The Truth about Photography

By Sarah James

Photographic Theories

• Foucauldian Theory• Victor Burgin• John Tagg

• Baudrillardian Theory• Rosalind Krauss• Terry Eagleton• Grundberg• Steve Edwards• Walter Benjamin• Roland Barthes

Anna AtkinsPhotographs of British Algae; Cyanotype Impressions.1843-53Cyanotype

“It should be recognized that it is in the specific zone of this imprint and this trace, in the

temporalization of a lived experience which is neither in the world nor in “another world,” which is not more sonorous than luminous, not more in

time than in space, that differences appear among the elements or rather produce them.”

Jacques Derrida, ‘Of Grammatology’, p.65

Louise LawlerUntitled (Martin and Mike)1992Cibachrome, crystal, and felt paperweight.

Walker EvansHouses and Billboards, Atlanta1936Black and White Photograph

Evelyn RichterWerner Tubke1976

The Photographers’ Gallery, London

From ‘Cruel and Tender’ Tate Modern

August Sander

Three Young Farmers on Their Way to a Dance1914Black and White Photograph

‘About Face’ Hayward Gallery, LondonInstallation shots from exhibition

Tacita Dean ‘The Unilever Series,’ Tate Modern, LondonAnalogue film stills

Edward Steichen‘Family of Man’ exhibitionMoMA1955

‘Translation,’ Palais de TokyoVarious artists work from the exhibition

Michael Powell’s‘Peeping Tom’ (Le Voyeur)1960

‘Shadow Catchers,’ V&A, LondonInstallation view of Floris Neususs’ work.

Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, ‘Evidence Revisited’Black and White action photograph

‘La Jetee’, film by Chris Marker, 1962.Film was made up of photographic images, apart from one one second scene where the women opens her eyes.

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