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What Photography Is

By James Elkins

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What Photography Is

By James Elkins

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2011-04-26
Publication Date:
2011-04-26
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
041599568X
ISBN13:
9780415995689
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
438 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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