Bøker av David Bate

Aiming to re-evaluate the status and usage of the photographic image in historical surrealism, this book seeks to locate the use of photography by surrealists within the cultural discourses of that historical moment.

An all-encompassing introduction to photography that illuminates the dynamic role and character of this art form.

Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography.

A collection that combines visual works with critical essays around the theme of everyday life to explore the concept of otherness and highlight photography as a form of critical practice. Put together in this way, the book images and text work in dialogue with one another to construct a new perspective on questions of otherness and alterity.

Discusses photography, offering various ways of approaching photography, showing how photographs circulate in an 'image world' that exists beyond their art and media origins. This book argues that these images permeate people's minds as much as the environment and that photography has affected our sense of time and its relationship to memory.