Why Photography Matters

Name: Why Photography Matters
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ISBN: 9780262019286

ISBN-10: 0262019280

ISBN-13: 9780262019286

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jerry L. Thompson

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Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works -- not only as anartistic medium but also as a way of knowing. It matters because how we understand what photographyis and how it works tell us something about how we understand anything. With these provocativeobservations, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and lucid meditation on why photography is unique amongthe picture-making arts. Thompson, a working photographer for forty years,constructs an argument that moves with natural logic from Thomas Pynchon (and why we read him forhis vision and not his command of miscellaneous facts) to Jonathan Swift to Plato to Emily Dickinson(who wrote "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant")…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/23/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Jerry L. Thompson is a working photographer who also writes about photography. He worked as Walker Evans's principal assistant from 1973 to Evans's death in 1975. He is the author of The Last Years of Walker Evans and Truth and Photography.