Abigail Solomon-Godeau

The Contest of meaning : critical histories of photography

Part 1 What are the social consequences of aesthetic practice?: the museums old / the librarys new subject, Douglas Crimp the judgment seat of photography, Christopher Phillips from faktura to factography, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh the armed vision disarmed - radical formalism from weapon to style, Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Part 2 How does photography construct sexual difference?: what becomes a legend most - the short, sad career of Diane Arbus, Catherine Lord of mother nature and Marlboro men - an inquiry into the cultural meanings of landscape photography, Deborah Bright the graphic ordering of desire - modernization of a middle-class womens magazine, 1914-39, Sally Stein dykes in context - some problems in minority representation, Jan Zita Grover. Part 3 How is photography used to promote class and national interests? the corporate year in pictures, Carol Squiers c/overt ideology - two images of revolution, Esther Parada in the American East - Richard Avedon incorporated, Richard Bolton. Part 4 What are the politics of photographic truth?: photographys discursive spaces, Rosalind Krauss in, around, and afterthoughts (on documentary photography), Martha Rosler the body and the archive, Allan Sekula.