Reading photographs
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Reading photographs
- Jaar:
- 2013
- Onderwerp:
- Fotografie: Theorie. Kritiek
- Taal:
- Engels
- Plaatsnummer:
- 77.05 SALK 2014 (Kunstenbibliotheek)
- ISBN:
- 9782940411894
- Paginering:
- 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Reeks:
- Basics creative photography.
- Samenvatting:
- Chapter 1: What is a photograph? Invention: the marriage of chemistry and optics Time and light Uses and applications The camera: an evolution Case study: Chuck Close ##Chapter 2: Reading the signs Where do meanings come from? Language: words, sounds and images Semiotics: the study of signs Ideology: ideas, practices and beliefs Case study: Anthony Barrett ##Chapter 3: Truth and lies What is 'real'? Representation and reality Facts and fiction Case study: Thomas Hoepker ##Chapter 4: Identity People and portraits Signifying identity Looking The body Case study: Marc Garanger ##Chapter 5: Big Brother is watching you The modern world The bad, the mad and the 'other' Surveillance society: the Panopticon Who is looking at whom? Public spaces - private lives Case study: Shizuka Yokomizo ##Chapter 6: Aesthetics But is it art? Photography cannot be art What is art? Photography as art - the history of an idea Into postmodernism Case study: Richard Billingham Conclusion Bibliography References Index Picture credits Acknowledgements
- Nota:
- boek
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- https://cageweb.be/catalog/kub01:000661858
