Isms: Understanding Photography packs an enormous amount of detail into a handy, attractive guide tracing the evolution of photography through a series of interconnected trends, groups, themes and movements – from the invention of the photographic process to the post-internet age. Organised chronologically, this is a uniquely international, comprehensive guide to photography with concise, readable and jargon-free but scholarly insight into major photographers, movements and themes of the past 170 years. In an age where photography is of more resonance and interest than ever before, Isms: Understanding Photography offers an in-depth and clear exposition of photography for the interested general reader or student.
Author(s): Emma Lewis
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 160
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
How to Use this Book
THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE RECORDING OF THE WORLD 1826—1910s
The First Photograph
Daguerreotypy
Negative-Positivism
The Studio Portrait
Travel, Expedition & Tourism
Survey
Early Conflict
Motionism
The Social Document
INTO THE MODERN 1850s-1930s
Early Street
Pictorialism
The Nude
Fashion & Society
Still Life
Futurism
Constructivism
Dadaism
Bauhaus & the New Vision
New Objectivity
Surrealism
Mexican Modernism
Industrialism
Group f.64
SOCIETY & HUMANITY 1930s-70s
Social Realism
War Reportage
Photojournalism
Subjectivism
The Family of Man
The Candid Portrait
Street & Society
Celebrity & Paparazzism
THE POSTMODERN 1950s-90s
Postwar Fashion
Postwar Colour
Conceptualism
New Topographics
Art Documentary
Postmodernism
Self-Portrait, Performance & Identity
Diarism
Staged Tableaux
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY 1980s-
Advertising & Fashion
Satirism
Düsseldorf Deadpan
Environmentalism & Globalisation
Activism
Expanded Documentary
Fictional Narrativism
Conflict & Surveillance
New Formalism
Post-Internet
REFERENCE SECTION
List of Photographers
Chronology of Isms
Glossary of Useful Terms
List of Collections
Photographic Credits
Copyright Page
