ABSTRACT
Photography is ubiquitous. There is almost no aspect of our lives that is untouched by photographic imaging in some form or another, whether online or in the physical world. There has been a welcome increase in research and publication on histories of photography and on the work of individual photographers or movements. Some themes dispersed, only to reappear in modified forms. For example, in the 1970s and 1980s, questions of representation relating to class, gender and ethnicity were extensively discussed. Indeed, the most significant developments over the following 25 years have been in the field of what was initially termed ‘new media’, in other words, areas of practice and of viewing experience that were transformed through digital experimentation and innovation and the expansion of virtual space. Terms such as ‘hybrid’, ‘convergent’, ‘telematic’ and ‘networked’ acquired meaning in relation to spheres of practice that had previously seemed separate in terms of technology.
