Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters by Vicki Goldberg

Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters by Vicki Goldberg

Vicki Goldberg, one of the leading voices in the field of photography criticism, is well known for her cogent and perceptive writing, which is regularly featured in such national publications as the New York Times, American Photographer, and Vanity Fair. Aperture's Light Matters gathers for the first time a selection of this remarkable author's essays and criticism, culled from her writings published over the past twenty-five years. Goldberg's take on photography is both insightful and encompassing: her subjects range from pop imagery to war journalism, from photo-booth portraits to manipulated digital imagery, from the "boredom" of voyeurism to the great preponderance of tragic photographs in the news. She brings new light to the work of the medium's "old masters," among them Walker Evans, Lotte Jacobi, and Lartigue, writing with equal acuity about contemporary trailblazers such as Bill Viola, Daido Moriyama, and Bastienne Schmidt. Goldberg also tackles provocative larger issues facing the medium, such as the potentially "transgressive" nature of photographs, and the camera's powerful role in a culture of commodification. Dismissing cliches and deftly negotiating the many diverging paths photography now follows, Goldberg demonstrates how to consider not just photographic images themselves, but their impact, and the meaning of that impact. Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters showcases a writer of great intelligence, wit, and insight, whose understanding of this multifarious and evolving medium is unsurpassed.

"Though it has reportedly been dying for years, photography is out there reproducing faster than rabbitsYet it is in danger from more quarters than mere liberty at the moment - from the possibility that digitization will discredit standard photographic practices altogether, from the media, from shrinking print outlets, and from a kind of interior malaise, perhaps due to getting fat without getting sassy.... Photography is far from dead, but the challengers are already in place, and fully armed." - Vicki Goldberg, From"

Vicki Goldberg is the author of The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives (1991), and editor of Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (1981). In 1997 she was the recipient of the International Center of Photography's prestigious Infinity Award. Goldberg writes on photography and the arts for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications.

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ISBN 13	9781931788632
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Title	Vicki Goldberg: Light Matters
Author	Vicki Goldberg
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Aperture
Year published	2005-04-18
Number of pages	248
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