Photography and sociology: an exercise in serendipity

HM Sociology;N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR;TR Photography

Eldridge, Alison ; Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ; Hopkins, David

University:University of Glasgow

Department:School of Culture and Creative Arts

关键词: Photography, sociology, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams, cultural and social theory.;   

Others  :  http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7392/1/2016EldridgePhd.pdf

来源: University of Glasgow

【 摘 要 】

This thesis examines the relationship between photography and sociology as offering complementary ways of understanding ourselves and the world we live in. Drawing from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams, I examine the idea of a ‘field’ of photography within the field of cultural production more generally. The practises of documentary photography, photojournalism and fine art photography are explored with specific reference to images of war. In this arena, the politics, aesthetics and ethics of representing the body in pain are addressed.