Photograph

Name: Photograph
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ISBN: 9780192842480

ISBN-10: 019284248X

ISBN-13: 9780192842480

Edition: 1997

Authors: Graham Clarke

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How do we read a photograph? In this rich and fascinating work, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most engaging thinkers on the subject, such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. From the first misty "heliograph" taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz and the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Clarke provides a groundbreaking examination of photography's main subject areas--landscape, the city, portraiture, the body, and reportage--as well as a detailed analysis of exemplary images in terms of their cultural…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/8/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.63" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.606
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
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