Photography after Postmodernism: Barthes, Stieglitz and the art of memory/
David Bate
- Oxford; Routledge; 2022
- 188p; 24x15cm
In Photography After Postmodernism, David Bate examines how our understanding of photography has shifted in the era beyond postmodernism by revisiting and reinterpreting key ideas from Roland Barthes and Alfred Stieglitz. He argues that photographs now circulate within a broader “image-world” that influences our memory, sense of time, and cultural experience. Bate engages with archival, mnemonic, and temporal frameworks—such as “afterwardness”—to show how photographic meaning is never fixed but constantly rewoven through social, historical, and private contexts.