Photography: theoretical snapshots
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Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world's leading critics and theorists. It introduces new means of looking at photographs, and addresses the question of photography history, revisiting the work of some o…
Outlining the history of photography and explaining the body of theory which has built up around its use, this book guides the reader through the genres of documentary, portraiture, landscape, still life, art and global photography.--[book cover].
In this title Martha Langford explores the nature of memory and art. She challenges the conventional emphasis on the camera as a tool of perception, arguing that photographic works are products of the mind: picturing memory is first and foremost the expression of a mental proces…
Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory…
From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it …
