Portraits in Early French Photography
1st Edition
By Jillian Lerner
January 29, 2024
This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own ...
The Materiality of Exhibition Photography in the Modernist Era: Form, Content, Consequence
1st Edition
By Laurie Taylor
January 29, 2024
This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, when photography’s place in the museum was not only continually questioned but also continually redefined. By taking this historical approach, Laurie ...
Photography in China: Science, Commerce and Communication
1st Edition
By Oliver Moore
October 09, 2023
Emphasizing the medium’s reception among several Chinese constituencies, this book explores photography’s impact within new discourses on science, as well as its effects in social life, visual modernity and the media during China’s transition from imperial to republican government. General ...
Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie
1st Edition
Edited
By Derek Conrad Murray
September 25, 2023
This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context. This book examines the selfie as a social and technological phenomenon but also engages with digital ...
Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan: Central Asia on Display
1st Edition
By Inessa Kouteinikova
December 30, 2022
This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entanglement with the orientalist legacy that followed. Inessa Kouteinikova examines these under-studied materials while also addressing the photographic ...
Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland
1st Edition
By Elisa deCourcy, Martyn Jolly
December 19, 2022
James William Newland’s (1810–1857) career as a showman daguerreotypist began in the United States but expanded into Central and South America, across the Pacific to New Zealand and colonial Australia and onto India. Newland used the latest developments in photography, theatre and spectacle to...
The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography
1st Edition
By Claire Raymond
December 19, 2022
This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice. Claire Raymond investigates how the selfie’s involvement with time and self emerges from capitalist ideologies of identity and ...