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On Photography
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-06
On Photography written by Susan Sontag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06 with categories.
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as " a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous " In Plato' s Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching " Brief Anthology of Quotations."
On Photography
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-12-04
On Photography written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with Photography categories.
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites'The Times 'A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves'Washington Post 'The most original and illuminating study of the subject'New Yorker One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.
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Author : Diarmuid Costello
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-22
On Photography written by Diarmuid Costello and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-22 with Philosophy categories.
What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose? In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry, Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more, drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, James Welling, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others, and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake, Peter Henry Emerson, Edward Weston, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin, and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between "sceptical" and "non-sceptical" Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton, and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick Maynard. Written in a clear and engaging style, On Photography is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of photography, aesthetics, art, and visual studies.
Photographers On Photography
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Author : Henry Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Laurence King
Release Date : 2022-02-10
Photographers On Photography written by Henry Carroll and has been published by Laurence King this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-10 with categories.
Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Photographers on Photography reveals what matters most to the masters. With enlightening text by Henry Carroll, author of the internationally bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, you'll discover how the giants of the genres developed their distinctive visual styles, the core ideas that underpin their practice and, most importantly, what photography means to you.
On Photography
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Author : Walter Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2015-10-15
On Photography written by Walter Benjamin and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with Photography categories.
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.
The Mind S Eye
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Author : Henri Cartier-Bresson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Mind S Eye written by Henri Cartier-Bresson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Photography categories.
"Now ninety years old, Cartier-Bresson seldom photographs; he devotes much of his time to drawing, and remains as forceful and discerning as ever in his writings. The last section of The Mind's Eye includes his commentary on photographer friends he has known - including Robert Capa, Andre Kertesz, Ernst Haas, and Sarah Moon - which reveal the impassioned and compassionate vision for which Cartier-Bresson is beloved."--BOOK JACKET.
The Social Photo
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Author : Nathan Jurgenson
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2019-04-30
The Social Photo written by Nathan Jurgenson and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Photography categories.
A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world. With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens through which many of seek to communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch-up; this major fixture of everyday life is still often treated in the terms of art or journalism. In The Social Photo, social theorist Nathan Jurgenson develops bold new ways of understanding photography in the age of social media and the new kinds of images that have emerged: the selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo. Jurgenson shows how these devices and platforms have remade the world and our understanding of ourselves within it.
The Photography Book
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Author : Editors of Phaidon Press
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 2000-04-30
The Photography Book written by Editors of Phaidon Press and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-30 with Performing Arts categories.
This is an unsurpassed collection of 500 superb images that represent the world's best photographers from the mid-19th century to today, arranged alphabetically by photographer, from pioneers such as Gustave Le Gray and Daguerre to icons such as Robert Capa, to innovative and emerging photographers around the world. Original.
Classic Essays On Photography
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Author : Alan Trachtenberg
language : en
Publisher: Leetes Island Books
Release Date : 1980
Classic Essays On Photography written by Alan Trachtenberg and has been published by Leetes Island Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Photography categories.
Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2019-10-29
On Photography written by Susan Sontag and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with Photography categories.
'The most original and illuminating study of the subject.' The New Yorker Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives. 'Complex and contradictory... one of America's greatest public intellectuals' Observer 'Susan Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites.' The Times 'A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have had in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves, over the years.' Washington Post