The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography.
Comprising an impressive range of essays and interviews by experts and scholars from across the globe, this book examines the medium-s history, its central issues and emerging trends, and its much-discussed future. The collected essays and interviews explore the current debates surrounding the photograph as object, art, document, propaganda, truth, selling tool, and universal language; the perception of photography archives as burdens, rather than treasures; the continual technological development reshaping the field; photography as a tool of representation and control, and more.
One of the most comprehensive volumes of its kind, this companion is essential reading for photographers and historians alike.
