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Even a superficial assessment of the current state of photography theory would be too long to contain here. Instead, what follows is an introduction to three important figures whose contributions to the field continue to inform discussions of the medium: John Szarkowski, Susan Sontag, and Roland Barthes. A museum curator, a cultural critic, and ...
Apr 23, 2024 · Theory and Criticism of Photography. The Camera As Actor by Amy Cox Hall (Editor) Date: 2020. Looking beyond the impact photographs have on the perpetuation and expression of social norms and stereotypes, and the influence of the act of taking a photograph, this new collection brings together international scholars to examine the camera itself ...
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Jun 14, 2018 · Photography Theory. London: Routledge, c2007. P resents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers, Margaret Iversen and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, in animated debate on the definition and nature of photography.
For his first exhibition ‘Punctum. Reflections on Photography’, Séamus Kealy, the new director of the Salzburger Kunstverein, asked 50 artists and theorists to each select one photograph and write a brief text explaining the reasons for its selection. The exhibition aimed to examine to what extent the concept of the punctum, developed in ...
Module 4: Photography and Art: Pictorialism and Traditions of Painting. Assignments: Panopto video lecture; Summary/Reflective essay Readings: Text: Chapters 6, 9. Robinson, an excerpt from “Pictorial Effect in Photography” Optional: Rejlander, an excerpt from “An Apology for Art-Photography”
Photography brings its own set of person's picture." formal elements and terms, beyond those shared with paintings and drawings and prints, that ought to be. photograph. Without considering these learned and investigated. Focus, depth. distinctions, the photographer drops. out, and the photograph becomes.
I would like to conclude with a rather schematic summary. All photographic communication seems to take place within the conditions of a kind of binary folklore. That is, there is a “symbolist” folk-myth and a “realist” folk-myth. The misleading but popular form of this opposition is “art photography” vs. “documentary photography.”
