Boring pictures: photography as art of the everyday: Chapter 20 in Bull, Stephen (ed) A Companion to Photography

Clare Gallagher; Stephen Bull

Boring pictures: photography as art of the everyday: Chapter 20 in Bull, Stephen (ed) A Companion to Photography

Clare Gallagher
, Stephen Bull (Editor)

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Abstract

This chapter examines the intersection of art, quotidian theory and everyday experience, and addresses the difficulties and potential successes that emerge in attempting to draw them together. It asks how art might facilitate our engagement with the everyday and help reveal its complexity without elevating or partitioning that experience. The author focuses particularly on photography, arguing that its accessibility, indexicality and connection with time and transience accommodate the contradictions and dualities of the everyday. Artists, photographers and quotidian theorists are drawn together here in order to ascertain strategies for examining the everyday that avoid the traditional emphasis on the surreal or strange.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Companion to Photography
Place of Publication	Chichester
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Chapter	20
Pages	351-367
ISBN (Print)	1405195843, 9781405195843
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 28 Jun 2019

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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

aesthetics
art
everyday
noticing
photography
resistance
sensible
quotidian

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