On Photography

On Photography

• Author : Susan Sontag
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2001-06
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 207
• ISBN 10 : 0795000502

Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as " a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous " In Plato' s Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching " Brief Anthology of Quotations."

On Photography

• Author : Susan Sontag
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2023-06-01
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 207
• ISBN 10 : OCLC:889842004

This is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

On Photography

• Author : Walter Benjamin
• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• Release Date : 2015-10-15
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 128
• ISBN 10 : 9781780235615

Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay “A Short History of Photography” is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the first time. Translator and editor Esther Leslie sets Benjamin’s work in context with prefaces to each piece and contributes a substantial introduction that considers Benjamin’s engagement with photography in all its forms, including early commercial studio photography, the uses of photography in science, and much more.

The Social Photo

• Author : Nathan Jurgenson
• Publisher : Verso Books
• Release Date : 2019-04-30
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 145
• ISBN 10 : 9781788730914

"Mr. Jurgenson makes a first sortie toward a new understanding of the photograph, wherein artistry or documentary intent have given way to communication and circulation. Like Susan Sontag’s On Photography, to which it self-consciously responds, The Social Photo is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free." – New York Times A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world. With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens through which many of us seek to communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch-up; this major fixture of everyday life is still often treated in the terms of art or journalism. In The Social Photo, social theorist Nathan Jurgenson develops bold new ways of understanding photography in the age of social media and the new kinds of images that have emerged: the selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo. Jurgenson shows how these devices and platforms have remade the world and our understanding of ourselves within it.

Photographers on Photography

• Author : Henry Carroll
• Publisher : Laurence King
• Release Date : 2022-02-10
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 128
• ISBN 10 : 1786279150

Through a carefully curated selection of quotations, images and interviews, Photographers on Photography reveals what matters most to the masters. With enlightening text by Henry Carroll, author of the internationally bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, you'll discover how the giants of the genres developed their distinctive visual styles, the core ideas that underpin their practice and, most importantly, what photography means to you.

On Photography

• Author : Susan Sontag
• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Release Date : 2011-04-01
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 224
• ISBN 10 : 9781429957113

Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato's Cave"essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."

Camera Lucida

• Author : Roland Barthes
• Publisher : Hill and Wang
• Release Date : 2010-10-12
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 0374532338

Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death and loss more acutely than any other medium. This groundbreaking approach established Camera Lucida as one of the most important books of theory on the subject, along with Susan Sontag's On Photography.

On Photography

• Author : Diarmuid Costello
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-09-22
• Genre: Philosophy
• Pages : 204
• ISBN 10 : 9781351970839

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose? In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry, Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more, drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, James Welling, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others, and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake, Peter Henry Emerson, Edward Weston, Siegfried Kracauer, André Bazin, and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between "sceptical" and "non-sceptical" Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton, and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick Maynard. Written in a clear and engaging style, On Photography is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of photography, aesthetics, art, and visual studies.

Susan Sontag s On Photography

• Author : Nico Epstein
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2018-02-21
• Genre: History
• Pages : 118
• ISBN 10 : 9780429939884

Susan Sontag’s 1997 text, On Photography, brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defence of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in the field. Sontag explains the way in which we are addicted to images and depend on them for knowledge of our surroundings and the problems and challenges this causes. Already an established academic figure, Sontag brought Walter Benjamin’s theories in into the academic mainstream. The book retains its relevance in the everyday world because of the applicability of its ideas to the world of digital photography.

Fifty Key Writers on Photography

• Author : Mark Durden
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-02-15
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 298
• ISBN 10 : 9781135117344

A clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct overview of writing on photography from a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives and examines the shifting perception of the medium over the course of its 170 year history. Key writers discussed include: Roland Barthes Susan Sontag Jacques Derrida Henri Cartier-Bresson Geoffrey Batchen Fully cross-referenced and in an A-Z format, this is an accessible and engaging introductory guide.

A Treatise on Photography

• Author : Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1897
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 402
• ISBN 10 : WISC:89057183121

Click You Your first book on Photography

• Author : Vishal Diwan
• Publisher :
• Release Date : 2023-06-01
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 978186723xxxx

The purpose of this book is to be the first book for all D-SLR Photography beginners all over India and beyond. You may want to pursue Photography as a hobby or you want to earn your bread with Photography, this book is for you. The intention of the author is to share knowledge about Photography in the simplest terms possible. You can pick up the learning of few years in few months. Good news for people who want to make a career in photography or make a part time income doing Photography.

Classic Essays on Photography

• Author : Alan Trachtenberg
• Publisher : Leetes Island Books
• Release Date : 1980
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 326
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015066040174

Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.

Photographers on Photography

• Author : Jerry C. LaPlante
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1979
• Genre: Photographers
• Pages : 148
• ISBN 10 : UVA:X001626774

Lichfield on Photography

• Author : Patrick Lichfield
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1981
• Genre: Photography
• Pages : 218
• ISBN 10 : PSU:000032539257