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
Subjects:	photography history historiography Newhall pictorialism documentary
Online Access:	http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/media_183179_en.pdf

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description	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 the Present. Since the mid 1980s till today, a number of major history of photography textbooks that aimed to provide an alternative to Newhall’s have been published. These volumes fulfill, in different ways, the desire for a history that 'breaks free from an evolutionary narrative,' that 'traces the journey of an image, as well as its origin', or 'sees beyond Europe and the United States'. But do these new books really represent a 'new kind of history'?
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A new kind of history? The challenges of contemporary histories of photography

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