Why Photography Matters
A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts.Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works—not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and lucid meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. He constructs an argument that moves with natural logic from Thomas Pynchon (and why we read him for his vision and not his command of miscellaneous facts) to Jonathan Swift to Plato to Emily Dickinson (who wrote Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”) to detailed readings of pho…
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- ISBN: 978-0-262-31687-3
- EAN: 9780262316873
- Produktnummer: 27868076
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 98 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'739 KB
- Abbildungen: 7 B&W ILLUS.
Über den Autor
Jerry L. Thompson is a working photographer who also writes about photography. He worked as Walker Evans's principal assistant from 1973 to Evans's death in 1975. He is the author of The Last Years of Walker Evans and Truth and Photography.
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