Four Arts of Photography

An Essay in Philosophy

AvDominic McIver Lopes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Four Arts of Photography explores the history of photography through the lens of philosophy and proposes a new scholarly understanding of the art form for the 21st century. Re-examines the history of art photography through four major photographic movements and with case studies of representative imagesEmploys a top-down, theory to case approach, as well as a bottom-up, case to theory approachAdvances a new theory regarding the nature of photography that is grounded in technology but doesn’t place it in opposition to paintingIncludes commentaries by two leading philosophers of photography, Diarmuid Costello and Cynthia A. Freeland

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-03-04
Mått:160 x 236 x 15 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Aesthetics
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781119053170

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Fotoböcker inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Dominic McIver Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Understanding Pictures (1996) and Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (2005), as well as books on computer art and the nature of art. His first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 124, which he used to document his family's migration from Scotland to Canada.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations xiNotes on Author and Contributors xiiPreface xiiiWonderment to Puzzlement 1How to Do Things with Theory 17To Possess Other Eyes: The First Art 36Thinking Through Photographs: The Second Art 48A New Theory of Photography 65Lyricism: The Third Art 87The Knowing Eye 105Abstraction: The Fourth Art 114Crosscurrents and Boundary Conditions 125Appendix: the Skeptic’s Argument 133Comments Doing Justice to the Art in Photography 135Diarmuid CostelloFour Thoughts about Four Arts of Photography 147Cynthia A. FreelandNotes 157Index 174