Close-ups from afar: selected short and longer essays on social uses of photography

Uittreksel

"Sally Stein has long investigated the role of photography in relation to broader questions of culture and society. This first collection of her selected essays, Close-ups from Afar, brings together essential writings from over five decades, cumulatively demonstrating Stein's distinctive critical approach to the history and proliferation of photography and its role within mass media and contemporary culture. In this richly illustrated volume, Stein turns her astute eye to diverse topics including the rise of colour photography, the place of California in the history of the medium's development, and women and photography between feminism's 'waves', as well as insightful considerations of a host of photographers from Jacob Riis to Helmut Newton, Ansel Adams to Dorothea Lange, Susan Meiselas to Dawoud Bey. She has consistently sought to challenge readers to think afresh about the social uses of photography and their broader contexts and far-reaching effects." -- Provided by publisher.

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Forced exposure (1977) -- Making connections with the camera: photography and social mobility in the career of Jacob Riis (1983) -- Seeking the photographic cure (1987) -- On location: the placement (and replacement) of California in 1930s photography (2000) -- The president's two bodies: stagings and restagings of the New Deal body politic (2004) -- FDR, disability, and politics: a view from the south (2005) -- JFK and the culture of images: review of David M. Lubin's Shooting Kennedy (2006) -- Close-ups from afar: contested framings of the Spanish Civil War in U.S. print media, 1936- (2008) -- Women and photography between feminism's waves (2010) -- Toward a full-color turn in the optics of modern history (2015) -- For love or money? Gisèle Freund's pioneering pursuit of photographic portraiture in color (2018) -- The cons and pros of portraiture in contemporary art discourse and practice (2023) -- The beckoning (and still early reckoning) of color in interwar America (2024).