In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts.
In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts.
Ecological and decolonial discourses around photography reveal the mediums global entanglements: images produced on one side of the globe are the result of labors which span its full surface. At the same time, the multiplicity of approaches and understandings of the photograph reveal that even though it might seem like a universal language, we utilize its tools to radically different ends. The volume explores issues surrounding cultural translation, photographys response to climate change, decolonial practices, network formation, new materialities, identities and the role of photobooks. It also provides in-depth surveys and case studies of global practices and theories, alongside interviews and roundtable discussions with key figures whose perspectives illuminate the contemporary field.
This groundbreaking collection is an essential resource for academics and students working in or with photography, contextual studies, history and theory, but also media and cultural studies more broadly.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Recenzijas
In this unprecedented geological era, the book chronicles the efforts of artists, photographers, writers, historians and institution builders to comprehend our time through the lens of photography, exploring its diversity, materiality, and the fractures it reveals.
Sarker Protick, Photographer, Artist, and Co-curator Chobi Mela Festival
This Companion to Global Photographies is a remarkable and ambitious attempt in introducing a different, refreshing way to present some of the current, urgent conversations about photography - one that is multi-directional, polycentric and collaborative. By acknowledging and creating the space for the many perspectives and opacities around the thematics approached, the book presents itself as a powerful set of tools to approach photography as a medium in constant expansion, addressing its global interconnections. A welcomed initiative that will hopefully set fertile ground for more.
Elisa Medde, Independent Publisher and Curator
Global Photographies and Questions of Cultural Translation
1. How to Use
This Book PART I: Photography in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and
Environment
2. The View from the South
3. Decolonising Detritus: (Re)cycles
of Extraction and (e-)Waste in the Photographs of Jean Claude Nsabimana
4.
The Politics of Water: Social Justice and Photography in the Anthropocene in
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
5. Antarctica, Ice, and Photography
6. A Dialogic
View from the North PART II: Decolonial Practices: Speaking Back to the Canon
7. Can We Use Photography Against Photography? An Interview with Rolando
Vazquez Melken
8. Decolonial Strategies and the Southasian Imagination:
Auto-narrative, Archival Responses and Counter-narratives
9. Whats Class
Got to Do With It?: Decoloniality, Spatiality, Class Struggle in the
Photographs of The Evaton Peoples Archive
10. Tongue in Cheek: Julie Edel
Hardenbergs Visual Language
11. Localising Identity and Understanding
Legacy: A New Generation of Hungarian Photographers Search for the Locus of
Enunciation
12. Archive In Situ: Emese Mucsi and Nina Mangalanayagam in
conversation with Jennifer Bajorek PART III: Gender and Queer Theory in
Photography Today: Identities and Histories
13. Visual Constellations
14.
Expanded Sexual and Gender Identities
15. Visual Disruptions of Global
Landscapes
16. Gender in Curation and Exhibition Design
17. Dissident Artists
as Protagonists of Visibility Processes
18. Poetic, Critical and Political
Resonance: Report from a Roundtable between Selfa A.Chew-Melendez, Flora
Dunster, Josefina Gońi Bacugalupi, Sandra Nagel, Alejandra Niedermaier and
Jonathan Lalloz PART IV: New Materialities: Expanded Practices in
Contemporary Art Photography
19. An Engine, Not a Camera: Curating
Environmental Histories of Photography and Extraction
20. Cut and Paste:
Performing History, Materiality, and the Family Album in the Work of Lebohang
Kganye
21. Public Arrivals, Private Departure: The Life of Images at Chobi
Mela and Photo Kathmandu
22. The Physical Lives of Images, Their Matter,
Appearances and Disappearances in the Context of Beirut
23. The Stickiness of
Images: Materiality and Attention in Contemporary European Photographies
24.
The Archive of Unnamed Workers: Examining the Legacy of Colonial-era
Photography in AI
25. Cai Dongdong's Artistic Trajectory: From Conceptual
Image Making to Photographic Installation PART V: Forming Communities:
Networks, Platforms and Institutions
26. A Mapping of Photo Communities in
Southeast Asia
27. Photography and Trans-Africanism: A Story of Journeys
28.
Collection and Educational Dissemination: A Case Study in Bogotį, Colombia
29. Towards A New Arts Ecosystem: PhotoIrelands Strategy in Converging
Communities around Photography
30. Towards an Artisanal Intelligence:
Reflections from the Academic Periphery in Latin America PART VI: Global
Approaches to Photobooks: From Production to Distribution
31. The Expansion
of the Photobook: From Traditional to Post-digital
32. The Photobook as Shape
Shifter in the Expanded Realm of Contemporary Photography: Examples from
South Korea
33. Transforming Perspectives: A Conversation with Yanyou Yuan
Di, Pioneer of Chinese Contemporary Photographic Publishing
34. Toward a
Publishing Model to Come
35. Foto Fémina: Shaping the Narrative of Female
Photographers from Latin America and the Caribbean
36. Curating Photobooks in
Southeast Asia and Hong Kong: A Roundtable
Lucy Soutter is an artist and writer based in London. She is Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on questions of value and meaning in the expanded field of photography and contemporary art. She is the author of Why Art Photography? (2nd ed. 2018), co-editor of Writer Conversations (2023) and writes for publications including 1000 Words, Photoworks, and Source.
Duncan Wooldridge is an artist and writer and is Reader in Photography at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. His research explores experimentation, materialities and photographys future tenses. He is the editor of John Hilliard: Not Black and White (2014), the author of To Be Determined: Photography and the Future (2021), and the co-editor of Writer Conversations (2023).
