Isms: Understanding Photography

Isms: Understanding Photography packs an enormous amount of detail into a handy, attractive guide tracing the evolution of photography through a series of interconnected trends, groups, themes and movements – from the invention of the photographic process to the post-internet age. Organised chronologically, this is a uniquely international, comprehensive guide to photography with concise, readable and jargon-free but scholarly insight into major photographers, movements and themes of the past 170 years. In an age where photography is of more resonance and interest than ever before, Isms: Understanding Photography offers an in-depth and clear exposition of photography for the interested general reader or student. Emma Lewis is curator here at Turner and worked on the Resistance exhibition. Lewis was previously Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, where she curated the Dora Maar exhibition as well as delivering Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life, Modigliani and Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017. Lewis is the author of Photography – A Feminist History (Tate/Ilex 2021) and Guest Curator for Sue Williamson & Lebohang Kganye at The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Spring 2023). Her post is supported by a Curatorial Research Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Dana & Albert R. Broccoli Charitable Foundation.