Photograph

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ISBN: 9780192842008

ISBN-10: 0192842005

ISBN-13: 9780192842008

Edition: 1997

Authors: Graham Clarke

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From the first misty `heliograph' taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz, to the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and Victor Burgin, the history of photography is a record of dazzling and penetrating images. But photographs are also the most pervasive images of our time, infinite in their capacity to record and make moments significant, granting status to everything they touch. So how do we read a photograph? In a series of brilliant discussions of major themes and genres, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/8/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.37" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction



What is a Photograph?



How Do We Read a Photograph?



Photography and the Nineteenth Century



Landscape in Photography



The City in Photography



The Portrait in Photography



The Body in Photography



Documentary Photography



The Photograph as Fine Art



The Photograph Manipulated



The Cabinet of Infinite Curiosities


Notes


List of Illustrations


Bibliographic Essay


Timeline


Glossary


Index