Photography A Very Short Introduction

Stephen Edwards, Photography A Very Short Introduction, 2006, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN: 978-0-19-280164-7 (Kindle Edition). In my opinion, this is a very good book and a very important book to read for any photographer. Notes/Quotes: Documentary is said to provide its viewers with direct access to truth. In his pioneering book on the subject,

Summary for Part 2, Other

Part 2, Other, began by looking at how photography has played its part in violence against the other, siting Victorian photography as one example of asserting colonial power over weaker subjected peoples of other ethnic and cultural societies. Artists such as Mark Sealy have been addressing these troubling histories with work and exhibitions such as

Photographic Archival Intervention in the Edward Chambre-Hardman Collection.

Accessed, 24 July 2020. This is a very interesting lecture on the archive of the Liverpool photographer Edward Chambre-Hardman and how Keith W Roberts has set about cataloguing the photographic negatives and putting them together as a curator and exhibiting them. My own practice of archiving is very much in need of improving.