Title | PH1 What Photography Is |
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Call Number | 778 ELK w |
ISBN/ISSN | 978-0-415-99569-6 |
Author(s) | James Elkis |
Subject(s) | selenite,ice,salt the rapatronic camera linggi |
Classification | 778 ELK w |
Series Title | GMD | Text |
Language | English |
Publisher | routledge |
Publishing Year | 2011 |
Publishing Place | UK |
Collation | 222p ; 21 cm |
Abstract/Notes | In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and also about pain, because extremely powerful images can sear permanently into our consciousness. Extensively illustrated with a surprising range of images, the book demonstrates that what makes photography uniquely powerful is its ability to express the difficulty--physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic--of the act of seeing. |
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