Photography after Postmodernism av David Bate

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<P>In life after postmodernism our conception of photography is not the same as before. <I>Photography After Postmodernism</I> starts with this conception and explores what changes have affected photography, its relation to social life and our image-centred culture.</P><P>Engaging with the visual environment and issues that have emerged in the postmodern world, David Bate introduces fresh approaches and analysis of photographs and their place within the aftermath of postmodernist thought. The book shows how photographs circulate in an ''image-world'' beyond their art or media origins that deeply affects our sense of time and relation to memory. The role of archives, dreams, memories and time are deployed to develop and resituate arguments about photography made by Roland Barthes in <I>Camera Lucida</I> to further engage and understand our contemporary condition. By considering how ¿afterwardness¿ is invoked in the developments of modern and contemporary photography, Bate demonstrates t