When Photography Errs. A Review of Esther Gabara's <em>Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil</em> (Durham, NC and London: Duke UP, 2008)

Authors

  • Andrea Noble Durham University

Keywords:

ethos, photography,

Abstract

The academic study of photography more generally, and the photography of Latin America in particular, took off in the last decades of the twentieth century, and is thriving in the twenty-first. From the early efforts to establish the field, such as Victor Burgin’s Thinking Photography (1982) and John Tagg’s The Burden of Representation (1988), through Liz Wells’ student guide, Photography: A Critical Introduction (originally published in 1997 and now in its fourth edition), aided and abetted by the rise of visual culture studies, photography has overcome its Cinderella status to become a legitimate object of academic analysis.

Author Biography

Andrea Noble, Durham University

Andrea Noble is a Latin Americanist with research interests in visual culture studies -- particularly film and photography -- and Mexican cultural history. Her work to date has engaged with a range of methodological approaches, including those derived from feminist and gender studies, cultural memory, history of the emotions, reception and spectatorship, semiotics, and visual anthropology. She is Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University.

Published

2010-09-01

How to Cite

Noble, A. (2010). When Photography Errs. A Review of Esther Gabara’s <em>Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil</em> (Durham, NC and London: Duke UP, 2008). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 8(1), 442–447. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/505

Issue

Section

Reviews: Literature and Cultural Studies