Photography A Middle-Brow Art |
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| Editor:
| Bourdieu, Pierre |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7456-1715-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
| Publisher: | Polity Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.99 |
Book Description:
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The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than the social uses of this ordinary art.
The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than the social uses of this ordinary art.