The Culture of Photography in Public Space

Download or read book The Culture of Photography in Public Space written by Anne Marsh and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From privacy concerns regarding Google Street View to surveillance photography’s association with terrorism and sexual predators, photography as an art has become complex terrain upon which anxieties about public space have been played out. Yet the photographic threat is not limited to the image alone. A range of social, technological and political issues converge in these rising anxieties and affect the practice, circulation, and consumption of contemporary public photography today. The Culture of Photography in Public Space collects essays and photographs that offer a new response to these restrictions, the events and the anxieties that give rise to them.