Mass Photography - Collective Histories of Everyday Life

Informationen zum Autor Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer and Academic Programme Leader in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK. Klappentext With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before Zusammenfassung With increasingly accessible camera technology, crowdsourced public media projects abound like never before Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Approaching Mass Photography: Methods, Models and DebatesChapter 1: Days in the life: From Mass Observation to crowdsourcingChapter 2: One Day for Life: Charity, competition, archiveChapter 3: Everyday life and ordinary photography: Documentary hopes and expectationsChapter 4: Scale and monumentality: Collective identity and imagined communityChapter 5: Humanism and compassion: Photographic democracy and emotional affectChapter 6: Competitive aesthetics: Art, amateurism and ambitionChapter 7: Visual time capsules: Photographic memory and historical desireChapter 8: Legacies, promises and potentialAppendix: Research methodsIndex

Product details

• Authors: Annebella Pollen
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2015
• EAN: 9781784530112
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-011-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: International Library of Visual Culture; International Library of Visua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social