What Photography Is Paperback / softback
by James Elkins
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 67 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:26/04/2011
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- ISBN:9780415995696
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 67 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:26/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415995696