What photography is [[electronic resource] /] / James Elkins
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| Autore: |
Elkins James <1955->
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| Titolo: |
What photography is [[electronic resource] /] / James Elkins
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 770.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Photography, Artistic |
| Photography - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Writing -- Selenite, ice, salt -- From the Green River to the Brunswick peninsula -- A drop of water, World Trade center dust -- The rapatronic camera -- Lingqi. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | What photography is |
| ISBN: | 0-203-88648-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461353303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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