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The Meaning of Photography
Contributor(s): Kelsey, Robin (Editor), Stimson, Blake (Editor)
ISBN: 0300121504     ISBN-13: 9780300121506
Publisher: Clark Art Institute
OUR PRICE:   $24.70  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2008
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Photographs by Sharon Harper, Lilla LoCurto/Bill Outcault, and Fiona Tan
Additional contributions by Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Jose Falconi, Anne McCauley, Vik Muniz, Jorge Ribalta, John Roberts, Eric Rosenberg, Eric C. Shiner, and Bernd Stiegler
How can we write the histories of photography? How should art history and visual studies integrate the special technical and aesthetic challenges posed by the medium and respond to the intense interest it has provoked in the art world in recent years? In this timely volume, more than twenty leading scholars discuss the discipline, practice, historiography, and study of photography, from William Henry Fox Talbot to Louise Lawler, and reflect on the status of photography today. In addition, the book features works by important contemporary artists that probe and illustrate these same issues, together offering new perspectives on the field and what photography means to us in the early 21st century.

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BISAC Categories:
- Photography | History
- Photography | Criticism
Dewey: 770
LCCN: 2008018643
Series: Clark Studies in the Visual Arts
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7" W x 9.4" (1.45 lbs) 208 pages
 
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With essays by Geoffrey Batchen, Fran ois Brunet, Mary Ann Doane, Jos Luis Falconi, Robin Kelsey, Douglas R. Nickel, Blake Stimson, and John Tagg, and additional contributions by Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Anne McCauley, Jorge Ribalta, John Roberts, Eric Rosenberg, Eric C. Shiner, and Bernd Stiegler

Photo essays by Sharon Harper, Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, Fiona Tan, and Akram Zaatari

How can we write the histories of photography? How should art history and visual studies integrate the special technical and aesthetic challenges posed by the medium and respond to the intense interest it has provoked in the art world in recent years? In this timely volume, fifteen leading scholars discuss the discipline, practice, historiography, and study of photography, from William Henry Fox Talbot to Louise Lawler, and reflect on the status of photography today. In addition, the book features works by important contemporary artists that probe and illustrate these same issues, together offering new perspectives on the field and what photography means to us in the early 21st century.