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The culture of photography in public space / edited by Anne Marsh, Melissa Miles, Daniel Palmer.

Contributor(s): Marsh, Anne, 1956- [editor.] | Miles, Melissa [editor.] | Palmer, Daniel (Professor of art) [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical photographyPublisher: Bristol : Intellect Books, 2015Description: 192 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781783204595 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Photography -- Social aspects | Photography -- Political aspects | Photography | PhotographyDDC classification: 770 Summary: From privacy concerns regarding Google Street View to surveillance photography's association with terrorism and sexual predators, photography as an art has become complex terrain upon which anxieties about public space have been played out. Yet the photographic threat is not limited to the image alone. A range of social, technological, and political issues converge in these rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and consumption of contemporary public photography today. This title collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions, the events, and the anxieties that give rise to them.
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From privacy concerns regarding Google Street View to surveillance photography's association with terrorism and sexual predators, photography as an art has become complex terrain upon which anxieties about public space have been played out. Yet the photographic threat is not limited to the image alone. A range of social, technological, and political issues converge in these rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and consumption of contemporary public photography today. This title collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions, the events, and the anxieties that give rise to them.

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