What Photography Is
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- Hardcover ausgewählt
- Taschenbuch
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 253.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
26.04.2011
Verlag
Taylor and FrancisSeitenzahl
236
Maße (L/B/H)
22.2/14.5/1.7 cm
Gewicht
600 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-415-99568-9
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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