Photography - A Middle-Brow Art (Paperback, New Ed)

P Bourdieu

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The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than the social uses of this ordinary art.

This perceptive and wide-ranging analysis of the practice of photography brings out the logic implicit in this cultural field. The norms which define the occasions and the objects of photography serve to display the socially differentiated functions of, and attitudes towards, the photographic image and act. For some social groups, photography is primarily a means of preserving the present and reproducing the euphoric moments of collective celebration, whereas for other groups it is the occasion of an aesthetic judgement, in which photos are endowed with the dignity of works of art.

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Imprint:	Polity Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1996
First published:	February 1996
Authors:	P Bourdieu
Dimensions:	227 x 165 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7456-1715-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic equipment & techniques Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7456-1715-8
Barcode:	9780745617152