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Routledge What Photography Is

Name: What Photography Is
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In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and also about pain, because extremely powerful images can sear permanently into our consciousness. Extensively illustrated with a surprising range of images, the book demonstrates that what makes photography uniquely powerful is its ability to express the difficulty--physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic--of the act of seeing.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0415995698
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 September 2009
Listed Since: 29 September 2008

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