The ""Public"" Life of Photographs

Thierry Gervais (Assistant Professor, Ryerson University), Joel Snyder, Geoffrey Batchen (University of Oxford) , Bodo von Dewitz

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MIT Press
14 October 2016

Photography & photographs

Series: RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books)

An exploration of the relationship between how photographs are

made available to the public and how they are received and understood.

An exploration of the relationship between how photographs are made available to the public and how they are received and understood.

Do we understand a photograph differently if we encounter it in a newspaper rather than a book? In a photo album as opposed to framed on a museum wall? The ""Public"" Life of Photographs explores how the various ways that photographs have been made available to the public have influenced their reception. The reproducibility of photography has been the necessary tool in the creation ofa mass visual culture. This generously illustrated book explores historical instances of the ""public"" life of photographic images-tracing the steps from the creation of photographs to their reception.

The contributors-international curators and scholars from a range of disciplines-examine the emergence of photography as mass culture- through studios and public spaces; by the press; through editorial strategies promoting popular and vernacular photography; and through the dissemination of photographic images in the art world. The contributing authors discuss such topics as how photographic images became objects of appropriation and collection; the faith in photographic truthfulness; Life magazine's traveling exhibitions and their effect on the magazine's ""media hegemony""; and the curatorial challenges of making vernacular photographs accessible in an artistic environment.

The ""Public"" Life of Photographs is the first volume in a series called RIC Books, which is copublished by MIT Press and the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC). The RIC, located at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, is a museum dedicated to the exhibition, research, study and teaching of photography and related disciplines.

Contributors Geoffrey Batchen, Nathalie Boulouch, Heather Diack, Andre Gunthert, Sophie Hackett, Vincent Lavoie, Olivier Lugon, Mary Panzer, Joel Snyder

Contributions by: Joel Snyder, Geoffrey Batchen (University of Oxford), Bodo von Dewitz, Vincent Lavoie
Edited by: Thierry Gervais (Assistant Professor Ryerson University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 862g
ISBN: 9780262035194
ISBN 10: 0262035197
Series: RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books)
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 14 October 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thierry Gervais is Assistant Professor at Ryerson University and Head of Research at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), Toronto. Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Burning with Desire- The Conceptions of Photography (1999) and Each Wild Idea- Writing, Photography, History (2002), both published by the MIT Press.

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An excellent complement to any history of photography, this collection expands on two centuries of questions/answers about the making and using of photographs. -CHOICE connect

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