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A history of theories of photographic practices, this text sets out to do a number of things: to recover the critical place of the photographic archive within the avant-garde; to defend the philosophic claims of realism in assessing photography this century; and to present a dialogic defence of the naturalistic or documnetary image.
List of figures and plates p. vi Acknowledgements p. xii Introduction: realism, contradiction and interpretation p. 2 Photography, the everyday and the Russian Revolution p. 14 Technique, technology and the everyday: German photographic culture in the 1920s and 1930s p. 40 The making of documentary: documentary after factography p. 58 The state, the everyday and the archive p. 72 Surrealism, photography and the everyday p. 98 Inside Modernism: American photography and post-war culture p. 114 John Berger and Jean Mohr: the return to communality p. 128 The rise of theory and the critique of realism: photography in Britain in the 1980s p. 144 Disfiguring the ideal: the body, photography and the everyday p. 172 Jeff Wall: the social pathology of everyday life p. 184 Jo Spence: photography, empowerment and the everyday p. 199 Digital imagery and the critique of realism p. 216 Index p. 229