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Photography: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. Very Short Introductions available now: ANARCHISM Colin Ward CHOICE THEORY ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw Michael Allingham ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson Julia Annas CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead ANCIENT WARFARE CLASSICS Mary Beard and Harry Sidebottom John Henderson ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon John Blair CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia CONTEMPORARY ART ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn Julian Stallabrass ARCHITECTURE Continental Philosophy Andrew Ballantyne Simon Critchley ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes COSMOLOGY Peter Coles ART HISTORY Dana Arnold THE CRUSADES ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland Christopher Tyerman THE HISTORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin Fred Piper and Sean Murphy Atheism Julian Baggini DADA AND SURREALISM Augustine Henry Chadwick David Hopkins BARTHES Jonathan Culler Darwin Jonathan Howard THE BIBLE John Riches THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea Timothy Lim BRITISH POLITICS Democracy Bernard Crick Anthony Wright DESCARTES Tom Sorell Buddha Michael Carrithers DESIGN John Heskett BUDDHISM Damien Keown DINOSAURS David Norman BUDDHIST ETHICS DREAMING J. Allan Hobson Damien Keown DRUGS Leslie Iversen CAPITALISM James Fulcher THE EARTH Martin Redfern THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves BRITAIN Paul Langford JUDAISM Norman Solomon THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball Jung Anthony Stevens EMOTION Dylan Evans KAFKA Ritchie Robertson EMPIRE Stephen Howe KANT Roger Scruton ENGELS Terrell Carver KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Ethics Simon Blackburn THE KORAN Michael Cook The European Union LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews John Pinder LITERARY THEORY EVOLUTION Jonathan Culler Brian and Deborah Charlesworth LOCKE John Dunn FASCISM Kevin Passmore LOGIC Graham Priest FEMINISM Margaret Walters MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner FOSSILS Keith Thomson THE MARQUIS DE SADE FOUCAULT Gary Gutting John Phillips THE FRENCH REVOLUTION MARX Peter Singer William Doyle MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers FREE WILL Thomas Pink MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope Freud Anthony Storr MEDIEVAL BRITAIN Galileo Stillman Drake John Gillingham and Gandhi Bhikhu Parekh Ralph A. Griffiths GLOBAL CATASTROPHES MODERN ART David Cottington Bill McGuire MODERN IRELAND Senia Pasˇeta GLOBALIZATION MOLECULES Philip Ball Manfred Steger MUSIC Nicholas Cook GLOBAL WARMING Myth Robert A. Segal Mark Maslin NATIONALISM Steven Grosby HABERMAS NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner James Gordon Finlayson NINETEENTH-CENTURY HEGEL Peter Singer BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood H. C. G. Matthew HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson NORTHERN IRELAND HINDUISM Kim Knott Marc Mulholland HISTORY John H. Arnold PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close HOBBES Richard Tuck paul E. P. Sanders HUMAN EVOLUTION Philosophy Edward Craig Bernard Wood PHILOSOPHY OF LAW HUME A. J. Ayer Raymond Wacks IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Indian Philosophy Samir Okasha Sue Hamilton PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards Intelligence Ian J. Deary PLATO Julia Annas ISLAM Malise Ruthven POLITICS Kenneth Minogue POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY SCHOPENHAUER David Miller Christopher Janaway POSTCOLONIALISM SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer Robert Young SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt POSTMODERNISM SOCIAL AND CULTURAL Christopher Butler ANTHROPOLOGY POSTSTRUCTURALISM John Monaghan and Peter Just Catherine Belsey SOCIALISM Michael Newman PREHISTORY Chris Gosden SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Socrates C. C. W. Taylor Catherine Osborne THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Psychology Gillian Butler and Helen Graham Freda McManus SPINOZA Roger Scruton QUANTUM THEORY STUART BRITAIN John Morrill John Polkinghorne TERRORISM THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton Charles Townshend RENAISSANCE ART THEOLOGY David F. Ford Geraldine A. Johnson THE HISTORY OF TIME ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway Leofranc Holford-Strevens THE ROMAN EMPIRE TRAGEDY Adrian Poole Christopher Kelly THE TUDORS John Guy ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSELL A. C. Grayling BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan RUSSIAN LITERATURE THE VIKINGS Julian D. Richards Catriona Kelly Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman S. A. Smith THE WORLD TRADE SCHIZOPHRENIA ORGANIZATION Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone Amrita Narlikar Available soon: AFRICAN HISTORY FUNDAMENTALISM John Parker and Richard Rathbone Malise Ruthven CHAOS Leonard Smith HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy HUMAN MIGRATION economics Khalid Koser Partha Dasgupta INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS EXISTENTIALISM Paul Wilkinson Thomas Flynn NEWTON Robert Iliffe THE FIRST WORLD WAR PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns Michael Howard RACISM Ali Rattansi For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ Steve Edwards PHOTOGRAPHY A Very Short Introduction 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in OxfordNew York AucklandCape TownDar es SalaamHong Kong Karachi Kuala LumpurMadridMelbourneMexico CityNairobi New DelhiShanghaiTaipeiToronto With offices in ArgentinaAustriaBrazilChileCzech Republic FranceGreece GuatemalaHungary ItalyJapanPoland PortugalSingapore South KoreaSwitzerland ThailandTurkeyUkraineVietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Steve Edwards 2006 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published as a Very Short Introduction 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organizations. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by RefineCatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants ISBN 0–19–280164–3 978–0–19–280164–7 13579108642 For JXB, JW (and G) This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi List of illustrations xiv 1 Forgetting photography 1 2 Documents 12 3 Pictures 40 4 What is a photograph? 67 5 The apparatus and its image 85 6 Fantasy and remembrance 112 Afterword: Digital photography 129 Further reading 141 Index 155
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