What Photography Is
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What Photography Is
Book Details
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Equipment, Techniques & Reference
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780415995696
- ISBN-10
- 0415995698
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ISBN: 0415995698
Author: Elkins, James
Condition: New
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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