The Contest of meaning: critical histories of photography

Abstract

Book about "art photography."

Contents

Introduction : the contest of meaning : critical histories of photography / Richard Bolton -- The museum's old, the library's new subject / Douglas Crimp -- The judgment seat of photography / Christopher Phillips -- From faktura to factography / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- The armed vision disarmed : radical formalism from weapon to style / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- What becomes a legend most : the short, sad career of Diane Arbus / Catherine Lord -- Of mother nature and Marlboro men : an inquiry into the cultural meanings of landscape photography / Deborah Bright -- The graphic ordering of desire : modernization of a middle-class women's magazine, 1914-39 / Sally Stein -- Dykes in context : some problems in minority representation / Jan Zita Grover -- The corporate year in pictures / Carol Squiers -- C-overt ideology : two images of revolution / Esther Parada -- In the American East : Richard Avedon Incorporated / Richard Bolton -- Photography's discursive spaces / Rosalind Krauss -- In, around, and afterthoughts (on documentary photography) / Martha Rosler -- The body and the archive / Allan Sekula.