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Why People Photograph
Robert Adams
Paperback - $23.95
Photographs, selected essays, and reviews by Robert Adams
This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Pho ...
Light Writing and Life Writing : Photography in Autobiography
Timothy Dow Adams
Paperback - $53.95
On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of poststructuralism, the role of photography in autobiography is far from simple or one-dimens ...
Message from the Darkroom
Eugene Atget
Hardcover - $349.95
Once upon a time, in the first half of the twentieth century, photography was considered a purely mechanical art--if it was considered an art at all. Carlo Mollino's Message From the Darkroom, originally published in Italy in 1949 and now one of the ...
Criticizing Photographs : An Introduction to Understanding Images
Terry Barrett
Paperback - $75.95
This brief text is designed to help both beginning and advanced students of photography better develop and articulate thoughtful criticism. Organized around the major activities of criticism (describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing), "Cr ...
Each Wild Idea : Writing, Photography, History
Geoffrey Batchen
Paperback - $37.95
In "Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the ve ...
Magnum Stories
Chris Boot
Hardcover - $117.95
This master class in a book presents 62 of the world's greatest photographers discussing their different approaches to taking pictures, offering an insight into their working methods.
The Passionate Camera : Photography and Bodies of Desire
Deborah Bright
Paperback - $95.95
"The Passionate Camera" contains over 200 color and black-and-white images by "sex radical" photographers including Lyle Ashton Harris, Catherine Opie, and Ajamu. The book assembles over 50 artists, scholars, and critics to examine the relationship b ...
Words of Light : Theses on the Photography of History
Eduardo Cadava
Paperback - $46.95
"Eduardo Cadava is one of the most exciting younger critics working today in literary and cultural studies.... If the future of literary studies depends in no small measure on the capacity of traditional disciplines to adapt and transform themselves, ...
The Mind's Eye : Writings on Photography and Photographers
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Hardcover - $30.95
The first compilation of writings by a master of photography.
One of the leading lights in photography of the twentieth century, Henri Cartier-Bresson is also a shrewd observer and critic. His writings on photography and photographers, which have ...
The Photograph as Contemporary Art
Charlotte Cotton
Paperback - $30.95
An ideal introduction to this popular subject in contemporary culture, this highly readable book surveys work by more than 150 artist-photographers: Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Richard Billingham, Jurgen Teller, Thomas Demand, ...