Photography Theory in Historical Perspective

"Acknowledgments. Introduction. Structure of the Book What is a ""Medium""? Framing the Focus of the Book. Analog Versus Digital. The Overlap of Themes. 1 Representation in Photography: The Competition with Painting. Photography, Objectivity, and Representation. Straight and Composed Photography: The Impact of the Digital. Photographs as Iconic Index of the Reality Represented. Aura, Authenticity, and Reproducibility in Photography. Painting-like Photographs Versus Photo-like Paintings as Multimediating Pictures: The Question of Color. Sharp and Blurred Photographs: Transparency and Hypermediacy. 2 Time in Photography: The Rivalry with Time-Based Arts. Barthes's That-has-Been and Punctum. Time Exposure and Instantaneity in Photographs. Serial Documentation and the Decisive Moment. Presence and Absence in Photography: Replaced Images Versus Objects of Contemplation. 3 Place and Space in Photography: Positioning Toward Virtual Places and Spatial Objects. Constructed Places in Relation to Places That Exist(ed). Monocular Perspective Investigated Through Divergent and Poly-ocular Perspectives. Spatial Photographs as Extension of the Photo as Two-dimensional Image. 4 Photography's Social Function: The Documentary Legacy. ""Photography Against the Grain"". Photography, Text, and Context. (Post-)Documentary Photographs as Art. Color, and the Politics of (Re)Presentation. Critical Approaches of Advertising and Fashion Photography. 5 Self-reflective Photography. Photography as Record of the Reflection of Light. Reflections on Taking Photographs: Photograph–Camera–Photographer. The Photograph as Product of a Process of Reflection. Psychoanalytic Theories Projected in Photography. From Self-reflective Digital Photography Back to Classical Mirror Mythologies. Glossary. References. Credits and sources. Index."