Queer Methodology for Photography

Queering Photography offers new approaches to photographic discourse from a queer perspective, linking artistic strategies to theoretical concepts and addressing identity, difference, and the limitations of binary categorization. It proposes a new concept of the photographic image as a queer quality that can voice concerns beyond representation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 134 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking book delves into innovative approaches to photographic discourse from a queer perspective, offering insightful discussions on the potential of a queer methodology in photography. By forging connections between artistic strategies in photographic practice and key theoretical concepts from photography theory, queer theory, critical theory, and philosophy, it explores the possibilities of diversifying queer methodologies for photography.

While primarily focusing on photography, this book intertwines with broader philosophical inquiries into identity, difference, and the construction of systems of thought that confine existence to binary categorization. It presents a novel concept of the photographic image that encompasses its materiality, manifested through the poetic and the political, in relation to a generative principle identified as a queer quality: the photographs' ability to voice queer concerns beyond their role as representation.

This book is of immense interest to scholars engaged in the fields of photography, art history, queer studies, new materialism, and posthumanism. It offers a rich tapestry of insights and perspectives that will deepen our understanding of the photographic medium and its potential to challenge and transform established narratives.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032285375