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Reading into Photography : Selected Essays, 1959-1980

Shelley Armitage, William E. Tydeman, John Szarkowski, Nathan Lyons, Hollis Frampton, William Jenkins, Lewis Baltz, Joel Snyder, Neil Walsh Allen, Sanford Schwartz, Owen Barfield, Rosalind Krauss, Susan P. Compton, Dennis P. Grady, Daniel A. Lindley, Eugenia Parry Janis, James C. Kaufmann, James Hugunin, Carl Chiarenza, Ingrid Sischy, Andy Grundberg

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This anthology contains twenty essays of photographic criticism by twenty-one authors. A wide range of photographic practices - historical, architectural, landscape, portraiture, documentary - are considered in the contexts of philosophy, psychology, literature, and visual art. Topics discussed include: photographic meaning, technology, authorship, representation, pictorialism, topographics, and critical pluralism. Includes artist's statement by Robert Adams. Biographical notes. 307 bibl. ref.

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This anthology contains twenty essays of photographic criticism by twenty-one authors. A wide range of photographic practices - historical, architectural, landscape, portraiture, documentary - are considered in the contexts of philosophy, psychology, literature, and visual art. Topics discussed include: photographic meaning, technology, authorship, representation, pictorialism, topographics, and critical pluralism. Includes artist's statement by Robert Adams. Biographical notes. 307 bibl. ref.

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This anthology contains twenty essays of photographic criticism by twenty-one authors. A wide range of photographic practices - historical, architectural, landscape, portraiture, documentary - are considered in the contexts of philosophy, psychology, literature, and visual art. Topics discussed include: photographic meaning, technology, authorship, representation, pictorialism, topographics, and critical pluralism. Includes artist's statement by Robert Adams. Biographical notes. 307 bibl. ref.

Key concepts: Photography, Representation (politics), Reading (process), Meaning (existential), Visual arts, Pluralism (philosophy), Criticism, Art

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