The Photograph by Graham Clarke
In a series of discussions of major themes and genres, Graham Clarke gives a clear and incisive account of the photograph's historical development, and elucidates the insights of the most interesting thinkers on the subject such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag.
A readable text discusses the way in which we see and interpret photographs* The Bookseller *
Fully and often surprisingly illustrated, carefully annotated and captioned, each combines a historical overview with a nicely opinionated individual approach. * Independent on Sunday *
Read this book and you will never look at a photograph in the same way again. * House & Garden *
concise yet comprehensive, and wonderful value * The Irish Times (Dublin) *
An engaging, image-studded survey... Clarke is particularly good at playing two images off against one another to emphasise the cultural assumptions underlying each... Clarke raises fascinating questions about how the portrait seeks to encode social identity. In his representation of landscape, he deftly covers both the picturesque tradition and its opposite, the scientific orientation that viewed photography as a means of mapping and administering land. * V. Penelope Pelizzon, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol.40 No.2 *
Clarke does an admirable job of condensing theoretical debates concerning the reading of images * Yorkshire Post (Leeds) *
An important part of the Oxford History of Art series ... It's an enormous subject, but it's tackled in a tremendously accessible manner. A must for anyone interested in taking seriously good pictures. * Swansea South Wales Evening Post *
a superb piece of publishing * Rupert Christiansen, Spectator *
Fully and often surprisingly illustrated, carefully annotated and captioned, each combines a historical overview with a nicely opinionated individual approach. * Independent on Sunday *
Read this book and you will never look at a photograph in the same way again. * House & Garden *
concise yet comprehensive, and wonderful value * The Irish Times (Dublin) *
An engaging, image-studded survey... Clarke is particularly good at playing two images off against one another to emphasise the cultural assumptions underlying each... Clarke raises fascinating questions about how the portrait seeks to encode social identity. In his representation of landscape, he deftly covers both the picturesque tradition and its opposite, the scientific orientation that viewed photography as a means of mapping and administering land. * V. Penelope Pelizzon, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol.40 No.2 *
Clarke does an admirable job of condensing theoretical debates concerning the reading of images * Yorkshire Post (Leeds) *
An important part of the Oxford History of Art series ... It's an enormous subject, but it's tackled in a tremendously accessible manner. A must for anyone interested in taking seriously good pictures. * Swansea South Wales Evening Post *
a superb piece of publishing * Rupert Christiansen, Spectator *
Graham Clarke is Reader in Literary & Image Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury. His publications include The American City: Literary & Cultural Perspectives (St Martin's Press, 1988), and The Portrait in Photography (Reaktion Books, 1992). He is on the advisory board of the journal History of Photography and the editorial board of Journal of American Studies (Cambridge).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192842008 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192842005 |
| Title | The Photograph |
| Author | Graham Clarke |
| Series | Oxford History Of Art |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1997-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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