Basic Critical Theory for Photographers

Name: Basic Critical Theory for Photographers
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ISBN: 9780240516523

ISBN-10: 0240516524

ISBN-13: 9780240516523

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ashley la Grange

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If you want to understand the key debates in photography and learn how to apply the fascinating issues raised by critical theory to your own practical work, this is the book for you! This accessible book cuts through often difficult and intimidating academic language to deliver understandable, stimulating discussion and summaries of the original texts. Key works by great writers such as Sontag and Barthes are explored, along with those from other prominent critics. You are guided through a broad range of issues, including the differences between Eastern and Western art, post-modernism, sexism, the relationship between photography and language and many other crucial debates. The book is…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.49" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



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Frontispiece


Foreword


Acknowledgements



John Berger, Ways of Seeing



John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye and Stephen Shore, The Nature of Photographs



Susan Sontag, On Photography



Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida



Martha Rosler, In, Around and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)



Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Inside/Out



Clive Scott, The Spoken Image: Photography and Language



Andy Grundberg, The Crisis of the Real



Raghubir Singh, River of Colour



Bertrand Russell, Appearance and Reality



Italo Calvino, The Adventures of a Photographer



Poems by Felix Morisseau-Leroy and George Szirtes



Robert Adams', John Baldessari's and Peter Godwin's Analysis of Particular Photographs


Figures


Bibliography


Appendixes


Glossary


Index