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.
Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images
1st Edition
Edited
By Donna West Brett, Natalya Lusty
June 14, 2022
This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as a means of social and political provocation, as a mode of surveillance, as a narrative of the self, and as an art form. What makes photographic ...
Photography, Temporality, and Modernity: Time Warped
1st Edition
By Kris Belden-Adams
June 14, 2022
This book examines the photography’s unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium’s ability to capture and sometimes "defy" time, while also traveling as objects across time-and-space ...
Photography and Imagination
1st Edition
Edited
By Amos Morris-Reich, Margaret Olin
June 13, 2022
As the prototypical exemplar of modern visual technology, photography was once viewed as a way to enable vision to bypass imagination, producing more reliable representations of reality. But as an achievement of technological modernity, photography can also be seen as a way to realize a creation of...
Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Rubinstein
December 13, 2021
Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond understanding the image as a static representation of reality, it shows photography as a linchpin of dynamic developments in augmented intelligence, neuroscience, critical ...
Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies
1st Edition
By Staci Gem Scheiwiller
September 30, 2021
Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces—public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden—thus mapping, graphing, and...
The Pioneering Photographic Work of Hercule Florence
1st Edition
By Boris Kossoy
September 30, 2020
This book delivers an in-depth analysis of Hercule Florence, who is virtually unknown despite being among the world’s photographic pioneers. Based on the texts of various manuscripts, letters, diaries, notes, and advertisements, this book answers numerous questions surrounding Florence’s work, ...