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Abigail Solomon-Godeau

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I do not consider my work to be particularly theoretical, although my writings on photography, like those on art history or contemporary art, are informed by the theorists, past and present, who have shaped my thinking overall. Perhaps my essays are best characterized as a form of practical criticism
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insofar as they engage with specific bodies of work, historical contexts, social relations, and institutional structures, rather than with the more philosophical questions manifested in the new field of the philosophy of photography.
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Solomon-Godeau, Abigail (2017), "The Family of Man: refurbishing humanism for a postmodern age", in Parsons, Sarah (ed.),
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Solomon-Godeau has produced over 100 works in 236 publications in 4 languages. Her writing focuses on
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The Image of Desire; Femininity, Modernity, and the Birth of Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century France
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Modern style: dressing down (issues raised by Museum of Modern Art's "Fashioning Fiction”),
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Photography At The Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices,
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Living with Contradictions: Critical Practices in the Age of Supply-Side Aesthetics,
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Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) in the collections of Musees d'Art et d'Histoire,
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Photography at the Dock. Essays on Photographic History, Institution, and Practices
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The Other Side of Vertu: Alternative Masculinities in the Crucible of Revolution,
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The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art,
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Abigail Solomon-Godeau is an art critic and art historian who taught at the
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Reconstructing Documentary: Connie Hatch's Representational Resistance,
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A Photographer in Jerusalem, 1855: Auguste Salzmann and His Times,
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Photography after photography : gender, genre, history
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Photography after photography : gender, genre, history
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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set
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Cannon fodder. Photography, speech, feminism , the textual,
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Photophilia: A Conversation about the Photography Scene,
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Torture à Abou Ghraib : les médias et leur dehors,
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Among the exhibitions Solomon-Godeau has curated are;
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Photography after Photography. Gender, Genre, History
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