Photography after postmodernism : Barthes, Stieglitz and the art of memory / David Bate.

After postmodernism -- Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida -- Return of the tableau -- The lactation of meaning -- Stieglitz : the migration of meaning -- Archival dream -- Photographic episteme.

"Addressing the visual landscape that emerged in the postmodern world, David Bate introduces a new approach to the analysis of photographs and their place within the aftermath of postmodernist thinking. This book shows how photographs circulate in an 'image-world' that exists beyond art and media origins, affecting our sense of time and its relationship to memory. Re-thinking the arguments of Roland Barthes' 'Camera Lucida' and the development of modern photography and discourse from Alfred Stieglitz, Bate demonstrates the complex ways in which photographic images resonate across public and private spaces, while carrying a slippage of meaning that is never quite fixed, yet always contingent and social. Featuring colour images from Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall and Laurie Simmons, these innovative readings of photographs and visual media open new avenues of thought for those studying or researching visual culture and photography"-- Provided by publisher.