Photography: A Middle-Brow Art

by Pierre Bourdieu

Book Overview

The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu and his research associates show that few cultural activities are more structural and systematic than photography.

This perceptive and wide-ranging analysis of the practice of photography reveals the logic implicit in this cultural field. For...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726892
• ISBN13: 9780804726894
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"