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Photography: A Very Short Introduction [#151]
Photography: A Very Short Introduction [#151]
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  • A clear, lively, and imaginative approach to the definition, importance, and meaning of photography
  • Challenges readers' notions about the definition of photography, and why it is such an important part of our cultural life
  • Includes both well-known and more unusual photographs, from the highly controversial Cottingley Fairies photograph to Ansel Adams landscapes, and from the shocking and influential Eddie Adams image of a Vietcong suspect being executed to the portrait work of Cindy Sherman.

   
Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives from sensationalist images in tabloid papers and snapshots, to art photograpy displayed in galleries and sold through international art markets. In this thought-provoking exploration of the subject, Edwards combines a sense of the historical development of photography with an analysis of its purpose and meaning within a wider cultural context. He interrogates the way we look and think about photographs, and considers such issues as truth and recording, objectivity and fine art, identity and memory.

Index: 

1: Forgetting Photography
2: Documents
3: Pictures
4: What is a photograph?
5: The apparatus and its image
6: Fantasy and remembrance
Afterword: Digital photography
Further reading

About the author: 

Dr Steve Edwards is Research Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. Publications include the successful Art and its Histories (Yale, 1999), as Editor.

Product details

ISBN : 9780192801647

Author: 
Steve Edwards
Pages
176 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Aug 2006
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Photography: A Very Short Introduction [#151]

Photography: A Very Short Introduction [#151]

Photography: A Very Short Introduction [#151]