Value added goods : essays on contemporary photography, art and ideas

We cite from the FOREWORD:
"This collection of essays by twenty Australian writers, critics and artists constitutes the fourth in a series of critical anthologies published by the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Its predecessors, Shot (1993), Post (1995), and A Small History of Photography (1997), each represent a corresponding public lecture program of the same title. Value Added Goods departs from this tradition, amalgamating four separate lecture series into one, spanning the years 1996 to 1999. In addition to the 1996 series of the same name, Value Added Goods incorporates selected papers from the untitled 1997 series, 'Barbie World' (1998) and 'Static' (1999)."
"This bumper publication constitutes a record of real-time presentations and conversations, offering many and varied entry points into contemporary photographic culture. Papers are ordered chronologically, preserving the distinctive flavour and loose thematic groupings of each series as it was originally envisioned."
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