Photography, Vision, and the Production of Modern Bodies
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| Title: | Photography, Vision, and the Production of Modern Bodies |
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| Description: | Examines photography and its contribution to changing notions of the body in modernity.Lalvani argues that modernity represents the powerful privileging of vision and the introduction of a paradigm of seeing that is historically distinctive. Taking the introduction of photography in the nineteenth century as a crucial development in the expansion of modern vision, he draws on the writings of Alan Sekula, John Tagg, Jonathan Crary, Norman Bryson and Martin Jay to examine in a comprehensive manner how photography functioned to organize a set of relations between knowledge, power, and the body. However, in taking a broad cultural studies approach Lalvani situates the practices of photography within the larger visual order of the nineteenth century. He demonstrates how the new lines of visibility formed not only by photography but by new urban spaces and new modes of transportation resulted in a particular organizing of the social order, of subjectivity and social relations.Suren Lalvani is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communications at Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg. |
| Authors: | Lalvani, Suren |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Human figure in art, Photography--Social aspects--History--19th century, Photography--Social aspects, Human beings in art |
| Categories: | PHOTOGRAPHY / Reference, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Imaging Systems |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Examines photography and its contribution to changing notions of the body in modernity.Lalvani argues that modernity represents the powerful privileging of vision and the introduction of a paradigm of seeing that is historically distinctive. Taking the introduction of photography in the nineteenth century as a crucial development in the expansion of modern vision, he draws on the writings of Alan Sekula, John Tagg, Jonathan Crary, Norman Bryson and Martin Jay to examine in a comprehensive manner how photography functioned to organize a set of relations between knowledge, power, and the body. However, in taking a broad cultural studies approach Lalvani situates the practices of photography within the larger visual order of the nineteenth century. He demonstrates how the new lines of visibility formed not only by photography but by new urban spaces and new modes of transportation resulted in a particular organizing of the social order, of subjectivity and social relations.Suren Lalvani is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communications at Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg. |
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| ISBN: | 9780791427170 9780791427187 9781438409931 |
