@article{693603,
      author = {Solomon-Godeau, Abigail.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/693603},
      title = {Photography at the dock : essays on photographic history,  institutions, and practices /},
      publisher = {University of Minnesota Press,},
      abstract = {"[E]xamines the politics - both implicit and explicit -  that inform photographic criticism, history, and practice.   It is a revisionist approach to the medium's history, a  critique of photographic modernism and the institutions  that promote it, and a feminist exploration of the camera's  role in producing (and reproducing) dominant social and  sexual ideologies.  Drawing from cultural theory, feminism,  art theory, and the history of photography, Solomon-Godeau  examines relations among ideology, representation, and  camera culture in a variety of ways.  She begins with a  critique of the role of cultural institutions, art  historians, collectors, and dealers in constructing  histories of photography that privilege modernist  aesthetics at the expense of history and context.  The  section of the book considers the place of photography  within postmodernism.  The third section concerns the  politics that inform traditional documentary practices as  well as those underlying more recent work that attempts to  renovate and revitalize the form.  Finally, Solomon-Godeau  examines the sexual politics of photography in the context  of contemporary feminist theory and art practice." -- Cover  flap.},
      recid = {693603},
      pages = {xxxiv, 322 p. :},
      address = {Minneapolis :},
      year = {1991},
}