Transforming Images by Barbara E Savedoff

Transforming Images by Barbara E Savedoff

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Barbara E. Savedoff seeks to discern the distinctive character of photography as an art. Why, she asks, do similar images in paintings and photographs strike us differently? How is our reaction to a photograph of a painting unlike our response to the...

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Transforming Images by Barbara E Savedoff

Barbara E. Savedoff seeks to discern the distinctive character of photography as an art. Why, she asks, do similar images in paintings and photographs strike us differently? How is our reaction to a photograph of a painting unlike our response to the...
Well-written. . . Savedoff has chosen a fascinating and relatively unexplored area. . . . Her real contribution in this scholarly and engaging book is to make us alert to what, exactly, we are seeing when we look at reproductions and originals. Recommended for art history, visual studies, and photography collections.-Library Journal
Perhaps the most vivid intellectual concern Savedoff reveals is the unease she senses as photography enters a new phase, one which she is unsure of in terms of both its practical result and its aesthetic significance. A timely compilation of ideas. General readers; undergraduates; faculty; professionals.-Choice
With digitalization increasingly acclaimed and adopted, are we fated to have not only our image-making but also our very ways of perceiving images reengineered for us?. . . Savedoff's Transforming Images show his it is possible to argue, by new philosophical clarifications combined with the particular, insightful observations, why works of art are worth photographing in the first place.-Patrick Maynard, Modernism/modernity
In Barbara Savedoff's Transforming Images, an imaginative and beautifully illustrated book, she argues that the way we look at and understand photographs varies dramatically from the way we view other images. . . A recommended read.-Tom Bowden, Tech Directions
In conclusion, I want to say what an aesthetic pleasure it was to read this book. Although Savedoff has given us an argument for a thesis, her book is an organic whole in which the images and the text interact. Her writing becomes commentary, and the commentary brings the images alive.-Thomas Leddy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Transforming Images is a lucid, insightful contribution to the ongoing debate about the shifting roles of paintings, photographs, and electronically mediated images in the digital age.-William J. Mitchell, author of The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era
Barbara Savedoff has a wonderful eye, and a wonderful ability to describe what she sees. She puts these skills to good use in Transforming Images, a fascinating exploration of the nature of photography and of the ways in which photographic works of art differ from those of other visual media.-Kendall Walton, Charles L. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan
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ISBN 13 9780801433757
ISBN 10 0801433754
Titel Transforming Images
Autor Barbara E Savedoff
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2000-04-20
Seitenanzahl 256
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