Contemporary photography and theory: concepts and debates

Contents

Photography and identity -- The honorific and the subjugated portrait -- The blank portrait and the intimate record -- The portrait and the contemporary self -- Photography, landscape and place -- The politics of place -- Non-place and new topologies -- Ruins and the anthropocene -- Photography, performance & the politics of representation -- Gender and the selfie -- Race, history, time -- Performativity and disability -- Photography and psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalysis, representation and desire -- Psychoanalysis, spectatorship and the gaze -- The politics of enjoyment -- Photography and the event -- Photography, memory, history -- Post-photojournalism and contemporary images of conflict -- Photography, empathy and responsibility.