Photography (Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications)

Aimed at media studies students, this text presents photography not from a historical or artistic viewpoint, but instead gives an overview of the place of photography in contemporary society and its importance as a media form.The text is split into short chapters to make it easily accessible for students, exploring the broad themes central to the study and analysis of photography, made understandable through the use of contemporary case studies: what it is that identifies photography as a medium how photographs can be interpreted commercial production and consumption the analysis of popular mainstream photography the idea of the document the photograph as art fashion and celebrity photography the photograph and memory.Bull, Stephen is the author of 'Photography (Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications)', published 2009 under ISBN 9780415428941 and ISBN 0415428947.