Photography and Culture Volume 4 Issue 3 Author:Kathy Kubicki, Thy Phu, Val Williams Photography and Culture is at the forefront of new critical, reflective and analytical writing on photography. It is pluralistic in its approach and inter-disciplinary, embracing the historic and the contemporary and independent of any one prevailing theoretical critical model. It mirrors and debates new ways of thinking about photography as the... more » photographic image becomes an ever more central player in our personal and public histories and lifestories. It seeks to become an important text for a new community of interest clustered around those who use reference, interpret or analyze photographic images within their chosen fields in arts and humanities, science and social science.
* Aims to rebalance the over emphasis on art historical approaches, to look at vernacular and applied photography
* Embraces the historical, technological, cultural and social aspects of photography, as well as all genres
* Answers a clear need for a vehicle that fosters exchange about photography and culture across a wide range of disciplines and subfields
* Strong interdisciplinary approach
* Offers a forum for diverse voices in the field
* Genuinely international, it seeks to open up the study of photography beyond traditional Eurocentric and Anglo-American perspectives
* Gathers together the most thoughtful writers and thinkers about photography« less