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Title Photography theory / edited by James Elkins
Published New York ; London : Routledge, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 470 pages)
Series The art seminar ; 2
Art seminar ; 2.
Contents Section 1. Introduction -- Theories of photography : a short history / Sabine T. Kriebel -- Section 2. Starting points -- Conceptual limitations of our reflection on photography : the question of "interdisciplinarity" / Jan Baetens -- After medium specificity Chez Fried : Jeff Wall as a painter; Gerhard Richter as a photographer / Diarmuid Costello -- Following pieces : on performative photography / Margaret Iversen -- Time exposure and snapshot : the photograph as paradox / Thierry de Duve -- Introductory note / Rosalind Krauss -- Section 3. The art seminar. [the participatants were]: Jan Baetens, Diarmuid Costello, James Elkins, Jonathan Friday, Margaret Iverson, Sabine Kriebel, Margaret Olin, Graham Smith, [and] Joel Snyder -- Section 4. Assessments. Michael Leja ; Nancy Shawcross ; Anne Collins Goodyear ; Peggy Ann Kusnerz ; Alan Cohen ; Martin Lefebvre ; David Green ; Sharon Sliwinski ; David Bate ; Abigail Solomon-Godeau ; Michel Frizot ; Geoffrey Batchen ; Johan Swinnen ; Hilde Van Gelder ; David Campany ; Joanna Lowry ; Carol Squiers ; Patrick Maynard ; Vivan Sundaram ; Rosalind Krauss ; Liz Wells ; Beth E. Wilson ; Martin Lister ; Shepherd Steiner ; Alan Trachtenberg ; Victor Burgin ; Joel Snyder -- Section 5. Afterwords -- The trouble with photography / Anne McCauley -- Photographs and fossils / Walter Benn Michaels
Summary "Photography Theory" presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen and Carol Squiers in animated debate on the nature of photography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Photography -- Philosophy
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
Photography -- Philosophy
Fotografie
Theorie
Fotografie.
Theorievorming.
Form Electronic book
Author Elkins, James, 1955-
ISBN 9781135867744
1135867747
9780203944141
0203944143