On Photography

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780795000508
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Photography written by Susan Sontag and published by . This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780235615
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Photography written by Walter Benjamin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry Carroll
Publisher : Laurence King
ISBN 13 : 9781786279156
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photographers on Photography written by Henry Carroll and published by Laurence King. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374521344
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camera Lucida written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1981 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.

Author : David Campany
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262359464
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Photographs written by David Campany and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate meditation on photography for the ages, curated around 120 epochal photographs. In On Photographs, curator and writer David Campany presents an exploration of photography in 120 photographs. Proceeding not by chronology or genre or photographer, Campany's eclectic selection unfolds according to its own logic. We see work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Yves Louise Lawler, Andreas Gursky, and Rineke Dijkstra. There is fashion photography by William Klein, one of Vivian Maier's contact sheets, and a carefully staged scene by Gregory Crewdson, as well as images culled from magazines and advertisements. Each of the 120 photographs is accompanied by Campany's lucid and incisive commentary.

Author : Diarmuid Costello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351970836
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Photography written by Diarmuid Costello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nathan Jurgenson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786635461
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Photo written by Nathan Jurgenson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714839370
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Photography Book written by Editors of Phaidon Press and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2000-04-30 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher : Leetes Island Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic Essays on Photography written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by Leetes Island Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nathan Lyons
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photographers on Photography written by Nathan Lyons and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1966 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: