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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
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Classification 778 ELK w
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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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