Thursday, September 10, 2009

Basic Critical Theory for Photographers


Basic critical theory for photographers by Ashley la Grange is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

How to use this book -- Frontispiece -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements
  1. John Berger, Ways of Seeing
  2. John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye and Stephen Shore, The Nature of Photographs
  3. Susan Sontag, On Photography
  4. Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
  5. Martha Rosler, In, Around and Afterthoughts (On Documentary Photography)
  6. Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Inside/Out
  7. Clive Scott, The Spoken Image: Photography and Language
  8. Andy Grundberg, The Crisis of the Real
  9. Raghubir Singh, River of Colour
  10. Bertrand Russell, Appearance and Reality
  11. Italo Calvino, The Adventures of a Photographer
  12. Poems by Felix Morisseau-Leroy and George Szirtes
  13. Robert Adams', John Baldessari's and Peter Godwin's Analysis of Particular Photographs

Figures -- Bibliography -- Appendixes -- Glossary -- Index

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