Criticizing Photographs. An Introduction To Understanding Images - Softcover

Barrett, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767411862 ISBN 13: 9780767411868

Verlag: Mayfield Publishing Company, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

"Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates -- describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing.

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Focusing on writings rather than images, Barrett (art education, Ohio State U.) shows beginning and experienced photography students how to use criticism to further their own understanding of photography. The chapters focus on description, interpretation, evaluation, and theory and provide a sound b

Reseña del editor

""Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images "is now in its third edition and it has become the standard in photo criticism and theory courses throughout the United States. The book contains an elegant pedagogical apparatus founded on the four critical activities that Terry Barrett so ably illuminates -- describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing. Moreover, Barrett's analytical categorization of photographs into ideal types including the aesthetically evaluative and the interpretive (to cite two examples) has provided readers with a highly original and useful way to think about how photographs are made to function in the world." Louis Kaplan, Southern Illinois University

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mayfield Publishing Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0767411862
• ISBN 13: 9780767411868
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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