A new kind of history? The challenges of contemporary histories of photography

Since the late 1970s there have been recurrent calls for a new history of photography. Geoffrey Batchen effectively summarized these calls, generally expressing a wish for separation from the historiographic model formulated by Beaumont Newhall in his classic The History of Photography from 1839 to...

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Main Author: Ya'ara Gil Glazer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2010-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/media_183179_en.pdf