Foreword / Paul Roth -- Introduction / Thierry Gervais -- Part 1. Photographs as mass culture -- Making photographs public / Joel Snyder -- Double displacement: photography and dissemination / Geoffrey Batchen -- Displaying forensic pictures in court: photography as visual argument / Vincent Lavoie -- Part 2. Photographs as visual news -- Pictures at work: Romana Javitz and the New York Public Library picture collection / Mary Panzer -- The ubiquitous exhibition: magazines, museums, and the reproducible exhibition after World War II / Olivier Lugon -- Visual journalism, or the hidden narration / Andre Gunthert -- Part 3. Photographs as art -- The (in)visible public life of colour photography / Nathalie Boulouch -- Indecisive moments: proliferation and the passerby in conceptual photography / Heather Diack -- Encounters in the museum: the experience of photographic objects / Sophie Hackett.
Summary:
"Through a broad range of case studies, the contributors to this volume highlight the historical conditions under which photographs have been made available to the public: in books, magazines, photographic studios, courtrooms, libraries, touring exhibitions, and art galleries. The collected essays focus on those responsible for the dissemination of images, their belief in the power of the photographic medium, the goals they pursued, and the constraints they faced. Addressing the multiple rather than the unique photograph, stressing collective practices of image sharing, and examining the mobility of photographs from one context to another, this book pursues avenues of research in the history of photography that remain surprisingly underexplored"-- Page [4] of cover. "The "Public" Life of Photographs features nine essays by Geoffrey Batchen, Nathalie Boulouch, Heather Diack, Andre Gunthert, Sophie Hackett, Vincent Lavoie, Olivier Lugon, Mary Panzer and Joel Snyder. These contributorsinternational curators and scholars from a range of disciplinesexamine the emergence of photography as mass culture: through studios and public spaces; by the press; through editorial strategies promoting popular and vernacular photography; and through the dissemination of photographic images in the art world. The book is edited by Thierry Gervais, Head of Research at the Ryerson Image Centre, and an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University"--Publisher's website, viewed November 9, 2016.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.