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May 26, 2010
J. J. Long, Andrea Noble, and Edward Welch, eds. Photography: Theoretical Snapshots New York: Routledge, 2009. 192 pp.; 8 b/w ills. Paper $37.95 (9780415477079)
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Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson, eds. The Meaning of Photography Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2008. 208 pp.; 75 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780300121506)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.56

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Despite its relative youth as a field of academic inquiry, the study of photography has reached a point where it has a discernable history. In 2005, two major conferences sought explicitly to wrestle with, outline, account for, and depart from the past twenty-five to thirty years of scholarly writing on photography, which was itself predated by several decades of influential studies of photographic objects within the context of the art museum. The books under consideration...