
Contemporary Photography and Theory
Miller, S. (2020) Contemporary Photography and Theory. London: Bloomsbury.
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Contents
Part One Photography and identity
Contents
1 The honorific and the subjugated portrait 9
2 The blank portrait and the intimate record 21
3 The portrait and the contemporary self 31
Part Two Photography, landscape and place
4 The politics of place 45
s Non-place and new topologies 57
6 Ruins and the Anthropocene 67
Part Three Photography, performance and the Politics of representation
7 Gender and the selfie 79
8 Race, history and time s7
g Performativity and disability 97
Part Four Photography and psychoanalysis
10 Psychoanalysis, representation and desire 109
11 Psychoanalysis, spectatorship and the gaze 117
12 The politics of enjoyment 127
Part Five Photography and the event
13 Photography, memory, history u9
14 Post-photojournalism and contemporary images of conflict 149
15 Photography, empathy and responsibility 1s9
Notes 171
Select Bibliography 208
Index 234
Index A-C
10 Years (Strauss) 27-30
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Crary) 26
A
Abandoned Futures (Lam) 72-3, 73
Adams, Parveen ll5, ll7, 195 n.19
Adelman, Marc Stelen 137, 139, 145-7
Adelman, Rebecca 156-7, 167
the aftermath 4, 137, 159-63, 166, 168, see also late photography
Aftermath (Meyerowitz) 68-71
After September 11: Images from Ground Zero ( exhibition) 68
Agamben, Giorgio 165-6, 206 n.32
Albdorf, Thomas 2, 53-6; General View 53-6, 55
algorithms 31, 35-8; algorithmic governmentality 37; algorithmic identity 35; socioalgorithmic 39
Almerisa (Dijkstra) 169
The Ambassadors (Holbein) 121
ambivalence 10, 48; and late photograph 159, 161, 166-7; and ruin 68-9, 71
An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (Knight) 45
Anden-Papadopoulos, Kari 145
And Still We Gather with Infinite Momentum (King) 52-3, 53
Anthropocene 3, 44, 68, 71-2, 75-6
Anti-Self Portraits (Swanson) 100-1
appropriation 127, 129
Arbus, Diane 100, 192 n.20
archive 12-13, 15, 17,26,90, 139
ATM 32, 39, 175 n.8
Auerbach, Jeffrey 47
Auge, Marc 2, 57, 59-60, 181 n.7, see also non-place
Austin, J. L. 79
authenticity 25, 28, 86, 90, 129, 143
Awakenings (Laycock) 105-6, 106
Azoulay, Ariella 202-3 n.7
B
Badger, Gerry 10
Baer, Alejandro 146
Bangert, Christoph 3, 137, 151-3, 156
hello camel 151-3, 152
War Porn 151
bare life 165-6
Bate, David 17, 45, 51
Becher, Bernd and Hilla 57-8, 63
Beck, John 58
Begley, Josh
Officer Involved 179 n. 29
Beiley, Jean-Baptiste 90-3
Berlant, Lauren 29-30, 175 n.45
Berns, Thomas 37
Bertillon, Alphonse 14-16
Bertillon card 15-16, 16
Better the Devil You Know (Mosse) 154
big data 35, 176 n.22
Birchall, Clare 65
13lalock, Lucas 3, 107, 109-10, ll4-16
Two Lettuces 109-10, llO, ll4-16
Blas, Zach
Facial Weaponization Suite 33-5, 34
Bleed (Norfolk) 161-3, 162
‘The Body and the Archive’ (Sekula) 12
Bolaki, Stella 103-5
Bratich, Jack 66
Brave New World (Huxley) 62
Bridle, James
Seamlesss Transitions 62
Bright, Deborah 67
Brown, Wendy 26
Bryson, Norman 23
Buckingham, Matthew 3, 68
The Six Grandfathers, Paha
Sapa, in the Year 502,002
C.E 75-6, 75
Buggenhagen, Beth 95
Burbridge, Ben 24-5
Burgin, Victor 195 n.20
Burke, Edmund 51
Butler, Judith 3, 79-82, 87-9, 99, 101
Frames of War 203 n.13
Gender Trouble 3, 79-80
C
Calle, Sophie
Cash Machine 31-3, 39
Campany, David 159-60
Campbell, David 151
cancer, representation of 97, 101-4
capitalism 26-7, 70, 72, 73, 82
psychoanalytic readings of 109-10,
113-14, 116,123, 128-30
Cariou v Prince 128
Carmi, Ayelet 49, 51
carte de visite 10-12, 32
Caruth, Cathy 139-40
Cash Machine (Calle) 31-3, 39
Chandra, Mohini
Dark Pacific Sun 46-8, 47, 56
Charcot, Jean-Martin 25-6, 173 n.18
Chayka, Kyle 60
Cheney-Lippold, John 35-6, 38
Cheng, Wendy 58
Cho, Lily 24
Chouliaraki, Lilie 150-1, 157
citizen journalism 31, 145, 149
citizenship 24, 88, 93-4
class 11-12, 16-17, 28, 46, 88, 99, 119, 120,
123, 140, 175 n.45
Claude glass 46, -i
Colebrook, Claire 70-1
collodion process 49
colonialism 2, 90
and citizenship 93-5
and land 47-8,55, 72, 74-5
colonial picturesque 47
communicative capitalism 128-30
Conrad, Joseph 155
Copjec, Joan 107, 112, 117, 120, 121, 123,
124, 197 n.42, 197 n.47
Costas, Jana 61
Crary, Jonathan 26
Cresswell, Tim 61
Crimp, Douglas 81
‘Crni Vrh, Untitled No.4’ (Norfolk) 161-2,
162
The Cruel Radiance (Linfield) 153-4
cybernetic categorization 36
D-H
D
daguerreotype 10
Dark Pacific Sun (Chandra and
Stewart) 46-8, 47, 56
data 26, 31, 33-8, 128-9, 177 n.35, see also
big data
data-mining 36-7
dataveillance 35
Dean, Alison 23, 27, 30
Dean, Jodi 72, 128-30, 199 n.26
Deep South (Mann) 48-51, 50
Demos, T. J. 72, 74-5, 207 n.47
Denti, Antonio 137
The Surviving Frame 156-7
depression, representation of 98
Diamond, Elin 80-1
Dijkstra, Rineke
Almerisa 169
Dillon, Brian 71
Diop, Omar Victor 3
Project Diaspora 90, 91, 93-5
disability, representation of 3, 77,
97-106
and performativity 97-100
disciplinary power 29, 85, 87, 99
Dolar, Mladen 115
Douglas, Kate 146
Downey, Anthony 206 n.32
E
Eberhard, Roger 2
Standard 59-60, 60
Ehlers, Nadine 87-8
Eklund, Douglas 127
Elahi, Hasan 2, 7
Tracking Transience 37-9, 177 n.39
empathy 28, 149-51, 156-7
Eppert, Claudia 142-3
Essays on Physiognomy (Lavater) 14
eugenics 16
Excellences & Perfections (Ulman) 3, 79, 80,
82, 85-6, 188 n.38
F
Facebook 31, 86
facial recognition technology 31, 33
Facial Weaponization Suite (Blas) 33-5 , 34
Faulkner, Simon 163, 167
Faustine, Nona 3
‘From Her Body Sprang Their Greatest
Wealth’ 95-6
White Shoes 95
Felman, Shoshana 139-40
feminism 83, 123, see also
postfeminism
A Few Good Men (Reiner) 132
‘filter bubble’ 37
football 90, 93-5
Foucault, Michel 2, 12-3, 40, 85
carceral network 13
governmentality 13, 37
power/knowledge 13
The Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis
(Lacan) 121
Frames of War (Butler) 203 n.13
Freeman, Elizabeth 89-90
Freud, Sigmund 26,111, 130-1
Totem and Taboo 130
Friedlander, Jennifer 120, 123
‘From Her Body Sprang Their Greatest
Wealth’ (Faustine) 95-6
Frosh, Paul 146
Fu, Vivian 7, 39-41, 40
G
Galton, Francis 14-17, 16, 33
Garland-Thompson, Rosemarie 97, 99<
103
misfitting 101
staring 100, 103 Gefeller, Andreas Soma 57, 62-3, 62
gender 3,95,99, 140
and performativity 77, 79-86, 88-9G. – –
97, 104
and psychoanalysis 107, 117, 119, 1:
and technology 33, 36, 39
Gender Trouble (Butler) 3, 79
General View (Albdorf) 53-6, 55
Ghadirian, Shadi 3
Qajar 88-90, 89
Gilbert, Jeremy 4-5, 26
Gill, Rosalind 83-4
Gilpin, Rev. William 45
the girl 82-6
Girodet, Anne-Louis 91-2, 95
Giroux, Henry 4-5, 96, 203 n.10
globalization 57, 60-1, 146
Godfrey, Mark 75
Goldin, Nan 27, 39
Google 36, 38, 177 n.31
Google Street View 54-5, 181 n.52
Governing the Soul (Rose) 29
Grace (Perrier) 8, 9, 17-19, 18-19
Gram, Sarah 86
Grant, Catherine 39
Grech, Marija 76
Green, David 14, 16, 40
Ground Zero 68-71
H
Hall, Rachel 33
Happy Birthday (Nakadate) 119
Hayward, Mark 32, 175 n.8
Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 155
Heer, Melissa 88
hello camel (Bangert) 151-3, 152
Hirsch, Marianne 140-1, 200 n.12, see also postmemory
Holocaust, representation of 139-47; ‘Americanization of ‘ 144
Homo Sacer (Agamben) 165
Hook, Derek 111, 130
Horvitz, David
Mood Disorder 98
Huxley, Aldous 62
hysteria 25-6, 173 n.18
I-P
I
ideology 3, 4, 33, 46, 94, 184 n.11
psychoanalytic readings of 107, 117,
122-3, 125,130,135
iEarth (Zylinska) 74
Im, Heungsoon 4, 137
Jeju Notes 167
Immediate Family (Mann) 49
‘In Defense of the Poor Image’
(Steyer!) 156
Infra (Mosse) 153-6, 154, 204 n.40
‘Inside Out’ (Solomon-Godeau) 28
Instagram 31, 39, 79-80, 85-6, 127-9
psychoanalytic readings of 131-3,
136
intimacy 27, 29-30, 55, 119, 147
Iraq War 151-2
Iversen, Margaret 196 n.29
J
Jain, Sarah Locklann 100, 104-5
Jeju Notes (Im) 167
K
Kafer, Alison 100, 105-6
Kant, Immanuel 51
Keenan, Thomas 66, 152, 155-6
Kember, Sarah 172 n.24
Kennedy, Liam 68-9, 149, 162
Killen, Gemma 39
King, Justin James 2
And Still We Gather with Infinite
Momentum 52-3, 53
Knight, Richard Payne 45-6
Koerner, Joseph L. 43
Koh, Dong-Yeon 167
Korean War 167
Kotz, Liz 27
Kozol, Wendy 167
Kuppers, Petra 97
Kurgan, Laura 55
L
Lacan, Jacques 3, 107, 111
castration 111
desire 112-13, 133
fantasy 113-15, 123
the gaze 120-2, 125
Imaginary, Symbolic, Real 122
jouissance 130
love 116
object-cause of desire 112, 115
objet a 112-13, 116, 193 n.14
the Other 133
sexual difference 123-4
traversing the fantasy 136
Laing, Rosemary 4, 137
‘welcome to Australia’ 163-6, 164
Lam, Tong 3, 68,
Abandoned Futures 72-3, 73
late photography 4, 159-63, 165-8
Laub, Dori 139-40
Lavater, Johan Kaspar 14
Laycock, Hannah 3
Awakenings 105-6, 106
Levinthal, David 3, 137
Mein Kampf 139, 141-3, 142,200 n.12,
201 n.16
Levy, Daniel 146
Life in AdWords (Scourti) 36-7
Limit Telephotography (Paglen) 63, 65-6, 65
Linfield, Susie 153-4
Lisle, Debbie 161, 168
Lorrain, Claude 45-6
Love Hotel (Nakadate) 197 n.49
Lowe, Paul 161, 163
Lowry, Joanna 25
Luckhurst, Roger 72
Lucky Tiger (Nakadate) 118-19, 119, 125
Lyon, David 31-2
M
McGinley, Ryan 39
McGowan, Todd 111, 113, 120, 122, 131-4,
193 n.14
society of enjoyment 132-4
society of prohibition 131
McGrath, Jason 73
McRobbie, Angela 83-5
McRuer, Robert 99
Maguire, Emma 86, 188 n.38
Mann, Sally 2
Deep South 48-51
Immediate Family 49
Untitled (Emmett Till River Bank) 50
Marshall, William 43
Matzner, Tobais 38
Mein Kampf (Levinthal) 139, 141-3, 142,
200 n.12, 201 n.16
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of
Europe 145
memory 3, 137, 139-41, 144-7, 162-3,
see also multidirectional memory;
postmemory
Meyerowitz, Joel 3, 68-71
migrant, representation of 94-5
Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene
(Zylinska) 71
‘The mirror stage as formative of the I
function .. .’ (Lacan) 121
Mirzoeff, Nicholas 71-2, 92
Mitchell, Juliet 117
Mitchell, W. J. T 43, 46, 48-9
Mciller, Frank 160, 166, 168-9
‘Monique Showing Black Eye’ (Strauss) 30
Mood Disorder (Horovitz) 98
Mosse, Richard 3, 137
Better the Devil You Know 154
Infra 153-6, 204 n.40
multidirectional memory 3, 139, 147
Mulvey, Laura 117-18, 120-3, 125,196 n.34
Murray, Derek Conrad 40
N
Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) 27
Nakadate, Laurel 3, 107, 118-20, 125,
197 n.49
Happy Birthday 119
Love Hotel 197 n.49
Lucky Tiger 118-19, 119
Nakamura, Lisa 33, 39
nature,r epresentation of 2, 43,4 6, 48,5 4,
74-6
neoliberalism 3-5, 30, 132, 203 n.10
and gender 77, 82-6
and place 44, 57, 59, 63, 181 n.52
and race 77, 94-6
and subjectivity 21, 26
and surveillance 31, 175 n.8
New Portraits (Prince) 3, 127-9, 135-6
New Topographies (exhibition) 57-8, 63
non-place 2, 57, 59, 60-3, 181 n.7, 18 ,._
Norfolk, Simon 4,137,206 n.15
Bleed 161-3, 162
Nye, David 51
O
Occupation (Shibli) 167-8, 168
Officer Involved (Begley ) 179 n.29
O’Gorman, Ned 52, 68-9
Ong, Aihwa 93
Orvell, Miles 28, 51
P
Paglen, Trevor 2, 57
Limit Telephotography 63-6, 65
Pariser, Eli 3 7
passport photograph 24
peace photograph 168-9
‘the perfect’ 84-5
performance 3, 12, 25, 27, 34, 77, 79
and disability 97, 101, 103-4, 106
and gender 79-81, 86
and performativity 79-81
and race 86, 87-90, 95
Perrier, Eileen 2, 7
Grace 8,9, 17-19, 18-19
Perry, Weena 69
Peters, Clorinde 96
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of a. r
Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
(Burke) 51
photojournalism 149-51, see also postphotojournalism
‘Photojournalism in a Postphotographic Age
(Kennedy) 149
Photoshop 109,115
phrenology 14
physiognomy 14, 23, 26, 35
picturesque 2, 43-4, 45-52, 58, 65, 76,
178 n.3
pixilation 129, 156-7
police, use of photography 12, 15, 22, 30
portrait 2-3, 7, 9-18, 21-8, 30-2, 37-8, 41
blank portrait 2, 7, 21-7
honorific portrait 2, 7, 9, 12, 16-8,
23,91
sel f -portrait 40, 77, 79, 81, 85, 90, 93,
95, 98, 100-3, ll8, 143-4, 146 (see also
selfie)
subjugated portrait 2, 7, 12, 17-18, 22,
173 n.3
Portrait of Citizen Jean-Baptiste Beiley,
Ex-Representative of the Colonies
(Girodet) 91-2, 95
postcolonialism 75, 93
post-feminism 82-3, 85-6
postmemory 3, 140
postmodernism 81, 127, 129
post-photojournalism 3, 137, 157
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the
Young-Girl (T iqqun) 82-3
Prince, Richard 3, 107
New Portraits 127-9, 135-6
Untitled (Cowboy) 127
Project Diaspora (Diop) 90, 91, 93-5
psychoanalysis
and anxiety 114-15
and capitalism 109-10, 113-14, 116,
123, 128-30
and desire 107, ll0-16, 125, 133-4,
193 n.14
and enjoyment 127-8, 130-4, 136
and fantasy 3, ll2-16, 123-5, 131-6
and the gaze 3,107, 117-18, 120-2,
125, 135
and ideology 3, 107, 117, 122-3, 125,
130,135
objet a 107, 112-16, 194 n.19
the Other 133-5
repression 111
sexual difference 3, 123-5, 197 n.42,
197 n.47
Psychoanalysis and Feminism (Mitchell) 117
Pugh, Simon 47
Q-Z
Q
Qajar (Ghadirian) 88-90, 89
Quetelet, Adolphe 15-16
R
race 3, 12.3_ ; and neoliberalism; and performativity 99,105; and technology 33, 38-9; and whiteness 50, 86, 87, 93
Radstone, Susannah 141, 143
Ray, Gene 185
Raymond, Clare 30, 50, 17 4 n.40
refugee, representation of 163-4
Reigeluth, Tyler 35
retinal scanning 33
Ritchin, Fred 151
Roberts, John 154, 160, 163,202 n.2
Rose, Nikolas 29
Rothberg, Michael 144, 146-7, see also
multidirectional memory
Rottenberg, Catherine 92-3
Rouvroy,A ntoinette 37,1 77 n.35
Rudd, Annie 11-12
ruins 2, 67-70, 72-3
S
Salpetriere hospital 25
Saltz, Jerry 128
Schechner, Alan
Self Portrait at Buchenwald 143-4,
144
Schjeldahl, Peter 127
Scourti, Erica
Life in AdWords 36-7, 39
Seamlesss Transitions (Bridle) 62
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky 104
Sekula, Allan 2, 12, 14-15, 17, 22
selfie 40, 85-6, 130, 134-5, 145-6
dark selfie, 145-6
selfie-fantasy (Uzlaner) 135
‘Self Portrait at Buchenwald’
(Schechner) 139, 143-4, 144
‘Self Portrait in a Single Breasted Suit with
Hare’ (Taylor-Johnson) 101-4, 103
sexuality 30, 34, 39, 85-6, 88, 102, 104,
145-7
Sharma, Sarah 61, 63, 182 n.35
Sherman, Cindy 81-2, 85, 186 nn.11, 12
Shibli, Ahlam 4, 207 n.47
Occupation 167-8, 168
Trackers 207 n.47
Siebers, Tobin 98-9
The Six Grandfathers, Paha Sapa,
in the Year 502,002 C.E
(Buckingham) 75-6, 75
slavery 50, 90-2, 96, 147
sleep 25-7
smile 17
Smith, Shawn Michelle 15
social media 2, 31, 36, 39, 54, 82, 85-6,
127-30, 145, 188 n.33
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail 28
Soma (Gefeller) 57, 62-3, 62
Stallabrass, Julian 2, 21-3, 150
Standard (Ebherhard) 57, 59-60, 60
Stara, Alexandra 63
statistical stereotyping 36
Stavrakakis, Yannis 114, 133
Stehli, Jemima 3, 107, 118, 120, 125,
195 n.13
Stelen (Adelman) 139, 145-7
Stewart, Christopher
Dark Pacific Sun 46-8, 47, 56
Steyer!, Hito 156
Stinson, James 54, 181 n.52
Strauss, Zoe 7, 21, 27-30; ‘Monique Showing Black Eye’ 30; 10 Years
Strip (Stehli) 27 118, 120, 125, 195 n.13
Sturken, Marita 70
subjectivity 2-3, 7, 12-13, 23, 25-7, 52, 59, 89, 106, 175 n.45; and gender 82, 84, 86; and neoliberalism 21, 23, 26; and technology 35-7, 39-40
sublime 2, 43, 44-5, 51-4, 68-72, 165, 184 n.l, 185 n.26
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Zizek) 123
surveillance 14, 27, 31-5, 38-9, 61, 84, 167, see also dataveillance; facial recognition technology; retinal scanning
survival 30, 102, 104, 167-8
Surviving Frame, The (Denti) 156-7
Swanson, Laura 3; Anti-Self Portraits 100-1, 103
Sznaider, Natan 146
T
Tagg, John 4, 12, 22, 45
Taylor-Johnson, Sam 3, 101-4, 103
technology 31-6, 54-5, 60, 74, 82, 150
digital editing 56, 63, 74, 75, 107, 109,
139, 143 (see also Photoshop)
photographic 2, 23, 49-50, 160
temporal drag 89-90
Teukolsky, Rachel 11
Tiqqun
Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the
Young-Girl 82-3
Totem and Taboo (Freud) 130
Trackers (Shibli) 207 n.47
Tracking Transience (Elahi) 37-9
Two Lettuces (Blalock) 109-10, 110
Tyler, Imagen 164, 187 n.25
U
Ulman, Amalia
Excellences & Perfections 79-80, 80, 82,
85-6, 188 n.38
Untitled ( Cowboy) (Prince) 127
Untitled (Emmett Till River Bank)
(Mann) 49-50,50
Untitled (von Zwehl) 21-2, 22, 25-7, 173 n.9
Untitled Film Stills (Sherman) 81-2
Uzlaner, Dmitry 135
Uzwiak, Beth 29-30
V
Vanderwees, Chris 69-71
Vanier, Alan 111
vernacular photography 7, 17, 39, 79, 120
‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’
(Mulvey) 117
von Zwehl, Bettina 2, 7, 21-2, 22, 25-7,
173 n.9
voyeurism 27-9, 120, 155
W
Wallis, Brian 66
war, representation of 49, 66, 69-71, 147, 149-57, 159-61, 166-7
War Porn (Bangert) 151
Warren, John T. 88
Watkins, Carelton E. 54, 180 n.51
Welch, Edward 32, 61
‘welcome to Australia’ (Laing) 163-6, 164
‘What Kind of Thing ls “Neoliberalism”?’
(Gilbert) 4
‘W hat’s in a Face?’ (Stallabrass) 21
White Shoes (Faustine) 95-6
Wikipedia 98
Witkin, Joel-Peter 100
witnessing 139-43, 145-7, 150
XYZ
Yosemite 53-5, 180 n.51, 181 n.52
l11cl
‘The Yosemite Valley from the “Best CL·1tl” ,tl
View “‘ (Watkins) 54, 180 n.51
Zimmer, Catherine 31
Zizek, Slavoj 112-13, 120, 123, 131
the empty gesture 135
fantasy 112, 123, 134
A Few Good Men (Reiner) 132
the gaze 121
Zolghadr, Tirdad 155
Zylinska, Joanna 3, 68, 71-5, 74; iEarth 74-5, 74; Minimal Ethics for the
Anthropocene 71