ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses the field of photographic theory in its basic interrogation of how photographic meanings are constructed. It aims to show the changes and mutation of a field of photographic practice, by way of their popular usage on the Internet and the different ways they are embedded in the “practice of every-day life.” The book focuses on globalism, the scopic drive, and history all set out in their different ways to address the more general questions about photography that any student of the practices of photography might want to investigate. It deals with a particular genre, considering the mutations it has received in the hands of photography and the aims that it sets out to achieve. The book also focuses on theory considers semiotics as a method for the analysis of the structure of photographs.
