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CodeDS/UK/496
Person NameLister; Martin (c 1948-); Art, media and cultural historian, curator.
Datesc 1948-
ActivityCuration:
2007: ‘Images of Europe’ exhibition and essay for ‘Heresies’: A retrospective of Pedro Meyer’s photography, exhibited in 100 museums worldwide, October 2008. http://www.pedromeyer.com/museums/mfs.php
1996: The Photographic Image in Digital Culture: Exhibition and launch of ‘From Silver to Silicon’ , Watershed Media Centre, Bristol and the Photographer’s Gallery, London.

Curation and Exhibition Organising at Cockpit Gallery
1980 - 86: Our Way of Rockin': the meaning of a youth culture, with David Hampshire, ACGB Photographer in Residence (Cockpit Theatre and Arts Workshop, ILEA).
Promises, Promises...Growing Up in the Fifties and Sixties. Aspects of British youth culture in the post-war period. With Henry Grant and the archives of the Times Educational Supplement.
Family, Fantasy and Photograph: the representation of the family. With the Jo Spence and the Polytechnic of Central London.
Who’s Still Holding the Baby?: Myths of individual motherhood and identity. With Jo Spence and the Hackney Fashers Photography Co-operative.
Beyond the Family Album...Public and Private Images. With Jo Spence and Photography Workshop.
Spare Rib Magazine and 100 Months of Women’s Liberation. With the Spare Rib Collective.
Home Truths... An Exhibition About Women and the Design of Houses. With ‘Matrix’ Women’s Architecture Cooperative.
Being at School, with Andrew Dewdney and Dave Hampshire
The Good Ones Have Their Top Buttons Done Up. With Paul Willis and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS), University of Birmingham and The Polytechnic of Central London.
Changing Attitudes Towards the Young Offender. With Sarah McCarthy, University of Sunderland.
Homeworking: Historical and Contemporary images. ILEA Equal Opportunities Unit
Approaches to Urban Education. With the Centre for Urban Educational Studies, ILEA.
Girls’ Subcultures, with Anita Corbin, ACGB ‘Photographer of the Year’.
Published WorksBooks Authored:

2017: ‘New Media: A Critical Introduction’, Chinese edition, Routledge, ISBN: 978-7-309-12112-4
2008: Fully revised 2nd Edition New Media: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, London and New York. ISBN 978-0-415-43161-3
1988: Youth, Culture and Photography . (With Andrew Dewdney). MacMillan, 1988. ISBN 0 333 39179 9 and 0 333 39180 2.

CD-Rom
1996: Producer of the CD-Rom: From Silver to Silicon: A CD-Rom about photography, technology and culture, London. ARTEC. ISBN: 0 9527954 0 Xa
Author, ‘A Visual Essay: Photography, Technology and Culture’, in the CD-ROM ‘From Silver to Silicon’. London. ARTEC. ISBN: 0 9527954 0 X

Chapters in books
2016: ‘Is the camera an extension of the photographer?’, in Cruz, Gomez, Lehmuskallio, Asko, Digital Photography and Everyday Life. Routledge, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-138-89981-0
2014: ‘On overlooking, rarely looking, and not looking at photographs’ in Jonas Larsen and Mette Sandbye ( eds.): Digital Snaps. The New Face of Photography. IB Tauris, 2014. ISBN: 9781780763323
2011: The Times of Photography’ in ‘Time in Modernity: Changing Media: Alternative Temporalities’, Palgrave. In press.
2009: “Olvidar la technologia?’ (Forget Technology?) in "Instantáneas de la teoría de la fotografía”, SCAN, Grafiques Arrels, Catalunia. ISBN 978-84-92839-11-7
2008: 4th REVISED EDITION: ‘Photography in the Age of Electronic Imaging’. In Photography: A Critical Introduction. London and New York, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-30704-X
‘The Electric Image’ in The Electric Image, Chris Kitze, New York, powerHouse Books, ISBN 978-1-57687-438-7, Library of Congress 20088920425
Greek Edition, 3rd REVISED EDITION: ‘Photography in the Age of Electronic Imaging’. In Photography: A Critical Introduction. Plethron (translation by Penelope Petsini).
2006: ‘Can we construct a canon for art in a post-industrial age’, in Kimmo Lehtonen (ed) ‘Shifts: Archives in Dialogue and New Identities in Documentarism’, International Photography Research Network, ISBN 1-873757-16-6 and 951-97304-5-1. Also at: http://www.theiprn.org/index.php
‘Photography, Presence, and Pattern’ in Photography Theory, James Elkins (ed) Vol. 2 of the series The Art Seminar, London and New York, Routledge. December. ISBN: 9780415977821.
2005: Dangerous metaphors: meaning in immersive media’, in Furby J and Randell K (eds) Screen Method: Comparative Methods in Film Studies, Wallflower Press, London. ISBN 1-904764-27-4
‘Photography’ in Blackwell’s Encyclopaedia of Sociology. George Ritzer (ed) ISBN -10:1405124334.
2003: 3rd REVISED EDITION: ‘Photography in the Age of Electronic Imaging’. In Photography: A Critical Introduction. London and New York, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-30704-X
‘Introductory Essay’ for ‘The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’, (originally published 1995) selected for inclusion in the ‘Photography Reader’ Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-24661-X
2000: ‘Seeing Beyond Belief: Cultural Studies as an approach to analysing the visual’, in ‘The Handbook of Visual Analysis’ (ed) Theo van Leeuwen, Sage, London, California, New Delhi. ISBN 0 7619 6477 0
2ND REVISED EDITION: ‘Photography in the Age of Electronic Imaging’. In Photography: A Critical Introduction. London and New York, Routledge. Short-listed for the Reind M de Vries Foundation European Photography Prize, 2001.
1997: ‘Photography in the Age of Electronic Imaging’. In Photography: A Critical Introduction. London and New York, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-12559-6
Ensayo introductorio, in ‘La imagen fotografica en la cultura digital’ (Spanish edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture.) Published by Paidos, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Mexico. ISBN 84-493-0409-1
1995: ‘Introductory Essay’ in ‘The Photographic Image in Digital Culture’, London and New York, Routledge. ISBN 9 780415 121576
The Celebration of Identity’. In Photography/Politics Two. Eds. Jo Spence, Pat Holland, Simon Watney. London, Comedia Press. ISBN 0 906890 89 6.
1985: The Work of The Cockpit Cultural Studies Department’. In ‘Photographic Practices: Towards Different Image’. Eds. Stevie Bezencenet and Philip Corrigan. London, Comedia Press. ISBN 09006890500.
Cultural Studies in Art Education’. The Dept. of Cultural Studies. The Cockpit Arts Workshop. ILEA. London.
1978: Art, Schooling and Contemporary Culture, In ‘Schooling and Culture’ Journal, The Dept. of Cultural Studies. The Cockpit Arts Workshop. ILEA. London.

Edited Books:
2013: The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. 2nd edition. London and New York, Routledge. Series: Comedia ISBN: 978-0-415-53529-8
2011: ‘The New Media and Technocultures Reader’ (with Seth Giddings) London and New York, Routledge, ISBN13: 978-0-415-46914-2
1997: La imagen fotografica en la cultura digital, published by Paidos, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Mexico. ISBN 84-493-0409-1. Spanish edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture
1995: The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. London and New York, Routledge. ISBN 9 780415 121576

Articles in journals:

2011: ‘¿Demasiadas fotografías? La fotografía como contenido generado por el usuario’. En: adComunica. Revista Científica de Estrategias, Tendencias e Innovación en Comunicación, nº 2. Castellón: Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Comunicación adComunica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid y Universitat Jaume I, 25-41. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/2174-0992.2011.2.3
2009: ‘The Challenge of New Media: Learning and Teaching in the New Media Ecology’, in ‘Networks’ the journal of the ADM-HEA. Spring.
‘Straw Men and Cyborgs, with Dovey J, in ‘Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture’, special edition on ‘Media Studies 2.0’, Intellect, January
2007: ‘A Sack in the Sand: Photography and Information’, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Sage.
1999: ‘The Experimental Self’, in New Media & Society, Vol 1, No 3. ISBN 1461-4448
1993: ‘The Living Death of Photography and Walter Benjamin’s Ghost’. In Ffotofactions, Chapter Arts Centre and Ffotogallery, Cardiff. ISBN 1872771084
1989: ‘The Politics of Photography in Education’. In TEN-8 Journal. Issue 25. ISBN 01429663
1986: Youth and Photography. With A. Dewdney. In TEN-8 Journal. Issue 21. ISBN 01429663.
1985: The Uses of Photography. In ‘The English Magazine’ London. ISBN 0144 6487
1978: Notes on the Concept of Creativity in ‘Learning to Labour’ by P. Willis: A Review. In ‘Schooling and Culture’ Journal. Issue 2. Summer ISBN 0 7085 0027 7.
Art, Schooling, and Contemporary Culture. In ‘Schooling and Culture’ Journal. Issue 1. March. ISBN 0 7085 0027 7.

Report
1994 ‘Navigations’. Report on the 4th UK National Photography Conference. Commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Journal Editor: 2007- cont
Founding co-editor of ‘Photographies’ journal, Routledge, ISSN 1754-0763
1978-84: Schooling and Culture Journal. Inner London Education Authority. ISSN: O 7085 0027 7
SourceMartin Lister's personal website, http://www.martinlister.info/ Accessed May 2023
Stevie Bezencenet and Philip Richard D. Corrigan, Photographic Practices: Towards a Different Image, Comedia Series (London: Comedia, 1986). (Contributor)
Catalogue
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CPGCockpit Gallery Archive
CPG/2/16'Being at School', Cockpit Gallery Holborn, 1 - 19 Jul 1985
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