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The photograph / Graham Clarke.
In a series of brilliant discussions of major themes and genres, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most engaging thinkers on the subject, such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. At the heart of the book is his innovative examination of photography's main subject areas:landscape, the city, portraiture, the body, and documentary reportage and his detailed analysis of exemplary images in terms of their cultural and ideological contexts.
Record details
- ISBN: 019284248X
- ISBN: 9780192842480
- ISBN: 0192842005
- ISBN: 9780192842008
- Physical Description: 247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1997.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-232) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | What is a photograph? -- How do we read a photograph? -- Photography and the nineteenth century -- Landscape in photography -- The city in photography -- The portrait in photography -- The body in photography -- Documentary photography -- The photograph as fine art -- The photograph manipulated -- The cabinet of infinite curiosities. |
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| Subject: | Photography > History. Photographie > Histoire. Fotografía > Historia. Photography. Fotografie. Photographes > 20e siècle. Photographes > 19e siècle. Photographie > Thèmes, motifs. |
| Genre: | History. |
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| Homer Public Library | 770 CLA (Text) | 000155358 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
The Photograph
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The Photograph
How do we read a photograph? In this rich and fascinating work, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most engaging thinkers on the subject, such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. From the first misty "heliograph" taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz and the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Clarke provides a groundbreaking examination of photography's main subject areas--landscape, the city, portraiture, the body, and reportage--as well as a detailed analysis of exemplary images in terms of their cultural and ideological contexts. With over 130 illustrations, The Photograph offers a series of discussions of major themes and genres providing an up-to-date introduction to the history of photography and creating a record of the most dazzling, penetrating, and pervasive images of our time.
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