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The Photography Reader
from: Routledge
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780415246613
Edition: 1
ISBN: 041524661X
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: December 20, 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge
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Editorial Review:
The Photography Reader is a comprehensive collection of twentieth-century writings on photography- its production, its uses and effects. Encompassing essays by photographers including Edward Weston and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and key thinkers from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, the reader traces the development of ideas about photography, exploring issues such as identity, consumption, the gaze, and digital technology. Each themed section features an editor's introduction setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Required reading for Photographers
This book includes seminal essays that all photography students should read such as those from Rosler, Sontag and Barthes to name a few. It also includes others that discuss the role of the photographer in the Post Modernist, digital artworld. Together the essays create a discussion about why we photograph the things around us and what happens to the meaning of the image when seen by others.
I reccomend this anthology with 4 rather than 5 stars only because some of the essays are not ... Read More
Rating:  - Philosophical Photography
As the editor Liz Wells remarks in her introduction, this book is concerned with histories of ideas about photography. Even though Wells herself falls into the trap of referring to the materials in this book as photography criticism, this is a book of readings in critical theory of photography, and as such is concerned more with history, sociology, semiotics, aesthetics, and epistemology. All of the works in the book were created after 1930 and include the writings of many of the great public intellectuals, ... Read More
Rating: - Review for photography analysis book
I bought this book for a class. It is a collection of essays by photography critics and theorists examining photography throughout history. It served its purpose for the class and I did find some of our required reading interesting but it wouldn't be my choice for everyday reading.
Rating: - a comprehensive text for contemporary photography
This is the only required book I have ever made my college photography students buy.
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