A Little History Of Photography Criticism Or Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography

Author : Susie Linfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226049069

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A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography? by Susie Linfield Pdf

In A Short History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography?, Susie Linfield contends that by looking at images of political violence and learning to see the people in them, we engage in an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence. For many years, Linfield’s acute analysis of photographs—from events as wide-ranging as the Holocaust, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and recent acts of terrorism—has explored a complex connection between the practices of photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals. By asking how photography should respond to the darker shadows of modern life, Linfield insists on the continuing moral relevance of photojournalism, while urging us not to avert our eyes from what James Agee once labeled “the cruel radiance of what is.”

Author : Susie Linfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226482514

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The Cruel Radiance by Susie Linfield Pdf

Susie Linfield addresses the issue of whether photographs depicting past scenes of violence & cruelty are voyeuristic, arguing that if we do not look & understand that we are seeing at people, rather than depersonalised acts of inhumanity, our hopes of curbing political violence today are probably limited.

Author : Erina Duganne,Heather Diack,Terri Weissman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000185003

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Global Photography by Erina Duganne,Heather Diack,Terri Weissman Pdf

This innovative text recounts the history of photography through a series of thematically structured chapters. Designed and written for students studying photography and its history, each chapter approaches its subject by introducing a range of international, contemporary photographers and then contextualizing their work in historical terms. The book offers students an accessible route to gain an understanding of the key genres, theories and debates that are fundamental to the study of this rich and complex medium. Individual chapters cover major topics, including: · Description and Abstraction · Truth and Fiction · The Body · Landscape · War · Politics of Representation · Form · Appropriation · Museums · The Archive · The Cinematic · Fashion Photography Boxed focus studies throughout the text offer short interviews, curatorial statements and reflections by photographers, critics and leading scholars that link photography's history with its practice. Short chapter summaries, research questions and further reading lists help to reinforce learning and promote discussion. Whether coming to the subject from an applied photography or art history background, students will benefit from this book's engaging, example-led approach to the subject, gaining a sophisticated understanding of international photography in historical terms.

Author : Adam Bell,Charles H. Traub
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520284708

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Vision Anew by Adam Bell,Charles H. Traub Pdf

The ubiquity of digital images has profoundly changed the responsibilities and capabilities of anyone and everyone who uses them. Thanks to a range of innovations, from the convergence of moving and still image in the latest DSLR cameras to the growing potential of interactive and online photographic work, the lens and screen have emerged as central tools for many artists. Vision Anew brings together a diverse selection of texts by practitioners, critics, and scholars to explore the evolving nature of the lens-based arts. Presenting essays on photography and the moving image alongside engaging interviews with artists and filmmakers, Vision Anew offers an inspired assessment of the medium’s ongoing importance in the digital era. Contributors include Ai Weiwei, Gerry Badger, David Campany, Lev Manovich, Christian Marclay, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Murch, Trevor Paglen, Pipilotti Rist, Shelly Silver, Rebecca Solnit, and Alec Soth, among others. This vital collection is essential reading for artists, educators, scholars, critics, and curators, and anyone who is passionate about the lens-based arts.

Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108487931

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Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by Sally Barnden Pdf

Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

Author : Terry Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000185546

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Criticizing Photographs by Terry Barrett Pdf

Emphasizing the understanding of images and their influences on how they affect our attitudes, beliefs, and actions, this fully updated sixth edition offers consequential ways of looking at images from the perspectives of photographers, critics, theoreticians, historians, curators, and editors. It invites informed conversations about meanings and implications of images, providing multiple and sometimes conflicting answers to questions such as: What are photographs? Should they be called art? Are they ethical? What are their implications for self, society, and the world? From showing how critics verbalize what they see in images and how they persuade us to see similarly, to dealing with what different photographs might mean, the book posits that some interpretations are better than others and explains how to deliberate among competing interpretations. It looks at how the worth of photographs is judged aesthetically and socially, offering samples and practical considerations for both studio critiques for artists and professional criticism for public audiences. This book is a clear and accessible guide for students of art history, photography and criticism, as well as anyone interested in carefully looking at and talking about photographs and their effects on the world in which we live.

Author : Mary Warner Marien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:440013764

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Photography and its critics by Mary Warner Marien Pdf

Author : Mary Price
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0804729646

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The Photograph by Mary Price Pdf

This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases, that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that the use of a photograph determines its meaning.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781780235615

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On Photography by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay “A Short History of Photography” is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the first time. Translator and editor Esther Leslie sets Benjamin’s work in context with prefaces to each piece and contributes a substantial introduction that considers Benjamin’s engagement with photography in all its forms, including early commercial studio photography, the uses of photography in science, and much more.

Author : Jae Emerling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136521157

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Photography: History and Theory by Jae Emerling Pdf

Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory. From its inception in the nineteenth century, photography has instigated a series of theoretical debates. In this new text, Jae Emerling therefore argues that the most insightful way to approach the histories of photography is to address simultaneously the key events of photographic history alongside the theoretical discourse that accompanied them. While the nineteenth century is discussed, the central focus of the text is on modern and contemporary photographic theory. Particular attention is paid to key thinkers, such as Baudelaire, Barthes and Sontag. In addition, the centrality of photography to contemporary art practice is addressed through the theoretical work of Allan Sekula, John Tagg, Rosalind Krauss, and Vilém Flusser. The text also includes readings of many canonical photographers and exhibitions including: Atget, Brassai, August Sander, Walker Evans, The Family of Man, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sebastaio Salgado, Jeff Wall, and others. In addition, Emerling provides close readings of key passages from some major theoretical texts. These glosses come between the chapters and serve as a conceptual line that connects them. Glosses include: Roland Barthes, "The Rhetoric of the Image" (1964) Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (2002) Michel Foucault on the archive (1969) Walter Benjamin, "Little History of Photography" (1931) Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983) A substantial glossary of critical terms and names, as well as an extensive bibliography, make this the ideal book for courses on the history and theory of photography.

Author : Dominic McIver Lopes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119053170

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Four Arts of Photography by Dominic McIver Lopes Pdf

Four Arts of Photography explores the history of photography through the lens of philosophy and proposes a new scholarly understanding of the art form for the 21st century. Re-examines the history of art photography through four major photographic movements and with case studies of representative images Employs a top-down, theory to case approach, as well as a bottom-up, case to theory approach Advances a new theory regarding the nature of photography that is grounded in technology but doesn’t place it in opposition to painting Includes commentaries by two leading philosophers of photography, Diarmuid Costello and Cynthia A. Freeland

Author : Bonnie Yochelson,Daniel Czitrom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226182865

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Rediscovering Jacob Riis by Bonnie Yochelson,Daniel Czitrom Pdf

Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was the author of How the Other Half Lives (1890). This study of his life and work includes excerpts from Riis s diary, chronicling romance, poverty, temptation, and, after many false starts, employment as a writer and reformer. In the second half, Yochelson describes how Riis used photography to shock and influence his readers. The authors describe Riis s intellectual education and discuss the influence of How the Other Half Lives on urban history. It shows that Riis argued for charity rather than social justice; but the fact that he understood what it was to be homeless did humanize Riis s work, and that work has continued to inspire reformers. Yochelson focuses on how Riis came to obtain his now famous images, how they were manipulated for publication, and their influence on the young field of photography."

Author : Joel Eisinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015034930035

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Trace and Transformation by Joel Eisinger Pdf

This historical survey of American theory and criticism of art photography covers the period from late-nineteenth-century Pictorialism through 1970s formalism. The author deals deftly with the difficulties faced by critics -- from the essential question, how is photography an art at all? to the more modernist question of what constitutes the medium of photography at its pure core.

Author : Terry Barrett, Professor
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0073526533

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Criticizing Photographs by Terry Barrett, Professor Pdf

This brief text is designed to help both beginning and advanced students of photography better develop and articulate thoughtful criticism. Organized around the major activities of criticism (describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing), Criticizing Photographs provides a clear framework and vocabulary for students' critical skill development.

Author : Naomi Rosenblum
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0789209462

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A World History of Photography by Naomi Rosenblum Pdf

"This book investigates all aspects of photography--aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical--while placing photos in their historical context. Included among the more than 800 photographs by men and women are both little-known and celebrated masterpieces, arranged in stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power. Authoritative and unbiased, Rosenblum's chronicle of photography both chronologically and thematically traces the evolution of this still-young art form. Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communication of ideas, Rosenblum devotes special attention to topics such as portraiture, documentation, advertising, and photojournalism, and to the camera as a means of personal artistic expression." -- Product description.