期刊名称：E-rea : Revue Électronique d’Études sur le Monde Anglophone
电子版ISSN：1638-1718
出版年度：2014
卷号：11
期号：2
页码：1-4
DOI：10.4000/erea.3912
出版社：Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
摘要：Jane Tormey ". . . discusses uses of photography in the context of art practice, and relates them to wider cultural debates" to quote the back cover. The book is divided in two parts, part 1 acting as a sort of theoretical introduction, and the much longer part 2 developing six different modalities of realism in contemporary photographic practice (dialogic, poetic, fictional, phenomenal, political, discursive). Ms Tormey's program is very promising: "My context is the cultural exchange reframing practice and the development of photographic aesthetic following modernism, which is largely determined by American photography and its extension in Europe" (5) when "post-structural aesthetics" — a term she prefers over the contested "postmodern" — operated a massive renewal in photography, ending the modernist belief in the metaphorical power of images and the supremacy of the artist over his (passive) subject. This revolution eventually reconciled "the visual and sensational [here meaning relating to the senses] with the conceptual and ideological in the developing photographic aesthetic." (182) Ms Tormey brings an enormous amount of (contemporary) philosophical knowledge to the task, mainly drawing from what has come to be known as "French Theory" (Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, with occasional forays into Lyotard) in the Anglo-American world.
