Photography: History and Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415778541 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Jae Emerling

Opis

Photography: Theory and History introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory.

Spis treści

Introduction  1: The Thing Itself  Gloss on Walter Benjamin, "Little History of Photography" (1931)  2: Frame (Matter and Metaphor)  Gloss on Roland Barthes, "Rhetoric of the Image" (1964)  3: Documentary, or Instants of Truth  Gloss on Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Pain of Others" (2002)  4: The Archive as Producer  Gloss on Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969)  5: Time-Images  Gloss on Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983) 

O autorze

Jae Emerling is assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Theory for Art History (Routledge).