Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus: Modern Photography Explained (häftad)

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Format: Häftad (Paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 224
Utgivningsdatum: 2013-09-10
Förlag: THAMES & HUDSON
Illustratör/Fotograf: color 100 Illustrations
Illustrationer: 100 colour illustrations
Dimensioner: 206 x 148 x 20 mm
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ISBN: 9780500290958

Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus: Modern Photography Explained

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Author: Jackie Higgins
ISBN: 9780500290958

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The art of photography is much more sophisticated than it may seem ...

Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1968)? Or deliberately underexpose an image (Vera Lutter, Battersea Power Station, XI: July 13, 2004)? And why photograph a ceiling (William Eggleston, Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi), 1973)?

In Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus, Jackie Higgins offers a lively, informed defence of modern photography. Choosing 100 key photographs with particular emphasis on the last twenty years she examines what inspired each photographer in the first place, and traces how the piece was executed. In doing so, she brings to light the layers of meaning and artifice behind these singular works, some of which were initially dismissed out of hand for being blurred, overexposed or badly composed.

Why is Gillian Wearings Self-Portrait at 17 Years Old not the straightforward photobooth snap that it first appears to be?
What lies behind Hiroshi Sugimotos decision to use a 19th-century large-format camera for his work an apparently perverse choice, given his intention to throw the images it creates out of focus?
What prompted Richard Prince to begin photographing existing photographs an act that saw him pilloried by some critics for lazily profiting from other peoples work?

The often controversial images in this book play with our expectations of a photograph, our tendency to believe that it is telling us the truth.

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'If you're after a pocket primer in contemporary art photography, 'Why It Does Not Have to Be In Focus' offers an incisive starting point' - Daily Telegraph 'A great book - inventive, and persuasively argued' - Amateur Photographer

Jackie Higgins is a writer, journalist and filmmaker whose work embraces a range of subjects. She was a contributing writer to Photography: The Whole Story, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Introduction * 1. Portraits: Smile * 2. Document: Snap * 3. Narrative: Action * 4. Still Lives: Freeze * 5. Abstracts: Dissolve * 6. Landscapes: Look