Graham Clarke

The Photograph

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Produktbeschreibung

From the first misty `heliograph' taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826 to the classic compositions of Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Steiglitz, to the striking postmodern strategies of Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and Victor Burgin, the history of photography is a record of dazzling and penetrating images. But photographs are also the most pervasive images of our time, infinite in their capacity to record and make moments significant, granting status toeverything they touch.So how do we read a photograph? In a series of brilliant 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. At the heart of the book is his ground-breaking examination of the main subject areas - landscape, the city, portraiture, the body, and reportage - and his detailed analysis of exemplaryimages in terms of their cultural and ideological contexts.

Produktdetails

• Oxford History of Art
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 1997.
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 169mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780192842008
• ISBN-10: 0192842005
• Artikelnr.: 13880576

Autorenporträt

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).

Rezensionen

A readable text discusses the way in which we see and interpret photographs. The Bookseller