Abigail Solomon Godeau Inside Out Pdf
This is a summary of the essay as it appeared in Public Information Desire, Disaster,Document (SFMOMA 1994).Solomon-Godeau sees Sontag’s On Photography as critical of photography’scolonisation of the world and points out that Sontag found that there were certainapproaches to photography, in particular, that objectified people. Theseapproaches prevented the viewer having empathy with the subject and Arbus’swork was typical of this. Arbus photographed deviants (social, physical and thosethat looked deviant) in a way that prevented compassionate involvement. As a result,Sontag sees her as a morbid voyeur.
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Presenting two decades of work by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography after Photography is an inquiry into the circuits of power that shape photographic practice, criticism, and historiography. As the boundaries that separate photography from other forms of artistic production are increasingly fluid, Solomon-Godeau, a pioneering feminist and politically engaged critic, argues that the relationships between photography, culture, gender, and power demand renewed attention. In her analyses of the photographic production of Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Susan Meiselas, Francesca Woodman, and others, Solomon-Godeau refigures the disciplinary object of photography by considering these practices through an examination of the determinations of genre and gender as these shape the relations between photographers, their images, and their viewers. Among her subjects are the 2006 Abu Ghraib prison photographs and the Cold War-era exhibition The Family of Man, insofar as these illustrate photography's embeddedness in social relations, viewing relations, and ideological formations.