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Including work by leading scholars, artists, scientists and practitioners in the field of visual culture, The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice is a seminal reference source for the new roles and contexts of photography in the twenty-first century.
Bringing together a diverse set of contributions from across the globe, the volume explores current debates surrounding post-colonial thinking, empowerment, identity, contemporary modes of self-representation, diversity in the arts, the automated creation and use of imagery in science and industry, vernacular imagery and social media platforms and visual mechanisms for control and manipulation in the age of surveillance capitalism and deep fakes, as well as the role of imagery in times of crisis, such as pandemics, wars and climate change. The analysis of these complex themes will be anchored in existing theoretical frameworks but also include new ways of thinking about social justice and representation and how to cope with our daily image tsunami. Individual chapters bring together a diverse set of contributions, featuring essays, interviews, conversations and case studies by artists, scientists, curators, scholars, medical doctors, astrophysicists and social activists, who all share a strong interest in how lens-based media have shaped our world in recent years.
Expanding on contemporary debates within the field, the Companion is essential reading for photographers, scholars and students alike.
Contents
0.1 Introduction 1. Representation, Identity and Inclusion 1.0 Chapter Introduction 1.1 Representation and Responsibility: Institutions as Changemakers 1.2 Between Camera and Canvas: Man Ray, Picasso, and the Representation of Adrienne Fidelin 1.3 An Archive in a Suitcase. And the Question What to Do With It 1.4 The Representation of the Inuit Population in Greenland, Then and Now 1.5 Representations and Stereotypes of Greenland, Revisited 1.6 Photography in Contemporary Jewelry Art 1.7 Repetitive Representations. The Case of Private Photographs 2. Diversity, Empowerment and Social Justice 2.0 Chapter Introduction 2.1 The Railway and its Images: Decolonizing Landscapes through the Works of Chinese Visual Artists 2.2 Through Fa'afafabulous Glasses: An Interview with Yuki Kihara 2.3 Participatory Photography: Gaze, Representation and Agency 2.4 Canterbury, Revisited: Reflections on a Collaborative Photography Course for Sighted and Visually Impaired Participants 2.5 Social Practice and Photography: Who is Looking at Whom? 2.6 The Breath of Memory 2.7 The Role of the Andean People in the Work of Martin Chambi, Revisited 3. Crisis and Change 3.0 Chapter Introduction 3.1 Feminism and Photography: A Situated Exploration of the Visual Archive of Feminisms in Chile 3.2 Freedom Is Not Free 3.3 Selling the Great White Myth. A Reflection on the South African Media and Communications Industry From the Life Experience of a Brown Bodied Woman 3.4 Working with Archives — Past, Present, Future 3.5 Visual Proof: How Glacier Photography Shows Us the Reality of Climate Change 3.6 When Will They Listen? 3.7 Art and Activism Revisited 4. Automated and Networked Images 4.0 Chapter Introduction 4.1 Leaks, Growths and Caveats: The Black Hole Image 4.2 Visualisation as a Political Act 4.3 How to Photograph a Virus 4.4 Video Games Inside the Body: Medical Robots and the Future of Tele Surgery 4.5 Orientation and Resistance in a Fog of Systems 4.6 Machine Learning for Aquatic Plastic Litter Detection Turned Into Art 4.7 Is this Still Photography? Online Experiences, NFTs and Digital Vernacular 5. Censorship, Image Control and Manipulation 5.0 Chapter Introduction 5.1 Who, How, and Where? Speaking, Writing, Making Art, and Publishing in a Censorial World 5.2 Tonald Drump, Censorship and Deplatforming 5.3 Interviews With Anonymous Internet Content Moderators 5.4 Selfies, Biometrics, Geolocation and the 2021 Capitol Hill Riot: How Photography is Used in the Service of Surveillance 5.5 The Real, the Unreal, and the Authentic 5.6 Image Archives in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism 6. New Ways of Seeing 6.0 Chapter Introduction 6.1 Exiting the Photographic Universe 6.2 Diversifying the Tools of Storytelling: From Photography and Video to Virtual Reality 6.3 Lubumbashi to Paulshoek: Iterations of the Local in Six African Photobook Projects 6.4 Remix: Printed Matter From the Caribbean 6.5 Opening the Gates for Eastern Concepts and Terminology for Photography Theory 6.6 Translation and Use of Western Photography Theory in Asia 6.7 Deconstructing Red, Yellow, Black and White
