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• Title:Photographic theory : an historical anthology / edited by Andrew E. Hershberger.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Hershberger, Andrew E. (Andrew Edward), 1969-
  
• Published/Created:Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell 2014.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TR183 .P46 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Photography--Philosophy.
  Photography--History.
  
• Description:xiii, 462 p. ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:This book presents a compendium of readings spanning ancient times to the digital age that are related to the history, nature, and current status of debates in photographic theory. The book offers an authoritative and academically up-to-date compendium of the history of photographic theory, and represents the only collection to include ancient, Renaissance, and 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century writings on the subject.
  
• ISBN:9781405198462 (hardback)
  140519846X (hardback)
  140519863X (paperback)
  9781405198639(paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Camera/Vision
  1.1. Excerpts from the Allegory of the Cave. In The Republic
  1.2. Function of the Eye, As Explained by the Camera Obscura / Plato
  1.3. Description of the Camera Lucida / Leonardo da Vinci
  Art/History / William H. Wollaston
  1.4. Excerpts on Linear Perspective. In On Painting / William H. Wollaston
  1.5. Account of the late Mr. [Robert] Barker / Leon Battista Alberti
  Anonymous / Leon Battista Alberti
  1.6. Description of the Process of Painting and Effects of Light Invented by Daguerre, and Applied by Him to the Pictures of the Diorama / Leon Battista Alberti
  What is Photography? / Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
  2.1. Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing / Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
  2.2. Pencil of Nature. A New Discovery / William Henry Fox Talbot
  2.3. Report [on the Daguerreotype to the Chamber of Deputies] / Nathaniel Parker Willis / Timothy O. Porter
  Art/History / François Arago
  2.4. Upon Photography in an Artistic View, and in Its Relations to the Arts / François Arago
  2.5. La Photographie / William J. Newton
  2.6. Photography / Antoine Joseph Wiertz
  Camera/Vision / Eastlake Lady Elizabeth
  2.7. Stereoscope and the Stereograph / Eastlake Lady Elizabeth
  2.8. Combination Printing. In Pictorial Effect in Photography / Oliver Wendell Holmes
  2.9. Annals of My Glass House / Henry Peach Robinson
  Camera/Vision / Julia Margaret Cameron
  3.1. Focussing. In Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art / Julia Margaret Cameron
  3.2. Death of Naturalistic Photography / Peter Henry Emerson
  3.3. Hand Camera - Its Present Importance / Peter Henry Emerson
  Interdisciplinary Approaches / Alfred Stieglitz
  3.4. Photo-Chemical Investigations and a New Method of Determination of the Sensitiveness of Photographic Plates / Alfred Stieglitz
  3.5. Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs / Ferdinand Hurter / Vero C. Dreld
  3.6. Intuition and Art In Æsthetic: As Science of Expression and General Linguistic / Charles Sanders Peirce
  3.7. Cinematographical Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion...In Creative Evolution / Benedetto Croce
  What Should Photographs Look Like? / Henri Bergson
  3.8. On the Straight Print / Henri Bergson
  3.9. What is a "Straight Print"? / Robert Demachy
  3.10. Photography and Artistic-Photography / Frederick H. Evans
  Camera/Vision / Marius de Zayas
  4.1. Photography and the New God / Marius de Zayas
  4.2. Light: A Medium of Plastic Expression / Paul Strand
  4.3. Seeing Photographically / László Moholy-Nagy
  4.4. Camera's Glass Eye / Edward Weston
  What Should Photographs Look Like? / Clement Greenberg
  4.5. Aims / Clement Greenberg
  4.6. Personal Credo / Albert Renger-Patzsch
  4.7. Our Illustrations / Ansel Adams
  4.8. Photography at the Crossroads / Frank R. Fraprie
  Art/History / Berenice Abbott
  4.9. Excerpts from Perspective as Symbolic Form / Berenice Abbott
  4.10. Age of the World Picture / Erwin Panofsky
  4.11. Excerpts from Museum Without Walls / Martin Heidegger
  Interdisciplinary Approaches / André Malraux
  4.12. Photography and Typography / André Malraux
  4.13. Making of a Film. In Film as Art / Jan Tschichold
  4.14. Ontology of the Photographic Image. In What Is Cinema? / Rudolph Arnheim
  What is Photography? / André Bazin
  4.15. Mechanism and Expression, the Essence and Value of Photography / André Bazin
  4.16. Introduction to The Decisive Moment / Franz Roh
  4.17. Photography / Henri Cartier-Bresson
  Art/History / Siegfried Kracauer
  5.1. Equivalence: The Perennial Trend / Siegfried Kracauer
  5.2. Perspective. In Languages of Art / Minor White
  5.3. Can There Ever Again Be a History of Photography? / Nelson Goodman
  5.4. Introduction to Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography / Peter C. Bunnell
  5.5. New Metaphorics: Spirit and Symbol in Contemporary Landscape Photography / Peter Galassi
  Camera/Vision / Gretchen Garner
  5.6. Introduction to The Photographer's Eye / Gretchen Garner
  5.7. Post-Visualization / John Szarkowski
  5.8. Introduction to New Topographies / Jerry Uelsmann
  Interdisciplinary Approaches / William Jenkins
  5.9. Excerpts from The World Viewed / William Jenkins
  5.10. Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America / Stanley Cavell
  5.11. Photography and Fetish / Rosalind Krauss
  5.12. Film, Photography, and Fetish: The Analyses of Christian Metz / Christian Metz
  What is Photography? / Ben Singer
  5.13. On the Nature of Photography / Ben Singer
  5.14. Photography,Vision, and Representation / Rudolf Arnheim
  5.15. Directorial Mode: Notes Toward a Definition / Joel Snyder / Neil Walsh Allen
  5.16. Selections from Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism / A.D. Coleman
  5.17. Photograph as Post-Industrial Object: An Essay on the Ontological Standing of Photographs / Kendall L. Walton
  Identity/Politics / Vilem Flusser
  5.18. Traffic in Photographs / Vilem Flusser
  5.19. Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry into the Cultural Meanings of Landscape Photography / Allan Sekula
  5.20. Excerpts from Right of Inspection / Deborah Bright
  5.21. Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction / Jacques Derrida
  What is Digital Photography? / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
  6.1. Transcendental Machine? A Comparison of Digital Photography and Nineteenth-Century Modes of Photographic Representation / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
  6.2. Photojournalism in the Age of Computers / Diana Emery Hulick
  6.3. Phantasm: Digital Imaging and the Death of Photography. In Metamorphoses / Fred Ritchin
  6.4. Escaping Reality: Digital Imagery and the Resources of Photography / Geoffrey Batchen
  6.5. Fixing the Art of Digital Photography: Electronic Shadows / Barbara E. Savedoff
  6.6. Digital Ontologies: The Ideality of Form in/and Code Storage - or - Can Graphesis Challenge Mathesis? / Ellen Handy
  Identity/Politics / Johanna Drucker
  6.7. Do Not Doubt the Dangerousness of the 12-Inch-Tall Politician / Johanna Drucker
  6.8. Politics of Focus: Feminism and Photography Theory / David Wojnarowicz
  6.9. Re-Picturing Photography: A Language in the Making / Lindsay Smith
  6.10. Painful Labour: Responsibility and Photography / Aphrodite Désirée Navab
  Camera/Vision / Sharon Sliwinski
  6.11. Clement Greenberg and Walker Evans: Transparency and Transcendence / Sharon Sliwinski
  6.12. Shadows on the Wall. In The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era / Mike Weaver
  6.13. Of Fish, Birds, Cats, Mice, Spiders, Flies, Pigs, and Chimpanzees: How Chance Casts the Historic Action Photograph into Doubt / William J. Mitchell
  Art/History / Robin Kelsey
  6.14. Invisible Dragon: On Beauty / Robin Kelsey
  6.15. Idiom in Photography as the Truth in Painting / Dave Hickey
  6.16. "Impressed by Nature's Hand": Photography and Authorship / Rosemary Hawker
  Photography and Memory / Douglas R. Nickel
  6.17. Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory / Douglas R. Nickel
  6.18. Visualizing Memory: Photographs and the Art of Biography / Marianne Hirsch
  6.19. Remembering September 11: Photography as Cultural Diplomacy / Deborah Willis
  6.20. Through a Glass, Darkly: Photography and Cultural Memory / Liam Kennedy
  Interdisciplinary Approaches / Alan Trachtenberg
  6.21. Curiosity and Conjecture: Mathematics, Photography, and the Imagination / Alan Trachtenberg
  6.22. Image as Trace: Speculations about an Undead Paradigm / David Travis
  6.23. Photographic Argument of Philosophy / Peter Geimer.