This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos; the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy; and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive. Concerns associated with the affective turnmdash;intimacy; alterity; and ephemerality; as well as queerness; modernity; and lossmdash;run through the essays. At the same time; the contributions are informed by developments in critical race theory; postcolonial studies; and feminist theory. As the contributors bring affect theory to bear on photography; some interpret the work of contemporary artists; such as Catherine Opie; Tammy Rae Carland; Christian Boltanski; Marcelo Brodsky; Zoe Leonard; and Rea Tajiri. Others look back; whether to the work of the American Pictorialist F. Holland Day or to the discontent masked by the smiles of black families posing for cartes de visite in a Kodak marketing campaign. With more than sixty photographs; including twenty in color; this collection changes how we see; think about; and feel photography; past and present.Contributors. Elizabeth Abel; Elspeth H. Brown; Kimberly Juanita Brown; Lisa Cartwright; Lily Cho; Ann Cvetkovich; David L. Eng; Marianne Hirsch; Thy Phu; Christopher Pinney; Marlis Schweitzer; Dana Seitler; Tanya Sheehan; Shawn Michelle Smith; Leo Spitzer; Diana Taylor
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Review
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Not Buschs best work.By Lzo. TomasThe information in this book is clearly presented and useful; and its certainly convenient in Kindle form; but its terribly outdated; what with references to Photoshop CS3 as "the industry standard" in image editing; and references to 256MB (!)memory cards; and charts that show storage comparisons between cameras with 2 to 8 megapixels of resolution. As it says the "dSLRs still cant take true motion pictures;" you have to assume it was written before 2008; when the Nikon D90 was introduced and virtually every camera introduced since has had HDTV capabilities. Busch should have known better. But; if you dont mind the anachronisms; the low price alone makes this a worthwhile purchase.
