Cotton, Charlotte
Public, Private, Secret
- ISBN 13:
- 9781597114387
- author:
- Cotton, Charlotte
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Aperture
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 232
- Dimensions:
- 26.4 x 17.8 centimetres (0.59 kg
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Photography, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Public, Private, Secret explores how photography and video shape our identity and challenge social conventions. This collection of essays, interviews, and reflections examines how our image-making and consumption patterns are embedded in online behavior and social codes. The writings address the disruptions, resistances, and subversions that artists propose to mainstream popular culture's limited representations of race, gender, sexuality, and autonomy. By considering these challenges, the authors envision a future for our image-world rich with diversity and alterity, shaped by the agency of self-representation. Through this lens, the boundaries between public and private expression are blurred, and new forms of self-expression emerge in the contemporary image-centric world.