Photography and Political Aesthetics

This accessible book explores the creative uses of photography with political purpose, both in terms of subject matter and of the political perspectives that have driven attitudes to viewing photographs.

Jane Tormey is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory (2020) and Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer (2021) and the author of Cities and Photography (2012) and Photographic Realism: Late Twentieth Century Aesthetics (2013). She is an independent scholar and Honorary Fellow of Loughborough University.

Introduction Part I 1. Power Relations 2. Representation, Aesthetics, and Documentary 3. Instrumental Purpose and Disruption Part II 4. Image, Knowledge, and Argument 5. Immersive Worlds 6. Citizen Relations 7. Histories, Archives, and Fictions 8. Political Aesthetics