Andre Ruesch

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Critiquing Individual Photographs within a Collective Consciousness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to vitalize students in the photography classroom. Rather than a dense tome of theory, this is an accessible guide to taking individual ownership of-and enjoying-the visual experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317502241
• Artikelnr.: 49041185

Autorenporträt

André Ruesch has been an active photographer for over thirty years. After receiving a BA in photographic studies at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, he moved to Albuquerque to receive his MA and MFA for graduate studies in photography at the University of New Mexico. While there, his main mentors were Patrick Nagatani, Betty Hahn, and Eugenia Parry.

Ruesch's work has been internationally exhibited in museums and galleries and published in the British Journal of Photography, Art in America, and Asian Art News among others.

He lives in Massachusetts, where he is a Professor at the Lesley University College of Art and Design & the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

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DEDICATION: II
QUOTES: by Sir Ken Robinson and Eugenia Parry III
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: IV
CONTENTS: V
FOREWORD: An interview of Patrick Nagatani by Ryoichi p. 000 VI
INTRODUCTION: For whom this book is meant and how to use it p. 000 VII
PROLOGUE: The periodic table p. 000 1
THE VELVET HAMMER: The potency of elements p. 000 2
THE PERSONAL GALAXY: The symbol p. 000 3
JUST FASHION: A question of identity p. 000 4
NIKE AND THE BUTTERFLY: The reversed stereotype p. 000 5
STAYING IN LINE: Conductivity p. 000 6
POLITICS: The metaphoric landscape p. 000 7
HENRY'S TALE: The photographic fable p. 000 8
MOMENT BY MOMENT: Elapsed time
Eadweard Muybridge revisited p. 000 9
THE DROWNED GUN: Time as poetry p. 000 10
SPLIT AGAIN: The reversed connection p. 000 11
THE OTHER HALF: Water and air p. 000 12
THE ORIGINAL: Please touch the art p. 000 13
THE TYRANNY OF BORDERS: The half
life of elements p. 000 14
THE HOLY ROSARY: Belonging p. 000 15
A CONVERSATION WITH GOD: The white elephant in the room p. 000 16
SUPERSTRUCTURE: Conflation p. 000 17
LADY LIKE: Body language p. 000 18
RECYCLING: The image ecology approach p. 000 19
APPROPRIATION: Reinterpretation p. 000 20
DAD: Titled versus untitled p. 000 21
SPEED AND STOICISM: The nature of the elements p. 000 22
REFLECTION: The literally and the figuratively p. 000 23
SKY VIEW: Upside down p. 000 24
BLOOD IS BLOOD: Assumption p. 000 25
HYPNAGOGIA: Viewpoint p. 000 26
HARMONIA: Rendering the invisible p. 000 27
SNAP: Breaking point p. 000 28
RECOGNITION: The need for invisibility p. 000 29
BIG AND SMALL: How we give thanks p. 000 30
AMMO AND THE HAPPY MEAL: Be theatrical p. 000 31
THE SPIDER AND THE NET: Catch and caught p. 000 32
DIRTY JOBS: A deceptive comedy of errors p. 000 33
WHAT IS TO COME: Dreaming p. 000 34
THE ANGEL AND THE WASP: The order of the elements p. 000 35
IN THE END: Together p. 000 VIII
EPILOGUE: Florence + The Machine p. 000 IX
IF LOST OR LONELY: Get your work out there p. 000 X
QUICK REFERENCE: Artists in alphabetical order p. 000