Thinking photography

by Burgin, Victor

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Concerned with the production of meaning in photographs.

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Title Statements

Full title :Thinking photography / edited by Victor Burgin.

Summary

Concerned with the production of meaning in photographs.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1982.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Macmillan
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1982.

Notes

"Victor Burgin and his collaborators ... challenge the concept of the autonomous, spontaneously creative artist, the idea of documentary truth in photography and the notion of purely visual languages. They develop an account of the production and meaning of a photograph within social institutions - advertising, journalism, art - within a society with a history and within the unconscious."--Page 4 of cover.

The Physical Object

Description:239 pages : : illustrations, portraits ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0333271947, 9780333271940, 0333271955, 9780333271957
oclc:ocm08551533
LC Classification:TR642
Dewey Decimal:779

The author as producer / Walter Benjamin -- Critique of the image / Umberto Eco -- Photographic practice and art theory / Victor Burgin -- On the invention of photographic meaning / Allan Sekula -- The currency of the photograph / John Tagg -- Looking at photographs / Victor Burgin -- Making strange: the shattered mirror / Simon Watney -- Photography, phantasy, function / Victor Burgin.

Subjects

21.40 photographic art: general Art and photography art photography Aufsatzsammlung Bibliographies (form) Fotografie Images, Photographic Kunstbeschouwing Kunsttheorie Photographie Photographie artistique Photography Photography -- Philosophy Photography -- Psychological aspects Photography, Artistic